Kathleen McCaffrey Breitman

Born: 1990

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

Cornell University BA Economics 2012; NYU

"" a ledger that everyone agrees about. You've got the network layer, you've got the transaction layer and you've got the consensus layer. These things exist in harmony with one another and they're governed by something called a network shell, which basically points to the most legitimate version of the software. There are four stages of any governance proposal, a proposal period where anyone can submit to a blockchain for consideration of a potential upgrade to Tezos. They can write a little description and they do their own version of politicking around the Tezos ecosystem. Then there's an expiration period where people either say yes or no. Then there's a testing period, and finally a promotion period where there's a higher threshold of participation and affirmation required in order for there to be a formal upgrade of the protocol. " (forbes.com); "Ditch the losers, double-down on the winners. I have wasted time trying to fix broken things rather than improve upon what was going well." (gemini.com); "

— Kathleen McCaffrey Breitman

Field of Study: Entrepreneur

Institution/Corporation: Tezos; Tezos Foundation; Coase

Degrees & Memberships: None found

Awards: None found

Achievements: with her husband, Arthur Breitman, developed Tezos to address issues that had become challenges in other blockchain ecosystems, particularly around scalability and governance; introduced a self-amending blockchain, reducing the need for hard forks by enabling in-protocol upgrades; co-founder of Coase, a software company that aspires to lower transaction costs;