Aaron Feickert is a cryptographer, mathematician, and physicist whose current research focuses on privacy-preserving signature and proof constructions.

Co-founder of Neptune, of Triton Software AG, founder of the research lab AS discrete mathematics, and cryptography researcher, Alan Szepieniec co-authored numerous papers about zero-knowledge proof systems, arithmetization-oriented ciphers, commutative algebra, and provable security for public key cryptosystems. He holds a PhD in post-quantum cryptography from KU Leuven.
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Diyar Saadi Ali is a prominent cybersecurity expert known for their deep specialization in cybercrime investigations and malware analysis. As a certified SOC analyst, Diyar is committed to monitoring and defending against real-time threats with precision and vigilance. Their work reflects a mission to combat digital risks and safeguard information systems worldwide.
With a solid track record, global recognition, and a dedication to knowledge sharing, Diyar Saadi Ali remains a driving force in the cybersecurity field, inspiring professionals and organizations alike to stay resilient in a constantly evolving digital world.

I'm a PhD student in the Cryptology and Data Security Group at the University of Bern. My research focuses on the privacy aspects of digital currencies. My primary concern is developing formal definitions to assess and compare privacy guarantees across various systems, from decentralized permissionless schemes to centrally managed digital currencies. I am committed to designing systems that can provably achieve these privacy guarantees or introduce innovative privacy properties. A significant aspect of my work involves optimizing the efficiency of privacy-preserving cryptocurrency mechanisms. I investigate methods to reduce computational overhead and storage requirements while maintaining strong privacy guarantees. My research also addresses the unique consensus requirements of privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies, where validation must occur without full transaction transparency. I investigate the theoretical boundaries and practical implementations of consensus protocols that can operate with limited information disclosure.

Harry Halpin is the CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralized mixnet to end mass surveillance. Prior to founding Nym, he worked at MIT under Tim Berners-Lee, where he led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers, and at Inria de Paris where he led interdisciplinary research against surveillance. He has a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also taught cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut during their inflation crisis.

Jeremy Rand is the Lead Application Engineer at The Namecoin Project, with a development focus on public key infrastructure and anonymity. Outside of Namecoin, he volunteers with Kicksecure/Whonix and enjoys porting software to POWER9.
https://ynqrnzvuotdgvqj2g73f5tyj4rcvwutdemu23jgadawihbkc3lxkbwid.onion/

Joseph The Parrot, engineer, gun designer at cariocaworks.com
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Juraj is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Progressbar, Paralelná Polis, and Hacktrophy. He wrote several books, such as “Cryptocurrencies – hack your way to a better life”, "Orange flash of freedom" and "Cypherpunk visions and trends 2023-2025". He creates online courses and content about privacy, crypto, cypherpunk and lunarpunk lifestyles and entrepreneurship.

Founder of Moonstone Research, senior director at NAXO, Justin Ehrenhofer is Board Member and President of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity that provides scholarships for students interested in cryptocurrencies and privacy, supports public cryptocurrency infrastructure, and promotes privacy.
https://magicgrants.org

Marcel Plch, aka Dormouse, advocates for free access to knowledge. Free access to knowledge implies the existence of a reliable information medium accessible by means that cannot be censored. Monero, to him, is a technology that enables financial sovereignty, which is a key aspect of a free society. Monero can play a crucial role in financing independent education institutions. Education of the people, by the people, for the people.

Martin Arness is a wealth manager and the creator behind the YouTube channel Shadow Atlas, where he explores offshore tax strategies, asset protection, and how to keep more of what you make. With a background in law, his approach to finance is holistic, integrating tools not just from a legal perspective, but also accounting, investing, lending, and of course, digital privacy.
https://m.youtube.com/@ShadowofAtlas

Opaque is a software engineer born and raised in a totalitarian country where government surveillance is pervasive and freedom of speech is tightly controlled. Researching IMSI-Catchers, IMEI Change, and SS7 threats, he was reminded on many occasions that this work was a dangerous one. His goal is to create a secure mobile communication network independent from base stations and providers, ensuring that private conversations can remain truly private, unaffected by the encroaching shadows of authoritarianism.

https://shadowshield.run/

Robert Blinov is a Russian-Italian product designer focused on building syntropy and making technology an invisible, sovereign tool that helps us truly improve our quality of life.

https://robertblinov.net

Rucknium is an empirical microeconomist affiliated with the Monero Research Lab. He uses statistical analysis to research improvements to Monero’s privacy and security. His contributions include: a reduction of the time to the first transaction confirmation by 60 seconds, an analysis of the 2024 black marble spam attack and an evaluation of countermeasures, an optimal decoy selection for ring signatures, countermeasures against spy nodes on the network, an analysis of the privacy risk of nonstandard transactions, and an evaluation of the security of the 10 block lock on re-spending transactions.

GitHub: https://github.com/Rucknium
Website: https://Rucknium.me

Senior software engineer with thirty years of experience in professional software development, including ten years in the space industry (DLR, EUTELSAT and EUMETSAT), Rüdiger Klaehn has contributed to several important open source projects such as the scala programming language and the spire algebra library. He specializes in functional programming and automated software testing, especially property-based testing.

https://github.com/rklaehn
https://www.iroh.computer/
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Yu Gao is a PhD candidate in the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology group led by Professor Claudio J. Tessone at the University of Zurich (UZH). Her research focuses on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, with an emphasis on uncovering network topologies, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and assessing the resilience of P2P infrastructures used in cryptocurrency platforms. By combining data-driven analysis with a deep understanding of decentralised systems, her work aims to improve the security and robustness of blockchain ecosystems.

Afungible is a firmware engineer with a love for systems tinkering, edge cases, and all things weird in high-tech and blockchain. A former MoneroTalk price analyst and an author, he brings a research-driven eye to privacy tech, making complex ideas a bit more human.

Visual artist based in Buenos Aires, with a background in storytelling, animation, and design, anhdres specializes in educational content, trying to bridge the technical and the emotional (when he succeeds). A Monero believer since 2017, he is the non-coding half of the Monerujo team. He creates visuals for Cypher Stack and co-hosts weekly Spaces for Cake Wallet. Conflict of interests is his middle name. He’s the author of the Monero Garden project and the illustrator of “Mastering Monero”. He hosts Café Monero and previously co-hosted the Spanish-language podcast El Monero. He has spoken at Monerokon, Monerotopia, Labitconf, and the Greyhat Conference. Basically, he happily and clumsily jumps on stage to speak about things he cares about, in the hope it’ll do some good.

Deki, an electrical and software engineer whose work ranges from PCB design to machine learning, and a developer
passionate about philosophy, is commited to explore its relation to cryptocurrency when it comes to privacy, sovereignty and individual freedom.
https://x.com/dekizedd

Atomic cypherpunk in love with Monero, writing code to make it universally accessible and useful. Midship at the Soggy Monero Yacht Club

jeffro256 has been contributing to the Monero core repository for over two years with 98 merged commits to master thus far, and many open PRs. He is the lead developer of Carrot (Cryptonote Address on Rerandomizable-RingCT-Output Transactions), which might become the main supported addressing protocol post-FCMP++. He also worked on the Seraphis migration project in 2023/2024.
https://github.com/jeffro256/carrot/blob/master/carrot.md

stringhandler is the lead maintainer on Tari.
https://github.com/stringhandler
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