Enzo Coglitore
Enzo Coglitore is a crypto entrepreneur and former venture investor, best known as Co-Founder of Global Token Exchange (GTE). [2] He is active on X (@enzo_gte) [1] and maintains a LinkedIn profile. [3]
Education and Early Career
Coglitore attended the University of Southern California, where he studied business and was involved with Troy Labs, a student-run startup mentorship platform, according to USC's Annenberg Media. [4] While a student, from May 2020 to August 2021, he co-founded and served as CEO of Genie, a financial technology startup (operating as Genie Financial App Inc.) aimed at helping students manage and pay off student loans using AI-driven personalized recommendations, alongside co-founder Ittai Shaked. According to his own website, Genie raised a $250,000 pre-seed round. [11] [6]
From June to August 2021, Coglitore worked in a growth role at Alchemy, a blockchain infrastructure company, according to his own website. [5]
Career Prior to GTE
Coglitore later worked as an investor at Alchemy Ventures, described on his professional profiles as a Product Manager and Partner role. [3] [5] While there, he contributed to seed-stage investments including Dora (2.5 million, October 2023), and Blocktorch ($4.2 million, May 2023), among others reported by industry sources. [5]
Co-Founding of GTE
Coglitore co-founded GTE (operating under the legal entity Liquid Labs Inc.) with Matteo Lunghi, Moses Lee, and Nate Burbage. [7] GTE was incubated by MegaETH Labs and combines a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) with an Automated Market Maker (AMM) model. The project has characterized this combination as an effort to bring centralized-exchange-style performance to decentralized finance (DeFi). [8] In a June 2025 interview with The Block, Coglitore stated that GTE's CLOB updates at latencies comparable to top centralized venues while maintaining non-custodial and permissionless properties. [8]
Funding
In January 2025, GTE raised a total of 1.5 million pre-seed round (closed Q3 2024), an approximately 2.5 million community-focused round on Echo, a platform founded by Jordan Fish ("Cobie"). The Echo round attracted over 720 new investors. [8] Investors in GTE's venture rounds have included Maven 11, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Robot Ventures, IMC Trading, Guy Young (founder of Ethena), and Max Resnick (of Anza), according to The Block and other press coverage. [9] [10]
Coglitore said these rounds brought GTE's valuation into the "upper mid-eight-figure range," meaning between 99 million, without disclosing an exact figure. [8] In June 2025, Paradigm exclusively led a $15 million Series A funding round. [9] [10]
Technology and Platform Design
GTE builds on the MegaETH blockchain, an EVM-compatible network. [8] GTE uses a central limit order book for order matching (time and price priority) alongside AMM liquidity mechanisms to support spot trading. [9]
Market Position and Competition
GTE has described itself as "the world's fastest decentralized exchange" in company statements and press coverage; this is presented as the project's claim rather than as an independently verified fact. [9] [10] The project is positioned alongside other low-latency decentralized exchange efforts such as HyperLiquid. [10]
