# Serafin Lion Engel

> Serafin Lion Engel is the Founder and CEO of Yield.xyz, a yield infrastructure platform for digital assets. He entered crypto in 2014 and previously founded the...

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- Created: 2026-04-01T22:50:31.209Z
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**Serafin Lion Engel** is a [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Yield.xyz, an institutional-grade yield infrastructure platform for digital assets. He previously founded the mobile multichain wallet Omni, which was acquired in 2024. [\[1\]](#cite-id-NhLy124qgPMf0wQZ) [\[2\]](#cite-id-xtvcCP0JYcm9YVwo)​

## Education

He attended Draper University in 2014. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration from RSM Erasmus Universiteit, completing the program between 2011 and 2014.  [\[1\]](#cite-id-NhLy124qgPMf0wQZ) 

## Career

Serafin Lion Engel has held roles across data privacy, [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain), and financial technology. He co-founded Datawallet in 2014, where he worked on early data sovereignty infrastructure and contributed to [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) development efforts until 2021. He later founded Omni in 2021, a multi-chain wallet project, and led it until its acquisition in 2024.

In 2023, he co-founded Yield.xyz, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer, focusing on infrastructure for accessing and managing yield opportunities across [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) networks. Alongside his entrepreneurial work, Engel has acted as a data privacy expert for CNBC since 2019 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2015.

He has also contributed as an advisor to projects in privacy-preserving technologies and became a member of the FII Institute in 2026.  [\[1\]](#cite-id-NhLy124qgPMf0wQZ)  [\[2\]](#cite-id-xtvcCP0JYcm9YVwo)  [\[3\]](#cite-id-VrixjyVjrcsQcPJA)