Kyrian Alex is a research analyst with over 6 years of experience in academic cryptography research. He has worked with some top crypto protocols but is currently working at Cointelegraph Research as a specialist in core DeFi infrastructure and products.
Kyrian has a background in Mechatronics and control systems engineering. This background has helped him author numerous research reports, some of which have been referenced in top blockchain academic research and have been used to make policies for government parastatals in Eastern europe.
In capacity as a research analyst at Cointelegraph, he is currently collaborating with BitcoinIRA and the IRS to help define the role of Bitcoin in SDIRAs as a macroeconomic hedge for retirement savings accounts. He is also currently leading an academic research that outlays the emperical scope of covenants as a tool to add more expressiveness to Bitcoin Script.
Kyrian is passionate about the transformative potential of blockchain in reshaping global finance and is a huge contributor to open-source research that helps define systematic approaches to emerging blockchain technologies.