Team public accountability surface
stHYPE (Valantis Labs)'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 #
Deven Matthews: LinkedIn with prior employment (Nethermind CSO), Crunchbase, cited in The Block and DL News. Eduardo Carvalho: LinkedIn (Imperial College London, Univ Lisbon, Nethermind Director), Crunchbase, educational credentials corroborated independently. Addison Spiegel: addison.is, MIT HTMAA 2024 page, LinkedIn, blog.thunderhead.xyz (author page), RootData. Valantis raised $7.5M with institutional investors (Cyber Fund, Kraken, SevenX) providing investor-accountability surface. GitHub committer `tomheather-50` (tom@thunderhead.xyz) corroborates a named team member. Three named individuals with multi-platform verifiable public trails.
Sources #
- URLValantis raised $7.5M Seed Funding (CypherHunter)Valantis seed round funding details — $7.5M across pre-seed + seed; investors namedretrieved 2026-05-17
- HTMAA 2024 Addison Spiegel — MITAddison Spiegel MIT HTMAA 2024 page — corroborates MIT enrollment, Houston TX originretrieved 2026-05-17
- ValantisLabs/sthype-sdk — GitHub commit historysthype-sdk commit author tom@thunderhead.xyz — contributor identity cross-referenceretrieved 2026-05-17
- Modular DEX platform Valantis.xyz — gen.xyz blogValantis Labs co-founders background — Nethermind origin, educational credentials, seed roundretrieved 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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