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Yaoqi Jia

Dr. Yaoqi Jia is the Singapore-based founder and CEO of AltLayer, an execution and scaling layer for all blockchains. He previously was director of Parity Asia and the cofounder and CTO of Zilliqa. Yaoqi was also a research fellow on blockchain security, distributed system security and web security and privacy, and his research work has been published in security and privacy conferences including CCS, USENIX Security, PETS, RAID and ESORICS. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the National University of Singapore.

October 2022

Why appchains are critical to Web3’s future

What’s wrong with ‘fat protocols’ like Ethereum and Solana, and why should there be alternatives for the little guys? Yaoqi Jia of AltLayer explains.