Overview

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Xavier Hendrickx is the archetype of the brilliant CTO, partly university-educated in Computer Science, mostly self-taught. Xavier has been in the crypto space since early 2013 and experienced several high-profile security breaches first hand. He was a victim of a.o. the Mount Gox hack in 2014 and the DAO hack in 2016. This made him very conscious about the security issue in blockchain's brave new world. While Xavier was studying Computer Science, he also engaged in developing automated trading bots for specific cryptocurrencies. This ultimately led to him being scouted by a Belgo-American blockchain project called SwarmCity, a project that raised around 62.000 ETH in an ICO in 2016 (under the name Arcade City). Xavier started off as a blockchain developer in the project, but quickly rose in the ranks. In 2017, Swarm City was one of the projects most impacted by the Parity hack, losing close to 44.000 ETH in the act. Xavier stood at the front lines in the mitigation attempts that followed suit and where multiple projects where "white-hat"-hacked in order to protect them from losing their funds as well. In 2018, Xavier became CTO of Swarm City. A few months later, Xavier got in touch with Edouard and Ruben and the trio started NGRAVE. Whereas Xavier initially combined both functions, he ultimately went for a full time position at NGRAVE, following his greater aspiration of eradicating the insecurity of crypto.