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Build things rather than adjust things. Co-founder of Mechanism Labs, UC Berkeley, ex-Head of Education Blockchain at Berkeley, Thiel Fellowship. Aparna is a Thiel Fellow and the co-founder of Mechanism Labs, a research & development lab focused on cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets and DeFi. She was the former Head of Education and Executive VP at Blockchain at Berkeley teaching the world’s largest university accredited blockchain course.
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Chris Wang
Chris Wang is the CEO and Co-Founder of ThunderCore. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexis Gauba
Alexis Gauba is Co-Founder at Opyn, Mechanism Labs, and she holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has conducted research at CalBlockchain.
David Lin
David Lin is the Head of Engineering at Eclipse and previously served as vice president of engineering at Discreet Labs and engineering manager at ThunderCore.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Jon Jones
Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.
Bob Xu
Bob Xu is the founder of Questflow and was previously Director of Product Management for Himalaya. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is the founder of Summit Labs and was previously a research data engineer at Polychain Capital. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in data science.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent
Yijia Chen
Yijia previously led the backend team of Treelab, a Sequoia-backed Series A company. He is now founding Curio, where he is spearheading the development of a new generation of crypto-powered games with massive social UGC.