Who he is
Anthony Xie is a Canadian product builder educated at the Ivey Business School of Western University (2015). After stints as a consultant and growth engineer at Vidyard, in March 2018 he founded HodlBot, a bot that let retail investors index the crypto market and automatically rebalance portfolios on exchanges — a small product that also became known for the technical articles and market analyses published by Xie himself. From 2020 he stepped back from running the startup directly for a career in product management at the sector's major platforms, passing through Coinbase and landing at Kraken, where he handles onchain products (wallet, DeFi, tokenised assets).
Current role
Anthony Xie appears to be Senior Director of Product (Onchain) at Kraken — CryptoSlate lists him as "Head of Product, Onchain at Kraken", his LinkedIn profile as Senior Director of Product II - Onchain (Verified: September 2026). He previously held product roles at Coinbase as well. As for HodlBot: the site hodlbot.io is still online as of September 2026, but its founder has been engaged elsewhere since 2020 and no recent update confirms that the service is still operational.
Career path
- 2015-2018 — Consulting (BEDC) and growth engineering at Vidyard.
- 2018-2020 — Founds and leads HodlBot, an indexing and automatic rebalancing bot for crypto portfolios.
- 2020-today — Product management in the exchange sector, up to leading Kraken's onchain product.
Recent developments and controversies
- The significant shift is professional: from indie founder to product executive at Kraken, one of the largest regulated exchanges (for Kraken's licensing picture see the relevant profile) (Verified: September 2026).
- There are no established public controversies against him.
FAQ
Does Anthony Xie still run HodlBot? Since 2020 he has pursued a career in product management (today at Kraken); the HodlBot site is still online, but the service's operational status is not confirmed.
What does Anthony Xie do at Kraken? He leads the onchain product: the exchange's wallet, DeFi services and blockchain assets area.
See also
Kraken · Atul Ajoy · Andre Cronje
Verified sources
- https://cryptoslate.com/people/anthony-xie/
- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/xieanthony
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/anthony-xie-b2e1
- https://hodlbot.io/
