Jarrad Hope

Jarrad Hope came to Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, countereconomics, and crypto anarchy. Seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that did not depend on a monopoly of violence.

From there, he participated in early attempts to generalise the Bitcoin script to advance institutional libertarianism, ultimately becoming an early contributor to Ethereum. While advancing privacy technologies through the development of the end-to-end encrypted and peer-to-peer private messaging client and super app Status, Jarrad realised that privacy technologies are not enough and now advocates for self-sovereign crypto networks and the realisation of a latent cypherpunk dream, the cryptostate.

Jarrad is the co-founder of Logos, a movement building a technology stack upon which to deploy any governance institution that resists manipulation from external entities. His first book, "Farewell to Westphalia", is an exploration into why such a movement is more relevant than ever today.