Beniamin Mincu is the Co-Founder & CEO of Elrond, a new blockchain architecture designed from scratch to solve the most pressing problems in the space and bring a 1000-fold cumulative improvement in throughput, execution speed, and transaction cost. Elrond can process up to 10,000 TPS, with a latency of 5 seconds and negligible cost. Through Elrond, he attempts to accelerate the advent of an open, permissionless, and globally accessible financial system. Previously, Beniamin joined the NEM Core team in 2014 to lead Product, Marketing, and Community, helping to take the project from a Bitcointalk post to a global billion-dollar product. He has also co-founded Metachain Capital & ICO Market Data and invested in more than 30 blockchain startups.