I’ve been a well known member of the Ethereum community since 2015 & received the first degree ever given in digital currency, a Masters degree in 2016.

As community manager for Slock.it and TheDAO, I helped form the community around TheDAO and led every angle of the crisis response effort following TheDAO Hack. I co-founded the White Hat Group, which secured the at-risk funds (10% of the total supply of ETH) during TheDAO hack and one year later rescued $210 million dollars worth of crypto assets following the Parity Multisig Hack among other exploits. I also audited Aragon and MakerDAO systems with the WHG.

In 2016 I co-founded Giveth, a crypto donation platform that radically empowers individuals and communities to affect real change in a transparent, decentralized way. I co-founded DAppNode in early 2018 and co-founded the Commons Stack in 2019. The Commons Stack launched the Token Engineering Commons in 2022. I co-founded General Magic in 2021, a web3 design and dev studio focused on web3 impact projects. Via GM I led the creation of Praise (reputation tool), and Pairwise (voting tool), Unicorn.eth (simple and safe wallet infra); and q/acc (token launchpad). I am currently spearheading an effort to create a $300M Ethereum security fund.

I have contributed to dozens of other projects as well, most notably, BrightID, Treegens, and Thrive and support these and many other projects in an advisory capacity.

I am a top delegate for ENS, Arbitrum, Gitcoin and Optimism, and sit on the Security Council for ENS and Arbitrum and on the bridge multisig for Gnosis.

I also have led/co-led 3 crypto focused burning man camps Decentral, Dogecentral and BlockHaus ;-)