Leadership

Vincent Scaturchio

CEO & Founder, Digitalyze Labs

Vincent is a founder, engineer, and strategist with more than two decades of experience designing and optimizing mission-critical data infrastructure for the world's largest financial institutions. Before founding Digitalyze Labs, he built and led InputIQ, securing exclusive Master Services Agreements with Tier-1 banks such as DBS and ANZ—a level of institutional trust typically reserved for multinational vendors.

Throughout his career, Vincent has specialized in database and distributed systems architecture across global trading rooms, shaping the infrastructure behind some of the most complex financial platforms in operation. He has been a trusted escalation point and key stakeholder at HSBC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, DBS, ANZ, National Australia Bank, and others, where his work directly influenced the stability, speed, and resilience of multi-billion-dollar trading environments.

His expertise has consistently delivered first-in-market engineering solutions: re-platforming and clustering global trading databases, redesigning infrastructures that cut hours of daily processing into minutes, and driving system transformations that ensured compliance, scalability, and performance. Many of these systems remain in production today—invisible backbones of the world's most important financial markets.

Rapid Protocol Development: In just six months, Vincent architected and developed both the FiatRails and Jijenge protocols from scratch, demonstrating his ability to rapidly translate complex financial requirements into production-ready blockchain systems.

Jijenge Protocol (75% complete - Vincent's foundational work):

• Digital transformation of traditional African Chama/Esusu systems using blockchain technology
• Comprehensive compliance framework with country-specific regulatory integration
• Advanced identity and reputation system using soulbound tokens and verifiable credentials
• Multi-tiered governance structure enabling community-driven decision making at scale

FiatRails Protocol (Pre-production ready with live demos on real infrastructure - Born from Jijenge insights):

• Revolutionary Hub-and-Spoke liquidity architecture that reduces required trading pairs by 50-75% while creating constant token utility
• Modular registry system enabling independent component upgrades without system-wide risk
• Advanced fee distribution engine with automated threshold management and MEV-protected buybacks
• Production-ready merchant bot network addressing the critical gap in emerging market crypto access

Strategic Vision: Vincent identified that Jijenge's success required solving the fundamental problem of crypto accessibility for unbanked and low-documentation users in emerging markets—leading him to create FiatRails as the essential infrastructure layer that enables seamless digital asset access where traditional banking falls short.

Now, as CEO and Founder of Digitalyze Labs, Vincent is applying this deep knowledge of distributed databases, infrastructure performance, and hands-on protocol development to blockchain architecture. The same principles that powered global financial institutions—combined with his proven ability to build production-ready DeFi protocols—now drive his mission to pioneer transparent, decentralized, and resilient systems for Africa, the Middle East, India, South America, and ultimately, the global digital economy.