Lucas Kohorst
Protocol Engineering Lead at Digital Currency Group
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Kohorst is a protocol engineering lead with a decade of experience focused on staking, mining, and blockchain infrastructure, currently leading protocol engineering at Digital Currency Group. He previously shaped Foundry’s institutional-facing staking and mining products, translating market intelligence into practical infrastructure tools that support decentralized networks. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines formal study in Blockchain Technology from RIT with hands-on product and engineering work across industry and nonprofit boards. Known for bridging institutional rigor and protocol-agnostic engineering, he excels at operationalizing staking services and enabling secure, transparent capital access for miners and validators. An operator who moves between strategic investment engineering and deep technical execution, he brings both ecosystem-level perspective and implementation discipline to protocol design and deployment.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain Technology Information Technology, Blockchain Technology Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (110)
leaflet10
javascript9
crypto9
plutus9
maps9
blockstack9
stacks-blockchain9
bitcoin9
layer29
identity8
blockchain8
ride8
prompting8
storage8
sample-size7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Lucas-Kohorst/Python
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Basic Python Scripts including some GUI applications but mostly terminal.
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
basic-pythonpythonguipython3terminal
Lucas-Kohorst/uv3-options
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
🦄 An open source interface for the Uniswap protocol
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 29 days
ethereumuniswapblockchain
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