Oskar Thorén is a co-founder of EthSystems, building confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. He previously kickstarted and led the Institutional Privacy Task Force at the Ethereum Foundation. He created zkintro and mopro, and founded Vac (now Logos Research), the R&D org behind the Waku protocols.
Oskar Thorén is a co-founder of EthSystems, which builds confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. Previously he kickstarted and led the Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) at the Ethereum Foundation, working hands-on with institutions to meet their privacy requirements, work that EthSystems now continues. He also served as a strategy advisor to EF’s PSE and privacy and access layer efforts.
He has spent close to a decade in Ethereum, the last seven years focused on programmable cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, including mopro, a tool for client-side proving on mobile, and zkintro, a widely read ZK primer. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Status, and created Logos Research (formerly Vac), an R&D organization building public good protocols for the decentralized web, and Logos Messaging (formerly Waku), a family of peer-to-peer protocols for secure communication used by Railgun, Status, and other Web3 privacy networks. He has been building products since 2009.
Website: oskarth.com Twitter: @oskarth
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