Jordi Baylina

▸ Hermez acquired by Polygon for $250M (2021); creator of Circom + SnarkJS; now building ZisK zkVM independently

Co-founder of Polygon zkEVM and creator of Circom — the zero-knowledge programming language. Spun off from Polygon in June 2025 to build ZisK independently — a high-performance, open-source zkVM for low-latency proving. Co-launched the Ethereum Economic Zone with Gnosis and the Ethereum Foundation in 2026.

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Michael Heinrich@michaelh_0g

Co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs — the first modular AI chain, built as a Layer 1 for decentralized AI infrastructure with 50GB/s throughput. Launched Aristotle Mainnet in September 2025 with 100+ day-one partners. $75M raised, $88.8M ecosystem fund. Also executive chairman of Stack0G. Previously founded Garten (YC S16, $200M revenue). Early investor in Anthropic, Filecoin, and Uniswap.

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David Sneider@davidlsneider

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Co-founder of Lit Protocol, $420M+ assets under decentralized management

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Matthew Wang@0xDeltaHedged

Founder and CEO of OpenGradient — a decentralized AI infrastructure network enabling real-time, verifiable AI inference on EVM blockchains. Raised $8.5M from a16z CSX, Coinbase Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Previously at Two Sigma, Google, Meta, and NASA.

$8.5M from a16z CSX + Coinbase Ventures

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