Aarnav is a Security Engineer at Security Research Labs in Berlin. His focus is on fuzzing research and code review.

Founder & CEO of Blockops Network. 10+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer scaling blockchain systems. Previously at Quidax, Composable Finance, Obol, Flow, & Dapper Labs.

Entrepreneur with experience in digital strategy, solution design, and End-to-End delivery. In the intersection between Sports and Web3 since 2020. Co-founder and CEO of Guardians of the Ball.

Founder of PaperMoon, a developer relations as a service company that works with projects like Polkadot, Moonbeam, Tanssi, Wormhole, and Kluster.ai.

Alex is COO & Co-Founder of Braille, a Web3 Design Studio.
Over the past two years, Braille has helped more than 15 teams design and launch successful apps that drive revenue with a user-first and business-centric approach.

As a creative executive and serial entrepreneur, I have founded multiple startups and agencies focused on creative economy and wellbeing. I am the founder of MUBERT, the world's first AI music startup.

Alsie leads marketing at Dune, bringing 7+ years of experience across Web2 and Web3. Since 2019, she’s worked at the intersection of tech, blockchain, and non-profits—driving brand, content, product marketing, events, and growth for global

Amar Singh is a Rust engineer focused on Polkadot, leading projects at Parity, Moonbeam, Analog, and now OpenZeppelin. His work spans governance, staking, cross-chain systems, and secure runtime templates.

Telecommunications Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires. MBA UCEMA University. Director of the Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics Area of UCEMA University. Founder and CTO of Agrotoken, Blockchain Advisor Director of TravelX, BAG (Blockchain Art

Technology Sales SaaS Executive and Blockchain Enthusiast with 15 years of growth-driven success <--
- Former computer science engineer turned data-driven sales leader.
- Proven track record of leading companies from early revenue stages to $50M ARR.

Arturo Grande, Head of Product & Marketing at Eluter and founder of DESAFIA Academy. Multi-chain builder, graduate of Polkadot Blockchain Academy X, and Scholar at Devcon 2025 & Stellar Meridian 2025.

Building StellaSwap

Ben Greenberg is Developer Relations Lead at Arbitrum, a Docker Captain, and board member of Ruby Central. A former educator, he writes on tech, ethics, and community and authored Vector Search with JavaScript (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2025)

COO at Intergalactic Limited - buildoooors of Hydration

Events Bounty Curator

Chief FUD Officer - ChaosDAO

Bianca, a Web2 FAANG Solutions Architect turned Web3 DevRel and Founder, is passionate about education and community building. She’s delivered workshops and talks and participated in panels globally, from the USA to Asia, empowering diverse audiences

Branimir Rakic, Trace Labs founder & CTO, created OriginTrail's DKG for AI-ready, verifiable Knowledge Assets. Used by BSI, Swiss Railways, Walmart, etc. Expert in decentralized, semantic, mobile networks. Mentored by Dr. Bob Metcalfe.

To be done

Originally a full-stack developer, Cisco discovered blockchain at the first Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Cambridge. Since then, he has been part of Parity Technologies, helping build and advance the Polkadot ecosystem from the ground up.

Clara van Staden is a blockchain engineer specializing in Polkadot and Ethereum interoperability. She’s a core contributor to Snowbridge, building trustless cross-chain infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem.

Started from the first PBA, worked for Parity as a support and then application engineer, then co-founded R0GUE. I believe blockchain technology can make the world a better place for everyone who contributes with effort and goodness.

Social impact entrepreneur and Rust hacker with 20+ years as software developer. Strong advocate of opensource, privacy and decentralization. Devoted to make of Kusama the go-to place for entrepreneurs to easily bring their(anarchist) ideas to live.

Diputado porteño que quiere hackear el Estado desde adentro. Usa IA y blockchain para transformar la gestión pública y construir un gobierno del siglo XXI.

Dave Sedacca is the Lead of Polkadot Capital Group and he sits as Director of Finance at Parity Technologies, the core development team behind Polkadot.

CEO of Sig.Network, connecting together every chain natively. Deploying Virtual Parachains on Polkadot.

Previously at: NEAR, ICP, Canton, building protocols, auditing contracts and building tooling.

David Z. Morris began covering Bitcoin for Fortune in early 2014, and has written for Bitcoin Magazine, The Atlantic, Aeon, Slate, and many other outlets. He holds a PhD in the history of technology and is the author of two books.

Dean Tribble is the CEO of Agoric Systems. A pioneer in smart contracts, he co-designed AMiX, the first smart contracting system, and led major distributed systems projects at Microsoft. Dean also serves as a Director of the Decentralized Cooperation

Debora Betsabé Carrizo, CEO of R3al Blocks, is a software engineer and RWA tokenization pioneer. A UN speaker and Web3 advocate. Former IBM Security Innovation Lab member. Her vision centers on using blockchain to empower emerging economies,

Head of Crypto in Argentine Fintech Chamber and prev. 10 years in Central Bank of Argentina.

With over 8 years of experience in the Web3 space, I specialize in helping ecosystems, blockchain entrepreneurs and traditional companies design, build, and scale user centric Web3 products and experiences to create real world business and user value

I’m Emiliano Zapata, an Electrical Engineer from Uruguay working across Substrate and cross-chain development in Polkadot. Drawing from experience in startups, education, and creative projects, I aim to build tech that reaches people.

Builder, fixer, and knower. Working on decentralized systems since 2018, crypto enjoyer since 2014, privacy enthusiast, and boat nomad.

Eva Wong (Interim GC) & Gustav Hemmelmayr (Senior Legal Counsel) at Parity Technologies each bring 20+ years experience. Eva specializes more in developer liability cases like Tornado Cash and both focus on Web3 & regulation intersections.

Ewald Hesse is the CEO of Energy Web, leading its push for global adoption of Web3-driven, decentralized solutions in the clean energy sector. A pioneer in blockchain and energy, he co-founded Grid Singularity and advises top energy-tech investors an

Facundo is a Blockchain Engineer on the StorageHub project. An Electronics Engineer by training, he’s explored everything from embedded systems to VR/AR. A PBA graduate with honors, he’s passionate about DeFi, DeSo, and decentralized storage.

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Web3 and Blockchain Educator

Developer, Hacker, Opensource contributor

Francesco Andreoli is the Director of Developer Relations at Consensys leading global programs that empower builders across Web3. He focuses on modular ecosystems, developer tooling, and the intersection of AI and decentralized tech.

I'm Gabriele. I like to write low-level things, and when I'm not doing that, I enjoy throwing things in the air (also known as juggling)!

Senior Application Security Engineer at Parity Technologies. Experience in scaling security, stopping supply chain attacks, programming languages design, and Rust.

Polkadot BD LATAM @ SUNSETLABS; 20+ yrs in startups & consulting; cofounder of 40+ team firm; supported Globo, Arezzo, XP, BNDES; accelerated 60 startups and 10k entrepreneurs

Finance professional. Specialist in capital markets, crypto, blockchain, and DeFi.
Founder of the Ucema Crypto Club; a club of professionals working on academic outreach for the crypto ecosystem, with decentralization as its fundamental foundation.

Co-founder of Hydration

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• Integrations Lead @ Intergalactic (Hydration core)
• XCM / Bridges / Data orchestration / Analytics
• Switched from crypto enthusiast to full-time after a motocrash (had a lot of time to read)
• Moisturized & flourishing since 2021

Jay has worked with several projects within Blockchain, DeFi & Web3 and is currently an Account Director with Hype Partners. Hype specialize in GTM’s for TGE’s and product launches within Web3.

Governance Lead @Web3 Foundation, working on OpenGov across the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystems. A Yale-educated tech-governance & policy professional and Syrian-born civic advocate, he brings 12+ years across blockchain governance and grants management

Chief Nice Officer @ Novasama Technologies / Nova Wallet

Co-founder @ ChaosDAO

COO at Joinn, building an RWA platform for emerging markets. Founder of COINCOINX, former head of LATAM's largest Bitcoin mining farm, led 1200+ people. CQF candidate.

Marcos Miranda is a product leader at Arkiv Network, building the data layer for a decentralized internet. Previously, he worked on growth and incentive design for tier 1 protocols, and built lending and stablecoin infra in DeFi.

4+ years in Polkadot ecosystem: Polkadot Ambassador, Director of Engineering at Unique Network (Polkadot parachain), co-creator of NFTMozaic. UX/DX expert in the Polkadot ecosystem: working on builder-friendly experiences and consumer apps.

Visionary entrepreneur connecting art, education, and innovation. Creator of adLIB!, CBO & CMO of PBA and Co-founder of PBA Venture Studio, empowering human potential and leading Web3 educational initiatives with Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

Mark Cachia is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Scytale Digital, a venture capital firm focused on Web3 infrastructure, gaming, and decentralized technologies.

Max Rebol is CEO and Managing Partner of Harbour Industrial Capital, a Polkadot-focused VC fund; and also co-founder of PolkaPort East, a HK based growth and IR initiative.

Nomadic individual who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons all over the world.

Michael first discovered blockchain in 2017. Republik Labs in 2020, it has gone on to be one of the largest and most respected blockchain research and media companies in Asia Pacific and most recently a founding entity of Mandala Chain

Nico is the co-founder of Velocity Labs, an ecosystem builder and venture studio focused on DeFi and infrastructure for the Polkadot ecosystem. Prior to this, he was the Head of DeFi at Parity Technologies and has spent the last 4 years working in th

Berlin‑based full‑stack developer specializing in Polkadot UIs and developer experience. Evaluating open‑source grants and curating the Polkadot UX bounty. Recent work spans Next.js/TypeScript apps for different clients. Creator of polkadot-ui.

Application Security Engineer at Parity Technologies

CEO at Vbrick Systems. Investor, motor racing team owner/driver, amateur chef, bartender, and animal lover. Ex-US Navy. Currently causing mischief somewhere.

Pavla transitioned from traditional finance to decentralized tech at Parity. Formerly a Chief Data Officer in banking, she now scales Polkadot’s data infrastructure, ensuring real-time insights on performance, reliability, and adoption.

MPhil in Economics from Cambridge; active in blockchain engineering since 2018. Architected Polkadot pallets, Cosmos SDK modules, and bridges across ecosystems. Oversees internal audit processes and security standards at Oak Security.

Polkadot Technical Fellow Rank 1 - Interested in anything governance related.

Prabal Banerjee, co-founder of Avail, is a researcher and technical leader. He spearheaded the implementation of the Data Availability layer in 2020 and led a team of researchers to explore new frontiers in cryptography and blockchain technology.

Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Especialista en aplicaciones tecnológicas de la energía nuclear y Licenciado en matemática aplicada. Posee una Diplomatura en Conducción empresarial y una Diplomatura en gestión ambiental.

Post-Quantum Cryptography | Privacy Preserving Cryptography | Voting & Governance

Renee Davis is an Organizational Psychologist and Data Scientist who for the last five years has been building open source technologies in the Decentralized Science space. She is the CEO and Founder of OpenMatter Network, a Masked Computing protocol.

Ryan Dinh is a core contributor at SubWallet, Polkadot’s leading non-custodial wallet serving over 2 million users. With 10+ years of experience in startups and finance, he combines business insight with Web3 innovation.

Santi Balaguer has been contributing to the Polkadot Ecosystem for more than 5 years now. He's currently focusing on Polkadot Cloud, building the Polkadot Deployment Portal (PDP).

Sara Manjee leads international growth at Uniswap Labs, where she previously scaled global customer experience. She brings a background in banking risk management and a passion for expanding financial access worldwide.

Seun Lanlege is the founder of Polytope Labs. He previously worked as a core developer at Parity technologies GmbH, where he contributed to projects such as parity-ethereum, substrate, and polkadot.

Head of BD at Crecimiento, the movement bringing Argentina onchain. Ex VC associate, and building Argentina's Digital Special Economic Zone. Undefeated amateur boxer

• Corporate Lawyer.
• Director of Public Affairs at Crecimiento Argentina and Mercatus Consulting.
• Deputy Director of Fintech and Crypto - Innovation Lab at the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital.

Tommi Enenkel (aka Alice und Bob) is a Web3 strategist specializing in ecosystem development, governance, analytics, and crypto-economics. In Polkadot, he connects the DOTs between agents, teams, and resources.

PhD in Computer Science with a background in machine learning and blockchain. Former CTO at SatoshiPay and co-founder of Pendulum. Now Engineering Manager at Parity Technologies, leading Polkadot’s next-generation smart contract platform.

Tugce entered crypto in 2019 through Bitcoin and has been hands on with permissionless money ever since. For the past two years, she has led marketing at Citrea, translating complex protocol work into clear narratives and community growth.

As the CTO of JAMTON, I architect the entire cross-chain DeFi ecosystem, specializing in decentralized interoperability between TON and Polkadot. My blockchain journey began with the launch of Bitcoin.

Will's work centers on how to make a more resilient web. He's worked on projects ranging from internet-wide measurement, to privacy-protecting messaging. Will has taught computer science in pyongyang, and runs tor exit nodes as a non-profit ISP.

Product person and Talisman CEO, shaping the future of wallets.

DevRel Engineer at Bifrost