Cortex: Smarter Contracts

Who is Cortex?

Cortex was co-founded by Ziqi Chen and Weiyang Wang. Ziqi Chen is the founder of waterhole.io, a company focusing on cell phone blockchain mining. He has solid understanding and firsthand experience in mining, computing and digital wallets and a deep understanding of mining devices, consensus algorithms and public blockchain ecosystem.

Weiyang Wang, a National Mathematics Contest winner and Kaggle Contest silver medalist, Weiyang’s research interests lie in statistical machine learning and game theory. As a certified FRM and CFA Level II candidate, he had won championship in the 2017 Dorahack Hacking Marathon, leading a team creating ABS (Asset-Backed Securities) system prototype, based on the IBM Hyperledger.

Cortex is advised by Whitfield Diffie, one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography, and is partnered with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

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