# Howard Wu

> Howard Wu is a co-founder of Aleo and co-founder and CEO of Provable, the company developing Aleo infrastructure, developer tools, and confidential financial products. A UC Berkeley graduate and co-author of DIZK and Zexe, he works on making zero-knowledge cryptography practical for private applications and payments.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Provable; co-founder of Aleo
- **Organizations:** Provable, Aleo, University of California, Berkeley, Dekrypt Capital, Blockchain at Berkeley
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-authored DIZK, distributing zero-knowledge proof generation across a compute cluster., Co-authored Zexe, a construction for decentralized private computation., Co-founded Aleo, whose mainnet launched on September 18, 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Completed a Berkeley master’s research project on DIZK; co-authored the DIZK paper presented at USENIX Security.
- **2018** — Appeared on Zero Knowledge to explain zkSNARKs; introduced as a managing partner of Dekrypt Capital.
- **2019** — Co-founded Aleo Systems with Michael Beller, Collin Chin and Raymond Chu in December.
- **2020** — Zexe, co-authored with Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers and Pratyush Mishra, appeared at IEEE Security and Privacy.
- **2022** — Moved from Aleo CEO to CTO when Alex Pruden became CEO in November.
- **2024** — Appeared as the company CEO in a January Zero Knowledge discussion distinguishing the development company from the foundation; Aleo mainnet launched in September.
- **2025** — As Provable CEO, discussed confidential payments and announced collaboration with Google Cloud.
- **2026** — Provable launched Shield Wallet in February and opened Shield Swap early access in August.

## Achievements

- Co-authored DIZK, distributing zero-knowledge proof generation across a compute cluster.
- Co-authored Zexe, a construction for decentralized private computation.
- Co-founded Aleo, whose mainnet launched on September 18, 2024.
- Leads Provable, developer of Shield Wallet and Shield Swap.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Provable opened Shield Swap early access on August 17; its announcement anticipated a public launch in Q4 2026.
- **2026-04** — Provable asked Leo Wallet users to migrate to Shield and said new feature development would focus on Shield.
- **2026-02** — Provable launched Shield Wallet on February 17.
- **2025-11** — Provable announced an agreement to acquire Leo Wallet from Demox Labs on November 17.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1howardwu/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/1HowardWu
- GitHub: https://github.com/howardwu

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Last updated: 2026-10-21