Jakob is a fintech entrepreneur who founded and leads Hermetica, a Bitcoin DeFi company building a yield-bearing synthetic dollar. Jakob's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #51,173 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Jakob founded Hermetica and serves as its CEO and CTO. The company develops USDh, a synthetic dollar backed by Bitcoin and a short perpetual-futures position that generates yield for holders. USDh launched natively on Stacks as a SIP-010 token, and Hermetica has since issued both USDh and sUSDh on Bitcoin L1 via Runes and on Stacks L2 via Clarity smart contracts. Prior to founding Hermetica, Jakob previously worked at Kraken.
Jakob was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list for social entrepreneurs. Hermetica raised a seed round of $1.7 million led by UTXO Management, with participation from CMS Holdings, Ethos Fund, Trust Machines SPV, Newman Capital, Silvermine, and angel investors. Jakob has published 6,448 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 28 accounts a total of 124 times.
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The accounts that follow Jakob include 90 founders, 21 angel investors and 36 influencers, among them MoonPay, DEGEN NEWS, Alex Krger, Muneeb, Erika Lee and The Bitcoin Historian.