Building the foundation for global, tokenized finance
The future of finance will be on-chain. It will only scale if it is private, compliant, and connected to the real world. We're building the technology that makes it so.
Why Alta
The legacy global financial system was built for an economy of fifty years ago. International transactions take days. Local transfers can take hours. Settlement cannot happen overnight or on weekends. So institutions hold huge cash buffers to compensate, and that inefficiency carries a real cost.
What we are building
Full-stack settlement infrastructure designed to make money and financial assets move instantly, programmatically, and globally, while meeting the requirements of regulated institutions.
Payments, settlement, FX, treasury, and tokenized assets that can operate on shared infrastructure rather than across disconnected systems. Infrastructure that is available continuously and programmable from end to end.
Why now
The three things that were headwinds in 2018 are tailwinds now. Tokenized asset regulation has made real progress, and the last two years have given financial institutions much-needed clarity on how to adopt them. Enterprise demand has matured. And the distribution and the team are assembled.
Founders
Loong Wang
Co-founder, CEO
Loong Wang is CEO & co-founder of Alta, leading product and engineering for its global settlement network for financial institutions. Previously co-founded Ren, the first decentralized interoperability protocol, processing over $13 billion in volume in 18 months; helped create Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), the largest Bitcoin-backed token by market capitalization; and co-founded QDX, which built the world’s fastest quantum chemistry simulator, helped develop an $870 million cancer drug, and won the Gordon Bell Prize.
Catherine Porter
Co-founder, President
Catherine Porter is president & co-founder of Alta, leading business and commercial development. Alta is building the global settlement network for the future of finance, with institutional-grade privacy and compliance, native support for agents, identity, and authorization, and global on/off ramps. She also serves as an advisor to Globis Capital Partners. Previously, she led global partnerships for Meta’s Libra initiative and held leadership roles at Prove, OpenTable, and LinkedIn Japan.