Chaitanya is an applied cryptography researcher working in EY's Blockchain R&D. She built Nightfall which is a zero knowledge proof based privacy solution for transferring tokens with privacy. She then worked to decrease the cost of these transactions further, one of the approaches to solve this lead to Nightfall 3, an optimistic zk solution for private transfers of tokens. Along with Polygon, she led the efforts to deploy Nightfall 3, also called Polygon Nightfall, to Ethereum mainnet in May 22