Gavin Wood
Switzerland, Switzerland
Founder / Lead Developer at Parity Technologies | Founder/Inventor Polkadot, Co-founder Ethereum, Founder Parity Technologies, Founder Web3 Foundation
Summary
Free-Trust Technologist currently focused on building the Polkadot Protocol. President and founder of Web3 Foundation, founder of Parity Technologies, inventor of Polkadot. Co-founder Ethereum and former CTO of Ethereum Foundation. During my role as CTO, I coded the first functional implementation of the platform released as "POC-1" and authored "Yellow Paper", the first formal specification of any blockchain protocol. Inventor of the Solidity language.
Founder / Lead Developer
Parity Technologies
1 Oct 2015 - Present
10yrs 10mos
London, United Kingdom
Parity’s mission is to enable businesses and organisations to capitalise on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities it presents. We develop cutting-edge software solutions for enterprises and industries to unlock the full value of decentralised technology. We believe that decentralised technology has the power to fundamentally change and enhance the systems used by businesses, consumers, and governments every day.
President and Founder
Web3 Foundation
1 Jun 2017 - Present
9yrs 2mos
Zug, Switzerland
The Web3 Foundation nurtures and stewards technologies and applications in the fields of decentralized web software protocols, particularly those which utilize modern cryptographic methods to safeguard decentralization, to the benefit and for the stability of the Web3 ecosystem.
Co Founder
Grid Singularity
1 Oct 2015 - Present
10yrs 10mos
Global
GridSingularity is a new venture that facilitates an Internet-based decentralised energy data management and exchange platform built on the most advanced blockchain technology.
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