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Chad Barraford

Chad Barraford

Formal First Name
Chad

Chad Barraford is the Technical Lead at THORchain, a decentralized liquidity network. Before this, he served as Chief Technology Officer at the Skyy Network where he designed and built air traffic management on a blockchain. Barraford was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cryptocades, an online gaming site that utilizes a device's spare computing power to mine Monero. Being an engineer himself, Barraford was truly fascinated by technology and got into crypto in 2017.

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Barraford has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.


KEY LEARNINGS

  • While many great projects are being built on Bitcoin, Barraford believes that there is no project contributing more to Bitcoin than Thorchain.
  • He views Thorchain as a competitor to centralized exchanges. He believes these exchanges are monopolizing asset transfers between isolated chains.