Pre-Sale Partners: Builders in the Ecosystem

This is the final part of our four-part series highlighting some of our pre-sale partners. Read Part 1 or Part 2/3.

This is the final announcement related to our pre-sale partners. To me, this is the most important one. These are the people who are in the arena, laying the groundwork for the new decentralized web. These are the doers, makers and builders. These are the people who I most respect, and so far have been the most valuable and helpful.

I’m really humbled (yet proud) that so many in our ecosystem have chosen to support Mainframe. It’s clear that our technology needs to exist, and that it’ll benefit so many other projects out there. The entire ecosystem is embracing our project, our vision and our values. From funds to founders, we’re backed by some of the most respected in the space.

Below are a few of the builders/founders who participated in our pre-sale:

Gavin Wood (Ethereum/Parity) — Co-founded and former CTO of Ethereum, founder of Parity, Web3 Foundation, and Polkadot. Parity is the backbone for fast and secure building on the Ethereum network. Though the Mainframe network will allow developers to build applications anywhere, we’ve chosen Ethereum for its reliability, high performance, and robust dev community.

Jutta Steiner (Parity) As the Co-founder and CEO at Parity, and former Head of Security at the Ethereum Foundation, Jutta is a seasoned educator, operator, and evangelist of blockchain and decentralization.

Erik Voorhees (ShapeShift) — Early pioneer and evangelist of cryptocurrency and free decentralized markets. Erik is very outspoken in his civil libertarian views, and aligns perfectly with our vision for a private, surveillance-proof network, a personal favorite amongst our in-house libertarians. One of the original players in decentralized exchanges, and we hope their community will be able to freely exchange MFT.

Roger Ver (Bitcoin Cash) — Roger is one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin and the blockchain industry, a prominent voice and thought leader in crypto, and we’re delighted to have him in our corner.

Peter Smith (Blockchain.com) — As CEO and co-founder of Blockchain.com, Peter plays a big role in offering the essential services for the crypto community. They are one of the biggest digital wallet providers and infrastructure platforms in the ecosystem.

Taylor Monahan (MyCrypto) — CEO and founder of MyCrypto, an essential crypto services platform with a sleek interface for interacting and transacting with the Ethereum network, a staple for anyone in crypto with a bright future ahead of them.

Min Kim (ICON) — Co-founder of ICON Foundation, one of the most prominent blockchain projects out of Korea, building communities and bridging crypto to the real world. We’re eager to support their ecosystem of developers and help hyperconnect the world.

Xinshu Dong (Zilliqa) — CEO of Zilliqa, a novel sharding protocol that will solve the biggest problems facing today’s blockchains: scalability. We’re excited to build SDK’s to support the Zilliqa ecosystem.

Matt Spoke (Aion) — Founder of Aion Network, a multi-tiered, next generation blockchain network for decentralized interoperability.

Guy Benartzi, Galia Benartzi, Eyal Hertzog (Bancor) — As the founders and architects of the Bancor Network, they are building a decentralized liquidity network for frictionless exchange of digital assets in a direct and seamless manner.

Richard Ma (Quantstamp) — Co-Founder and CEO of Quantstamp, a well known smart contract and code auditing protocol that we have had the honor of working with to secure our token contract for launch.

Sebastian Stupurac (Wings) — An early innovator of DAOs, Founder of Chainlabs and the Wings Foundation- a platform for decentralized due diligence, project crowdfunding, price discovery, social engagement and smart contract facilitation.

Simon Yu (Storm Token) — Founder and CEO of Storm token, a platform that combines blockchain and gamification, where users are rewarded for performing micro-tasks, connecting traditional companies to crypto with microrewards and opening up earning opportunities to people all around the world. Our future apps could definitely see some action here.

Artia Moghbel (Dfinity) — Head of Operations at Dfinity, a decentralized global cloud 3.0 computing network, backed by famous VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz.

Katya Kovalenko (POA) — Ethereum sidechain that uses Proof of Authority to verify identities and reward fair behavior.

MacLane Wilkison (NuCypher) — CEO and Co-Founder of NuCypher, a network that leverages the power of proxy re-encryption to bring private data to public blockchains. A fellow privacy advocate and encryption geek, MacLane and NuCypher is aligned with our mission of privacy.

Nader Al-Naji (Basis) — CEO of Basis (formerly Basecoin), an ambitious stable coin protocol that utilizes an algorithmic central bank to induce price stability, backed by serious players including Bain, Andreessen, Metastable and investing legend Stanley Druckenmiller.

Trevor Koverko (Polymath) — Early pioneer of security tokens and CEO at Polymath, Trevor aims to eliminate the middle man to migrate securities trading to blockchain.

Pavel Bains (Bluzelle) — CEO of Bluzelle, a marketplace for data rental and storage that enables full control of data. As data is an integral aspect to Mainframe’s platform, we see possibilities to work together to provide privacy capabilities to further boost our protocols.

Jing Sun (IoTeX) — Co-Founder of IoTeX, a decentralized network of the Internet of Things, with a privacy-centric blockchain. We support each other in bringing much needed privacy to industries that deal with large amounts of sensitive data.

Zhuling Chen (Aelf) — Co-Founder of Aelf, a high performance, customizable, democratized cloud computing service with a unique blockchain architecture.

Jason Goldberg (Simple Token) —CEO of Simple Token, a project that helps businesses utilize blockchain with OST KIT, a much needed bridge to help bring blockchain and tokenization technologies to traditional businesses.

Bruce Pon (Ocean Protocol) — Founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange to unlock data for A.I. We hope to explore privacy solutions to solve the vulnerabilities associated with handling vast amounts of data.

Jonathan Chou (Bee Token) — CEO of BeeToken, a platform for decentralized home sharing. We believe privacy solutions can help home sharers better protect themselves in dealing with sensitive real world data involved in home sharing.