Patrick McCorry is leading the research and educational effort at the Arbitrum Foundation. He has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies and his time has been split across academic research and industry. In the past, he has worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. In a past life, he was an Assistant Professor at King’s College London and an accomplished researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.