#510: Matt O’Connor, Co-founder of Legion, on ICOs, IPOs, Private SAFT rounds, and Merit-based Compliant Token Offerings

About this episode

Matt O’Connor discusses compliant and merit-based public token offerings and his background in tokenomics.

Matt O’Connor is the Co-founder of Legion, a platform for compliant and merit-based public token offering that enables teams to select investors based on criteria such as onchain history, social clout, and developer contributions. He is the former lead algorithmic engineer for Bridgewater Associates; tokenomics researcher for the Stacks Foundation (SEC qualified 2019 ICO); and token economics lead for Status (2017 ICO). His open source book, Tokenomics for Builders, has been positively review...

People in this episode

Guest: Matt O’Connor

Topics covered

• ICOs
• IPOs
• Private SAFT rounds
• Token offerings
• Tokenomics
• Investment criteria

Keywords

• ICOs
• IPOs
• Token offerings
• Tokenomics
• Investment criteria
• Legion
• Matt O’Connor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Legion, Bridgewater Associates, Stacks Foundation, Status

Books & works: Tokenomics for Builders

More episodes of CryptoNews Podcast

• #518: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, on Optimizing Looping, RWAs, Onchain Asset Management, and Nest vaults on Solana · February 16, 2026 · 36 min
• #517: Kirill Avery, CEO of Alien, on Decentralized Identity Networks, Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP), and The Future of AI & Crypto · February 12, 2026 · 27 min
• #516: Xenia Soborova, Head of BD at Tramplin, on The Solana Ecosystem, Solana Staking, and Business Development in crypto · February 10, 2026 · 26 min
• #515: Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, on Prediction Markets, Consumption-based Data Models, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Identifying Trends, and The Degenerate Economy · February 5, 2026 · 30 min
• #514: Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder of Paxos Labs, on Stablecoin Adoption, USDG, Omnichain Architecture, and Privacy Focused Stablecoins · February 2, 2026 · 25 min
• #513: Sun Raghupathi, CEO of Veda, on Consumer-Grade DeFi, Vaults, Onchain Yield, and The Future of RWAs · January 29, 2026 · 28 min