Marco van den Heuvel

Marco van den Heuvel is a co-founder of Merit Circle, the DAO that created and then rebranded into Beam. Merit Circle DAO’s own December 2023 press release quotes him as "Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder of Merit Circle". Whether he holds a role at Beam today is NOT established by any primary source.

Ecosystem

Marco van den Heuvel appears in no ecosystem directory. This record comes from the 2026-09-04 AVAX typed-edge research pass (backend/scripts/data/avax-typed-edges-proposal-2026-09.json), which sources relationships from first-party prose rather than from listings. Named in FIRST-PARTY prose as co-founder & Chief Growth Officer, Merit Circle (the DAO that became Beam). Sourced in the 2026-09-04 AVAX DeFi founder-cluster research pass (batch defi-founders-2026-09-04); this row exists to carry that researched edge, not because the person appears in any directory.

Enrichment note

This entry is a SHELL created from the 2026-09-04 typed-edge research pass. Its prose restates what the cited first-party sources say and nothing more — it is not editorial and no biography has been written. It exists so the graph can carry the researched typed edge for Marco van den Heuvel; replace it with a researched About body before it carries coverage.