IOV Welcomes Ethan Frey as Lead Developer of the Company

Clarissa Gindri
Starname Blog
Published in
2 min readApr 11, 2018

Ethan Frey brings years of experience in the blockchain industry as a software engineer

Ethan Frey joins IOV

PARIS (April 11, 2018) — IOV SAS, a blockchain startup that is providing a universal protocol for blockchains and wallet users, announced today that Ethan Frey has joined the company as Lead Developer. He will be in charge of the development of all backend coding of the IOV features, like the Blockchain Name Service and the Blockchain Communication Protocol.

Frey is a polymath software developer, that has been working on next-generation blockchains since late 2016. He has been interested in distributed systems and cryptography since his undergrad at Caltech and spent many years building backend systems for web applications in a variety of languages.

“I am excited to apply my experience to make a secure, reliable and user-friendly blockchain framework here at IOV”, said Ethan.

From optimizing real-time queries on terabytes of data to auto-scaling microservices and messaging queues, Ethan has focused on reliability, security, and stable production deployments. He has embraced blockchain as a decentralized solution to security and trust since discovering Ethereum in 2015. He then joined Tendermint/Cosmos full-time as the third engineer in January 2017, building the light client, SDK, and refining the IBC protocol.

“It is with great pride that we welcome Ethan on board. His technical skill set is well respected in many blockchain communities and I have full faith in his abilities to help bring IOV’s vision to life”, added Isabella Dell, IOV co-founder and CTO of the company.

About IOV:

IOV is a Paris-based blockchain startup that provides a universal protocol for blockchains and wallet users. IOV solves the problem of complexity, human error and lack of interoperability when exchanging digital assets on multiple blockchains. IOV provides the Blockchain Communication Protocol that enables autonomous blockchains to be accessed efficiently. Additionally, IOV provides the Blockchain Name Service, the first DNS for all participating blockchains.

For more information, visit www.iov.one. Also, join us on our Telegram Channel https://t.me/internetofvalues

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