Arthur Breitman
Arthur Breitman is the Co-Founder and Creator of Tezos, a public blockchain enabling decentralized governance through self-amendments. Since officially launching its blockchain in 2018, Tezos has become one of the most popular networks in the crypto space. Arthur is a former engineer and polymath with a passion for decentralized systems. Prior to Tezos, he was a Research Engineer at Google and Waymo on self-driving cars. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Quantitative Analyst for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Arthur Breitman Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
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Quantitative Analyst
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Vice President
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Research Engineer
Academic History
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Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics
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Ph.D., Computer Science
In 2014, Breitman published a paper on the topic of blockchains under the pseudonym L.M. Goodman. In the paper, he suggested the idea of a different architecture for blockchain and called it Tezos.
Together with his wife Kathleen Breitman, the duo envisioned a blockchain that went beyond Bitcoin's limited governance model by allowing people to actively engage in its evolution.
Arthur is the architect behind the Tezos protocol, a cryptocurrency aimed at solving the problem of governance within the blockchain.
Today, Tezos is an open-source platform for assets and applications that can evolve by upgrading itself. Stakeholders govern upgrades to the core protocol, including upgrades to the amendment process itself.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Arthur has been featured or quoted in Forbes, Fortune, Yahoo! Finance, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph.
He has also been a TEDx Speaker.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.