The Algorand Foundation has taken advantage of Nikolaos Bougalis, a veteran cryptographer and former Ripple engineering leader, as its new technology director, the company said in a press release on Monday.
Bougalis, who spent almost a decade by guiding the development of the open source XRP book book, will lead Algorand’s engineering efforts and will help advance its 2025 technical road map.
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The Algorand roadmap, presented in July, focuses on decentralization, the adoption of web3, business use cases and avant -garde cryptography. Bougalis is expected to play a key role in the alignment of the technologies of the Foundation and Algorand around those objectives.
“Nik provides great experience in distributed systems, cryptography and blockchain, as well as a demonstrated ability to promote collaborative development communities,” said the CEO of Algorand, Staci Warden, in the statement. “It will help us duplicate decentralization, performance and security.”
Bougalis will be based on the USA. As the Foundation seeks to expand its footprint between national companies and institutions that seek scalable and compatible blockchain infrastructure.
Its background in security and cryptography is expected to strengthen Algorand’s work in privacy, quantum resistance and scalability.
Algorand, launched in 2019, aims to offer instantaneous purpose and low rates for builders who create projects in payments, identity, supply chain and tokenization of assets. The ecosystem now includes millions of users and a global network of developers who use family programming languages ​​such as Python and TypeScript.
