Benedict W. H. Dixon

About

A decade-plus running and building companies in financial technology. Operator, COO, CTO. Deep across product, technology, operations and ecosystems. The throughline is finance, top to bottom.

JPMorgan to Kash. A patented B2B payment system. A $150M L1 ecosystem with 45K+ users. A stablecoin steered through acquisition. An enterprise-grade microservice platform shipped solo. The breadth is the point.

Key achievements

1. Built and scaled a blockchain ecosystem from concept to $150M+ with 45K+ users.
2. Co-invented a patented real-time B2B payment system at JPMorgan.
3. Navigated a successful acquisition, preserving millions in assets during transition.
4. Built an enterprise-grade 50+ microservice platform from scratch as sole engineer in six months.

Career

• Kash — COO & Interim CTO · prediction marketplace (2025–)
• DD Ventures — Founding Partner · advisory (2025–)
• Brdge — Head of Blockchain · AI consultancy (2024)
• Voi Network — Chief Ecosystem Officer · L1 (2024–2025)
• Pound Token — Chief Technology Officer · UK stablecoin (2023–2024)
• Nettle — Chief Product & Technology Officer · payments & loyalty (2022–2023)
• Icon Solutions — Senior Software Engineer · real-time payments (2021–2022)
• MAIA / Fulcrum — Fullstack Software Engineer · hedge fund (2019–2021)
• American Express — Fullstack Software Engineer · R&D, customer acquisition (2018–2019)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co — Software Engineer · patented B2B payments (2015–2018)
• University of Bath — BSc Computer Science

Services

For founders, operators and boards.

• Executive & Operational Advisory — organisational design and scaling, operational process architecture, financial controls and governance, executive leadership coaching.
• Product & Technology Strategy — product-market fit analysis, technical architecture review, AI/blockchain/payments strategy, scalability and infrastructure planning.
• Growth & Go-to-Market — ecosystem and community growth, partnership and BD strategy, stakeholder and investor management, team building and culture.

Available via DD Ventures — entrepreneurship advisory helping founders launch, run and scale companies.

Writing

• In Clawd We Trust: A Year of Claude Code (Feb 2026)
• Building a Second Brain That Doesn't Die (May 2026)
• Developing Your Product Plan (Aug 2026)
• Will the Dogs Eat the Dog Food? (Jul 2026)
• Testing Your Assumptions (Jul 2026)
• Identifying Your Key Assumptions (Jul 2026)
• Calculating CAC Honestly (Jun 2026)
• Mapping the Sales Process (Jun 2026)
• Calculating Customer LTV (Jun 2026)
• Drawing Your Product Brochure (Jun 2026)
• Setting Your Pricing Framework (Sep 2025)
• Designing Your Business Model (Aug 2025)
• Calculating TAM for Follow-On Markets (Aug 2025)
• Mapping the Customer Acquisition Process (Aug 2025)
• The Decision-Making Unit (Aug 2025)
• Charting Your Competitive Position (Aug 2025)
• Define Your Core (Aug 2025)
• Finding Your First 10 Customers (Aug 2025)
• Quantifying Your Value Proposition (Aug 2025)
• Why Your MVP Is Already Too Big (Aug 2025)
• Mapping Your Full Customer Journey (Jul 2025)
• Building Your Persona (Jul 2025)
• Why Every TAM Slide Is a Lie (Jul 2025)
• Building Your End User Profile (Jul 2025)
• The Beachhead Market (Jul 2025)
• Market Segmentation (Jul 2025)
• Prediction Markets (Jul 2025)
• Beyond Lean: The Complete Entrepreneurship Framework (Jul 2025)
• Tesserakt Protocol (Feb 2025)
• The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents (Feb 2025)
• Autonomous AI Agents (Dec 2024)
• The Holy Trinity: Blockchain, AI & IoT (Dec 2024)
• The Democratic Myth of DAOs (Nov 2024)

All writing →

Speaking

• Zebu Live — Tokenomics Design & Strategy
• Algorand at Tate Modern — Tokenomics Design & Strategy

Open to keynotes and panels on fintech, blockchain, AI, distributed systems and the operator's lens on technical leadership.

Contact

Email: me@benedictdixon.com
LinkedIn: /in/benedict-dixon
Twitter / X: @bwhdx
GitHub: @bwhdx
Advisory: dd.ventures