About Evgeny Skigin
Evgeny Skigin is a founder and investor building toward a decentralized future across sustainable industry and digital finance—founder of Bitclear AG, an investor in industrial hemp worldwide, and the man behind the hempcrete residence Domic Noosa.
Early Life & Education
Evgeny Skigin is a founder and investor whose work spans two frontier industries: sustainable manufacturing through industrial hemp, and decentralized finance through cryptocurrency. Both are fields emerging from long periods of prohibition or skepticism, and both reflect the same instinct — to invest in what the world will need next rather than what it already has.
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Evgeny moved to Germany at the age of six, where he went to school and became a German national. His path then took him to Switzerland, where he finished high school (Eidgenössische Maturität), and on to Australia, where he studied at Bond University and graduated with a double bachelor's degree — a Bachelor of Laws with a focus on International Business Law, and a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Philosophy and International Relations. That upbringing shaped his outlook: the architectural grandeur of St. Petersburg on one side, and the environmental and design sensibility of German and Swiss culture on the other. When he finished his studies at the end of 2007 — just as the global financial crisis was beginning — he set out to do something meaningful with a modest inheritance, and concluded that sustainable industry was the clearest path into the future.
Business Ventures
Evgeny's work is united by a belief in decentralisation — of how things are made, and of how value moves. Today that spans three connected strands:
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Industrial hemp — He has invested in the sector worldwide since 2009, beginning with the Australian hemp company Ecofibre and continuing through a long connection with DunAgro Hemp Group in the Netherlands, home to the world's only prefabricated hempcrete production line and to pioneering hemp harvesting and processing technology.
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Bitclear AG — The crypto payments and software company he founded in 2014 and built in Liechtenstein, created to let Bitcoin and other digital assets function as everyday payment infrastructure for real businesses.
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Domic Noosa — The award-winning luxury residence he conceived and developed in 2019 on Australia's Sunshine Coast, built with hempcrete walls as a living showcase of sustainable design. Designed by Noel Robinson Architects, it won a string of state and national awards in 2020 and now opens its doors to guests as an exclusive destination.
Business Philosophy
Evgeny describes himself as a straightforward capitalist, with a simple definition of success: a profitable company is proof that people genuinely want what you've built and are willing to pay for it — though never, in his view, at the cost of one's ethics. In startup-stage industries like his, the ultimate measure is adoption: when people choose a new way of making or doing things because it's genuinely better than what came before.
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He is candid that transforming an industry takes far longer than building a single business. Hemp construction means competing with entrenched materials and processes, winning over architects, builders, and clients, and reaching the scale where sustainability becomes the cheaper choice rather than the premium one. He is equally clear that no major industry — from railways to the internet — has ever succeeded without government support, which is why he works closely with regulators and public institutions across both his fields. It is a long game, and one he is prepared to play for decades: he sees hemp, in particular, as a lifetime project, and crypto as an industry heading into its most consequential years yet.