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, where his research focused on information theory, blockchain scalability, and distributed systems. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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

Michael Heinrich is the Co-founder & CEO of 0G Labs, the team 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 has raised significant funding from top-tier Web3 investors and 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. Before Avail, he worked on cryptographic protocol design and was involved in Polygon's early scaling research. Avail was spun out of Polygon in 2023 to independently focus on the data availability layer of the modular stack.

Avail has raised $75M+ in funding from Founders Fund, Dragonfly, Cyber Fund, and Figment Capital, and its testnet has processed billions of transactions across its Data Availability, Nexus, and Fusion layers.

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 — with quality guaranteed through gamified, game-theoretic consensus.

Trevor is a long-time builder at the intersection of tokenization and real-world utility. He previously co-founded Polymath, a pioneering security token platform, and has been active across Web3 infrastructure for nearly a decade. His focus has always been on designing tokenized systems that create durable economic activity rather than speculative cycles.

Sapien has built one of the largest decentralized data workforces in Web3, with contributors across 60+ countries producing labeled data for Fortune 500 AI customers, research labs, and protocol-level AI builders.

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 Web3 infrastructure companies, focusing on the intersection of privacy, cryptography, and user-centric economics. He's been deeply involved in the broader conversation around data sovereignty and consent-based AI.

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 to AI model builders.