Anurag Arjun, Polygon’s Ex-co Founder and Avail’s Co Founder, Joins Ternoa as Strategic Advisor

Ternoa, a Layer 1 blockchain and TEE coprocessor infrastructure provider in mainnet since 2022 and currently launching a zkEVM Layer 2 validium, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anurag Arjun, Polygon ex-cofounder and Avail co-founder as an Advisor to their team.

Anurag Arjun brings a wealth of expertise and experience in the blockchain industry. First as the co-founder of Polygon, which has become a leading infrastructure and ethereum Layer 2 over the last years. Then as the co-founder of Avail, which is set to play a major role in web3 infrastructure in the near future, building a permissionless unification layer for web3.

“We are thrilled to welcome Anurag Arjun to Ternoa as an Advisor,” said Mickael CANU, CEO of Ternoa. “His unique track record and vision for modular blockchains makes him a great source of knowledge to maximize the success of our upcoming zkEVM launch. With his guidance and support, we are confident that Ternoa will keep growing and find its place in the competitive blockchain world.”

Anurag Arjun expressed his excitement about joining Ternoa, stating, “I am looking forward to working closely with the Ternoa team, contributing to their success and evolution of their tech stack. I believe there’s immense potential for Ternoa to pave the way for building secure and scalable rollups in the future.”

As an Advisor, Anurag Arjun provides strategic counsel to Ternoa’s leadership team, offering insights and recommendations to drive the company’s growth and success, and navigate ethereum’s Layer 2s ecosystem. His appointment underscores Ternoa’s commitment to assembling a world-class team of experts dedicated to advancing the adoption of blockchain technology.

About Ternoa

Ternoa is a TEE powered coprocessor and key management system technology accessible via a WASM Layer 1 (mainnet since 2022), and soon via a zkEVM Layer 2. Combining confidential computing and decentralization, Ternoa enables users to encrypt data off-chain with on-chain access control of keys, opening the door to a wide array of innovative use cases.

Over the last three years, Ternoa has gathered a community of 200k+ followers, with more than 80 partners collaborating actively with the infrastructure, including large corporations such as TOHO (top tier movie studio in Japan), EXAION (EDF’s web3 arm, Europe’s #1 electricity provider), or Stellantis (4th largest carmaker worldwide).

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About Anurag Arjun

Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. With a strategic move into the blockchain space in 2017, he co-founded Matic Network, which has since evolved into Polygon Labs, a platform for scaling Ethereum.

In 2020, Anurag spearheaded the development of Avail, an innovative solution within the Polygon ecosystem that empowers developers to create fast, efficient, and scalable applications. As a pioneer with a background spanning research, economics, and engineering, Anurag’s unique skillset has been invaluable in creating Avail and the broader blockchain community.

In March 2023, he and co-founder Prabal Banerjee spun off Avail from Polygon to embark on a journey to empower rollup and application blockchain communities with a highly scalable, modular blockchain stack that can accelerate the unification of web3.