Michał Król is a researcher and lecturer at City, University of London, focusing on future network architectures, decentralized internet, and network security. He has experience in both industry and academia, and his research interests include distributed ledgers, blockchain, and trusted execution environments. He is also the co-founder of DataHop Labs, where he works on security and blockchain technologies. Michał has previously held research positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and Université de Technologie de Compiègne, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Networks.