Diogo Mónica
Haun Ventures
Diogo is a General Partner at Haun Ventures and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto-native bank in the US.
Before founding Anchorage, he was Platform Security Lead at Square, where he worked on systems supporting more than $200 billion in annualized payment volume, and Security Lead at Docker, helping secure container infrastructure.
He chairs the NEAR Foundation and serves on the board of Jscrambler. A speaker on cryptography, distributed systems, and usable security, Diogo has contributed to industry standards, including the CNCF’s Notary project, and holds dozens of patents in cryptography, payments, and security.
He has also served on the Open Container Initiative’s technical oversight board and chaired IEEE committees.
He earned a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon.