Christian Haug - Project & Research Lead: https://twitter.com/cshg0x
Chris successfully enabled LI.FI to become one of the most prevalent cross-chain projects in the crypto space together with the co-founders Max and Philipp. During his time there LI.FI’s volume grew to over $2.1 billion within 1.5 years and he was key to closing the $17.5M Series A in 2023.
Before that he was VP Engineering at the bootstrapped startup flowkey, growing it into a very profitable company (8-digit ARR) with >10 million users over 6 years. He built the initial product as one of the first engineers, grew the engineering team and built a sophisticated cross-platform UI layer for GPU-based rendering of iOS code on Android, which is still in production today: https://github.com/flowkey/UIKit-cross-platform/. He completed his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) within 5 semesters and his M.Sc. at London School of Economics and Duke University with distinction (740 GMAT, top 3% worldwide).
In the project he will use his extensive knowledge and network in the crypto ecosystem and experience in growing successful tech products to steer the project and research forward.


Pascal Stichler - Project & Research Lead: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalstichler/
Pascal has recently successfully co-founded CARL (carlfinance.com) and over the last seven years has driven it to be the leading SME M&A transaction platform in the DACH region. They have raised €6mn+ in Venture Capital funding from leading European fintech investors such as Project A, Scope Hanson, Saarbrücker21 etc. Trusted by partners such as Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and UniCredit, CARL has executed 50+ M&A deals with a team of more than 40 professionals. Leading the development, product and marketing team he gained significant insights on how to design high-value marketplaces. He is now on the Advisory Board of CARL. Previous work experience includes McKinsey and Freudenberg. He holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He wrote his master thesis on combining economics research with data science to use hidden correlations to identify stock market inefficiencies. During his time at KIT he worked at the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) applying data science to solve the knapsack problem. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree.
In the project he will use his experience in building successful companies and building multi-sided marketplaces to steer the project and research.


Marc Nitzsche - Senior Fullstack Engineer: https://www.marcnitzsche.de/
Marc is an experienced senior software engineer who's been building impressive software products for more than seven years. He’s particularly good at building full-stack applications with beautiful and seamless UI/UX, while ensuring outstanding performance both in the front- and backend. He studied Computer Science and Music in parallel while working as a senior software engineer at flowkey, leading various efforts around implementing and maintaining the main API and spearheading several projects, before quitting to found his own business and pursue his own projects. He has a deep passion for the complex and beautiful, for science, and learning (languages in particular).
In the project he will be responsible for setting up the development infrastructure and especially driving the blob merging prototype forward.


Gabriel Fior - Senior Blockchain Engineer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielfior/
Gabriel is a deeply technical founder and software engineer with a background in studying Physics in Brazil and Germany and Software Engineering at the University of Oxford. He has worked in Data Science since 2016 and went deep into crypto as a founder and on the blockchain engineering side (Solidity, Foundry, ether.js, etc.).
In the project he will be responsible for overseeing and building the smart contracts, especially for the blob merging prototype.


Nicolas De Luz - Blockchain Engineer: https://twitter.com/nicolasdeluz
Nicolas has been actively involved in the crypto space as an engineer since 2017. He’s done a lot of Solidity development using modern tooling such as Foundry and Hardhat, focusing on diverse areas including staking, DeFi, enhancing UX with AA, and bolstering the resilience of NFTs. He graduated with a Computer Science degree in France.
In the project he will be responsible for building smart contracts, especially for the gas prices futures marketplace.


Jason Chaskin - Researcher: https://paragraph.xyz/@chaskinonchain
Jason is an active researcher in the crypto space with a background in investment banking and solidity development / technical research. He has been publishing a good amount of his in-depth on PBS (proposer-builder separation), EIP-4337 (account abstraction), rollups, EAS and proto-danksharding, etc. on his paragraph account.
In the project he will be responsible for steering the research forward in several directions and support publishing our work.
