Hadley Stern Joins Silence Laboratories as Board Advisor

Hadley Stern has joined our roster as a Board Advisor. Stern brings two decades of institutional digital asset experience from Fidelity, BNY Mellon, and AWS to the company's mission of securing global financial infrastructure with cryptographic key management and privacy-preserving compute.

At Silence Laboratories, we partner with financial institutions as they build digital asset infrastructure. Adding him to the advisory board exemplifies our mission of providing pedigreed expertise.

Track Record in Institutional Digital Assets

Stern spent 18 years at Fidelity, where he launched the company's first iPhone app and co-founded Fidelity Digital Asset Services. At BNY Mellon, he served as Global Head of Digital Asset Custody, launching the first bank-grade custody platform for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

He later led the AWS Innovation Lab focused on blockchain, AI, and quantum computing for enterprise applications. He also served as COO at Bloq and scaled Solana staking at Marinade Labs. Stern holds 16 patents across technology and business processes.

"Silence Laboratories brings cutting-edge research to real-world institutional digital assets. I'm delighted to support the team as they help institutions adopt this technology in the most secure, scalable, and compliant way."

Hadley Stern

Board Advisor

What Comes Next

Stern's guidance will support Silence Laboratories as we work with global financial institutions on digital asset custody, stablecoin payment infrastructure, and privacy-preserving financial data collaboration.

The digital asset infrastructure layer is being built now. The institutions that deploy cryptographically sound key management will have a structural advantage in security and trust.

About Silence Laboratories
Silence Laboratories builds MPC-based infrastructure for distributed key management and privacy-preserving compute. Silent Shard secures custody systems and wallets for MetaMask, BitGo, and EigenLayer. Silent Compute enables privacy-preserving analytics for financial institutions. The company is a member of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and a G20 TechSprint 2025 winner.