About Jake Jake Ryan is an author & CIO at Tradecraft Capital, a blockchain asset manager focused on the next long-wave economic cycle, the Age of Autonomy®. His first book, Crypto Investing in the Age of Autonomy, published by John Wiley & Sons, is a US News & World Report Top 7 Book on Crypto and DeFi. In addition, Jake has been the keynote speaker at top AI conferences and is a frequent speaker on the crypto circuit, like CoinAgenda and HedgeWeek’s Digital Assets Summit in NYC. He's also a contributor at Bloomberg Radio, Newsweek, and Harvard Business Review (HBR). He is a special contributor to the Digital Assets Council for Financial Professionals (DACFP). He is the 1st author of published work applying AI to cybersecurity, with 750+ Google Scholar citations. About James James is an author and CEO at Tradecraft Capital, a blockchain asset manager focused on the next economic cycle, the Age of Autonomy®. He brings over 30 years as a technologist, executive, and serial entrepreneur with depth guiding ventures to realize their full potential. After a successful SaaS turnaround and sale in 2017, James took a deep dive into the blockchain space where, after extensive study of this new technology, he became convinced of its potential. He was an early investor in Tradecraft, then an advisor where he assisted in refining the Age of Autonomy® thesis, and was subsequently invited to take the executive reigns, leading the firm to a track record of outperformance while maintaining a conservative approach. He is a Co-Founder of the Autonomy2040 conference and also a mentor and advisor to technology and blockchain ventures. A technologist at heart, James holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.