Craig Sellars is a software technologist and entrepreneur, a co-founder of Tether and BLOCKv, and co-founder and CEO of SELF ID. His work spans digital asset protocols, tokenization and decentralized identity.
Tether and Omni
Sellars was part of Tether's founding team and served as its chief technology officer. In his professional biography, he states that he left the company in 2016 and subsequently acted as an informal adviser. He also previously served as CTO of Bitfinex.
His earlier technical work included Bitcoin's Omni Layer, which supports the creation and transfer of custom assets using Bitcoin transactions. Sellars published development updates as CTO of the Mastercoin Foundation, the organization associated with the protocol before its Omni branding. His development archive documents work on asset issuance, wallets and exchange functionality.
BLOCKv and SELF ID
BLOCKv's founding-team biography identifies Sellars as a co-founder who led development of its blockchain architecture. The project develops infrastructure for interactive digital objects and tokenized experiences.
That biography also identifies him as co-founder and CEO of SELF ID. SELF develops decentralized identity applications and infrastructure using decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials. Its products let users manage credentials through an identity wallet and selectively share information with services.
Education
Sellars's professional biography records a computer science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
