Author: Tanishq Bodh
Kaspa: The Visionary Behind the Innovation
‣ Yonatan Sompolinsky – The Founder
DAGLabs Founder: Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky, with professor Aviv Zohar, founded DAGLabs to implement the groundbreaking GHOSTDAG protocol.
Education
‣ Hebrew University: Yonatan began studying computer science in 2013 and earned his Ph.D. by 2018.
‣ Harvard Postdoc: Currently, he researches transaction ordering protocols and MEV at Harvard.
Career Milestones
➭ GHOST Protocol (2013)
‣ Yonatan and Aviv Zohar proposed the GHOST protocol to address blockchain scalability. It was cited in the Ethereum whitepaper as a design goal.
➭ SPECTRE Algorithm (2016)
‣ Published the SPECTRE consensus algorithm with Zohar, which gained significant attention in the crypto community for DAG-based systems.
➭ Kaspa Foundation (2021)
Kaspa Launch: Yonatan founded Kaspa, a layer 1 blockchain using the PHANTOM/GHOSTDAG protocol and a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure.
Yonatan Sompolinsky’s pioneering work continues to shape the future of blockchain technology.
