Bryan Bishop

Bryan Bishop is Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer at Avanti Financial Group: A Bitcoin Core developer, Mr. Bishop was senior blockchain engineer and custody architect of LedgerX, the first CFTC-regulated options exchange and clearinghouse for digital assets, from 2014-2018. He recently created Bitcoin Vaults, a pre-signed anti-theft recovery and clawback mechanism for bitcoin. He has significant prior software engineering experience and has worked on numerous open-source software projects. Mr. Bishop will also join Avanti's board of directors. Bryan Bishop creates and builds software that is changing the face of modern finance, enabling startups to raise tens of millions of dollars in venture capital and pursue their revenue opportunities at full throttle. Most recently, he has written software and built out a highly-regulated finance firm that integrates Bitcoin with the $600 trillion derivatives market, culminating in a Swap Execution Facility (SEF) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) awaiting regulatory approval by the CFTC. He is also a public speaker and published scholar (Nucleic Acids Research, J. Comp. Inf. Sci. Eng., etc.). “Do-It-Yourself biohacker” with hobby projects involving DNA synthesis using phosphoramidite chemistry, and projects involving genetic engineering and more speculative technology development regarding cryonics, brain scanning and emulation, nootropics, molecular nanotechnology, automation, etc.