Beyond Trust: Building the Cryptographic Proof Layer for the Internet

Dele Atanda is the Founder of metaProof Group, a deep‑tech infrastructure company that is building the universal proof layer for digital truth. He is a visionary systems architect and cryptographer who recognized that the internet’s original sin was the absence of a native verification protocol — and he is solving that with metaProof: a suite of zero‑knowledge proof systems, blockchain‑anchored attestations, and decentralized identity primitives that make any claim, credential, or computation instantly verifiable without revealing the underlying data.

Dele brings a powerful fusion of academic rigor and entrepreneurial drive, holding advanced degrees in computer science and cryptography alongside a career in building and scaling enterprise‑grade technology platforms. Prior to founding metaProof Group, he held senior engineering and architecture roles at identity and security firms, where he led the design of large‑scale public key infrastructure and federated authentication systems for global financial institutions and government agencies. His work at metaProof advances the frontier of practical zero‑knowledge cryptography — enabling use cases from private voting in DAOs and confidential DeFi transactions to supply chain provenance and verifiable AI model outputs. Dele is a passionate believer that the blockchain revolution will only fulfill its promise when we have the tools to mathematically prove what is true without sacrificing privacy. At UN Blockchain Week he shares the protocols and standards that will finally give every digital interaction an immutable seal of authenticity.