Ashwin Ramachandran is a venture capital investor at Dragonfly Capital Partners who was previously an early engineer at ThunderCore, where he worked directly under Cornell professor Elaine Shi on designing and implementing the core proof-of-stake consensus protocol. He co-authored the book "DeFi and the Future of Finance" and contributes to Dragonfly Research, bringing expertise in protocols and cryptoeconomics to portfolio companies. Ashwin Ramachandran is a venture capital investor at Dragonfly Capital Partners who was previously an early engineer at ThunderCore, where he worked directly under Cornell professor Elaine Shi on designing and implementing the core proof-of-stake consensus protocol. He co-authored the book "DeFi and the Future of Finance" and contributes to Dragonfly Research, bringing expertise in protocols and cryptoeconomics to portfolio companies.