Misha Komarov

Misha Komarov is the Founder and CEO of [[alloc] init], a cryptography research and development company advancing Bitcoin through applied cryptography. She is the lead author of Bitcoin PIPEs v2, a witness encryption-based scheme demonstrating how covenants, non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy-preserving applications can be brought to Bitcoin without protocol changes. Previously, Misha founded =nil; Foundation, where she led research spanning zero-knowledge proofs and cryptographic infrastructure, and she was an early member of the founding team behind Lido, the leading liquid staking protocol.