Emin Gün Sirer

Emin Gün Sirer is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain, which launched its mainnet in September 2020 around a novel metastable consensus protocol he developed with his team. Before going all in on crypto, he was an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University and co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), following earlier research stints at AT&T Bell Labs, DEC SRC, and NEC. His academic work made him one of the earliest prominent computer scientists in the field, including the influential 2013 "Majority is not Enough" paper on selfish mining in Bitcoin and the Bitcoin-NG scaling proposal. He remains one of the most outspoken founder-scholars in the industry, advocating for high-performance, multi-chain architectures.

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