{"id":"samantha-bohbot","title":"Samantha Bohbot","content":"**Samantha Bohbot** is an investor, business development executive, and entrepreneur whose career has spanned [digital assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets), venture investing, partnerships, and emerging technology. She is a General Partner and Chief Growth Officer at RockawayX, a [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) investment firm focused on [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) infrastructure, venture investments, and [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) markets. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-10GeRi6OUsnVeAIb) \n\n## Education\n\nBohbot graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Political Science and Government in 2011. She then earned her MSc in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2013. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-snA5DHEsOCdTamX9) \n\n## Career\n\nBohbot began her career in public policy and media, serving as a congressional intern in the U.S. House of Representatives and later completing an internship with Time Warner Cable Media. She subsequently held roles with the International Organization on Nonviolent Conflict and the London School of Economics Innovation and Co-Creation Lab, where she worked on research, communications, and consulting projects.\n\nIn 2014, Bohbot joined Orbis Investments, a global investment management firm, where she worked with the Emerging Markets Equity Fund. She later co-founded L\\&X, a consultancy focused on partnerships, branding, business development, and advisory services for organizations across technology, culture, and government sectors. From 2018 to 2019, she served as Head of Partnerships at Elder, a UK-based care services company, leading partnership initiatives and stakeholder engagement efforts.\n\nIn August 2019, Bohbot joined Digital Currency Group (DCG) as Vice President and Head of Growth. In that role, she oversaw post-investment support for portfolio companies, advised founders and executives, and managed strategic partnerships across the [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) industry. In April 2023, she joined RockawayX as General Partner and Chief Growth Officer, where she focuses on investment strategy, ecosystem development, portfolio support, and growth initiatives across the [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) and [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) sectors. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-44RpL3T0kZuJlbyf) \n\n## Interviews\n\n### DeFi Vaults\n\nOn the Talking Tokens podcast in April 2026, Bohbot emphasized that [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi) vaults represent the next step in the evolution of institutional finance, moving beyond basic yield strategies to actively managed, institutional-grade products backed by [real-world assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas). She noted that while simple vaults offering fixed returns, such as 4% on [USDC](https://iq.wiki/wiki/usdc), are easy to set up and commoditized, the industry is moving towards complex, actively managed credit and [RWA](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas) pools that require sophisticated risk assessment, credit underwriting, and infrastructure. Bohbot highlighted Rockway's approach of curating vaults with defined risk parameters and asset mixes, such as pools involving [RWAs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas) like home equity loans or insurance risk, to differentiate in a crowded market. She pointed out current challenges, including transparency around risk and incident response, the need for stronger proof points of loan performance, and the need to navigate regulatory and infrastructural hurdles. Bohbot also emphasized that future growth depends on embedding these products into broader financial systems, educating users, and attracting more sophisticated capital rather than casual retail investors, and expressed an optimistic outlook for active and risk management, as well as the integration of [real-world assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas) into [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi). [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-xewP8ua7UhQNLB7a) \n\n[YOUTUBE@VID](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tsKr_NZRE9M)\n\n### Top Fund Managers\n\nAt Emergence in December 2024, [Frank Chaparro](https://iq.wiki/wiki/frank-chaparro) interviewed Bohbot, who discussed how successful fund managers distinguish themselves by focusing on areas where they have deep expertise and a clear strategic advantage, particularly in the [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) space. She emphasized that their firm, rooted in Prague and with a strong engineering presence, invests in early-stage ventures, incubates companies like the [Euro stablecoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/eur-stablecoins) initiative Schuman, and operates a credit fund that lends to established crypto protocols through innovative on-chain structures. Bohbot highlighted Europe's fragmented markets and smaller consumer bases compared to the U.S., which pose challenges to scaling tech and innovation. Nevertheless, she pointed out that the regulatory environment and protocol development in [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) present opportunities for enduring business models, especially as protocols that enable traditional assets on-chain become more sophisticated. She also remarked on the importance of focused investment strategies—deep knowledge in areas like [Solana](https://iq.wiki/wiki/solana) and [DeFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi)—and the value of building strategic partnerships with portfolio companies. Bohbot noted that macroeconomic shifts influence the [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) market and advocated a cautious approach to deployment, emphasizing that top managers differentiate themselves through disciplined asset allocation, unique sourcing, and active value addition, such as helping startups with marketing and navigating capital markets. Ultimately, she emphasized that successful fund managers maintained principles, focused their expertise, and remained adaptable in an evolving ecosystem characterized by intense competition and rapid innovation. [\\[6\\]](#cite-id-XlmFT9noAkcNE836) \n\n[YOUTUBE@VID](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hcJ3GWTqgrU)\n\n## Panels\n\n### Allocator Forum\n\nAt a March 2026 panel at the House of Sol, Bohbot joined [Richard Muirhead](https://iq.wiki/wiki/richard-muirhead) of [Fabric Ventures](https://iq.wiki/wiki/fabric-protocol) and Julian Rowe of LocalGlobeVC to discuss long-term investment strategies within the [Solana](https://iq.wiki/wiki/solana) ecosystem. The panel focused on how [Solana’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/solana) value proposition has evolved beyond performance and throughput advantages toward more specialized use cases aligned with institutional adoption and regulatory requirements. Bohbot highlighted RockawayX’s emphasis on on-chain capital markets, including liquidity provision and product development across [digital asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets) infrastructure. Rowe drew on LocalGlobeVC’s broader technology investment experience, noting its relevance to understanding [blockchain’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) development path, while [Muirhead](https://iq.wiki/wiki/richard-muirhead) emphasized a shift toward more application-specific [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) use cases such as agentic commerce, cross-border payments, energy-related systems, and [real-world asset](https://iq.wiki/wiki/real-world-assets-rwas) tokenization. Throughout the discussion, participants highlighted the importance of underlying infrastructure, the expanding role of [stablecoins](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin), and [blockchain’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) emerging function as a coordination layer across industries. The panel also touched on longer-term trends toward machine-driven economic activity, in which [autonomous agents](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ai-agents) may increasingly conduct transactions with financial systems that operate more as embedded infrastructure than as a visible interface. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-Oncoeu4Kbb1PIWvE) \n\n[YOUTUBE@VID](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fGY9jPlmlWU)\n\n### Changes to Institutions\n\nAt a February 2026 panel at the Digital Assets Forum, Bohbot joined Bilal Jafar (Dow Jones), [Michael Ashby](https://iq.wiki/wiki/michael-ashby) (Algoquant), Filippo Bondurri (SGMC Capital), Bernard Schmid (Areta), and Patrick Sanderson (Janus) to discuss why institutional capital has remained only partially allocated to [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) markets. The discussion centered on the persistent gap between rising institutional interest and the relatively limited deployment of capital, with participants citing regulatory uncertainty, liquidity constraints, market maturity, and challenges in underwriting risk-adjusted returns. The panel noted that while institutional engagement has increased over time, many large allocators remain cautious due to concerns around market structure, security, privacy, and the reliability of infrastructure supporting [digital assets](https://iq.wiki/wiki/digital-assets). They also discussed the cyclical nature of [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) markets, including periods of volatility and structural shifts that have impacted liquidity and trading profitability, as well as regional differences in adoption and sophistication, with North America generally seen as more advanced than Europe and parts of the Middle East.\n\nParticipants highlighted growing merger and acquisition activity, particularly in areas such as payments and [stablecoins](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin), as a sign of the industry's increasing maturity and institutionalization. However, they emphasized that broader adoption continues to depend on improvements in infrastructure, clearer regulation, and greater investor education around the asset class. Overall, the panel framed the sector as approaching a potential inflection point, where sustained institutional participation could increase as structural barriers are addressed and market foundations continue to develop. 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