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Team composition

  • Total size: 5 (full-time). Core roles are in-house with ownership alignment.
  • Management & strategy: Founder/CEO Michael Aprossine (vision, architecture, partnerships); COO Philippe Khomenok (fintech SaaS operations); Ankit Sahu (banking and compliance).
  • Engineering & AI: Senior AI engineer (SLM + reasoning pipelines), backend/infrastructure engineer (distributed systems, Arweave, gateways), full-stack/platform engineer (APIs, integrations).

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Why the team matters

  • Michael Aprossine brings 24+ years of enterprise software, IoT, and blockchain experience with prior exits.
  • Ankit Sahu brings compliance and regulator-facing experience in banking.
  • Philippe Khomenok brings fintech SaaS operations and regulated-market delivery.
  • External advisors (AI PhDs, cryptographers) review technical design, economics, and governance.

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Commitment & incentives

  • Core architecture and IP are developed in-house.
  • Token vesting and DAO participation align the team with long-term protocol outcomes.
  • Roadmap milestones tie incentives to production deployments and usage.