{"id":"alchemy","title":"Enzo Coglitore","content":"**Enzo Coglitore**\n\n**Enzo Coglitore** is a crypto entrepreneur and former venture investor, best known as Co-Founder of Global Token Exchange (GTE). [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-7siBLLNIVwZrkumY) He is active on X (@enzo\\_gte) [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-grzhR2zGwdDlHZrH) and maintains a LinkedIn profile. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-u3jKoGzbJEuKuggE)​\n\n## Education and Early Career\n\nCoglitore attended the University of Southern California, where he studied business and was involved with Troy Labs, a student-run startup mentorship platform, according to USC's Annenberg Media. [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-GhONVTwDrA14A69a) While a student, from May 2020 to August 2021, he co-founded and served as CEO of Genie, a financial technology startup (operating as Genie Financial App Inc.) aimed at helping students manage and pay off student loans using AI-driven personalized recommendations, alongside co-founder Ittai Shaked. According to his own website, Genie raised a $250,000 pre-seed round. [\\[11\\]](#cite-id-UWm8DMYX9z70yzt5) [\\[6\\]](#cite-id-sMfS18KrDPVXt9TG)​\n\nFrom June to August 2021, Coglitore worked in a growth role at [Alchemy](https://iq.wiki/wiki/alchemy), a blockchain infrastructure company, according to his own website. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-nMqKZSPtUPXNVZh1)​\n\n## Career Prior to GTE\n\nCoglitore later worked as an investor at [Alchemy](https://iq.wiki/wiki/alchemy) Ventures, described on his professional profiles as a Product Manager and Partner role. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-u3jKoGzbJEuKuggE) [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-nMqKZSPtUPXNVZh1) While there, he contributed to seed-stage investments including Dora (2.5 million, October 2023), and Blocktorch ($4.2 million, May 2023), among others reported by industry sources. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-nMqKZSPtUPXNVZh1)​\n\n## Co-Founding of GTE\n\nCoglitore co-founded GTE (operating under the legal entity [Liquid](https://iq.wiki/wiki/liquid) Labs Inc.) with Matteo Lunghi, Moses Lee, and Nate Burbage. [\\[7\\]](#cite-id-PnVi9lbWgYloO4xA) GTE was incubated by [MegaETH](https://iq.wiki/wiki/megaeth) Labs and combines a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) with an Automated Market Maker (AMM) model. The project has characterized this combination as an effort to bring centralized-exchange-style performance to decentralized finance (DeFi). [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-nUQ9Q6SlQzUcisJh) In a June 2025 interview with [The Block](https://iq.wiki/wiki/the-block), Coglitore stated that GTE's CLOB updates at latencies comparable to top centralized venues while maintaining non-custodial and permissionless properties. [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-nUQ9Q6SlQzUcisJh)​\n\n## Funding\n\nIn January 2025, GTE raised a total of 1.5 million pre-seed round (closed Q3 2024), an approximately 2.5 million community-focused round on Echo, a platform founded by Jordan Fish (\"[Cobie](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cobie)\"). The Echo round attracted over 720 new investors. [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-nUQ9Q6SlQzUcisJh) Investors in GTE's venture rounds have included Maven 11, [Wintermute](https://iq.wiki/wiki/wintermute), [Flow](https://iq.wiki/wiki/flow) Traders, [Robot Ventures](https://iq.wiki/wiki/robot-ventures), IMC Trading, [Guy Young](https://iq.wiki/wiki/guy-young) (founder of [Ethena](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethena)), and [Max Resnick](https://iq.wiki/wiki/max-resnick) (of Anza), according to [The Block](https://iq.wiki/wiki/the-block) and other press coverage. [\\[9\\]](#cite-id-L4tWLowQkbulFVym) [\\[10\\]](#cite-id-MzZDCD3Vc6XHLIMf)​\n\nCoglitore said these rounds brought GTE's valuation into the \"upper mid-eight-figure range,\" meaning between 99 million, without disclosing an exact figure. [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-nUQ9Q6SlQzUcisJh) In June 2025, [Paradigm](https://iq.wiki/wiki/paradigm) exclusively led a $15 million Series A funding round. [\\[9\\]](#cite-id-L4tWLowQkbulFVym) [\\[10\\]](#cite-id-MzZDCD3Vc6XHLIMf)​\n\n## Technology and Platform Design\n\nGTE builds on the [MegaETH](https://iq.wiki/wiki/megaeth) blockchain, an EVM-compatible network. [\\[8\\]](#cite-id-nUQ9Q6SlQzUcisJh) GTE uses a central limit order book for order matching (time and price priority) alongside AMM liquidity mechanisms to support spot trading. [\\[9\\]](#cite-id-L4tWLowQkbulFVym)​\n\n## Market Position and Competition\n\nGTE has described itself as \"the world's fastest decentralized exchange\" in company statements and press coverage; this is presented as the project's claim rather than as an independently verified fact. [\\[9\\]](#cite-id-L4tWLowQkbulFVym) [\\[10\\]](#cite-id-MzZDCD3Vc6XHLIMf) The project is positioned alongside other low-latency decentralized exchange efforts such as HyperLiquid. 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