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George Paliani is a Web3 entrepreneur, angel investor, and strategic business advisor with over 10 years of experience in international business development, FinTech, crypto, and Web3. He is the Founder of Paliani Business Consulting (PBC), where he works with (U)HNWIs, investors, founders, Family Offices, and companies, providing strategic advisory, capital and asset management consulting, international business development, and access to relevant global networks. Throughout his career, George has helped companies enter new markets, scale their businesses, raise capital, strengthen their international positioning, and establish relationships with investors and strategic partners. His track record includes supporting a regulated crypto platform with successful market entry and (U)HNW client acquisition, contributing to 20x revenue growth for a global crypto payments provider, and helping a Web3 startup attract Tier-1 advisors and secure $2M in pre-seed funding. George combines strategic advisory with an extensive international network across crypto, Web3, FinTech, investment, and entrepreneurship.

Leo Fan co-founded Cysic, a real-time zero-knowledge proving network, and holds a PhD in cryptography from Cornell. An Assistant Professor at Rutgers and former Algorand researcher, he specializes in ZK proofs and blockchain infrastructure. Co-founder of Cysic, a Proof-of-Compute Layer-1 focused on real-time ZK proof generation Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University Former Cryptography Researcher at Algorand; postdoc at University of Maryland Regular contributor to Cointelegraph on cryptography, ZK proofs and blockchain infrastructure topics Named "architect" for ZPrize II (Prize 1: Beat the Best, FPGA/GPU)

Yaniv Tal co-founded The Graph, the indexing protocol that made blockchain data queryable across Web3. He later founded Geo and co-founded Edge & Node, building infrastructure for a decentralized, verifiable internet. Co-founder & former Project Lead of The Graph (launched 2018), the leading decentralized data-indexing protocol powering thousands of Web3 apps (Uniswap, Synthetix, etc.) Co-founder of Edge & Node, the core dev company behind The Graph Founder & CEO of Geo – a decentralized knowledge-graph/browser project Prior experience at MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce); founded two earlier startups (TapSavvy, Workflo)

Bradley Peak has been writing about crypto long enough to cut through most of the noise around it. These days he reports for BeInCrypto; before that, he spent time at Cointelegraph, where he dug into DeFi, the economics that actually keep blockchains running, and the on-chain mechanics that a lot of coverage glosses over. What pulls his attention most, though, is payments — how value really moves on-chain, where AML and compliance come into the picture, and which market shifts are worth watching. That's the perspective he brings to 0xProcessing: less hype, more of what's useful if you're trying to make sense of cryptocurrency payment solutions. He studied at Cambridge, in linguistics rather than finance — which probably explains his knack for turning dense, technical subjects into something you can actually read.

Lucas Anderson — 0xProcessing blog author.