Afif Bandak

Builder at Ethereal

Overview

Details

Afif Bandak is working on Ethereal. He was previously a contributor to Synthesetix and Pythia and a researcher at The Block. He is a Ph.D. in biology from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Work Experience

Ethereal

Builder

Synthetix

The Block

Education Experience

The Johns Hopkins University

Investments

Foil

On-chain resource trading protocol

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Kaleb Jessee

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Lars H.

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