Ethan Buchman

CEO, Cycles Protocol

Co-Founder of Cosmos, CEO of Cycles Protocol and Informal Systems.

Ethan is an Internet Biophysicist, Sustainability Existentialist, and Monetary Localist.

Ethan co-founded the Tendermint and Cosmos projects and has been a pioneer in the rise of Proof-of-Stake and application-specific blockchains. He built Informal Systems to incubate transformative technologies, including his latest project Cycles, whose mission is to clear the most debt for the most people with the least money.

Ethan received a BSc in Physical Science and a MASc in Engineering Systems and Computing, both from the University of Guelph, where he studied biophysics, machine learning, and distributed systems. More recently he’s been studying the history of money and finance with an eye towards the decentralized international clearing systems that operated before the rise of central banks. Turns out the monetary system is a graph. Respect the Graph.