Alex Palmer

— Head of Regulatory Product Strategy at Plume, a public blockchain for scaling RWAs

//About

Launched Nest to let anyone with a wallet earn from RWAs — now 181k+ wallets and $179M TVL across Nest. That made Plume the top chain by RWA holders (60k before we launched, 200k+ as of now). Building Transfer Agent Protocol, open source infrastructure for tokenized cap tables that will power Plume's transfer agent.

2x founder before this. Ran payments infra, led products in pharma and AI. Built Visualize Laws to explore 2.2M U.S. local laws, with financial, state, and federal law to come. I build things and write about them on Paragraph.

//Products

Plumework
Public blockchain for scaling real-world assets. Head of Regulatory Product Strategy.
Nestlive
Anyone with a wallet can earn from RWAs — now 181k+ wallets and $179M TVL across Nest. Helped make Plume top chain by RWA holders.
Visualize Lawslive
Explore ~2.2M U.S. local laws — search, filter, map. Financial / state / federal next.
Transfer Agent Protocoloss
Open-source infrastructure for tokenized cap tables powering Plume's transfer agent.

//Writing

Feb 23, 2025279 views
My principles for product design
Things I strongly believe about product design and use all the time. Plus some heuristics that are practical and useful.
Sep 6, 2023981 views
Open source onchain equity protocol.
Introducing an open source protocol stack to build web3 equivalents of traditional transfer agents.
Apr 25, 2023334 views
Every type of security, defined in a sentence
Concise descriptions for each term in the 1933 Act that means "a security".
Nov 8, 202289 views
When a token is not a security.
A framework for understanding which tokens fall outside of the Howey test definition of a security.
Sep 29, 202247 views
What classifies a token as an investment contract.
A plain English explanation of the Howey test and investment contracts.

Read all on Paragraph

//Beliefs

A few of my strong beliefs are: technology always wins; cynicism pays no dividends; first, principles; and, “questions are places in the mind where answers fit”. Clayton Christensen said that and I never forgot.