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Mikerah Quintyne-Collins is an independent researcher and founder and CEO of HashCloak, a blockchain privacy R&D startup with a global team. Her research focuses on networking, validator privacy, and optimistic rollups. She organised Scaling Ethereum, a research workshop bringing together top Ethereum researchers to work on Ethereum’s most pressing scalability problems. Currently, she’s focused on privacy for blockchains, specifically mixers and mix networks for cryptocurrency transactions. Previously, she was part of the ChainSafe Systems team working on ETH2.0, namely the Lodestar Typescript client. She was awarded a Vitalik YOLO grant for her work on ETH2.0
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David Ansermino
David Ansermino is CTO at ChainSafe Systems. The two biggest challenges in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.
Gregory Markou
Gregory Markou is Blockchains and stuff at ChainSafe Systems.
Ian Ha
Ian Ha is the Co-Founder and CTO of Horizon Blockchain Games, a software developer based in New York. He is passionate about startups, design, and fashion.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. 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.
Andrei Poliakov
Andrei Poliakov is the founder and CEO, and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Coinberry. He graduated from the University of Toronto.
Eden Dhaliwal
Eden Dhaliwal is the co-founder of New Order and was previously a partner and head of cryptoeconomics at Outlier Ventures. Eden holds an MBA from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Manitoba.
Austin Abell
Austin Abell is formerly Software developer at NEAR Protocol and Technical Lead at ChainSafe Systems. Ugraded go-ethereum classic Atlantis and Aghara hard forks; Developed Ethermint, EVM on Tendermint, with support for existing Ethereum dev tooling; Led a team to build Forest, a Rust Filecoin node implementation.
Can Sun
Can Sun is co-founder and Head of Legal at Backpack Exchange and was previously General Counsel at FTX. Previously, he was the General Counsel at FTX. Can holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University
Zeus Chen
Zeus graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada and obtained an MBA from the University of Oxford in the UK. In the past two decades, he has worked in several global investment banks and led a number of cross-border investment and M&A businesses. In addition, he has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. In 2022, he founded the blockchain vending machine project Stealth Startup, which mainly serves the Southeast Asian market.
Jason Fung
Jason Fung is the CEO of Meta0 and the former Global Head of Gaming at TikTok.