Edward DeLeon Hickman

Chief of Product, Futurecast AI

A futurist, a first-mover, and a product operator. An agentic-AI portfolio of seven products available for license, white-label, or acquisition.

About Edward DeLeon Hickman

Edward DeLeon Hickman (also known as Edward Hickman or Ed Hickman) is the Chief of Product behind Futurecast AI, which uses a custom-tailored agentic AI workflow — a chorus of specialized AI agents — to build, ship, and operate a portfolio of products that would normally require entire teams. The output is productized IP, available for license, white-label, or acquisition.

He has spent his career predicting the future. He bought his first Bitcoin at $0.14 and founded ANATHA in 2013 — what he believes was among the world's first digital asset funds — and led it as CEO for ten years. He was a first-round investor in 18 of the top 20 best-performing ICOs in market history, with a seat at the table on Ethereum, Cosmos, and Cardano. He has participated in the design and deployment of more than 70 crypto projects as a consultant, tokenomics expert, or early investor.

Edward wrote for CoinTelegraph and Bitcoinist in 2014, when crypto was still a fringe story.

Credentials

CFI 2018 (Global) — Blockchain Services Group of the Year
Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) — Crypto Currency Certification Consortium, since 2015
Harvard University, 2026 — Agentic AI: Contextualized & Applied
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa — B.A., Phi Beta Kappa

The Portfolio (seven products)

Futurecast AI — Consumer (B2C) — Agentic forecasting for retail subscribers on the shared predictive core. Covered by the active Futurecast AI patent portfolio.
Futurecast AI — Enterprise (B2B) — The same predictive engine licensed to institutions: API access, white-label forecasting, enterprise deployment.
StatsEdgeX — The agentic forecasting engine applied to live sports. Ready to market on the same shared core.
MetaPercept (metapercept.org) — A B2B SaaS Investor Perception Index scoring how the market reads a company across six dimensions, tracked over time.
Chorai (chorai.org) — A private chorus of specialist AI coaches for wellbeing, powered by privacy-first Venice AI. Support alongside professional care, never a replacement.
The Partner Network (joinpartner.org) — A socially-owned platform with three privacy tiers and vouch-based verification. Ready for testing.
Solana Arcade (solanaarcade.com) — A crypto prediction arcade where players forecast market and on-chain outcomes.

Press

Featured in The AI Journal, FinanceFeeds, Bitcoinist (2014), CoinGenius, Little Black Book (LBB Online), GlobeNewswire, and Teleportec.

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