Our Founder

Ibai Basabe
Math PhD, University of Florida · AI & Music, College of Charleston · Concert Pianist · Researcher, Medical University of South Carolina · Founder, 2ØY Fund
Growing up on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula, he was the odd boy in town — drawn to piano, chess, and coin collecting rather than the sports that occupied his peers. A grandmother's gift of old coins sparked an early fascination with numismatics and the question of what gives money its value. These were not questions he would let go.
At seventeen, a full piano scholarship brought him to America. He earned degrees in classical piano and mathematics, later completing a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Florida. The pairing was not incidental: he has always understood both disciplines as systems for finding structure in chaos, coherence in complexity.
In 2013, an article about Bitcoin stopped him. He read Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper in a single sitting. The mathematics were elegant, the implications enormous. He began accumulating Bitcoin early, received a job offer from Coinbase, and in 2014 traveled to the Miami Bitcoin Conference — where a young Vitalik Buterin stood on stage and announced Ethereum to the world.
The following years took him through directing a mathematics school and conducting orchestras before relocating to Shanghai in 2017. There he joined BitSE, working alongside the teams building Qtum and VeChain during one of the most consequential cycles in the asset class's history. The experience confirmed what the whitepaper had suggested: this was not a passing curiosity but a structural shift.
The fund's name comes from a vision in 2019, in which three symbols appeared: 2ØY. Two for duality. Ø for the empty set — the mathematical origin, the void from which structure emerges. Y for curiosity and the branching logic of inquiry. That image became the organizing principle for everything that followed.
Mathematics and music remain his twin frameworks. Both impose order on unpredictability. Both reward patience and precision. It is the same disposition he brings to long-duration digital asset management: a conviction that understanding precedes allocation, that time is an asset, and that discipline — not speed — is the sustainable edge.