Gloria Zhao

BuilderCrypto

Gloria Zhao spent six years as a Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer, funded by the nonprofit Brink, owning the mempool and transaction-relay layer that decides how payments propagate across the network. She designed and shipped package relay (BIP 331) and TRUC transactions (BIP 431), hardening Bitcoin against pinning attacks and fee-based censorship at the peer-to-peer layer. Her career is a model of full-time, donor-funded stewardship of open monetary infrastructure.