Milestones

Alex Shevchenko completed his PhD in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).

Began his blockchain career leading the Exonum project at Bitfury, helping develop one of the first Layer-1 enterprise blockchain platforms.

Joined the product team at NEAR Protocol, where he recognized the protocol's scalability potential, which led to the conception of Aurora.

Co-founded Aurora, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) built on the NEAR Protocol, to make NEAR's performance accessible to Ethereum's developer ecosystem.

Was a key public communicator during an attempted attack on the Rainbow Bridge, which was automatically mitigated with the attacker losing funds.