Luis Cuende

Cofounder & President

2023 - Current

CitizenX allows you to find and fund places that welcome you as a citizen.

Cofounder & core contributor

2016 - 2023

Aragon took DAOs from $0 to >$20bn in assets under management, powering some of Ethereum’s heavyweights, like Lido and Curve.

CEO

2018 - 2019

Cofounder & CEO

2016 - 2016

Unpatent was the initial exploration that would eventually lead us to start Aragon. It was a crowdfunding platform to invalidate bad patents. Unpatent crowdsourced the search of prior art (any evidence that a patent is not novel) and conducted reexaminations before the PTO, automating the process. A large number of patents are stupid or obvious and they're actively used by patent trolls, extorters that acquire cheap patents and sue companies with them. Trolls take $29bn/year from the American economy, and have wasted more than $21bn from the VC industry.

Cofounder & CTO

2014 - 2016

We provide a secure and decentralized proof of existence, ownership and integrity using the blockchain.

Firefox OS Developer

2014 - 2014

Did some low-level stuff with Gecko, worked on implementing the Bluetooth Serial Port profile.

Advisor to the VicePresident Neelie Kroes

2013 - 2014

I advised Neelie on the topics of technology and education, and urged her to reconsider the dumb cookie banners everywhere

Cofounder

2012 - 2014

Built a platform leveraging Apple Passbook to reinvent loyalty cards

Founder

2008 - 2013

My first open source project. Pioneering Linux distribution featuring a new HTML5 desktop environment built from scratch and cool features like facelogin (way before Android and iOS had it!).

Cofounder

2011 - 2012

Developing the first distributed desktop and a dead-simple way to use Internet content in mobile apps.