CEO & Co-founder, EVM Systems
Matt Wright is CEO and Co-founder of EVM Systems, building agentic infrastructure and products for the agent economy. The thesis: self-owned AI requires three layers — open models and inference (Gaia), agentic infrastructure (XO), and local compute (Olares). EVM Systems sits at the center of this stack, shipping products for startups, enterprise, and Web3.
Matt co-founded Gaia, a decentralized open-source AI infrastructure network that grew to 710,000+ nodes, 30+ trillion inferences, and 110+ strategic integrations with partners including Coinbase, EigenLayer, ENS, MetaMask/Consensys, and Moonpay. He led the project from concept through a $20M raise, token launch, the Gaia AI Phone on Samsung Galaxy S25, and the formation of the Gaia Foundation and DAO.
At Consensys, Matt held multiple leadership roles — Director of Developer Relations, Head of DAOs & Token Economics, and Director of the Fellowship Program. He shaped developer GTM and token economics strategies for 400k+ developers across products like MetaMask and Infura.
At J.P. Morgan, Matt bootstrapped a developer community around Quorum, the open-source enterprise Ethereum platform. He built a 50+ member global Ambassador program across 25+ countries and drove the visibility that laid the groundwork for Quorum's acquisition by Consensys.
At AngelHack, as Director of Community Development, he grew the global developer base from 50k to 200k members across 75+ countries. His team organized 150+ hackathons for Fortune 500 companies including Mastercard, Motorola, ABInBev, RBC, Barclays, and UBS.
Outside of these roles, Matt co-founded DAO NYC and Wgmi, and has organized some of the most memorable events in crypto — including the Korea Blockchain Week Official Afterparty with Chris Lake, Metahills in Beverly Hills with TOKiMONSTA, Gn at NFT NYC with Claude VonStroke (featured in TIME), and the Gaia Launch Party at Token2049 with Diplo. He is a member of MetaCartel DAO and has contributed to 25+ DAOs.
Get in touch: matt@evmsystems.ai