Simon is the co-founder and CEO of Reya, an Ethereum-based high-performance onchain trading venue built as a trading-specific ZK rollup with sub-1ms trade execution. Simon's Twitter Score is 67 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #15,993 (top 5%) among 473,418 tracked accounts.
Simon co-founded Reya alongside colleagues who previously worked at Voltz, a protocol that was sunset after reaching $30 billion in notional traded volume. The broader Reya team draws on backgrounds at firms including Optiver, Wintermute, Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, and Citi. Simon's current work at Reya Labs centers on building a high-speed perpetuals exchange deployed as an L2 on Arbitrum Orbit, with a longer-term goal of enshrining a high-performance DEX directly into the Ethereum L1.
Simon has been involved in raising $12 million for Reya from investors including Framework, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Selini Capital, Amber Group, Brevan Howard Digital Assets, and Leadblock Ventures. Reya has also announced strategic partnerships with EigenCloud, Ethena, and LayerZero, covering data availability, liquidity yield, and token mobility respectively. The protocol's native token, $REYA, carries a fixed supply of 8 billion tokens and is designed for security, governance, and staking.
Simon has accumulated 17,689 followers as of July 2026 and has published 1,283 posts on the platform. Simon has been mentioned by 68 accounts, with 169 total mentions. As an angel investor, Simon has backed Catapult and Blocktorch Acquired By Thirdweb.
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