Head of Protocol Engineering at ChainSafe Systems. Core-Organizer ETHBerlin, Protocol Berg, and GoerliCon. Running testnets on the side.

Aliasgar a Blockchain aficionado, has over five years of experience in the field of web3. He first dipped his toes into the blockchain world in 2017 with Ethereum smart contract development, before moving to the cosmos ecosystem in 2019.

Currently, Aliasgar's serving as a Developer Relations Engineer at Informal Systems, where he works on CometBFT, a fork of the Tendermint consensus algorithm that powers Cosmos SDK and other Cosmos Blockchain networks.

As a developer who's worked with leading blockchain projects like Sifchain, Tendermint Inc, and Akash, Aliasgar has proven himself to be a true Cosmos cowboy.

In his current role, Aliasgar focuses on building relationships with fellow developers, community leaders, and businesses to help drive the adoption of CometBFT and the Cosmos ecosystem. With his passion for emerging technologies and deep understanding of the blockchain landscape, he's constantly pushing the limits of what's possible in this exciting field.

In short, if you're looking to explore the blockchain universe and boldly go where no developer has gone before, Aliasgar is your guy. Connect with him today and join forces to create innovative solutions that will shape the future of the blockchain galaxy.

Anirudha is a Staff Engineer at Brave, where he works on web3 initiatives, notably the multi-chain Brave Wallet. Previously, he worked at Ledger on custody software for financial institutions, and also briefly on algorithms for quantum computers. He enjoys travelling, attending mixers, and playing the guitar.

A Berlin professional since 2013, focused on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot. Communications for Parity Technologies 2017-2022, now an independent contributor to Ethereum and Polkadot communications.

🔥🫡🔥 builder on Ethereum 🛠

Devops at Ethereum Foundation

Barnabé Monnot is a research scientist for the Robust Incentives Group, a research team of the Ethereum Foundation dedicated to the study of cryptoeconomics and mechanism design.

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Christian Reitwiessner is widely recognized for his substantial contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem, mainly for developing the smart contract language Solidity and improvements to the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Recently, his focus lies in advancing zero-knowledge technologies, particularly through his work on the powdr project.

Christopher Goes currently works on Anoma and Namada. Previously, he worked on IBC and the Wyvern DEX protocol. He lives in Berlin.

I work for the Swarm Foundation where I recently led the project Wikipedia on Swarm, to make a web3 censorship resistant copy of Wikipedia. Prior to that, I was community manager with the Golem Network. I have a MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics, where I focused on the interplay between State Secrecy and Democratic Governance. But my passion for freedom of speech goes way back: my father was a satirical cartoonist and a political journalist, he was often the target of censorship attempts so it’s a family affair.

D. is a research engineer interested in distributed systems, trust aware and privacy preserving computing, as well as applied mechanism design.

They are currently working on the anoma protocol specification and its prototypes.

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Eth2.0 core dev at Lodestar @chainsafeth | merge coordinator @gnosischain | og dev at @dappnode

Dawid Szlachta is TrueBlocks’ lead developer. Before joining TrueBlocks, Szlachta spent eight years sharpening his skills on various large-scale web applications. However, he is now more interested in developing local-first and privacy friendly software powered by Ethereum and IPFS. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philology from the University of Warsaw and lives with his wife in Kraków, Poland.

Dennis is Research Engineer @ProbeLab within Protocol Labs. He works on measuring the performance of Web3 network protocols, benchmarking protocols against their target performance milestones, and proposing improvements to their core design principles.

Elizabeth is a software engineer specializing in protocol-level development. Her interests include privacy, networking, and cryptography.

Erik (he/they) works as a freelance artist and developer with a focus on audio / visual coding and decentralized technologies.

He has worked in the area of professional music production for Native Instruments, and later on the Solidity programming language for the Ethereum Foundation. Besides these occupations, he has directed several dance, performance and documentary theater projects in their own technical fields, such as video production and mapping, VR / AR and AI.

At the moment he is mainly contributing to the Radicle stack and building tools for generative artists.

I am father of twins and a programmer. At the age of 15, I heard that ordinary people can actually program computers, I bought a 1200 page book about C++ and started learning. I sticked with C++ for quite a while, learned Java, went back to C++, learned D, Python, Haskell and eventually Rust. Then I became interested in peer-to-peer systems, experimented with rust-libp2p and found that blockchains could play a major role in mitigating shortcomings of p2p systems. So it happened that I applied at Parity Technologies as a core developer. At Parity Technologies I am driving and implementing major parts of Polkadot's Parachain consensus.

Evmos Co-founder. Cosmos Core Contributor. IBC Core Engineer.

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Long time contributor to the decentralized revolution. Student of physics.

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Autonomously Interdependent
Born in 1973
Grigoris

Core developer, member of the geth team. I focus on evolutions to the protocol, and bringing research ideas to fruition.

Igor is the CTO of Gateway.fm, a builder with experience in all sides of the network stack, from browsers to large-scale cloud services. He has been deeply involved in blockchain, including being a core dev to the Ethereum (Erigon nodes) and serving as a researcher.
At Gateway.fm, Igor is currently working on building Gnosis Chain and setting up large-scale distributed infrastructure services as well as helping building zk Rollups nodes design for Polygon zkEVM.

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Jaya Klara Brekke is a cryptographic geographer and CSO at Nym, a global decentralised, incentivised privacy network. She works with the Nym SDK team and broader company on researching, developing and articulating the broader societal implications and importance of privacy technologies in the current major re-architecting of digital worlds.

jenny is an engineer turned product leader and a long time believer in decentralized applications and the infrastructure and communities that form them

RetroPGF lead @ Optimism Foundation
On a journey to summon Ether's Phoenix with a bunch of Optimists.

Open-source engineer
Frontend lead/Infra @ rotki

Researcher at Other Internet investigating the institutional affordances of blockchain protocols

I am an educator and developer in the Web3 space, with a particular passion for zero knowledge proofs.
I started following blockchain tech in 2011, started working on Ethereum in 2015 and started running workshops in 2017.
Currently as CEO of Extropy.IO I teach workshops about zero knowledge proofs and advanced solidity.

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

Protocol Supporter, founder of Bordel

Masih Derkani is a computer scientist and software engineer with a passion for building decentralized systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of St. Andrews, where his research focused on the intersection of distributed systems and key-based routing in peer-to-peer networks. Masih is a core contributor to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI), and Filecoin decentralized storage network. Throughout his career, he has worked on numerous other decentralized projects with a focus on large-scale data-intensive systems and high availability. Masih is dedicated to advancing the development of decentralized web and has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions to complex problems in this space.

Senior Developer Relations for Nym, previously a researcher and artist with background in Philosophy.

Molly Mackinlay leads Engineering and Research Development at Protocol Labs. This includes OSS stewardship across IPFS, Filecoin, and libp2p; designing and managing new breakthroughs like the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM); and helping launch new networks like Saturn (web3 CDN) and IPC (L2 subnets). Her work at PL also involves past roles as IPFS Project Lead and launching the Filecoin mainnet. She started her career as an (A)PM at Google after graduating from Stanford.

Molly also created PL Launchpad, a four-week web3 onboarding program designed to train, develop, and connect technical talent with collaborators and web3 knowledge across the Protocol Labs Network (PLN). If you’re looking for the knowledge and community to ramp into web3 - get in touch!

Research Engineer at Celestia and Team Lead at Rollkit

I am an Ethereum enthusiast with a deep love for all things servers. I incorporated Ethereum into my Master’s thesis and loved the experience so much as to make it my full time job. I currently work in the DevOps team of the Ethereum Foundation and I mainly focus on the Ethereum protocol upgrades. I’m also an avid photographer with a specific interest in Landscape and Travel photography.

Philipp Kant is the Engineering Manager at Mina Foundation, the public benefit corporation serving the Mina Protocol. Previously, he worked at IOHK as the Head of Engineering for five years where he studied theoretical physics and software engineering. Philipp brings a passion for building high-quality, decentralized software to his role at Mina Foundation.

Protocol R&D at OP Labs, previously Eth2 researcher at EF. Working on Ethereum scaling, 4844, rollup security and blockchain architecture.

Decentralization and cryptography nerd since forever. Currently leading design of self-sovereign private digital identity at Worldcoin.

data availability @ celestia

Richard Meissner is the co-founder of Safe with almost a decade of experience as a software engineer. He joined the Gnosis team in 2017 as the tech lead for Gnosis Safe. Working behind the scenes, Richard is setting security standards for Web3 by building the safest digital asset manager and expanding the possibilities of digital asset ownership. Richard is also a thought leader on account abstraction and what it enables for the future of web3.

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Sacha is a developer advocate at Parity Technologies, on a mission to bring forward Polkadot’s technologies to builders of web3. When he’s not working on workshops, documentation or contributing to web3 projects, you may find him walking around somewhere on earth or playing guitar.

Buidling things that help people learn from each other. salimvirani.com

Sam is the Head of Product and Strategy at Skip, a team building MEV solutions that improve protocol sustainability and cross-chain UX. He is also Co-founder of Timewave, an organization that creates tools for intelligent on-chain resource allocation and trustless cooperation.

Sebastian Bürgel builds technical solutions that empower the individual. As founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR, he contributes to establishing full stack privacy for the web3. He also 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.

Sebastian Martinez, a mechanical engineer turned to the web, is currently contributing to the future of code collaboration at Radicle. Drawing on his unique experience implementing proof-of-existence solutions in the nuclear industry.

From his roots in Switzerland and a personal discovery in Argentina, Sebastian's journey has shaped him into a passionate tech professional and dedicated father of two, poised to make a significant impact in the technology sphere.

As an applied mathematician, Steffen started his career in 2000 in the automotive industry as a method- and software developer for mathematical and simulation software, with a particular focus on applications using mathematical optimization, numerical simulation, and artificial intelligence.

Since 2017, he has been working to implement blockchain technology for real-world applications. He has developed applications with industry partners and products in IoT, energy, mobility, sharing economy, asset management, and self-sovereign identity.

2021 Steffen co-founded with 3 partners corpus as a venture studio for web3 applications. Now Steffen is focused on web3 messaging as one of the venture studio's successful projects. He and his team are developing dm3, the web3 messaging protocol for secure and interoperable communication.

Susannah is the product lead for the IBC team at Interchain

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

@timdaub is the founder of Kiwi News, a decentralized Hacker News clone that no single entity controls but everybody co-owns.

product at eigenlayer, previously fuel network and element finance (now delv tech).

Toby Shorin
Toby Shorin is a writer and technologist based in New York and the cofounder of Other Internet Research Institute. His research examines the moral genealogy of technological and cultural evolution.

Pierre Krieger has been in the Rust ecosystem since 2014. After leading several popular open source repositories such as glutin, glium, vulkano, or redshirt, he joined Parity Technologies in 2017 where he led the networking team of Substrate (the framework Polkadot uses). He left Parity at the end of 2022 in order to focus on its work on a Substrate/Polkadot light client as a freelance.

Works at the Ethereum Foundation on protocol coordination. Member of the Protocol Guild

Big fan of why-how-what theory.
Testing is my passion by day. Degening is by night.
Sometimes I get lucky shooting with my ASP-C Canon

Wassim Z. Alsindi PhDWassim is the founder and creative director of the 0x Salon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.

My work centers on how to make a more resilient web. To that end, I've worked on projects ranging from internet-wide measurement to privacy-protecting messaging systems. My current work at Protocol Labs is building a robust decentralized storage primitive.

I've been a ski instructor, speak some chinese, and enjoy playing with fire. I taught computer science in pyongyang.

Backend developer for rotki. Background on mathematics and CS

My name is Yajin Zhou. I am a ZJU 100-Young professor (since 2018), with the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. I earned my Ph.D. (2015) in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. I am the co-founder of BlockSec, a startup dedicated to building blockchain security infrastructure.

I have published more than 50 papers, with 8500+ citations (Google Scholar). One of my papers has been selected to the list of normalized Top-100 security papers since 1981. I was recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award for my contributions to the field of Security and Privacy.

My current research spans traditional ones (software security, operating systems security and hardware-assisted security) and emerging areas (security of smart contracts, decentralized finance (DeFi) security, and the underground economy.)

I have served on the program committee for multiple prestigious security conferences and as a reviewer for National Research Foundation Singapore and ANR (Agence Nationale de Recherche).