Andrew Burger

andrew@web3.foundation

Andrew joined Web3 Foundation in August 2023 as a Researcher who assists in implementation of schemes and protocols in the Polkadot-SDK Substrate framework.He gives lectures and works as an educator for the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. Andrews current work has been focused on the implementation and prototyping of the XCMP protocol as well as the latest Threshold Cryptography features of Polkadot. His biggest areas of interest in research are Blockchain Bridging protocols, Threshold Cryptography, Elliptic Curves, and Consensus protocols.

Short Biography: Before joining W3F Andrew has worked on W3F grants project Tuxedo as one of the two core designers of the substrate based UTXO framework. As well he attended as a student at the first Polkadot Blockchain Academy at Corpus Christi University of Cambridge. Since he has been a lecturer and content creator at the Academy since. He enjoys time with Family, Friends, Squash and Traveling. Favorite programming language Rust. Least favorite language C++

Related Works

• XCMP Design
• XCMP MMD Prototype Code
• Lecture P2P Networks UBA
• Lecture UTXO vs Accounts UBA
• UTXO Tuxedo Framework
• PBA content