Emmanuel Batse, an Individual Contributor at EthSign, leads research, innovation, thought leadership, and ecosystem development for Sign Protocol, a platform-independent generalized attestation protocol. As a tech generalist and independent blockchain researcher, Emmanuel’s interests span decentralized governance solutions, Distributed Ledger design, decentralized social network solutions, Decentralized Identity, Blockchain interoperability, verifiable compute, and more. His current work aims to bring attestations and verifiable trust to the forefront of the blockchain industry and the world at large through Sign Protocol. Emmanuel’s professional background includes commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and independent consulting for EY-Parthenon and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK. He is an active contributor to the New York City crypto and dweb community, fostering community development through events and initiatives like ZK-NYC, DevConnect X NYC '23, Arena NYC, Bluesky NYC Community, and Web3 Builders at Station3.