Cryptium Labs

Basics

• Cryptium Labs started as an infrastructure operator for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) public blockchains, offering secure and available digital attestations-as-a-service for supported networks, such as Tezos, Cosmos and Polkadot. The company was founded in Zug, Switzerland in June 2018 by Adrian Brink, Awa Sun Yin, and Christopher Goes.
• Has experience with work on the core protocol of Cosmos and is now also upgrading protocols on Tezos.

• "Supporting Protocols by Operating Secure Validators for the in Mainnet and Testnets" on the following platforms (8-2019): Tezos, Cosmos, IrisNet, Polkadot (testnet) and NuCypher (testnet).
• Worked on: Automated reward payment for Tezos bakers in Haskell, Tezos protocol features in OCaml.
• From the AMA of 13-2-2020:

"At the moment we’re only working on the Tezos protocol as core developers. The other projects we’re working on, e.g. Juvix 1 or the Multi-Asset Shielded Pool (Zero Knowledge Proofs) are still in R&D phase. These projects’ timelines have the priority of benefiting the Tezos protocol (in the case of the MASP) or the Tezos ecosystem (in the case of Juvix). Back in 2018 we started Cryptium as a validator entity and only I was full time working on it. Cryptium (the R&D Team) working on Tezos Core and other R&D officially started in Q1 2019. Ever since the R&D Team started, our involvement with the network has been limited to operating the validator (as it was already fully setup) and participated in governance.

I understand why folks are confused, we’re working on changing the branding so the validator is differentiated from the R&D Team."

Team

• Adrian Brink; co-founder "Adrian’s background lies in both Computer Science as well as Business. He currently works on making blockchains scalable and interoperable, as an engineer, researcher as well a connection builder. His main interests lie within cross-chain communication, BFT consensus systems, and on-chain governance."
• Awa Sun Yin; co-founder "Awa worked as a data scientist and software engineer at Chainalysis and as a researcher at Cosmos. The areas of research she focuses on are applied cryptography for privacy and scalability of consensus algorithms, security in distributed and decentralised systems, and hardware security modules (HSMs)."
• Christopher Goes; co-founder "Christopher Goes is a protocol developer & researcher at Tendermint/Cosmos primarily focused on inter-blockchain communication, formally verifiable smart contract languages, and proof-of-stake incentive design. He is also the author of the Wyvern Ethereum DEX protocol."
• Works closely with Nomadic Labs

Investors

• Gets funding from being a baker on Tezos.