Muneeb Ali

Muneeb Ali
Muneeb Ali
Education	Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Stacks, Protothread
	Scientific career
Fields	Distributed Computing
Thesis	Trust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet (2017)
Doctoral advisor	Andrea LaPaugh

Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Stacks, an open-source smart contract platform for Bitcoin. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Stacks network. He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.

Career

Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017. Ali co-founded Stacks (formerly Blockstack) with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.

His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing.

Ali was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Amazon Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.

In 2019, he convinced the SEC regulators to allow his company to start a token offering under Reg A+ exemption, becoming the first to do so. In 2020, Ali released a legal framework for non-security status of Stacks.

References

1 2 Vigna, Paul (10 July 2019). "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.
1 2 "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
↑ "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV. 22 June 2017.
↑ Vigna, Paul (26 October 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal.
↑ "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet.
↑ "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.
↑ "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.
↑ "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).
↑ WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
↑ Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (2020-12-07). "Blockstack's digital currency 'Stacks' to be tradable in U.S. once new blockchain arrives". Reuters.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Vigna, Paul (10 July 2019). "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.

[:1-2] 1 2 "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.

[3] "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV. 22 June 2017.

[4] Vigna, Paul (26 October 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal.

[5] "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet.

[6] "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.

[7] "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.

[8] "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).

[9] WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2020.

[10] Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (2020-12-07). "Blockstack's digital currency 'Stacks' to be tradable in U.S. once new blockchain arrives". Reuters.