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As an Ex-VP of Citibank's Commercial Digital Banking and Parity Technologies, Joshua is passionate about an inclusive future for financial services and the free internet. (Fintechs / Web3 Tech) His role with Mantle is to lead product for protocol research & development. Mantle is an institutional Web3 brand with key strengths. Mantle Network, the 4th largest Ethereum Layer 2 is focused on efficient, secure transactions for institutional adoption. The network is also home to one of the largest treasury DAOs, with over $4.9 billion in assets (Originally contributed by Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Spartan Group, Jump Capital, ByBit and many more). Passionate as a computer scientist (i.e. a nerd) and macroeconomist, he is keen to develop machine learning frameworks and blockchain development toolsets. His recent exploration is in Zero Knowledge (ZK), alternative ISAs (RISC-V), more performant EVMs, foundational models (LLMs) and monetary economics (study in global liquidity dynamics). In his free time, he hacks out prototypes in Web3 hackathons. He won 4 times at these competitions - even just recently in 2024. He graduated from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge where he studied how private & public sector firms collaborate and commercialise emerging technologies. He is both a Commonwealth Scholar for Innovation, and an Industry Scholar supported by Singapore's Central Bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). All posts and views on this channel are his own and do not necessarily represent the postings, strategies or opinions of his employer or affiliated organizations.
Leading Mantle network's growth and product roadmap - leading real world asset growth (stablecoins, tokenized equities, precious metals, lending & borrowing structured products), supporting protocol research & development. We built the largest zero-knowledge (ZK) blockchain in the world to support institutional grade on-chain finance and banking of both real world assets and digital assets.
Match-ups for Entrepreneurs with a product market fit with top-tier startup incubators that are often the filters for talent. If entrepreneurs are masters in networking, base case - this becomes the social network of network brokers (Granovetter, 1973). Potential upside - this becomes the ex-founder alumnni group for venture capital.
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility for the earliest interoperable blockchain of blockchains. This is the Compaq investment thesis when IBM compatibility was the hottest product feature for computers in the 1980s.
Unit economics for AR/VR didn't make sense until the Apple Vision Pro showed a future of the mobile workplace with infinite monitor screens. Base case for Immersed's Visor - an Apple Vision Pro use case at a third the cost.
Ecosystem Success & Business Development | Success Team | Substrate Builders Program Substrate (Polkadot SDK) is the primary blockchain library used by developers to create the parachains that make up the Polkadot network. Polkadot is one of the top 20 public blockchains by market capitalization that was launched by Ethereum's first CTO and cofounder Dr Gavin Wood. The Polkadot Alpha Program directly supports Web3 entrepreneurs with Parity’s extensive resources, taking your Substrate (Polkadot SDK) project from prototype to launch.