Deus X Capital’s Tim Grant needs actual discuss solely when he is chatting with others within the crypto trade.
Deus X is a household office-backed funding and working firm that focuses on unlocking worth throughout capital markets, fintech and digital belongings to assist construct a fairer, extra accessible monetary system.
Led by CEO Grant, Deus X started with roughly $1 billion in belongings and operates globally with places of work in London, Malta and the UAE. Grant might be talking at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong convention in February 2026.
The agency deploys capital via non-public fairness, enterprise capital, enterprise constructing and fund allocation, backing and constructing progressive firms that span every little thing from buying and selling infrastructure and broker-as-a-service platforms to digital asset ventures.
“What I noticed was a robust new toolset and the chance to handle these inefficiencies in a sensible manner, quicker settlement, decrease prices, larger transparency, not by changing conventional finance, however by integrating with it,” Grant stated about his entry into crypto.
Early on in his profession, and with no prior data of bitcoin or blockchain, he stated he was fortunate sufficient to satisfy with the chief groups of each Ripple and Coinbase (COIN) in San Francisco, and that’s the place every little thing modified for him. By the tip of 2015 he was within the digital asset house and has been there ever since.
“Our progress technique at Deus X is intentionally hands-on and infrastructure-led,” he stated. “We imagine that the mixture of each investing and working is a highly effective mixture when it comes to executing on progress and producing robust risk-adjusted returns.”
Grant stated meaning constructing, backing and working firms throughout a number of layers of the digital finance stack, from funds and treasury to institutional DeFi, prime providers, market infrastructure and execution tooling.
Via companies like Deus X Pay, Cor Prime and Solstice, Deus X’s enterprise portfolio is increasing, he stated, with every firm concentrating on particular issues however largely working collectively to compound progress and share infrastructure.
For Grant, Consensus is about substance reasonably than spectacle, he stated, and given his broad portfolio of investments and firms, he stated the businesses are all the time working throughout the whole spectrum, each as a supplier of capital and as traders in their very own ventures.
“We’re trying to interact with establishments, regulators and builders who are targeted on deploying digital finance in manufacturing, significantly round regulated funds, treasury, tokenization, prime providers and institutional DeFi,” he stated.
