Maja Vujinovic
Former CEO of Digital Assets, FG Nexus
Maja Vujinovic led the digital assets division of FG Nexus until June 2026, and at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 she argued that DeFi would not grow until its hacking problem was fixed.
Maja at Proof of Talk Paris 2026
- 2 June 2026Panel11:00Hecto Main Stage
Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk
with Dax Hansen · Stéphanie Cabossioras · Hadley Stern
- 2 June 2026Fireside16:10Hecto Main Stage
The Last Moat: An Interview with Maja Vujinovic on Judgement in the Age of Infinite Tools
with Hadley Stern
- 3 June 2026Side Event10:30Roundtable Lounge
Digital Asset Treasuries Roundtable
with Hyunsu Jung
Why the room needs them.
Maja Vujinovic, CEO of Digital Assets at FG Nexus until June 2026, spoke on institutional DeFi at Proof of Talk Paris 2026. CoinDesk reported her view there that DeFi would not grow until its hacks were fixed. She also gave a fireside interview on judgement in the age of infinite tools.
The full account.
Maja Vujinovic spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026, held 2–3 June 2026 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre Palace, Paris, as CEO of Digital Assets at FG Nexus. On the first day, on the Hecto Main Stage, she joined the panel "Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk" with Dax Hansen and Stéphanie Cabossioras, moderated by Hadley Stern, and that afternoon gave a fireside interview, "The Last Moat: An Interview with Maja Vujinovic on Judgement in the Age of Infinite Tools", also moderated by Hadley Stern. On the second day she joined Hyunsu Jung at the Digital Asset Treasuries Roundtable, a side event in the Roundtable Lounge.
Sources describe her role that week differently. FG Nexus named her CEO of Digital Assets in July 2025, when the company, then Fundamental Global Inc., launched an Ethereum treasury strategy, and added her to its board that August; a company filing shows she held the role until 30 June 2026. CoinDesk, reporting from the Paris conference on 3 June 2026, instead described her as "CEO of investment and advisory firm OGroup", and quoted her: "I don't think you see a growth in DeFi until we fix the first problem ... which is the hacks."
In an SEC filing on 1 July 2026, FG Nexus reported that its board had authorised an exit from the digital asset business and approved the elimination of the position of CEO, Digital Assets Division, effective 30 June 2026. Her employment ended that day, and she resigned from the board in connection with a consulting arrangement. In the company's announcement she said she had decided to "step away and pursue opportunities more aligned with my background".
Vujinovic founded OGroup, which describes itself as an "Activist Operating Partner for Crypto & AI". A 2019 CoinDesk byline described her as a former Chief Innovation Officer of Emerging Tech & Future of Work at General Electric. FG Nexus has credited her with acquiring the first bank for Tether and, at GE, with launching one of the first institutional-grade finance transactions on blockchain in 2015. Writing in CoinDesk in May 2019, she dated her first encounter with blockchain to 2011 and argued that harnessing its potential was a human problem, not a technical one.
What Maja believes about the next ten years.
Years of shipping.
Lines that keep proving correct.
“I don't think you see a growth in DeFi until we fix the first problem ... which is the hacks.”
“If blockchain is to scale to the point where it can be relevant to the existing economy, then, we also need to change the mindset and motives that drive the crypto startup community.”
What they have built, written, and backed.
Built
- OGroupFounded OGroup, which CoinDesk has described as an investment and advisory firm and which describes itself as an "Activist Operating Partner for Crypto & AI".
- FG Nexus Digital Assets DivisionNamed CEO of Digital Assets when Fundamental Global Inc., later FG Nexus, launched its Ethereum treasury strategy in July 2025; FG Nexus later described her as co-founder and CEO of the division, a position eliminated effective 30 June 2026.
- Blockchain finance transaction at GEAt General Electric, launched one of the first institutional-grade finance transactions on blockchain in 2015, according to FG Nexus.
The next Proof of Talk is in Abu Dhabi.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.
Request access