Victor Liew

Victor Liew is the Co-Founder of StraitsX, formerly known as Xfers, where he leads over 250 engineers driving security, infrastructure, and blockchain initiatives. Under his leadership, the company grew from a startup in the Y Combinator accelerator program into a leading payment gateway in Singapore, and now as a stablecoin-native settlement layer. He has been building StraitsX’s modular, programmable infrastructure, which has become the foundation for powering stablecoin adoption and use cases. This includes leading the development of the Purpose Bound Money project, a technological infrastructure for stablecoin-based blockchain payments, in collaboration with major firms like Grab, Amazon, Ant, and Docomo. Before starting Xfers, Victor served as a Software Engineer at Quora in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.