You’ve worked at Google and Microsoft. What inspired you to step away from big tech and build Randamu from the ground up?
At some point, you realize that the most important problems won’t be solved within the walls of large corporations which can’t effectively pivot due to their own inertia. I saw brilliant ideas shelved due to misaligned incentives, or bureaucracy slowing innovation and development to a crawl. Randamu brings me back to my roots as a startup founder. I wanted to build something from first principles, technology that could enable secure, sovereign coordination across systems without relying on intermediaries. It’s a moonshot, but it’s one I couldn’t say no to.
Randamu focuses on “secure bridgeless multi-chain interoperability.” Can you break that down for readers and explain why eliminating bridges is so critical to the future of Web3?
Today’s blockchain bridges are vulnerable chokepoints. They rely on external validators or multisigs that introduce inadequate trust assumptions and are frequently hacked. We built Randamu to remove those points of failure entirely, to ‘change the game’ if you will. Instead of moving assets across chains, we coordinate action across them, securely and atomically, using threshold cryptography and on-chain condition checks. Think of it as smart, programmable intent fulfillment across ecosystems, without the need to “bridge” anything. It’s faster, safer, and more scalable.
Threshold cryptography and time-lock encryption sound incredibly niche. How do these technologies power practical use cases for developers, dApps, or blockchain networks today?
They may sound niche, but they unlock real capabilities. Threshold cryptography powers decentralized key sharing, automation, and randomness, essential for gaming, DeFi, and DAO governance. Time-lock encryption, enables messages or transactions that are only revealed or executed under specific conditions such as time, block height, oracle triggers, etc. That’s a game-changer for things like sealed-bid auctions, private voting, or conditional cross-chain actions. We make these tools accessible via our coordination network, the dcipher.network, so any developer can plug these features in quickly and easily.
What was your vision for launching the Threshold Association, and how do you see its role evolving in setting governance and standards for decentralised systems?
As a technology experiencing an efflorescence through trends in distributed computation, threshold cryptography needs a neutral steward, someone to convene builders, researchers, and integrators to define best practices and interoperability standards. NIST has attempted to do this through fits and starts in North America, but we believe a more neutral and inclusive organizing principle is needed. That’s why we co-founded the Threshold Association in Switzerland. It’s modeled after the early Internet Engineering Task Force; lean, global, and focused on practical implementation. Over time, we hope that it will serve as the governance body for various networks using threshold-based coordination, including setting policies for randomness beacons, automation thresholds, and slashing conditions. We invite any and all community members who have a stake in threshold cryptography to join us and participate.
Raising $3.3M in pre-seed funding is no small feat — especially in a market that’s been tough on Web3 startups. What do you think resonated most with your investors?
I think it was two things: timing and credibility. The collapse of bridges, rollups becoming dominant, and the rising demand for secure multi-chain execution all converged. Investors saw that Randamu wasn’t just chasing recent trends, we were building core infrastructure the ecosystem would need regardless of market cycles. And our team came with deep experience from Protocol Labs and elsewhere. That gave us the credibility to assert: “dcipher isn’t a toy protocol; we’re building the rails that Web3 will run on.”
How does your background in enterprise product management help you navigate the more chaotic, experimental world of Web3 and decentralised tech?
Enterprise product management taught me to ship durable, scalable products in complex stakeholder environments. Web3 adds chaos, but it also adds innovation and a deeply engaged community. I try to bridge both worlds, bring rigor to roadmapping and security assumptions, while staying agile and responsive to developers and users. Our early design partners taught us a lot, and we’ve built dcipher.network to be flexible enough to meet both institutional and grassroots needs.
What’s one major misconception people have about cross-chain messaging or interoperability in crypto and how is Randamu solving for it?
The biggest misconception is that “bridging assets” is the only way to achieve interoperability. It’s not. You can trigger cross-chain behavior securely without moving assets at all. That’s the core of our model: execute actions atomically across chains, based on verifiable conditions, no wrapped tokens, no third-party validators. We call it bridgeless coordination, and it dramatically reduces attack surface while simultaneously expanding what’s possible across ecosystems.
Open-source values are central to Randamu. How do you balance commercial traction with your commitment to community-driven development and transparency?
We don’t see them as conflicting. Our infrastructure, like dcipher.network, is open-source and modular by design, but we provide commercial-grade support, tooling, and integrations on top. We’ve also launched a Partner Program for systems integrators, and the Threshold Association ensures the protocol’s governance is community-led. Long-term value comes from trust, and in Web3, that starts with transparency and alignment with your ecosystem. We believe we can be both open and viable.
Looking ahead, where do you see the biggest breakthroughs coming in decentralised infrastructure and how is Randamu positioned to lead or support those advancements?
The next wave is about secure automation across chains, think intents, programmable agents, MEV-resistant coordination, and embedded cryptography in everything from wallets to rollups. We’re already seeing demand for trust-minimized settlement, autonomous DAOs, and DePIN protocols needing secure coordination. Randamu’s threshold-powered infrastructure is uniquely suited to such use cases. Our mission is to become the default coordination layer for Web3: secure, seamless, and composable across any chain.