Sam M. Werner is DeFi buidler at Curve and backd. I am a PhD student in the Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College London, supervised by Professor William Knottenbelt. In my research I am trying to answer questions around incentive structures found in blockchain systems, ranging from mining pools to DeFi protocols. Previously I have worked as a software engineer intern at the enterprise blockchain firm R3 and have done contracting work for Imperial Consultants and Unilever.