Gattaca

Gattaca operates as a research-intensive crypto technology and trading firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2018 by Kubi Mensah, Philip Gasslander, Fabrizio Cavallo Marincola, and Georgi Georgiev. The founding team possesses a diverse background; Mensah and Gasslander previously co-founded and exited a mobile security startup and are Y Combinator alumni, with Gasslander also having experience at Google. Cavallo Marincola founded and exited a startup in 2020 and holds a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Imperial College London.

The firm's core business involves deploying capital into sophisticated algorithms that serve two primary functions within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Firstly, these algorithms provide essential resources and infrastructure to decentralized networks. Secondly, they work to enhance the stability and efficiency of crypto markets. Gattaca's suite of services includes providing liquidity, arbitraging market inefficiencies, securing loans, participating in collateral auctions, and validating and routing transactions. This positions the company to address the volatility inherent in the crypto market by building a more stable and transparent financial system. The business generates revenue and is backed by venture capital, with investors including G1 Ventures, Greenfield, Bankless Ventures, Chorus One, Lemniscap, and Sparkle Ventures.

Gattaca is actively involved in building and maintaining blockchain infrastructure, with a particular focus on trading and Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) related services. The company contributes to the ecosystem through various open-source projects, including work on based rollups and the OracleEVM, a customized EVM that provides gas-efficient access to financial data. A notable collaboration is with Taiko, an Ethereum scaling solution, where Gattaca has been instrumental in implementing preconfirmations for based rollups, a development aimed at increasing transaction speed and scalability on the Ethereum network. This technology allows near-instant transaction finality while maintaining decentralization, addressing a key challenge in blockchain development.

Keywords: crypto research, blockchain infrastructure, decentralized finance, DeFi, algorithmic trading, MEV, Maximal Extractable Value, liquidity provision, crypto market stability, venture-backed, based rollups, Ethereum scaling, transaction supply chain, OracleEVM, preconfirmations, crypto technology, digital assets, decentralized networks, arbitrage, collateral auctions, transaction validation, G1 Ventures, Greenfield, Kubi Mensah, Philip Gasslander, Fabrizio Cavallo Marincola