
Galia Benartzi is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bancor Protocol, a standard for the creation of Smart Tokens. Smart Tokens are cryptocurrencies built on Ethereum’s smart contract that interconnect to form automated token liquidity networks, allowing user-generated currencies to thrive. In 2005, Benartzi co-founded Mytopia, the first social gaming company for smartphones and co-founded Particle Code, a development technology for mobile applications, in 2010. In 2013, she moved to Tel Aviv to become a venture partner at Founders Fund, where she also launched numerous local currency pilots to model, build, and test software for community currencies.