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Fireblocks

Arik is the VP of Technology at Fireblocks, leading the technology research and innovation group that focuses on cryptography, blockchain, security and AI research. Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build business on the blockchain. Notably the Fireblocks MPC wallet technology has secured trillions of dollars.

Argent

Julien is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Argent, famed for his blog series "WTF is Account Abstraction." A champion of making blockchain user-friendly, he's been pivotal in advancing account abstraction. With a PhD in Physics focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography, Julien has numerous highly-cited publications. He founded SQR Technologies, acquired by ID Quantique, and later worked on IoT security at M2Mi before launching Argent in 2017.

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