Mohamed Elkasstawi is Co-Founder and CEO of Hamilton Labs, the first platform tokenizing real-world assets such as Treasuries, gold, and real estate on Bitcoin to make institutional-grade finance accessible to everyone. He is an Egyptian-born entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience across crypto, fintech, and blockchain infrastructure.

Mohamed holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management) from Northern Illinois University and studied Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. His career spans blockchain investment, fintech co-founding, and emerging markets financial infrastructure.

Mohamed was featured by Scene Arabia magazine as one of the leading Middle Eastern blockchain entrepreneurs, and he discovered blockchain technology as early as 2014. He is a firm believer in Bitcoin as the foundational layer of future global capital markets.

Prior to Hamilton Labs, Mohamed co-founded Tribal Credit, a crypto-powered fintech backed by SoftBank, QED, Coinbase, and Circle, where he served as Chief Strategy Officer and spearheaded a $40M hybrid debt round and a $41M token sale. He also co-founded zk Capital in 2017, a research-focused blockchain investment firm that co-invested alongside Sequoia, Pantera, and Coinbase Ventures in projects like Filecoin and Blockstack.

Hamilton Labs raised $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by DisrupTech Ventures and completed its first transaction on July 4, 2024, tokenizing U.S. Treasury bills on Bitcoin Layer 2. The company has since secured additional investment from AXIAN Investment to expand dollar access across Africa and emerging markets.