#AustinBlockchain Conversations: Chris Georgen, Founder/Chief Architect of Topl

November's #AustinBlockchain Conversation features Chris Georgen, Founder & Chief Architect at Topl. He will be talking with the Austin Blockchain Collective's Co-Founder Pete Harris (Dustin Byington is unexpectedly away), and there will also be an opportunity to ask your questions.

Use this Zoom link to join the conversation at the scheduled time:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86141609724?pwd=aDl3MjBwdk8yQTNRaGgxUHFlNnFJUT09
Passcode if required = 283090

RSVP to this conversation to be reminded of it, with the Zoom link, on the day.

About Chris:

As Founder and Chief Architect, Chris Georgen has helped steered Topl from its inception as an idea to one of Texas's leading blockchain startups. Together with Topl's CEO & CTO, he leads the design of one of the only impact and sustainability focused blockchain in the world and engage with partners and clients across 6 continents. Before starting Topl, Chris obtained degrees in Mathematics, Chemical Physics, and Philosophy from Rice University. During this time at university, he performed research resulting in 3 co-authored papers focused on emergent phenomena in complex systems and developed many of the models that would come to define Topl's blockchain approach.

About Topl:

Topl is a Texas-based, venture-backed company enabling digital and sustainable transformation across value chains and markets. Topl has built its own lightweight, energy-efficient blockchain that aims to revolutionize how businesses prove, market, and monetize sustainable practices.

Through innovations including Layer 2 smart contracts, that enable granular privacy even on a public chain, and novel tokenomics designed to maintain affordable and predictable transaction fees, Topl is constantly improving despite already having launched its first production network. Built to be as user-informed as possible, the company has begun to build out a full-stack suite of libraries, tools, and platforms for its blockchain network in order to remove the traditional barriers of blockchain adoption.