The people behind MegaTAO
Building the financial layer for Bittensor
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Canh Trinh
Background spanning Wall Street, fintech, and production crypto infrastructure. Structured deals in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, built portfolio management systems at JPMorgan Asset Management, then moved into crypto to lead engineering at Axelar — where security-critical cross-chain infrastructure demands a builder's discipline as much as a financier's judgment. Most recently led engineering at BitMind (SN34). Now founding MegaTAO to bring a full financial stack to Bittensor. M&T Wharton/UPenn, M.S. CS Johns Hopkins.
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Craig Ryan
Previously at Chainalysis with years of experience in crypto, most recently running his own prop firm. Focused on product architecture, market structure, vault design, and trader and institutional outreach.
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Alexey Zenin
Founding Engineer at BitMind. Previously founder and engineer at 2bb.dev, and co-authored NEP330/Sourcescan with the NEAR Foundation. PhD candidate at Texas A&M (M.S. and B.S. from Purdue). Focused on infrastructure engineering, protocol and smart contract development, and distributed systems research.
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Kiryl Yermakou
Chief Architect of Smart Contracts at Axelar, Smart Contract Lead at Eco Protocol, 15 years of full-stack development experience. Focused on core contract design, audit readiness, DeFi security, and cross-chain architecture.