Sasha Ivanov is Founder & CEO at Waves. He is a Technology Entrepreneur and for the past decade he's been helping improve business, banking and public administration systems evolving electronic payment mechanisms. In 2016 he founded Waves Platform, a global public blockchain platform with a market cap of $1.7 billion (as of 19th December, 2017), which was crowdfunded 30,000 BTC ($18 million), representing the second-largest successfully crowdfunded blockchain project (after Ethereum). The name references his background as a theoretical physicist and the recently-discovered gravitational waves predicted by Einstein a century ago. Waves Platform has subsequently developed into one of the largest tech communities with 300,000 active users in 25 countries and formed partnerships with a variety of renowned international organisations. Recently, he has initiated a new project - Vostok - to create the first usable blockchain solution for scalable digital infrastructure, helping to expand the global accessibility of blockchain.