Adrian is one of the founders of Metastate. He worked at Tendermint/Cosmos as a core developer. His current focus areas are making blockchains scalable and interoperable, as an engineer, researcher as well a connection builder. His main interests lie within cross-chain communication, BFT consensus systems, privacy-preserving systems, and on-chain governance.

Awa is one of the founders of Metastate. She worked as a data scientist and software engineer at Chainalysis, specialised in the application of machine learning to distributed ledger data, and as a researcher at Cosmos. The areas of research she focuses on are applied cryptography for privacy and Proof-of-Stake security.

Christopher Goes is a protocol developer & researcher at Tendermint/Cosmos primarily focused on inter-blockchain communication, formally verifiable smart contract languages, and proof-of-stake incentive design. He is also a founder of Metastate and the author of the Wyvern Ethereum DEX protocol.

Tomáš is a software engineer with a background in computer games, web development and finance. He strives for building robust, flexible and composable software, mainly with the help of statically-typed and functional languages. When not busy coding, he enjoys learning and thinking about practical applications of computer science, engineering and maths research.

Marty Stumpf is dedicated to life-long learning in a broad range of areas. Her current passion is functional programming applied to cryptocurrencies. Her previous deep interest and education in economics led to multiple cited research papers that focus on public goods, specifically climate change policy. She is enthusiastic to apply her skills in constructing economic models to the blockchain world.

Jeremy Ornelas recently graduated from Case Western Reserve University. His studies led him down the path of abstract algebra, category theory, and expression in programming languages. He now researches BFT consensus systems, finality, type theory, including dependent and linear types, and efficient implementations of functional languages.

Andy is a software engineer with a background in functional programming, compilers, and type theory. His main interest is in using fancy type systems to prove programs correct by construction, and he is excited to put these ideas to use in real-world contexts.

Ash is a software engineer & researcher, with interests in p2p consensus networks, formal systems, and programming/logic languages. His current focuses are in programming languages for consensus networks, and interoperable, modular crypto-finance protocols.

Sylvain is a software engineer with a background in programming language specification and formal proofs, interested in improving current protocols and demonstrating their properties using functional and formal languages. Additionally, he is an environmental activist and tries to help as much as possible with the society's current transition.

Nat Bunner is a mathematician by training with a broad interest in cryptography, but he's especially drawn to problems with a heavy algebraic component to them. His current focus is in multiparty computation and zero-knowledge proofs.

Joe is a theoretical computer scientist with research interests in computational complexity theory, probabilistically checkable proofs, and SNARKs. He is interested in ways to apply theoretical results to real world systems.

April Gonçalves is a Computer Science PhD candidate, specialised in effect type systems and their applications to generative art and the implementation of functional programming languages, as well as interested in categorical semantics and developed experience of programming languages. They have nearly a decade of industry experience with functional and web programming. In their spare time, they like lists, cats, and Pokémon.

Joshua is mathematician and educator with a special interest in elliptic curve pairings and zero-knowledge cryptography. He has previously worked as a college professor and elementary school teacher. He is interested in using cryptography to make blockchain applications more secure and accessible.

Alex is a mechanical engineer. While working in the digitalization field for a major Swiss bank, he developed his interest for distributed ledger technology. Since May 2019 he is pursuing this passion full time.