Muriel Médard

Muriel Médard is the co-founder and CEO of Optimum, the high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain. She is the co-inventor of RLNC — the technology behind Optimum, spun out of over two decades of MIT research — and holds the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering at MIT. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors and Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Ethereum Turns 10 — Time to Leave the Trilemma Behind

Decentralization doesn’t have to be a dirty word where performance is concerned, say Muriel Médard, MIT Professor, Co-Founder of Optimum and Kishori Konwar, Co-founder of Optimum.

Jul 28, 2025

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Muriel Médard: Web3 Has a Memory Problem — And We Finally Have a Fix

A world computer needs a memory that’s not just decentralized but also efficient, scalable, and reliable. We can build it using Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), says Muriel Médard, co-founder of Optimum, which offers memory infrastructure for any blockchain. Médard is the co-inventor of RLNC, which she has developed over two decades of MIT research.

Apr 1, 2025

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