Organizations

Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems.

Baillie Gifford

DG Ventures

DG Incubation

Tally Capital

Khosla Ventures

DCVC

Signal Ventures

Mosaic Ventures

Future Perfect Ventures

Blockchain Capital

Eric Martindale

Jonathan Wilkins

Lawrence Nahum

Christian Decker

Mario Gibney

Gleb Naumenko

Erik Svenson

Andrew Poelstra

Mike Schmidt

Pieter Wuille

Adam Back

Samson Mow

Blockstream

Spondoolies

Adamant Capital

Greenlight

Green Address

Liquid

Horizen (previously ZenCash) is a privacy conscious coin that is a fork of ZClassic. ZClassic is itself a fork of ZCash which is a well-known privacy cryptocurrency. Because Horizen is a descendant of ZCash, it has all of the same privacy enhancing features including zk-snarks. This means that the transactions can be verified without exposing private keys to the public blockchain. 

Horizen also excludes one of the more contentious points about Zcash and that is the founder’s tax. Horizen has a "secure node" operators. One can think of these as an equivalent of masternodes and staking. They will help to maintain the Horizen blockchain. These secure nodes require a total of 42 ZEN to stake. 

Horizen uses the same hashing algorithm as ZCash (equihash) which means that miners who are mining ZCash can switch between the two. The total supply of ZEN tokens is capped at 21m and the block time is 2.5 minutes (quarter of Bitcoin's). Other technology on the Horizen network includes ZenChat, ZenPub and ZenHide. 

For future development, the Horizen team is also looking to develop a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). This will help to make important governance decisions on the ZenCash network. 

ZEN tokens hit the market not long after the fork and they have been quite volatile recently. They fell considerably in the wake of a 51% attack. They are listed on a number of exchanges and have a reasonable amount of liquidity.

Horizen

SLUSH POOL is the world's first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1,000,000 BTC mined so far. Securing Blockchain since 2010.

SLUSH POOL

We believe that agency is evenly distributed, but access to financial infrastructure is not. In other words, for many people around the world, our current financial system is closed for business. Yet, change is happening. You can feel our financial system changing as technology companies march against legacy financial services to open global access. Creative destruction is accelerating as digital assets, challenger banks, and mobile payments companies build a better, more inclusive financial system.

RADAR

FourthState Labs is a research company spun out from Blockchain at Berkeley. FourthState has received grants from both the Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum Community Fund to research and implement Minimum Viable Plasma.

Fourth State Labs

Bitcoin Core developer, and an advisor to Coinkite. Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech') PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04.

Peter is an independent applied cryptography consultant - what the cool kids call "blockchain tech" - known for his research and educational work on better understanding and making use of "blockchain" technology, with a particular focus on scalability. He's also a long time contribution to Bitcoin Core, as well as maintainer of the python-bitcoinlib and OpenTimestamps projects. He brings to this field a very diverse background, including a fine arts degree, and a stint doing analog electronics design for a geophysics startup.

Peter Todd

Jihan Wu is Chairman at Bitdeer Technologies Holding Company, co-founder of Matrixport and Bitmain.

Jihan Wu

CB Insights, previously known as ChubbyBrain, is your personalized gateway to smarter, faster, friendlier intelligence on high growth private companies.

CB insights is the ideal tool for those engaged in private equity, venture capital, corporate development, investment banking, corporate innovation & strategy, angel investment and consulting. Whether it is deal sourcing, due diligence, or market and competitive intelligence, CBI has been created to assist you in discovering the right private company information in the most efficient, comprehensive way.

CB Insights

Eric is Editor of ProofOfWork.news , Founding Partner of Primitive, an early-stage crypto asset fund. Formerly Venture Partner of INBlochchain. Peking University dropout.

Eric Meltzer

Marco Santori is the Chief Legal Officer of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. Known as the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers," Marco is a recognized authority in the law and policy of blockchain technologies. Prior to his move to Kraken, Marco was the Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain.com, as well as a Partner at both Cooley LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop, where he counseled banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, digital wallets, payment providers, and other companies making new and exciting uses of distributed ledger technology. Marco counseled his clients primarily on the money transmission and securities laws, including anti-money laundering regulations. Marco is an author of the SAFT Project Whitepaper, a self-regulatory effort to curb Initial Coin Offerings. He is an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the Blockchain Ambassador to the State of Delaware, and was the Chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Committee of the Bitcoin Foundation. He has been quoted by the Congressional Research Service, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Coindesk, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Wired, Entrepreneur.com and Crain's New York Business.