Liam Eagen

co-founder
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I do cryptography research into scaling Bitcoin via on-chain SNARK verification at { ideal }, a company I co-founded with Robin Linus and Ying Tong Lai. Previously, I was the founding cryptographer and chief scientist of Alpen Labs on BitVM and Glock and also worked at Blockstream research on proofs for private transactions. My work focuses on proof systems research and on BitVM and garbled circuits for verification on-chain. I also work on private transaction protocols like ShieldedCSV.