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Build things rather than adjust things. Co-founder of Mechanism Labs, UC Berkeley, ex-Head of Education Blockchain at Berkeley, Thiel Fellowship. Aparna is a Thiel Fellow and the co-founder of Mechanism Labs, a research & development lab focused on cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets and DeFi. She was the former Head of Education and Executive VP at Blockchain at Berkeley teaching the world’s largest university accredited blockchain course.
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Chris Wang
Chris Wang is the CEO and Co-Founder of ThunderCore. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexis Gauba
Alexis Gauba is Co-Founder at Opyn, Mechanism Labs, and she holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has conducted research at CalBlockchain.
David Lin
David Lin is the Head of Engineering at Eclipse and previously served as vice president of engineering at Discreet Labs and engineering manager at ThunderCore.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Jon Jones
Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.
Bob Xu
Bob Xu is the founder of Questflow and was previously Director of Product Management for Himalaya. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
Yelena Cavanaugh
Yelena Cavanaugh is general counsel of the Solana Foundation and previously worked at Cooley LLP. He is a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is the founder of Summit Labs and was previously a research data engineer at Polychain Capital. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in data science.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent