BOB BENCH

Senior Advisor - Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab

Robert Bench is a Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative, overseeing its research and engineering in cryptocurrencies and blockchain. He co-founded Project Hamilton & OpenCBDC.tx, creating a leading open-source processor for central bank digital currency, and developed the legal framework for USDC at Circle, a major regulated U.S. dollar stablecoin.