Partners

Academic Partners

Partner	Details
	David Tse is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Stanford University, where he leads the Tse Lab.
	Pramod Viswanath is the Gilmore Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
	Mohammad Alizadeh is Associate Professor in the EECS Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of CSAIL.
	Salman Avestimehr is Dean's Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Southern California and director of USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, and the director of the vITAL Lab.
	Giulia Fanti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University.
	Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.

Partner	Details
	Protocol Labs built the underlying peer-to-peer network IPFS of Filecoin. Building upon Perigee, in a project funded by Protocol Labs, we re-designed the peer-to-peer network for enhancing its performance.
	Chia is the largest proof-of-space blockchain where storage is used for energy efficient mining. Underlying the Chia blockchain are some of our proven consensus protcols such as EIR and PoSAT.
	Mantis Client has proposed upgrades to Ethereum Classic which include some of our scalability solutions such as Prism and Coded Merkel Tree.
	Dapper Labs has built popular collectibles like CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot, Flow, etc. Sreeram Kannan is an advisor to Dapper Labs on scaling technologies for blockchains.