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Chjango Unchained is Executive Director of the dWeb Foundation and was previously Vice President of Eco-development at Tendermint and a contributor to Brave New Coin.
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Awa Sun Yin
Awa Sun Yin is the co-founder of Anoma & Namada and was previously the co-founder of Cryptium Labs. He has served as a data scientist and software engineer at Chanialysis, a Cosmos researcher, and a technical grant manager at the Ethereum Community Fund. Her main research areas are blockchain technology, cryptography for privacy and scalability of consensus algorithms, security in distributed and decentralized systems, and hardware, especially Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
Shelby Thomas
Shelby Thomas is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Lore. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
Adrian Brink
Adrian Brink is a Co-Founder of Cryptium Labs & Anoma Network.He is also a Web3 Foundation developer, Cosmos and Tendermint core developer.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.
Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky is a self-employed investor, author, and podcast host. He has over 4 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was previously a product lead at Airbnb, where he was responsible for driving consumer supply growth. He also held the role of co-founder and CEO of Localmind, an early location based consumer app, which was acquired by Airbnb in 2012. Earlier, he was the Head of R&D at Webmetrics and the Senior Manager of Engineering at Neustar, Inc.
Joshua Meng
Joshua Meng is the founder of RSS3 and has been working with RSS since 2018.
Jae Kwon
Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and co-founder of Tendermint, as well as the President of the Interchain Foundation. After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, he worked as a professional developer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa and Yelp, where he led the mobile application development team. He also co-founded iDoneThis, a productivity service. Jae has worked on numerous open-source projects, such as a CoffeeScript compiler/interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io, and a cryptocurrency exchange. These projects were inspired by the cryptopunk hacker ethos, which ultimately led to his current work with Tendermint. In 2014, Jae created the Tendermint project, and he, along with Ethan Buchman and Zarko Milosevic, further refined the Tendermint consensus algorithm and implementation, with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the costs and drawbacks of proof-of-work mining. His mission is to make this technology more accessible, in order to accelerate the adoption of decentralized ledger technology.
Wei Dai
Wei Dai focuses on zero-knowledge cryptography and protocol design. Prior to his work as a research partner at 1kx, W. Dai worked as a research partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He also held research positions at NTT Research, the University of Washington, and Visa Research, where he contributed to cutting-edge research in the field of blockchain technology. W. Dai obtained his Ph.D. from UC San Diego and holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, as well as a Masters's from UCSB.
Adriana Laura Mihai
Adriana Laura Mihai is the VP of Marketing and Community at Ignite.
Lucas Bertrand
Lucas Bertrand is the Head of Product at Ignite. He is an Engineer and product manager specialized in blockchain, web3, and DeFi technologies.