Tiantian Kullander, the former Morgan Stanley trader who co-founded digital-asset trading platform Amber Group, has died.
According to the company’s official website, Tiantian Kullander, popularly known as TT, the co-founder of Amber Group, tragically passed away in his sleep on November 23.
Tiantian, who was 30 years old, is survived by his wife and son. Along with co-founding the Hong Kong-based Amber Group, TT also founded KeeperDAO, a DeFi protocol that enables users to trade, borrow, and stake assets with protection from miner value extracted (MEV) bots before returning them to the community.
TT also served on the board of the e-sports organization Fnatic. According to a formal statement released by Amber Group, TT gave his all to the business, setting an excellent example with “his intellect, kindness, humility, diligence, and innovation. The business further stated:
“TT was a respected thought leader and widely recognized as a pioneer for the industry. His depth of knowledge, his willingness to collaborate and his desire to always help others benefited countless start-ups and individuals. His insights and creativity inspired many projects, people and communities.”
Amber Group was founded in 2015 as a side project by four traders, Michael Wu, Tiantian, Huo, and He, along with Thomas Zhu, a developer for Bloomberg LP, with the goal of investigating machine learning for trading. In 2017, they started doing this project full-time.
TianTian’s previous positions were Emerging Markets Trader at Morgan Stanley and Structured Credit Trading at Goldman Sachs. He was named to Forbes Under 30 in 2019, a list that honors the most accomplished young leaders, entrepreneurs, and celebrities.
On Twitter, the local community responded to the loss. The “business lost a young, intelligent and most importantly, a decent soul,” according to Arthur Cheong, founding partner of DeFiance Capital.
TT was described as “one of the most sincere, and most gifted guy” he knows by Tom C, co-founder of the automatic market maker (AMM) Charm Finance.
