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Justine Humenansky

Lead, Metagovernance and Delegate Relations at Optimism

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Justine Humenansky currently leads meta-governance and delegation relationships at Optimism and previously invested at Playground Global. She has been in the crypto industry since early 2017 and has worked on initiatives with Blockchain at Berkeley, the World Economic Forum, Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative, the United Nations, a16z’s crypto startup school, Celo Camp, the Algorand European Accelerator, and the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. She was a blockchain lead for UC Berkeley’s recent launch of the Nobel NFTs and helped to form FiatLux DAO, a Berkeley alumni DAO, which won The Fourth Pillar Nobel NFT.

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