Austin Federa is the co-founder of DoubleZero, a project focused on building high-performance networking infrastructure for blockchain systems. He launched DoubleZero to address latency, bandwidth, and data propagation challenges that limit the scalability of modern blockchains, particularly high-throughput networks.

Federa is well known for his role in the Solana ecosystem, where he previously led communications and played a key role in ecosystem growth and developer engagement. At DoubleZero, he focuses on improving validator connectivity and network efficiency, aiming to enhance performance and reliability across decentralized systems.