Denis Kanonik MSc, PhD, is the CTO and Co-Founder of Maru. Denis is an Engineering Leader with 12+ years of experience in applied cryptography, mathematics, circuit design and electronics, big data and AI. Before Crypto, Denis led technical teams building AI driven high frequency trading systems and researching computer vision algorithms for self driving technology.

Anton is the Co-Founder of and Head of Engineering at Maru. Since 2017, Anton has been building web3 companies focused on cryptography, privacy and DeFi. He has contributed to privacy protocols like Penumbra, implemented the NEAR ZK light client, and co-authored several research papers in cryptography. Before crypto, Anton worked in AI, building some of the earliest AI voice systems.

Alex is the Founder and CEO of Maru. He has been in crypto since 2014 as a researcher, investor and builder. Before founding Maru, Alex was a founding advisor of Mir protocol (now Polygon Zero) which developed the plonky2 library. Alex interests have always revolved around data storage and security for high performance computing, which led him to publish several research papers on the subject of efficient data structures and cryptographic security.

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