Alim is a DeFi professional who leads Partnerships and Growth at Optimism and co-founded the DeFi Toronto community. Alim's Twitter Score is 44 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #20,951 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Alim co-founded DeFi Toronto in 2019, a community meetup that has grown to more than 3,000 members. He also contributed a chapter titled "Token Economies" to The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business, and played a key role in taking cryptocurrency-mining company CryptoGlobal public on the TSX Venture Exchange in January 2018. He is publicly listed as an angel investor and crypto and Web3 product operator.
Alim previously worked at DELV, formerly known as Element Finance, as a Product Lead, and formerly served as Executive Director at Kin Foundation. He also previously worked at Alkemi as Director of Strategy and Operations, and served as an Adjunct Professor in the Blockchain Development Program at George Brown College. He currently serves as an Associate advisor to Creative Destruction Lab and is a Techstars alumnus.
Alim has published 1,757 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 18 accounts a total of 53 times.
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The accounts that follow Alim include 142 founders, 44 angel investors, 42 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Linda Xie, Optimism, Binji, 0xMaki, Sreeram Kannan and Ryan Wyatt.