Team public accountability surface
Hyperlane'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 #
Jon Kol: Galaxy Digital MD (public LinkedIn+press), conference speaker Devcon 2024, Encode Club AMA, Fortune/CoinDesk quoted, UC Berkeley/Morgan Stanley/IDF verifiable. Asa Oines: Celo founding engineer (public), cLabs alum, Google background. Nam Chu Hoai: Celo engineer, LinkedIn public, Wellfound listed. Investors (Variant, Galaxy Ventures, CoinFund, Circle) add further accountability surface. Multiple verifiable public trails per co-founder.
Sources #
- URLJon Kol Hyperlane Co-founder AMA — Encode ClubEncode Club AMA with Jon Kol — co-founder identity, Galaxy Digital prior role, Hyperlane missionretrieved 2026-05-17
- hyperlane-xyz GitHub org public membersGitHub org public members API — tkporter (Trevor Porter) and yorhodes (Yorke Rhodes) confirmed as public org membersretrieved 2026-05-17
- Hyperlane raises $18.5 million in Variant-led seed round — FortuneFortune article confirming $18.5M round with Jon Kol and Asa Oines as founders, Galaxy/Variant investorsretrieved 2026-05-17
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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