A cryptocurrency with a tiny portable blockchain.
Coda swaps the traditional blockchain for a tiny cryptographic proof, enabling a cryptocurrency as accessible as any other app or website. This makes it dramatically easier to develop user friendly crypto apps that run natively in the browser, and enables more inclusive, sustainable consensus.
Coda
22kB
Fixed
Other blockchains
2TB+
Increasing
Build global cryptocurrency apps with Coda
<script src="coda_api.js"></script>
<script>
onClick(button)
.then(() => Coda.requestWallet())
.then((wallet) =>
wallet.sendTransaction(...))
</script>Build apps and games that take advantage of the new capabilities enabled by cryptocurrency with just a script tag and a few lines of javascript.
Your users will have a seamless, secure experience without having to download any extensions or trust additional 3rd parties.
Inclusive consensus
Simple, fair consensus designed so you can participate. Participation is proportional to how much stake you have in the protocol with no lockups, no forced delegation, and low bandwidth requirements.
With just a small stake you'll be able to participate directly in consensus.
Sustainable scalability
With Coda's constant sized blockchain and energy efficient consensus, Coda will be sustainable even as it scales to thousands of transactions per second, millions of users, and years of transactions history.
Help compress Coda by participating in snarking. Just like mining, with snarking anyone can contribute their compute to the network to help compress the blockchain.
Team
Evan Shapiro
CEO
Evan Shapiro graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BS in computer science. He then obtained his research MS while working in the CMU Personal Robotics Lab, where he did research for the HERB robotics platform. He has also worked as a software engineer for Mozilla.
Izaak Meckler
CTO
Izaak Meckler is a mathematician and computer scientist. Most recently, he was a PhD student studying cryptography at UC Berkeley. Prior to that, he worked as a software engineer at trading firm Jane Street, and has contributed to numerous open source projects including the Elm compiler.
Brad Cohn
Strategy & Operations
Brad Cohn has diverse work experience, including stints in an electrophysiology lab, high frequency trading firm, a technology think tank, and a hedge fund. He most recently came from Bridgewater Associates where he was an engineer on the currency team and Ray Dalio's research team before joining a group of engineers dedicated to rearchitecting core investment systems. He holds a BS in math from UChicago with a minor in computational neuroscience.
Brandon Kase
Head of Product Engineering
Brandon Kase loves functional programming. He was first introduced to it while pursuing his BS in computer science at Carnegie Mellon. He has worked as a software engineer for Highlight (acquired by Pinterest), Pinterest, Facebook, and Mozilla. Brandon is excited about the safety and clarity strong statically typed functional programming techniques can bring to the software industry. He also enjoys proselytizing, so you may find him speaking at a conference near you.
Corey Richardson
Protocol Engineer
Corey Richardson is a seasoned open source contributor, recently working primarily on the Rust compiler and libraries. They studied computer science at Clarkson University and have worked at Dyn, Mozilla, Leap Motion, and NICTA. They are especially interested in formal verification, the seL4 microkernel, and what high powered functional programming can do for trustworthy software.
Deepthi Kumar
Protocol Engineer
Deepthi is a functional programming enthusiast and software engineer. In her recently completed master's work, Deepthi designed GitQL, a novel embedded DSL for querying textual changes in software repositories. Her interests span programming languages and program analysis. Deepthi holds an MS in computer science from Oregon State University and a BE from Visvesvaraya Technological University.
Nathan Holland
Protocol Engineer
Nathan is a passionate, self-taught programmer who loves programming languages and paradigms and using high-level abstractions to create high-performance systems. Some of his favorite projects have been developing an array programming languages that targeted GPUs, an Elixir DSL for service buses, a MySql binary log deserializer, and a VR-based window manager on Linux. Most recently, Nathan was building a unique educational program to teach people how to program from the ground up using simplified programming languages and a simple virtual machine.
John Wu
Protocol Engineer
John Wu obtained a BS in Applied Mathematics at UCLA and a MS in Computer Science at NYU. His academic interests in CS and Math span many different fields with particular focus on programming languages and machine learning. His industry experience includes projects with Visa, American Express, Amazon and JetBrains. Most recently John helped develop Datalore, a new data science IDE from JetBrains that suggests context-aware actions to help data scientists with their analyses.
Nacera Rodstein
Operations Associate
Nacera has had a career spanning startups, medium sized companies, and corporations. After earning her BS and MS from IAE in Lille, France, Nacera moved to San Francisco. Over the next decade, she worked with Bleacher Report (through growth from 10 to 60 employees and an acquisition by Turner), Mokum Solutions, Sephora, Venture Beat, AMSI, Oracle, and a software sales business which she helped start up and scale.
Joel Krauska
Protocol Reliability Eng
Joel builds networks. He loves open source technologies, automation and monitoring large systems at scale. Over the years, he has worked for ISPs, network hardware and software vendors, online gaming companies, consumer electronics, large scale websites and network analytics companies. He has a MS and BS from the University of Illinois Engineering.
Paul Steckler
Protocol Engineer
Paul is a functional programmer and researcher. In the academic realm, he's followed his interest in PLs, type systems, and formal verification through collaborations with INRIA, the MIT PLV Group, and NICTA. He also worked on the initial implementation of Alacris, a cryptocurrency solution layered on top of existing blockchains. He holds a PhD in computer science from Northeastern University.
Harold Herbert
Lead Designer
Harold previously designed brands, products, and experiences at Hired, Flipboard, Zillow, and with a range of technology companies while running an independent design studio. He believes that all design is experience design. Regardless of the medium, the end goal is for the well-being of the user.
Vanishree Rao
Protocol Researcher
Vanishree is a theoretical and applied cryptographer with deep experience in industry and academia. She earned her PhD at UCLA through her work on zk-proofs, multiparty computation, hashing, and pseudorandom functions, among other projects. She then worked in industry at Xerox PARC and Intertrust Technologies. Vanishree enjoys developing cryptographic solutions for real-world challenges and communicating intuitive explanations of complex cryptography concepts.
Echo Nolan
Protocol Engineer
Echo is interested in programming languages, type systems and prediction markets. He has made open source contributions to Idris and various parts of the Haskell ecosystem. He's also made and lost a fair amount of money trading predictions on Augur. Before joining O(1) Labs, Echo worked on an text messaging platform for academic conselors, using functional programming techniques to deliver hundreds of thousands of messages to students.
Matthew Ryan
Protocol Engineer
Matthew Ryan is a self-taught programmer with a strong interest in computer-aided theorem proving, formal program verification, and functional programming. He has been involved with several open-source projects, and passionately believes in the open-source philosophy. He has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, U.K., where he studied cryptography.
Rebekah Mercer
Protocol Researcher
Most recently, Rebekah was a PhD student at Aarhus University, where she was advised by Claudio Orlandi and Ivan Damgård. Her research revolves around cryptography and privacy, particularly privacy in cryptocurrencies. Rebekah holds an MSc in Information Security from UCL and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Manchester.
Jiawei Tang
Protocol Engineer
Jiawei loves writing interpreters and type checkers. He received his BS in computer science from Indiana University, and he's fascinated by categorical semantics and dependent type theory. Currently, he is implementing a toy dependently typed language called Pie.
Avery Morin
Protocol Engineer
Avery first encountered OCaml during his BSc in software engineering at McGill University. Since graduating, he's been involved in the ReasonML community in his free time. He's worked on several projects including Reprocessing, a cross-platform port of Processing designed for beginners to the language. Avery is interested in making the helpful aspects of functional programming and type systems more accessible to people who aren't already taking advantage of them.
Carey Janecka
Product Engineer
Carey loves working on crazy ideas. He's designed and built products for SpaceX, Coinbase and a variety of early-stage companies. Nothing gets him more excited than working on simple user interfaces for complex systems. He's excited for the applications that can be built on top of Coda and enabling others to build cool things.
Claire Kart
Head of Marketing & Community
Claire's career has focused on using technology to reimagine financial services and building community to increase engagement and opportunities for individuals. Prior to joining the team at O(1) Labs, she was at Ripple, where she led a number of strategic projects and served as the main liaison to the XRP community. Prior to that, Claire was an early employee at SoFi, were she was involved in the day-to-day operations across all functions of the marketing team during four years of hyper growth, including leading their member engagement strategy. Earlier in her career, she designed and implemented a community-based micro grant program in rural India that has sponsored 300+ women to attend university. Originally from rural Pennsylvania, Claire graduated with distinction from Dartmouth College (A.B.) and holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Pranay Mohan
Developer Relations
Pranay is a frontiersman at heart, and joined the cryptocurrency space to play a role in the rethinking of financial systems. He is excited about changing the story of money to create a more equitable world. Pranay's interest lies in digesting complex technical concepts and delivering them to users as intuitive experiences. Prior to joining O(1) Labs, he built products at Snapchat and co-founded Software Engineering Daily.
Conner Swann
Protocol Reliability Eng
Conner is an infrastructure enthusiast with extensive experience operating distributed systems at scale. His journey through the technology sector has taken him from People Analytics to Healthcare Tech and now to the Crypto space. He enjoys the challenge of applying DevOps methodologies and tooling to emerging industries, and looks forward to contributing back to the wider Open Source community. Conner is a California Native and has a BSc in Computer Science from Northern Arizona University.
Emre Tekisalp
Head of Business Development
Emre's career has focused on bringing new economic opportunities to societies using the power of technology. Before O(1) Labs, he spent two years at Coinbase's Business Development team where he led a number of strategic programs during a period when the company grew 10x. Before Coinbase, Emre was a Product Manager at Intel's wearable devices group. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Emre has an MBA degree from Columbia University.
Christine Yip
Community Manager
Christine is an early contributor in the community with broad experience in multidisciplinary engineering teams. She previously worked for global firms in the US, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Hong Kong. She believes that we can take more ownership of our lives than ever before by using blockchain technology. She supports the community and Coda by combining their efforts in achieving a decentralized future.
Michelle Wong
Product Engineer
Michelle believes that great products are built upon empathy for the user and iterative processes. She recently graduated from Smith College with a BA in Computer Science and is excited about developing products that contribute to the evolution of decentralized technology.
Advisors
Jill Carlson
Advisor
Jill has worked with the IMF and is an advisor to cryptocurrency and blockchain-based ventures. Previously, Jill ran strategy at blockchain start up Chain, where she managed initiatives with Nasdaq and State Street. Jill has conducted academic research on cryptocurrency at the University of Oxford, where she focused on the economic and political implications of bitcoin. Jill began her career as a credit trader at Goldman Sachs. She holds a MSc from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an AB from Harvard, where she studied Classics.
Paul Davison
Advisor
Paul Davison is the CEO of CoinList - the leading platform for high quality, compliant token sales and airdrops. Prior to CoinList, Paul was the Founder/CEO of Highlight (acquired by Pinterest), an EIR at Benchmark Capital, and a VP at Metaweb (acquired by Google). He holds a BS from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Joseph Bonneau
Advisor
Joseph is an assistant professor at NYU. His research has spanned a variety of topics in cryptography and security including HTTPS and web security, passwords and authentication, cryptocurrencies, end-to-end encrypted communication tools, and side-channel cryptanalysis. He is co-author of the popular textbook "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" and co-taught the first MOOC on cryptocurrencies. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and BS and MS degrees in computer science and cryptography from Stanford University.
Akis Kattis
Advisor
Akis is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute, where he is advised by Professors Joseph Bonneau and Yevgenyi Dodis. His research revolves around cryptography, privacy, and security, currently focusing on the privacy and scalability issues affecting cryptocurrencies. He also works on differential privacy and its applications to distributed systems and private learning. Akis holds an MSc in theoretical computer science from the University of Toronto and a BSE from Princeton University.
Benedikt Bünz
Advisor
Benedikt is a PhD student in the Applied Crypto Group at Stanford and he is advised by Dan Boneh. His research focuses on improving the cryptography of cryptocurrencies. He has done research on zero knowledge proofs (Bulletproofs), verifiable delay functions, super light clients, confidential smart contracts and proofs of solvency.
Amit Sahai
Advisor
Amit Sahai is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, Fellow of the ACM, and Fellow of the IACR. His research interests are in security, cryptography, and theoretical computer science. He is the co-inventor of Attribute-Based Encryption, Functional Encryption, Indistinguishability Obfuscation, author of over 100 technical research papers, and invited speaker at institutions such as MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. He has also received honors from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Okawa Foundation, Xerox Foundation, Google Research, the BSF, and the ACM. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from MIT and served on the faculty at Princeton before joining UCLA in 2004.