Robert Habermeier is a Co-Founder of the Polkadot Network and Managing Partner at Hypersphere Ventures^[3]. Robert Habermeier is a blockchain entrepreneur and researcher with experience in cryptography, game theory, and distributed systems.^[1][2]

Career

Robert Habermeier was first introduced to bitcoin and blockchain in 2011. In 2013 he started working on the Rust programming language. ^[7]

In 2015, Robert became aware of Parity^[5] which was working on Ethereum in Rust, there he became an Ethereum core developer while working with the team at Parity^[5]. In 2016, he started working with Gavin Wood and Peter Czaban^[6] on the design of Polkadot's Parachains which are the fundamental scaling primitive of Polkadot. ^[7]

Polkadot

Polkadot is a network protocol that enables the transfer of arbitrary data, including tokens, across blockchains. This allows for the possibility of cross-chain registries and cross-chain computation.  It is capable of transferring data between public, open, permissionless, and private, permissioned blockchains. This makes it possible to develop applications that can use permissioned data from a private blockchain on a public blockchain. [1][2]

Robert Habermeier is an editor of Polkadot Network^[8] and Kusama_Network^[9] where he creates content related to blockchains and Polkadot.^[10] When asked about what differentiates Polkadot from other blockchains, Robert answered:

"First, we want to make it easy for people to write specialized purpose-built blockchains, to get security for those blockchains so that they don't have to worry about gathering a minor community which is another issue that we've seen is difficult because these things can be 51% attack and lastly to connect these blockchains so you can have use cases that are emergent among many specific utilities"^[14]

In June 2018, Robert Habermeier was named a 2018 Thiel Fellow. As a Thiel Fellow, Robert received $100,000 over two years to further the development of the Polkadot project, as well as mentorship from the foundation’s large network of entrepreneurs, inventors, and scientists. ^[11][12]

Robert is a thought leader in the cryptocurrency space, having authored numerous blog posts and articles and presented at conferences on topics related to blockchain technology. He is also a mentor for the Web3 Foundation, helping to cultivate the next generation of blockchain developers. ^[4][13]