Clarisse Hagège

Clarisse Hagège is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DFNS, a digital-asset infrastructure company she built with Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines. As of August 2026, current DFNS posts identify Hagège as CEO & Co-Founder; Christopher is publicly described as co-CEO. Founded around 2019–2020, DFNS initially focused on wallet and cryptographic key infrastructure using multi-party computation. Hagège also serves as President of the MPC Alliance, a position she assumed in February 2025 per DFNS's official announcement.

DFNS — Core Banking Repositioning

In June 2026, DFNS repositioned itself from a wallet-infrastructure company to a core banking platform for digital assets. The platform combines wallets and key management with transaction processing, treasury, identity, policy controls, compliance integrations and connectivity across more than 100 blockchains. Key options include MPC, HSM and TEE. DFNS provides infrastructure to banks, fintechs, payment companies and digital-asset firms; it is not necessarily the legal custodian or regulated financial institution in every customer deployment, and its integrations should be described as customer/technology relationships, not proof that DFNS holds clients' assets or regulatory licenses. Security certifications, wallet counts, transaction share and assets secured are dynamic company metrics requiring dates and independent evidence. MPC technology reduces certain key-management risks but does not eliminate all key, governance, endpoint, insider or operational risk.

Career Background

Before founding DFNS, Hagège built a career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Credit Agricole CIB, including Chief of Staff responsibilities. Her educational background is reported in history/geopolitics at Sorbonne, finance at Sciences Po and applied economics at Paris Dauphine; exact degree titles and dates should be verified before publication. Private family details from the MENA bio are not relevant to this professional profile.

Current 2026 Work

As of 2026, Hagège leads DFNS's June 2026 core-banking repositioning, including new governance, validation, offline signer, vault and institutional-integration features. She also serves as President of the MPC Alliance, contributing to industry standards around multi-party computation in digital-asset security.