Aslan Tashtanov

DeFi Tech Lead Manager, Mysten Labs, and the original contributor to DeepBook

Aslan Tashtanov is a DeFi Tech Lead Manager at Mysten Labs. He brings more than eight years of experience in the crypto industry focused on DeFi and is the original contributor to DeepBook. He spent two years at GSR, where he served as a Software Engineer focused on systematic trading in DeFi. Before GSR, Aslan served one year as a Software Engineer at Coinbase, where he worked on DeFi and smart contract development. Aslan holds a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University in computer science.

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Introducing DeepBook Predict

Predict. Compose. Trade anything. TLDR: Predict enables developers to build binary markets, options (calls, puts, spreads), leveraged products, and structured...

May 5, 2026

3min read

Aslan Tashtanov

DeFi

The $100M Opportunity No One is Talking About

Main Takeaways On-chain options haven’t scaled because of architecture, not demand. Liquidity is siloed at the position level, which limits leverage,...

May 4, 2026

2min read

Aslan Tashtanov