Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa is a Senior Protocol Researcher at scroll.io, working on improving the security, scalability and cost of the scroll ZK-Rollup for Ethereum. Prior to Scroll, Alejandro worked as a Protocol Researcher at Protocol Labs, primarily focused on providing faster finality for Filecoin through a novel architecture for longest-chain blockchains and a novel BFT consensus protocol designed for fast finality in open systems (F3 and GossiPBFT). At Protocol Labs, Alejandro also worked on providing crypto economic guarantees to Filecoin’s user-spawned subnets that interoperate in the Filecoin ecosystem (IPC), and on designing and implementing a framework for SMR systems (Mir). Before Protocol Labs, Alejandro worked at CEA Paris proposing protocols for scaling payment channels networks, as well as at IMT Paris and UAB Barcelona, where he found two critical attacks common to the Lightning Network and all its implementations. During his PhD at the University of Sydney, he worked on scaling Blockchains through subnets, increasing Blockchains' security through novel faults and game theoretical models, and enhancing Blockchains' decentralization via committee sortition proposing novel random beacon protocols, under the supervision of Vincent Gramoli.

Master of Sciene in Mathematics
Gnosis (6 years of experience)
Cowswap employee
TLDR fellow

Andrej Berlin is an expert in web3-native design and organizational development.
He is the founder of the decentralised design collective Deep Work.

Ann Brody

Ann Brody is a dedicated researcher with a focus on blockchain communities and governance, blending insights from Communication Studies and Anthropology in her work.

Her primary research interests revolve around Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), decentralized governance design, crypto politics, and ideologies. She has contributed to Women in Web3 privacy and Web3 Privacy and is an avid advocate for decentralized tech as personal empowerment.

Costanza

Costanza is a privacy and digital freedoms activist. She started exploring crypto in 2018 and since 2020, she has focused on the Web3 fight against Internet censorship, contributing to projects like Golem Factory, the Swarm Foundation, and Devcon’s Hacktivism Hub. She holds a MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics.

Arik is the VP of Technology at Fireblocks, leading the technology research and innovation with focus on cryptography, blockchain, security and AI research. Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build business on the blockchain.

Co-founder of X1 Labs.
X1 blockchain is a high performance, high throughput, monolithic L1 with a mission to provide a decentralised, censorship-resistant multi-purpose infrastructure that empowers the freedom to transact with minimal technical and economic limitations

Barnabé is the co-lead of Ethereum Foundation Research and enjoys thinking about protocols.

I'm a Fellowship member of Polkadot. I work in the Polkadot ecosystem since 2018. Before I was doing a brief trip into the land of IOT.
I'm an open source enthusiast and interested in decentralized systems for quite a long time.

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, researcher and experience designer. She is currently a Program Director at Funding the Commons/Earth Commons and Ecosystem Lead at LayerLabs (layer.xyz), passionate about community weaving in the public goods and open web space.

Developer Advocate, Entrepreneur, and Master of Science in Software Engineering, bringing years of experience in the Web3 space to build innovative solutions at the intersection of blockchain, AI, with a deep passion for blockchain data.

Security Researcher

Costanza is a privacy and digital freedoms activist. She started exploring crypto in 2018 and since 2020, she has focused on the Web3 fight against Internet censorship, contributing to projects like Golem Factory, the Swarm Foundation, and Devcon’s Hacktivism Hub. She has been a guest lecturer for the John Cabot University and has shared her expertise at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions. She holds a MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics.

Daniel is a software developer and developer advocate for the IPFS and libp2p projects who brings over a decade of experience with the Web stack and distributed systems. He's passionate about open-source culture, developer tools, and the Web Platform, and enjoys applying insights from various disciplines to software development.

Cryptocurrency enthusiast interested in data analysis, data engineering and decentralized storage.

Free software developer based in Mashiko, Japan.

Built the first smart contract oracle, Reality Keys, in 2013. Currently maintains reality.eth, a crowd-sourced smart contract oracle.

François Garillot is a research engineer with deep experience in blockchain consensus and distributed systems. He was an early contributor to advanced BFT protocols, working on the team that developed and formally verified the Libra (Diem) blockchain’s consensus algorithm. He worked on what is now the Aptos, Flow and Sui blockchains, and was the lead of the consensus team at Mysten into 2023. François has a background in distributed systems, type systems and programming languages. As a blockchain engineer, he has helped design high-throughput, robust networks and is passionate about bridging theory with practice. François is based in Montreal and enjoys pushing the limits of decentralized technology through both research and hands-on engineering.

Gavin is a computer scientist and blockchain developer best known as a co-founder of Ethereum and the creator of Polkadot. He played a crucial role in the early development of Ethereum, designing its smart contract programming language, Solidity, and serving as the project's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Wood also wrote the Ethereum Yellow Paper.

Wood founded Parity Technologies, where he developed the Substrate framework and the Polkadot network. Wood is widely recognized as a thought leader in blockchain governance, decentralization, and Web3 technologies.

Ira Nezhynska is a designer and creative director in open-source and decentralized tech who helps developers-turned-founders accelerate their product mass adoption through the power of emotion-led visual experiences and brand strategy.

After years working for global brands and fintech giants like Deutsche Bank, ING Bank, Wirecard and DNB Bank, she joined Web3 in early 2018 and has since served as a Creative Director at companies big and small, helping founders win hearts and minds of early adopters and funders.

At her last in-house role, Ira led an internal brand studio at Protocol Labs, ensuring the aesthetic excellence of branding and web projects for Protocol Labs Network partners.

These days, she runs her own design practice as a fractional Creative Director, gives design talks (https://nezhynska.com/talks) and workshops, and organizes design+marketing educational spaces at Web3 events, like Adoption Hub at Devcon SEA, Design Tracks at DWeb Camps and Product Track at IPFS Camp.

I'm enjoying exploring the "unknown unknown" as a DevRel engineer at Aztec Labs. As a weird engineer with an even weirder background as a musician and teacher, I'm passionate about the future of ZK and how can it made accessible without needing a PhD in math

Leo Alt is a co-founder of Powdr Labs and former formal verification lead at the Ethereum Foundation, specializing in security and performance.

Tech. writer and DevRel at Aztec

Ethereum security researcher at Ackee Blockchain Security. Ethereum tooling developer.

Michal is a contributor to the Ethereum Yellow Paper and a graduate of Computer Security at CTU Prague. He works on open-source security tooling for Solidity development, including fuzzing and static analysis. Michal is an auditor with a track record of critical on-chain vulnerabilities detected.

Currently: working as head of product at ZkCloud built by Gevulot Labs.
Previously: worked as protocol researcher at ZkCloud since Jan 2024. Worked on the network design of a zkOracle network as a research grantee at ORA Protocol. Participated in the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship doing research on prover mechanisms under the mentorship of Barnabé Monnot. Co-authored a network design proposal to Aztec Network on decentralized prover coordination. Ecosystem research at Chainstack. Before joining web3, twelve years of humanitarian and non-profit background within the UN.

Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis (aka polar) is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the College of Business, University College Dublin. He is the author of Absolute Essentials of Ethereum (Routledge, 2024). He is on the Strategic Council at the Aragon Foundation, co-Organizer of ETHDublin and contributor to CoinDesk.

Developer of Ethereum wallet infrastructure since 2017 and created/founded WalletConnect protocol in 2018. Additionally authored of several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) focused wallet interoperability and a founding member of Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance (CASA)

Protocol Research Engineer at Waku

I'm a Research Engineer mostly interested in designing practical, full-featured, composable, and configurable fault-tolerant replication systems, as well as exploring clear and expressive ways to implement them. I'm also enthusiastic about exploring alternative programming models for distributed computing. I think that decentralized Byzantine-fault tolerant mechanisms should dominate in future computing systems, and I'm very excited about working towards that.

I like to think of myself as someone discovering smart solutions to hard problems and doing this for the common good. In that, I believe in open source, open innovation and collaboration.

This is why I decided to found Replica_IO, an open-source framework for building practical distributed replication mechanisms. If you're also excited about this initiative, feel free to contact me! Let's make a breakthrough in designing and implementing distributed replication protocols for the future of decentralized computing 🚀

I am a software engineer and lead developer for Polkadot.

I started in the Ethereum ecosystem 7 years ago, and have been building on Polkadot for the last 6 years.

Before that, I was working at Microsoft on their Azure Cloud platform.

panamanian corporate lawyer & governance experimenter

Dr. Thomas Pani is a Web3 Security Researcher at blltprf.xyz with experience in the Ethereum, Cosmos, and Stellar ecosystems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Wien and has collaborated on notable security projects, including grants for consensus protocol verification from the Ethereum Foundation, the development of runtime monitoring tools for the Stellar Development Foundation, and work on the Quint specification language and the Apalache model checker for TLA+. He enjoys turning rigorous academic insights into practical solutions that actually help secure today's blockchain ecosystems.

Tim Beiko is the facilitator for Ethereum's AllCoreDevs calls. He leads the Protocol Support team at the Ethereum Foundation.

Tino, a Computer Science graduate from TU Dresden, has developed financial transaction systems and distributed databases. He later joined Aeternity, a layer 1 blockchain, as a Core Developer, focusing on its p2p networking and state channels. Now, as CTO of HOPR, he leads the development of a private transport layer for the web.

Currently head of data at Drips Network, Warren previously led data science and analytics engineering teams at SoundCloud and worked as a research partner at Seed Club Ventures, focusing on decentralized science and AI. Warren's other work has included developmental cognitive neuroscience research at Boston Children's Hospital, on-chain analysis of DAO governance dynamics, and contributions to scientific research evaluation and infrastructure development at PsyDAO.

Wassim Z. Alsindi is the founder and creative director of the 0xSalon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, fiction, games, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.

Lawyer in the DeFi space, researcher at BlockchainGov