Contributor OSINT depth score

ether.fi's assessment for RD-F-121 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Mike Silagadze OSINT depth score: 5/5. LinkedIn with full employment history (Top Hat CEO 2012-2021, ether.fi 2022-present), University of Waterloo BASc Electrical Engineering 2007, conference talks (ETH Denver, Blockworks, Consensus Toronto 2025), podcast appearances, Crunchbase, media coverage (CoinDesk, Cayman Enterprise City, Mondaq), prior company with institutional VCs (Inovia) and verifiable growth story (~500 employees). Rok Kopp OSINT depth score: 4/5. Full LinkedIn history, Blockworks speaker, IQ.wiki. Technical team beyond founders: score unavailable. Protocol-level score anchored to high-scoring founders.

Sources #

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How Ether.fi's Mike Silagadze Retained TVL as Restaking Lost Its Luster - CoinDeskCoinDesk interview Consensus Toronto 2025retrieved 2026-04-28
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Mike Silagadze - ether.fi - LinkedInMike Silagadze LinkedIn profileretrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Curator-scored 1–5 based on LinkedIn depth, GitHub history, conference presence per contributor.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol ether-fi factor RD-F-121 score green collected_at 2026-04-28 13:58:46