Alain Brenzikofer
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.
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Encointer is a public blockchain platform for local community cryptocurrencies. Individuals can claim a universal basic income through issuance of fresh money. Money supply is kept in proportion to population size through the use of demurrage. Sybil attacks are prevented by regular, concurrent and randomized pseudonym key signing parties to obtain a proof-of-personhood.