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The Team That Indexed Crypto Now Wants Banks to Prove It
Edge & Node built the query layer beneath most of DeFi. Now the same engineers are packaging blockchain data for the banks, stablecoin issuers, and AI agents that need to prove where every number came from.
Drosera Network
Drosera Network is a decentralized incident response protocol that aims to be an 'immune system for Ethereum.' It lets DeFi protocols deploy 'Traps' - small, off-chain-defined smart contracts that continuously monitor on-chain state, detect anomalies or exploits, and trigger automated emergency responses (like pausing functions) before an attack drains funds. A decentralized network of Operators watches those Traps and pushes verified responses on-chain, turning security from an after-the-fact audit into a live, programmable defense layer.
Mike Horton
Mike Horton is an American engineer and serial deep-tech founder who turns physics into products. He co-founded Crossbow Technology in 1995 out of UC Berkeley, commercialized MEMS motion sensors, and sold the company for about $50 million. He later built GEODNET, a blockchain-incentivized network of roughly 21,000 ground stations that has become the world's largest decentralized GNSS reference network, and now leads HYFIX Spatial Intelligence, a Santa Clara startup that raised a $15M seed led by Craft Ventures to build American-made positioning-and-autonomy chips for drones and robots.
Livepeer
Livepeer is an open, permissionless network that turns idle GPUs around the world into a decentralized marketplace for video infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, it began as a low-cost alternative to centralized video transcoding and has since expanded into real-time AI video - letting developers generate, transform and interpret live streams on a token-incentivized GPU network rather than expensive cloud providers.