Amber Group co-founder, Tiantian Kullander, also known as TT, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on November 23, according to the company’s official website. Tiantian was 30 years old and leaves behind a wife and son.
In addition to co-founding Hong Kong-based Amber Group, TT served on the board of esports company Fnatic and founded KeeperDAO, a DeFi protocol that allows participants to trade, borrow, and stake assets with protection. against mining value mined (MEV) bots, before returning them to the community.
In an official statement, Amber Group noted that TT had dedicated himself wholeheartedly to the company, leading by example with “his intellect, generosity, humility, diligence and creativity.”. The company also stated:
“TT was a respected thought leader and widely recognized as an industry pioneer. His deep knowledge, willingness to collaborate, and desire to always help others benefited countless start-ups and individuals. His ideas and creativity inspired many projects, people and communities”.
With the goal of exploring machine learning for trading, Amber Group started in 2015 as a side project of four traders—Michael Wu, Tiantian, Huo, and He—as well as Bloomberg LP developer Thomas Zhu. They started working on the project full-time in 2017.
Previously, TianTian had worked as a Structured Credit Trading at Goldman Sachs and an Emerging Markets Trader at Morgan Stanley. In 2019, he was included in Forbes Under 30, a list that recognizes the brightest young entrepreneurs, leaders and stars.
The community reacted to the loss on Twitter. Arthur Cheong, a founding partner of DeFiance Capital, noted that the “industry lost a young, bright and, most importantly, a good soul.”
Just received an extremely sad news and really not sure how to react when we were still talking weeks ago.
RIP @0xttk
—Arthur (@Arthur_0x) November 25, 2022
I just received some extremely sad news and I’m really not sure how to react when we were still talking weeks ago.
Tom C, co-founder of automatic market maker (AMM) Charm Finance, also noted on Twitter that TT was “one of the most genuine and talented people” he knows.
I’m deeply saddened. tt is one of the most genuine, and most talented person i know. he’s one of the few people who gets crypto (and finance), and sets his heart on doing the right things. I can’t believe something like this has happened – shit world we live in
RIP tt
—Tom^ (@CryptoMa20) November 25, 2022
I am deeply saddened. tt is one of the most genuine and talented people I know. she is one of the few people who understands crypto (and finance) and strives to do the right thing. I can’t believe something like this happened – f*cking world we live in
rip tt
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