Bernard is a co-founder of Areta, a crypto-native investment bank focused on digital-asset mergers, acquisitions, and onchain services. Bernard's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #39,473 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Bernard, whose full name is Bernard Schmid, co-founded Areta alongside Karl-Martin Ahrend and Jan-Philip Grabs. At Areta, he leads work with onchain protocols and foundations across M&A and commercial strategy. The firm's services cover mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, fundraising, secondaries, market-making advisory, special situations, delegation, and staking.
Bernard has been involved in several notable transactions and initiatives, including CoinGecko's first acquisition, the sale of Solscan to Etherscan, and the strategic wind-down of Gro DAO. He also represented Areta in Arbitrum governance and previously led the Uniswap-Arbitrum Grants Program, contributing to the Uniswap-Arbitrum Metagovernance Program and Arbitrum community working groups. Before founding Areta, he previously worked at McKinsey & Company, where he led commercial due diligence on private-equity transactions and technology-sector strategy projects. Bernard has also contributed commentary on DAO M&A, including a co-authored opinion piece published by CoinDesk.
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