wishful_cynic (@EvgenyGaevoy) — Twitter Score 587 out of 1000

Wishfulcynic is Evgeny Gaevoy, who co-founded Wintermute and works there as CEO. Wishfulcynic's Twitter Score is 587 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #210 (top 0.1%) among 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform.

Wishfulcynic previously worked at Optiver, where he built and led the European ETF trading desk, described as one of the largest in the EU. He co-founded Wintermute in 2017 alongside Yoann Turpin, starting with $20,000 of personal capital, and the firm grew into one of the largest algorithmic crypto market makers, processing over $5 billion in daily trading volume across more than 50 venues.

Wishfulcynic's firm raised a $20 million Series B in January 2021, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Pantera Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Sino Global Capital, Kenetic Capital, Hack VC, DeFi Alliance, and Avon Ventures, the last affiliated with Fidelity Investments' parent FMR LLC.

Wishfulcynic publicly confirmed in September 2022 that Wintermute's DeFi operations had been hacked for approximately $160 million through a vulnerability in the Profanity vanity address tool. He offered a 10% bounty of $16 million for the return of funds, noting that OTC services remained unaffected.

Wishfulcynic has extended Wintermute's product range in several directions. The firm launched Armitage, a DeFi vault curation platform on Morpho, deploying USDC vaults targeting 4 to 8% APY and executing its own liquidations to support broader collateral types than other curators. He also introduced institutional OTC trading for tokenized gold covering PAXG and XAUT, projecting the market could reach $15 billion in 2026. In February 2026, he published a widely-circulated essay arguing crypto has drifted from its cypherpunk roots, cautioning that deep integration with traditional finance risks canceling out the technology's original purpose. Wintermute Ventures approved approximately 4% of reviewed projects in 2025, 23 of 600 evaluated. Wishfulcynic's tracked investment portfolio includes Fomo.

Wishfulcynic has been mentioned by 216 accounts, with 456 total mentions tracked on this platform.

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Wishfulcynic has 97,244 followers as of July 2026 on Twitter and has published 10,211 posts. The accounts that follow Wishfulcynic include 1,902 founders, 552 angel investors, 1,231 influencers and 61 VCs, among them Toly, Laura Shin, ZachXBT, Cobie, CZ BNB and Ansem.