Founder’s Corner Kaspa: Yonatan Sompolinsky

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.