Bernd Stöckl is an entrepreneur specialized in the Crypto & IT industry. At the age of 17, he started his career in affiliate marketing. He soon began to discover his passion for the crypto & blockchain industry, and became an early investor in 2015. Ever since then he has participated in many early-stage funding rounds of crypto startups as an angel investor. In 2020, he founded his own IT company, FutureTex Studios. Today, he employs over 42 developers. FutureTex helps entrepreneurs from all over the world to develop state-of-the-art projects as well as improving their business in the Web2.0 & Web3.0 space. In 2021, he became Co-Founder & Chief Partnership Officer at Palmswap, a decentralized exchange for derivative trading. Palmswap was awarded as the most innovative DeFi project of the year 2022 by Gulf Business in September. Together with his team, he pursues the mission to revolutionize trading in a decentralized environment, giving people true sovereignty over their digit