Overview
Alba Veisllari is co-founder and chief executive of crypdefi, and is based in Brussels. Since February 2026 she has also been chief executive of Fortkey.
Between January and May 2025 she was a business operations manager at Chainlink Labs. Before that she spent close to seven years at Deloitte, joining as a business analyst in May 2018 and moving on through technology consultant and senior consultant roles to manager, a position she held from June 2022 until January 2025. Earlier she was a trainee at the Elium Academy of Software & Entrepreneurship in 2017, worked as an independent sales representative from 2015 to 2016, interned at the Economic Chamber of Athens in 2013 and wrote freelance for Trip and Travel from 2012 to 2013.
She holds a bachelor's degree in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus and an MSc in International Business from KU Leuven, and spent an Erasmus year at the Università di Siena.
Career history
In the news
- When a custody wallet connects to a trading venue, the order path and the control path split. BitGo's Hyperliquid integration last week is a clean example of that design and a sensible one. My view is that control can also travel with every order, and that it no longer needs to cost anything a desk would notice: about 81 µs per signature. We ran the numbers: https://lnkd.in/eRvNaKKC Custody protects the key. Fortkey protects the transaction.
- Keeping the signing key in plaintext on the trading box costs 52μs per signature. Sealing it in an enclave with policy enforced on every signature: 133μs. The whole price of doing it properly: about 80μs, still under a millisecond at p99.9. Jochem Hoes ran 5 million signatures per payload type to get this number. Full tables and the caveats in the first comment.
- We ran 20,000 signatures through AWS KMS. Every single one took longer than a millisecond. The same payloads through our HFT Vault: 133 microseconds median, still under a millisecond at p99.9, with policy enforced on every signature. Jochem Hoes published the full benchmark: methodology, every percentile, and the caveats. If you sign anything latency-sensitive, it's worth ten minutes.
- Today CrypDefi becomes Fortkey. The rename is the boring part. What's interesting is the reason why: the product became very clear about what it is. A self-custody wallet for trading firms, fast enough for algorithmic execution, controlled enough to hand to an auditor. Fortkey says that. Fortified keys, built for speed. For clients and partners: same company, same entity, same product, same people. Everything carries over unchanged. Details: https://lnkd.in/e5rMWacn
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