Michael Gord
Toronto

I build and finance companies in digital assets, and I keep what I build.

I was the first enterprise blockchain developer at TD Bank, founded Bitcoin Canada, and merged MLG Blockchain with Secure Digital Markets to form GDA Capital. I co-founded Metaverse Group, which was sold to Tokens.com, and Acronym Asset Management.

Five exits as a founder. In four of them I was paid in equity of the acquirer rather than cash, which is the whole reason my activity now sits on a balance sheet instead of inside a fund.

This site is where I write. The formal record — office, mandate, biography — is kept at gord.holdings/principal/.

Portrait — to supply
formal, natural light
Where I am

Gord Holdings — founder
GDA Group — founder
Flashy Group — portfolio

How the entities relate →

Case studies

All builds →
Exit · paid in equity
Metaverse Group → Tokens.com

Why I took stock in a listed acquirer instead of cash, and what it cost me to be right slowly.
Merger
MLG Blockchain → GDA Capital

Merging an advisory firm with a trading desk, and why the combined thing could bank clients neither could.
Inside an institution
TD Bank

What being the first enterprise blockchain developer in a Canadian bank actually involved.

Recently

All writing →
Date TBC Essay — title to supply Digital-asset market structure
Date TBC Note on a GDA Group research piece Digital-asset market structure
Date TBC Paid in equity, four times out of five Permanent capital and holding companies

Titles and dates are placeholders until Michael supplies them. Nothing here has been invented.

The network

Four properties, one hierarchy. Each writes what only it can, and each points at the others’ canonical page rather than restating it.

gord.holdingsThe family officegda.groupThe merchant bankflashygroup.comThe ecosystem
michaelgord.comThis — the voice