Research and vibes

Rajeev is a security researcher and the founder of Secureum & TrustX. Having spent ~25 years doing security research, he dedicates his time to scaling Ethereum security by collaborating with leading initiatives in this ecosystem.

Crypto enthusiast since the 2017 Ethereum ICO craze, been developing smart contracts, dapps and fiddling with Ethereum staking tools ever since. For the past few years, my interest was mostly in finding the most efficient and cheapest entry point to become an Ethereum staker, leveraging the newest ARM64 and recently, RISC-V boards.

My background is software engineering with more than 15 years of experience, mostly in the cloud computing area, Kubernetes and operating systems.

Steward at ZK Email: https://prove.email.

Also co-creator of ERC 7524 (PLUME Signatures) and co-creator of image provenance proofs at https://proteus.photos.

Abhimanyu is a Co-founder of Epoch Protocol, an Intent-Centric Abstraction layer for web3. He has been in the space for the last 6 years, his previous venture, Orange Wallet, was acquired by a big Ce-Fi company.
He has worked with some of the biggest projects in web3 including Avail, Polygon, Spheron, and Hyperledger, and has contributions across projects like Slyther, Ethereum.org, Wallet Connect, and more.
He has been actively working on the intersection of users and web3 for the last 4 years

Abhinav is currently based in Singapore and leads Client solutions and Presales for Partior. In this capacity, he oversees clients' journeys including commercial and central banks, from defining use cases to product integration
Before taking on this role, Abhinav gained extensive experience working with both global and local banks. He spearheaded transformative initiatives in Payments and Core Banking, requiring him to coordinate efforts across business units, technology and regulatory bodies

Life-long programmer enthusiastic about the future of software. Staff engineer at Aztec working on applied cryptography and full-stack development.

Cryptographer and Systems Engineer

Adrian wrote his graduate thesis on censorship-resistant e-voting on Ethereum in 2016. In early 2017 he joined Cosmos as the 3rd core dev and built out the Cosmos stack. Before Anoma & Namada, Adrian co-founded with Awa and Christopher Cryptium Labs, one of the the first PoS validators in the world (acquired) and Metastate, an R&D org that focused on distributed systems, cryptography as well as PLT.

Aellison is a Formal Verification Engineer currently auditing protocols and Smart Contracts, as well as developing tooling for blockchain DevEx and formal verification. He received his M.Sc. degree in Formal Methods from the Federal University of Paraíba in 2020. Previously, he worked as a software analyst and researcher exploring various fields, including computer and network security, IoT systems, networks, finance, and monetary fraud detection/prevention.

Afra is a writer and researcher with a background in crypto growth, marketing, and journalism. She hosts a podcast called CyberPink and holds history and media studies degrees from Columbia University and LSE.

Passionate about the crypto ecosystem since 2017, I am from Argentina, where crypto adoption is high, and have seen its benefits firsthand.
Since 2022, I have been leading partnerships and operations at ParaSwap, a leading DEX aggregator. My role involves building strategic alliances and optimizing operations to drive innovation and enhance the user experience in DeFi

Mathematician and software developer working on the implementation of cryptosystems with an eye towards zero-knowledge cryptography.

Ethereum Core Developer @ Nethermind

Ahmed Gatnash is the founder and Executive Director of Kawaakibi Foundation, a human rights nonprofit working on the MENA region. He is co-author of The Middle East Crisis Factory.

Aisling holds degrees in math, economics, and computer science, and obtained her PhD from the ENS in Paris in 2019. She has spent the past years working extensively on threshold cryptography and confidential computing, in both trad-fi and web3. Beyond this, she also worked on scientific and technical direction, strategy, and the legal aspects of building and using privacy enhancing technologies.

Ph.D. in (theoretical) computer science;
Postdoc/senior researcher in (micro-)economics;
Currently working on optimization/economic issues of blockchains/rollups.

My name is Akshit Gupta, I have a bachelor's degree in computer science with specialization in Cyber Security. I am a full stack developer and have been in the web3 space since 2021. Entered the space in the DeFi Summer of "21.
I've been an integral part of Huddle01, leading the development team through various stages, transforming our ideas into a robust and market-ready product. Now we're building the 1st DePIN dedicated to making real-time comms performant, secure and 95% cheaper.

Protocol Engineer @ Uniswap Labs

Albert Garreta is leading the cryptography research team at Nethermind. Formerly he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Basque Center of Applied Mathematics (Spain). He received his PhD in mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ, USA). His main research areas revolve around all types of zk-related topics such as code-based SNARKs, lookup and folding schemes, soundness aspects of interactive proofs, etc.

I work on understanding what Ethereum is, and realizing what it can become.

Over the last five years I have been leading the development of circom, one of the main DSLs for defining ZK protocols. I have also extensively worked on developing tools and techniques for the analysis of smart contracts and on the generation of optimized EVM code (as part of funded projects by the EF). I am also leading the ZK-ARCKIT project (funded by the EF) to provide tools to analyze, transform and optimize the polynomial constraint systems generated for building ZK proofs.

Alessandro joined Dialectic as part of the founding team in 2021, he is leading the Yielding activities as CTO, developing Risk Management and Yield Optimisation systems. Dialectic is a onchain liquidty provider offering fixed income products to a large set of crypto-native investors.

Account Abstraction core team developer. Co-author of ERC-4337, RIP-7560 and more.

Alex is a software architect with over 15 years experience in engineering and startups. He is the co-inventor of zkSync and currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. At Matter Labs, he leads a talented team focused on addressing blockchain scalability challenges using zero-knowledge proofs. Alex's passion lies in using technology to advance personal freedom, self-ownership, and decentralization.

Alex is a senior software engineer with extensive knowledge of security, distributed computing, and decentralized systems. He holds a Master of Mathematics degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (Canada), where he worked on techniques for design exploration and optimization in satisfiability-related problems.

Researcher at the EF. Focused on making Ethereum secure, scalable, and sustainable.

Software Engineer & Applied Researcher,
Ethereum Researcher, TxRx team @ ConsenSys

I am one of the co-founders of Linea and am leading the prover team of Linea.

Working on Reth at Ithaca

Alice empowers product teams with transformative insights that catalyze user acquisition, retention, and growth. Passionate about using data for positive change, she previously advised UK ministers on education policies. Today she is the lead product analyst at Safe{Wallet}, where she combines her expertise in product and blockchain analytics to enhance user experience, optimize product features, and uncover opportunities for value capture.

Alina Chan, Ph.D., is a scientific advisor and viral vector engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. She is a recent Broad Ignite fellow and Human Frontier Science Program fellow with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering. During the pandemic, Dr. Chan investigated problems relevant to finding the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and co-authored Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 with Matt Ridley.

Co-founder of Lattice; creator and core dev of MUD

Research Engineer at IFT/Status/Waku.

Legal Counsel at Aztec Labs, which is developing Aztec - a privacy first L2 on Ethereum. Ex privacy associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher NYC. LLM from NYU Law and JD from Sciences Po.

• Bitcoin dev 2010-2015
• 20+ years free software dev
• Created DarkFi
• Created BIP 0001
• Founded first UK Bitcoin exchange
• 10+ years privacy tech (first CoinJoin and stealth addr impl)
• Founded DarkWallet with Vitalik and Cody Wilson
• Fought ISIS in Syria
• Anonymous cryptography and mathematics (homology, algebra, geometry).
• DarkFi = L1 for anonymous on-chain apps: world's first fully anon DAO, world's most anon p2p chat, and anonymous trustless cross-chain swaps.

Dr. Proal is a microbiologist and President/CEO of PolyBio Research Foundation: a non-profit working to study and treat infection’s chronic consequences across conditions including long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, and even human aging. Dr. Proal also serves as Research Director for the Mount Sinai Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness, the world’s first open-source long COVID clinic with a decentralized model enabling community co-design.

Anders Elowsson is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation working on staking economics with a specific focus on issuance policy.

General Counsel at Aztec Labs, which is developing Aztec - a privacy first L2 on Ethereum.

Past: Ex-crypto start-up advisor, 10+ years at White & Case London/NYC/Hong Kong (ex-Counsel). LLM from London School of Economics.

Senior research economist at CoW Swap

Andreas is the co-founder of Fileverse / ddocs.new and a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on FAI-enabled human-machine teaming in cybersecurity

Researcher and developer of the mighty Ipsilon team @ EF. Interested in all things Ethereum Execution Layer. EOF ninja.

International Business Administrator, Public Goods Builder and Core Member of Ethereum Colombia. Founder of the 5AM Society (public good of Parkway C.) and Financial Coach at Parkway Community. I want to expose the Latin American Spirit that found hope on Ethereum technology to change the reality of vulnerable communities.

DevOps Engineer @ EF on the ethPandaOps team

Hello! I'm Andrew. I work at Cursive, a team building cryptography-powered apps for human connection. I'm interested in exploring the new forms of communication and interaction unlocked by advanced cryptography.

Andrew has been working in infosec for over a decade, starting Paterva where he worked on building Maltego for 10+ years. Later moving to the US to work at BitMEX (IR), Robinhood (IR/D&R), Uniswap (Head of Security) and finally Privy (Principal Security Eng). He has spoken at many different conferences including Blackhat, DEF CON as well as having taught more than 16 different Black Hat courses. He enjoys cat memes, security and punk rock and wants to do better at protecting users in web3!

Andrew is a software engineer who likes building systems and libraries which are reliable, fast, and secure, with a bias toward privacy and personal control. His decades of experience include 7 years working on Dropbox's distributed filesystem, mobile app frameworks, and APIs. He was recently nerdsniped by ZK Cryptography, and joined 0xPARC to design and build the software behind Zupass and PODs.

Product Design Lead, UX Engineer, Blockchain Experience for Developers and Users at Matter Labs (ZKsync)

Product Manager and Project Coordinator at PSE/EF 🏗️communities @invisiblgarden @EthereumCR
@ETHKipu

Ankit Chiplunkar

Co-founder and Head of Research at Frontier and OneBalance, Ankit specializes in breaking down complex concepts for stakeholders. Ankit fell down the crypto rabbit hole while pursuing his PhD in Aerospace Engineering and has been at Coinbase, TokenAnalyst (acq. Coinbase), Airbus and IIT Bombay. In his free time he likes to swim, read books and spend time with family.

Ann Brody is a dedicated researcher with a focus on blockchain communities and governance, blending insights from Communication Studies and Anthropology in her work. Her primary research interests revolve around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), decentralized governance design, crypto politics, and ideologies. Ann thrives at the intersection of industry and academia, where she actively contributes to various projects in the field.

Anna began her DeFi journey in 2017 when she joined Gnosis. In 2021, she mooo-ved on to spin out CoW Swap, dedicating herself to the development of user-centric designs for more efficient and secure decentralized trading solutions.

Anna Stone, a Web3 innovator since 2017, is passionate about using blockchain for financial equity. As Executive Director and co-founder of GoodDollar, she has delivered UBI to over 850,000 people in 200 countries, making it one of Web3's most used projects. Stone also leads CSR at eToro and contributes to Web3 strategy. Her blockchain journey began with early Ethereum protocols like Bancor, and she has over 15 years of experience in economic development, microfinance, and pioneer technologies.

Researcher @ Ethereum Foundation

Anshu is a Blockchain Engineer at Nethermind, with five years of engineering experience in the web3 space. He is currently working on Based Rollups and Preconfirmations. Previously, he served as the Lead Engineer at Plenty Labs, where he led the development of two major DeFi protocols on the Tezos blockchain.

Founder of The Daily Gwei.

I've been involved full-time in the blockchain space since 2020, but experimenting with the tech on a personal level since 2013, mostly on privacy-focused solutions.
With a full-stack background, I define myself a solidity dev with an architectural view when it comes to develop applications in Web3. Currently I'm the Co-founder of Fluidkey, bringing default-privacy with great UX on EVMs.
Outside blockchain space, I'm a basketball lover, LEGO nerd and roller-coaster enthusiast.

Antony is a senior software engineer, researcher and architect. He has spent his career innovating and developing creative new technologies.

Having previously been co-lead on the Slang compiler-as-a-library team, he now leads Applied Research for the Nomic Foundation.

Co-founder of Moving Castles.

Ariah designed and built key parts of Gyroscope’s GYD stablecoin and liquidity pools. He is a DeFi researcher with a track record of predicting design problems in stablecoins, including issues that manifested in Dai’s Black Thursday crisis and in Terra’s collapse, and holds a PhD from Cornell University.

Arik is the VP of Technology at Fireblocks, leading the technology research and innovation group that focuses on cryptography, blockchain, security and AI research. Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build business on the blockchain. Notably the Fireblocks MPC wallet technology has secured trillions of dollars.

Working on folding schemes at 0xPARC.

For 2013-2023 period I was a pure mathematician, studying low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry in Princeton, Indiana and Stony Brook Universities. I got interested in crypto as early as 2015, and did some investments and research in Ethereum ecosystem on the side. In 2022 I also taught a course on blockchains in Stony Brook (artofkot.xyz/blockchain-course), and in 2023 move into the space full-time, as a research lead in cyber.fund.

Arun is the Blockchain Lead at the Ventures Team @ UNICEF
Office of Innovation. He was instantly drawn to blockchains as they promised to
fulfil an unmet latent need of people - fairness. He works with the UN and Web3
ecosystems to enable pilots/PoCs/projects for positive outcomes in social,
humanitarian, financial and economic spheres. He has special interests in new
mechanisms for financial inclusion, transparent governance and where the real
world meets Web3.

Member of Privacy and Scaling Explorations; R&D engineer; Maker

Atsu is a visionary entrepreneur proposing innovative solutions for Japanese demographic challenges. As a co-founder of paramita and Nishikigoi NFT, he leverages blockchain technology to reshape governance and wealth distribution in Japan. Atsu also redefined local governance and ended up launching nationwide entities, "Local Coop". In Local Coop, a NFT-based e-residency system, Nishikigoi NFT, attracted a global community to Yamakoshi village. localcoop.io, nishikigoinft.com, sinra.app/en.

Audrey Tang, a TIME100 “Most Influential People in AI” honoree (2023), is Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large and served as Taiwan's 1st digital minister and the world’s 1st nonbinary cabinet minister (2016-2024).

In addition to bringing civic innovation into the public sector, Tang helped shaping Taiwan’s internationally acclaimed COVID-19 response, as well as safeguarding the country’s 2024 presidential and legislative elections from cyber interference.

Augusto holds a PhD in Mathematics from ETH-Zürich and a degree in Physics; he is also a Professor at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro. Augusto is one of the co-founders of the crypto project Cartesi, an L2 solution empowering computationally intensive DApp chains.

Auryn Macmillan is the co-founder of Gnosis Guild and a key member of the initial dev team for its first venture, Enclave. A self-taught engineer and mechanism designer, Auryn is dedicated to creating better tooling for collective ownership and decision-making. In 2021, he co-founded Gnosis Guild, creators of the Zodiac standard for composable DAO tooling, and founded quadratic funding protocol clr.fund.

Auryn has an MSc in Psychology & Research Methods and previously played pro basketball.

🧑‍🎤 builder on Ethereum

👩‍🎤 Builder on Ethereum, BuidlGuidl Founder.

I build lots of random things and try to teach other developers too!

Always a student, sometimes a teacher, Austin has taught 80+ design workshops and courses for over 3200 students with companies like General Assembly, Schibsted Media Group, Axel Springer and Google.

Trad fi adjacent projects include The Financial Times, Billie, and bunch. Crypto projects include Voltz/Reya, Otterspace, and now, Dune.

Founder and Lead Community manager, Web3bridge

Azam is a senior cryptography researcher at Consensys company. She mainly works on the design and implementation of practical SNARK for layer 2 also known as zk-rollup.

She has been working as a researcher at Ecole Normal Superieure and Ecole Polytechnique, France, where she has done research on double-preventing signature schemes, functional encryptions, commitment schemes, and SNARK.

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I do pgor crypto r and d :)

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L2BEAT Founder, L2 researcher, former long-time MakerDAO contributor

Layer 1 & 2 cybersecurity expert with more than 70 critical issues found since 2022.

EPF fellow

I am the CEO and Co-Founder of Espresso Systems and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, researcher & experience designer. She is a Program Director at Funding the Commons, an organization exploring new models & mechanisms for open source & public goods funding.

Formerly building ecosystem & culture at projects including Centrifuge, Toucan, Gnosis & Ocean Protocol, Beth is passionate about the lunarpunk potential future of blockchain & enjoys geeking out at the intersection of art, philosophy, law & computational systems of behavior.

Bianca is the Lead DevRel at Chronicle Labs. Prior to her Web3 career, she worked as a FAANG Solutions Architect. In Web3, she has collaborated with several DeFi and social projects. In 2022, Bianca founded DevRel Uni, a platform enabling professionals to break into DevRel. The community has grown to over 2000 members worldwide, with more than 250 students across 50 countries.

bitbeckers is a core developer at the hypercerts protocol focussing on protocol and product development. As a contributor to Raid Guild, hypercerts, Cookie Jar and other DAOs he's right at home at DevCon.

I am a researcher in cryptography at Consensys, where I work on efficient arguments of knowledge for the Linea layer 2, with a focus on both research and engineering aspects. In Spring 2023, I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. During my PhD, my main research interests were on foundational cryptography, mainly focused on zero-knowledge, but also delving into topics such as advanced encryption primitives and signatures.

Brad is a researcher at Uniswap Labs. He holds a PhD in Physics from Princeton University, and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from MIT. Abandoning the search for the fundamental truths of nature, he now focuses on topics covering decentralized finance, trading, and blockchains.

Chief of Staffs @Virtuals Protocol | Women In Tech

Coming from the world of traditional advertising and commercial production, Bridget saw the opportunity for innovative marketing in Web3. In late 2021, Bridget made the transition to blockchain, starting in Content Marketing for a Web3 gaming custodial wallet SaaS. She then moved into consulting in DeFi, working with several companies, including serving as Head of Marketing for a novel DeFi protocol. She now serves as Director of Marketing at Moonsong Labs.

make FOCGs as easy as forking NFTs

Bruno Batavia is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Valor Capital Group, a venture capital firm based in New York focused on Latam and US-Brazil cross-border opportunities.

He also brings more than 13 years of experience working with innovation at Brazil’s Central Bank (BCB), where he led studies and initiatives with a particular focus on emerging technologies. Most recently, he served as the Deputy Head for the Digital Real (Drex) Project, Brazil’s CBDC initiative.

Bruno Maçães is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, where he advises some of the world’s leading companies on geopolitics and technology, as well as a columnist for the New Statesman. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was the Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal during the eurozone crisis. His books include Belt and Road (2018), The Dawn of Eurasia (2019), History Has Begun (2020) and, most recently, Geopolitics for the End Time (2021).

I’m deeply fascinated by the intersection of technology and economics—Ethereum captures this perfectly. I work as a Blockchain Engineer on the Emerging Technologies team at Inter, diving into blockchain projects and playing a role in the DREX pilot, Brazil’s CBDC initiative. Also a proud founding member of Bankless Brasil. Plant-based, training for a triathlon, and an avid climber.

TxGames Studio, Eat, Sleep & Buidl Fully On-chain Game

Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and incentives researcher at Flashbots

Founder of Plexos Institute, an initiative focused on democratising access to the benefits of emerging technology to the regeneration of economies and communities. Co-Idealizer of Celatam, supporting the Celo community in Latin America (Prev. cLabs/Celo). Lawyer by trade in her previous life and with a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics by King's College London (10y experience in economics law and compliance), Camila found her path on technology through Legal Hacking and Computational Law. She is

Carl Cervone is Cofounder of Open Source Observer and Kariba Labs. He enjoys building technology to measure impact in the open. Previously, Carl worked at Protocol Labs and Gitcoin. He also cofounded Enveritas, the leading supply chain verification platform for the coffee sector, and spent five years organizing and financing farmer cooperatives in Ethiopia.

I started working on self sovereign identity in my first contact with web3/Ethereum back in 2018. Concretely in Iden3. Started kind of a spin off to build the rollupPoC, a proof-of-concept zkRollup (only payments) using zk-language circom. That was the seed for the Hermez network where I got the role of protocol engineer. Hermez evolution was Polygon zkEVM, where I was the team lead in the protocol team where we code the EVM in a new zk language, zkASM.

Research

Software engineer. Enthusiastic about privacy and cryptography. I have been working on zero-knowledge technologies for 3 years, focusing mainly on developer experience.

Charles Guillemet joined Ledger in 2017 as Chief Security Officer and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in 2019.

Before joining Ledger, he spent 10 years in the Cryptography & Hardware Security sector, starting with Tiempo, an innovative secure start-up where he designed EAL5+ secure integrated circuits. He then worked as Technical Manager in an Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) at the CEA, the French Research Organization.

Charles St. Louis is the CEO at DELV. Previously, he was the Decentralized Governance Architect at the Maker Foundation and the first mandated member of MakerDAO elected by MKR Holders.

He's been an active contributor to Ethereum / Ethereum Cat Herders, helping with improving the EIP process, coordinating network upgrades, advising Ethereum.org, and working on developer growth strategies.

Building programmable cryptography in Privacy and Scaling Explorations.

Founder of ephema.io, a research group grant-funded by the Ethereum Foundation.
Helping steward the PBS Foundation, a non-profit aiming at more transparency & alignment around MEV & PBS. Organizing popup villages with ZuBerlin and ZuGarden.
Background as industrial engineer and researcher, led engineering teams for 8 years and in crypto since 2014 w/ Bitcoin and 2017 w/ Ethereum.

Christine Kim is a Vice President on the Research team at Galaxy Digital. Prior to joining the firm, she worked for three years at a crypto media company called CoinDesk as an analyst and tech reporter, mainly covering developments on Ethereum. She holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

I do research, mostly in game theory and mechanism design, at Flashbots.

Chris Fabian, co-founder and leader of Giga, an startup by UNICEF and ITU, aims to connect every school to the internet. He built UNICEF's cryptocurrency fund, ($20M in Eth and BTC). A leader in open-source technology policy, Chris has helped shape blockchain strategies for Ministries and Central Banks globally. Previously, he founded UNICEF’s Innovation Unit, advised UN Secretary-Generals, and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" and WIRED’s "25 People Changing the World"

Onchain data at OP Labs, contributing to Optimism Collective.
Find me @chuxin on Farcaster and @chuxin_h on Twitter

I'm a designer, coder, researcher. I like talking about what can be done to advance user and developer experience for blockchain applications.

Founder of MetaCat, building PopCraft and mud.pixelaw.

Solidity developer, Huff enjoyer

Clément is a computer scientist. He is the CTO and one of the founders of Kleros, a decentralized arbitration court for smart contracts (subjective oracle). He is working on protocol design (game theory, mechanism design) and smart contract security. In addition to core Kleros work, he is working on use cases such as Sybil resistant systems (Proof Of Humanity) and prediction markets (integration with Omen & Seer). In his personal time, Clément is a competitive Magic the Gathering player.

Cody has been building on Ethereum since 2017 including Microsoft Blockchain, Celo Labs, and Uniswap Labs.

Head of Product at Liquity
I have a background in tradfi structured products and bringing crypto to banking since 2014. I'm passionate about decentralized solutions that give users control by building new things and solving problems with Ethereum.

Onchain @Base.

Protocol Researcher

Exploring all kinds of stuff at PSE-EF.

Mostly interested in P2P networking, privacy and cryptography (not necessarily in this order).

Csaba is senior researcher in the Codex.storage Research group, working on compact proofs of storage, zero knowledge proofs, data availability, and p2p technologies. He is also part of a team working with the EF on the design of p2p networking for Data Availability Sampling. In the past, Csaba was working and publishing on various aspects of p2p networks, anonymity overlays, AI for microcontrollers (TinyML), IoT and wireless mesh technologies.

Developer at PSE working on MACI.

Damaris Njambi Njoroge is the Operations Director at Grassroots Economics Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Kenya. With a strong commitment to community upliftment and economic empowerment, Njambi plays a pivotal role in advancing Grassroots Economics' mission to implement the Commitment Pooling Protocol and Community Asset Vouchers. This innovative system enables communities to harness traditional mutual service practices for sustainable development and resource sharing.

Dan joined the Ethereum Foundation in April 2021 to help with testing infrastructure. A strong believer in client diversity, Dan is interested in creating shared testing tools that can reduce complexity across client teams, helping accelerate Ethereum development and resilience.

Daniel Perez
Co-Founder, Txain

Hey everyone! I'm Daniel, co-founder of Txain. We’re all about combining big data with blockchain to create amazing block explorers. Our tools make blockchain data accessible and transparent for everyone. I'm a passionate developer who loves solving complex problems with tech. Excited to be at Devcon 7—let’s chat about blockchain and big data!

Daniel is an entrepreneur in the crypto space since 2015. He is co-organizer of the ETHSydney community, co-founder of Spacecoin.xyz, investor at Bitfwd Capital and advisor to a number of early stage projects.

Daniel has background in semiconductors engineering and academics experience in biophysics and quantum nano electronics.

Fellow in the fifth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship.

Ethereum Core Developer | Besu

Daniel, an MIT alumnus, has spent the past three years investing with Koyamaki Ventures, focusing on high-potential startups across Latin America. With a portfolio where one-third of investments are in Brazil, Daniel is passionate about showcasing Brazilian innovation on the global stage.

Credible Auctioneer @ Flashbots

Daniel Perez is a software engineer and researcher based in London. He is the co-founder of TLX, a leveraged token protocol, and Gyroscope, a non-custodial stablecoin.
Daniel holds a PhD in blockchain security from Imperial College London, during which he focused on making Ethereum safer, with an emphasis on the EVM and Solidity.

CEO and co-founder of Rhino.fi
University of Cambridge alumnus

Great products are build by great companies.

Data at Flashbots, Research Council at TLDR Fellowship program, Co-host of Indexed Crypto Data Podcast

Danno Ferrin is a seasoned Ethereum core developer with a deep-rooted passion for the technology. He has been focused the evolution of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), contributing significantly to its ongoing development and optimization.

With a background spanning roles at Oracle, Google, and ConsenSys, Danno brings a wealth of experience to his work on Ethereum. He is currently an independent contributor to the ecosystem.

Ethereum consensus core developer at Lighthouse, Sigma Prime. Bridging the gap between research and implementation he is contributing on multiple exciting fronts of the Ethereum roadmap.

David Minarsch led the team which built the first framework for developing Multi Agent Systems in the DLT space. He has founding experience via Entrepreneur First and a PhD in Applied Game Theory from the University of Cambridge.

David discovered his first applied real-world use case for crypto in 2013, and deployed his first blockchain-based asset on Bitcoin’s Colored Coins Protocol in 2015. His experience spans founding and scaling companies, working with large protocol teams, event production (conferences, hackathons, and residencies), ecosystem incubation, and advising early and growth stage startups. He is CEO of Funding the Commons, and a Celo Scout.

He received his master’s from Princeton and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He is an associate professor at University of Canterbury. He cofounded the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) and donates half his income to it. He has 98 peer reviewed publications and is the most prolific author in the existential risk field. His work has been featured in >25 countries, over 300 articles. He has given >80 presentations, including ones at 8 of the global top 20 universities.

Building FOSS via frames.js, and open-frames to help decentralized social win

🌟 CEO Stereum
🌐 Innovating Blockchain Solutions
💡 Tech Visionary
🚀 Leading the Future of Decentralized Tech
I have a teaching background in mathematics and computer science, which I left for educational media
and tech.
I joined Stereum 2024 to support the team and the open source Ethereum community.
What I love about the Ethereum 💎 community?
I love to exchange knowledge, ideas and insights and always felt welcome doing so.

David Nandwa is a serial entrepreneur as well as CEO/CTO & Founder @ HoneyCoin, before HoneyCoin he's worked as a software engineer at or with leading companies like Flutterwave and Andela. He's started, scaled, and exited two ventures prior to HoneyCoin and has a passion for finance and building real-world solutions to hard problems on the continent.

I’m a research engineer in the Automated Reasoning Team at ConsenSys. My current focus is on the practical application of formal methods to software correctness, such as for zkEVMs. Previously, I was an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. My research interests are in programming languages, compilers, static analysis and formal verification

David Uzochukwu, an Ethereum Next Billion Fellow, is dedicated to making Ethereum secure and decentralized. With over four years in the web3 space, he has worked with prominent companies and founded Guild Audits and NodeBridge, supporting blockchain security and node operations in Africa. As a Staking Master at the Obol Collective, he promotes independent Ethereum staking through NodeBridge Africa, empowering Africans with education, workshops, and community support to participate in blockchain

DC Posch is the cofounder of Daimo.

smart contract & frontend developer in DFArchon team

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Dennison Bertram is the co-founder and CEO of Tally.xyz. He focuses on creating more efficient, transparent, and user-friendly governance mechanisms for decentralized organizations.

Derek is the founder and CEO of ZeroDev -- an embedded smart wallet that is powering over 50% of all AA volume in DeFi today. He is also a co-author of several AA standards including 7679, 7710, and 7715.

Prior to crypto, Derek worked extensively on distributed systems, including cloud orchestration platforms (Pachyderm) and P2P networks (Consul).

CTO @ Reown

Participant of the EPF Cohort 5. Currently working on Samba, a Besu Portal Client.

Dev is a researcher & public speaker, workshop designer/facilitator, and community builder at the intersections of digital tech, law and policy, geopolitics, and asian philosophy.
His podcast Light Forest traces the roots to global crises through Asian philosophical lens. As a founder of digi-cnx he is building a network of Web3 and digital technology focussed change makers in Chiang Mai.

Devansh Mehta has broad experience in the journalism and social sector, including as an investigative reporter and consultant to community media outlets in India. His company VoiceDeck has piloted new technologies with low-resource communities, including blockchain based impact certificates.

Devansh has completed a dual Master’s Degree in International Affairs and Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. He was selected for the 2023 Next Billion Fellowship by Ethereum Foundation.

Co-Creator of Biomes

Co-Creator of Biomes

Co-creator of @Quark_ID. Former Head of Innovation in Buenos Aires city.

Co-founder and head of research at Aligned. Previously Head of Research at LambdaClass.

Diego Losada holds a Degree in Economics and Business Administration at Universidade de A Coruña (Spain) and has over 18 years of experience in IT Consultancy focused on Linux based services.

Since late 2015 he got personally involved in the Blockchain technology and particularly in the Ethereum Ecosystem, firstly for researching purposes and later by releasing the Ethereum on ARM project in late 2016 and co-founding EOA Blockchain Labs, S.L. company in 2021.

Dominic Bruetsch is a founding partner and lead blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity. He specializes in smart contract audits on Ethereum, Starknet, as well as zk circuit audits. He holds a master's degree from ETH Zurich, one of the best universities in the world for computer science, in electrical engineering with a focus on networks and computer science. He found vulnerabilities in the Ethereum protocol itself, which landed him a sport on the Ethereum Bug bounty leaderboard.

Head of Ecosystem at LI.FI

Dominik Teiml studied Maths & Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He got into blockchain with Gnosis, where he focused on decentralized exchanges and formal verification. Later he transitioned to security assessments, first at Certik and later at Trail of Bits. He was part of the founding of Ackee Blockchain, where he focused on employee training and auditing. Dom is the author of the Yellow Paper Course on Youtube and the creator of Wake, a security-first Solidity framework.

Don Beaver introduced the MLE (Multilinear Extension) to cryptography as a method for privately delegating computations; it became the core trick behind SumCheck and modern proof systems within months [Beaver Feigenbaum 1989]. He's known for other accessible discoveries in cryptography: MPC Triples, Pseudorandom Correlation Generators, Distributed Random Beacons, the "public inverse trick," "real-ideal" security proofs; and for contributions to "garbled" circuits and deniable encryption.

Dr. John Fletcher holds a PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge. He has been researching frameworks for distributed incentives full-time since 2016, and is the inventor of more than 30 patents in the areas of cryptography and distributed systems.

Revm author, Eth core dev.

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Ed Felten is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs, the original developers of Arbitrum. He was previously a professor at Princeton University, and served in the White House as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the ACM.

Developer & Educator. I'm part of BuidlGuidl, where I work closely with Ethereum developers to build tools and educational content for the Ethereum ecosystem. I'm also a Developer Advocate at Hyperlane, where I focus on cross-chain messaging and interoperability. You can check out my blog for the topics I'm interested in and some of my writing: https://mirror.xyz/edatweets.eth

Eddie Kago is a passionate entrepreneur and software researcher in onchain identity and reputation systems. He has contributed to research on Food Systems, Carbon Credits, and the use of decentralized identity in fighting fake news.

Currently working at PSE (EF).
I worked for two years on the zkEVM and I'm currently doing research and exploration in multiparty FHE

Edwin Aoki is a PayPal Technology Fellow and the CTO of PayPal’s Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies (BCDC) unit, where he is responsible for driving sustained growth and innovation in digital asset technology. Previously, he spent nearly a decade as the company’s Chief Architect, tasked with defining the company’s long-term technical roadmap and architecture and advancing the technologies and technologists that have enabled PayPal to become a fintech leader.

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Blockchain dev, Ethereum Protocol Fellow. More than 3 years in web3 and more than 10 years in web2 development. Passionate about Ethereum.

Elaine Hu is the Data Team Lead at Flashbots, wielding her powers of data analysis and data science to unravel the mysteries of the blockchain realm. She's on a mission to decode the secrets of block chain data and illuminate the dark forest of MEV, harnessing the power of machine learning to push the boundaries of data analytics.
Before diving into the wild world of crypto, Elaine spent a decade in the quantitative analytics field in traditional banking.

Eleftherios is the founder of Radicle & Drips. He is a Greek-born technologist with a background in Mathematics and Network Science. Formerly the Vice President for Data Science and Engineering at SoundCloud, his passion lies with peer-to-peer networks and public goods funding mechanisms.

Eli Dourado is Chief Economist at the Abundance Institute. He is on a sacred quest to increase the pace of American economic growth. He has published in top newspapers, negotiated global supersonic standards, derailed an international treaty, spent too much time on Twitter, and received a PhD in economics from George Mason University.

Newcomer to Ethereum, maths-nerd from day 1.

Emily is a former DevOps engineer and fermented beverage business owner turned Web3 devrel. Beginning her career at Truffle and Linea, she focused on educating devs through workshops and tutorials. Now, she leads the developer relations team at Scroll, working on giving developers the tools they need at every step in their journey - from onboarding newbies to empowering late stage devs creating the dapps that are building the next use case.

Building communities and organizing events like the EVM Summit

Developer. I participated in EPF cohort 4 and formerly ran Chiang Mai Web3, where we discussed crypto projects and their impact—I am currently working on eth-nodes and aiming to simplify node running.

Researcher @PSE

Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence in Finance at CU Boulder. Eric’s research is centered in the fields of law and economics and institutional and organizational analysis, which he applies to research questions in the development of rights along frontiers, the design of constitutions, and digital governance challenges with an emphasis on cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks. Eric also consults directly with numerous cryptocurrency networks and DAOs on their governance dilemmas.

Eric Annan, Co-founder AyaHQ, Africas largest onchain builder incubator. I am driven by conviction and empathy. AyaHQ is Growing Onchain Builders Economy in Africa. I love building cross cultural teams, ecosystem activation and mentorship. I have presented and spoke at global events like ConsenSys Hyperlink , Zuzalu and Zuconnect, Ethsafari and Web3Lagos etc.

Ernesto García is Smart Contract Engineer at OpenZeppelin Contracts, the commuinity-veted and battle tested smart contract library that helps to protect more than 16BUSD in locked value and has facilitated more than 5.7TUSD in ERC20 transfers.

He's also familiar with infrastructure given his past experience with OpenZeppelin Defender. Previous to that he collaborated in the Solutions Acceleration team at Google as an intern.

About estmcmxci.eth:

• Meta-governance steward at ENS DAO
• Researching P256 precompile support in the EVM and broader decentralized technology
• Supports subsidization of apps generated from protocol fees and other open-source infrastructure

Eugene is currently the Research Director at Metagov, a governance research non-profit, where he leads the Grant Innovation Lab. Eugene also works on governance at Scroll. He works at the intersection of governance, grants, and research ecosystems.

Eva Wong is the Director of Legal Affairs at Parity Technologies since January 2024, formerly serving as Head of Legal. Previously, she held key roles at LexisNexis Risk Solutions and BBC Studios, where she was Head of Business and Legal Affairs for Operations. Earlier, she worked at the BBC as a Technology Lawyer and at Addleshaw Goddard as an Associate in Technology, Media, and IP. Based in London, Eva specializes in the technology and media sectors, providing strategic legal support.

Everett Hildenbrandt has spent over 6 years leading the technical direction for RV's software tooling. He is passionate about providing high-quality and consistent developer tooling for all programming languages that emphasizes usability and power. In his journey from studying physics to working on validating the safety of distributed Web3 applications, he's seen that formal methods can play a crucial role in improving the quality of software for everyone. During his time at RV, he's driven broa

Everton is a Software Engineer that worked for Ethereum Foundation, on projects: Ethereum Mist, the first dApp browser, EthereumJS libraries and Ethereum Grid (developer tooling). Currently, works as Sr Blockchain Specialist at AWS.

Evin McMullen is CSO & cofounder of Privado ID, enabling Unified Identity across blockchains and legacy systems. Replacing centralized processes with a network of onchain, enterprise and government reputation providers, Privado ID makes it easy to verify unique humanity, KYC, location, age and more for human and machine reputation on every chain. Evin also founded verifiable data platform Disco.xyz (acq), and was a Director with Berkshire Hathaway & ConsenSys. She is a Yale graduate.

Founding software engineer at Clave, building on ZKsync. ex intern Meta, ex builder at Whelp, Ethylene and ITUBlockchain

Fatemeh is an attorney focused on emerging technologies including blockchain, ai, privacy and their global social implications. She is currently general counsel of the Anoma Foundation in Switzerland. Born in Iran, educated at the University of Geneva and the London School of Economics, she writes on the mitigation of crypto legal risks, sanctions, and DAO regulations, while having lectured at the University of Geneva and the American University of Beirut.

I'm a Senior Computer Engineer working on zkEVM at Polygon, focusing on DSL compilers and arithmetization through state machines. I use these DSL to define the state machines, ensuring they are robust while optimizing their performance. I graduated from UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

On a personal level, I have a deep passion for mathematics, problem-solving, building innovative solutions, and DIY.

Felipe Argento is a co-founder of Cartesi, an engineer, and a researcher. He led the first implementation of Cartesi Rollups, which are application-specific rollups with an RISC-V VM. Currently, he serves as a researcher and advisor at the Cartesi Foundation. Passionate about Ethereum, L2 solutions, and crypto economic design, Felipe is dedicated to advancing blockchain technology and fostering innovative applications.

Felix joined the Ethereum ecosystem full-time in 2018 after three years at Facebook on encrypted messaging infrastructure. He now leads technical development for CoW Protocol, a decentralized trading protocol using Batch Auctions. Focusing on MEV-resistant mechanisms tha ensure efficient and fair price finding. Started working at Gnosis, he developed fair exchange mechanisms, evolving into CoW Protocol.

With 17+ years in IT, I specialize in system administration, technical management, and support engineering. My work in blockchain, particularly as co-founder of Ethereum on ARM, has been transformative in testing Ethereum’s compatibility with ARM devices, enabling broader applications across diverse hardware. This experience has deepened my technical expertise in blockchain, and I’m excited to share insights on adapting Ethereum to various environments.

I have been programming since the days of BASIC and Assembly. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in Korea and worked at an AI startup specializing in cybersecurity. I took online courses on startups from Balaji and have been following blockchain since 2012. Two years ago, I transitioned to full-time freelancing in the blockchain space. This year, I took a leap of faith and decided to explore ideas for my own blockchain company.

Zero-knowledge cryptography.
Working on https://www.proofofpassport.com/

As Co-founder of VOYA Games GmbH, Florian focuses on building engaging economies. At Devcon, he is introducing Meerkat, a Q&A platform developed with the ZAPI SDK using zero-knowledge technology to enable privacy preserving audience interactions. Florian's work explores how blockchain can support privacy-focused solutions for gaming and beyond.

OG Crypto Lawyer 🌈 Public Policy Nerd 🤓 Into public goods 🌎 Interested in network states & digital jurisdictions ⭕️ sybil resistance & reputation systems 🥷🏻 DAOs, UBI, under-collateralized loans, future of communities and more 🌱

Ethereum consensus layer researcher

Smart contract engineer, former lead maintainer of OpenZeppelin Contracts.

Franck is currently leading the Waku project, a suite of protocol and network that enables censorship-resistant and private off-chain communications, using novel zero-knowledge technology to prevent spamming.

He joined the blockchain ecosystem for the Cypherpunk values, previously working on multi-chain private swap protocols.

Fudong Wu is researcher🧑‍🔬. His research interests include blockchain security monitoring and anonymized network communication.

pmf chaser. I like spreadsheets.

Nick (gnidan) leads the ethdebug format project, a Solidity-sponsored initiative to standardize debugging data for Ethereum smart contracts. With extensive experience building advanced Ethereum developer tooling, including his past work leading the Truffle suite of tools, Nick is passionate about improving the smart contract development experience. He frequently speaks at Ethereum conferences, sharing his expertise and vision for more robust debugging capabilities in the blockchain ecosystem.

Programming languages, the infinite garden, and great storytelling. I research and build public-good technologies in Web3.

Currently contributing to the Cartesi ecosystem, where I develop core L2 infrastructure like Dave, a permissionless fraud-proof system.

-> Physicist-turned-software engineer
-> Currently building on the intersection of web3 x AI
-> Experience with blockchain data, DeFi and on a distant future TradFi

The creator of the concept of BORGs, a crypto-law mainstay and co-founder of MetaLeX, Gabriel co-founded MetaLeX and provides its long term vision and the high-level architecture of MetaLeX’s cybernetic law platform. Backed by seven years of BigLaw tech M&A and venture experience, he also leads the dealmaking aspects of MetaLeX’s legal practice.

Glo Dollar co-founder | Product Management PhD

I'm an engineer at Electric Capital focusing on EVM developments, ZK research, and blockchain data analysis. I built Codeslaw, an EVM smart contract search engine used by security researchers and protocol engineers. I like to use data to understand and explain how the crypto ecosystem is evolving.

Gen authored the State of DAOs in Korea report and is Uniswap Labs' Community Partner for Korea. She co-authored the "DAOeast Movement" paper, exploring Eastern philosophies and cultures in crypto. Gen has contributed to diverse ecosystems like BanklessDAO, Kernel, and MetaCartel. With deep roots in Korean culture and web3, she brings insights into building localized, human-centric DAO models that align with Eastern values, fostering inclusivity in the decentralized movement.

Georgia is a veteran in the world of web3 UX and customer discovery. She has previously worked for teams including Maker, Solana Labs, NEAR Foundation, Rocket Pool, Liquity, Rarible, Lens Protocol and a ton more. As Snr Staff UX Researcher at MetaMask, Georgia is running strategy research projects to uncover growth opportunities, and is here at Devcon to share some of the tactics the team is employing.

Georgios Konstantopoulos is the Chief Technology Officer and a General Partner at Paradigm. Georgios leads the teams behind Reth, Foundry, Alloy and other popular open source projects used by the industry.

Gerben has more than 10 years experience working on product on various applications of technology for good. In his current role, he leads on the blockchain work at Giga (UNICEF + ITU) where he is responsible for the development on applications that accelerate the transition to a world in which every school is connected to the internet.

Gesa Schneider is a pioneering entrepreneur and sustainability advocate at the intersection of technology and climate action. As founder and CEO of Circuteria, she's developed a sustainable materials platform. Her expertise spans 3D printing, blockchain, and circular economy practices. Through her blog and speaking engagements, she drives the ecological benefits of regenerative business models and empowers others to adopt sustainable practices that prioritize environmental impact.

Passionate about building credible systems. Working on high performance serialization in Rust in the fifth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship.

Protocol Lead @ Daylight, building onchain power plants.

Applied cryptography engineer working with PSE, building on Ethereum.

In crypto since 2017, first running a mining farm who crashed after the 2018 bear market. Degree in computer science and almost 10 years writing for tech media outlets.

Joined Avascan in 2020, who spun off Routescan in 2023. Now growing Routescan to support 100 chains by end of 2024.

I have two passions: Technological entrepreneurship and XC mountain biking. As VP Engineering at StarkWare, where I've been working since 2017, I run our engineering department responsible for the development of Starknet, STARK proving and related services. I bike to and from our offices almost every day all year round. For over 25 years I've held CEO, CTO, Chief Architect and Distinguished Technologist positions in various startup companies.

Cryptographer, currently focused on accelerating zero-knowledge proof systems.

Glory Justin is a blockchain engineer, technical writer, and EPF Fellow, currently contributing to Ephemery client implementation on both the Teku and Besu clients.

Technology Geek, DevRel@Starknet Foundation, co-founder of The Phoenix Guild, determined to increase diversity in web3, passionate about the impact space, lover of hackathons.

Compiler Dev

Rocco is the Head of Portfolio at Ethereal Ventures, a co-founder and product advisor to SpruceID, which gives individuals back control over their digital selves, and prior to that he helped lead digital identity initiatives at ConsenSys.

Devrel at ENS Labs

CPO & Co-Founder @ ChainSafe
Co-Founder @ Sygma Labs

Trying to build something better than governments.

Co-founder of Giveth, q/acc, Unicorn.eth, Pairwise, General Magic & DAppNode

Top Steward in Arbitrum, ENS & Optimism, TEC as well as many other Ethereum community projects.

Been DAOing my heart out since 2015.

gubsheep is co-founder of 0xPARC and creator of the Dark Forest game.

Core developer, go=ethereum. Team lead of the stateless consensus group.

Guo is a developer and researcher interested in decentralized social networks. He co-founded Matters.Town, a popular decentralized publication and social network. He recently conducted research on pattern language for digital spaces in the Summer of Protocol and is currently a fellow of EF Next Billion Fellowship.

Part of the EELS team at the EF, I spend most of my day looking at the EVM from various angles, its potential edge cases and new features.

Smart contract research engineer at @OpenZeppelin
Author of many ERCs

Hal Seki is a pioneering civic technologist, geolocation expert, and social entrepreneur. As the founder of Code for Japan, Japan's largest civic tech community, he leads initiatives to create open-source digital public goods addressing social challenges. Hal also serves as CEO of Georepublic Japan and HackCamp, fostering innovation at the intersection of technology and society. In 2021, he joined Japan's Digital Agency as a Senior Expert in civic tech, bridging grassroots efforts with national

Engineer @ Nethermind

Han has been involved in spreading Ethereum and its vision for 10 years. He has developed dapps, built startups, contributed to open source and public good projects. He has a degree in computer science with experience in cryptography and AI.

prev. smart contract dev, exploring core protocol development

Hari is a co-founder of Spearbit and Cantina. He was previously part of the Solidity team at the Ethereum Foundation.

Product at Etherscan & Organiser at ETHKL

CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralized mixnet to end mass surveillance. Formerly a research Scientist at MIT and Inria de Paris, where I led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers. Postdoctoral studies under Bernard Stiegler in the philosophy of technology. Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also teaches cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut.

Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder of Risk Labs, the foundation behind the Across and UMA Protocols. Across is a next-generation bridge designed around the “Intents” model, delivering fast interoperability to unify Ethereum’s fragmented landscape. UMA is a pioneering optimistic oracle, empowering onchain verification of complex, real-world data for prediction markets and other decentralized applications.

Hart Montgomery is the CTO of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and serves as the ED of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance. Hart previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger. Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford. Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the LF.

Physicist, programmer, cypherpunk, optimistic pessimist and believer in public goods. Running and testing client software since before the beacon chain genesis.

Hazel Devjani leads operations at DAOstar, connecting with Asia-Pacific communities. She contributes to the Metagovernance Project's d20-governance game and researches self-governing communities in physical and digital spaces. Hazel has collaborated with Princeton on Wikipedia governance and led a DAO Compensation report. With a background in Political Theory from Duke University, she brings valuable insights to the intersection of governance, technology, and community building.

I am currently working as a research engineer at Polygon. In this role, I contribute to the development of a robust arithmetization, in terms of the extended Algebraic Intermediate Representation (eAIR), for various projects such as the Polygon zkEVM. Furthermore, I ensure the completeness and soundness of the underlying proving system that we use, apart from doing research on the topic of cryptographic proving systems.

Heidi Wilder is a part of the Unit 0x team at Coinbase, where she focuses on identifying and preventing on chain threats. Besides on chain analysis, one of her passions is protecting people and teams from becoming victims of hacks, thefts, and scams and making the crypto space safer for everyone.

Hendrik holds a PhD in computer science and is the founder of Sigasi, a software company that develops tools for chip designers, focusing on VHDL and SystemVerilog. He supports the TLSNotary team at the Ethereum Foundation's Privacy and Scaling Explorations research lab, working on software for privacy-preserving data provenance. In his free time, he enjoys running, climbing, and exploring the world.

Hello, I'm Henri. I'm the head of ecosystem at the Starknet foundation.
I like breaking things that are hard to understand into simple terms, so that they are easier to understand & get excited about.

Since 2004, Hilmar has led CCP Games as CEO, championing the power of virtual worlds to create meaningful social connections. Under his leadership, EVE Online pioneered innovations like player-driven economies and community governance, achieving over 20 years of continuous engagement.
Previously serving as CCP’s CTO from 2000-2005, Hilmar has been honored across the industry, shaping digital economies. Active on various boards, he holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Hira is the CEO of Plurality Network, a project aiming to create self-managed & interoperable profiles, fostering personalized experiences in the decentralized digital landscape.
Active in web3 since 2016, she participated in over 50 token offerings in 2017. As a web3 solutions architect at Deutsche Telekom, she has authored research on Self-Sovereign Identity and zero-knowledge proofs. Hira has won the Women in STEM Award, Telekom CATA Awards, and numerous developer hackathons.

Co-founder & CEO of a42x Inc., building MynaWallet - an ERC-4337 smart wallet transforming Japan's national ID cards into secure crypto wallets

Holke Brammer, a political economist, aims to enhance collective action through technology. As founder and director of the Hypercerts Foundation, he promotes open-source protocols for funding and rewarding positive impact. Previously, he was a research scientist for public goods funding at Protocol Labs, worked at Yunus Social Business and BCG, and facilitated Open Social Innovation in Germany with ProjectTogether. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford Business School.

Hong Phuc Dang is the founder of FOSSASIA, advocating for the adoption and development of open source across Asia. She oversees the annual FOSSASIA Summit & Open Tech Summits in the region. With over a decade of expertise in open source development, she served as a board member for prominent international bodies such as the Open Source Business Alliance Germany, IEEE and Open Source Initiative. In recent years, she has focused on bringing open source hardware into production at scale.

Hi! I'm Manas aka hopinheimer. I'm currently a grad student at NYU and really like to geek out about math, crypto and distributed systems!

I work on Farcaster and Warpcast.

Hridam Basu is a cryptography research engineer in the PSE@EF. He has been working in the blockchain space with stints at industry leaders like Polygon, Aztec, Findora, Bolt Labs, etc. His work has been primarily around theoretical and practical aspects of ZKPs and MPC across multiple domains like privacy-focussed financial applications like confidential transactions, supply chain traceability, etc. M.S. in CS from Northeastern University, Boston. Past Roles@AT&T Labs NYC & NTT Labs Tokyo.

Final year CS PhD @HKUST
Blockchain system R&D
Technical Partner @ABCDE

@ChainSecurity

Hudson Jameson is a long time presence in the Ethereum community who has played a variety of roles at the Ethereum Foundation, Zcash, SEAL, Flashbots, and Polygon Labs. In the early years of Ethereum he was responsible for restarting the EIP repo & starting the Eth core developer meetings/coordinating all network upgrades from 2016-2021. He is currently at Polygon Labs helping develop a strong, fun protocol dev community while also helping at the Security Alliance (SEAL).

Community manager @GrapheneOS

Blockchain developer at Polygon
Protocol team
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Igor Konnov is an independent security & formal methods researcher, working on the project "Exploring Automatic Model-Checking of the Ethereum specification" supported by Ethereum Foundation. He has experience of integrating formal methods in the blockchain development process since 2019. Igor was the principal investigator in the projects Quint and Apalache. Before joining the blockchain industry, he worked as a formal methods researcher at Inria Nancy, TU Wien, and Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.

Iness Ben Guirat is a privacy researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She did her PhD at COSIC, KU Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Diaz on Privacy with a specific focus on mixnets

Iness has a keen interest in exploring the intersection of technology, privacy and their broader impact on society.

Ira is an independent designer specializing in branding and visual design strategy. After years in the consumer and fintech branding realms, she joined Web3 in early 2018 and has since served as a Creative Director at companies big and small, helping founders win hearts and minds of early adopters and funders.
These days, she runs her own design practice and conducts DIY (design-it-yourself) workshops for pre- and seed-stage companies.

Isaac is a developer and security researcher leading the Wargames initiatives for the Security Alliance. He is also the co-founder of Shield3, a company providing incident response, security & compliance solutions for onchain businesses and protocols.

Itai is the co-founder and CEO of Dynamic (www.dynamic.xyz), a Series A web3 auth & identity platform backed by a16z crypto, First Round Capital, and Founders Fund. With 7 years in product management and consulting at BCG, he holds an MBA from Harvard and B.Sc degrees from MIT. Fascinated by identity and authentication, Itai believes wallet-based login enhances user and developer experiences. He has spoken at EthDenver, BuildingBlocks TLV, Circle Converge, and on podcasts like Unchained.

Italo Borssatto is a technology adviser at the BIS Innovation Hub HKC, specializing in blockchain and decentralized identity. With 25+ years in tech, he co-founded Brazil’s first mobile trading platform, MobileBroker, and launched the CRM Velis. As CTO of a credit card firm, he led key tech initiatives, then joined ConsenSys to further blockchain and identity solutions. A Computer Science graduate, Italo is dedicated to advancing decentralized technologies to transform traditional systems.

Ivo is a ZK-circuit engineer at Linea, co-maintaining the SNARK library gnark which is used for proof aggregation and compression to BN254.

I have almost 20 years of experience in developing financial applications, high-volume traffic websites and big data solutions. In recent years, I have switched my focus to the Ethereum ecosystem. I am a core developer of Erigon/Silkworm client and participate in many research projects sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation.

Proud to be a Base builder! I'm leading the research initiative for developing RIP-7755 and advancing interoperability within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Jack Sanford is the CEO and co-founder of Sherlock.

Sherlock is one of the leading audit contest providers in the crypto space, having provided security solutions for the Ethereum Foundation, Optimism, MakerDAO, and many others. Sherlock also provides bug bounties and smart contract coverage to further invest in the success of customers.

Previously, Jack worked at Citadel and Morgan Stanley.

Head of community at Octant

Engineering Director for eBay Web 3 team. Currently focusing on how to build a connected products world and what this means for marketplaces, brands and users.

Has been in the crypto space since 2017, previously co-founding KnownOrigin.io amongst other things, contributing to early NFT royalties standards EIP-2981

James is an engineer, researcher, and Razzlekhan impersonator. He has been deeply involved in blockchain engineering for 10 years, and is best known for his work on cross-chain mechanism design. He is a co-creator of alloy - the Rust Ethereum library that underpins foundry and reth, and the lead of trevm, a toolchain for designing complex EVM flows. He is currently writing code at init4, a research collective focused on high-impact Ethereum tooling.

Founder of 🔥_🔥, Ethereum contributor, New Zealand based.

Janine Leger is the co-founder of Edge City, an aspiring "society incubator" that convenes people across tech, science and society in pop-up villages or temporary campuses across the globe. Previously she was a driving force behind Zuzalu Montenegro & ZuConnect, and led the Gitcoin Public Goods Funding workstream.

Building next-gen cryptography at Gauss

I ❤️ Ethereum

I created @ethstatus
, @nomos_tech
, @codex_storage
, @waku_org
- the @Logos_Network
to secure your civil liberties. https://free.technology

Ethereum Researcher, Writer, and Learner at the Ethereum Foundation

Professor of Economics at RMIT University. Founder and Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub.

CTO and Cofounder @ Puffer Labs. Home Staking Advocate. Based Sequencing Maximalist.

Community Notes Founding ML Lead and Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer @X

I am the principal developer and co-author of the library Lattigo, a Go module that implements Ring-Learning-With-Errors-based homomorphic-encryption primitives and Multiparty-Homomorphic-Encryption-based secure protocols.

I have been working as a research scientist and cryptography software engineer for the past fire years. My work consists in researching, designing, implementing and integrating privacy preserving machine learning and statistical analytics in large scale B2B applications. The

Jeff's work includes papers such as "Challenges & Approaches to Scaling the Commons" and "MycoFi: Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 & Beyond." Exploring the frontiers of decentralized governance and economic systems, Jeff draws inspiration from natural systems and applies these lessons to the socio-economic realm. His work not only advances the field of token engineering but also inspires a new generation of thinkers and builders in the pursuit of sustainable and inclusive digital commons.

Co-founder of ENS

Jens Groth is Chief Scientist at Nexus. His research on zero-knowledge proofs includes the invention of pairing-based SNARKs and co-inventions of pairing-friendly proof systems, logarithmic size proofs in cyclic groups, prover-efficient proofs with constant overhead, and usage of lookups in proving correct machine execution, recognized by IACR test-of-time awards in 2021 and 2023. He has been Professor at UCL and Director of Research at DFINITY.

Actively contributing to the blockchain ecosystem for years, Jerome founded and lead the nonprofit Ethereum-France, the conference EthCC and the software company Cometh. He previously held leadership positions at EY, ConsenSys and Ledger.

Jesse Pollak serves as VP, Engineering at Coinbase, where he works on Ethereum L1, L2, and new onchain efforts. He is the Creator of Base, a decentralized Ethereum L2 incubated by Coinbase offering a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build onchain apps. Prior to building Base, Jesse led all of Coinbase’s consumer-facing engineering from early 2017 to middle 2021, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet.

I'm a smart contract developer.
I'm always eager to learn and try new things, and love this ecosystem plenty of very smart and nice people that has so many cool ideas
I begin almost 5 years ago in Iden3, which then will be renamed to Hermez and finally Polygon zkEVM.
In that journey i start doing smart contracts on Hermez and end up in charge of the zkEVM/CDKs smart contracts ( which they will be the AggLayer contracts too)

PhD, Ethereum protocol fellow, Rustacean with 7-year Rust experience, former CTO and heads of data and engineering for listed companies, creator of open source data warehouse project with 1.4k Github stars, record creator of Alibaba Tianchi competition, Rust, database, blockchain and ZK(Zero Knowledge) expert.

I am an Ethereum enthusiast and a firm believer in the power of the community. With a passion for blockchain technology and its transformative potential, I have dedicated myself to exploring and enhancing the user experience within this dynamic space. As a co-founder of TXain, I am committed to delivering a next-generation blockchain explorer that prioritizes performance, clarity, and adaptability.

João Ferreira is the co-founder and CEO of Picnic, where he is pioneering consumer DeFi applications. Picnic has become one of the largest DeFi applications using ERC4337 account abstraction, processing nearly half of all swap volumes using the standard. Picnic stands out for its local stablecoin integrations, offering free and instant on/off ramps, while abstracting many friction points for web2 users.

I am a Formal Verification Wizard at Certora, where I work on proving correctness of smart constracts and developing the underlying methodology. Previously, I worked as a Post-Doc at the University of Freiburg. My main research area includes SMT solving, Craig Interpolation and Software Model Checking. I am the creator of the SMT-solver SMTInterpol. I also worked as a freelancer for SatoshiLabs better known as the company that created the Trezor hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.

Co-founder, president and product @ Aztec

BEng Materials Science from Imperial College London. Formerly CTO of Silicon Valley food tech startup Radish. Experienced developer and EF9 Cohort member.

Joe Dobson is a threat intelligence analyst at Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud, where he leads efforts to identify and track threat actor use of cryptocurrency and other Web3 technologies. Mr. Dobson's career has focused on solving unconventional cybersecurity problems in digital forensics, incident response, and intelligence analysis.

Joe Lubin is a co-founder of Ethereum and the founder and CEO of Consensys. Born and raised in Toronto, Lubin graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked at the Princeton Robotics Lab, Blacksmith Software Consulting and Goldman Sachs. Through these posts, Joe focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance.
In 2014 he met Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, and joined the Ethereum Project as a co-founder.

Johannes has been a founder in Ethereum since 2016. He is currently building an agentic blockchain Chat-Bot (hiero.ai). He has a background in formal modelling, and data science and holds a PhD in engineering.

Investor at Blockchain Capital and lower case "r" researcher.

Joran has worked on various aspects of smart contract security. He’s built and worked on lots of security and dev tools including mythril, vertigo and tree-sitter-solidity. This is also his primary focus at Consensys Diligence, where he collaborates with other researchers in building an effective security tool stack. Not just sticking to tools, Joran is an active and successful bounty hunter.

Non-Executive Co-Founder and Technical Advisor at Privado ID

Jordi is Co-Founder of Polygon. He led the development and implementation of Polygon zkEVM, a leading zk-rollup. As one of the most widely recognized Ethereum developers, he has made several high-impact contributions to the Ethereum community, including CIRCOM and PIL, free and open-source projects demonstrating his commitment to Web3 values. He has a long history in the Ethereum community, including co-founding the WhiteHat Group to save funds during The DAO hack early in the network’s history.

Passionate about people and their brains. Curious about almost everything. Helping people build in Ethereum. Currently working in People Ops at the EF.

Music teacher turned self-taught software developer. I've been in the space for some years, coding everything from C++ smart contracts to Noir circuits. I talk about zero-knowledge and how interesting they are when paired with distributed systems.

Co-founder of PWN DAO & Bordel hackerspace
Host of ETHPrague & EthereumZurich
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Joseph Low authored the State of DAOs in Singapore report and is a DAOstar research fellow with 3+ years of web3 engineering experience. Born in Singapore, he combines technical expertise with deep understanding of the web3 landscape. Joseph is working on his master's thesis on community commodification, blending his academic background in entrepreneurship and social ontology with practical web3 experience. His work bridges theory and practice in the DAO ecosystem.

Joseph Poon researches scalability, Layer 2 designs, and emerging DeFi primitives. He is the co-author of the Lightning Network and Ethereum Plasma papers.

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As an Ex-VP of Citibank, Joshua is passionate about bringing financial innovation to the masses. His role with Mantle is to lead product for protocol R&D where he wrestles with the blockchain trilemma daily. He graduated from University of Cambridge where he studied how firms collaborate and commercialise emerging technologies and has a CS degree. He is both a Commonwealth Scholar for Innovation, and a scholar supported by Singapore's Central Bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Blockchain Radicals
https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals

The Blockchain Socialist
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/

Katabasis
https://paragraph.xyz/@katabasis/katabasis-chronicles-part-1

Co-founder of Metagov. Mathematician and computer scientist.

Engineering director at @trailofbits.

Working on blockchain security & program analysis

Formerly a Smart Contract Auditor, I'm the Head of Security Services at OpenZeppelin. I started working in crypto 6 years ago as a Smart Contract Developer, building OpenZeppelin contracts and development tools. I transitioned into a Security Researcher and have led over 60 audits, discovered more than 30 critical-severity issues, and helped protect over $1 billion in funds, including live protocols.

There's no meme I love you

open-source contributor with a strong focus on blockchain technologies, with extensive experience in the ethereum execution ecosystems, including geth, reth and erigon

Obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology

I’m Juan Blanco, creator of Nethereum, an open-source .NET library and framework for Ethereum. Since 2015, I’ve contributed to the Ethereum community through Nethereum and the Solidity extension for Visual Studio Code. With 24+ years in .NET and experience as an architect, I focus on Ethereum technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized apps. I hope to help the Ethereum ecosystem grow by leveraging the .NET framework to reach across web, gaming, backend, enterprise, mobile, and desktop.

Political Scientist, specialist in Urban planning and Magister in Alternative Dispute resolution. Cofounder of Gravity DAO contributor to communities like Optimism, Giveth, Token Engineering Commons, Commons Stack, Metagame, Refi DAO, Aragon & Ethereum Colombia. I supported the creation of a FREE online course on conflict management, and with my team we plan to launch a second course on the topic of leadership.

I like repeating this words: Thank you, I'm sorry, Please forgive me, I love you.

Core team member ETH Kipu. Contributing to Ethereum Bogotá and BuidlGuidl.

PR & Comms at Mimic

Criptographer and Partner at Eryx.
Computer Scientist.

Julian is a research scientist at the Robust Incentives Group at the Ethereum Foundation. His work focuses on the intersection between the application layer and the protocol layer. Using tools from finance and economics, he aims to improve the Ethereum protocol. He has worked on base fee derivatives, PBS, and MEV and now focuses on censorship resistance gadgets like inclusion lists.

Julian leads the formal verification team at Nethermind, developing hard formal methods-based solutions to formally verifying the web3 ecosystem. Previously he completed his PhD at Imperial College on "Compositional termination verification for fine-grained concurrency" using separation logic.

Julien is a Builder Engagement Engineer at Consensys, helping protocols and builders to onboard on Linea. He has been following the evolution of blockchain technologies since 2017 and is very interested in everything cross-chain related

Julien is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Argent, famed for his blog series "WTF is Account Abstraction." A champion of making blockchain user-friendly, he's been pivotal in advancing account abstraction.

With a PhD in Physics focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography, Julien has numerous highly-cited publications. He founded SQR Technologies, acquired by ID Quantique, and later worked on IoT security at M2Mi before launching Argent in 2017.

I'm a generalist. Co-founder EducatETH, Blockchain Education Manager at ETH Kipu, and ETH Bogotá. I have successfully led initiatives to boost the widespread adoption of Ethereum and its ecosystem among developers and builders in Latam through education and collective building.

Justin Banon is a technology, market, and thought leader in Web3, focused on the tokenization of physical RWAs. Justin founded Boson Protocol - Web3’s decentralized commerce layer, raising $36 million in 2021. In 2024, Justin announced the launch of a second protocol, Fermion, for the verified tokenization and fractionalization of high-value assets. Together, Boson and Fermion serve as the de facto decentralized infrastructure for tokenizing any physical asset.

Ethereum researcher

Co-founder of 0xPARC & CEO of Lattice.

Software engineer at sourcify.dev. Member of argot.org, also part of the Department of Decantralization, organizers of ETHBerlin and Protocol Berg.

An experienced official with almost 20 years of service in investment promotion, economic policy
analysis, and international relations. Proven expertise in developing strategies for foreign
investment promotion and talents attraction initiatives.

Karen Scarbrough is the Executive Director at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance as well as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft. She has been involved in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017 and is keen to drive collaboration between the Ethereum ecosystem and industry.

Started out at ConsenSys building applications, then moved into the core protocol at the Ethereum Foundation, then started work on L2 scalability with Plasma Group which evolved into L2 scalability and public goods funding at Optimism.

Kelvin (kas.eth), a former HFT partner, is the co-founder and CEO of the derivatives exchange quiver.trade. He is passionate about mechanism design.

Dr Kelsie Nabben is an ethnographic researcher specialising in the social impacts of emerging technologies, particularly decentralised digital infrastructure (such as blockchains, peer-to-peer protocols, and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) and other algorithmic systems (including Large-Language-Models). Her interdisciplinary research involves analysis of the interplay between social and technical elements of digital infrastructure and focuses on resilience and accountability in contexts

Sup nerds, I'm Kelvin. I've been working on building L2s in the Optimism universe for the better part of the last six years or so. I also previously did R&D on Plasma, an early model for L2s before Rollups took over. I currently do a variety of things over at OP Labs but generally have a focus on core smart contract development for the OP Stack.

I'm a software engineer working on privacy-preserving statistics at Privacy & Scaling Exploration (PSE). I've been working on projects about blockchain and applied zkp. I'm interested in learning new things and turn them into code which can be useful by others.

Kevin Jones is a core member of the Buidl Guidl and a Developer Relations Engineer at The Graph

Kevin Owocki is a blockchain expert, computer scientist, co-founder of Gitcoin and podcast host at Greenpill.network, a network-society of thousands of hackers, dreamers, and doers focused on using crypto to bring positive digital systems to the world. Kevin co-founded Gitcoin in 2017 where his vision of a positive-sum ecosystem supported by public goods helped raise and distribute over $50 million to projects in the ecosystem.

Senior Computational Scientist @ The Innovation Game
PhD candidate in Physics with a specialisation in astrophysics & machine learning at the University of Cambridge, UK

Decentralization maxi. Co-founder and CTO of Blowfish.xyz 🐡 Previously at 0x

Ethereum Protocol Fellow

Head of Research at Blockscout

Fair money @aboutCircles
Co-founded Gnosis. Supporting @gnosisDAO, @gnosischain, @gnosisSafe, @gnosispay, @cowswap

I work at the Ethereum Foundation, on the team EF Portal team. I wanted to solve problems as a kid and ended up here. My focus is on Execution Lightclients, our Portal History and State network. I fix all the scary bugs, and I am currently working on using an EVM and executing all the blocks to latest for our State Network, building Trin Execution. Trin is the name of the Portal Client I work on at the EF and it is built in Rust.

Co-founder of Peanut Protocol

Helped brining TypeScript into Ethereum with the creation of TypeChain. Cofounded L2BEAT to make Layer2 research accessible for all. Currently pushing the frontier of DeFi in PhoenixLabs / SparkDAO / MakerDAO.

Kristina Mayman has been working in crypto since 2018, specifically focusing on User Experience Research of Safe{Wallet} for the majority of that time. They primarily conduct qualitative studies, and their strengths lie in usability testing and discovery interviews.

Governance Lead at L2BEAT, long-time governance, and public goods nerd.

Building Rarimo protocol - zk identity registry. Creator of Freedomtool.org

LauNaMu is a Public Goods funding mechanisms designer and web3 Impact Evaluator. She is the founder of Metrics Garden, an Impact Studio researching and developing impact assessment tooling. She actively contributes to the Optimism Collective, Celo PG Stewards, Gitcoin Grants Innovation Team and Metagovs Grants Innovation Lab.

i18n Project Manager @ Consensys by day | Co-Director @ Immigrant Freedom Fund by night | UX and web design in the spaces in between. Working collaboratively for a borderless future through internationalization and localization.

GIVeconomy Product Lead at Giveth. Passionate about using evolving public goods funding mechanisms using web3.

Co-founder of Wildcat Labs, D-tier Crypto Twitter personality, has designs on the Worldcoin Orb.

Ex-banker, ex-academic, current tyrant of West Ham.

I'm Léa and I like to learn everyday.
I started the blockchain learning journey as a full stack developer. I then joined Parity after the Polkadot Blockchain Academy as a core developer.
I currently work at Puffer Finance as a rust and backend developer and I'm part of the cohort 5 of the Ethereum Fellowship program, focusing on FOCIL POC.

Lefteris is the co-founder and director of Enaleia, a social enterprise with a vision to make the marine ecosystem sustainable. Enaleia has created one of the largest ocean plastic clean-ups, having trained more than 3.000 fishers to collect plastic from the sea daily, plastic that is turned into new products such as kayaks.
Lefteris has been awarded as an Ashoka Fellow, a United Nations European Young Champion of the Earth 2020 and the Ambassador for the Mediterranean Coast.

• Ethereum dev since 2014, worked in C++ client and solidity

• Built the DAO, fought in the DAO wars and the cleanup afterwards

• Tech lead for Raiden network (Lightning network for Ethereum)

• Founder of rotki.

Dr. Leonardo Bautista-Gomez is the founder and team leader of MigaLabs and a senior researcher in the Codex team. He has been collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation (EF) for more than 6 years and has received multiple research grants from the EF, Lido, Obol and other institutions. He has over a decade of research experience in supercomputers, deep learning and blockchain technology. He has published more than 50 scientific articles and has received multiple academic awards.

Leo Jeong, Ph.D. in CSE, is a Senior Research Engineer at Linea, Consensys. With expertise in zkEVM performance optimization and distributed systems, he has spent the past year diagnosing performance bottlenecks and optimizing zkEVM provers in production. Previously, at Samsung Research, he optimized the performance of their data center and big data platform. Leo also served on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

Currently work on a new language and compiler for ZKP at PSE / Ethereum Foundation. Previously worked on distributed and embedded systems. Always a student. Long time ago, worked for ARM, and built start-up as co-founder CTO uniplaces.com

Founder of INTMAX which is building the largest and most stateless infrastructure on Ethereum for asset transfers.
After winning the IPA Security Camp, he has been involved in security and privacy. Since 2018, He has been part of the Plasma research community. Following an Ethereum Foundation Grant, Leona launched the INTMAX network based on my research achievements

hi bro

I do cryptography research mostly focused on SNARKs

Co-founder of ETHGlobal, Advisor at OP Labs (previously CEO), Advisor at World Foundation, and investor in several ethereum-related startups.

go-ethereum developer.

Lin Oshitani is a protocol researcher at Nethermind. He previously worked as a core developer of the Tezos blockchain and a software engineer at Indeed. He is currently based in Tokyo.

Privacy and zero-knowledge propaganda at Aztec, BSc in mathematics, deep genuine love for zero-knowledge and sutfing.

Lisa, the founder of Economics Design and Orus, is a pioneering economist in digital ecosystems, known for her research-driven work. A respected speaker globally, her expertise in token economics and DeFi has established her as an authority. She authored a recognised book on Token Economics, guest lectured at universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and now educates through a podcast, online courses, and engagement with regulators worldwide.

Founder @ caliber.build, prev. founded Kyber

Writer, designer and curator of Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc)

Web3 security researcher participating in smart contract audit contests across multiple platforms. Currently a Web3 Security Research Intern at Amber Group. White hat at DeFiHackLabs and an instructor in the DeFiHackLabs Bootcamp.

Luca leads Ecosystem Development at OpenZeppelin, focusing on expanding OpenZeppelin Contracts for Solidity and new execution environments. His first full-time job, while at university, was building products on Ethereum. Passionate about the Ethereum community, Luca was part of the organizing team for the first Devconnect in Amsterdam. He now organizes Latin America’s largest Ethereum hackathons as a Co-Founder of ETHSamba and founded Bamba, a physical hub for crypto projects in Rio de Janeiro.

Researcher at L2BEAT

I am a research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation where I am involved in the long-term improvements of Ethereum’s consensus protocol. My research is currently centered around faster finality protocols for Ethereum. More generally, my research interests include blockchains, distributed systems, and consensus protocols.

Lucas is an Ethereum enthusiast and passionate about protocol development. He has been working at Consensys for the past seven years as a protocol engineer. Lucas has worked both on Besu, an Execution Layer client, and Teku, an Consensus Layer client.

Lukas is a Software Engineer at Coinbase working on account abstraction on the Base team.

Lukas Schor has been working in product-related roles in the blockchain industry for the past 6 years with the goal of making Web3 more accessible. He is co-leading Safe since 2019 and co-founded the Safe Ecosystem Foundation. Safe is the leading smart account protocol and has established itself as the most trusted platform to manage digital assets. It is being used by teams and individuals alike to manage more than $90 Billion in digital assets.

Luker has been actively engaged in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017, holding key roles such as Managing Editor at ETHNews and Project Manager at MyCrypto. Currently serving as the Director of MetaMask Security, she leads efforts to protect users from vulnerabilities and malicious actors. Passionate about Ethereum’s growth, Luker advocates for continuous education and security awareness as essential pillars for the future of the blockchain space.

Luna is the co-founder and CEO of Zellic, a leading blockchain security firm in EVM, ZK, Cosmos, Move, Web App, and AI security. As a researcher, Luna has developed exploits for the world's hardest targets, including iOS, Windows, and Linux. She is a published author, with a paper published in NDSS. Her research focuses on low-level systems and security, program analysis, and software verification. Luna is also a founder of perfect blue, the world’s #1 security CTF team in 2020, 2021, and 2023.

GrapheneOS developer

ManuAlzuru founder of ETHBarcelona and Blockravers, a crypto nomad community that creates cultural experiences around the world specially around Ethereum events.

Founding member of API3.org, Partner at Own.fund, Member of MetaCartel and advisor to multiple web3 projects.

Marc ("wolovim") joined the Mist Browser team at the EF in 2017 and pivoted to the Python tooling team in 2020. He enjoys learning stuff and seeing people level up.

I work for Nethermind as an Ethereum core developer, and am interested in protocol research, applying cryptoeconomics to keep Ethereum censorship resistant. Recently, I have worked on implementing support for the Shutter encrypted mempool in the Nethermind client.

Marc Nitzsche conducts research on Ethereum's protocol-level economics and incentive design, looking at developments such as EIP-4844 and blob sharing. As part of the ephema research group, he has received grants from Uniswap, Arbitrum, and the Ethereum Foundation.

Marek is a co-founder of the Celo Protocol, CEO at cLabs, and President of Valora, an easy-to-use mobile wallet built on Celo. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research, and Sun Labs.

Team lead @nethermindeth, working on @ethereum

Head of Regulatory Department at Crecimiento and Lead of Ops at Architect Systems.

Marina is the director and co-founder of the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), a European advocacy group focused on crypto regulation. Since 2017, Marina has been working with crypto projects on governance and legal matters with a focus on decentralization, DeFi and NFTs. Marina is an expert on key crypto regulatory topics and follows the recent regulatory developments and their influence on the industry.

Mario Behling is a technologist and open source innovator with a passion for fostering collaboration and connecting communities through decentralized technologies. In 2009, he co-founded FOSSASIA alongside Hong Phuc Dang, with the mission of improving lives through open technologies, shared knowledge, and community-driven resources. Under his leadership, FOSSASIA has spearheaded over 200 open source projects and built a thriving community of more than 7,000 developers on GitHub.

EF Protocol Support

L1 Core Developer focused on Ethereum protocol testing.

I am a life long software developer who hase been working on various blockchain projects since 2016, I have been a core member of the Erigon team since 2023.

Passionate about all things decentralised for public good. Founder of The Wellbeing Protocol (building community wellbeing DAOs). Career highlights include: featured in TVNZ documentary, running the first University course in the world on DAOs, bringing Vitalik Buterin to New Zealand in 2017, presenting at two parliamentary select committees, co-founding BlockchainLabs and partner at Metacartel Ventures.

Mark is a cofounder of Optimism and is interested in building the institutions of the future on top of Ethereum

Founder at PropellerHeads.

I grew up in Austria, went to technical high school there and became interested in Ethereum.

I worked on a decentralized music protocol before starting work at ethOS in 2021, and I have been building there since :)

Marshall is a research analyst at 1kx, where he focuses on research, due diligence, and thesis building around blockchain infrastructure projects. Previous to 1kx, Marshall was the lead data engineer at JPG building data infrastructure for NFTs as well as, briefly, a full-time experimental musician. Current focus areas include rollup interoperability, dapp infrastructure, and MEV.

Mary Lou Jepsen is a globally known technology pioneer. She is CEO & founder of Openwater. Previously she was co-founder & CTO of One Laptop per Child ($100 laptop), Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook/Oculus, Director of Engineering at Google reporting to Sergey Brin, CTO of Intel's Display Division, and an MIT professor. She has over 300 patents. She has received numerous global awards including being named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Mechanism Design Researcher
(Princeton CS -> Jane Street -> Columbia CS -> a16z crypto -> Ritual Research)

Mate is a formal verification engineer at the Ethereum Foundation and occasionally does research in formal verification at various universities. He is currently working on hevm, a symbolic execution engine for finding issues with digital contracts.

At the forefront of blockchain innovation, I co-founded Spacecoin, focusing on the pioneering development of DePin—validators operating in Earth's orbit. This endeavor not only showcases my commitment to pushing the boundaries of decentralization but also leverages my past expertise

https://spacecoin.xyz

Trying to bring transparency to the game

Matt Cutler is CEO & Co-Founder of Blocknative, a pioneering provider of real-time Observability infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. Matt is a recognized thought leader on pre-chain topics including block building, ERC-4337, PBS, MEV, and more. He has founded multiple successful technology startups, including web analytics pioneer NetGenesis (IPO, then acquired by SPSS/IBM) and Collaborate.com (acquired by Cisco).

techno-hippie and security nomad. co-founder and member at theredguild 🪷 , also a proud SEAL member 🦭.. chaos engineer wannabe

Matthias Egli is a co-founder and the CTO of ChainSecurity. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. Before ChainSecurity, Matthias had a prolific IT career both in the Silicon Valley as an expert data scientist, and in Switzerland as a software engineer and C-level executive. During his time at ChainSecurity, he has worked on many audits and contributed to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in the Ethereum protocol itself.

Max is Senior Developer Relations at Nym Technologies, building developer tooling, SDKs, and example projects for developers who wish to build the new internet free from mass surveillance. Prior to joining Nym he was a Smart Contract developer and artist with an academic background in Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology.

Max Resnick is the Head of Research at the Special Mechanisms Group within consensus. His work focuses on mechanism design, censorship resistance, and the market microstructure of ethereum MEV.

Max is the COO of Privy, leading sales, marketing and operations. Prior to Privy, Max spent four years on the product team at Brex, and prior to that, he spent four years in tradfi at Morgan Stanley and TPG.

Med is a core contributor at Nym Technologies, a company dedicated to developing a decentralized Mixnet to combat mass surveillance. Before joining Nym, Med he held roles in Legal and Compliance where he advised and contributed to different projects.

Medha currently does Product for Uniswap Labs. She found herself absolutely enraptured by crypto back in 2017 because of what she learned at Blockchain @ Berkeley, and since then has served in a variety of roles in crypto -- first as a software engineer for the Celo Protocol, then as a VC at Variant Fund, and now as a PM at Uniswap. On nights and weekends she started a nonprofit called she256 to increase diversity in the space.

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 13+ 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 decentralized protocols.

I have a professional background in project management and a strong interest in the intersection of technology and social change. With experience working in Operations at El Dorado, I'm also the Founder and Co-Lead of Ethereum Venezuela. I've volunteered with organizations such as Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, Voluntad Popular Activistas, and Compromiso Compartido where I've taken on various leadership roles, and developed and implemented strategies, with vulnerable communities and other activists.

Mercy Boma Naps-Nkari is a blockchain security researcher with a focus on strengthening consensus clients and smart contracts. Passionate about improving the reliability and performance of blockchain systems, Mercy has contributed to projects centered on consensus algorithms, fault tolerance, and performance benchmarking. With a love for distributed system engineering and security, She is dedicated to advancing resilient, high-performing blockchain protocols.

Meriam Zandi, alongside her fellow partners, sold their institutional investment consulting business to
Goldman Sachs in 2019. Since 2020 she is a retired alumnus of Goldman Sachs. Meriam actively
contributes to grant proposal writing and addresses incoming queries. She resides with her husband
and children in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Merlin Egalite is the Cofounder and Head of Integration at Morpho Labs, a R&D company responsible for building and growing the Morpho protocol. With a strong foundation in maths and a distinguished degree from CentraleSupelec, specializing in AI, Merlin ventured into the crypto space in 2018. His expertise in smart contract security has significantly contributed to OS projects. At Morpho, Merlin leads the integration team focusing on supporting the Morpho ecosystem from a technical point of view

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Nomadic individual, who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons over the world.

Michael is a research engineer with a focus on blockchain, cryptography, and zero-knowledge proofs.

Michael is the Head of Solutions Architecture at OpenZeppelin where he leads security advisory and security solutions for Ethereum protocols. He's been heavily involved in DAOs such as Compound and Arbitrum as a Security Advisor while contributing to community security initiatives such as the Security Alliance and EthTrust. Michael also teaches blockchain technology at UT Dallas and serves on the board of the Texas Blockchain Council.

Head of Research at Chorus One

• Data Analyst at OP Labs, focusing on onchain data
• @MSilb7 on Twitter & Farcaster

Michal Zajac leads the research team at Nethermind.
His background is in zero-knowledge proofs: SNARKs, STARKs and shuffle arguments -- making them more efficient and secure.

Michelle Shen is the Product Lead at Whoscall, overseeing global product operations and spearheading product innovation. With a commitment to transforming internet security from passive defense to an active, user-driven community, that empowers users worldwide to engage in scam prevention.

MigaLabs is a research group specialized in next-generation Blockchain technology, focusing on in-depth studies and solutions for Blockchain Scalability, Security, and Sustainability. Our team comprises technical experts in the Ethereum protocol, offering consulting services covering all technical aspects of Blockchain technology.

Mike is a researcher at the EF.

Mike Silagadze is co-founder and CEO of ether.fi, one of the largest protocols on Ethereum. Prior to ether.fi Mike was founder and CEO of Top Hat, an education technology software company that grew to 500 employees and millions of paying customers. Mike is an active angel investor and mentor in the startup community.

Currently working as a Software and Research Engineer at ProbeLab, his research focus stays on P2P networks, P2P protocols, and blockchain applications such as libp2p, IPFS, and Ethereum.
He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the BSC and MigaLabs, while he was awarded a PhD research fellowship from Protocol Labs. Meanwhile, he closely collaborated with organisms such as the Filecoin Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the University of Cambridge, Codex Storage, Lido, etc.

Mikhail have been working full time on Ethereum since 2015, initially as a core developer on an early Mainnet client, and for the last five years in Ethereum research and development. He currently leading a team of researchers focused on the future of Ethereum, namely next generation consensus protocol and data availability sampling.

Mikko is the CEO and co-founder of TradingStrategy.ai, an AI-powered algoritmic trading protocol for DeFi. Over the past decade, he has been acting as the CTO of blockchains companies like LocalBitcoins and TokenMarket. Mikko is an activist in security research, digital rights and regulation.

Mindy is the user research contributor @ CoW DAO, helping build the most user-protective products on Ethereum.

Researcher in Computer Science

Since my first Ethereum transaction in 2017, my work has shifted from non-blockchain topics in parallel programming and high-performance computing to a full focus on blockchain security testing, performance, and interoperability.

With my team at the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme, NUS, we are building the first open-source, GPU-accelerated EVM execution engine, speeding up transaction execution for various purposes.

memecat at meerkat.events

5+ years in crypto/web3 space. I worked at Iden3, Hermez, Polygon zkEVM, Polygon ID, Privado ID. Been doing different roles in development/product/organisation. Engineering background. Advocate for SSI, privacy, social justice and education.

Mishari Muqbil is a digital sustainability expert with 30 years of open source experience. He helps organizations adopt efficient, sustainable practices through data-driven methodologies. Founder of multiple tech communities in Thailand, he advises global companies on digital transformation.

Mislav is a software engineer and founder, working in the blockchain space since 2016. Some notable achievements are: Co-authoring one of the first textbooks on Ethereum development (Developers guide to Ethereum), organizing the first blockchain developers meetup in the Balkans region. Business wise, Mislav has worked as an engineer and manager in several blockchain projects spanning topics as diverse as real world asset tokenization on one end and core protocol research on the other.

Shmuel_Sagiv is a professor and chair of Computer Sciences at Tel-Aviv University and a CEO and co-founder of Certora. He is a leading researcher in large-scale (inter-procedural) program analysis and one of the key contributors to shape analysis. His fields of interest include programming languages, compilers, abstract interpretation, profiling, pointer analysis, shape analysis, interprocedural dataflow analysis, program slicing, and language-based programming.

Moritz is the co-founder of Fluidkey. He is focused on improving privacy defaults and usability on public blockchains.

Founder at ParaSwap and Laita Labs

As a PSE Grantee, I am currently engaged in the Mopro project, with a particular focus on GPU acceleration for mobile devices. My interests also extend to modular rollups and FHE.

17 years old. Ex-MEV searcher and Ethereum researcher. Cofounder Spire Labs, building based appchains. Based pilled circa 2022.

Disintermediated human coordination at scale.

Mudit Gupta is an Indian Blockchain hacker and developer. Mudit is passionate about Blockchains, security, coding, and Gaming. Mudit loves solving logical problems, researching new stuff, developing secure software, and breaking insecure software.

Noor is dedicated to empowering the stateless Rohingya community by blending cultural preservation, education, and technological innovation. A Rohingya visionary, he has pioneered various initiatives, including the Rohingya Project and Rohingya Vision TV and Archive. Through initiatives like decentralized identity solutions and cultural preservation efforts, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining Rohingya heritage and language as a legacy for generations to come.

Reshaping digital identity with “Smart Profiles”—secure, self-sovereign profiles that let users control their data across platforms. By combining decentralized identifiers and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Smart Profiles ensure privacy while enabling personalized, seamless experiences online. I aim to create a unified internet where individuals control their digital footprint, fostering inclusivity and connection as online and real-world identities blend.

CEO of Ligero Inc. and Associate Professor at Georgetown University. An expert in zero-knowledge proofs and secure multiparty computation, recipient of ICDE Influential Paper Award, CCS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award and Google Faculty Award. Muthu is a steering committee member of the ZK Standardization Effort.

Nalin is CTO and co-founder of Daimo, a stablecoin payments app on Ethereum. He previously worked at 0xPARC Foundation on open-source zero-knowledge research bringing the third generation proving system (Nova family) to production. His past ZK/Ethereum projects include ETHdos and exgrasia.

founding team @ megaeth

Nat is an independent security researcher with 4+ years of security experience and 3 years of development experience. She currently specializes in manual smart contract review, invariant analysis and invariant development. She frequently hosts workshops on property testing at conferences and enjoys climbing in her spare time. Nat is the author of solc-select and a former senior security engineer at Trail of Bits.

Programming Lead @Devcon

Co-founder & SVP of R&D of Tenderly. Before Tenderly, Nebojsa was a blockchain engineer at Decenter and a software engineer at GoDaddy. He has experience building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale distributed cloud systems.

In Tenderly Nebojsa leads a diverse and experienced team of engineers and is one of the engineering leads. He has in-depth knowledge of the blockchain and EVM.

As Chief of Innovation & Strategy at Foresight Institute, Niamh Peren runs current programs (Prizes, Fellowship, and co-Directs the AI Safety Grants) and builds out future programs. Renowned for her groundbreaking effort as an environmental activist, Peren led her government petition 'Tino Pai Aotearoa/ Thumbs Up New Zealand' to legislation; now a lived experience. She advises organizations on future strategy and environmental impact, and is an invited keynote speaker on these issues.

Nichanan Kesonpat is a researcher and investor at 1kx, a cryptonative fund investing in early stage projects across the web3 stack and verticals. Nich is focused on middleware where her research expands across wallet infrastructure, developer tooling, data infrastructure and decentralized identity. Before 1kx she was a smart contract developer (Upstate Interactive acq. DCG Foundry, mochi.game) working on projects across NFTs, DeFi, and DAO tooling.

Nicholas thinks about thinking. He is currently researching and realizing a new project focused on the ‘thinking’ part of ‘long-term thinking’. Before this, Nicholas helped run The Long Now Foundation—the storied nonprofit fostering long-term thinking at the timescale of 10,000 years—where he served as both Director of Development and Director of Strategy for many years. His background spans systems engineering and philosophy. He is currently a fellow at The Institute in San Francisco.

Nick Almond is the CEO of Factory Labs a London based research and development company focussed on decentralised governance and collective intelligence technologies. He is a physicist, learning theorist and DAOist who is committed to promoting strong crypto values and building tools for unleashing human potential through coordination and social consensus formation.

Nick is the CEO of Fuel Labs and is the builder behind Fuel V1, the first Optimistic Rollup on Ethereum Mainnet. A long-time Ethereum community member and one of the first users of Solidity. Nick has presented multiple times at DevCon on topics from decentralized crowdfunding to DAO governance.

Hi, I'm nico from Japan! I'm really into decentralized tech and cryptography, especially around Ethereum. Right now, I'm doing blockchain research at Kyoto University and developing identity-related projects on the side.

Uniting degens and regens through OttoDAO / LottoPGF. Compulsive builder. Initiator of AFK communities Ethereum Bolivia and W3b Lab.

Token Engineer designing the future of Autonomous Worlds and fully onchain games with a focus on decentralization, advanced token systems design, and product development.

Nicolas is a co-founder of Ledger (https://www.ledger.com) - interested in making hardware security open, understandable and affordable to all, currently exploring the frontier between TEEs and ZKPs

I am a blockchain security researcher with over five years of experience. I spend time at OpenZeppelin, protecting some of the leading projects in the space. Along the way, I discovered a passion for Rust—my favorite language for just about everything—and I especially love diving into Rust codebases to audit and secure them.

Building ZuThailand. Previously started Zuzalu. 22.

Niharika is a technical product manager in the account abstraction space. Currently at Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe), she advances the development of the Safe{Core} stack securing over $100 billion in smart contracts. She excels in validating features through hands-on research, analyzing success metrics, and collaborating with external partners to enhance product offerings. She also has experience in tokenization of securities in Switzerland.

Founder at Symmetry & TH BUIDL

Co-Founder and Core Contributor of INFINIT -- the first DeFi abstraction layer that lets you launch and scale DeFi protocols in minutes. INIT Capital, a liquidity hook money market, was launched based on INFINIT abstraction layer as a PoC and GTM. Previously, co-founded Alpha Finance and was the first to introduce leveraged yield farming through Alpha Homora product.

I graduated from MIT, and received 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal from International Mathematical Olympiad.

Niran is an engineer on the Base team at Coinbase working on the Keyspace project, a cross-chain keystore for smart wallets. He has previously given talks at Devcon 1 and 2. Before Coinbase, Niran was an early engineer at ConsenSys.

nixo is an Ethereum decentralization advocate, educator, and staker. Her principal aim is to help guide Ethereum’s growth in an ethos-driven direction, keeping it resistant to capture and beneficial for a maximally diverse set of people. She spent the last two years supporting the staking community and tooling in order to increase the strength of the validator set. She's now Protocol Support for the Ethereum Foundation. Prior to Ethereum, she was an academic research scientist

Noah is an engineering partner at a16z crypto, focused on helping our portfolio with technical challenges and contributing to several open source projects. His open source work focuses on core protocol infrastructure, particularly within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Prior to joining a16z, Noah led smart contract development at Index Coop.

Noah studied electrical engineering and computer science at Duke University, leaving after his junior year to pursue crypto full time.

Reimagining sustainable ecosystems for our society. Worked on Taiwan's pilot DID program, retroactive funding experiments for open source communities, and many more initiatives hoping to showcase better alternatives to our society.

As the CEO and Cofounder of Butter, Vaughn wants to help society make better decisions. By combining mechanism design and protocol governance, he believes Butter can rebuild society’s most valuable institutions. On weekends, you may find him escaping up (or down) a mountain or practicing to complete the JLPT.

Experienced designer with vast experience on web2 and transition to web3. Working to improve ethereum.org every day

Ohm Shah is a co-founder of Wallet Guard, now acquired by Consensys. He currently works at MetaMask, focusing on Security R&D to enhance user safety. With a background in offensive security and security research, Ohm is committed to advancing security education in the crypto space.

Oliver is a terminologist, a writer, and a translator. He's worked at Consensys since 2021, helping produce consumer- and developer-facing documentation for MetaMask, Linea, Infura, and many more. He is a member of Education DAO, and is currently hacking on wordsofweb3.eth.limo.

Olivia Smith is the Chief Operating Officer at Moonsong Labs, where she leads operational strategy and drives growth across Moonsong’s engineering services business and venture studio. Previously, Olivia served as VP of Strategy at PureStake, the development company that helped launch Moonbeam. Before moving into blockchain, she spent four years in traditional finance. Olivia holds a joint JD/MBA from Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School.

COO of StarkWare, previously VP Engineering.
Have built StarkWare's organization and products from the ground up.
Previousely, help multiple engineering and product positions in different high-tech companies of varying domains.

Coordination maximalist. Head of Governance at ParaSwap, Delegate and Council Participant for Optimism

• Operational Security & Blockchain Security researcher
• Security Alliance (SEAL) member
• Opsek.io founder
• Blockchain Security Series podcast host

Palina is a researcher and verification engineer at Runtime Verification, where she leads the development of Kontrol—a formal verification tool for Solidity smart contracts. She holds a PhD in formal verification from NTU, Singapore, and worked on bridging the gap between theory and practice of verification with major organizations in the blockchain space.

Panjamapong (PanJ) is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Cleverse, a web3-focused venture builder company based in Bangkok, Thailand. He has experience on building software product for more than 10 years. In the past 3 years, he focused on building web3 products which most of them are data-intensive products.

I am an Ethereum enthusiast with a deep love for all things servers. I started my journey with Bitcoin as a high schooler in 2011 and gradually made my way to Ethereum. I currently work in the DevOps team of the Ethereum Foundation and I mainly focus on the Ethereum protocol upgrades.

I’m a huge believer in the transparency that blockchains enable, I think that the democratization of this transparent data is a vital feature that Ethereum unlocks for us.

I am doing research on Ethereum protocol-level economics and incentive design. Currently, I mainly working on APS (esp. Execution Tickets) and multi-block MEV. Previous work included data analysis on blobs and the effects of EIP-4844 on Layer 2s. In my former life I co-founded a tradFi business automating the M&A process for SME companies.

Patricio is the creator of Hardhat, and the co-founder & CTO of Nomic Foundation.

Patricio Worthalter was born in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Joined the ethereum ecosystem full time in 2015 and launched POAP in 2018.

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

I’m a NeuroAI researcher at the Amaranth Foundation, which funds ambitious research in neuroscience. I focus on the intersection of neuroscience and AI safety. I did my B.Sc. in Math and Physics and a PhD in neuroscience at McGill. Previously, I was a software engineer at Google, a research scientist in brain-computer interfaces at Meta, and a machine learning researcher at Mila.

Paul Brody is the global blockchain leader at EY (Ernst & Young) and has been a champion of Ethereum and public blockchains for over a decade. Under his leadership, EY has invested heavily in Ethereum, including building a privacy L2 and related technologies and donating them into the public domain. He is the author of “Ethereum for Business - a plain English guide to the use cases that create value”, and he is the chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

Core-developer on Teku - a consensus-layer application.

Founder of WalletConnect and developing Ethereum wallet infrastructure since 2018. Additionally a founding member of Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance (CASA) and authored of several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) focused wallet interoperability.

Generalist Ecosystem Developer, Ethereum Foundation

Peter works on the protocol team at Scroll, scaling Ethereum through ZK technology. Previously he has done research on parallel EVMs and worked on the Conflux blockchain.

LLM Engineer working on AI Projects at Gnosis. See www.jung.ninja for details!

Peter Kacherginsky is one of the most respected blockchain security researchers in the industry. He founded first of their kind Blockchain Security and Unit 0x teams at Coinbase to make ecosystem safer for all. Peter also publishes a weekly BlockThreat newsletter where he advises 10k+ subscribers on the latest developments in the blockchain security industry. He is passionate about using his extensive knowledge of past hacks, threat actors and their tactics to educate the DeFi community.

Peter is Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has testified before the US Senate Banking Committee, and the House Financial Services and Energy and Commerce Committees. He has briefed staff and members of the EU parliament, and educated policymakers and regulatory staff around the world on the subject of cryptocurrency regulation.

Phil Ngo is the Technical Project Manager of ChainSafe’s Ethereum consensus client, Lodestar, written in TypeScript. He joined ChainSafe in July 2021, contributing to web3JS and Lodestar as a way to contribute back to the ETH ecosystem after deploying a genesis validator on the beacon chain . His web3 journey began in 2013 after he was sent Bitcoin & mined as a demo. Throughout the years, he realized the immense value of permissionless, transparent & decentralized ledgers to human coordination.

I currently work for Polygon in the Miden team, where I focus primarily on the Miden VM.

Director, Cancer Genetics Lab
Professor, Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences
College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina

EDUCATION
1984-1988 B.S. Chemistry, University of South Florida
1988-1990 M.S. Chemistry, University of California at San Diego
1990-1996 Ph.D. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
1996-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center

Poom is a frontend engineer at Metabase based in Bangkok, Thailand. He's a big fan of cute plushies, black cat, macarons, Onsen baths, and jet skis. He co-founded Creatorsgarten, a group of developers and creative people, and they've hosted over 50 events and hackathons in Thailand for the past 8 years. He works on nerdy side projects such as visual asssembly canvas, and collaborate with artists to build art projects.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2023. Following this, I served as the head researcher at Sky Mavis, the innovative team behind Axie Infinity. I also contributed to the development of Ronin Network, an EVM blockchain specifically designed for gaming.

Pierre is an applied cryptography engineer at the Privacy and Scaling Explorations Team

I am a builder and a volunteer in Devcon SEA. Back in the days I've decided that I wanted to become awesome, and here I am in my journey. I am UX/UI Designer and I am becoming a React Developer. I have always being passionate about music. And there's always space for it during my life journey. I love communities, people, organizing events and playing some good music.

CEO and co-founder at L2BEAT.

Pooja Ranjan is well-known in the Ethereum community for her contributions and leadership. As Herder-in-chief at EthCatHerders.com and founder of EIPsInsight.com and EtherWorld.co, she supports Ethereum's growth. With a background in Computer Science and Project Management, Pooja helps simplify complex Ethereum concepts, hosts the PEEPanEIP podcast, and coordinates EIP reviews. She advocates for diversity through the Women in Ethereum Protocol (WiEP) and inspires the Ethereum community.

Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

Porter is a software engineer at Matter Labs. He likes math, cryptography, and cypherpunks. If you are interested in ZKsync or any of the above topics, come say hi!

Core developer at prysmaticlabs

pplpleasr is known for her early work in DeFi, such as the Uniswap v3 video, as well as making the cover of Fortune Magazine in August 2021. She was also in Forbes 30u30 2022, and her work inspired the formation of PleasrDAO. She has since founded Shibuya, a new age creator platform for short films built on Ethereum.

Puja Ohlhaver is a lawyer, innovator, and technologist. She is a member of the Getting Plurality Research Group at Harvard's Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. She is co-author with Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin of “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul.” Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and WIRED. She previously practiced law at Skadden, Arps and founded ClearPath Surgical, Inc., a women’s healthcare company.

Qi is a security engineer at Fuzzland. He is a core dev of ityfuzz, a snapshot based EVM fuzzer. He is currently applying his knowledge in program analysis to MEV world, trying rescue funds when they're at risk. He has a cat.

Qianchen (a.k.a. "Q") is the Dencentralized Technology Architect at HOPR. HOPR developed the HOPR protocol, a decentralized communication protocol designed to ensure metadata privacy through incentivized mixnet technology. Q has been writing smart contracts and contributing to protocol development for 5+ years.

Qin En Looi is a Partner at Saison Capital where he actively leads pre-seed and seed investments in startups across fintech, B2B commerce and web3.

I'm a researcher at Flashbots where I've worked on a bunch of things from auctions to TEEs. Also, I'm South African.

Design for applied cryptography @ PSE + Cursive

Rachel has dedicated several years to the blockchain space, where she has gained valuable experience and insights. As a founder, bestselling author, and global public speaker, she is passionate about sharing knowledge and building community. Rachel founded Onchain Media and has co-founded initiatives like Purr Labs in collaboration with the Mr. Miggles on Base team. Additionally, she works with the City of Berkeley to promote blockchain use cases at the municipal level.

Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a DarkFi core developer and writer. She authored 'Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle', a text which helped create a web3 privacy revival. She is the lead editor of the philosophy journal Agorism in the 21st Century. She was the tech lead for CoinDesk 2017-2018, and has written for WIRED, Rekt News and Defiant. She has a background in philosophy and digital art.

A Product Owner at L2BEAT, a research and analytics public goods company, focused on providing insights and transparency about the risks associated with Ethereum scaling solutions.

web 3 builder & musician

Rahul is the VP of Product Engineering at Safe. A two-time founder, having established two innovative Web3 companies: Paperchain and Otterspace. His extensive background includes a pivotal role at SoundCloud, where he served as Director of Integrations.

Professor Raina MacIntyre is Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia. She leads research on prevention and detection of epidemic infections, with a focus on vaccines and facemasks. She has received many awards for research and is on the editorial boards of Vaccine, BMJ Open and Epidemiology & Infection. She leads EPIWATCH, an open-source early warning system for epidemics and pandemics, which has been supported by Vitalik Buterin's Balvi Filantropik Fund.

Software Engineer working in MPC research team of PSE
RLN, zkEmail and zkEVM teams before

Artist

Ray is the CTO at Audius, a decentralized music marketplace with the mission of putting creators in control.

Rebecca Kacherginsky is a payments and crypto design expert with over a decade of experience at Coinbase, Facebook, PayPal, and Intuit. She has developed intuitive payments products, driving billions in savings and new revenue. Recently, she led design at Coinbase Commerce and is now a DeFi design consultant. In "Bootstrap Your dApp UX," Rebecca shares best practices to help developers create exceptional user experiences and drive Web3 adoption.

Rebecca's research focuses on integrating local currencies with indigenous mutual aid practices in communities across Africa and the US. Previously, she helped incubate a local currency in Oakland as Head of Product at city3, led the world’s first randomized control trial on community currencies with Grassroots Economics, and drove early Web3 expansion as Head of Growth at Zerion. She is currently completing her Master’s in Architecture at Yale.

Head of Blockchain, World Foundation. Strong background in math & engineering. Remco is recognized for his insights on Ethereum scaling. cryptography, and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Co-founder at OpenPassport

EthStaker contributor that is also involved in staking support, staking guides, staking tools and staking tutorials. Software developer that is also an Ethereum enthusiast.

Ren is a Partner on the investment team at Electric Capital interested in decentralized finance, mechanism design, and on-chain communities. Ren helped build Codeslaw, a code search engine for deployed contracts across EVM chains and frequently shares research on on chain activities.

Previously Ren was a quantitative researcher building algorithmic trading systems and strategies at large tradfi firms and assisted with public policy research at the Federal Reserve during college.

Rev co-founded a crypto-native non-profit in Ukraine, raising over $10M to support 400,000+ people while also creating a public good crypto-onboarding game and co-launching a crypto education program for 20M people.

He currently leads growth at Octant, a sustainable impact funding protocol, and develops Commit, an onchain accountability protocol. He also co-founded a social predictions protocol and contributed to a number of consumer crypto protocols.

Developer Relations @ Scroll
string greet = "🏗️ Passionate in leveling up with devs";

Research Engineer at Polygon, specializing in optimizing the computing performance of Zero-Knowledge Provers. Previously, I worked as a researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, focusing on high-performance numerical simulation.

Ethereum Protocol Fellow.

Applying Cryptography @ ZKP2P

Richard works at 0xPARC and is a core contributor to the Zupass project.

Mostly harmless. Alphabetized. Eats breakfast. Also, the author of ethers and Firefly. The future will be awesome. He/him.

Software developer at Sigma Prime.

Riley Wong (they/them) is the Principal of Emergent Research, investigating privacy, governance, and data. Interests include applied cryptography, consent interfaces, p2p networks, and cooperative infrastructure. Their work is rooted in community practice and guided by collaborative work in solidarity economies, public goods and the commons, and interdependence. They have previous lives in machine learning, investigative journalism, and community organizing and are based in NYC.

A developer of Blockscout blockchain explorer, with focus on smart-contract verification functionality

Rob Knight is an engineer and contributor to the Zupass project.

Rob Stupay searches for the poetry in Web3 tooling.

Executive Director and CEO at Eigen Foundation

Roberto is a researcher specializing in distributed systems and formal verification, with extensive involvement in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017. His early work includes the design and formal verification of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, such as QBFT, as well as contributions to Distributed Validator Technology (DVT). More recently, his focus has shifted to advancing the Ethereum consensus layer protocol and ensuring its security.

http://hanson.gmu.edu/bio.html

Mathematician, programmer and researcher at EF ipsilon team. Recently focused on EVM, EOF, EVMMAX and ECC.

Roger is co-founder and original developer of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online. Roger works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face, and he is a prominent researcher in the online anonymity field. EFF picked him for a Pioneer Award, and Foreign Policy magazine chose him as one of its top 100 global thinkers.

Experienced technologist having interests in several technology verticals ranging from Enterprise Software to Startups over a 20 year career.

Romina has founded Bila Hora Ventures, an advisory boutique for digital assets, DeFi and on-chain structured products with the mission to accelerate open finance and the adoption of banking and investments on crypto rails.
As part of her venture building activities, she has managed several regulatory setups, strategic product development, institutional partnerships, process implementation and funding as COO as well as CFO for several DeFi protocols and blockchain-based applications in the field

ETH Kipu & ETH Latam co-founder. Prev. Gov Lead at SEED Latam.

intern@Nethermind , Ethereum Protocol Fellow'24

Rumee, CEO of a UNICEF Innovation Fund portfolio startup, leads Rahat, a financial access platform focused on cash assistance and building financial resilience for the most vulnerable against climate shocks. With over 20 years of global leadership, Rumee Singh is celebrated among Nepal's leading women in tech; a 2023 MIT Solver and is featured in the Women for Change 2024 global campaign. Rumee is an electronics engineer and also has a journalism degree from Boston.

I started Index Supply in 2022. Before that I co-founded Chain and before that I was #18 at Heroku. I am obsessed with systems programming and decentralized tech. I value simplicity and building from first principles. I will talk endlessly about: databases, lisp, and doing more with less.

building lido research

DevOps Engineer @ EF on the ethPandaOps team

Sarah Allen is the Research Org Lead at Flashbots. She also serves as the Research Program Manager of IC3.

Human being. Focused on privacy, with a passion for enhancing developer experiences. My contributions span open source projects, web development, and game development. I thrive on creating secure, user-friendly solutions and am dedicated to advancing the tech community through innovative and collaborative efforts.

Ph.D., researcher decoding the intersections of science, tech, and culture. CRO at Paradigm Research Institute, analyst at Humanode, creator of 'Defi in Ether.'

I'm currently a part of Ethereum Protocol Fellowship cohort 5 .
And I occasionally do security research for fun(& profit).

Product Manager
EVE Frontier
CCP Games

Core protocol dev working on Lighthouse at Sigma Prime for the last ~4 years.

Sebastian Bürgel builds technical solutions that empower the individual. He works at Gnosis as VP Technology and is founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR. He previously co-founded two other technology startups: Validity Labs (blockchain education & services) and SONECT (fintech). Sebastian holds a Ph.D degree in Microtechnology from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

Sejal, a Grants Innovation Specialist at Gitcoin's Grants Lab, orchestrates $2M+ grant rounds for open-source projects and leads RPGF rounds with Protocol Labs, POKT, and Celo. Her DAO expertise includes spearheading partnerships at a DAO tooling company and leading the GreenPill Network across 15+ countries. Passionate about decentralized ecosystems, Sejal leverages her experience to consult on and develop impactful grant programs in the Web3 space.

Shao co-founded Perpetual Protocol (perp.com)—the first AMM-based on-chain perpetual exchange, launched in 2019, which has served over 500,000 users with tens of billions in trading volume.

This year, he’s focused on Nekodex (under PERP), a mobile-first DEX that lowers entry barriers by abstracting blockchain complexities, making crypto accessible to a broader audience.

Shawn’s been all-in on web3 since 2018, with his entire career rooted in the space. He started out at marketing agencies before moving in-house in 2020. Along the way, he’s worked with some amazing teams and even led the token sale of Taraxa, a Layer 1 project. Now, Shawn heads up global marketing at Orbs.

He is a part of Fracton Research, and contributes to the public goods space. He is an ex-reviewer of Polygon Community Grants Program, a contributor of Dig DAO, and a contributor of Grant Innovation Lab by MetaGov. Especially, he analyzes grants programs and grants DAOs by quantitatively cross-comparing them to achieve better, more effective, and fairer programs. He finally aims to evaluate and measure impacts and outcomes in public goods funding.

I'm a developer and researcher working in the blockchain industry since 2018. I have worked on the development of protocol layers in several projects. Mainly based in Japan, in recent years I have been researching a wide range of cryptographic theory applications, including zero-knowledge proofs, MPC and FHE.I'm also active in community building and have led Bitpickers, a developer community, for the past few years. Recently organised the Progcrypto Camp, a cryptography camp in Japan.

Blockchain Engineer at ChainSecurity

Shukyee Ma, currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Plume Network, is leading strategic planning initiatives in the RWAfi arena, with a focus on the integration of real-world assets. Prior to this, she was a founding member and Chief Marketing Officer at Polyhedra.

A musician and a dev.

Simon is enthusiastic about simplifying the complexities of our interconnected world. He applies this passion as a Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node to enable the amazing projects in web3 building exceptional decentralised experiences leveraging The Graph. He joined the blockchain space professionally in 2017 as Head of Front-end/UX at Melonport which is now know as Enzyme Finance, one of the pioneering projects in DeFi and web3 and early adopter of The Graph.

it's me

Tech lead @ TLSNotary - PSE

Leading Devcon and Devconnect teams with Ethereum Foundation

Small Brain is a serial builder of onchain games (& has built >5) in the past year. Some games include Words3 (an infinite onchain word game), Yonk (a mobile app where you can pay your friends to yell at them), draw.tech (a onchain version of r/place) & more.

Founder, Managing Director, and Head of Machine Learning at PopVax (https://popvax.com), where we develop mRNA vaccines using computational protein design to both save millions of lives in the present and prevent potential pandemics that may occur in the future. BS in CS from Yale, and previously dropped out of the Cornell CS PhD program to start the Y Combinator-backed robotics software startup Pashi.

Songyi is a crypto veteran with 10+ years of experience building companies and communities. She co-founded 37coins, a decentralized SMS network for Bitcoin access, and served as CSO at a Korean DID project. With expertise in Asian and global markets, she leads initiatives like Pagoda and Borderless Africa to build with Global Majority players. Currently, she runs Gatherings, an experience design studio focused on distributed teams and communities.

Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest private transaction banks, over a dozen central banks, payments processors, top insurance and healthcare networks, the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks.

Former Concert Pianist / Former DataViz / Solidity Dev / NftFi / Builder - Founder

Sora Suegami is a blockchain and cryptography engineer. He has been working on ZK Email, a project that uses zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) to prove the contents of emails without revealing the entire content. He built ZKP circuits for email verification in Halo2 and led the development of Email Wallet. Additionally, he has been researching applied cryptography, such as [Suegami BCRA 2022] and [Suegami Eprint 2024]. His research will enable more scalable privacy-preserving smart contracts.

Spencer has been contributing to, designing, and building tooling for DAOs full time since 2020. He got his start as a member of Raid Guild, was a core contributor at DAOhaus, and more recently cofounded Hats Protocol to help solve many of the problems he has experienced and observed in DAOs. Spencer is an engineer, mechanism designer, governance tinkerer, and devoted structuralist.

EF Testing Team

Stani Kulechov

Stani Kulechov is a pioneer in DeFi and web3 social. He is the Founder and CEO of Avara, a leading software technology company building high-quality, user-friendly products based on blockchain technologies. Avara includes Aave Labs, which developed Aave – the leading DeFi protocol and Aave-native stablecoin GHO. Avara also includes social network Lens and Family, the Ethereum mobile wallet. Avara's vision is a people powered internet that benefits all.

Ethereum core developer working on Teku

Founder of RockLogic & Stereum

Stefanos Chaliasos is a PhD candidate at Imperial College London and a Security Researcher at zkSecurity focusing on securing protocols developing and using ZKPs. His main research interests involve Blockchain Security, Software Testing, ZKPs, Program Analysis, and Programming Languages.

Helping Ethereum since 2017
Founder: OneBalance, Frontier Research, Flashbots

Stephane Tetsing is a AI software engineer and researcher at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence with Web3 technologies. His unique background in Healthcare AI has positioned him as a figure in the emerging field of decentralized secure systems and privacy-preserving data analysis. Stephane recently led development of a custom LLM for the Remix Toolset called SolCoder, and is now working on improvements and research into other language integrations

Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the original contributor to Arbitrum - the market-leading L2 scaling solution on Ethereum. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, Steven's expertise spans blockchain technology and cryptography. Prior to Offchain Labs, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech and held internships at Microsoft Research and Google.

onchain games enjoyer

Sudhir heads the Engineering team Kinexys ( formerly Onyx), by J.P. Morgan. During his tenure at J.P. Morgan, Sudhir has been engaged in incubating, designing, developing and delivering several innovative products and solutions across multiple lines of business, including Risk Management, Trading, and Pricing, among others. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Sudhir was one of the early joiners at one of the most successful startups (BEA Systems) in Silicon Valley.

Sun Haochen, male, graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) for undergraduate degree and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for master's degree, and is now a doctoral student at BUAA. My research interests mainly include fuzz application in blockchain, smart contract vulnerability detection, and blockchain system vulnerability detection.

Suzana Moreno leads blockchain strategy and a set of humanitarian projects at the WFP/UN Innovation Accelerator. She co-founded the Blockchain Lab at the Brazilian Development Bank in 2017, where she developed decentralized solutions to increase trust and transparency of the bank. She is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Geneva, focusing on innovative solutions for KYC/AML and decentralized apps/DeFi.

Research @ Flashbots

I'm ZK Engineer at Kroma, securing the network with Zero-Knowledge Fault Proofs and scaling Ethereum through advanced cryptographic techniques. I have implemented various features in Tachyon, which is a modular ZK backend accelerated by GPU, from cryptographic primitives to proving schemes and optimizations; Finite Fields, Polynomials, FFT, Halo2, etc. I'm eager to solve real-world problems with practical solutions.

Protocol specialist at Coinbase, specialised in onchain research.

Tanisha plays a dual role. As an independent consultant, she has worked with 6+ clients in the last 1.5 years. She has a diverse client base, from DAO tooling applications to Protocols and Data Availability to Governments.

As the Governance Innovation Specialist at Polygon Technology, she helps design decentralized and secure governance systems by engaging in projects such as the governance hub, defining the parameters for system smart contracts governance, validator admission & reputation.

Tascha is the Founder and CEO of INFINIT, the first DeFi abstraction layer that lets anyone launch and scale DeFi protocols in minutes. INFINIT has already supported 15+ protocols and facilitating more than $1.1B+ of TVL. Tascha has also founded Alpha Finance and was the first to introduce leveraged yield farming through Alpha Homora product. Tascha graduated from UC Berkeley and dropped out from Harvard Business School.

Co-founder CTO of Yoii Inc.
Interested in ZKP & MPC

Product Lead of Redstone and Senior Engineer at Lattice

Previously worked on IPFS, Libp2p, IPLD and Filecoin at Protocol Labs.

“The Future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed yet” — William Gibson

Ethereum enables the future. We work to support the development of initiatives that overcome real challenges faced by all 8 billion humans, to help distribute that future more equitably.

Teana is the COO of Venice.ai, a private, permissionless generative AI platform. Venice uniquely offers users uncensored access to open-source generative AI within a privacy preserving technical architecture.

Teana has held leadership roles at Circle, the Digital Chamber, Crypto.com and Binance, responsible for U.K. and European operations, go-to-market strategies and government relations. She is a board member of CryptoUK, the trade body representing Web3 companies UK.

Hi, Im Jern, a theoretical CS undergrad alumni from Columbia University. I love understanding knowledge/research fundamentally, trying to bridge them into application. Im currently a research engineer at PSE, tinkering at the intersection of zkp, mpc and fhe. Besides programmable cryptography, I'm very very passionate about education and how to empower people, hence core-contributing to EthPadThai, a Thailand grassroot web3 community.

I'm passionate about open-source and have been actively involved in Ethereum protocol development since late 2018. I started Prysm, a consensus layer implementation in Go, with a few others. I'm an author of several EIPs for inclusion and ePBS. I love Ethereum, and I can't wait to work on it for a thousand more years!

Thanh-Hai Tran is an independent researcher. Before that, he was a senior researcher in the Dependable Distributed System team at Consensys. His interests are formal methods, distributed systems, cryptography, and blockchains. He has experience in designing blockchain protocols, applying formal verification techniques in multiple projects, e.g., the Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), the 3-Slot-Finality (3SF) protocol, and the C-KZG library, and developing analysis tools, e.g., APALACHE.

Theo is a Research Partner at Bain Capital Crypto, where he works on problems in cryptoeconomics and DeFi. He completed a PhD in mathematical optimization at MIT, during which he worked on network flow problems––everything from novel formulations to solvers to some fun blockchain applications.

Passionate about cryptography and distributed computing. Working at ChainSecurity.

Thiago is the CEO and cofounder of Tanssi Foundation, one of the core contributors of the Tanssi Network, an appchain infrastructure protocol designed to make deploying an appchain as simple as deploying a smart contract.

Thiago holds a degree in Computer Science from UFRJ. He spent the first five years of his career at Visagio consultancy and then over nine years as the head of operations at Squadra Investimentos, one of Brazil's leading independent equity funds.

Thomas Rush is the founder of TrueBlocks.io, a blockchain-focused software company delivering fast, accurate data from the blockchain. Rush is a three-time recipient of Ethereum Foundation grants, a Moloch DAO grant recipient, an active community member, and a founder of the Philadelphia Ethereum Meetup group. In a former life, Rush taught undergraduate writing. Rush holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Rosemont College and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Thiery is a researcher in the Robust Incentives Group, at the Ethereum Foundation.

Tianyao Gu is an incoming Ph.D. student at CMU, and a co-founder and lead research engineer at Oblivious Labs. Tianyao completed his masters degree at CMU, and his bachelor degree at the Shanghai Jiaotong University/University of Michigan joint program. Tianyao’s research focuses on cryptography, with an emphasis on oblivious computation and scaling multi-party computation to big data. He is a co-author of the open-source library on Oblivious RAM: https://github.com/obliviouslabs/oram.

Ethereum Protocol {Support | Guild | Studies}

Researcher & builder. Now focus in on-chain governance and fuzzer.

Head of Research at BlueYard Capital. Previously dev at Balancer and AWS. Love games and nerdy topics, especially anything tech, blockchains, economics, or game theory.

Founder of Kiwi News

Timo is passionate about deploying tech to solve real-world problems. At Mercy Corps Ventures, he leads pilot implementation efforts across emerging markets in Africa, Latam & Asia.

He has a background in software engineering, venture capital & startups, and a wealth of experience building and launching new products in emerging markets.

Hey! I'm the co-founder of Edge City. Prior, I studied Math & Economics and then spent about 8 years building startups in a variety of industries. I helped to organize parts of the Zuzalu events in 2023, and got pilled on the idea of popup cities as incubators of communities.

Security researchers with +5 years dedicated to smart contract security. Co-founder of The Red Guild, a security & education team working for the public benefit of the Ethereum ecosystem. Creator of Damn Vulnerable DeFi. Former lead security auditor at OpenZeppelin.

Dr. Tom Cirrito is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of multiple biotechnology companies. He is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Varro, and Founder and Executive Chairman of Filament BioSolutions. Dr. Cirrito was previously Managing Partner of Astonishing Labs, a venture creation fund. He began his biotechnology career as Vice President of R&D and Director of Business Development at Stemline Therapeutics (NASDAQ: STML) where he led development of a leukemia drug through FDA approval.

PM @ Ethereum Foundation, Account Abstraction Team (ERC-4337)

Previously CEO & co-founder of Portis (acquired by ShapeShift)

X: @tomteman

Founder of Nethermind and core developer of Ethereum since 2017, Tomasz is an early team member at Flashbots and a board member of the Starknet Foundation. He has extensive experience as an engineer in financial markets and blockchain, and has worked on protocol research around MEV and PBS. Today, Tomasz aspires to envision the future of Ethereum and the Laws of Robotics at Demerzel.

Cofounder of BlockSplit conference and founder of MUQA.

Tomo is a designer at the Ethereum Foundation. Creating the world of the Infinite Garden and more!

EF Researcher

I'm a Blockchain engineer with six years of experience in the Ethereum space, working on protocols, open-source projects, and decentralized games. I'm passionate about autonomous worlds, smart contracts, and zero-knowledge technology. Currently, I’mpart of Project Awakening, a sci-fi game on the MUD framework, where players influence the game mechanics through on-chain technology

Chief Governance Officer @eigenfoundation 🫀 dedicated to our collective development 🧠 prev. @coordinape, @iearnfinance 🧍

Political Organizer @ Protocol Guild

software engineer

For The Kingdom founder & errand boi. Ex Kyber Network & Krystal DeFi.

Co-founder of Succinct

Chain-Abstractor, Founder @SocketProtocol

Valentin is a researcher at Consensys Diligence. He has years of experience in developing tools and techniques that help us in producing more reliable and correct software. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and has been a lead developer for several software analysis tools. At Consensys Diligence, he focuses on various R&D efforts, including the Harvey smart-contract fuzzer, the Scribble specification language, and several specialized fuzzers for critical infrastructure.

vectorized is the maintainer of popular open-source Solidity repositories such as solady and erc721a.

Blogger at Ribbonfarm. Program director of Summer of Protocols.

Lead of Operations, Zuzalu.city 👾
Co-Initiator, ZuVillage 🧠
Founder, Socratic.bot 🤖
Contributor, Open Source Orchestra 🎶
Board, UChicago Alumni Free Speech Alliance 💬

Veronica currently works with 0xPARC on various programmable cryptography applications. Previously, Veronica was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase.

Working on various things in the Ethereum ecosystem - account abstraction (ERC-4337 bundler), decentralized identity, zero-knowledge machine learning, and other open-source contributions (mainly in Rust). Building Lutra Labs.

Vijay is an independent researcher with a Ph.D in Economics from Iowa State University. His current interests include mechanism design for blockchains and the impact of new technology on society.

working on decentralized ai + science. started primeintellect to solve decentralized + open source ai, vitadao, bio.xyz.