Some personal news: After 2 incredible years at @RiscZero, taking it from stealth to an industry leader, establishing zkVMs as a category, and setting the org on a path to success, I am stepping away from my role. Time for a brief break to recharge before the next adventure! When I joined R0, zkVMs were seen as either impossible, too slow, or at least decades away from being a practical reality. But we proved otherwise! General-purpose technology has a superpower of enabling a wide swath of use cases all while ensuring a rapid go-to-market. It's been incredibly fulfilling to lead the charge in making zkVMs the industry standard — shifting the blockchain world from computation scarcity to abundance. It’s been an honor to lead strategy and growth at R0, building a badass teams across BD, Dev Rel, Marketing, and Solutions Eng. The most exciting part was collaborating with partners such as Optimism, EF, Eigenlayer, Taiko, Celestia, Hashflow, Citrea who are pushing the boundaries of ZK. From efforts to enshrine ethereum to enabling hybrid zk optimistic rollups, from novel use cases like provable exchanges and offchain slashing mechanisms to bringing ZK to Bitcoin, glad to have worked on pioneering new use cases. Thanks to the founders (@BruestleJeremy, @FrankLaub_R0) & the very talented team (too many to tag, you know who you are), as well as the amazing partners I had the privilege of working with from ideation to launch. Big shoutout to the board and investors who believed in us from the start. I’ll be cheering R0 on from the sidelines! 8 years in the crypto = a lifetime! I stumbled onto Bitcoin during my tradfi days when I attended a talk by the Winklevoss twins at an ETF conference in 2015. I fell down the rabbithole in 2016 when India went through demonenitzation and have never looked back. From the early days in the halls of MIT, planning the Bitcoin Expo, to working on infra projects in decentralized storage and ZK and everything in between, its been a rollercoaster. What drew me to this space was its ability to challenge the status quo, change the power structures, reimagine economic dynamics, and return sovereignty to individuals. We have only scratched the surface. The bold philosophies, the cutting-edge innovations, the absolute degen ideas, the talent, and the friends I make along the way – that’s what I am here for!  As for what’s next – Definitely staying in crypto but for now taking a brief break, spending time with my little munchkin, and focusing on my side projects (Komorebi, OP Governance, WiB, Sia Foundation Grants). I am open to advisory roles in the meantime. I love the confluence of tech & real-world adoption and I get excited by the challenge of finding product market fit, taking new ideas to market, and fueling the adoption flywheel. Hit me up on Twitter (DMs open) or Telegram (same as Twitter handle) if you want to chat or catch up! Let’s build!

@hudsonjameson So sorry to hear you are struggling Hudson! Sending lots of love 💙

@jessepollak @base Congrats Jesse!! You are going to enter an exciting new journey in your life, one unlike anything before. So excited for you and your family! Crypto parents are built different!

@dizhel Thanks 🙏

@jillrgunter Love the initiative! Commenting for signal boost ^

@_MinTeo @RiscZero Thanks Min 💙💙

@justsayuluvjo @RiscZero It indeed feels that way! Thanks 💙

@RaeWrh @RiscZero Thanks Rae 💙

@emilymanzerrr @RiscZero 🙏

@muskan_kalra24 @RiscZero Thanks Muskan 💙

@interngcr @RiscZero Appreciate it 🙏

@dan_calyptus @RiscZero Thanks!!

@reka_eth @RiscZero 🫶💙

@0x_saurav @RiscZero Thanks for the kind words 🙏

@medhakothari @RiscZero aww thanks 💙

@intoverflow Damn Tim! So degen, much wow

@sheys_mst @RiscZero 🙏

@talianotnatalie @RiscZero Aww Natalia! It’s been special.. see you at the next event ;)

@MegLister @RiscZero Thank you Meg 💙

@TradfiBaby @RiscZero 🙏