Emily Bao is Head of Spot Trading at Bybit, Founder of Byreal, and a Key Advisor to Mantle. She drives at the intersection of CeFi and DeFi, scaling Bybit’s spot markets while building Byreal on Solana with institutional-grade liquidity and fair launch mechanics. At Mantle, her expertise in market structure, product design, and real-world asset adoption fuels the modular L2’s mission to power seamless liquidity flow and the next wave of institutional-grade DeFi.