Harry Halpin is CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a Swiss blockchain-based privacy startup funded by a16z, Binance Labs, Polychain, DCG, and many others. Previously, he was a research scientist at MIT, where he worked under Tim Berners-Lee on WebCrypto, and Inria de Paris, where he led European Commission efforts research to fight mass surveillance. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics under Andy Clark at University of Edinburgh. He has over 100 publications in AI, cryptography, blockchain technologies, and philosophy.