Team public accountability surface

Circle USYC's assessment for RD-F-112 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Leo Mizuhara has multiple independent verifiable public trails: Bloomberg profile, AIMA member profile, LinkedIn (former DRW/BofA, current Circle VP Product), Blockworks contributor, NFT Paris 2024 speaker, CopperCasts podcast (Ep052 2024), Security Token Show video interview (Jan 2025), FINTECH.TV interview. David Shapiro: Equilar ExecAtlas, Rootdata, co-founder track record at two publicly-listed companies. Alex Walchli: ZeroHash Director of Engineering. Count of verifiable public trails per member: Leo 7+, David 4+, Alex 3+.

Sources #

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Security Token Show Interviews: Circle Acquires Hashnote - Asset Manager Behind USYCSecurity Token Show video interview with Leo Mizuhara on Circle acquiring Hashnote (Jan 2025)retrieved 2026-05-16
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Leo Mizuhara - AIMA ProfileLeo Mizuhara AIMA profile with career historyretrieved 2026-05-16
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https://investor.circle.com/governance/executive-management/default.aspxretrieved 2026-05-15

Methodology #

Count the number of verifiable public trails per team member (LinkedIn with employment history, conference talks, prior employer records, GitHub with aged contribution history).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol circle-usyc factor RD-F-112 score green collected_at 2026-05-15 21:56:43