Duarte Baltazar

My life completely changed when I got to know about crypto. The dream of a decentralised world, where anyone can receive funds across the world, where anyone can bring their ideas to life is something that I am pretty enthusiastic about.

Before I studied economics in bachelor's and did my masters in management. Having worked for a year in a company advising banking institutions on non-performing loan transactions, I learned a lot about how messed up the banking system is and the importance of decentralised money.

I have led teams before, specially in our first crypto experience, a token we created called Cuffies, where we attempt to create a decentralised social media. We learned a lot from this experiment, and although it was a failure (we did lots of rookie mistakes such as bad tokenomics, big team, cheap outsourcing and raising too little), we learned quite a lot.

Since then I have been working as a team member or as a freelancer in different projects across crypto. In 2023 I started to code and it has been an awesome new journey that has finally allowed me and my cofounder to create the projects ourselves.

We are currently building Vortex Dapp, an ERC20 token launcher and liquidity lender. A tool for anyone to create instantly tradable tokens on Uniswap with initial liquidity.