About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

Rhian Lewis has been thinking and writing about blockchain technology since 2013. She received a BSc in Economics from University College London and, after becoming obsessed by the transformative possibilities of Bitcoin, co-founded the London Women in Bitcoin meetup group in 2014. In 2016, she co-founded a decentralised proof-of-ownership concept based on Ethereum, which was chosen to participate in the inaugural NexusLabs accelerator, the first blockchain-specific startup incubator in Europe. Rhian is a software developer at Unboxed and is also an instructor for blockchain educators B9lab Academy. Rhian’s book, The Cryptocurrency Revolution, will be published by Kogan Page later this year.