Experts

Samuel Vanderwaal is Software Developer at Metaplex Studios. Formerly, Software Developer at ABR Inc. Environmental Research & Services,  Member and Developer at Canonical Ledgers.

Metaplex

Samuel Vanderwaal

Bundlr Network

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

Molly Wintermute is the anonymous DeFi hacker who found a bug in Hegic, her options trading platform, hours after releasing it, is pushing forward with her project.

Molly Wintermute

Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of MakerDAO. MakerDAO issues Dai, the world’s first stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain, that eliminates volatility through a system of smart contracts designed to respond to market dynamics. Since 2015, I have focused on establishing the vision and organizational structure of the Maker Decentralized Autonomous Organization and the economic foundations of the Dai stable digital currency. Previously, I served as co-founder of Try China, a company providing international recruiting.

Rune Christensen

Zachary Cole is a blockchain protocol engineer and DeFi enthusiast. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and CTO of SlingShot, a DeFi trading platform. Previously, he founded a company called WhiteBlock, which specialized in blockchain protocol testing, research and development.

He also serve as technical advisor to several blockchain related companies, like DeFi Pulse and the Syscoin Foundation.

He has been involved in the blockchain space since 2012 and Ethereum development since 2016. He received his training as a communications engineer in the United States Marine Corps where he and his unit were responsible for building and maintaining the communications and Internet infrastructure for Iraq's Al Anbar Province during Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-08. These efforts included the engineering of field data centers, satellite communications, and the implementation and management of mission-critical cryptographic assets. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Zak worked in the field of cyber security, network engineering, and applied cryptography. He also ran an Internet agency and worked with Google prior to founding Whiteblock, a blockchain testing company whose clientele includes the Department of Defense, ConsenSys, Beam, RChain, Syscoin, and the Ethereum Foundation.

Zachary Cole

Charlie Lee is Creator of Litecoin, ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase.

Lee created Litecoin while working at Google, where he served as a Software Engineer. He worked on YouTube, Chrome, and Play Games.

Although Lee was immediately excited by cryptocurrency, he was unhappy with the early altcoins. He claimed that most didn’t offer any true differences or advantages over Bitcoin.

Thus, Lee created Litecoin in 2011. Its Scrypt proof of work function was meant to keep mining distributed and fair. Unlike most altcoins at the time, Litecoin was launched publically and had no premine. Lee also cut Litecoin’s block time from Bitcoin’s 10 minutes to 2.5 minutes.

Despite being the creator of Litecoin, Lee claims “that in order for Litecoin to succeed, Bitcoin must first become adopted by the mass”. He currently spends about 95% of his time working on Bitcoin projects.

Charlie Lee

Professional meme and user experience connoisseur. Core team of the MetaCartel and Wizard of Dapps. Ecosystem strategy, ethereum, dapps, venture, memes, culture, consumer.

Product person working on Internet 3.0 - UX Background with experience in product management and growth. Currently focused on understanding consumer awareness shifts surrounding data ownership and web3-enabled consumer social.

Peter Yuan Pan

Entrepreneur, Product Geek, and Investor. Chartered Financial Analyst.

After a career in finance, Robert decided to help make the world a better place. One part web designer, one part finance jock, he spends his time dreaming of ways to make privacy mainstream.

He holds an Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has worked at awesome financial institutions.

Robert Leshner

Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.

Stefan Thomas

Mrinal Manohar is a Venture Partner with Reflective Ventures. He has been personally investing in the crypto space for six years. Prior to this, he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head of a ~$1b long-only hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston, and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company in Boston. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science since he began programming at age 11.

Samuel Vanderwaal

Blockchain, Software, Investing.