David Lancashire
Founder at Proclus Technologies | Saito
Phuket Province, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Lancashire is a founder and blockchain entrepreneur with 11+ years of engineering and product experience, best known for co-founding Saito, a protocol that rethinks blockchain incentives to enable mass on-chain scaling without VM complexity. He also founded Language Systems, the company behind Popup Chinese/Cantonese, where he led engineering, content and business development—demonstrating a rare blend of technical delivery and language-edtech product strategy. David has lived and worked in China for over a decade, raised institutional seed funding from prominent Asian investors, and presented Saito’s ideas at top venues like Tsinghua, Deconomy and the Asia Blockchain Summit. His background in political economy (MA, UC Berkeley) and early involvement in Bitcoin since 2012 inform a systems-level approach to decentralised networks and incentive design.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Political Science, Economics, A+, Master of Arts, Political Science, Economics, A+ at University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Hon, International Relations, Chinese Studies, A, B.A. Hon, International Relations, Chinese Studies, A at University of Toronto - University of Trinity College
Github Skills (32)
cargo10
reference-implementation10
data-format10
compatibility10
blockchain10
rust10
binary-data10
javascript9
cross-platform9
voting9
typescript9
high-performance9
polkadot8
workspace8
substrate8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SaitoTech/saito-rust
May 2021 - Feb 2022
A high-performance (reference) implementation of Saito in Rust
Contributions:30 reviews, 536 commits, 122 PRs in 9 months
rustblockchaincargosaito-consensusperformance
SaitoTech/saito-lite-rust
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
a version of the Saito-Lite client written for compatibility with the Saito Rust client and binary data format
Contributions:108 reviews, 2502 commits, 837 PRs in 1 year 3 months
binary-datarust-clientrustdata-formatsaito-rust
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