Irvin Cardenas is a co-founder and CEO at OpenDive Technologies, a R&D innovation firm focused on developing immersive reality, gaming, and blockchain tech. Presently, he's developing OpenEra, a MMORG on the Solana blockchain, and Kiyomi, a multichain augmented reality wallet. Irvin is also an advisor to Metaplex Foundation, and a co-founder of Polka Häus, one of the largest Polkadot Kusama communities funded by Web3 Foundation. In 2015, Irvin led blockchain strategy at Goldman Sachs, and in 2012 he co-founded Decentral Bank, an early Bitcoin startup. He's published numerous academic papers in the fields of robotics, and blockchain technology.