Meet The Team Behind StarkNet
Nov 17, 2023
Starknet is a permissionless, decentralized validity rollup operating as an L2 network over Ethereum, where any dApp can achieve vastly increased scale for its computation, without compromising Ethereum’s composability and security.
The Foundation will be governed by an initial board of seven directors, with multidisciplinary backgrounds from across the world. In short:
- Andrew McLaughlin — Tech policy, digital rights, entrepreneur, and community self-governance expert
- Eli Ben-Sasson — StarkWare co-founder/President, co-inventor of STARKs
- Eric Wall — Independent blockchain researcher and thought leader
- Heather Meeker — Expert on open-source software licensing
- Shubhangi Saraf — Professor of math and theoretical computer science, and core contributor to the math underpinning STARKs
- Tomasz Stanczak — Blockchain engineer and leader and CEO of Nethermind, one of the largest teams building on Starknet
- Uri Kolodny — StarkWare co-founder and CEO
