Who Are the Founders of Polkadot?

Polkadot was founded by the Web3 Foundation, a Swiss Foundation founded to facilitate a fully functional & user-friendly decentralized web as an open-source project.

Its founders are Dr. Gavin Wood, Robert Habermeier & Peter Czaban.

Wood, the Web3 Foundation’s president, is the most well-known of the trio thanks to his industry influence as Ethereum co-founder, Parity Technologies founder & the creator of the smart contract coding language Solidity.

Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow & accomplished blockchain & cryptography researcher & developer.

Czaban is the Web3 Foundation’s Technology Director.