As an Ex-VP of Citibank's Commercial Digital Banking and Parity Technologies, Joshua is passionate about an inclusive future for financial services and the free internet. (Fintechs / Web3 Tech) His role with Mantle is to lead product for protocol research & development. Mantle is a leading Web3 brand with three main strengths. Firstly, we offer one of the largest liquid staking and restaking derivative products on Ethereum. Secondly, our layer 2 EVM rollup network leverages Ethereum's security to provide efficient and secure transactions. This makes smart contract transactions much cheaper with the economic security of Ethereum. Lastly, we manage one of the largest treasury DAOs, with over $3 billion in assets (Originally contributed by Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Spartan Group, Jump Capital, ByBit and many more). Passionate as a computer scientist (i.e. a nerd) and macroeconomist, he is keen to develop machine learning frameworks and blockchain development toolsets. His recent exploration is in fully homorphic encryption (FHE), Zero Knowledge (ZK), alternative ISAs (RISC-V), more performant EVMs, foundational models (LLMs) and monetary economics (study in global liquidity dynamics). In his free time, he hacks out prototypes in Web3 hackathons. He won 4 times at these competitions - even just recently in 2024. He graduated from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge where he studied how private & public sector firms collaborate and commercialise emerging technologies. He is both a Commonwealth Scholar for Innovation, and an Industry Scholar supported by Singapore's Central Bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). All posts and views on this channel are his own and do not necessarily represent the postings, strategies or opinions of his employer or affiliated organizations.