Robert Habermeier

Robert Habermeier co-created Polkadot with Gavin Wood and Peter Czaban and was a founding engineer of the network, responsible from 2017 for most of the proof-of-stake and consensus code for Polkadot and Substrate, including parachain consensus. Habermeier was also a core developer of the Parity-Ethereum client from 2016 to 2018. In 2024 Habermeier introduced NOMT, the Nearly-Optimal Merkle Trie, a state database for blockchain nodes.

9 talks by Robert Habermeier

• The Blockspace Expo
• Scaling, Technology, and Tooling: Polkadot and Beyond by Robert Habermeier - Co-Founder, Polkadot
• ZKV presents Privacy on Polkadot - panel discussion about bridges, rollups and shared security
• ZKPodcast: The Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra
• ZKPodcast: From Warp Sync to SPREE with Polkadot's Rob Habermeier
• EthCC 2: Robert Habermeier
• Shasper on Substrate by Robert Habermeier (Devcon4)
• j2 PAIN 05 Robert Habermeier Light Clients for Heavy Chains
• Presenting Parity: A Light Client for a Heavy Chain