Lawrence Hutson

Lawrence Hutson is a Computer Scientist and Economist with expertise in Blockchain,Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi, AMM DEXs, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Applications, Token Gating, GameFI/Metaverse, Cross Chain Assets, Tokenomics and DAOs.

Lawrence co-founded and served as CTO for Travelocity, the world’s first travel website (and largest Ecommerce site at the time) that was acquired by Expedia for $280m. He was a contractor to GTE (now Verizon), building the world’s first global Internet based on TCP/IP. Lawrence founded Nexgen Travel Distribution in Munich in 2005, leading the company through seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds and exit. In 2018 he began focusing exclusively on blockchain and decentralization in the Web 3.0 world, and has served as CTO, architect, consultant, advisor, investor, and designer to numerous successful tier 1 blockchain projects.