Tom Trevethan
Research Scientist
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Trevethan is a research scientist and engineering leader with 10+ years building production-grade cryptography, blockchain and machine-learning systems, having led development of Mercury Layer (a self-custodial Bitcoin L2 using MPC) and the DGLD gold-backed token. He combines deep academic rigour—a PhD in theoretical and computational physics, 38 peer-reviewed papers and an H-index of 23—with hands-on product delivery as former CTO of CommerceBlock. His work spans protocol and algorithm design, threshold cryptography and multi-party computation, reflected in 11 granted international patents. Tom has a track record of moving prototypes into operating products (including a $25M AUM token) and translating research into practical, auditable systems. Comfortable across high-performance scientific simulation and distributed systems engineering, he brings uncommon fluency between academic research and applied crypto productisation. Based in England, he describes himself as a computational scientist turned crypto practitioner, blending rigorous modelling experience with real-world blockchain deployments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at King's College LondonUniversity College London
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Github Skills (57)
tla10
mercury10
altium-designer10
zcash10
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency10
umbrel10
blockchain10
dfinity10
blockchain-network10
ecies9
daemon9
attestation9
ocean8
sui7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomt1664/dislocMMC
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
commerceblock/multi-party-ecdsa
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
KZen-networks's multi-party-ecdsa library with minor changes for use in Mercury
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
changespartymercuryecdsamulti-party
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