Cycles Cryptographer / Protocol Lead

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About Cycles

Cycles' mission is to clear the most debt, for the most people, with the least money. We’re building a privacy‑preserving on‑chain protocol to enable arbitrary finance to occur in the most capital‑efficient manner possible, by taking advantage of the liquidity saving effects of multilateral settlement. Cycles is an open clearing protocol that generalizes the capabilities of a clearing house while making them accessible to anyone. This requires solving challenging protocol design problems at the intersection of cryptography, distributed systems, security, scalability, payment and financial system design.

About the Role

We are looking for a Cryptographer and Protocol Lead to own the design, specification, and security of our protocol development. We take modern Shielded Pools (ZCash, Penumbra, Aztec) as our jumping off...