Polkadot is the flagship protocol of Web3 Foundation, a Swiss Foundation with a mission to facilitate an open-source, fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web. Polkadot founders are Dr.Gavin Wood, Robert Habermeier and Peter Czaban.

Dr.Gavin Wood – Co-Founder

Gavin began originating blockchain technology as co-founder and CTO of Ethereum. He invented fundamental components of the blockchain industry, including Solidity, Proof-of-Authority consensus, and Whisper. At Parity, Gavin currently leads innovation on Substrate and Polkadot. He coined the term Web 3.0 in 2014 and serves as President of Web3 Foundation.

Robert Habermeier – Co-Founder

Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow and accomplished blockchain and cryptography researcher and developer. He is a longtime member of the Rust community, he has focused on leveraging the language’s features to build highly parallel and performant solutions.

Peter Czaban – Co-Founder

Czaban is the Technology Director of the Web3 Foundation, where he works on supporting the development of the next generation of distributed technologies. He has worked across defence, finance and data analytics industries, working on mesh networks, distributed knowledge bases, quantitative pricing models, machine learning and business development.