Esteban Ordano is the founder of Decentraland and currently serves as a consultant for the project. Previously, he co-founded Zeppelin Solutions and created Streamium, the first app to implement payment channels, a technology crucial for scaling blockchain payments. As a former software engineer at BitPay, he co-created the leading Bitcoin infrastructure library, known as Bitcore. He was also part of the teams behind Copay (a bitcoin wallet), Insight (a bitcoin blockchain API), and Poet (a blockchain-based publication tool).