Prasanna Gautam
Prasanna Gautam is research lead, protocols at Anchorage Digital, the institutional digital asset platform, where he has worked as an early engineering hire since around 2019. He was elected to the Diem Technical Steering Committee in 2021, work he has described as later informing the Aptos and Sui blockchains. He co-created Anchorage's Visual Signing Protocol, an open source framework for verifying transaction details before signing, built in partnership with Turnkey. Earlier in his career he contributed to open source distributed systems projects including Kafka and Mesos. His ETHGlobal workshop on institutional crypto infrastructure covers this same visual signing work, walking through how Anchorage verifies transactions for institutional custody at scale.