Adrian joined Tendermint/Cosmos in 2017 as the 3rd core developer and became later the head of partnerships. After Tendermint, Adrian joined the Web3 Foundation as a technologist. Before Anoma & Namada, Adrian co-founded with Awa and Christopher Cryptium Labs a proof-of-stake validator (sold to Chorus One) and Metastate, an R&D organisation that developed the largest upgrades of the Tezos protocol in addition to ZKP cryptography.