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Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim

Head of Business Development / Partnerships · pNetwork

Secured major exchange listings, liquidity partnerships and custodian integrations that materially affected PNT trading volumes and market depth

Led commercial negotiations that resulted in PNT being listed on multiple centralized exchanges and integrated with custodial services. Concrete tasks included preparing technical and legal due diligence packages, coordinating deposit/withdrawal testing windows, and negotiating listing terms such as fee schedules and market‑making commitments. These commercial outcomes directly affected available order book depth and entry points for institutional counterparties. Structured market‑making and liquidity incentive deals with professional market makers and AMM pools to bootstrap trading depth following key protocol upgrades or token unlocks. Practical deliverables involved drafting incentive schedules, funding liquidity mining pools and coordinating side‑car custodial arrangements to ensure continuous on‑ramp/off‑ramp for traders. Implementation of these programs measurably changed short‑term volatility and slippage for PNT. Managed integration timelines with custodians and fiat on‑ramps to enable broader accessibility for fiat and institutional flows. Hands‑on coordination with custody engineers, compliance teams and exchange ops teams ensured that trading pairs were launched with operational safeguards, affecting settlement times and counterparty risk profiles. Acted as primary commercial interlocutor during post‑incident relistings and re‑onboarding processes, negotiating conditions under which exchanges would restore trading. Those negotiated terms — including limits, supervised withdrawals and ongoing audit commitments — were instrumental in determining how quickly PNT liquidity rebounded in secondary markets.

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