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Tom Ngo is the executive Lead of Metis, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain. He served previously as the CFO at Eon Advisory and as a partner at Katana Tomi Group.
Centralized sequencers achieve higher throughputs and performance, but they also create severe security risks — illustrated by a $2.6 million exploit on Linea.