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Dren Hima

Dren Hima

Host, Hodl Up Podcast

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Dren Hima co-founded Hodl Up and hosts the Hodl Up Podcast with Atis Shala. He has spent more than five years in crypto writing and research, and he brings a bias for the technical to the show: DePIN, real-world assets, restaking and the protocol mechanics most coverage skips.

  • DePIN
  • Real-world assets
  • Restaking
  • Protocol mechanics
  • Prediction markets

About Dren

He's the one who reads the docs so the audience doesn't have to, and the reason Hodl Up can go a layer below the headline.

With Atis Shala he co-wrote Prediction Markets 2026: The Truth Machine Got Rich, Hodl Up's report on the year prediction markets attracted billion-dollar investment while the evidence for their founding claim, that crowds price the future better than experts, came apart in public. The report sets that argument beside the numbers behind it, from market share to wash trading. His own website is drenhima.com.

Experience

  • Hodl Up
    Co-founder · Feb 2025 — Present
  • Coincub
    Market Research · Sep 2024 — Present
  • Squared.llc
    Operations Officer · Jan 2023 — Present
  • WalletorPreviously
    Market Research Analyst · Mar 2023 — Nov 2024
  • Crypto AcademyPreviously
    Content Manager · Mar 2021 — Jul 2024
    Content Writer · Mar 2021 — Jan 2022

Education

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    2020 — May 2024

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Episodes46 episodes

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