Driven by mission-critical engineering.

25 years in the most trust-critical environments in the U.S.: combat communications in the Air Force, Lead Security Engineer on the Grey Eagle and Global Hawk UAS programs at L-3 Communications, where his work earned the company’s $100M award, and principal security architecture at a Fortune-100 cloud service provider, where he invented an AI/ML compliance automation engine projected at $72M–$122M first-year impact and shipped FedRAMP automation valued at $18M a year. Secret/SAP cleared. Former PhD candidate in Systems Security Engineering.

At Soqucoin Labs, he designed and shipped the SOQ protocol: a Halborn-audited Layer 1 with zero legacy cryptography, running NIST FIPS 204 (ML-DSA-44) from block zero, and has filed 21 provisional patent applications spanning post-quantum consensus, lattice privacy, stablecoins, and verifiable evidence. Speaker and panelist at Mining Disrupt 2026. Since November 2026, Strategic Advisor to Luxxfolio Holdings Inc. (CSE: LUXX), the Scrypt miner that operates LuxxPool, alongside Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, and David Schwartz of the Litecoin Foundation. Service-disabled veteran; SDVOSB.

Blockchain visionary and founder of Ace Miners (AceMiners.io), one of the first to connect crypto mining and enterprise AI compute at scale. Zara saw early that the power, cooling, and site acquisition work behind proof-of-work mining is the same skill set AI/HPC workloads demand. Today Ace Miners develops 20MW to 100MW+ hydro-powered data center sites built for GPU clusters and large-language-model training, and is an authorized Bitmain distribution partner with direct supply chain access in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

The US-based company delivers profitable mining solutions for large farms and individual enthusiasts alike: ASIC sales, hosting, and colocation in hydro-powered facilities, backed by a team of engineers dedicated to tuning customer operations for maximum profitability. The first committed SOQUPOOL miner, Zara anchors the pool’s founding hashpower and leads ASIC supply chain and site development for Soqucoin’s mining footprint.

President of R&H Investments, Inc., specializing in crypto and GPU hardware and turnkey AI and blockchain data center solutions. A licensed master electrician, Rick has been mining since the inception of the industry itself: an OG whose hands-on power engineering and fleet operations few can match. His rigs anchor SOQUPOOL’s founding hashpower, and his field reports have shaped the pool from its first block.

Marketing strategist and storyteller whose campaigns helped lead $50M and $100M rounds for Flipside Crypto and Braintrust; client roster spans Fortune 500s (Pfizer, Discover), top VC firms, and leading web3 startups. As CMO for Arch Network, wrote the whitepaper and led marketing from seed through testnet — 1M+ connected wallets, 15M+ viewers.

An award-winning journalist featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and MSNBC; former Washington D.C. correspondent at OZY Magazine across two presidential elections, reporting from all 50 states and 6 continents.