Sreeram Kannan is the founder of EigenLayer, the protocol that invented the concept of crypto-economic restaking — a primitive that allows Ethereum validators to extend cryptoeconomic security to new protocols without requiring them to bootstrap their own validator sets.

Before EigenLayer, Sreeram was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

EigenLayer has raised over $164M from a16z crypto, Polychain, Hack VC, Blockchain Capital, and dao5, securing over $14B in Ethereum TVL across 120+ Actively Validated Services (AVS).

Michael Heinrich is the Co-founder & CEO of 0G Labs, building the world's first decentralized AI operating system — a modular blockchain purpose-built for AI workloads that need sub-second finality and massive data throughput.

Before 0G, Michael was the CEO of Garten (YC-backed, $100M+ raised) and held roles at Allianz, SAP, and Bain & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

0G Labs is building toward becoming the foundational infrastructure layer for on-chain AI agents, models, and data marketplaces.

Prabal Banerjee is a Co-founder of Avail, a trust-minimized modular blockchain focused on data availability — the foundational layer that lets rollups and app-chains scale without sacrificing security.

Prabal is a cryptography researcher with a PhD in theoretical computer science. Avail was spun out of Polygon in 2023 to independently focus on the data availability layer of the modular stack.

Avail has raised $75M+ from Founders Fund, Dragonfly, Cyber Fund, and Figment Capital, and its testnet has processed billions of transactions.

Trevor Koverko is a Co-founder of Sapien, a decentralized AI data network that pays humans to label, verify, and contribute high-quality data for AI model training.

Trevor previously co-founded Polymath, a pioneering security token platform, and has been active across financial infrastructure for nearly a decade.

Sapien has built one of the largest decentralized data workforces, with contributors across 60+ countries producing labeled data for Fortune 500 AI customers.

Art Abal is a Co-founder of Vana, the first Layer 1 blockchain where users own, govern, and monetize the data they generate — flipping the data-extraction model of Web2 into a data-ownership economy.

Before Vana, Art led product and engineering teams across infrastructure companies, focusing on the intersection of privacy, cryptography, and user-centric economics.

Vana has raised $25M from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain, and MH Ventures, and today powers dozens of Data DAOs where users pool, govern, and license their data.