Team & Partners
A protocol that bridges decentralized finance and national tax law must weld together expertise from blockchain engineering, cryptography, tax jurisprudence, security auditing, and product design. TaxChain’s founding team combines exactly these disciplines, backed by a network of institutional partners that supply legal depth, infrastructure, and go-to-market reach.
🧑💼 Core Team
Christian M. – Chief Executive Officer
• MSc Economics, LMU Munich • 10 yrs fintech leadership: ex-GM at Solarisbank’s Crypto Custody unit (grew to €3 bn AUC) • Led MiCA licensing task-force, liaising with BaFin and ESMA
• Vision & product direction
• Regulator relations • Strategic partnerships & fundraising
Helena K. – Chief Compliance & Rulebook Officer
• PhD International Tax Law, Vienna University of Economics • Former senior associate, PwC Germany (crypto tax desk) • Member of OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework work-stream
• Authors jurisdiction rulebooks • Oversees DAC8 / CRS export modules • Chairs external legal advisory board
Samuel (“Sam”) – Chief Technology Officer
• BSc Computer Science, ETH Zürich • Core dev @ Status & Nimbus ETH2 client • Architected the Firehose indexing layer now used by The Graph
• Protocol architecture & performance • Oversees Cartesi roll-ups / WASM runtime • Security-first code reviews
Lucia F. – Head of Cryptography
• PhD Applied Cryptography, University of Madrid • 6 yrs cryptographer at Zcash Company; co-authored Halo 2 proving system • Co-editor, IETF CFRG draft on post-quantum hashing
• ZK-Tax circuits & proof verification • Post-quantum migration roadmap • Formal verification of beacon contracts
Dennis Okafor – VP Product & Developer Relations
• MBA, INSEAD • Former product lead at Chainlink Labs (oracles & Data Feeds) • Launched Polygon zkEVM Grants Program (€20 mn TVL attracted)
• API / SDK strategy & docs • Partner onboarding for wallets, CEXs, DeFi protocols • Oversees community dev grants & plug-in marketplace
🤝 Strategic Partners & Advisors
PwC Legal – Crypto Tax Desk
International tax compliance
Continuous review of rulebook logic; quarterly audits of jurisdiction packs
ChainSecurity
Smart-contract security
End-to-end audits (BeaconRoot, pNFTMinter, FeeVault); ongoing bug-bounty triage
Cartesi Foundation
Deterministic roll-ups
Technical co-development of Cartesi-based classification VM; shared R&D grants
Bitpanda & Kraken
Centralized exchanges
Early exchange plug-ins and direct α-data feeds for classification accuracy
Ledger Enterprise
Hardware security
Native Ledger-Live TaxChain widget; secure key-shard custody for enterprise accounts
University of Zürich – Blockchain Center
Academic research
Joint research on zero-knowledge tax proofs and post-quantum compliance hashing
Why this matters:
Depth & breadth: the team pairs enterprise-scale fintech execution (Christian), hardcore protocol engineering (Sam), and deep tax jurisprudence (Dr. Helena).
Defense-in-depth: partnerships with ChainSecurity and PwC ensure both smart-contract security and legal correctness.
Distribution: wallet (Ledger), exchange (Bitpanda/Kraken), and academic alliances accelerate adoption while keeping the protocol at the forefront of cryptographic research.
Together, this coalition equips TaxChain to ship, secure, and continuously adapt the world’s first end-to-end automated crypto tax infrastructure.
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