Sam Thapaliya is an entrepreneur, programmer, AI infrastructure & blockchain engineer from Nepal. He is the founder of Zebec, a continuous Settlement Protocol on Solana. He is also one of core contributors of Nautilus, payments focused modular EVM Chain.
Since its inception in 2020, Zebec has raised over $35M in funding. Sam recently went on to execute Zebec's modular roll-up chain powered by Eclipse.
Sam started out with an understanding of information systems and became the founding advisor of Cedro and Eclipse. Companies he has advised has gone on to raise millions of dollars.
Sam completed his Bachelors degree at Menlo College, based in the center of Silicon Valley, in information systems, during which he has published 2 US patents on models for monetization of videos.