Brett Benson
Former President & CIO of Rocktop Technologies. Managing Director at Bear Stearns. Led advisory at Black Knight and CoreLogic.
A team of capital markets, blockchain, and fintech veterans — building the market infrastructure that allows financial assets to be validated, owned, transferred, and settled regardless of who originates, services, or trades them.
The founding insight was direct: the largest inefficiencies in mortgage and private credit markets exist between participants, not within them. Every transfer, diligence exercise, and secondary market transaction requires reconciling data, documents, ownership records, and collateral information across counterparties. No shared infrastructure exists to eliminate that friction. The Registry is built to be that infrastructure — starting with mortgage and private credit, and expanding to the full complex financial asset ecosystem.
Explore The Registry →Founders with decades of experience across capital markets, DeFi protocol design, blockchain infrastructure, and enterprise fintech — united by a single mission: building the market infrastructure layer for complex financial assets.
Former President & CIO of Rocktop Technologies. Managing Director at Bear Stearns. Led advisory at Black Knight and CoreLogic.
RWA & DeFi expert. Founder of Moon Mortgage. Co-founder of the Promeritum RWA protocol.
CSO of Avalanche Treasury. Formerly Digital Asset Holdings (Canton) and Blend Labs.
Co-founder & CTO at Hyperledger. Founding member of the Canton Network at Digital Asset Holdings.
CTO at Ownsy. Co-founder & COO at Nur Opus. CTO at Vulcan Link & Owl Protocol. Co-founder & CTO at Tacen, Inc.
Complex financial markets have long suffered from opacity — in pricing, ownership, and risk. Everything we build is designed to surface truth, not obscure it. Transparent data flows and auditable records are a requirement, not a feature.
We operate at the intersection of technology and regulated finance. Every decision — on security, compliance, custody, and counterparty relationships — is made with institutional trust as the baseline requirement, not an afterthought.
We don't iterate on broken systems — we replace them. But we do so through permissioned, compliant, institutionally-deployable infrastructure. Innovation without guardrails is not innovation in financial markets. It's risk.
Explore The Registry — the system of record for complex financial assets, built for validation, digital ownership, and institutional-grade transfer infrastructure.