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Alex Shkor
CEO & Co-Founder, Collective Intelligence Labs
Alex Shkor is a software architect and entrepreneur who is CEO and co-founder of Collective Intelligence Labs, a Web3 infrastructure developer.
He studied computer science at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics and began his career as a senior software engineer at Itransition in 2010. He then spent about six years at Paralect, where he was CTO and head of R&D, and he is listed as a co-founder of that company. He co-founded DEIP and served as its CEO.
DEIP is a Web 3.0 protocol for tokenizing intangible assets such as intellectual property through fractionalized NFTs, built on Substrate, and it raised about $4.3 million from venture investors. Since 2021 he has led Collective Intelligence Labs, which works on omnichain smart-contract infrastructure and a metaprotocol intended to connect blockchains. He is known for work on distributed systems and open-source Web3 tooling.
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Latest interview · Feb 14, 2023Alex Shkor on blockchain interoperability architectureWatch the episode →
Key points
- Collective Intelligence Labs proposes a five-layer web3 architecture enabling simultaneous deployment of applications and assets across multiple blockchains without manual redeployment.
- The platform eliminates the need for a central governance token while requiring standardized protocols established through a decentralized council of industry participants.
- An aggregation layer with decentralized routers optimizes transaction execution by selecting the most cost-effective blockchain and managing necessary cross-chain data communication.
- The first prototype focuses on minting NFTs across multiple networks simultaneously, with users unaware of which blockchain executes their transaction.
- Current bridge technologies represent temporary solutions rather than complete interoperability, as assets remain isolated to individual chains despite transfer mechanisms.
In their own words
“You deploy your dApp just once, on the whole Web3, and the underlying logic can redeploy it into different blockchains.”
“We want to make it look and feel like you don't even know that there is a blockchain under the hood.”
“There is a need for an institution to govern the infrastructure, but there's no need for a central token.”
“This is basically a decentralized bank for creators.”
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