Rena Shah

Rena Shah is the COO at Trust Machines, a company building the largest ecosystem of products on Bitcoin (Leather, Locker, and Granite DeFi). Previously, she was the Head of Exchange at Binance.US, where she grew the exchange from $30M to $3B in daily trading volume within 18 months. Rena spent time on the commodities side and has a unique background as a drilling engineer. She spent her early career offshore on drilling rigs while spinning up Bitcoin mining pools. She frequently contributes to crypto media, writing about DeFi, Layer 2s, and stablecoins.

Latest from Rena Shah

Opinion

Bitcoin at 16: Getting Its Driver's License and Entering a New Era

Bitcoin has evolved beyond "digital gold." Today, it's a foundational piece of global financial infrastructure, says Trust Machines’ Rena Shah.

Nov 1, 2024

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia. (BitCluster)

Opinion

Where Will Bitcoin Mining Be After the Halving?

Former petroleum engineer Rena Shah says bitcoin miners will need to embrace eco-friendly trends like flare gas recovery and nuclear power after mining revenues are cut.

Aug 8, 2023

nuclear power plant (Emmelie Callewaert/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Bitcoin’s Lack of Layer 2s Is a Blessing in Disguise

The unscalable blockchain par excellence can help fix crypto's longstanding scalability problem. The solution is to build a network where base and scaling layers are indistinguishable.

Jun 14, 2023

Layer 2s with native tokens and blockchain bridges might introduce more problems than they fix as blockchain scaling solutions, Trust Machine's Rena Shah argues. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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