| Muneeb Ali | |
| Nationality: | American, Pakistani |
| Known For: | Stacks, Protothread |
| Education: | Princeton University (PhD) |
| Fields: | Distributed Computing |
| Thesis Title: | Trust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.cs.princeton.edu/research/techreps/TR-003-17 |
| Thesis Year: | 2017 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Andrea LaPaugh |
Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Stacks, an open-source smart contract platform for Bitcoin. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset[1] [2] and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Stacks network.[3] [4] He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.[5]
Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS[6] and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017.[7] Ali co-founded Stacks (formerly Blockstack) with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.[8]
His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing.
Ali was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Amazon Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.[9]
In 2019, he convinced the SEC regulators to allow his company to start a token offering under Reg A+ exemption, becoming the first to do so. In 2020, Ali released a legal framework for non-security status of Stacks.[10]