Beniamin Mincu is the co-founder & CEO of Elrond, a new blockchain architecture designed from scratch to solve the most pressing problem in the space and bring a 1000-fold cumulative improvement in throughput, executions speed and transaction cost. Elrond can process upwards of 10k TPS, with 5 sec latency, and negligible cost. Through Elrond he attempts to to accelerate the advent of an open, permissionless, globally accesible financial system. Previously Beniamin joined the NEM Core team in 2014 to lead Product, Marketing, and Community, helping take the project from a Bitcointalk post to a global billion dollar product. He has also co-founded Metachain Capital & ICO Market Data and invested in 30+ blockchain startups.