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John Adler

Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at Celestia

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John Adler is the Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer at Celestia and Co-Founder & ex-CTO of Fuel. He is the creator of Optimistic Rollups and a former Scalability Fellow at ConsenSys.

Education Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Alpen Labs Alpen Labs
Strategic -- $ 8.5 M
Jan 12
Spicenet Spicenet
Seed -- $ 3.4 M
Dec 10, 2024
Phylax Phylax
Seed -- $ 4.5 M
Oct 31, 2024
jokerace jokerace
-- -- $ 3 M
Jul 31, 2024
Succinct Succinct
Series A -- $ 43 M
Mar 21, 2024
Eclipse Eclipse
Series A $ 1 B $ 50 M
Mar 11, 2024
WITNESS WITNESS
Seed -- $ 3.5 M
Feb 16, 2024
Rio Network Rio Network
Seed -- --
Dec 18, 2023
Modulus Modulus
Seed -- $ 6 M
Nov 01, 2023

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Shahan Khatchadourian

Shahan Khatchadourian is PhD. Protocol engineering, co-founder of PegaSys, the ConsenSys protocol engineering group that develops next generation secure, scalable enterprise-grade blockchain platforms. Shahan is an experienced software developer and researcher with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Drawing on decades of startup, industry, and domain experience, Shahan focuses on bridging enterprise technology stacks, such as relational and graph databases, with blockchain paradigms including decentralization, cryptography, and virtual computing.

Nick Dodson

Nick Dodson is the co-founder and CEO of Fuel.

Russell Verbeeten

Russell Verbeeten is an early participant in the Ethereum ecosystem and worked at ConsenSys from 2015 to 2020, covering global operations, product management, and corporate sales and delivery. Russell holds a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in Internet and sociology from Oxford University. He has served as the chief technology officer and founder of a number of start-up companies and successfully quit.

Terry Rossi

Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Max Resnick

Max Resnick is currently a technologist at Anza. He previously worked at ConsenSys and has extensive experience in developing within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Mason Nystrom

Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Zeus Chen

Zeus graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada and obtained an MBA from the University of Oxford in the UK. In the past two decades, he has worked in several global investment banks and led a number of cross-border investment and M&A businesses. In addition, he has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. In 2022, he founded the blockchain vending machine project Stealth Startup, which mainly serves the Southeast Asian market.

Jason Fung

Jason Fung is the CEO of Meta0 and the former Global Head of Gaming at TikTok.

Megha Bambra

Megha Bambra is the co-founder and CTO of Rails and previously was the co-founder and CTO of BlockEQ. She graduated from the University of Toronto.

Rahul Bishnoi

Rahul Bishnoi was an investor at Brevan Howard Digital, previously he was a junior partner at Dragonfly's Liquid Fund and a blockchain engineer at Energy Web\n. He is a graduate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIITH), Hyderabad.