Tone Vays is a Russian American Blockchain Consultant and researcher. ^[1] He is lives in New York, New York. ^{[3] [1][19]}

In 2002, Vays earned his degree in Geologocial/Geophysical Engineering from the State University of New York at New Paltz. ^[3] He was a high school teacher in New York City for a year before going to grad school and receiving his Master's in Financial engineering from Florida State University in 2005. ^{[3] [6]}

Tone Vays has been employed as a Financial Analyst for Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan where he witness the 2008 financial crash. ^{[6] [3]} In addition, he was the VP of Operations MSCI Inc. and a Senior Financial Analyst for Axioma. ^[3]

Vays began his career in blockchain and cryptocurrency in 2014 as a Research Analyst/Writer for CoinTelegraph. ^[4] In 2015, Vays became the Head of Research for Brave New Coin where he helped the developer team create financial products such as the BLX Index to better identify the price of a Bitcoin and any given moment. ^[6] In addition, he wrote a weekly market analysis report to identify price trends in Bitcoin based on both technicals and fundamentals. ^[5]

Since 2014, Vays has been an independent consultant and maintains the website libertylifetrail.com as well as the Crypto Scam podcast.

^[6] Vays is a regular contributor to the World Crypto Network where he provides technical analysis to viewers.

^[1] Vays frequently travels and speaks at Blockchain conferences all over the world. ^{[5] [6] [3]}