THE FOUNDER

Yonatan Sompolinsky

DAGLabs was founded by Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky with the purpose of implementing the GHOSTDAG protocol – invented by Yonatan with his then Ph.D. advisor professor Aviv Zohar.

Yonatan started gaining a reputation within the cryptocurrency academic circle back in 2013 when he and professor Zohar conceived the GHOST protocol, a protocol famous for being cited in the Ethereum whitepaper as a design goal.

Yonatan currently holds a post-doctoral position at Harvard researching transaction ordering protocols and MEV.

CORE DEVELOPERS & RESEARCHERS

Those contributing immensely to the implementation and stabilization of the network, include:

Michael Sutton

  msutton
Core Developer. Distributed Systems Researcher and Developer,
Michael got his M.Sc in computer science from the Hebrew University, where he researched parallel algorithms and distributed systems.

Shai Wyborski

 deshe
Shai is a Kaspa researcher and one of the authors of the GHOSTDAG paper.
Shai is a Ph.D candidate in the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University where he researches classical and quantum cryptography.

Mike Zak

 svarog
Core Developer. Cryptocurrency and Distributed Systems Developer

Elichai Turkel

 elichai2
Core Developer. Applied Cryptographer and High-Performance Developer

Ori Newman

someone235
Core Developer. Cryptocurrency and Distributed Systems Developer

CORE MARKETING, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & LISTINGS

Those who contribute daily to the communication, creative content and business development efforts are:

Chris Wolf

  Wolfie

Business Development/Listings

Nathaniel Crowningshield

 BubbleGum Lightning

News/Medium Author, AMA’s, PR Managment

Chad Ballantyne
 Rhubarbarian

Marketing, Branding, PR Management, Web Development, Social Media, Creative Content

Avidan Abitbol

 Avidan
Marketing, Business Development/Listings
Rust Committee – Community Moderator. 

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS

In addition to the core developers & Marketers, there are many other community developers, community marketers, and project volunteers who are actively contributing to the Kaspa ecosystem’s growth.  Kaspa is a 100% decentralized, community project.  Anyone that wants to participate can join the development team, marketing team, business development team and community. 

Articles & News

WDMS 2024 Oman Recap

March 29, 2024 By Global AMbassador, Luke I was honoured to represent Kaspa as a Global Ambassador at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) in Muscat, Oman. This summit, organised by Bitmain, a manufacturer of ASIC miners, brought together the foremost minds in...

On Crypto Forks

The differences and reasons of hard and soft forks. Crypto Forks Do you ever wonder what a fork actually is in cryptocurrency? What is the difference between a hard and a soft fork, and why does it matter? Why do people make such a big deal over a fork in the road?...

CryptoXR 2024 Report

CryptoXR 2024 (Auxerre, France) at a Glance  👥 Entries over 2 days: +3,500📅 Entries Friday: +1,500📅 Saturday entries: +2,000🎙 Speakers: +60🙋🏻Workshops: 18🗞Media: +20📄1000 Battle Cards handed out🎤Asked to join a Panel VIDEO1:09:45People I met and connected with:...

Join & Follow the COmmunity

We are a growing community and are always looking for enthusiastic people to join the project.  If you are a coder, marketer, vlogger, community manager, enthusiast, or anything else join the Kaspa Discord and say, “hi!”

PUBLIC DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!

Simple donation through Cryptocurrency Checkout

Manual donations dev-fund-address: kaspa:precqv0krj3r6uyyfa36ga7s0u9jct0v4wg8ctsfde2gkrsgwgw8jgxfzfc98

https://explorer.kaspa.org/addresses/kaspa:precqv0krj3r6uyyfa36ga7s0u9jct0v4wg8ctsfde2gkrsgwgw8jgxfzfc98

Mining dev-fund-address: kaspa:pzhh76qc82wzduvsrd9xh4zde9qhp0xc8rl7qu2mvl2e42uvdqt75zrcgpm00

https://explorer.kaspa.org/addresses/kaspa:pzhh76qc82wzduvsrd9xh4zde9qhp0xc8rl7qu2mvl2e42uvdqt75zrcgpm00

The wallet is managed by 4 members of the community (msutton, Tim, The SheepCat and demisrael) who were publicly voted in to become the Treasurers.

This is a multi-signature wallet with a 2/4 signing formula, so it needs at least 2 of the Treasurers to sign the spending transaction for it to become commutable. All spendings are published in the #devfund channel and is performed according to the results of public votes in either #funding-pools or #votes channels
Manual donations to the Community Marketing Fund address:
A report on KASPATALK.ORG will be made available each month
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