Pendulum Welcomes Alexander Theißen and Michael Müller as Advisors
Pendulum & Amplitude are excited to announce the onboarding of two top tier Technical Advisors. Alexander Theißen and Michael Müller both come from a strong academic background and like to explore the bleeding edge of technology. Now that Amplitude is live on Kusama and the Pendulum Polkadot auction is getting closer, the creative technical expertise of the Dotsama-native pair should prove invaluable to our ecosystem growth.
In the words of our Pendulum CTO, Dr. Torsten Stüber:
Alex and Michael have proved to be invaluable experts that will support us on our journey to build Pendulum and Amplitude. They are the ideal strategic advisors to lay the technical foundation for a successful and flourishing ecosystem of protocols and applications built on top of our parachains.
Meet Alex
Alexander Theißen has been working with WebAssembly and native Polkadot and Kusama technologies for close to three years. His focus has been on the development of a WebAssembly (WASM) smart contracts execution environment within Polkadot and Kusama. In his current position he is working with Parity on developing an innovative environment for executing WASM smart contracts.We are looking forward to collaborating with Alex as a Technical Advisor on embracing the advantages of WebAssembly as an underlying technology of Pendulum.
Meet Michael
For close to four years Michael Müller has been working in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. In his current position, he is working with Parity on developing a programming language for smart contracts, called ink!. Similar to Alex, Michael also specializes in driving the development of WebAssembly smart contracts within the Dotsama space. Collaborating with Michael as a Technical Advisor enables Pendulum to have confidence in our ability to establish a flourishing WebAssembly smart contracts ecosystem.
A Forward-Looking Partnership
In terms of advisors in the Dotsama space, it does not get much better than these two accomplished professionals. Pendulum’s mission to connect fiat to DeFi is ambitious and large scale. This partnership places the forward-thinking minds of Michael and Alex into a space where they will support the development of a cutting-edge piece of forex-optimized web3 infrastructure. They will be in their element. To learn about why Pendulum believes in the bright future of WebAssembly smart contracts, read our two-part deep dive article here:
You are also welcome on our journey, join the Pendulum socials to get involved. Our Grants Program is now funding developers to build out fiat on DeFi infrastructure on both Amplitude and Pendulum. Interested developers feel free to reach out! We welcome both Alex and Michael onboard and look forward to pioneering the internet of fiat with them.
About Pendulum
Building the missing link between fiat and DeFi through a fiat-optimized smart contract blockchain based on Polkadot’s Substrate. Allowing traditional finance fiat services to integrate with DeFi applications such as specialized forex AMMs, lending protocols, or yield farming opportunities. Developed by SatoshiPay.
About Amplitude
Pioneering the internet of fiat. Amplitude is the sister network of Pendulum on Kusama. It will act as a testing ground for Pendulum applications and network parameters and be powered by the AMPE token.
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