Researcher & Engineer on distributed systems and applied cryptography * author of drand (https://drand.love) a decentralized randomness beacon that is powering the Filecoin blockchain as well as the Cosmos ecosystem via the Nois project * Collaborated on new cryptographic primitives such as Snarkpack, an efficient way to aggregate thousands of proofs together, or Testudo a new linear time proof system efficient at scale * Developed new protocols for decentralized access control on web3 , project is medusanet.xyz Issue semi regular posts about new improvements or cryptographic tricks to share to the community on my hackmd https://hackmd.io/@nikkolasg or on the blog of Protocol Labs https://research.protocol.ai/authors/nicolas-gailly/