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ETHSOFIA Speakers

Meet the visionaries, builders, and boundary-pushers shaping the future of Ethereum and Web3.

illstration of a futuristic looking robot that holds a microphone

ETHSOFIA Speakers

Meet the visionaries, builders, and boundary-pushers shaping the future of Ethereum and Web3.

illstration of a futuristic looking robot that holds a microphone

ETHSOFIA Speakers

Meet the visionaries, builders, and boundary-pushers shaping the future of Ethereum and Web3.

Nicolas is a co-founder of Ledger (https://www.ledger.com) and researcher at ZKnox (https://www.zknox.com) - interested in making hardware security open, understandable and affordable to all, currently exploring the frontier between TEEs and ZKPs and how to make AI more decentralized with crypto.

Nicolas
Bacca

Co-Founder

Ledger, ZKNox

Nicolas is a co-founder of Ledger (https://www.ledger.com) and researcher at ZKnox (https://www.zknox.com) - interested in making hardware security open, understandable and affordable to all, currently exploring the frontier between TEEs and ZKPs and how to make AI more decentralized with crypto.

Nicolas
Bacca

Co-Founder

Ledger, ZKNox

Nicolas is a co-founder of Ledger (https://www.ledger.com) and researcher at ZKnox (https://www.zknox.com) - interested in making hardware security open, understandable and affordable to all, currently exploring the frontier between TEEs and ZKPs and how to make AI more decentralized with crypto.

Nicolas
Bacca

Co-Founder

Ledger, ZKNox

Stefan is deeply passionate about open source and has been actively involved in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2022, when he joined Consensys to contribute to Teku—a Java-based implementation of the consensus layer. Since then, he's worked across several exciting areas aligned with Ethereum's ongoing roadmap.

Stefan
Bratanov

Blockchain Engineer

Consensys/Teku

Stefan is deeply passionate about open source and has been actively involved in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2022, when he joined Consensys to contribute to Teku—a Java-based implementation of the consensus layer. Since then, he's worked across several exciting areas aligned with Ethereum's ongoing roadmap.

Stefan
Bratanov

Blockchain Engineer

Consensys/Teku

Stefan is deeply passionate about open source and has been actively involved in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2022, when he joined Consensys to contribute to Teku—a Java-based implementation of the consensus layer. Since then, he's worked across several exciting areas aligned with Ethereum's ongoing roadmap.

Stefan
Bratanov

Blockchain Engineer

Consensys/Teku

Martin is a serial entrepreneur and fintech geek. He began his career at SAP in the 90s, building payment infrastructure and procurement solutions. He co-founded Taulia, now an SAP brand and leading supplier financing network. Today, he redefines financing with Centrifuge, a blockchain platform for asset tokenization, and Anemoy, a Web3-native asset manager for the onchain era.

Martin
Quensel

Co-Founder

Centrifuge

Martin is a serial entrepreneur and fintech geek. He began his career at SAP in the 90s, building payment infrastructure and procurement solutions. He co-founded Taulia, now an SAP brand and leading supplier financing network. Today, he redefines financing with Centrifuge, a blockchain platform for asset tokenization, and Anemoy, a Web3-native asset manager for the onchain era.

Martin
Quensel

Co-Founder

Centrifuge

Martin is a serial entrepreneur and fintech geek. He began his career at SAP in the 90s, building payment infrastructure and procurement solutions. He co-founded Taulia, now an SAP brand and leading supplier financing network. Today, he redefines financing with Centrifuge, a blockchain platform for asset tokenization, and Anemoy, a Web3-native asset manager for the onchain era.

Martin
Quensel

Co-Founder

Centrifuge

Mike Massari, a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience, has led technological innovations and business growth across various industries, including pivotal roles at Chainlink and Tray.io; currently, he spearheads OEV and strategy at RedStone, focusing on the future of DeFi.

Mike
Massari

Strategic Advisory

RedStone

Mike Massari, a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience, has led technological innovations and business growth across various industries, including pivotal roles at Chainlink and Tray.io; currently, he spearheads OEV and strategy at RedStone, focusing on the future of DeFi.

Mike
Massari

Strategic Advisory

RedStone

Mike Massari, a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience, has led technological innovations and business growth across various industries, including pivotal roles at Chainlink and Tray.io; currently, he spearheads OEV and strategy at RedStone, focusing on the future of DeFi.

Mike
Massari

Strategic Advisory

RedStone

Mike Massari, a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience, has led technological innovations and business growth across various industries, including pivotal roles at Chainlink and Tray.io; currently, he spearheads OEV and strategy at RedStone, focusing on the future of DeFi.

Mike
Massari

Strategic Advisory

RedStone

Ivan has been building tokenomics and governance systems with Aragon since 2021, helping DAOs create and accrue value for tokenholoders. Previously he has helped DAOs deploy capital onchain with karpatkey and led OTC lending & prop trading at Nexo before DeFi was cool. Ivan is always up to talk about incentive alignment and value capture/accrual models in crypto.

Ivan
Fartunov

DeFi

Aragon

Ivan has been building tokenomics and governance systems with Aragon since 2021, helping DAOs create and accrue value for tokenholoders. Previously he has helped DAOs deploy capital onchain with karpatkey and led OTC lending & prop trading at Nexo before DeFi was cool. Ivan is always up to talk about incentive alignment and value capture/accrual models in crypto.

Ivan
Fartunov

DeFi

Aragon

Ivan has been building tokenomics and governance systems with Aragon since 2021, helping DAOs create and accrue value for tokenholoders. Previously he has helped DAOs deploy capital onchain with karpatkey and led OTC lending & prop trading at Nexo before DeFi was cool. Ivan is always up to talk about incentive alignment and value capture/accrual models in crypto.

Ivan
Fartunov

DeFi

Aragon

Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen, previously established BlockchainHub Berlin and co-founded the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics. Of Austrian-Iranian descent, she lives in Portugal, working to make Web3 technology accessible, empowering non-technical users to shape socio-economic systems through tokenized applications.

Shermin
Voshmgir

Author of Token Economy & Founder

Token Kitchen

Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen, previously established BlockchainHub Berlin and co-founded the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics. Of Austrian-Iranian descent, she lives in Portugal, working to make Web3 technology accessible, empowering non-technical users to shape socio-economic systems through tokenized applications.

Shermin
Voshmgir

Author of Token Economy & Founder

Token Kitchen

Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen, previously established BlockchainHub Berlin and co-founded the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics. Of Austrian-Iranian descent, she lives in Portugal, working to make Web3 technology accessible, empowering non-technical users to shape socio-economic systems through tokenized applications.

Shermin
Voshmgir

Author of Token Economy & Founder

Token Kitchen

Doruk İşmen has shaped his career in Web3 over the past 7 years, founding İTÜ Blockchain and holding key roles at BiLira, Bybit, dYdX, and Scroll. He now leads Emerging Markets at Agora and advises global Web3 ventures while actively investing as an angel.

Doruk
İşmen

Head of International Markets

Agora Finance

Doruk İşmen has shaped his career in Web3 over the past 7 years, founding İTÜ Blockchain and holding key roles at BiLira, Bybit, dYdX, and Scroll. He now leads Emerging Markets at Agora and advises global Web3 ventures while actively investing as an angel.

Doruk
İşmen

Head of International Markets

Agora Finance

Doruk İşmen has shaped his career in Web3 over the past 7 years, founding İTÜ Blockchain and holding key roles at BiLira, Bybit, dYdX, and Scroll. He now leads Emerging Markets at Agora and advises global Web3 ventures while actively investing as an angel.

Doruk
İşmen

Head of International Markets

Agora Finance

Krum, or as people know him "pashov" has done, led and been part of over 100 smart contract security audits. This has resulted in billions of dollars of user funds protected and secured. His team has audited protocols like 1inch, Ethena, LayerZero and more. His mission is simple - prevent as many hacks as possible, before the vulnerabilities even reach production environment.

Krum
Pashov

Founder

Pashov Audit Group

Krum, or as people know him "pashov" has done, led and been part of over 100 smart contract security audits. This has resulted in billions of dollars of user funds protected and secured. His team has audited protocols like 1inch, Ethena, LayerZero and more. His mission is simple - prevent as many hacks as possible, before the vulnerabilities even reach production environment.

Krum
Pashov

Founder

Pashov Audit Group

Krum, or as people know him "pashov" has done, led and been part of over 100 smart contract security audits. This has resulted in billions of dollars of user funds protected and secured. His team has audited protocols like 1inch, Ethena, LayerZero and more. His mission is simple - prevent as many hacks as possible, before the vulnerabilities even reach production environment.

Krum
Pashov

Founder

Pashov Audit Group

Elena Tzvetinova is the COO of Eunice, a London-based tech company revolutionizing crypto risk management by combining on- and off-chain data with AI-driven insights. With 20+ years in financial services and regulation, she led major innovation and regulatory change initiatives at a leading global bank. Elena is passionate about the intersection of tech, regulation, and finance shaping a better financial future.

Elena
Tzvetinova

COO

Eunice.ai

Elena Tzvetinova is the COO of Eunice, a London-based tech company revolutionizing crypto risk management by combining on- and off-chain data with AI-driven insights. With 20+ years in financial services and regulation, she led major innovation and regulatory change initiatives at a leading global bank. Elena is passionate about the intersection of tech, regulation, and finance shaping a better financial future.

Elena
Tzvetinova

COO

Eunice.ai

Elena Tzvetinova is the COO of Eunice, a London-based tech company revolutionizing crypto risk management by combining on- and off-chain data with AI-driven insights. With 20+ years in financial services and regulation, she led major innovation and regulatory change initiatives at a leading global bank. Elena is passionate about the intersection of tech, regulation, and finance shaping a better financial future.

Elena
Tzvetinova

COO

Eunice.ai

Elena Tzvetinova is the COO of Eunice, a London-based tech company revolutionizing crypto risk management by combining on- and off-chain data with AI-driven insights. With 20+ years in financial services and regulation, she led major innovation and regulatory change initiatives at a leading global bank. Elena is passionate about the intersection of tech, regulation, and finance shaping a better financial future.

Elena
Tzvetinova

COO

Eunice.ai

Pascal, a former Forex trader and DeFi power user since 2019, earns a living from his crypto portfolio. A renowned speaker, consultant, and teacher at Alyra, he co-authored France’s first certified DeFi course. He co-founded Jarvis Network, a stablecoin protocol enabling on-chain FX.

Pascal
Tallarida

Founder

Jarvis Network

Pascal, a former Forex trader and DeFi power user since 2019, earns a living from his crypto portfolio. A renowned speaker, consultant, and teacher at Alyra, he co-authored France’s first certified DeFi course. He co-founded Jarvis Network, a stablecoin protocol enabling on-chain FX.

Pascal
Tallarida

Founder

Jarvis Network

Pascal, a former Forex trader and DeFi power user since 2019, earns a living from his crypto portfolio. A renowned speaker, consultant, and teacher at Alyra, he co-authored France’s first certified DeFi course. He co-founded Jarvis Network, a stablecoin protocol enabling on-chain FX.

Pascal
Tallarida

Founder

Jarvis Network

Ex-banking lawyer and co-founder of Paladin/ Rings, a utility sink for stablecoins and savings account on Sonic.

Romain
Figuereo

Founder

Rings Protocol

Ex-banking lawyer and co-founder of Paladin/ Rings, a utility sink for stablecoins and savings account on Sonic.

Romain
Figuereo

Founder

Rings Protocol

Ex-banking lawyer and co-founder of Paladin/ Rings, a utility sink for stablecoins and savings account on Sonic.

Romain
Figuereo

Founder

Rings Protocol

Petko is CEO and Co-Founder of INDUSTRIA. With degrees from the University of Portsmouth and Cotrugli, plus executive education at Oxford, he’s contributed to blockchain innovation, advised UK Parliament, and serves on ISO blockchain and AI committees. He’s also an Industry Associate at UCL, with expertise in DLT, Confidential Computing, and Smart Legal Agreements.

Petko
Karamotchev

CEO and Co-Founder

INDUSTRIA

Petko is CEO and Co-Founder of INDUSTRIA. With degrees from the University of Portsmouth and Cotrugli, plus executive education at Oxford, he’s contributed to blockchain innovation, advised UK Parliament, and serves on ISO blockchain and AI committees. He’s also an Industry Associate at UCL, with expertise in DLT, Confidential Computing, and Smart Legal Agreements.

Petko
Karamotchev

CEO and Co-Founder

INDUSTRIA

Petko is CEO and Co-Founder of INDUSTRIA. With degrees from the University of Portsmouth and Cotrugli, plus executive education at Oxford, he’s contributed to blockchain innovation, advised UK Parliament, and serves on ISO blockchain and AI committees. He’s also an Industry Associate at UCL, with expertise in DLT, Confidential Computing, and Smart Legal Agreements.

Petko
Karamotchev

CEO and Co-Founder

INDUSTRIA

Vyara is a Web3 and human rights lawyer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a Senior Policy Expert with the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) - a Brussels-based non-profit that aims to shape EU regulation to favour open, permissionless, decentralized applications leveraging blockchain technology and a PhD candidate focusing on legal automation through the use of smart contracts.

Vyara
Savova

Senior Policy Expert

EUCI

Vyara is a Web3 and human rights lawyer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a Senior Policy Expert with the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) - a Brussels-based non-profit that aims to shape EU regulation to favour open, permissionless, decentralized applications leveraging blockchain technology and a PhD candidate focusing on legal automation through the use of smart contracts.

Vyara
Savova

Senior Policy Expert

EUCI

Vyara is a Web3 and human rights lawyer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a Senior Policy Expert with the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) - a Brussels-based non-profit that aims to shape EU regulation to favour open, permissionless, decentralized applications leveraging blockchain technology and a PhD candidate focusing on legal automation through the use of smart contracts.

Vyara
Savova

Senior Policy Expert

EUCI

Yani is a crypto enthusiast and Web3 community builder with nearly a decade of experience. As the founder of Remote IT World, she connects global talent and advises on decentralized workforce strategies. Her expertise includes executive search, A-player headhunting, strategic planning, and remote culture development, with a strong track record of supporting teams and projects at the intersection of technology and decentralized communities.

Yanislava
Hristova

Founder

Remote IT World

Yani is a crypto enthusiast and Web3 community builder with nearly a decade of experience. As the founder of Remote IT World, she connects global talent and advises on decentralized workforce strategies. Her expertise includes executive search, A-player headhunting, strategic planning, and remote culture development, with a strong track record of supporting teams and projects at the intersection of technology and decentralized communities.

Yanislava
Hristova

Founder

Remote IT World

Yani is a crypto enthusiast and Web3 community builder with nearly a decade of experience. As the founder of Remote IT World, she connects global talent and advises on decentralized workforce strategies. Her expertise includes executive search, A-player headhunting, strategic planning, and remote culture development, with a strong track record of supporting teams and projects at the intersection of technology and decentralized communities.

Yanislava
Hristova

Founder

Remote IT World

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