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Nic Roberts-Huntley
Nic Roberts-Huntley (also credited as Nicholas Roberts-Huntley) is the founder and chief executive officer of Blueprint Finance, a New York–based company building institutional infrastructure for digital assets.[1] Trained as a medical doctor, he practiced surgery and medicine within the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) before moving into venture building and finance, holding both a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Oxford.[2] He co-founded Blueprint Finance in 2023 with Dillon Liang, and oversees its two decentralized finance (DeFi) products, Concrete and Glow Finance, serving as chief executive of both.[3][4]
Early Life and Education
Roberts-Huntley was educated at the University of Oxford, where he completed his medical and postgraduate training. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree in medicine, during which he was involved in the university's Genomics Society and Surgical Society and served as a Surgical Anatomy Tutor.[1] During his medical studies he completed what he describes as the first audit and service evaluation of anteversion and eversion in primary total hip replacements at a national surgical center, using EBRA software to assess the risk of post-operative dislocation over time.[1]
He subsequently pursued two further Oxford degrees. He completed a master's degree in Evidence Based Policy Evaluation and Economics, work that involved modeling the prospective economic burden of human factors to inform fiscal policy and modeling infrastructural architecture changes affecting macro
- and microeconomic trends, alongside extended training in research methodologies, study design, analytics, and systematic reviews.[1] He also earned an MBA from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, where his elective modules covered Entrepreneurial Finance, Global Strategy, the Collaborative Economy, and Negotiations, and where he received the Nautilus Award for outstanding achievement.[1] His studies at Oxford combined policy, economics, and his MBA.[5]
Medical Career
Before entering finance, Roberts-Huntley worked for roughly five years as a physician within the NHS between 2013 and 2018, practicing across a wide range of specialties including uro-oncology surgery, emergency medicine, colorectal surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, trauma and orthopedics, and vascular and sarcoma surgery.[1] From 2016 to 2018 he held a fellowship in Limb Reconstruction and Sarcoma Surgery at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and he has also been described as a limb reconstruction surgeon at Oxford University.[1][2]
His clinical appointments included cardiothoracic surgery at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals from 2015 to 2016 in London, and sarcoma surgery at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in London in 2017.[1] Earlier, in 2013, he served as a visiting physician at Jeffrey's Bay Medical Clinic in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa.[1] He has held professional affiliations with the British Medical Association (BMA), the General Medical Council (GMC), and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) since July 2013.[1]
Career in Finance and Technology
Roberts-Huntley transitioned from medicine into venture building and institutional investing. From 2018 to 2020 he worked as a Venture Architect at Virtual Ventures in Menlo Park, California, a strategic solutions and company-development studio that, in its own materials, has been described as DARPA
From 2020 to 2022 he was a Vice President at Point72 in San Francisco, the global asset manager led by Steven A. Cohen that deploys discretionary long/short equity, systematic, and macro investing strategies along with private market investments.[1] He has also been identified with Point72 Ventures, the firm's venture arm, over the same 2020 to 2022 period.[6]
Blueprint Finance
Roberts-Huntley founded Blueprint Finance in 2023 together with Dillon Liang, and serves as its chief executive officer; some records date the founding to late 2022.[3][6] The company describes itself as providing "institutional infrastructure for digital assets" and operates as a software development firm offering finance services.[1] Headquartered in New York, Blueprint Finance employs between 20 and 30 people spread across a distributed workforce in 13 countries, including the United States, Brazil, Spain, India, and Portugal.[1] Roberts-Huntley has stated that Blueprint Finance handles over $20 billion of annual volume, and the company states it has raised $17 million in total funding.[1]
Roberts-Huntley has framed the company's mission around accessibility, telling Fortune, "The big premise here is, how do we give anybody, institutional down to pure retail, the easiest access and the best utility from their digital assets in terms of return on their capital?"[3] Under his leadership the company has released two products, Concrete and Glow.[3]
Funding
Blueprint Finance first raised $7.5 million in 2024.[3] It subsequently raised a further $9.5 million in a reported round, bringing its cumulative funding to $17 million.[3] Roberts-Huntley said the $9.5 million would be spent on hiring new employees, engineering, and marketing, and he declined to disclose the company's annual revenue or its valuation in that round.[3] Concrete is backed by investors including Tribe, Hashed, Hypersphere, and SALT.[5] In August 2026, Concrete announced a new strategic round of financing that it said was led by Polychain, which Roberts-Huntley described as adding "critical strategic partners and new capital to the company to accelerate our growth."[8][4]
Concrete
Concrete was released in early 2024 and is Blueprint Finance's DeFi infrastructure platform, described as abstracting the complexity of structured products for digital assets.[3][5] It has also been characterized as an automated DeFi vault protocol for optimized yield generation and liquidation protection.[7] Roberts-Huntley has described Concrete's work as "building the complete infrastructure for an on-chain vault economy."[4]
In August 2026, Concrete announced a partnership with m0 to launch concUSD, a stablecoin designed as a dollar-denominated liquidity layer for the Concrete ecosystem, which Roberts-Huntley described as a "native dollar built for their ecosystem."[8][4] Roberts-Huntley has made a series of self-reported claims about the platform's scale, stating in August 2026 that Concrete was "the 4th largest DeFi curator, and the largest outside of Morpho," and that total value locked had grown "more than 20x since September 2025" and surpassed $1 billion.[4] He has also said that Concrete has "been able to scale solutions with groups that control less than $50M to more than $100B."[4]
Glow Finance
Glow, also referred to as Glow Finance, launched in 2025 as a rebranded and updated version of Jet Protocol, which Blueprint Finance acquired in 2024.[3] Roberts-Huntley serves as chief executive of Glow Finance alongside his roles at Blueprint Finance and Concrete.[4][6]
Awards and Recognition
Roberts-Huntley received the Nautilus Award for Outstanding Achievement from Oxford University in connection with his MBA studies.[1] As a university athlete he earned two Double Blues from Oxford, one awarded by the Oxford University Athletics Club and one by the Oxford University Rugby Football Club.[1]
Interviews
DeFi Yield Strategies and Market Development #01
On January 16, 2026, Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Finance, appeared on the Cryptonews Spotlight YouTube channel to discuss institutional yield strategies, decentralized finance (DeFi), and the development of digital asset markets.
Roberts-Huntley outlined his professional transition from medicine to traditional finance and later to the cryptocurrency industry. He attributed his interest in financial technology in part to earlier work involving large-scale data analysis and complex systems. During the interview, he discussed the role of yield-generating services in enabling holders of digital assets to earn returns while managing exposure to market fluctuations.
He described Blueprint Finance's two protocols, Concrete and Glow. Concrete operates within the Ethereum and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem, while Glow serves the Solana ecosystem. According to Roberts-Huntley, both use automated vault strategies to allocate deposited assets across financial activities intended to generate returns. He explained that these strategies may include lending and arbitrage opportunities, with an emphasis on limiting directional exposure to changes in asset prices. He also noted that vault shares may have applications as collateral and in institutional balance-sheet management.
Roberts-Huntley addressed the calculation and presentation of annual percentage yields (APYs) in DeFi. He argued that advertised rates can include projected returns from token incentives, reward points, or potential airdrops that have not yet produced realized income. He described Blueprint Finance's approach as distinguishing these incentives from returns generated through its underlying strategies, allowing users to assess the sources of potential earnings separately.
Regarding the development of DeFi, Roberts-Huntley discussed tokenized debt instruments, credit markets, and the trading of financial obligations. He identified regulatory frameworks, reliable asset valuation, and access to historical data as factors affecting the development of these markets. He also discussed insurance and risk underwriting as mechanisms that could address some of the risks associated with digital asset transactions and support participation by institutional investors.
Roberts-Huntley further discussed the roles of prime brokerages and qualified custodians in managing digital assets. He anticipated that these institutions would explore additional methods of deploying client assets through strategies designed to account for risk, returns, and transparency. [9]
Concrete and DeFi Infrastructure #02
On December 12, 2024, Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO of Blueprint Finance, appeared on Halborn’s YouTube channel to discuss the company’s development of decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure, the Concrete protocol, and its approach to smart contract security.
Roberts-Huntley traced the company’s origins to the market conditions following the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market and the collapse of FTX in 2022. He described Blueprint Finance’s focus as providing services for generating yield on crypto assets and obtaining liquidity through borrowing, with an emphasis on simplifying access to decentralized financial products.
During the interview, Roberts-Huntley outlined Concrete’s use of ERC-4626-compliant vaults, which manage deposited assets through automated on-chain strategies. The protocol operates across multiple blockchain networks and connects to money markets to facilitate borrowing. He also described mechanisms intended to provide borrowers with additional time or credit when facing potential liquidation. He characterized Blueprint Finance as infrastructure designed to connect different DeFi applications and networks.
Roberts-Huntley also discussed transferable vault shares, referred to as CT assets, which represent positions in Concrete vaults. According to his explanation, these tokens can be transferred and may support additional financial activities, including margin trading and borrowing. He noted that the underlying assets remain deposited in the vaults while the associated shares can be used separately.
On security, Roberts-Huntley described an approach involving modular smart contract architecture, external audits, and ongoing cooperation with security specialists. He explained that separating contract functions was intended to limit the scope of potential failures and facilitate security reviews. He also discussed Blueprint Finance’s work with Halborn, which included dedicated audits and continuing security support.
The interview concluded with a discussion of Blueprint Finance’s plans for partnerships, financing, and development within the Solana ecosystem. These plans formed part of the company’s broader efforts to expand Concrete’s deployment across blockchain networks. [10]
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