About
Max Kaplan is the former founder & CEO of Orangefin Ventures, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at SOL Strategies, publicly traded on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE: HODL) and on the OTC Market (OTC: CYFRF). In 2024, Max sold Orangefin Ventures to SOL Strategies after growing it into a business with $140M in assets under delegation and one of the biggest validators on the Solana network. Before founding Orangefin Ventures, Max spent 6 years working at Kraken where he was the first engineers ever hired and led the DevOps and Data Engineering departments as senior director. Outside of the tech world, Max can be found watching sports or training for his next triathlon.
Publications / Media
Sol Strategies Signs Definitive Agreement for the Acquisition of Validators and Leadership from Orangefin Ventures
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – December 20, 2024) – Sol Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (OTC Pink: CYFRF) (“Sol Strategies” or the “Company”), a publicly traded Canadian company actively investing in, supporting, and providing infrastructure for the Solana blockchain and ecosystem, today announced i…
pluralxsol
Scaling Kraken’s trading infrastructure for the next decade of growth
Authored by: Shannon Kurtas, Product Director, Pro & Institutional Trading Max Kaplan, Sr. Engineering Director, Core Infrastructure & Data Engineering Suketu Gandhi, Sr. Engineering Director, Trading Technology Steve Hunt, VP Engineering Nearly twelve years ago, Kraken began its pioneering mission…
KrakenFX
Sol Strategies Makes Play to Become the Microstrategy of Solana
A Canadian holding company moves to purchase $25M CAD of $SOL.
Finn Miller
The open source debate: Is crypto losing its soul?
Some crypto teams are abandoning open source in favor of secrecy, though critics say the trade-off isn’t worth it.
Yohan Yun
Jito Proposal to Blacklist Validators Set for Unanimous Approval
Over 220 validators could be blacklisted if the vote passes
Finn Miller
New validators spring up as Solana usage surges
Since November, validator revenue consistently netted at least $40 million every roughly two days, according to data from 21 co.
Jack Kubinec
Some Solana Validators Are Concerned by Marinade’s Stake Auction Marketplace
Marinade’s novel Stake Auction Marketplace promises 10% APY on staked SOL, but some validators argue this comes at too great a cost.
Finn Miller
Thinking Algorithmic In Assembly
Data structures and algorithms are essential to computer science. Yes, it is true that most software engineers don’t implement them on an…
What you don’t know about Bitcoin | HackerNoon
If you haven’t heard about <a href=“https://hackernoon.com/tagged/bitcoin” target=“_blank”>Bitcoin</a> by now, chances are you most likely live under a rock. From social media to the mainstream news, everyone these days is talking about Bitcoin. As someone who has been involved since 2014 and works…
Open Source Contributions
- Terraform Provider: MySQL
- Solana Program Library
- Firedancer
- Agave
- Bitcoin Core
- lightningnetwork/lnd
- debezium/debezium