John Kramer

co-founder & CEO
Manifest

John Kramer is the co-founder and CEO of Manifest, the spot orderbook on Solana that has become the top exchange globally for stablecoin trading. The fully onchain CLOB DEX processes over $3 billion in monthly volume and routes through all major aggregators and Web3 wallets including Jupiter, Coinbase and Binance. Manifest is also a growing destination for tokenized real-world assets, including private credit instruments and equities, given the ability to permissionlessly create markets for any token and trade with zero fees. Previously, John served as Head of OTC & DeFi Trading at GSR, where he risk-managed a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of digital asset derivatives, and helped pioneer some of crypto's earliest structured products. He holds a Master of Finance from MIT Sloan and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.