Akshath is a full-stack engineer. He previously founded Pantheon (YC W20) and is interested in the intersections between crypto, health, and AI.

Ani contributes to R&D efforts at Jump Crypto. Among other things, he’s worked on smart contract development, incentive and protocol design, and future potential use cases of crypto in the real world.

Ben contributes to Jump Crypto's R&D efforts as a Quantitative Researcher. Previously, he worked for ten years as a quant in high frequency trading.

Conor is a Security Engineer who specializes in credential management and custody. He started out as a hardware hacker and founded a company producing open source FIDO2 security keys.

Dev is a Builder Advocate for Jump Crypto where he grows communities and supports their needs. He's passionate about decentralized incentives, self-sovereign identity, game design, and hackathons.

Don leads Cryptography R&D at Jump Crypto, focusing on scaling cross-chain bridges, reducing trusted points of failure, and managing cross-party min-trust relationships via zero knowledge proofs.

Eden currently serves as the Program Manager of the Pit at Jump Crypto. In this role, Eden helps plan and manage events for developers and founders in the Jump Pit in Chicago and around the world.

Emanuele is a Security Engineer at Jump Crypto and Co-Founder at SoloKeys, the first open source FIDO2 security keys. Previously, he ran the product security team at Pinterest.

Felix is a security engineer at Jump Crypto, focusing on vulnerability research. Previously, he worked as a security researcher at Project Zero and on product security for Google Cloud.

Joe contributes to R&D at Jump Crypto. His focus is cross-chain applications powered by the Wormhole Network — particularly solving generic relaying of contract invocations to and from Solana.

Jonathan is Chief Security Officer of Jump Crypto, where he’s responsible for leading security operations and diligence efforts as well as incident response planning and execution.

Justin builds Open Source Software at Jump Crypto. He contributes to Wormhole, specializing in core features and developer tooling. Previously, he has worked at a crypto exchange and as a carpenter.

Kanav began at Jump Trading as an intern helping to build the early crypto trading platform in 2016. He now leads more than 140 working to build & create on-chain solutions across industries.

Kaveh is a computer architect who’s spent most of the last decade architecting low-latency FPGA trading platforms at Jump Trading, and most recently has been focusing on Firedancer.

Chief Scientist Dr. Bowers leads a high performance computing & networking research team at Jump. He has also done award-winning research at D.E. Shaw, Los Alamos, Bell Labs and Berkeley among others.

Lucas is an investor and researcher at Jump, where he focuses on protocol and mechanism design, tokenomics and governance, decentralized identity, and core L1/L2 blockchain infrastructure.

Maher contributes to Jump Crypto’s R&D efforts and previously worked on monetary policy research at the Federal Reserve Board. He is also a Fulbright and Schwarzman Scholar.

Nicolas is a Cryptography Research Engineer for Jump Crypto, with a penchant for robust, simple, first principles solutions to challenging problems. He is also CTO and a Co-Founder of SoloKeys.

Nihar is a Researcher focused on token & mechanism design. His work has been cited in the Financial Times, Fortune, and many podcasts. He has a PhD in Economics and worked on the Libra/Diem project.

Nikhil is an Engineer at Jump Crypto with a focus on security & blockchain infrastructure. He’s passionate about crypto custody, payments and interoperability, and improving user and dev experiences.

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Richard is a Software Developer at Jump Crypto focused on Solana core engineering. He currently maintains the Firedancer validator client. Previously, he was a research engineer at Blockdaemon.

Saurabh is a Partner and Head of Investments at Jump Crypto. He also invests across blockchain infrastructure, open finance, and web3 primitives.

Shanav serves as VP of Investments & Strategic Partnerships at Jump Crypto with a focus on application and sub-application infrastructure investments.