Avantgarde Finance is the lead developer of the Melon protocol. The company is founded by key players of the former Melonport team which are known for delivering the first-ever full feature on-chain asset management protocol to Ethereum: Melon. The team has extensive experience around the inner workings of banking/asset management as well as the DeFi engineering ecosystem. Avantgarde aims to reinvent and democratize infrastructure for the $80 trillion asset management industry, whilst unlocking new investment applications native to Web3/DeFi.