About

Anoma’s founding story

The idea for Anoma came in 2020 as a response to the stagnation of blockchain innovation at the time. Anoma cofounders Adrian Brink, Christopher Goes, and Awa Sun Yin, who met while working in the Cosmos ecosystem, noticed that protocol development was largely dominated by copies or slight modifications of the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Little was happening to fundamentally advance blockchain technology.

This stagnation was due in part to technical baggage left over from the Bitcoin era, namely the reliance on transactions as the basis of all execution.

But what would blockchain protocols look like if they were redesigned from first principles?

Anoma Vision

Anoma is digital infrastructure for self-sovereign coordination. It’s designed to fundamentally give people control over the systems they use and provide a resilient substrate for decentralized global coordination.

Vision paper

Built By

Adrian Brink

Adrian’s work focuses on building sovereign coordination systems that are accessible for everyone. Adrian has founded and led several companies focused on critical blockchain infrastructure, and has been a leading voice for sovereignty and resilience since his early days as a core contributor to several leading ecosystems.

@adrianbrink

Awa Sun Yin

Prior to cofounding Anoma, Awa was the first female data scientist and software engineer at Chainalysis, worked at Tendermint (Cosmos) as a researcher, and helped with the Ethereum Community Fund.

@awasunyin

Christopher Goes

Prior to cofounding Anoma, Christopher was a core developer at Tendermint (Cosmos), lead designer of the IBC protocol, and primary developer of the Wyvern Protocol, which was used for many years by the NFT exchange OpenSea.

@cwgoes

Anoma Foundation

The Anoma Foundation is a Swiss foundation created to steward and grow the Anoma ecosystem, including the Anoma protocol.

anoma.foundation

Heliax

Heliax is an engineering firm working on research and development of Anoma products, including the Anoma protocol and Anoma applications, with a mission to bring financial sovereignty and data protection to the world.

heliax.dev