Tom Trevethan
Research Scientist
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Trevethan is a research scientist and engineering leader with 10+ years building production-grade cryptography, blockchain and machine-learning systems, having led development of Mercury Layer (a self-custodial Bitcoin L2 using MPC) and the DGLD gold-backed token. He combines deep academic rigour—a PhD in theoretical and computational physics, 38 peer-reviewed papers and an H-index of 23—with hands-on product delivery as former CTO of CommerceBlock. His work spans protocol and algorithm design, threshold cryptography and multi-party computation, reflected in 11 granted international patents. Tom has a track record of moving prototypes into operating products (including a $25M AUM token) and translating research into practical, auditable systems. Comfortable across high-performance scientific simulation and distributed systems engineering, he brings uncommon fluency between academic research and applied crypto productisation. Based in England, he describes himself as a computational scientist turned crypto practitioner, blending rigorous modelling experience with real-world blockchain deployments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at King's College LondonUniversity College London
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Github Skills (46)
tla10
mercury10
altium-designer10
bitcoin10
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
umbrel10
cryptography10
blockchain10
dfinity10
p2p10
wallet8
ethereum8
sui8
ecies8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomt1664/dislocMMC
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
tomt1664/kmc2d
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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