The 2020 SNARKy People to Watch List [Part 2]

By Pranay Mohan

In our last issue, we shared the first batch of people we think are poised to make a big dent in the SNARK universe this coming year. Here’s the second cohort:

Elena Nadolinski 

Before starting her current company, Elena was a software engineer at some of Silicon Valley’s best companies like Airbnb. Today, she spends her time working on Beanstalk Network, a privacy focused cryptocurrency. 
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Bobbin Threadbare

Bobbin is a researcher and developer focused on the zk-SNARKs space. His projects include the AirScript scripting language for zk-SNARKs, GenSTARK - a library for generating zk-STARKs, and AirAssembly - a low-level language for encoding AIR of computations. 
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Rebekah Mercer 

Rebekah Mercer is a researcher in cryptography and cryptocurrency and current PhD candidate in cryptography. Rebekah joined the O(1) Labs team in January of 2019, and before that was best known for her work on QuisQuis, an anonymous cryptocurrency protocol. 
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There you have it! Some amazing researchers, developers and entrepreneurs building the next generation of zk-SNARK related technology. 

Now, of course, we know there are a ton of amazing people out there, so who would be on your watch list?