I see a blockchain-enabled future as one way for people who have been oppressed by centralised institutions to gain financial and informational independence, control, and self-determination.

I value collaboration, I like uplifting others and I am enthusiastic about simplifying the complexities of our interconnected world.

My passion is to constantly learn and share the knowledge I gain so that others can use it to empower themselves.

I am a big fan of football ⚽️, food, and anything game related.

My name is pronounced [abn-AA].

No financial or tax advice.

Opinions are my own.I

adcv is a co-founder and Chef at Steakhouse Financial, the leading crypto-native CFO-for-DAOs company and professional stablecoin experts with engagements at major DAOs such as MakerDAO or Lido DAO. Previous experience including M&A advisory and investment banking, turnaround manager for a small business, various corporate finance roles. Studied engineering and in general a bit too much.

Adrian joined Tendermint/Cosmos in 2017 as the 3rd core developer and became later the head of partnerships. After Tendermint, Adrian joined the Web3 Foundation as a technologist. Before Anoma & Namada, Adrian co-founded with Awa and Christopher Cryptium Labs a proof-of-stake validator (sold to Chorus One) and Metastate, an R&D organisation that developed the largest upgrades of the Tezos protocol in addition to ZKP cryptography.

Adriano Bertini is Head of Product and Strategy, at Ledger Enterprise (LE).
In his role, he is responsible for creating, executing, and managing Ledger Enterprise Platform (LEP) product strategy, prioritization, and delivery.
Adriano has 14 years of combined experience in developing, deploying, and managing large technology infrastructures for medium to large financial institutions mainly brokerages and banks.
Prior to joining LE, he has been consulting financial firms looking to integrate digital asset technology and contributed to open-source projects, and educational courses in the field of cryptocurrencies.
Adriano worked across 3 regions (U.S.- NY, U.K. London, Switzerland - Zurich), building significant experience in different regional regulatory environments, and the technical and procedural complexity of financial institutions.
He worked for traditional banking institutions (Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank, and Bank Of America Merrill Lynch) building cutting-edge technologies for electronic trading, pre and post-trading automation.
He started his career in security advisory and audit at KPMG where he was in charge of reviewing and advising on financial institution’s security and control framework.
He has been teaching and educating people about the technical challenge of decentralized protocols and their integration with traditional finance.
His focus is on supporting financial institutions and bridging the gap between traditional trading technology and digital assets technology.
He believes we are on the cusp of the most revolutionary transformation of the way people transact and store value for thousands of years. He believes that traditional finance is at a crossroads and institutions that will survive will move quickly to integrate self-custody solutions.
Adriano has a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Rome, and an MBA in Information Technology Management from the University at Albany - NY - U.S.A.
Adriano is a very curious person always trying to learn complex technical challenges in the field of security, money technology, and market microstructure, and seeking the most effective and efficient solution.
He is a member of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland.
He loves snowboarding, diving, and chess, and he has a passion for cryptography, game theory, and the history of money.

Aisling is a Senior Research Scientist at DFINITY who cares deeply about technological impact on society. Focusing her research on the foundations of privacy and sustainability, her goal is to build technology to neutralize societal harms.

Her most recent initiatives include ‘Proof of Green;’ a framework bringing transparency to the reporting of power consumption and carbon emissions, and ‘Privacy on Blockchains;’ an industry-first on-chain encryption mechanism to provide personal and business confidentiality, maintaining the integrity and availability of data.

Aisling holds degrees in math, economics, and computer science, and obtained a Ph.D. in cryptography from the ENS in Paris. She joined DFINITY from Worldline, having spent six years as a cryptography and privacy researcher working on next-generation payment systems. Beyond this, she also worked on scientific and technical direction, strategy, and the legal aspects of building and using forward-looking technologies.

Research scientist at Offchain Labs; Previously senior researcher at ETH Zurich; Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from ETH Zurich.

Alain Brenzikofer is the founder of Encointer, a specialized Web3 protocol for community-issued income, and a unique digital personhood system. Active in blockchain since 2013, he has led numerous Web3 projects that have received grants from the Web3 Foundation and Polkadot Treasury. In addition to Encointer, Alain has led various projects that combine trusted execution environments (TEEs) and blockchain to improve the privacy and performance of Web3 applications. This includes his contributions to the Quartierstrom peer-to-peer energy markets initiative, his team’s winning entry in the 2020 Energy Web Innovation Challenge, and his work at Integritee, which he co-founded.

Alain Kunz currently holds the position of European Sales Head at GSR, a prominent market maker, and active, multi-stage investor renowned for its profound expertise in the crypto market.

Preceding his tenure at GSR, Alain established several ventures within the financial service and digital asset realms. His advisory roles extended to both public and private institutions, political figures, and private individuals, focusing on the convergence of innovation, business & finance, technology, and societal impact.

Commencing his professional journey at the UBS Investment Bank after completing his studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Alain Kunz brings a wealth of experience and insights, underscoring his commitment to excellence in navigating the dynamic intersections of the financial and technological landscapes.

Aleksejs Ivashuk is the Founder of Apatride Network, a coalition of stateless individuals, communities and stateless-led organisations working on addressing statelessness in the EU. He is also an associate member of ENS, Co-Lead of Global Movement Against Statelessness, and serves on UNHCR's Advisory Board of Organisations led by the forcibly displaced and stateless.

Previously, Aleksejs worked for Thomson Reuters, IPSA International, the Green Party of Canada, the U.S. Senate, and was actively involved with the Canadian Red Cross in its First Response and Disaster Management programs. He holds a Political Science MA from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published on the topic of statelessness with Oxford’s FMR and Swiss Refugee Council.

Alexander studied economics before working in alternative investments.
He is the author of reports and a book about crypto, blockchain and Web3.
He is the president of “Home of Blockchain.swiss”, a Swiss non-profit that promotes the Swiss blockchain
ecosystem.
Alexander is the principal of Brunner Digital, an advisory firm for fintech and Web3.
He is an international speaker and was a Member of Parliament in Zurich. He was also a commander in the
Swiss army.

Working at the Secret Network Foundation as a Developer Relations Engineer,
3 x Top 10 Validator in the Cosmos Ecosystem,
MSc & BSc in Physics (University of Munich)

Senior Vice President, Business Development at Sygnum Bank

Talk to me about swissDAO, DeFi, MEV & Cybersecurity

Andra blends her rich background in data and AI with a keen interest in blockchain technology at TokenFlow, where she's is transforming how we understand and interact with blockchain data.Leveraging her experience from building traditional Web2 data-centric AI platforms to the dynamic world of Web3, Andra passionate about developing products that tackle complexity head-on, enabling scalable insights. Currently, she focuses on making blockchain analytics accessible and actionable, contributing to the ecosystem's growth and transparency

Andreas Fletcher brings over 12 years of experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency, seamlessly integrating these technologies into traditional finance and spearheading notable projects at brainbot technologies and the Deutsche Börse Group. Currently, as the Head of Product at Wildcat Protocol, he is pioneering scalable, undercollateralized lending solutions to bridge traditional and decentralized finance. His leadership and innovative approach have consistently driven value creation and product innovation across the financial technology landscape.

Andrey is an Ethereum Security Researcher @ Ackee Blockchain Security. He audited such protocols as Axelar or Squid, focusing on both manual review and automated security testing.

Andronikos is an entrepreneurial technologist who is currently a senior engineering manager at Dfinity Foundation. Andronikos is leading the front-facing teams of the Internet Computer including the Internet Identity and Oisy wallet teams.

Anish is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of Panther Protocol and has over 20 years of experience in security and cryptography including the design or audit of several blockchain protocols. Anish co-founded the UK Digital Currency Association, was a reviewer of Ethereum’s Orange paper, and served on advisory boards for leading companies including Ripple, Hyperloop, and Adjoint. Anish is a frequent speaker on Blockchain, Cybersecurity, ZK, and AI, with lectures at institutions worldwide including MIT (DCI), Carnegie Mellon, UCL, Imperial, and the University of Coventry.

CEO of Aragon

Antoine is Ecosystem Lead at Argent, the best smart contract wallet in the world (ask anyone). He's a strong advocate of account abstraction and Starknet.

I'm Germán Abal (aka ariutokintumi) Co-Founder of ETH Cinco de Mayo and CEO of Roll a Mate. I've speaked at WalletUncon Istanbul 2023 (https://streameth.org/devconnect/wallet_unconference#speakers)

In web3 I'm a big contributor, in the past year i've developed:

Roll a Mate is a payment system - a meta-protocol that uses the Ethereum Mainnet Mempool for rollup gasless ($0) money transfers. Users simply transact on Ethereum Mainnet while the meta-protocol processes in the mempool. This can rely on Ethereum Mainnet or a sidechain for even more affordable rollups (withdrawals).

clu3 service: This unique service is designed to protect smart contract functions from being exploited by bots. The defining characteristic of clu3 is that it uses off-chain humanity proof systems while functioning on-chain without reliance on Oracles. This ensures higher security and efficiency in managing smart contract functions.

Datamorpho: A novel approach that allows files to undergo data metamorphosis based on cryptography principles. This innovative file standard not only enhances data security but also provides added layers of flexibility and functionality to file handling. The Datamorpho project was recognized as a top finalist in ETH Mexico, indicating its impact and potential in the blockchain domain.

Apeiron Protocol: A fully decentralized and secure tokenization protocol that ensures complete ownership of our tokens, referred to as 'Signs'. These Signs maintain a direct on-chain correlation with what they represent and can move through the grid formed by all the protocol users. Additionally, each Sign can be authenticated through digital signatures embedded within its metadata.

gm Fam!: An very easy to use tool to let anyone to deploy with just 1 transaction a new NFT Collection from an Original one because of: a re-branding, a special activation, abandoned or rugged by founders, or the community has different roadmaps. The most interesting features are: 1. The new NFT is a wrapped version of the original NFT and can be unwrapped anytime by the owner (reverse). 2. The new Collection has it's own Creator Fees, Minting Price and Treasury managed by a Guardian or a SAFE.

  X-Chain Arbitrary Execution & Signed Transactions Tunneling Libraries for CCIP and Teleporter: A secured Arbitrary Execution library to call any function in the destination chain with any number of parameters and a Transaction Tunneling that will be used for EOA signed transactions verification and decoding with the library implementation in the destination chain.

Arthur Gervais is Associate Professor at University College London, focusing on information security, blockchains and decentralized finance. Arthur is also co-founder of the Decentralized Intelligence AG (https://d23e.ch), a defence-in-depth AI-enhanced blockchain security provider.

Beatrix Marosvölgyi is an economist at the Center for Cryptoeconomics and Swiss Economics, specializing in projects related to blockchain applications, token economics and environmental economics. She regularly contributes to research in these areas, and supports startups and governments. Beatrix holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Bern and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Lucerne. During her studies, she focused on environmental economics and contributed to a research project on digital technologies. Prior to her current position, she worked for Ernst & Young, the University of Lucerne and the University of Bern.

Ben is a founding member of DAO Suisse, which aims to make Switzerland the go-to place for DAOs globally by fostering a vibrant DAO community, advocating for a favorable legal framework, and promoting knowledge transfer and education. Ben is also the co-founder of FTW DAO, a Swiss-based DAO with a community-based approach to finding, funding, and fostering diverse founding teams with world-changing ideas at an early stage globally. He has over 12 years of experience in traditional finance from Deutsche Bank and UBS, where he held various leadership roles in corporate and private banking in Germany, Switzerland, and the US. Ben holds a Master’s degree in Business Innovation from the University of St. Gallen.

Benjamin stands at the unique intersection of healthcare research and blockchain technology. By day, his work in a university hospital's lab focuses on pioneering medical solutions. By night, he applies his analytical prowess to the cryptocurrency realm, tackling the complexities of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3. This blend of scientific rigor and digital acumen equips him with a distinct perspective, enabling him to devise innovative strategies against Sybil attacks and fraud in the crypto space. His commitment to enhancing digital ecosystem security and integrity makes him a standout contributor to both the scientific and blockchain communities.

Bill Laboon is the Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at Web3 Foundation. Before this, he was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pittsburgh, teaching courses in software quality assurance, software engineering, and blockchain technology. He is the author of two books: A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook; and Strength in Numbers, a near-future novel set in a world in which cryptocurrency has eliminated traditional money. Bill has a BS in Computer Science and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as an MS in Software Design & Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

• Senior Researcher at DFINITY foundation with focus on tokenomics and governance.
• Lecturer at the University of Zurich for stress testing of banks

Björn is a cryptographer and head of research at the DFINITY Foundation. He obtained a PhD in cryptography from ETH Zürich, and joined DFINITY in 2019 after working as a researcher at UC San Diego and IBM Research.

Professor and Lecturer (UniDistance/ZHAW/University of Fribourg), Attorney at Law, Deputy Judge (Cantonal Court Fribourg)

Biography
Engineer - University of São Paulo (USP) 2012 – FAPESP Scholar. Master of Science in Business Administration (FEA - USP) 2015. PhD candidate in Engineering – IT management (POLI – USP) and currently also a PhD candidate visitor at UZH BDLT – University of Zurich, Switzerland (CAPES Scholar). In his PhD he focuses on DLT & Blockchain Governance and Interoperability for CBDCs. Founder of IThinker. Associate Researcher at UCL – CBT London, Expert member from the Digital Euro Association (DEA). Accomplished part of his undergrad at the Ohio State University (OSU) 2010 - United States being a CAPES / FIPSE scholar. Brazilian ambassador officially representing USP and Brazil during the "11th International Students Summit on Food, Agriculture and Environment in the New Century" (Tokyo Japan) 2011. Participated in the United Nations Model at (UN) headquarters in New York city (2016) and was a member from the Youth Brazilian delegation during the Public Forum from The World Trade Organization (WTO) 2016. Has work experience in the financial markets, both at private bank and national infrastructure payment systems. Among his experiences there are: risk management, internal auditing, corporate governance, IT auditing and IT governance in the financial industry. He holds COBIT and DPO (EXIN) certifications. Certified ISO 31.000 until 2019.

Research interests:
DLT strategy. CBDC Interoperability Governance, IT governance, Web 3, CBDC, Tokenization, Blockchain (and DLTs) Governance, Interoperability, Interoperability

Chris is Head of Legal at WalletConnect. Prior to which he established the Digital Assets legal function at prominent fintech http://Checkout.com, which provides payment processing services to dozens of digital asset exchanges and onramps. He was also an attorney at major law firms where he counseled Web3 and fintech founders, companies and foundations through their entire life cycle and represented global financial institutions in digital transformation projects and high-stakes criminal investigations.

Chris Fabian is a co-founder and current leader of Giga (http://giga.global), an initiative by UNICEF and ITU focused on connecting every school in the world to the internet. His work sits at the intersection of technology and global policy, focusing on addressing pressing world issues. Notably, he founded UNICEF's cryptocurrency fund, the first of its kind in the public sector, with an AUM of more than 20M USD in Eth and BTC. Chris has made significant contributions to blockchain policy, including shaping New Zealand's blockchain strategy and engaging with central banks and financial institutions on blockchain efforts since 2016. Previously, he founded UNICEF's Innovation Unit and advised two Secretary-Generals, Heads of State and Fortune 100 CEOs as well founding and exiting several emerging-market tech startups . Recognitions for his impact include Time Magazine's "World’s 100 Most Influential People" and WIRED's "25 People Changing the World".

Giga builds its open source blockchain products in Geneva and Barcelona, supported by the Governments of Switzerland and Spain. The team is currently working on tokenizing the gigabyte (a connectivity credit marketplace) and creating an NFT / on chain data object for every school in the world.

Colin is focused on market-neutral strategies, such as active liquidity provision to AMMs, market making on centralized exchanges, or event-driven opportunities. Currently running a combination of in-house developed strategies in DeFi, combined with external allocations to other quant managers. Background in managing multi-asset class portfolios and broad knowledge of investment fund structuring across a variety of jurisdictions.

Connor has been developing on Ethereum since 2016, and wrote one of the first research papers on Ethereum. He assisted building Sygnum bank, and thereafter founded Enso that is a solver of intents across many evm ecosystems, and an aggregation layer for embedding defi actions.

I believe innovation and technology can shape a better society.

I've been in tech since 2012, from e-commerce startups, to fortune 500 SaaS companies, to volunteer side projects. I started exploring crypto in 2018 and in 2020 I joined the web3 fight against Internet censorship. I've never looked back since!

Web3 Security Reviewer & Researcher with over 5 years of experience in Web3Sec.

• Programming:
  Beginning his journey in 2005 as a backend developer, Damian collaborated with a diverse array of companies spanning multiple industries. By 2009, he pivoted towards cyber security, embarking on an academic pursuit that culminated in a PhD from Warsaw University of Technology.

• WebSec:
  With a solid foundation in programming, Damian ventured into Web2 security in 2016. His expertise led him to conduct numerous pentests and source code reviews, predominantly for banking and fintech sectors.

• Web3Sec:
  In 2018, Damian delved into the Web3 security domain, pioneering the Smart Contract Security Verification Standard – the most extensive security checklist for Web3 initiatives to date. Throughout this period, he has been a speaker at various conferences, including EthCC, Web3 Security Conference, ETHWarsaw, OWASP AppSec Global, Confidence and InfoShare.

• By 2022, Damian took another significant step by co-founding Composable Security, a firm dedicated to Web3 security assessments and consultations.

David is a core team member at Polimec. He worked in the business development department for the largest German luxury car manufacturer during his studies in China, the largest US EV manufacturer, and a Big4 in Germany while graduating in International Business Management with a focus on Asian Markets. After graduation, he worked in another Big4’s Zurich Global Mobility Services practice for five years, managing some of their more prominent clients in Europe, and driving various blockchain-related initiatives.

I'm a freelance web developer based in Zürich, Switzerland, and an open source enthusiast. In fact, I made over 7,000 commits on GitHub last year 😅. When I'm not busy building, you can find me literally running up mountains! 🏃🏔️

Dominic Wörner is a Senior Solutions Architect at DFINITY. Before joining DFINITY, Dominic was a Solutions Architect at Bosch Digital Solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Management from ETH Zurich and was a visiting researcher at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. Before that, he studied physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden.

PhD in Blockchain Voting, advanced the status-quo of voting systems with his novel research on decentralizing electoral procedures. Published cutting-edge research in interdisciplinary top-tier venues covering Blockchains, Applied Cryptography and Information Security.

Eomji Park, currently the Head of Research & Operations at Encode Club and a Guest Scientist at the Technical University of Munich, has a rich background in technology and education. Her journey includes a stint in embedded systems, where she contributed to customer success by developing software and hardware demos to enrich the developer experience. At Encode Club, a leading educational community in emerging technology, Eomji continues her passionate work, focusing on empowering both developers and early-stage projects. Beyond her primary roles, Eomji is actively involved in educating and nurturing new talent in the blockchain space. She frequently collaborates with universities and businesses to conduct workshops and lectures, playing a pivotal role in shaping future innovators.

Filip is a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests include network security, applied and threshold cryptography, and distributed systems resilience and robustness. To assess various system properties, he focuses on reproducible experiments. He investigates privacy-enhancing technology focusing on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and threshold decryption. He teaches peer-to-peer systems and security and contributes to several lectures.

Co-Founder of RedStone & Warp.cc.
In the blockchain space since 2017, ex-Google Cloud PM, attended 30+ hackathons and conferences, winner of ETHBogota 2022, Co-Founder of ETHWarsaw hackathon & conference. Marcin has a broad understanding of Web3 infrastructure and integration aspects.

Florian Spychiger received his MSc. in Quantitative Finance jointly by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich and his PhD at the UZH Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies Group. Currently, he is working as a research associate at the Zurich University of Applied Science. He conducts research on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and on incentives in blockchain systems. Florian analyses existing incentives in blockchain protocols and in DAOs and designs new systems. Specific research topics include consensus design, decentralized autonomous organizations and blockchain governance. Furthermore, he is a council member of the industry association DAO Suisse that promotes DAOs in Switzerland.

Francesco Andreoli is currently leading the developer community efforts at Consensys/MetaMask. He is an ETH Engineer and digital Entrepreneur who has been active in Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States with a strong developer relation and developer ambassador focus.

He has been a mentor at TechStars, Angelhack, The Hult prize among several other startup accelerators and incubation programs around the world. He started his career as an Engineer and since 2019 he is actively investing with Oui capital in pre-seed startups active in sub-Saharan Africa countries.

He has a Msc & Bsc degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zürich and master’s in international business from Hult Business School.

He is fluent in 6 different languages and enjoys working in emerging markets. Passionate about hackathon, DAOs and developer ecosystems.

VIP & Institutional Sales, EU at Binance.

Working closely with crypto/traditional hedge funds, high frequency trading firms, asset managers, family offices, market makers, corporates, heavy traders and exchanges across EU and wider MENA region.

He was born Afrikanus Kofi Akosah Adusei, but better known by his pen name Frisco d'Anconia. A seasoned journalist and Free Market Public Policy Analyst, he embarked on a transformative journey when he discovered Bitcoin in 2011, and since then, there has been no turning back.Frisco's contributions to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space are vast and impactful. His bylines have graced prominent Blockchain news outlets such as Cointelegraph, Bitcoin.com, CryptoCoinsNews, KryptoMoney, DashTimes, and more. As a Crypto Nomad since 2016, Frisco has been traversing the African continent, passionately advocating for the adoption of Blockchain technology. What sets him apart is his unique lifestyle — he sustains himself entirely on Crypto, eschewing the need for a personal bank account. This distinctive approach reflects his unwavering belief in the decentralized financial systems he champions. Frisco's role extends beyond journalism; he is a Blockchain agnostic with a rich history of collaboration with various projects. His primary focus has been in communications, where he has played a pivotal role in conveying the significance of diverse blockchain projects to a global audience.
Currently, Frisco is at the helm of Timbuktu DAO, contributing his vision and expertise to its development. Additionally, he holds the esteemed position of founding president at the Africa Web3 Institute, formerly known as Africa Blockchain University. In these capacities, Frisco continues to shape the narrative and drive initiatives that align with his commitment to the decentralized future.

Partner at Permanent Ventures, skeptical optimist

Founder of Zyfi - building a tool set that leverages zkSync's native account abstraction (AA) to provide a seamless on-chain experience to users. We offer a full-stack solution ranging from a front-end to an API that lets any dApp propose gasless transactions (sponsorship) and enabling users to pay with any ERC-20 tokens as gas.

• TradFi background in Trading / Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & Rokos Capital in London
• Read about Crypto in 2017 and started following ever since
• Involved and invested in liquid tokens, private deals & advisory roles since Jan 2020

A security auditor at Consensys Diligence, George has always been fascinated by Math & Technology. This led him to a degree in Applied Mathematics and a career in software, where he focused on the people aspect of tech -- privacy, personal data, digital identity, human-made data and so on. Eventually he found Ethereum and smart contracts, a promising world that seemed to perfectly fit his interests. At Consensys Diligence he decided to specialize in smart contract auditing to help the technology get adopted safely as usage skyrockets. In his spare time you can find him traveling the world and enjoying the little things in life.

Motivated, dynamic, and relentless — this encapsulates my career journey over the past 7+ years.

My experience, extending across various industries and multinational contexts, has given me the opportunity to lead numerous projects in multiple nations, aiming for enhancements in efficiency and operational excellence.

After falling in love with blockchain technology, in 2021 I decided to leave my 9-to-5 job to channel my multifaceted expertise into a novel and pioneering venture in the blockchain and cryptocurrency startup world.

My personal life, fueled by trail running, innovation, and a love for the mountains, reflects the professional ethos I live by. These activities have instilled in me the values of determination and perseverance, driving me to constantly challenge myself.

Co-Founder and CEO 512M AG The DeFi Investment Advisor.

Hodlon builds privacy tools as a Project Coordinator for PSE. In his free time he contributes to DAO's, produces fully immersive events and grows trees.

Maya Angelou said it best: “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

I spend 90% of my time thinking about how to make venture capital better. Obsessed with Web3, blockchain, DAOs and decentralised finance. At FTW DAO we believe that the fastest route to real change at scale for diverse founders and investors will come by leveraging the networks and networked power of communities and ecosystems globally, uniting their knowledge, ideas and capital to invest in diverse founders outside of traditional funding structures.

Passionate about:
1) investing in diversity and gender equality
2) simple, beautiful digital experiences
3) designing a better world

Previous lives as a software product owner, business developer and filmmaker.

All views posted on this account are and will always be my personal opinions and do not represent the views of the Safe Foundation or the Safe DAO Community unless explicitly stated.Maya

Ivo is a recognized expert in web3 and crypto, with extensive experience in blockchain development. As the CEO of Ambire Wallet, he leads a team of skilled developers and designers in building innovative products for the blockchain space.

Prior to founding Ambire Wallet, Ivo co-founded a media center with over 25 million users and AdEx, an ad network focused on transparency and user privacy. During this time, he developed a deep understanding of blockchain technology and became an active participant in the crypto community. He has since leveraged his knowledge and expertise to create cutting-edge blockchain solutions that meet the needs of businesses and individuals alike.

Ivo is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, and has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others and helping to drive the adoption of blockchain technology and crypto around the world.

Head of Engineering Avail Project

Jan is a co-founder of Zircuit. He is an experienced researcher in algorithm design and formal methods and is interested in all things rollups, plasma, and beyond. At Zircuit, Jan's research is focused on sequencer-level security, minimizing proof generation time, and developing novel methods to check the correctness of zero-knowledge circuits. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2022.

Ms. Janina Pietrowska advises entrepreneurs, startups, scaleups and large corporations in Swiss and Liechtenstein law specializing notably in financial market law, capital market law and corporate law with focus on IT, fintech, blockchain, tokenization, crypto, SDG and impact investing projects. With over 10 years background in international consultancy, Ms. Pietrowska used to advise for years a diverse array of international investors, primarily from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein in CIS countries with all activities in regard to their subsidiaries, branches, joint ventures and M&A deals in the amount up to 150 Million Euro.

As one of the pioneering figures in supporting blockchain projects in Switzerland and Liechtenstein since 2017, Ms. Pietrowska has successfully structured over 100 web3 projects across various sectors worldwide at various stages with major focus on tokenization of real world assets like real estate, commodities, diamonds, physical and digital art.

Noteworthy projects between 2017 and 2023 include the resolution of corporate conflicts for a blockchain start-up in Switzerland and Liechtenstein amounting to CHF 30 million, structuring a security token offering in Switzerland and the EU valued at CHF 10 million for a crypto mining company, as well as the structuring of green bonds up to EUR 11 million. Her legal expertise also encompassed assisting with UK real estate tokenization valued at up to EUR 5 million and Cyprus real estate tokenization amounting to EUR 140 million.

Janina is dedicated to providing compliant and helpful legal solutions, nurturing long-term relationships with the clients based on mutual trust and clear project budgets.

Janina also serves as non-executive Board Member in various companies.

Janina is an active participant in prestigious events such as the Blockchain Leadership Summit, Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference, Axess Think Tank, WEF Davos, the St. Moritz Institutional Investors Summit, delivering over 30 presentations.

Additionally, she regularly contributes to publications for Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide and Legal500 Country Comparative Guides. Ms. Pietrowska is also a member of the Crypto Valley Association Regulatory and Asset Tokenization Paper Working Group.

Security researcher at Ackee Blockchain. Studying and teaching at universities. Trying to become Ph.D. dropout.

Johannes is the co-founder and head of growth at Nerif Network. Nerif is building an orchestration layer for smart contracts with the goal of making web3 suck less and enabling the next generation of dApps with a UX fit to onboard a Billion users. Johannes is a web3 veteran with experience both from the tech as well as the investment side. Before founding Nerif, he has helped to build digital assets investment manager L1 Digital into an investment powerhouse after having started his professional web3 career at Swisscom Blockchain working with decentralized projects implementing successful go-to-market strategies.

Senior Legal Counsel at Bitcoin Suisse

Josef Je is the founder of PWNDAO and a core contributor to organizing ETHPrague and EthereumZurich, where he drives collaboration and innovation within the Ethereum community.

I'm enjoying exploring the "unknown unknown" as a DevRel engineer at Aztec. 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

Ethereum ecosystem enjoyer

University of Zurich

CEO - Extropy.IO - Blockchain and ZKP Consultancy.
I educate, develop and audit in the Web3 / ZKP space.
Since 2017 I have been running workshops, currently I'm running workshops for Encode.club, teaching advanced solidity, zero knowledge proofs and zkML bootcamps

With a passion for decentralization and democracy, I founded "Open-Source-Economy" to blend open-source ethos with business principles. One of the first engineers at Swissborg, I helped architect their financial system, enhancing accessibility for over a million users. Fluent in multiple languages, I've shaped my perspective on democracy through diverse cultural interactions. Beyond work, I advocated for direct democracy through a YouTube channel and attended a democratic high school emphasizing student participation and self-governance.

Developer Support Engineer at Ledger

Loïc Titren is a product manager at Kiln. He is one of the very first employees since he joined Kiln before completing his studies at Epitech. Skillful, he started as an engineer before supporting Ernest on product. He’s one of the architects behind Kiln On-Chain suite of products.

Luca is a co-founder of Polimec and council member of the Polimec Foundation, the initial developer of the Polimec protocol. Earlier, he worked as Head Crypto Solutions of a Swiss crypto broker, where he led a team in charge of fundraising, token sales, OTC deals, and tailored crypto request activities for key clients. Before that, he gained financial market experience in the active advisory department of a Swiss bank and structured products at a leading provider for structured investment solutions.

Lukas Küng is a research assistant at the Zurich University of Applied Science at the Institute for Organizational Viability in Blockchain and DAOs. In addition, he is enrolled as a PhD student at the Institute For The Future at University of Nicosia, emphasizing the application of decentralized autonomous organizations while researching their potential for new economic models and new governance systems. He received his MA in Leadership in Digital Communication/Innovation by the Berlin University of the Arts in cooperation with the University of St. Gallen and is certified in Blockchain Business Innovation and Application through MIT Sloan Executive Education.

Lukas Schor has been working in product-related roles in the blockchain industry for the past 6 years with the goal of making Web3 more accessible. He is co-leading Safe since 2019 and co-founded the Safe Ecosystem Foundation. Safe is the leading smart account protocol and has established itself as the most trusted platform to manage digital assets. It is being used by teams and individuals alike to manage more than $90 Billion in digital assets.

Magdalena Fichtl is responsible for driving Gelato's commercial excellence by driving a range of initiatives from infrastructure negotiations, legal and regulatory matters and business operations. Throughout her career, Magdalena has held a number of core contribitor roles across traditional consulting, banking, and venture capital.

Magnus Woodgate has a background in applied physics and computer science focusing on building high frequency, automated strategies in the crypto markets.

His knowledge has been practically applied throughout a variety of fields in the way of high throughput computational models, low latency embedded systems and probabilistic adaptive algorithm design.

Markus started his career 15+ years ago and has extensive experience as portfolio manager across rates, credit, crypto and multis asset portfolios, both in Switzerland and in London. He was responsible for the investment management arm and deputy head of asset management at Berner Kantonalbank. He currently takes responsibility of the liquid crypto investment strategies at Sygnum Asset Management. He holds an MBA from the University of Rochester (USA) and EMBA from University of Bern (Switzerland) and is Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA).

Matthias Hafner is the Director of the Center of Cryptoeconomics and Head Blockchain and Cryptoassets at Swiss Economics. He focuses on projects related to blockchain applications, token economics and competition. Matthias has led numerous projects and supported various startups, corporates, and decision-makers. In addition, Matthias is a mentor for startups of CV Labs as well as DAO Suisse, a researcher at the University of Zurich, and an advisor to multiple blockchain projects. Before joining the Center for Cryptoeconomics, Matthias worked for the Swiss Competition Commission.

Miao programmed many, many years of computers as an old-school hacker. Miao is still in love with programming, more so as an art.

Now, Miao focuses on a mission that he believes in to fundamentally advance the experience of money in a world where money is superfluid.

As a lifetime goal, after showing some success, Miao also wants to spread the idea of rational self-interest, which he believes will unshackle humanity from the evil of destructive self-sacrifice.

Micha has over 16 years of experience, including two in New York, in auditing large financial institutions and trading financial instruments and commodities. In addition to working as an auditor, Micha has spent many years advising small and medium-sized financial institutions on the operational implementation of regulatory requirements. Micha joined Deloitte from another Big Four company in 2015 and is responsible for establishing the “Deloitte Managed Services” platform.Micha

Michael is a software engineer who is passionate about Web3 and technologies enabling decentralization. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, with his thesis focusing on optimizing on-chain transaction fees for smart contracts with frequent payouts. As part of the AxLabs team, he has been building Web3-focused developer tools for more than four years, including an SDK and compiler for the Neo Blockchain. Most recently, he took the lead engineer role of the native bridge for Neo X, an EVM-compatible sidechain.

Michael Kunz is a seasoned legal professional who advises startups and established companies on the development, operation and commercialization of blockchain-based applications since 2017. With a focus on layer one protocols, DeFi applications, DePINs, and DAOs, Michael offers a unique blend of technical and legal expertise. He also assists clients with regulatory matters and intellectual property rights management, including open source licensing. Michael is licensed to practice law in Switzerland and Washington State (USA) and is primarily active in an advisory and contract drafting capacity.

Michael is the CEO of Liquity and has been in the crypto space in different positions since 2017. Before he catched the crypto bug, he consulted enterprises in their digital transformation at the largest telecom provider in Switzerland. He has 20+ years experience in building digital products and a background in computer science and economics.

Brokkr CEO

Michal is a blockchain enthusiast, a graduate of Computer Security at CTU Prague, currently working on open-source tooling for secure and efficient Solidity development.

As the Business Development Manager for Binance Institutional, Michela is instrumental in connecting the world’s leading financial institutions to the digital asset economy. Serving as an integral force in Binance's multimillion-dollar institutional business in EMEA and MENA, she plays a pivotal role in guiding traditional asset management firms through their transition to digital assets. During the last few years, Michela's dedication has led to the successful transition of hundreds of traditional finance firms into the CeFi and DeFi space.

Founder of Idena

Co-founder & SVP of R&D at Tenderly. Before Tenderly, Nebojsa was a blockchain engineer at Decenter and a software engineer at GoDaddy. He has experience building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale distributed cloud systems and has studied computer science.

Nicola Plain graduated from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) with a Master's degree in Business Innovation and obtained a CAIA Level II certificate a few years later. He worked for five years as a business engineer and project leader in the automotive industry with his small consulting company. Disillusioned by the resistance of large companies to change, he decided to work only in very agile and flexible environments in the future. On 01.02.2021 he joined Aktionariat AG, a company that takes advantage of the new Swiss DLT law to allow companies to create a marketplace for their shares on their own website.

Nicolas Alioth is a distinguished professional in fintech and web3 since 2017, with a deep focus on the intersection of finance and blockchain technology. He is a published author for his contributions to modern financial theories in the crypto realm.

His extensive experience as a strategic consultant, CMO, and financial analyst has equipped him with a vast array of skills and insights, adeptly navigating the complexities of both traditional and decentralized finance.

I am an attorney-at-law whose practice focuses on dispute resolution. My full bio can be found here: https://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/curchod-nicolas/I

Founder of Chronicle Labs, the developers of Chronicle Protocol, Nik began his crypto journey at IBM Research, where he worked on the Hyperledger blockchain and early supply chain finance applications.

In 2016, he joined the founding team of MakerDAO to create DAI, Ethereum’s leading decentralized stablecoin. This is where he co-developed the first ever Oracle on Ethereum. Nik is also responsible for creating DSProxy, an industry-standard account abstraction primitive; OasisDEX, the first decentralized exchange on Ethereum with an order matching engine; as well as Chronicle Oracle protocol, which secures over $10B of assets locked in MakerD

Designer at Ethereum Foundation

I started working on the zero knowledge proofs since late 2021. I have been working in the Ethereum Foundation's PSE team for more than a year. After joining Ethereum Foundation, I started working on Eigen Trust project. In this journey, I did a lot of different implementations with Halo2 and Rust programming language.

I am a thesis student in the area of fundamental cellular processes in the area of neurophysiology, founder of deSci México and lover of knowledge. My career at web3 is recent, but I am prepared to give my best to build an impactful decentralized science community in my country.
I am a member of the Dealflow group of AthenaDAO, an organization that seeks to improve scientific research on women's reproductive health issues.

Pavel is a researcher at UZH Blockchain Center and a partner at PLL Legal & CBP, Zürich who undertook extensive research in comparative law, law and economics and regulation of technologies fields at various institutions and academic think tanks, inter alia, in the Netherlands, France, Australia and the UK. Pavel is an advisory board member of the Swiss Finance and Technology Association (SFTA). He gives courses on Technology Regulation in Financial Markets at various European universities and as a partner at PLL Legal helps startups and big companies to overcome the challenges of doing business in the global economy.

Pietro Carta, a blockchain security engineer at ChainSecurity, specializes in smart contract audits in Solidity and Vyper. He also discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical vulnerability on live code, protecting over $10M in user assets.

Pietro holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and a Master's degree in Data Science from EPFL. He boasts prior experience both in academia and in industry, on the one hand as as a Data Science Consultant for the prestigious UCL university, as a Research Assistant for EPFL, and on the other hand as a CTO and software developer in FinTech companies.

Here's a link to one of his talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAo2JG9SUOQ

Claudio J. Tessone is Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the Informatics Department, University of Zurich. He is co-founder and Chairman of the UZH Blockchain Center. He is also incharge of NetSci Society. He holds a PhD in Physics (on complex systems) and an Habilitation on "Complex socio-economic systems" from ETH Zurich. He is an expert in the modelling of complex socio-economic, and socio-technical systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is interested in the link between microscopic agent behaviour and the rules these agents abide to, and the global, emergent properties of socio-economic and socio-technical systems.
Blockchain-based systems and cryptocurrencies are the main pillar of his research (being among the first to study them). This includes crypoeconomics (from financial aspects to meso- and macro- properties, such as withstanding, emergent centralisation), big-data blockchain analytics and forensics, design of blockchain-based systems, and characterisation of economic incentives that are present (by design or set inadvertently) in them.

Professor of Economics at the University of Siena-Italy

Puja Ohlhaver is a lawyer, innovator, and technologist. She is a member of the Getting Plurality Research Group at the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard. She is co-author with Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin of “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul.” Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and WIRED. She previously practiced law at Skadden, Arps and founded ClearPath Surgical, Inc., a women’s healthcare company.

Raphael leads Growth and Partnerships at Arrakis.finance a decentralized and permissionless market maker on Ethereum. Arrakis manages more than 140M USD in TVL in liquidity on UniswapV3 and executes algorithmic market making strategies for its clients.

Coming from the consulting industry, Raphael provided technical and strategic advice in the field of blockchain technology and DeFi to clients from the banking and investment industry for several years. Along side this, he has in depth experience in traditional market making and studied the field of on-chain market making for order book and AMM based trade settlement, comparing differences and advantages of multiple ecosystems.

Cryptographer for 17 years for the Defense Industry, 2 years in the Ethereum ecosystem. I optimize implementations for embedded and On chain systems.

Solution Architect, FinTech & blockchain expert. I have been a CTO of few startups, worked for corporates, advised many projects. Launched: 2 Cosmos chains, NDC (Near governance framework), Near Contract Standards core member, Algorand smart contract framework, many Ethereum projects. Serial hackathon winner.
https://zaremba.ch

Co-founder of Paladin and ex-banking lawyer

As a specialist in financial market law, Romedi Ganzoni advises banks, asset managers and other regulated companies as well as FinTechs and start-ups on all legal and regulatory matters.

He specializes in traditional financial market law as well as in the areas of digital finance, FinTech, Web3 and ESG. He has broad experience in these areas and supports his clients with creative solutions in the implementation of their business models.

Romedi Ganzoni is himself co-founder of a successful start-up, regularly holds webinars and lectures, publishes in his areas of expertise and is regularly invited as a panelist.

I am a CTO at Asymetrix.io

Also, I am a founder of the Kyiv Ethereum Community - kyivethereum.com

Actively participating in ETH hackathons, speaking, and mentoring. ETHPorto 2023 - speaker, ETHPrague 2023 - speaker, ETHDenver 2023 - mentor

Developer Relations Engineer at Fuel Labs. Educator. More than 6 years growing good vibes communities.

Sandy Carter is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains, a platform for user-owned digital identity. As COO, she is responsible for driving growth and developing business strategies in pursuit of the company’s mission to provide user-owned identity for the world. She also drives partnerships and integrations for Web3 and the Metaverse. Prior to Unstoppable, Sandy was a VP at AWS where she created and grew businesses in emerging tech, leveraging AI, blockchain, and AR/VR. Before that, she was a General Manager at IBM and a Silicon Valley start-up founder.

Sandy is a leading voice in technology, social media, Web3 and the metaverse who has been recognized as a Top 10 Most Powerful Woman in Tech by CNN and as a top AI influencer per Onalytica. Sandy Carter is a Board Member at Altair, an AI company, Chairman of the Board for the non-profit Girls in Tech, a past member of the Diversity Committee at the World Economic Forum, the founder of Unstoppable Women of Web3 and a founding member of Blockchain Friends Forever (BFF). She has won numerous awards including 2023 Crunchbase Influential Women in Sales List, 2023 CRN Channel Chief, Top 100 Global Thought Leader by Awards Magazine, Top 150 Business Transformational Leaders, a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Top 115 Most Inspirational Women of Web3/Metaverse, 100 Women Davos, Two Lovies Awards for Best Metaverse HQ, Top 14 Edge Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, and is a member of Fortune Most Powerful Women. She is fluent in eight programming languages and is the author of five books, which won the Platinum MarCom Award and the Silver Marketing Sherpa award.

Developer Relations @ web3js.org

Severin is a Software Engineer at DFINITY on the SDK team. Before that, he worked at Auticon and insurando and got his Masters in Computer Science here at UZH. He likes do do anything where he doesn't have to touch a frontend.

Sheraz Ahmed has advised hundreds of organisations on the implementation of modern Web3 practices to further their business objectives. As the Managing Partner of STORM Partners, the world-renowned solution provider, and as the Ecosystem Director of the Crypto Valley Association, he drives growth, collaboration, and integrity across the global blockchain ecosystem!

Member of the foundation council of Carrot Fndn.

Director with Sielva Management SA, established in 1976, Zug/Switzerland. Supporting Blockchain & FinTech startups from incorporation to growth as independent board member. Lecturer at universities in three continents and international speaker on DLT/Blockchain. Mentor for FinTech Startups.

Simon is enthusiastic about simplifying the complexities of our interconnected world. He applies this passion as a Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node to enable the amazing projects in web3 building exceptional decentralised experiences leveraging The Graph. He joined the blockchain space professionally in 2017 as Head of Front-end/UX at Melonport which is now know as Enzyme Finance, one of the pioneering projects in DeFi and web3 and early adopter of The Graph.

-Core developer fellow @ Ethereum Foundation
-Founder @Xtreamly

Team lead and ethical hacker in Ackee Blockchain Security. Former mobile apps developer in legacy banking and CeFi. Professor of Solidity at Czech Technical University.

Tao Yan received his bachelor degree in Information Systems and Finance in 2014, and master degree in Big Data Management in 2020. He is focusing on Decentralized Finance(DeFi) and Blockchain analysis.

Somewhere between web2 and web3.

Believes the web3 space needs more native mobile experiences. Currently working towards making web3 easier to use and build through React Native.

Prof. Dr. Tim Weingaertner is a lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. His research focuses on Blockchain technology (DLT) and Self-sovereign identity. Tim is board member of DIDAS (Self-sovereign identity) and president of DEC Institute.
He obtained his PhD in medical robotics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and subsequently worked over 15 years in the Swiss financial industry.

CTO for startups and SMEs, Engineering Manager and Developer.

Distributed systems professional with 15+ years experience in modeling, architecture, implementation and operation of distributed systems. Strong knowledge of Erlang/OTP, Elixir and distributed systems theory.

Torgin is a smart contract security engineer at ChainSecurity, where he focuses on DeFi audits. He loves diving deep into complex technical topics such as blockchain design trade-offs and MEV.

Hey, I'm Ugur, been part of API3 for a little over 3 years and am currently leading our strategic efforts. We're building cost efficient, decentralized and verifiable oracles by making the data sources run oracles directly themselves instead of relying on middlemen.

Una is a multifaceted young professional, embodying various roles in her career.

She is a dedicated researcher, leading the project no1s1 at ETH as a PhD candidate. Her research explores topics such as decentralized autonomous buildings, decentralized physical infrastructure, digital twin, IoT and regenerative built environments. Leveraging her background in architecture, she thrives as a builder and maker. She brings ideas to life through cyber-physical integrated prototypes and products. The love of community rans in her vein. She is a facilitator for multiple DAO communities and cross-culture, multidisciplinary associations. She believes in open communication and the value of hard conversations. She is a speaker and guest lecturer on many different occasions.

Protocol Specialist at Bitcoin Suisse