Kate Sills is a software engineer and consultant specializing in applied cryptography. She was previously the lead engineer on Agoric’s smart contract framework (Zoe) which protects users from malicious contracts. Previously, Kate has researched and written on the potential uses of smart contracts to enforce agreements and create new forms of institutions apart from traditional legal jurisdictions. In 2022 and 2023, she served as a member of the technical review committee for the Centre for Computational Law in Singapore. Kate graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science.