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Zain Allarakhia is Founder, CTO at Pipe. Formerly, Software Engineer at Plaid, Co-Founder and CTO at Instavest, Software Engineer at Braintree.

Zain Allarakhia

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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

Kain Warwick is Founder of Synthetix, CEO at blueshyft.

I run two startups; Synthetix is a synthetic asset platform built on Ethereum and blueshyft is a network of over 1200 retail locations that enable cash transactions for digital services.

Kain Warwick

Aviv Eyal is Co-Founder of Spacemesh, working on a new free open source blockchain OS and a fair cryptocurrency. Actively working on growing the global team.

Entrepreneur and technologist. My passion is building consumer digital products and services that are useful, innovative, easy to use and have a great user experience. I’m a universalist software designer that has a track-record building high-quality full-stack systems, native apps, server and backend stacks all the way from conception, design, project management to production and users growth with small teams and limited resources. I’ve been serving mainly in co-founder/cto roles in innovative startups where I always make hands-on product and technology contributions while also driving the higher-level strategic technology decisions, team building and growth, and IP. I started 2 successful consumer media startups in San Francisco and NY.

Aviv Eyal

Luis Iván Cuende is Co-founder and Lead of Aragon, Co-founder of Stampery. Advisor of Primitive, district0x, Status.im, Decentraland, KEEP.

Free software lover and hacker. Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT TR35. Named as best programmer of Europe under 18 by HackFwd. Advisor to the Vice President of the European Comission. Published my first book at 18. Enjoying life and empowering freedom.

Luis Ivan Cuende

Mike Goelzer is an engineer, hacker and leader of product management for the libp2p Project (libp2p.io) at Protocol Labs. Previously, he was a member of the team that built the Docker engine and Docker’s clustering technology. Before that, Mike has been an entrepreneur, engineer and computational chemist.

Mike Goelzer

Sunny Aggarwal is Co-Founder of Osmosis. Formerly Researcher & Core Dev at Tendermint.

My passion lays in exploring the intersection of technology with the social sciences. For the past year, I have been particularly focusing on blockchains, decentralized technology, and cryptoeconomics. I am currently a research scientist with Tendermint/Cosmos with a focus on Proof of Stake and Blockchain Interoperability.

Sunny Aggarwal

Dieter Shirley, Co-creator of CryptoKitties and ERC-721. Co-founder of Dapper Labs, Lead Architect of Flow. Our goal at Dapper is to bring the benefits of decentralization to a broad consumer audience by tearing down the barriers to access, while creating amazing entertainment experiences that are fun and engaging to anyone.

He is co-creator of CryptoKitties, the first mainstream blockchain experience outside of cryptocurrencies. Currently tackling the many technological barriers that are keeping the benefits of decentralization away from billions of citizens of the internet. 

Working on Flow, a fast, secure, and developer-friendly blockchain built to support the next generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them.

Dieter Shirley

Building. Learning. Curious. Product/UX Designer. NFTs are my thing. I try to create new value with existing tokens. I'm a product designer who loves writing about my process. I'm a building fanatic, probably due to my obsession with legos as a kid. I'm currently learning how to learn in an unstructured enviornment.

Brian Flynn

Andrew Lee is Co-Founder and CTO of Handshake Protocol, Founded Purse.io. Making Crypto Useful: for consumers at Purse, for developers with Bcoin, and for industry with HBV.

He drives the company’s strategy, partnerships, and growth. Andrew draws on his previous experience founding an ISO, covering emerging payments at Merrill Lynch, and optimizing processes as an engineer at LG. He earned an MBA from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s from the University of Florida.

Zain Allarakhia

Founder, CTO at Pipe.

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