Founders.

Mike founded Zpoken in 2017 and has run it as CEO ever since — nine years, founder-led. The team he built — senior engineers distributed across Europe — takes over the hardest parts of a crypto build, from consensus and zero-knowledge systems to DeFi mechanism design and DeAI infrastructure, for protocols whose in-house teams can't ship those alone.

An engineer by background, he now focuses on the onchain economy and payments, and contributes to Evidentia.fi.

Outside Zpoken, he's an angel and crypto investor backing teams across agentic commerce, decentralized AI, PayFi, and DeFi — the same onchain frontier his own work sits on.

Anton co-founded Zpoken with Mike in 2017 and serves as CTO. He runs the applied-cryptography and distributed-systems side of the practice — consensus design, ZK light clients, and protocol-level cryptography — and architected Incentiv's Contribution-Scored Proof-of-Work consensus from the genesis block.

Outside Zpoken, he's a researcher and an angel investor, backing teams working the same applied-cryptography and distributed-systems problems he ships on.

Public engineering record: the zpoken GitHub account — merged protocol PRs in penumbra-zone/penumbra, second-largest contributor to wormhole-foundation/multigov.