Ashton Hettiarachi

Crypto is hard. I have been full-time in crypto for over 7 years. I gained valuable insights with my journey. I have been involved in innovative projects such as Fantom, Elrond, Cosmos, IOTX and REN for the past years. I have contributed to the open data community and worked with Australian & UAE regulators (ASIC, DIFC, ADGM) to legalize DAO & smart contract framework in 2019.

I got into crypto & blockchain in 2015 during an Ethereum meetup in Sydney. I was drawn into decentralization ideology and self-sovereignty. I started running Bitcoin meetups in Wollongong before I started my first blockchain startup.

I’m currently working on L3Atom Protocol & Deeplink. L3Atom is a petabyte-scale Open Data Initiative for crypto and Web 3.0, allowing everyone to have access to quality immutable data for free, forever. Information asymmetry has demonstrated social inequality, scandals, polarization, and corruption have even sometimes led to war. With an enormous amount of concentrated data and information, surveillance capitalism has come to shape politics and culture. Our mission is to address the information asymmetry in Web 3.0 by democratizing data.