Chandler Song

As the company's chief executive and a co-founder, took primary responsibility for translating the protocol's technical capabilities into market-facing products and token economics that affected ANKR's role in the ecosystem. Led multiple fundraising rounds and defined the token distribution and incentive programs used to pay node operators and bootstrap liquidity for RPC and staking services. These decisions established how ANKR would be earned, spent and staked across Ankr's services. Oversaw strategic partnerships and commercial integrations with exchanges, cloud providers and validator operators, negotiating terms and operational commitments that expanded on‑chain demand for Ankr's infrastructure. Directed GTM launches for the node marketplace and staking offerings, coordinating engineering, validator onboarding and custody arrangements so that product delivery matched token incentives and market expectations. Guided regulatory and operational choices around staking products, validator economics and reward flows, approving smart‑contract parameters and off‑chain operational policies that shaped both the perceived utility of ANKR and its real-world liquidity. Operational oversight of node deployment standards and the marketplace fee model produced concrete changes in how the token circulated among validators, developers and institutional partners.