Gokul Alex is an Engineer, Economist and Educator experimenting with emerging and exponential technologies. He loves the creative convergence of programming, philosophy, poetry, psychology, physics with passion and perspectives. He is one of the global 100 Blockchain Experts selected by LATTICE80 Network. He is a top 20 Global thought leader on AI, Analytics, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Data Science, Design Thinking, Enterprise Architecture, Quantum Computing and EduTech, FinTech, GovTech, HealthTech as ranked by Thinkers360 Platform. His early affair with Blockchain started with explorations on Bitcoin protocol during his stint with IBM and EY in 2013. He has started working on Bitcoin, Multichain, Eris and Ripple in 2015. He has setup a Blockchain Educational Network in South India in 2016. He has developed the first prototype in Hyperledger 0.4 in 2016. He has quickly moved to Ethereum Stack in 2016. He has setup the largest Hedera Hashgraph Community in India. He started working with ZCash, Monero and RSK in 2017. He runs the ZCash Kerala Community. He has joined Algorand foundation as the first Ambassador from India fascinated by its cryptography. Fascinated by Blockchain Privacy and Security Models, he joins Elixxir Blockchain Platform Ecosystem known as XX Collective. He is advisor to numerous Blockchain StartUps and Entrepreneurs across the world.