Summary
Victor Rortvedt is a distributed web developer and game designer building social-trust strategy games and incentivized real-world networking tools on Ethereum and IPFS, with eight years of hands-on experience in cryptoeconomic product design. A former lawyer with a JD from the University of Michigan, he blends legal rigor and tokenomics to craft accountable, permissionless systems—most notably The Gathering, a decentralized contact-sharing app. He co-leads projects at Hydra Ventures and MetaCartel Ventures DAO, where his roles bridge community coordination, smart contract design, and product strategy. Victor’s background in litigation and policy gives him a distinctive focus on governance, auditability, and incentive alignment in decentralized communities.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
JD, Law, JD, Law at University of Michigan Law School
B.A., English, B.A., English at The College of Wooster