Kelly Ye

Kelly Ye is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Avenir Group, a next-generation investment group and family office, where she helps lead multi-strategy investing and research across digital assets. She is also a portfolio manager and Head of Research at Decentral Park Capital, a liquid venture fund specializing in digital asset investments. Kelly invests in both liquid and early-stage deals across various crypto sectors, employing a thesis-driven approach supported by in-depth fundamental and quantitative analysis.Prior to her current roles, Kelly served as the Head of Product at Fidelity Digital Asset Management and the Head of Research at CoinDesk Indices, where she played a pivotal role in building and scaling both organizations’ digital asset businesses. Before venturing into the digital asset space, Kelly accumulated over 15 years of experience in traditional finance, focusing on research and product development across asset classes. She led teams at institutions including New York Life Investments, Goldman Sachs, GSAM, and BNP Paribas.

Kelly has received numerous industry accolades and awards since entering the financial services industry in 2008. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Peking University and a Master’s degree in Operations Research from MIT. She is a CFA® charterholder, has served on the Board of CFA New York, and co-chaired the Women in ETF Speakers’ Bureau committee.

Latest from Kelly Ye

CoinDesk Indices

ETH Liquidity Check: Is it Catching Up with Bitcoin?

Kelly Ye and Helena Lam of Avenir Group explore how liquidity indicators could reveal underlying capital flows and liquidity conditions for ether, and how there may still be ample room for expansion as institutional interest accelerates.

Aug 27, 2025

Opinion

Crypto for Advisors: AI + Blockchain + Crypto

Blockchain is the key to unlocking a scalable, ethical, and user-focused AI economy, addressing critical barriers like resource demands, ethical concerns, and proof of humanhood.

Dec 12, 2024

AI agent tokens has garnered significant mindshare among crypto traders, growing into a multibillion dollar asset class. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Opinion

How to Build an Asset Class in Three Easy Steps

Kelly Ye, portfolio manager at Decentral Park Capital and Andy Baehr, head of product at CoinDesk Indices, trade views, active manager vs indexer, on what steps are most important to shape the capital markets and investment landscape for digital assets in a post U.S. election world.

Nov 6, 2024

Markets

The Anatomy of a Crypto Bull Market

Analyzing previous crypto market cycles helps us understand the current one, says Kelly Ye, head of research at Decentral Park Capital.

Jul 31, 2024

Matador. (Credit: Paul Kenny McGrath/Unsplash)

Opinion

Crypto for Advisors: Web2 to Web3

Kelly Ye looks at the three fast-growing blockchain ecosystems that are addressing the adoption challenges for Web3, gaining user adoption, and how they combine the strengths of Web2 and Web3 to create a seamless Web2-like onboarding experience while providing users with the benefits of sovereign ownership in Web3.

Jul 18, 2024

Markets

Why Base Chain Has Potential to Lock the Next Generation of Crypto Users

The next era of Web3 will be defined by the ability of projects to attract and retain users, says Kelly Ye of Decentral Park Capital. Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 is showing the way forward.

Apr 24, 2024

Finance

Tis the Season To Be Jolly About the Crypto Market in 2024

With TradFi moving in, the crypto industry is finally taking its place as the future of finance, says Kelly Ye, at Decentral Park Capital.

Dec 20, 2023

Finance

How Is Tokenization Impacting Investing?

Decentral Park’s Kelly Ye provides an overview of what tokenization is and how will it affect the investment landscape.

Aug 17, 2023

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