Andrew Nalichaev

With seven years in finance and five years in blockchain, Andrew combines financial expertise with deep technical knowledge to help teams build scalable, market-ready solutions. His work spans tokenomics, financial architecture, and business analysis across 500+ projects in DeFi, tokenization, NFTs, and both Layer 1 and Layer 2 ecosystems — helping teams build scalable, market-ready solutions.

As CTO of Haust Network, a high-performance ZK Layer-2 built with Polygon CDK, he leads protocol design, infrastructure development, and on-chain agent systems. Andrew also drives partnerships with bridges, messaging layers, AI tools, and DeFi protocols to ensure Haust remains modular and composable.

Initially brought on as a blockchain idea consultant for Vitreus, Andrew’s contributions proved so valuable that he was later invited to join the project’s governing board as an individual. The project later raised over $3 million in public investment rounds.