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  Alan Chiu

  Boba Network

  Alan is Founder and CEO of Boba Network. He has more than 20 years of company building and investing experience, with a background in distributed systems, enterprise software, and fintech. Alan serves on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Board, as well as the board of Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs as Co-President.

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  Aleksandr Vlasov

  Matter Labs

  Ethereum enthusiast, Co-founder of Matter Labs.

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  Alex Gluchowski

  zkSync

  Alex is a software architect with over 15 years of experience in engineering and startups. Currently, he is a co-founder at Matter Labs, an R&D company on a mission to solve blockchain scalability challenge with zero-knowledge proofs. Alex is deeply passionate about individual freedom, self-ownership and decentralization.

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  Alexey Pertsev

  Tornado Cash

  Security auditor and solidity dev. Worked on many dapps including Tornado Cash.

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  Anthony Sassano

  The Daily Gwei

  Independent Ethereum educator, angel investor and advisor. Anthony is a founder of The Daily Gwei and a Co-Founder of EthHub.

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  Anton Permenev

  ChainSecurity

  Anton Permenev is a founding security engineer at ChainSecurity, who performed numerous audits of DeFi protocols. He is also interested in formal verification and automated security analysis of the smart contracts.

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  Barry Whitehat

  Ethereum Foundation

  Barry has been working with ethereum since January 2016. He has developed dapps . He has had bugs accepted to the ethereum foundation's bug bounty. And performed security reviews of numerous projects. More recently he has become interested in zksnarks.

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  Bartek Kiepuszewski

  L2BEAT

  Bartek Kiepuszewski is a Blockchain Researcher working for MakerDAO Protocol Engineering team where he is primarily responsible for risk assessment of various scaling solutions for Ethereum. He is also a co-founder of l2beat.com, the community-focused, vendor-neutral portal educating users about Ethereum Layer2 ecosystem.

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  Ben Jones

  Optimism

  Ben "Weird ETH Yankovic" Jones is a co-founder and Chief Scientist at Optimism. Prior to Optimism he worked on Ethereum's CBC Casper team. In his free time he works on crypto music.

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  Bobbin Threadbare

  Polygon

  Bobbin Threadbare is a project lead for Polygon Miden. Prior to joining Polygon, Bobbin was a core ZK researcher at Facebook's Novi where he led the development of Winterfell, a highly-performant STARK prover and verifier. Bobbin has made numerous contributions to the STARK-based systems including genSTARK library, Distaff VM, as well as AirScript and AirAssembly languages.

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  Brendan Farmer

  Polygon

  Brendan studied math and philosophy before starting Mir, a ZK L1 designed to provide privacy and scalability. The Mir team joined Polygon, becoming Polygon Zero, and released Plonky2, which set a new benchmark for ZKP performance. Polygon Zero is focused on building a scalable ZK L2 to onboard the next billion users to Ethereum.

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  Chaitanya Konda

  EY

  Chaitanya is a Cryptography and Blockchain Researcher working in EY's Blockchain R&D team. She works on scalable privacy solutions for public blockchains. She led the development of Nightfall 1 project and currently is leading the deployment of Polygon Nightfall to mainnet in partnership with Polygon.

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  Daniel Kmak

  Nervos

  Blockchain developer at Nervos. Currently focused on UTXO-blockchains and EVM rollups. In the space since 2017. Previously worked for Ethereum Alarm Clock, Polymath, Energy Web Foundation.

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  Dankrad Feist

  Ethereum Foundation

  Dankrad Feist is an Ethereum researcher with a background in Theoretical Physics and Technology. Since joining the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, he has worked on topics that involve applied cryptography, such as sharding, statelessness, the proof of custody and other topics.

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  Diederik Loerakker

  Optimism

  Also known as @protolambda. Protocol researcher, scaling Ethereum L1 and L2.

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  Ed Felten

  Offchain Labs

  Ed Felten is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs, the makers of Arbitrum. He was previously the Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and served on the White House staff as Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ACM.

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  Emily Herbert

  Fuel Labs

  Emily is a compiler engineer at Fuel Labs, working on the Sway compiler. She holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was a PhD student at Northeastern University (before she dropped out), where she specialized in programming languages and compilers work. Before joining Fuel Labs, Emily spent time at both Google and NASA, focusing on combining the domains of programming languages and networking.

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  Faina Shalts

  ConsenSys

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

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  Guillaume Ballet

  Ethereum Foundation

  Ethereum Core Developer, go-ethereum team. Bridging the gap between research and implementation. Currently focusing on stateless Ethereum and verkle trees.

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  Hadrien Croubois

  OpenZeppelin

  Hadrien is French, has a Ph.D. in computer science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and has been working as a smart-contracts engineer since 2017. Currently he is a part of the OpenZeppelin development team, working on the open-source smart-contracts library and the associated tooling.

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  Jacob Caban-Tomski

  Ethereum Foundation

  Developer working on scaling solutions using L2s for Ethereum to lower costs and enable more people from around world to participate and enjoy the benefits of using Web3.

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  Jacobo Toll-Messia

  Nahmi

  Jacobo Toll-Messia, Founder and CEO at Nahmii AS, was a managing consultant for IBM Global Business services before launching Nahmi AS. At IBM, he specialized in product and business development, strategic planning, distributed systems, and data management. Before that, he was a program manager and country manager at Epsis. Jacobo is a thought leader and expert in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and the Web3 industry.

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  Joe Andrews

  Aztec

  Joe is the Head of Product and Co-founder at Aztec. He wears many hats but mainly focuses on helping developers build out bridge interactions, the Aztec SDK and building zk.money.

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  John Adler

  Fuel Labs

  John is a PhD dropout (for real) and co-founder of Celestia Labs and Fuel Labs. Previously, he was a scalability researcher at ConsenSys, where he created the optimistic rollup design paradigm.

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  Jordi Baylina

  Polygon

  Jordi leads the technical development of the Polygon Hermez zkRollup and is currently working on the implementation of the zkEVM. He is the co-founder of the White Hat Group, the author of the MiniMe token contract, the elliptic curves Solidity library, as well as numerous other established contracts in the Ethereum space. Jordi is also a well-respected auditor as well as the co-founder of the donation platform Giveth, DAppNode, Iden3 and most recently, Polygon Hermez.

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  Julien Niset

  Argent

  Julien is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Argent. He holds a PhD in Physics from Université libre de Bruxelles with a focus on Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography. He has authored several publications in leading peer reviewed scientific journals and is the author of three patents: for quantum random number generation, distribution and use in novel cryptographic schemes.

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  Justin Drake

  Ethereum Foundation

  Justin is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation.

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  Kelvin Fichter

  Optimism

  Benevolent chaos monkey working on Optimism. If it's related to Optimism, I work on it.

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  Marius Van Der Wijden

  Ethereum Foundation

  I joined the EF in 2020 to work on go-ethereum. Before that I worked on Payment and State Channels. I focus on testing and fuzzing and more recently on The Merge.

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  Ohad Barta

  StarkWare

  Ohad Barta has been a product manager at StarkWare for two years. He is involved in numerous projects building on both StarkNet and StarkEx. Ohad came to StarkWare with 9 years of prior experience in theoretical cryptography and code development.

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  Olivier Begassat

  ConsenSys

  Olivier Bégassat is part of the ConsenSys Applied Research RnD team. His current interest is around developping a zk-evm.

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  Patrick McCorry

  Infura

  Patrick McCorry is an Engineer (more like Intern) at Infura. He was an Assistant Professor at King's College London in Cryptocurrencies and Security Engineering. As well, he was a researcher at University College London, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Newcastle University.

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  Pavel Sinelnikov

  Metis

  Pavel has been in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017 and has led educational workshops for CryptoChicks, ETHDenver, and RBC. Pavel currently works as the Integration Lead at Metis and helps integrate projects at all stages of development into the Metis ecosystem.

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  Remco Bloemen

  Worldcoin

  Desire: To see humanity explore and enjoy the full extend of what is possible within the limits of the laws of physics, and to find ways to hack around those limitations where I can!

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  Tas Dienes

  Ethereum Foundation

  Tas Dienes works on ecosystem support at the Ethereum Foundation, with a focus on supporting the enterprise ecosystem.

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  Théodore Chapuis-Chkaiban

  ConsenSys

  Theodore Chapuis-Chkaiban is an applied researcher in Cryptography at ConsenSys Protocols R&D team. His research interests lie at the intersection of cryptography and computer architecture design. He is the co-author of a paper recently published on EthResearch specifying a model for a zk-EVM which is currently being implemented.

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  Tim Beiko

  Ethereum Foundation

  Tim Beiko works at the Ethereum Foundation, running the AllCoreDevs calls. Prior to this, he was a Senior Product Manager on ConsenSys's protocol team.

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  Vaibhav Chellani

  Socket

  Ethereum Researcher, Co-Founder@SocketDotTech, L2 guy.

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  Valeria Yermakova

  Offchain Labs

  Product Design Lead at Arbitrum, former web2 founder, current handstand aficionado.

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  Vitaly Yakovlev

  ZKX

  Vitaly is the CTO at ZKX, where he leads all aspects of the technology and innovation of a suite of Web3 products. He is a strategic, business-driven leader with 20+ years of experience and specializes in developing operational strategies to assure business growth through emerging technologies and product-market-fit.

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  Will Harborne

  DeversiFi

  Will is the founder of DeversiFi, an application specific L2 powered by zero-knowledge proofs, as well as the co-founder of ZKValidator. DeversiFi is focused on making DeFi yield and trading opportunities accessible from one easy and low-friction interface.

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  Ye Zhang

  Scroll Tech

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

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  Yuan Su

  Metis

  A visionary and transformative leader, with a hybrid skill set of technology and business. Yuan received his Bachelor of Computer Science with Honors at Acadia University and his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Corporate Strategy, and Leadership at the University of Toronto. Quickly ascended the ranks to become Technical & Engagement Lead at IBM Canada, and moved on to become Co-Founder & Tech Lead at Metis.