Griff has been a contributing member of the Ethereum community since 2015 and received a master’s degree in digital currency in 2016. As the community manager for Slock.it and TheDAO, he helped form the community around TheDAO and led every angle of the crisis response effort following TheDAO Hack.
He co-founded the White Hat Group, which secured the at-risk funds (10% of the total supply of ETH) during TheDAO hack and one year later rescued $210 million dollars worth of crypto assets following the Parity Multisig Hack. He also audited early versions of the Aragon and MakerDAO systems with the WHG.
In 2016, Griff co-founded Giveth, a crypto donation platform that radically empowers individuals and communities to affect real change in a transparent, decentralized way. He co-founded DAppNode in early 2018 and co-founded the Commons Stack in 2019. The Commons Stack’s pilot Commons, the Token Engineering Commons, was launched in early 2022. The team is now taking those learnings to create a bonding curve launchpad called the Quadratic Accelerator (q/acc).
In 2021, he co-founded General Magic, a web3 design and dev studio focused on web3 impact products. Griff led the creation of Praise, spinning it out to its own organization in 2022, and is currently developing Pairwise, a novel voting system for DAOs, as well as unicorn.eth, a brandable wallet platform. He has contributed to dozens of other projects as well, most notably iden3, PolygonHermez, and brightID.
Griff is also a top delegate for ENS, Optimism, Arbitrum, and Gitcoin and leads a crypto-focused Burning Man camp, DECENTRAL, and helped launch its sister camp, BlockHaus, an art car with a steam room on top that will be on the esplanade this year. He has too much going on for sure but is supported by an awesome team of around 70 people to make all these things happen, and sometimes leans on them for advice on governance matters.
