Devcon VI

Deniz Yilmaz
🦆 Core unit facilitator of DUX team @MakerDAO, working on governance UX and tooling
🧠 PM & creative facilitation, crypto class of '17
💙 wagmi

0xPARC

Abbey is a technologist, governance researcher, product strategist, and community developer/leader. She spends her time building decentralized technologies and growing open-source communities around them.

Since 2019, she’s run all things community & governance at Radicle, building decentralized collaboration tools for developers. She is currently stewarding the projects transition to the DAO. Additionally, she sits on the Board of the Radicle Foundation and Optimism Foundation.

Abhishek is a Co-founder at Whrrl - India's only blockchain native fintech platform. He's a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree and a 3-times Entrepreneur, Author, and a regular Speaker of Blockchain Tech. At Whrrl, he's bringing Blockchain to farmers to save their income, covering 1,400 warehouses & 18,000+ farmers and US $300 Million in committed TVL and now connecting them to global DeFi lenders, supported by United Nations Development Programme, IIM Ahmedabad and MassC

Adam Hart is a training specialist at Chainalysis specializing in DeFi and web3 investigations. He built the Chainalysis Ethereum Investigations Certifications course and has presented on Ethereum and DeFi on-chain analytics at various industry events.

Cryptography engineer @ Aztec

Adrian is a co-founder and director of Sigma Prime. He has a background in physics but has spent the last few years working on the Ethereum consensus protocol, building the Lighthouse client. He is primarily focused in the networking aspects of the client and the protocol.

Adrian is an escapee from the world of centralised finance but is now making amends by contributing to the Ethereum core protocol as a Lead Blockchain Protocol Engineer at ConsenSys. He is a core dev on both the consensus and execution layers, leading development of ConsenSys Teku and contributing to Hyperledger Besu. When he's not coding he can be found discussing Ethereum and answering questions on pretty much all the Discord servers, and Telegram chat rooms and…

Head of Protocol Engineering and Managing Director (Germany) at ChainSafe Systems. Initiator of the Goerli Testnet Initiative and organizer of ETHBerlin. Maintainer of the open-source Ethereum Ruby and Crystal libraries.

Agustin Matteri, is an expert in Environmental Law and Policy, with proven sound capacities to integrate donors and beneficiary countries interests in order to develop robust climate action strategies and financing portfolios. He counts with more than 12 years of experience working for the UNEP Climate Change Unit of the Latin America and the Caribbean Office and the Ministry of Environment of Argentina. He is the current leader of the Regional Hub for Blockchain at the Service of Nature.

I'm a Computer Scientist from University of Buenos Aires, where I'm also a former teaching assistant of Algorithms and Data Structures II. I've been working as a Software Engineer since 2015 in different companies, such as Wolox, Flimper and Medallia, with a large experience in Backend and Infrastructure. Currently, I'm Tech Lead in the Platform team in Decentraland, where we build the decentralized Services network to support the Metaverse backend functionalities.

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Alejandro is a co-founder of the Open Money Initiative and a product strategist at Bitrefill, the world's most popular site to buy real-world goods and services with cryptocurrency, including being able to pay water and electricity bills in El Salvador. He will talk about his observations on the ground in El Salvador, where the average citizen doesn't have a bank account, but does have a mobile phone, and a better-than-average awareness of bitcoin and its benefits.

Die hard Etherean. 15 years in software development. 5 years in Ethereum app layer development. Creator of the Ethernaut CTF game. Founder of the EthernautDAO. Ex Aragon and OpenZeppelin. Currently core contributor at Synthetix, as well as forming devs and helping teams grow via the EthernautDAO.

Sailing Master @Flashbots! ⚡🤖
Former Research Lead at OpenZeppelin.

Alex has been in crypto since 2017 and currently works as a senior software engineer Thesis where he is working on a decentralized and fully-open-source web3 wallet. He has previously worked in high frequency trading in the TradFi world as well as a centralized cryptocurrency exchange.

Alex is the team lead of Ipsilon at the Ethereum Foundation, a group focused on improving the EVM. Alex has been an early contributor and co-lead of the Solidity team.

Alex Stokes is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who believes deeply in the Ethereum vision. To achieve this vision, he has been working on scaling R&D to make the core protocol more secure and accessible to everyone. This includes tooling and testing work for the Merge, exploratory prototyping for sharding work like EIP-4844 and EIP-4895 to enable validator withdrawals after the Merge. When he is not working on Ethereum, you can find him at the nearest mountaintop.

Alex joined the Ethereum foundation in 2014 and was lead of the Wallet and Browser project as well as many other contributions. During his term in the foundation he also founded ENS with Nick Johnson. He has also since worked on many projects, trying to help onboard users in a multisig account (Unilogin) and worked at the Defi project Balancer Labs. Alex is currently a delegate and public goods stewards for ENS.

Master of the CoWmunity

Alexandre, a trained classical pianist, now father of 8, started programming at age 12. He discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and launched the first Canadian Bitcoin payments processor. He continued to become a prolific data scientist and open-source advocate, only to come back to blockchain to build high-performance data solutions in the space.

Secretario de Desarrollo Económico de Bogotá

Alim is a Product Manager at Element Finance. In 2019, he co-founded the DeFi Toronto meetup which has grown to over 2,000 members worldwide. In 2017, he helped to launch one of Canada's first industrial-scale crypto-mining companies. On the academic front, he teaches part-time as an Adjunct Professor in the Blockchain Development Program at George Brown College. He recently authored a chapter titled 'Token Economies' in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business (published March 2021).

Head of comms for Privacy and Scaling Explorations, an Ethereum Foundation-supported team.

Ana Belén is Mexican and is currently leading the Ethereum Mexico community, she is Governor at H.E.R. DAO LATAM and SMM for Espacio Cripto.
Contributor at BanklessDAO.
She loves marketing and community building and the impact of technology on people's lives.
Goals: Get more builders and founders from Latin America into Web3.

Anda Ngcaba serves as the Chief of Operations (COO) at the University of Cape Town Financial Innovation Hub. At the financial innovation hub, Anda oversees day to day operations, partnerships and business development. Through his work at the Financial Innovation Hub Anda also serves as COO of Axone, a platform for content creators to collaborate in a unique way.

Andrew Vaziri is a technical lead in GiveDirectly's Innovation Team. He works primarily on geospatial data, machine learning, and blockchain projects. He graduated with an MS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and has worked for Apple, Microsoft, and multiple successful startups as a software and machine learning engineer.

Game developer at @latticexyz working on Sky Strife.

Previously game developer at @darkforest_eth.

Andy Boyan, PhD.'s past life as a Professor of Communication led him deep into the weeds of social science exploration of game mechanics and player effects. Turning this experience to Web3 after going down the 2017 crypto rabbit hole, Andy worked for Status, Ava Labs, and Chainlink Labs before Co-Founding Infinity Keys, creator tools for providing Web3 treasure hunt questing. He is definitely not an agent of the Elder Gods come to prepare the earth for a cold reign of starlit oblivion.

Internship Program Manager at Nethermind.io

CEO/Product Lead at CowSwap and Master of the CoWs

Anna currently leads Community Programs at the Celo Foundation. She has previously decentralized her own job as a community lead at the Maker Foundation and is an active member of communities of care like Meta Gamma Delta Kernel. Is likely traveling and wandering around.

Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation

Antonela is a product design lead practicing ethical user research and open, human-centered, participatory design. She is interested in critical internet infrastructure, security, privacy, open-source communities, and feminism as an intersectional practice. Currently, she is bringing usable security to the decentralized identity manager, MetaMask. Before, she led the User Experience team at The Tor Project.
Between 2012—20, she has been wandering all over the world, living a nomad life.

Anukriti is a product manager at SpruceID. She is currently trying to find a perfect product management tool that encapsulates CR, customer feedback, and feature requests.
She loves travelling and planning to explore more of South America next year!

Aqeel Mohammad is a Product Strategist, and Design specialist focused on leading market adoption and consistent user experiences across Web 3. He has extensive experience leading human centered design organizations with a focus on strategy, product definition, and business transformation. Notable projects include leading design and product efforts for the Lighthouse and Nimbus consensus clients along with community development efforts including Devcon, Devconnect, and Web3 UX Unconference.

Ariah is a DeFi researcher with a track record of predicting design problems in stablecoins, including the design issues in Dai that contributed to Black Thursday. He has designed and built a large part of Gyroscope, including new AMMs and stablecoin markets. He is an Applied Math PhD student at Cornell University, for which he was a Bloomberg Fellow and Commercialization Fellow. He worked previously in the financial technology sector.

VP Product @ BloxStaking, developing ssv.network decentralized infrastructure for Ethereum staking.

Arkadiy is currently the Decentralization Lead at the Internet Archive. Previously he was an IPFS integrations/grants coordinator at Protocol Labs, CTO at Mediachain, and worked on supporting independent music (Hype Machine, Ampled) and cartography (Foursquare)

Lead Researcher at Mirana

AstroMelou
Dj. Producer. Livecoder. Trans artist from Cali, Colombia.

Pacemaker for sound and visual journeys through acid, tropical, electric, fiery, rebellious and diverse frequencies of world music. Their sets denote the fluidity of musical genres, daydreams of tropical fever.

Aspiring polymath doing R&D on the privacy and scaling team

ATRACTOR STUDIO
Colombian electronic arts collective Atractor understands technology as a field of struggle from their Latin American context. In this scenario, assimilating and experiencing technology always as active users implies that electronic arts and creation have the power to spark conversations and create spaces for community dialogue

For DEVCON they will be performing a video game live performance The Migrants and launch their NFT Botánica Transgénica.

Attila has a background in distributed systems engineering and currently works on Swarm, where he wears many hats. His current interests are cryptography, CRDTs and designing incentivised markets. In his free time he likes to herd cats, collect herbs and visit remote places.

DAO obsessed co-founder of Gnosis Guild and clr.fund. Former professional basketball player.

Aya originally became fascinated in the blockchain space for its potential to impact financial inclusion in emerging economies. In early 2013, she joined Kraken and educated the public, regulators, and media on cryptocurrencies and blockchain innovation globally as Managing Director of Japan. Her passion for creating lasting sustainable impact led her to join the Ethereum Foundation as Executive Director. There, she leads the Foundation’s work to support the Ethereum ecosystem through core resea

Barnabé is a team lead and researcher at the Robust Incentives Group, Ethereum Foundation. He focuses on economic modelling of the Ethereum protocol, using simulations, empirical data and formal analysis.

Bartek Rutkowski is a Lead Blockchain Engineer and Protocol Architect at TrueFi Engineering, the core team building TrueFi lending protocol and working on a set of public goods applications including UseDapp, Waffle & Mars. Bartek was a mentor and speaker at ETHOnline, ETHAmsterdam, ETHPrague, Devconnect and many more. An active member of ETHWarsaw Web3 community.

Ben is Chief Scientist and Musician at the Optimism Foundation.

I'm a smart-contract/full stack engineer who is in love with De-Fi and blockchain in general. I have been working in the space for 3 years now and have primarily focused on building bonds-on-blockchain, derivative trading and blockchain observavability platforms. i have significant experience in the oracle space having worked with Chainlink for 2 years and have a real passion for ensuring external data arrives un-compromised and in-tact when powering blockchain-applications.

Benson is an Ethereum Foundation fellow, working with ACRE Africa and Etherisc to deliver insurance to smallholder farmers in Africa. He is on a mission to elevate his local community financially, through technological innovation. He is currently working on real life application of Ethereum network to solve transparency and efficiency problems in traditional insurance. So far the project has reached over 50,000 smallholder farmers in Africa ,de-risking them from adverse weather events.

Bobbin is a project lead of Polygon Miden - a STARK-based ZK-rollup being developed at Polygon. Prior to joining Polygon, Bobbin was ZK researcher at Facebook's Novi, where he led the development of Winterfell, as highly-performant general-purpose STARK prover. Besides Winterfell, Bobbin has made multiple contributions to the field of STARK-based proving systems, including a STARK-based virtual machine (Distaff) and AirScript/AirAssembly languages (work supported by the Ethereum Foundation).

Brandon Ramirez is the Co-Founder of The Graph & E&N, and was the original inventor of The Graph's protocol design and economics.

Brandon is a deep generalist, drawing from his academic studies in Robotics, Control Systems, Economics & Signal Processing, and professional experience in Product Management, UX Design and Software Engineering.

He believes many of the world’s most pressing problems are fundamentally about incentives and social coordination.

I am a data scientist and financial analyst currently working on a grant from the EF PSE team. I am fascinated by a future enabled by zero-knowledge technology, including both scalability and privacy. Outside of Ethereum work, I am a husband and father of a 2-year-old I like to carry up mountains in Colorado. I am generally interested in everything, but you will catch my attention with music (I play bass), skiing, and anything Ethereum related :)

Bruno Maçães is a senior advisor at Flint Global and a columnist for the New Statesman. The author of 'Belt and Road'; 'History Has Begun'; and 'The Dawn of Eurasia', he advises some of the world's leading companies on geopolitics and technology. His latest book is 'Geopolitics for the End Time.'

Born in Brazil but currently based in Berlin. I've been writing software for over 10 years, both on the backend and on the frontend. Almost a year ago, I started working at Shopify on their blockchain team. I've been helping them tap into blockchain technologies and use NFTs to unlock new commerce experiences for their customers.

Camila is an engineer and educator who is passionate about making it easier for developers to build in web3. Camila works as a Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node where she helps devs build performant, decentralized APIs. She is core team at Women Build Web3, an accelerator for developing top woman engineering talent and fund for projects led by women.

researcher with the ethereum foundation.

focus on consensus & cryptography r&d when not farming protocol calls for "goodbyes"

Builder on Ethereum. Core member of the BuidlGuidl where he builds tools and public goods for the ecosystem, like SpeedRunEthereum and ABI Ninja. Previously worked for more than 10 years as a freelance software developer.

• Blockchain developer since 2018
• Ethereum enthusiastic :)
• Worked on self-sovereign identity at Iden3
• Main contributor to zkRollup PoC developed at Iden3
• Protocol designer at hermez zkRollup
• Protocol designer at polygon-hermez developing the zkEVM

Carolina is a Senior Frontend Developer at Shopify. She is part of the Blockchain team, where she combines her passion for Frontend development and decentralized applications. Originally from Colombia, Carolina is currently living in Vancouver, Canada.

Researcher @ Ethereum Foundation, Robust Incentives Group

Ethereum core developer working on Lodestar at ChainSafe

Blockchain Software Engineer. Working on usable, open, decentralized technologies for a real user-centric web.

Chaitanya is an applied cryptography researcher working in EY's Blockchain R&D. She built Nightfall which is a zero knowledge proof based privacy solution for transferring tokens with privacy. She then worked to decrease the cost of these transactions further, one of the approaches to solve this lead to Nightfall 3, an optimistic zk solution for private transfers of tokens. Along with Polygon, she led the efforts to deploy Nightfall 3, also called Polygon Nightfall, to Ethereum mainnet in May 22

Engineer on the Privacy and Scalability Explorations team at the EF.

Growth Strategy at Astaria. Chandler focuses on building the future of web3 by solving the problems that matter to the people that work in the space every day.

Senior Researcher, Certora Inc.

Dr. Chang-Wu Chen is the head of imToken labs, leading wallet, contract development and crypto research. Prior to joining imToken, he worked for AMIS as a chief scientist from 2018 to 2020, and Ethereum Foundation as a researcher from 2017 to 2018. He served as an adjunct assistant professor, teaching Ethereum DApp development, at the National Chengchi University from 2018 to 2021.

Charles St. Louis is the COO and Head of Governance at Element Finance. Previously, he was the Decentralized Governance Architect at the Maker Foundation and one of the first mandated members of MakerDAO elected by MKR Holders.

He's been an active contributor to Ethereum and the Ethereum Cat Herders, helping with improving the EIP process, coordination of hardforks, advising Ethereum.org, and working on Ethereum developer growth strategy.

Chess Tournament

Chih-Cheng builds some privacy or scaling applications.

Chris is the head of product at Obol Labs, a R&D-focused team developing a protocol for trust-minimized staking. Before Obol, Chris built the ETH staking launchpad(launchpad.ethereum.org)

A developer and researcher in the L2 space. I've worked with state channels, watchtowers and am now a developer at Arbitrum, Offchain Labs helping to building the next generation of L2 protocol - rollups.

Chris got started in crypto in 2011 and created the first commercially available hardware wallet in 2013, Piper Wallet. He co-founded Lit Protocol to democratize access to threshold cryptography and bring freedom through math.

Co-founder of Hop Protocol
Author of the Hop Whitepaper: https://hop.exchange/whitepaper.pdf
Previously co-founder of Authereum and Level K
Audited Open Zeppelin, dYdX, Augur, Decentraland, and more
Started the first Ethereum meetup in Boston

Research @ Forta. Prior to joining Forta, Christian spent 14 years at Microsoft leading security research and applied research teams supporting Microsoft Defender security offerings. Christian also led The Honeynet Project, a global non-profit security research organization bringing passionate security researchers together working on open-source honeypot tool development and threat intelligence.

Cofounder at Component.fi, a decentralized finance R&D firm that specializes in building products and contributing to protocols with a high aptitude for understanding complex data. Previously worked on data problems in ad tech and have two degrees from Queen's University in Math and Data Science.

Christine Kim, Galaxy Digital, Research Associate
Prior to Galaxy, I worked for three years at a crypto media company called CoinDesk as an analyst and tech reporter, mainly covering developments on Ethereum. I’m passionate about producing data-driven insights about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. My research focusses primarily on the protocol-level development and future roadmap of Ethereum.

Chuy, PhD, Monterrey, uses blockchain technology to digitize government services and give citizens their digital identity.

Hi I am Collin Myers, founder of Obol Labs and project lead of the Obol Network. I have been working on lower layer Ethereum technologies since 2017 historically working at ConsenSys. I have spent the better part of the last 4 years working on the enablement of Eth2 in various capacities. I built the Eth2 calculator, Eth2 launchpad, internet bonds, and a co-creator of DVT.

I have spoken at Devcon before and would to do it again! Thank You for putting this on!!!

Connor's background is in economics and computer science. He began working at ConsenSys in 2015 followed by Gitcoin in 2019. He initially focused on growing the Gitcoin developer community via virtual hackathons and more recently, following the launch of GitcoinDAO, has transitioned to work full-time managing Grants Ecosystem rounds with the PGF workstream. Today he's excited about growing adoption of the quadratic funding mechanism and experimenting with it in new and unique ways.

Connor Spelliscy is a crypto researcher and advocate, primarily focused on DAOs. He runs the DAO Research Collective, which accelerates DAO functionality by supporting and curating research foundational to effective DAO operation.

He helps run the Gitcoin advocacy ecosystem round and previously co-founded the Blockchain Association and the Canadian Web3 Council, two of the leading industry associations for crypto.

Dr. Corey Petty started his blockchain focused research around 2012 as a personal hobby while doing his PhD candidacy at Texas Tech University in Computational Chemical Physics. He then went on to co-found The Bitcoin Podcast Network and still serves as a host on Hashing It Out. Corey entered the data science/blockchain security industry for a few years attempting to fix vulnerabilities in ICS/SCADA networks before transitioning to Status as Chief Security Officer. Now he works on infrastructure

• Smart Contracts at Cryptex Finance 👾
• Devcon V Scholar ⛓️
• Founder at Ethereum Honduras 🇭🇳
• Collector of illiquid jpgs 🎨
• Generative artist wanna be 👨‍🎨

Advisor at Ethereum Foundation for Enterprise Community. Dan is an engineer who likes to work with people. An open source veteran, Dan helped bring Node.js to the Enterprise and has worked with the Node.js Foundation, LF, CNCF, OSI, and now the EEA. Dan has founded 3 tech companies: Cor.dev, NodeSource, and The Node Firm.

Solidity Compiler Team

Dr. Burnett has over two decades of experience in the authoring, editing, and chairing of over a dozen web and Internet standards, including WebRTC, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifiers. In his current role as the Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Dan works to increase adoption of Ethereum by the broader non-technical business community for the betterment of all.

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience and open-source advocate with over 3,000 GitHub stars. Currently Daniel is finishing up his PhD at Imperial College London, where his research is on the security of blockchain systems and applications.
Daniel is also a co-founder at Backd and Gyroscope.

Techie @ Arbitrum

Ethereum Researcher

Danno Ferrin is Principal Software Engineer at Hedera Hashgraph, where he spearheads the smart contract environment in the Hedera network. Previously he was Lead Protocol Engineer at ConsenSys Software Inc on their Ethereum Mainnet team, where he chose to go "full crypto" after leaving Google.

Danno is a maintainer for the Hyperledger Besu project, and sits on the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, where he is Vice Chair.

Danny Ryan is a Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, focused on a series of core protocol upgrades aimed to make Ethereum more secure, sustainable, and scalable while retaining decentralization. He is involved with research, spec writing, client development, and general coordination around the project.

Darren Langley is the General Manager of Rocket Pool. He is passionate about Ethereum and staking. He is dedicated to lowering the barriers-to-entry for Ethereum staking so that everyone can participate.

Data nerd turned crypto enthusiast working at Antithesis to push the boundaries of finding bugs in distributed architectures.

I am currently a Head of Research at Vega protocol and Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. I've been interested in programming from an early age, oscillating between applied problems (coding) and theoretical (mathematics). At Vega I am mainly focused on whole system modelling, design validation and development of new protocol features. My maths research is on the theoretical aspects of reinforcement learning and optimal control algorithms.

David Sneider is the co-founder at Lit Protocol, a network for decentralized compute, encryption, and access control.

Born in former Yugoslavia in 1988
Left for Germany as a refugee in 1992
Finished studying Industrial Engineering in Germany in 2013
Finished a PhD in Machine Learning in 2019
Involved in Bitcoin and Ethereum since 2016, attended devcon IV in Prague in 2018
Worked as a Data Scientist until the end of 2021
Started inat scholarship in 2022 to finance and educate students in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Founder @Sismo

Secretario de Innovación y Transformación Digital de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Diego Losada holds a Degree in Economics and Business Administration at Universidade de A Coruña (Spain) and has over 15 years of experience in IT Consultancy. His specific expertise in the management area relies on consulting services in Linux administration.

He is the co-founder of EOA Blockchain Labs Spanish company and founder of the "Ethereum on ARM" project in late 2016.

Cofounder of Tropykus finance. Ethereum foundation 2x grantee with Descubriendo Blockchain educational program. Ethereum scholar in Devcon V Osaka Japan.

I've been working with sigp for two years and a half in networking land and very happy to join

Automation lead in Lido. Former TestOps and QA engineer.

Smart Contract Security
Senior Engineer at Chainsecurity (Founding Partner)

Dominic Emanuel Horn is the Lead Product Designer (UX/UI) of Common Ground, a web3-native communication platform. Freelancing as a UX and product designer for clients such as Siemens, Mercedes, and more, he cares deeply about designing products with emotion, that look & feel great and push the boundaries of user experience forward.

Drew Tozer is the lead UI/UX designer at Shipyard Software. She’s based in Nova Scotia. She works on DeFi projects, such as Clipper, MIDAO, WTF Crypto, Foundation for Art and Blockchain, and Codex Protocol. Her UI/UX and Systems design work has been exhibited in Japan, Italy, and Germany. She graduated with a B.A. of Design from NSCAD University in 2020 and also studied interaction design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd. Outside of work, she’s a farmer and linocut printmaker.

Eleazar "E.G." Galano is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Infura, the pioneering and leading provider of scalable Web3 infrastructure and developer APIs. Coming from a background in blockchain infrastructure, scalable web services, and infrastructure automation, E.G. was previously the Director of Site Reliability at Los Angeles based hotel software start-up KEYPR (now Intelity), and an early employee of cloud gaming company Gaikai, which was acquired by Sony in 2012.

Host and founder of Espacio Cripto.

Ellie Rennie is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University. Her current research uses digital ethnography to study the social outcomes arising from automation technologies, including blockchain. Prior to commencing her Future Fellowship, Ellie's research was focused on the topic of digital inclusion. She has written five books.

Emilie Raffo is a founding partner and the sales director of ChainSecurity, a top-tier blockchain security company specialized in smart contract audits. ChainSecurity served many large DeFi protocols such as MakerDAO, Compound, Curve and others.

She is also a 2021 best-selling author in Switzerland. Her book "le Futur des Espèces" explains blockchain, cryptocurrency and smart contracts to the novice, and explores how these technologies can foster innovations in monetary policy & governance.

Truffle developer advocate out here just trying to help devs build better. Former DevOps engineer now professional nerd sniper. Let's gush about what you're building! @_emjlin

Bitcoiner/etherean.

Erik Marks is the Lead Engineer of MetaMask Snaps Platform. He's contributed to MetaMask and Ethereum since 2018, during which time he helped write standards like EIP-1193 and shipped features like the custom network API, MetaMask Swaps, MetaMask Flask, and now Snaps.

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Fellows are leaders committed to projects that help Ethereum become a tool of and for the next billion. Some projects might be part of a lifelong quest of the Fellow; others are brand new ideas that are just getting started. Fellows and their projects focus on public goods that enable the flourishing of communities or individuals under-represented in the Ethereum ecosystem today.

Eugene Leventhal is the Head of Operations and Outreach at the Smart Contract Research Forum (SCRF), which is a granted org focused on advancing web3 research. Prior to joining SCRF, Eugene worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Project Manager, supporting a blockchain research initiative and a podcast amongst other projects.

Evan Miyazono leads Network Goods at Protocol Labs, supporting differential technological development in support of human flourishing with new coordination tooling and incentive mechanisms. This includes designing and deploying mechanisms, identifying and using metascientific leverage points, building new career affordances, and developing better research practices. Prior to leading Network Goods, Evan previously led PL Research.

esaulpaugh/headlong

At UNICEF's Office of Innovation, I focus on partnerships and donor relations to advance the impact and advocacy efforts #ForEveryChild.

Dev @ RAI

I work at the intersection of category theory, a super abstract branch of maths, and crypto: I focus on applying very general mathematical techniques to problems such as protocol design and MEV. I am interested in compositional design, correct by construction code, open games, formal verification.
I did my PhD in categorical quantum mechanics at Oxford, where I learned compositional methods, and worked for years with Statebox, developing correct-by-construction graphical programming languages.

Faina Shalts is a Lead Blockchain Engineer at ConsenSys. Since joining in 2018, she has worked on Truffle’s open source tool suite. She now leads the Layer 2/Scaling team at Truffle, seeking to make Layer 2 adoption as easy as possible for developers.

Federica Moletta is a Systems Engineering student at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is passionate about cutting-edge technologies, such as Blockchains and Zero Knowledge Proofs. She got acquainted with Cairo and ZKP by implementing a template that allows SNARKS produced by Circom to be verified by a starknet contract, creating a bridge between SNARKS and STARKS. Currently, she is working on reimplementing the Cairo VM in Rust.

Software engineer and smart contract developer at CoW Swap (onchain token exchange: orders are collected offchain and executed in batches; focus on MEV protection). Academic background in cryptography.

Technical Lead @MEVProtection. Multi-dimensional Batch Auctions with Uniform Clearing Prices on Ethereum. Prev. @gnosisPM, @facebook, @google. @HPI_DE Alumnus.

Trained as a lawyer and software developer with many years of experience working full-time in the blockchain space, Florian is aware of the key issues at the intersection of crypto assets and regulation.

Florian Glatz has co-founded and led the German Blockchain Association (Bundesblock) as President for its first four years. He advises political decision-makers at the German and European level on blockchain regulation.

Interested in building virtual worlds.

Consensus researcher

Applied cryptography researcher at ConsenSys

Research:
- University of Hamburg

Awards:
- EthAmsterdam
- Hack Money

building ZK rollups for games at the 0xPARC AW Residency

Security Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation

Smart contracts developer at Enzyme Finance and developer at the Ethereum Foundation (EthereumJS team), where my current focus is the transition from Merkle to Verkle trees.

Gabriela Chang
CSO and Co-founder of EthicHub.
Builder of win/win regenerative economic models for the Unbanked farmers.

Industrial designer, artist and writer. She worked at the Secretary of Economic Development in Chiapas, Mexico and was an organic coffee producer. Involved in Blockchain since 2017, she promotes its enormous potential as a catalyst for the SDGs. Frequent speaker and panelist in both crypto and impact forums.

Founder of Bloinx, a blockchain app that manages saving circles. She has experience managing international projects and is convinced that blockchain can benefit the unbanked population.

research, ethereum @chorusone
gssh.eth

Product Lead with Ethereum Foundation's Privacy and Scaling Explorations group.

Geoffrey is an Ethereum Foundation Fellow and the Co-Founder of Poko, a Y Combinator backed startup. He has extensive experience working on the public policy and regulatory side of the blockchain, as well as founding an entrepreneurial education initiative for policymakers and entrepreneurs. For his fellowship, Geoffrey will be exploring the interface between the web3 sector and policymakers, specifically how policymakers can better understand and experiment with decentralized technology.

Ethereum R&D

Georgia is a seasoned user researcher, and has specialised in the web3 and crypto space for the last 5 years. She works for tooling, wallets, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and gaming clients to help them understand their users and build better products, and established The User Research DAO; a collective of UX research experts dedicated to elevating the quality and quantity of user research being conducted in the web3 space.

Product Manager at ChainSafe with focus on dApp interoperability and bridges.

Gerben has focussed on building digital products that solve global problems for over a decade. From designing games that reward players for saving energy to building web applications that support entrepreneurs with their administration, he currently serves as the blockchain lead for Giga at UNICEF.

Gloria is a Builder Relations expert for Gitcoin's events team where she recently lead Gitcoin’s DEI Grants round in GR14. She is passionately using technology to empower people economically and to amplify marginalized voices. She also enjoys creating and amplifying web3 ecosystems built on inclusivity and diversity. She serves as the Technical Advisor on the Board of Directors for the Black Women Blockchain Council, and runs the “Ask Gloria” advice column in Reinvented Magazine.

Gonçalo, currently co-founder of the ConsenSys Diligence team, has 20+ years of experience in offensive security.
Notable achievements range from cracking DRM algorithms to breaching a major international consumer electronics retailer.

While studying Aerospace engineering, Gonçalo also built 3 startups (AdTech, BioTech, Mobile). Passionate about turning MVPs into production-ready products, he has also mentored a fair share of entrepreneurs in the past 5+ years.

Cofounder of Giveth, Commons Stack, & dappnode. Community manager for TheDAO, led the crisis response effort for TheDAO Hack and first Parity Multisig Hack from every angle, co-founder of the White Hat Group and led the creation of Token Engineering Commons. Advisor for PolygonID, PolygonHermez, brightID, Doingud, and steward for Gitcoin, ENS & Optimism.

I also lead 2 crypto focused burning man camps ;-)

gubsheep is the creator of Dark Forest and runs applied ZK research and development at 0xPARC.

Geth team, interfacing between research and engineering. Interested in evolutions to the Ethereum protocol.

Based in Shanghai China｜ETHPlanet - Community Support Team | EDCON Team｜ Member of togETHer

Co-founder and dungeon designer @movingcastles_

Distributed systems Ph. D. ▪︎ Smart Contract Engineer @ OpenZeppelin ▪︎ #Ethereum Magician ▪︎ @graphprotocol advocate

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Harry Kalodner is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Offchain Labs where he leads the engineering team. Before the company he attended Princeton as a PhD candidate where his research explored economics, anonymity, and incentive compatibility of cryptocurrencies. When not up at 3:00am writing code, Harry occasionally sleeps.

Hart is the Co-Founder of Risk Labs, the foundation supporting the UMA and Across protocols. UMA is an optimistic oracle (OO) that can provide and verify arbitrary data on-chain. Across is a cross-chain bridge that is secured by UMA's optimistic oracle.

Hart studied computer science before working as an interest rate trader at Goldman Sachs through the financial crisis. In 2013. He now leads a team of researchers at Risk Labs.

Heidi Wilder is a part of the Special Investigations Team at Coinbase where she gets to spend the day tracking down the latest hacks, rugs, and other nonsense on the blockchain.

Besides blockchain analysis, one of her passions is protecting people from being scammed and learning about the latest tactics used by criminals.

Heiko is an information engineering and management graduate working as a blockchain developer for 5 years.

I explain to people what StarkNet is and how they can build cool stuff on top of it

Henry de Valence is the founder of Penumbra, a fully shielded cross-chain DEX and proof-of-stake network. Previously, he worked at the Zcash Foundation building Zebra, a modular Zcash fullnode implementation, and at Chain, Inc, building ZK proof infrastructure: Bulletproofs, the Ristretto group, Merlin transcripts, and curve25519-dalek.

Herman Obst is an industrial engineer from Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been leading multiple software projects, ranging from projects in the healthcare industry, data science and blockchain. In 2021 he co-developed a tool to help Tornado Cash users maintain their privacy and for better measure the privacy provided by its anonymity pools. He also co-authored the book "Data science in Julia for Hackers".

Hester helps projects better meet user needs. Between 2018 and 2022 she worked as core contributor to https://status.im/, helping design and ship a privacy first messenger, wallet and dapp browser. Soon to be your Web3 Discord alternative. She's the founder and boardmember of Web3 Creatives. A foundation that connects and enables creatives in Web3. Offscript and Web3UX panel are key initiatives.

She has a background and 12 years of experience in Psychology and User-System Interaction Design.

Ethereum Foundation - Consensus R&D Team

Hudson is a long time Ethereum contributor having previously worked in the Ethereum Foundation for 5 years on numerous efforts including protocol dev coordination, specifications, and co-running Devcon2-4. He co-founded the Ethereum educational and coordination group Ethereum Cat Herders. He has 3 cats and 5 chickens and lives in Texas with his spouse.

Ian Miers is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on solving real world security issues using cryptography. He is one of the cofounders of Aleo, Bolt Labs, and Zcash, startups commercializing his work on privacy preserving payments and smart contracts. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired, and The Economist. It has also been denounced in at least two op-eds.

Blockchain Engineer at Polygon-Hermez

Igor Yalovoy is cofounder and CTO at fintech startup Babylon Finance. Babylon Finance has grown from zero to 30 million dollars in assets under management in less than a year. Previously, he was the core developer at OpenZeppelin securing billions of dollars in funds for leading crypto organizations including Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, Compound, Aave, TheGraph.

Senior Blockchain Security Engineer at ChainSecurity. Particularly interested in software verification and static analysis. MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.

Diputada del H. Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León, Monterrey

Isaac Patka is a developer and founder in the DAO space. He is a core developer in the Moloch Mystics building Moloch v3, and a member of DAOHaus where he built DAO composability tooling to enable Moloch v2 DAOs to directly control Gnosis Safes through Zodiac modules. He is the co-creator of Logos, a framework-agnostic DAO furthering the adoption of Web3 governance in IRL communities.

Itamar is co-founder & CEO of Argent, the first smart wallet for crypto, backed by Paradigm. He previously founded and led Peak, the leading mobile brain training platform. It grew to 60 million users and was acquired by Lagardere in 2016. Prior to Peak, Itamar worked at Amazon and VISA and BCG. While at Visa, Itamar authored four payment-related patents and managed the development of V.me, Visa's new ePayment solution. At Amazon, Itamar launched new product lines. He holds a Masters in CS.

I've been coding since 10yo, in that time I've went through multiple things: I started with game dev, then switched to systems: I made my own Linux distribution at the age of 15, focused on improving the Linux UX: it peaked at p9 on distrowatch.

I cofounded a media center that grew to >25m users (Stremio)

More recently I've taken on a quest to combine all my skills, namely UX, security and smart contracts, to push the crypto UX forward in the form of a next-gen smart wallet, ambire.com

IX Shells (Itzel Yard) is a self-taught coder from Panama City with a glitchy and architectural generative style that has garnered acclaim both within and beyond the crypto ecosystem. She has been featured in several high profile auctions and exhibitions in the traditional art world, as well as created a piece for the Tor Project

I studied mathematics and computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara. From then until now I have worked on applied cryptography in the blockchain context. I lead applied cryptography at Edge & Node and the SnarkForce, where we apply bleeding edge cryptography including SNARKs to The Graph Network.

Developer on BLS Wallet project at Privacy & Scaling Explorations. Passionate about developing solutions to scale the Ethereum ecosystem to the rest of the world through rollups & L2s. When I'm not coding you'll find me eating spicy noodles, jamming out to EDM, or on a bike.

Jacob is VP of Partnerships at ETHGlobal and has been part of the ETHGlobal team since before there was an ETHGlobal!

Alcalde de Barranquilla

James Beck is the Director of Content and Communications at ConsenSys, where he has spent the last 5 years telling the story of Ethereum to journalists and individuals around the world. Prior to ConsenSys, James worked in public affairs and led US politicians and journalists on delegations to China to improve understanding between the two countries. James is an enthusiastic member of the queer underground NYC dance scene, and also is a volunteer street tree steward in NYC.

Solidity developer at Aztec

I'm the Head of L2 Scaling at Quantstamp. I have been interested in scaling solutions since Lightning was discussed and the Plasma white paper was written. I'm particularly interested in making sure these systems are as secure as they are scalable, and I have looked over several such systems during my time at Quantstamp. I also have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where I studied graph algorithms. Other research interests include formal methods and complexity theory.

Hello!

ZKonduit & 0xPARC

👩‍💻 Software Enginer at Chorus One

📚 Zero Knowledge Programming

🔥 Diversity, Privacy, Decentralisation

@jenpaff on Twitter

I'm currently working on Polygon hermez in the protocol team.
Basically I develop smart contracts and use zero knowledge languages like Circom or zkasm.

Cofounder @ aztec

Co-founder of Celestia Labs and Fuel Labs. Creator of optimistic rollups. Blockchain skeptic and Twitter troll.

Programmer and team lead at the Nomic Foundation.

Working on NiceNode https://nicenode.xyz

Researcher @ Flashbots

I am a current PhD student at UT Austin as well as the CTO and a co-founder of Veridise. My work focuses on developing automated techniques to verify and identify bugs in various locations in the blockchain stack.

Jonathan Alexander is CTO of OpenZeppelin and co-founder of Forta. He leads the global development team at OpenZeppelin that works on OpenZeppelin Contracts, Wizard, Defender, and Forta. Formerly he was CTO at Tricentis and Vonage Business. When not working on software he likes spending time with his family, reading, tennis, and mountain hiking.

BizDev Lead at StakeWise

Jordi Baylina Technical Lead
Jordi is one of the strongest Ethereum developers in the world and a high impact contributor in the Ethereum community. He leads the technical development of the Polygon Hermez zkRollup and is currently working on the implementation of the zkEVM.
He is the co-founder of the White Hat Group, which played a major role in rescuing funds from TheDAO and Parity Multisig hacks. He’s the author of the MiniMe token contract, the elliptic curves Solidity library, as well as

I am a blockchain and cryptography researcher from Costa Rica, currently working at Nethermind. I look into all kinds of tools related to Ethereum scalability questions, such as layer 2s, liquid staking, and zero-knowledge proofs. Besides Ethereum, I am working on a PhD in mathematical physics at the University of Michigan. In my free time I enjoy memes and dancing.

Josef is an active member of Parallel Polis, the base of the Prague cypherpunk community and the HQ of the Institute of Cryptoanarchy. At the IoC he is occasionally organinzing Ethereum meetups (since 2016). He is also the founder and maintainer of the local nonconformist hackerspace Bordel.

Josh Stark works for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

I am a self-taught software engineer working to improve decentralized technology at the lowest levels!

Executive director of Metagov, mathematician and computer scientist at Oxford and Stanford. See joshuatan.com/research

Josselin Feist is a principal security engineer at Trail of Bits where he leads the blockchain team, participates in security assessments, and designs automated bug-finding tools for smart contracts. He holds a Ph.D. in static analysis and symbolic execution and regularly speaks at both academic and industrial conferences. He is the author of various security tools, including Slither - a static analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts and Tealer - a static analyzer for Algorand contracts.

After scaling fintech startups for several years in Product and Sales Operations, Juan discovered DeFi through a beautiful accident. He has ever since been involved in scaling DAOs through governance design, improving frameworks, and connecting great teams together.

Juan is also a proud dad.

Leader of EthColombia and Community Supporter at Devcon.

Julia Hardy is an investigator at Chainalysis specializing in DeFi and web3 investigations. In the past year, Julia has investigated over 20 hacks, tracking the movements of over $12 billion USD worth of stolen funds.

Founder @ Swivel

DeFi @ Gitcoin Kernel & Steward @ Gitcoin DAO

MOBA Degenerate, Contributor/Author of EIP-4626, EIP-5095

Julien is co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Argent. He holds a PhD in Physics with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography. Julien is the author of three patents: for quantum random number generation, distribution and use in novel cryptographic schemes. He previously founded a startup working on Ultra-Fast Quantum Random Number Generators, then worked in the security in IoT.

Ethereum researcher

cyberspace vintner and digital physicist.

International touring musician; blockchain bluegrass and video game traditionals.

Justina is Developer Success Lead at 3Box Labs where she focuses on improving the developer experience when building applications on the Ceramic network. Prior to joining 3Box Labs team, she has been working in the Developer Relations space, focused on data science and machine learning, for over 4 years helping open source projects to build successful developer products and vibrant communities around them.

Justyna Broniszewska is a Lead Blockchain Engineer at TrueFi Engineering, the core team building TrueFi lending protocol and working on a set of public goods applications including UseDapp, Waffle & Mars. Justyna was a mentor and speaker at ETHDenver, ETHAmsterdam, Devconnect. An active member of ETHWarsaw Web3 community.

Main Developer of the project sourcify.dev
Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum optimist. Worked at the Ethereum Foundation on PoS & Eth2, then co-founded Plasma Group & Optimism to build Ethereum L2 technology which funds public goods. Currently optimistically scaling Ethereum and making impact=profit.

Kaushal is a contributor at Status Network and focuses on ecosystem development for the Nimbus Client. He works with staking services, staking infrastructure operators, liquid staking protocols, solo staking community members and centralized exchanges to promote use of minority clients and improve client diversity in the network. In this capacity, he has gained deep insights about the motivations and challenges of various personas in the validator ecosystem.

Building the Optimism Collective

Ken Smith is the founder of NextBlock Solutions, a blockchain consulting company that provides training and educational services to web3 organizations. Ken is an Ethereum node operator using the RocketPool protocol and a member of the Node Operators Association (@NodeOperators) and has been active in the Ethereum and other blockchain communities since 2014.

Developer Advocate @ Scaffold-ETH 🏗️
BUIDLer @ BuidlGuidl 🏰️
Photographer and Filmmaker | @kevinjonescreates 📸

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co — Where builders & funders come together to build the open web. Gitcoin has delivered $60mm worth of value to OSS devs in the last several years. He has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years of engineering leadership experience in Open Source Software and Web Startups. Kevin is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene.

Klaus has first started working on Byzantine Consensus during his PhD in 1998, where he build a fully asynchronous consensus layer. He then explored and published in other areas of digital security including secure hardware, privacy preserving technologies, and security for critical infrastructures, before returning to further work on Byzantine fault tolerance. He currently works for Vega protocol.

Open-source software developer

kumavis founded MetaMask and now leads their Security Research team. Contributor to MetaMask, LavaMoat, Endo, SES, Ethereumjs, js-libp2p.

Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives, and is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters. Prior to Perkins, O

Software Security Engineer at the Privacy & Scaling Explorations Team

Previous Ethereum Foundation Research. Now working on new primitives for identity at Personae Labs and 0xPARC.

Lane Rettig is a writer, hacker, entrepreneur, and investor deeply fascinated by the intersection of technological and social systems, and committed to architecting and building human-centric software. He's been working full time on blockchain R&D since 2017. He was formerly an Ethereum core developer, and now focuses his efforts on Spacemesh, a a next-generation smart contract platform based on a novel consensus mechanism.

Venture Investor at Struck Crypto | Angel Investor | Startup Advisor | Kellogg MBA

Layne is Cofounder and Research Lead at Connext which creates interoperability technology. She has been building infrastructure for Ethereum since 2017, and before that worked in digital health.

ethereum developer since 2014! Contributed to solidity compiler and c++ ethereum.
Built the DAO, saw it get destroyed, then hacked it back to save whatever we could both in ETH and ETC.
Development lead for the Raiden network.
Founder of rotki.

I like birding :D

Project lead for initiatives tackled by the Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling team at MakerDAO (X-Ray, Transparency Dashboard, etc.).
Previously community lead & global events manager at the Maker Foundation.
Actively onboarding more newbies into crypto (CryptoWomen, ETH/Web3 CPH meetup, event speaking). Supporting DAOs contributors' experience & exploring the field of decentralized HR practices together with People Ops Guild peers & Groundw3rk DAO operators.

Leo is the Formal Verification Lead at the Ethereum Foundation where he also contributes to the Solidity language and compiler.

CTO of Web3Auth (fka. Torus)

Commercial lead at Asphodel. Working on economic design and mechanisms for Autonomous Worlds.

Lewis is a Computer Science PhD candidate at Imperial College London, publishing mainly on DeFi risks. Prior to this he worked as an economics consultant. He holds an MPhil in Economics Research from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Warwick University.

Member of the go-ethereum team. Maintains several specifications, including ethereum/execution-apis. Co-author of EIP-3074.

Loie is a facilitator, nurturer, and organizer. In her role as a People Operations lead, she likes to weave workplaces full of compassion and growth. With over 4 years hacking "decentralized HR" in crypto projects, she's deep in the future of work that web3 is birthing. Her roots are in Restorative Justice & activist communities, and she's branched out to start the People Ops Guild & open source the learnings on decentralized people-management that this space has uncovered.

Lorenz Breidenbach is the Head of R&D at Chainlink Labs. He is a security researcher and former BRIDGE fellow from ETH Zürich and IC3. He's been working on Ethereum-adjacent research since 2017 on projects such as Flashboys 2.0, libsubmarine, GasToken.io, and "Enter the Hydra".

Ethereum Ecosystem Support Program

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Luis has a background in finance and works in the Ethereum space since 2015, mainly as a product manager on protocol-level infrastructure and payment systems. Since 2021 he's the product manager at Shutter Network which is an open source project that uses threshold encryption to combat MEV and malicious front-running, as well as voter misbehavior in governance systems.

Luis Carlos holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Florida International University (2005), with Magna Cum Laude distinction. Master in Economics and Ph.D in Economics from Michigan State University. Professor and researcher, co-founder and first director of the Fiscal Observatory of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has also served as an economist for the FCC during the Obama administration. He was appointed as the director general of DIAN by President Gustavo Petro on July 11,2022

I work on the Translation Program at ethereum.org and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation.

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Maggie Love is Co-founder and Director of Business Development at W3BCLOUD, a is leading compute and storage infrastructure provider powering web 3 protocols.

Maggie is the Founder of SheFi, which empowers women and non-binary folks to take ownership of their financial freedom through crypto education, experimentation, investing and community. To date, she has onboarded over a 700+ people to web 3.

Mahsa is currently a part-time software engineer at Offchain Labs. She is also completing her doctoral studies at Concordia University, Canada. She mostly does research on blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, and Ethereum scaling solutions.

Makoto Inoue is one of the core developers at Ethereum Name Service which provides NFT compliant naming service to various blockchain addresses and decentralised file systems. He is also co-founder of Ethereum based event service called Kickback and hosts events such as London Ethereum Codeup where a group of developers examine the latest smart contracts

Developer at the EF since 2017 working on the Mist Browser, Grid, and now the Python team maintaining Web3.py and creating educational resources.

Marcus is exploring how DeFi can be used to reduce barriers to enhanced livelihoods in disenfranchised communities in Guatemala. His research focuses on how we can leverage web3 as a tool to unlock value for communities that are systematically marginalized throughout Guatemala. Marcus is conducting with a variety of stakeholders ranging from rural communities through to leading DeFi protocols and dApps in order to uncover the missing infrastructure to enable more equitable futures for all.

Marina is the co-founder of EUCI, which aims to propel EU regulation to become Defi-friendly. Since 2017 Marina has been advising crypto projects on governance and legal matters with a focus on decentralization, DeFi and NFTs. She previously led the advisory team of blockchain accelerator cofound.it and co-founded a crowdinvesting platform.

Protocol supporter and researcher working within Ethereum Foundation, co-founder of Bordel Hackerspace. Mario have been building and educating local communities in Bratislava, Prague and Barcelona, inspired many people to live crypto native and contribute to FOSS ecosystems.

Marius joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2020 to work on go-ethereum. He's interested in fuzzing, testing and shipping The Merge. He wrote his master thesis on differential fuzzing of EVMs where he found 3 critical consensus issues.

Martin is a Senior Research Engineer and the Head of New Initiatives at Quantstamp. He enjoys getting his hands dirty with clients in order to help them solve hard problems, such as mitigating economic manipulations in DeFi. Martin holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Before Quantstamp, Martin was a startup CTO, software engineer in a big-tech company, and an academic research in graph theory and computational geometry.

Marto has been working at OpenZeppelin before it was cool. He currently leads the OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo project.

Mary P. Davies is the founder of the Perpetuity Foundation. She is a legal technologist and researcher based in the Cayman Islands. Her research focus is perpetuity, in the context of what makes projects and ecosystems last. Mary’s Ethereum Fellowship research project, the Digital Asset Perpetuity Project, is focused on harmonizing Ethereum with the law, specifically the requirements of property law, and will answer the question “What happens to your Eth when you die?”

Coming from a background in artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning, Matt now leads development of the order routing algorithm and smart contracts for odos.xyz

Matt leads Product Management at Arbitrum. Originally from the Big Island of Hawaii, he enjoys music, video games, and the daily coffee ritual.

Ethereum Proof of stake Fanboy

https://blog.blockswap.network/eth2stakinganddaovalidators-ce7e72bbe63f

Software Engineer at Component Fi

Security at Optimism.
Previously co-founder of ConsenSys Diligence.

Co-Founder at Tropykus.com, CEO at TRU. Co-director of the InTIColombia research group at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Leader of the Colombia node for the Iberoamerican Blockchain Alliance. Electronic Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Master's Degree in Creation of Innovative and Tech Based Companies from the Universidad de Barcelona

Deputy Head Of The Virtual Assets Project Office Ministry Of The Digital Transformation Of Ukraine, Board Member Trusted Seed Association.
Max shares the ideas of Decentralization, Lean/Agile, Teal Culture, DAO, Lean Startup and Community Leadership. More at https://maxsemenchuk.com/

Software Engineer / Language Designer at Aztec Network on the Noir team

Mehdi Zerouali is a co-founder and Director of Sigma Prime, a leading Sydney-based blockchain security company. Mehdi has been in the information security industry for 10 years and has performed hundreds of security assessments targeting critical infrastructure. With Sigma Prime, Mehdi applies his skills to the Blockchain space, helping prominent projects secure their decentralised protocols.

Melanie leads the Contributor Experience at DXdao. She has over 8 years of professional experience in People Operations and transforming communities through strategic innovation. As a passionate Web3 and DAO contributor, she constantly pushes the boundaries of traditional Human Resources to help her build a resilient and scalable decentralized ecosystem at DXdao.

Head of Cryptography Research at Nethermind. Enthusiast and researcher of zero-knowledge proof systems focused on their security and efficiency.

I'm an engineer passionate about blockchains and decentralised systems. I've been building in the web3 space since 2018. Hit me up if you'd like to talk about Rollups, L2s or Ethereum scaling in general.

Mihajlo is leading the digital transformation journey of one of the world's biggest non-formal educational youth movements - the World Organization of the Scout Movement, with 57+ million members from around the globe.

To get the Scout Movement ready for W3, he is embarking on an ambitious project involving digitalising badges, exploring DAOs for different levels of the Movement and more.

Mike Connor is an applied cryptographer at Aztec Network, the privacy layer for web3. He's focussed on designing the L2 architecture for fully programmable and composable private smart contracts.
For the last 4 years he's been designing and building tools for private smart contracts on Ethereum.
Before then, he was doing something to do with actuarial modelling.

Mike is an entrepreneur with a software engineering and business background. In 2019, he founded Bamboo Financial Technologies to provide Ethereum-based investment products, and in 2022 he co-founded the Node Operator Association, an industry group aiming to improve the health of the Ethereum network by promoting decentralization in the burgeoning professional staking industry.

For the last three years since I joined the Web3 industry, I mainly worked as a product manager, discovering, shaping, and developing different Web3 projects.
For the last year and a half, I joined our R&D department and focused on generating and validating early-stage ideas while focusing on cutting-edge technology.
I worked and shaped most of the 3327 experiment (https://3327.io/projects/) and worked on MVPW’s products (https://mvpworkshop.co/portfolio/)
https://bit.ly/3AbLPAC

After school (2009), Moritz joined two friends to help them grow their backyard magazine proud into a national marketing and event agency as the creative director.

In 2014 Moritz co-founded abend, a tech company with the mission to democratize marketing, and served as the CEO of Abend to over 3000 clients.

In 2013 Moritz started investing in and advocating Bitcoin. Since 2017 he fully focused on blockchain adoption, co-funding the peer-to-peer blockchain developer education platform.

Mudit is the Chief Information Security Officer at Polygon. He's a security researcher by the day and an ethereum developer by the night.

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Naroa Zurutuza leads the Mapping and Tech work for Giga, UNICEF. Prior to joining UNICEF, she lived and worked in various companies in Kenya; from a startup that is trying to change the way the world understands agriculture to a non-profit empowering local entrepreneurs through access to finance. Naroa holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MS in Telecommunications Engineering from EHU-UPV.

Full-stack developer and technology researcher. JS Security Engineer at MetaMask working on LavaMoat and Endo. Started using Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped. Enjoys innovating and teaching security, diagnostics and maintainability. One of the oldest members of meet.js Poland community - both as a speaker and organizer.

Building the fastest modular execution layer
@FuelLabs_

Builder of the only* optimistic rollup on Eth.

The autonomous future is here.

Prev. #16 @ ConsenSys

Nick Johnson is the founder and lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service. Prior to launching ENS, he worked at the Ethereum Foundation, where he acted as core developer on go-ethereum.

Norswap works for Optimism where he does research & development. He used to work on and teach about compilers. On his spare time he likes to lift weights, watch anime, and research DeFi protocols.

Protocol engineer in Nomad. Used to work as a protocol consultant in the web3 space, and in a previous life, he worked in web2 in the area of DevOps and IoT.

Co-founder of Obol Labs and building Distributed Validator Technology for Ethereum.

Oliver is a terminologist, SBC enthusiast, and translator. He currently lives near Cleveland, Ohio, USA, with his wife and two kids. He works at ConsenSys, creating and maintaining support documentation for MetaMask, Infura, and other products, and in general, tries to explain the madness of web3 to those who want to know more. He speaks Spanish and English fluently, and can get himself into trouble in Italian, Arabic, Catalan and French.

I work in R&D at ConsenSys. My research focus in on delivering the zk-evm.

Machine Learning engineer turned StarkNet Developer Advocate. Leader of the Spanish and Portuguese StarkNet communities. Previously worked at Hugging Face, the powerhouse of open-source AI.

Oskar Thorén is the Director of Research at Vac, an R&D org building public good protocols for the decentralized web, with a focus on privacy and communication. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Status, a mobile Ethereum client. He also organizes the Papers We Love meetup in Taipei.

Website: oskarth.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oskarth
Vac website: https://vac.dev

Co-Founder & CEO SenseiNode, the first node and staking as a service provider in Latin America.
Singularity University GSP14 Alumni, NASA campus in Mountain View CA. Founder of Red Innova
the largest community on innovation, technology and entrepreneurship in Latin America. Founder of Bumeran, biggest online recruitment company in the region.
Board Member Universidad Di Tella, Argentina.

Freelance software engineer, supporting the decentralized future.
Currently building open source web3 video tools: streameth | LiveNFTs

I am an Ethereum enthusiast with a deep love for all things servers. I incorporated Ethereum into my Master’s thesis and loved the experience so much as to make it my full time job. I currently work in the DevOps team of the Ethereum Foundation and I mainly focus on the Ethereum Merge.

I’m also an avid photographer with a specific interest in Landscape and Travel photography. I’m a casual game

Patrick has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies and his time was split across academic research and industry. Over the years, he has worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. Before Infura, he was an Assistant Professor at King’s College London and an accomplished researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.

Working at Bitfly, making beaconchain more accessible

Paul Brody is the global blockchain leader at EY (Ernst & Young). For the last seven years, he has championed the use of public blockchains and open systems for enterprise users and the need for privacy. EY is the only major professional services company focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and committed to public blockchains.

Paul currently stewards the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the web3 space. He has been developing games since 2004, and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech.

He is CTO / Co-Founder of OP Games, a game platform company building Arcadia.fun. Arcadia is built using open-source game legos, helping game developers create more sustainable economies in the coming metaverse.

Co-founder of Sigma Prime and Lighthouse. Proud contributor to Ethereum Proof-of-Stake.

economist, biohacker, developer, building on Ethereum since 2016. on a mission to accelerate scientific progress and open medicine. previously at ConsenSys and identity solution uPort, founder of Eth dev studio Linumlabs.com & www.molecule.to

Paula Berman is COO of RadicalxChange Foundation, a non-profit supporting a global movement for next-generation political economies.

Working on EVM in Ipsilon team (Ethereum Foundation)

Data science and machine learning lead on the Lens Protocol at the Aave Companies.

I am an independent Ethereum researcher (currently funded by the Ethereum Foundation). Most of my work is on the next generation Execution Layer Specifications.

I'm a web3 enthusiast, interested in both dapp development and low-level protocol engineering.

GETH Team Lead

Philip Daian is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Cornell Tech, and a steward of Flashbots, a research and product organization that is active within the MEV space. He is particularly interested in the intersection of cryptocurrencies, financial systems, programmable privacy, and formal systems. His past work includes uncovering and publicizing MEV in the ETH community, and seeking to illuminate the dark forest of incentives and mechanisms in which we all co-exist.

Democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder & CEO at Open Collective and Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation. I worked in politics in Argentina and developed technology for democracy around the world. YC Alum, YGL (World Economic Forum), globe-trotter and Roma's mum.

I am a long time core developer of the Ethereum protocol that loves to make things and tell stories.

Pol Lanski is the COO of DAppNode and builder at dOrg.
After mining dogecoin in 2014, fell in love with the political possibilities of blockchains - starting with the dependency of political sovereignty from economic sovereignty.
He spends most of the time thinking about economics, incentives, ecosystems and outcomes.

I am a professional mathematician that temporarily happen to be a core developer at prysmaticlabs. I enjoy the types of puzzles that arise when trying to hack the protocol.

Ethereum R&D at OP Labs, EIP-4844 co-author, eth2 dev.

Puja Ohlhaver is co-author of Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul.

She is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and social incentive design thinker, whose work has been featured in various outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Politico.

She is currently a strategist at Flashbots.

Qi Zhou, Founder and CEO of QuarkChain.
Qi got his doctorate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, with nearly 10 papers published. When in graduate school, he developed one software and won a prize from Microsoft, awarded by Bill Gates in person. Qi previously worked as a senior engineer at Google and Facebook headquarters in the United States and has ten years of working experience in the field of distributed systems.

Design strategy for Privacy & Scaling Explorations

Rahul is an engineer at Reddit's crypto team. He previously worked briefly for the Ethereum Foundation and was also a core contributor to Bluesky, the decentralised social media research org by Jack Dorsey. Rahul has worked for multiple blockchain ecosystems and therefore enjoys fiddling with unique blockchain architectures (like those by some L2s). Rahul's current interests are L2s and social tokens. Outside of crypto, Rahul enjoys table tennis, climbing and doing improv!

Raoul Schaffranek studied Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees. He wrote his master thesis about compositional modeling and fully automated verification of distributed systems and formalized his findings with the Isabelle proof assistant. After leaving University, Raoul joined Runtime Verification as a formal verification engineer, where he spends most of his time on security audits for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Designing and building protocols at Worldcoin.
Seasoned gas golfer. Rustacean. Thoroughbred engineer and startup artist. Math/physics nerd. Father. Bicycle maximalist.

Ops, startups, higher ed + tech, outdoor activities.

Just another random developer from Canada, loving Ethereum and looking forward to the awesome future Blockchain has in store. Otherwise, the author of ethers and co-author of Firefly. :)

Rikard Hjort is an auditor and developer at Runtime Verification, researching formal methods for developing high-assurance smart contracts for blockchains. He has been putting his efforts into the Ethereum, Cosmos and Rust-based ecosystems.

Rob Stupay is managing communications at Remix.

Roberto is currently leading the Dependable Distributed Systems research team at ConsenSys. His main research interests revolve around the design, analysis and formal verification of distributed protocols.

Ryan Lackey has been a cypherpunk since the early 1990s. After working on anonymous Chaumian blinded electronic cash and dropping out of MIT, he moved to the Caribbean to build his first startup. Co-founder of the world's first offshore datahaven, HavenCo, he also has worked as a war-zone defense contractor, founded a YC-funded startup to Cloudflare, and is now Chief Security Officer of Evertas, the first dedicated cryptoasset insurance company.

Saf is curious about everything that has to do with pushing people to be the best versions of themselves. After spending a previous life as a mechanical engineer, Saf has worked in education, career coaching, mentorship and now leads People Operations at Gitcoin. You can also find him catherding the brightest Gen Z-ers at Dream DAO. Outside of work, Saf loves to spend time in the mountains, and is an avid trail ultra-runner and skier.

Sam is a self taught developer who works on Developer Experience at Superfluid.

Code monkey at @Ethereum Foundation building @ethdotorg & other projects. Open source maxi @developer_dao. Always under construction, thanks for your patience.

Self taught Programmer, artist and cultural promoter.
Subgraph developer for Protofire.io
Blockchain consultant for Platohedro.org
7+ years working with arts, culture and communities.
3+ years building software solutions.

Santiago joined the Ethereum dev space in 2017. He has worked as Director of Development and Security Reseacher at OpenZeppelin, has contributed to multiple open source projects, and wrote the book "Ethereum for Web Developers". He's also a councilmember for TheGraph.

Prior to web3, he worked for over 10 years on software development, focusing on disease surveillance and disaster response. He was also a TA at University of Buenos Aires, where he got his Masters in Computer Science.

Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization backed by Y Combinator that has built Universal Basic Income on Ethereum and launched the Proof of Humanity protocol. In the past he started the Partido de la Red, the first political party born out of the Internet that ran for elections in Argentina. Author of "Hacktivismo", published in 2015 by Random House.

"My job is to translate extremely complex products into palatable bits and to be the users' voice when dApps are built"

In a constant search for improvement in design processes, products, and the blockchain space, Sasha Tanase has been working in Ethereum since 2018.

Past Head of Design at Alethio/ConsenSys, Head of Design Research at Keep Network, currently she is leading Design Research and Product Design at tBTC/Threshold Network and is one of the co-founders of Web3UX research panel.

I'm a Senior Cryptographer at Semiotic Labs. I am currently developing cryptography solutions for The Graph protocol as a core dev. Before that I was a Senior Principal Anti-Tamper Security Engineer at Northrop Grumman and before that I was doing cyber security R&D at Sandia National Labs. I have an MSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I studied cryptography.

ALOHA FRENS! My docs name is Jordan Ham. Kaleikaumaka is my Hawaiian name:)

Hawaiian+Chinese+Portuguese+ Dutch. Music is my first language. My new favorite hobby is pulling all night hangathons jamming at hackathons and volunteering!

Shane O’Connor is an Innovation Manager at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, exploring how technologies, like blockchain, drones, virtual and augmented reality, AI and data science can intersect with the needs of a billion people to accelerate UNICEF’s impact for children.
Previously, Shane led Technology for Development (T4D) and Innovation efforts for UNICEF in Sierra Leone.
Before joining UNICEF, Shane was CTO, Deputy MD, and Co-Founder of a mobile financial services platform.

Shiv Malik - CEO Pool Foundation
Shiv Malik is the author of two books, the co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank, an award nominated broadcaster, and a former investigative ​journalist for the Guardian. In 2021 he co-founded Pool and currently leads the foundation on its mission to bring Data Unions to the world and ensure people have control of their data and a genuine stake in the digital economy.

Shrey Jain is a Web3 researcher at Microsoft under Glen Weyl where he focuses his research on identity, coordination, and machine learning.

I am co-founder of Manta Network. I graduated as a PhD from University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering, where I was advised by computer scientist Dan Suciu. I obtained my bachelor degree from Wuhan University, China. Before Manta, I was a research scientist at Algorand and assistant professor at UCSB.

Educating on crypto and public blockchains since 2015

founder in the web3 space (Bounties Network), governance meta steward (Gitcoin, ENS, Element DAO), governance engagement strategy and tooling (Gitcoin DAO), community strategy (Status), advisory (part of many projects’ in the ecosystem’s journey including 3Box, EPNS, DoinGud and more), mentorship (Kernel), Event creator and content curator (Schelling Point, Liscon, EthDenver)

I work on the go-ethereum client, with a focus on tracing, the JSON-RPC as well as GraphQL APIs.

Skylar works with the Ethereum Foundation leading the Devcon team, with a strong focus on community education around Ethereum. Having started developing applications around Bitcoin back in 2013, Skylar is now most passionate about Ethereum, its community, and the positive impact it can bring to the world. And yeah also its memes.

Blockchain developer focused on Ethereum and smart contracts. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker in world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50.

Im the first female artist in Colombia. I paint in one line trace because we're all connected by one trace, and if you are connected to your soul you can shine brighter. I am a civil engineer, convinced that the bridges that we need to build to make the world a better place are physical and between people. I exhibit my NFTs at Expo Dubai and coming soon at Times Square. I have been feature in Forbes, Bloomberg, Elle UK, Vogue magazine among other important press mediums.

Sreeram Kannan is Founder of EigenLayer and an associate professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he leads the UW Blockchain Lab. He was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley and a visiting postdoc at Stanford between 2012-2014 before which he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of the Aave Companies, was studying law at the University of Helsinki when he first began learning about smart contracts and thus, about the Ethereum blockchain network.  This lead to an exploration of how blockchain technology could impact the traditional financial system. In 2017, Stani released ETHLend, one of the first DeFi DApps which allowed for peer-to-peer digital asset transactions. Stani has made it his mission to create tools for an open, transparent, a

Developer with over a decade experience in the blockchain industry specifically. Worked in various industries during his career (government, banking, public transport, real estate, education, etc.) ETH supporter since the days of the ICO and ETH staker since the beacon chains inception.

Stefan Starflinger is a vienna-based fullstack developer at Bitfly. He attended the University of Vienna and graduated with a master's degree in business informatics. Currently he's working on multiple crypto related projects, namely Ethermine, Beaconcha.in and Ethermine Staking.

I study and design AMMs, stablecoin markets, and other cryptoeconomic systems. I've co-designed a large part of Gyroscope's core system. In my academic research, I have studied the stability of financial systems using game theory and network theory. Previously PostDoc at Goethe University. CS PhD from University of Zurich.

MEV boost architect !

A highly motivated professional with over 25 years' software engineering experience within the financial industry, Steve has a degree and a Ph.D in Computer Science. He has worked for tier one investment banks across the globe, where his main focus has been on cutting edge derivatives and software to price and manage their risk. Steve is responsible for running one of the largest Ethereum validating infrastructures in the world, and is working with institutional financial firms to make Ethereum

Smart Contract Dev @ Aave

Researcher at Flashbots

Facilitator of the Data Insights Core Unit at MakerDAO & organiser of ETHGathering

Software engineer working on privacy and scaling.

Floating through the Ether, reading math papers, writing DeFi research @GauntletNetwork, techno lover.

Tas works on enterprise ecosystem development and ecosystem support at EF. He is co-chair of the EEA Community Projects Project Governing Board.

Building MetaMask.

👋 Hi, I'm a core dev at Prismatic labs. I'm most known for my work on Prysm, a consensus layer client written in Go. I mostly worked on the proof of stake Ethereum, known as the beacon chain. Lately, I've been working extensively on "the merge", hybrid PBS, and eip4844.

Researcher at Bain Capital Crypto & MIT PhD student

ZoKrates @ Ethereum Foundation

Thijs Maas is a lawyer turned crypto-entrepreneur, now co-founder and CEO of Onramper, a fiat on-ramp aggregator. After going down the crypto-rabbit hole and helping many startups figure out strategy, compliance, and go-to-market, he recognized the existing challenges in fiat-to-crypto on-ramps - and knew they were solvable.

Entering Fintech middle age. Freelance, and doing lots at @mattereum this year. Most of my career has been spent building mid-tier software for early growth start-ups. Very interested in using web3 for real-world useful things, talk to me about carbon credits and W3C Verifiable Credentials. Never got into the speculation, so having fun staying poor :)

Devcon attendee since No. 1 in London!

Solar Punk Product Designer of delightful & meaningful web 3 products. Currently focussed on building governance UI's at MakerDAO DUX.

Tim Beiko runs the AllCoreDevs calls for Ethereum.

Principal System Engineer at Infura

Tim has focused on developing blockchain & media applications at Ascribe, BigchainDB, COALA IP, Ocean Protocol, and is now working on an implementation for Soulbound token within the EIP process: EIP-4973 (Account-bound tokens).

Investing in the infrastructure and tools needed to build the Network State. Previously co-founded Mosendo DAI wallet, PowerTrade options exchange, and DeFi Nation community. DAOs: MetaCartel, RaidGuild, Synthetix, UMA

I am an applied research scientist, able to drive research into novel directions.

With over 20 years in academia and industry, I have developed strong analytical & problem solving skills along with deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, visual perception and machine learning.

I am a fan of robotics, AI, design patterns and MOOCs.

ETHLima Community Leader.
Blockchain enthusiast.
Financial Executive with more than 20 years of experience in telcos.
Systems Engineering and Finance studies.

Tony Olendo is a Developer Education Evangelist at Polygon. He has a passion for Ethereum Developer Education and specifically helping developers in their Solidity journey. He is also a core team member of Afrofuture DAO, Africa's largest community of NFT artists and also a co-founder of Web3Afrika, Africa's largest community of Web3 builders.

Torgin is a smart contract auditor at ChainSecurity.
He published a paper titled "TWAP Oracle attacks: Easier done than said?" analyzing TWAP oracles and introducing the "multi-block MEV attack", which makes manipulation much cheaper by hiding information from arbitrageurs.

• ethereum ecosystem work & All Core Devs call
• creating with @StatefulWorks
• one of many building the @ProtocolGuild

Blockchain Security Engineer for ChainSecurity

Building proof of consensus at succinct.xyz

Uri is a Developer Advocate and Software Developer at Certora. Uri fell in love with blockchain in 2018 after doing a research project as an undergraduate student at the Technion. He joined Certora right after graduation.

I'm a long-time solidity developer and a researcher at 3327. Always interested in new technologies and getting a clear understanding of various topics.

Tech guy at Lido

Venkatesh Rao is a writer and consultant. He writes the Ribbonfarm blog, and is the author of Tempo, a book on decision-making. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2003) from the University of Michigan. He is currently based in Los Angeles

Viktor Bunin leads the Protocol Operations team at Coinbase Cloud. He is the industry’s first Protocol Specialist, a role he created as an early employee of Bison Trails that has now become an industry staple at orgs like a16z, Blockdaemon, and Figment. Viktor leads Coinbase Cloud to define Cloud’s protocol roadmap, initiate strategic initiatives, and support crypto-native Coinbase products. He's also an active angel investor, specializing in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Vince Major is an actor, marketer and storyteller. Currently working as the head of marketing at MyEtherWallet, Vince has been working in the arts for over a decade.

Vincent Wen is an Engineering Manager at Messari, the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products. Prior to becoming a full-time degen in the crypto rabbit hole, Vincent worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft and Technology Associate at Bridgewater. Vincent graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. There, he majored in Computer Science and learned the skills necessary to become the shadowy super-coder he is today.

Chief Scientist @ Ethereum Foundation

co-founder at Gitcoin. currently focused on KERNEL, a web3 educational web which brings together 200 incredible peers, 3 times a year for a unique experience. the primary orientation is around deepening generative relationships amongst incredible peers.

Vlad Zamfir is a proof-of-stake and consensus protocol designer, also known in Ethereum and cryptocurrency expert communities for pioneering research on cryptoeconomics, blockchain governance and crypto law.

Low-key, Vlad’s contributed to the DAO hard fork, to the latest message fork driven choice rule, and to many arguments against on-chain governance and blockchain immutability.

Tech lead @ EF PSE, Author of Zkopru

Wei Dai is a Cryptographer at Bain Capital Crypto. He is not the inventor of b-money, who the unit of Ethereum and the Maker stablecoin is named after. Nevertheless, he aspires to contribute enough to the R&D of blockchains so that he may one day become "the Wei Dai."

Over 7 years experience in blockchain, from alt currency design to trading algorithms, served as blockchain architect in Commonwealth Bank of Australia (biggest financial institution in Australia). R3 global architect office. Architect for 3 altcoins and 7 ICO projects.

A former eth2 core researcher, Will Villanueva is currently the CEO and Cofounder of Element Finance.

William George has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Toronto. His thesis was on number theory problems related to elliptic curve cryptography. During postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and at École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), he has done research on applications of blockchains, particularly in the use of blockchains in identity management systems. William is currently research lead for the blockchain-based dispute resolution platform Kleros.

Wouter Kampmann is currently working as team lead of the Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling Core Unit (SES) at MakerDAO. The SES team performs research, analysis, and bootstrapping work on the challenges and solutions for scaling up MakerDAO. Its mission is to remove the barriers between decentralized workforce, capital and work. Previously, Wouter worked as the Head of Engineering at the Maker Foundation.

Dapp-Learning Founder. Faithful of Austrian economics, Interested in DEFI, ZK, DAO

Dr. Yaoqi Jia is the founder of AltLayer, an elastic and versatile scaling protocol for Web3. Before 2022, he was the director of Parity Asia, which provides blockchain infrastructure (say OpenEthereum) for the decentralised Web. He’s selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, 2019. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CTO of Zilliqa. He got his Ph.D. in 2017 and his work was published in CCS, Usenix Security and other top-tier conferences.

Ye Zhang is the co-founder and zk-researcher at Scroll. He used to work on hardware acceleration for ZKP algorithms and theoretical constructions behind ZKP protocols. Now his focus is on optimizing the zkEVM.

ZKP enthusiast and open-source developer of ZK circuits for various crypto primitives (ECDSA, elliptic curve pairings).

Core Developer at Electric Coin Company

Yoseph is an entrepreneur building at the intersection of Web3 and Africa, and focused on growing the borderless economy on the continent.

He co-founded and was CEO of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (ehf.org), a community of 500+ top tier entrepreneurs and investors from 68 countries. He built a new immigration program with the New Zealand government, and ran it as a public-private partnership. Yoseph is from Ethiopia, and grew up in East Africa.

I am an applied cryptographer at ConsenSys working on cryptography and SNARK libraries in Go (see gnark and gnark-crypto). I am also a final year PhD student in cryptography at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.