Edgars Nemše · Person in New York Tech

Overview

Edgars Nemše is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at GenLayer Labs[1]. Nemše maintains a presence on X (formerly Twitter) at @EdgarsNemse[2].

Career history

Co-founder and Chief Product OfficerMay 2023 to PresentGenLayer Labs
Co-founder and Chief Technology OfficerAug 2020 to Apr 2023StakeHound
Product EngineerMar 2020 to Aug 2020Radix DLT Ltd
Full Stack DeveloperJan 2018 to Mar 2020Radix DLT Ltd
Founding EngineerJun 2014 to Dec 2017Edurio
Software DeveloperFeb 2014 to Dec 2014Arum

Education

BSc Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Computer Science2012 - 2015The University of Edinburgh
Riga State Gymnasium No.12006 - 2012

In the news

Reposted Hills@EdgarsNemseX · Sep 25, 2026
RepostedHills@stargirl_hillsJoin us as we host the 34th episode dissecting @GenLayer Topic : Welcoming GenLayer’s New Foundation CEO / discussion around making GenLayer 100% secured Time/date : 26th September, 1pm utc Host - @stargirl_hills Cohost - @0X_CUPZ Special guest - @EdgarsNemse (CEO @GenLayerFDN , Cofounder of GenLayer) Set your reminder 👇 https://t.co/ofvg5hBHNc
I have accepted the role of CEO of the GenLayer Foundation. As the CPO and co-founder of GenLayer Labs, it's been an honor and a pleasure to bring the network into reality, all the way from the whitepaper to the current testnets. With mainnet around the corner, the next big@EdgarsNemseX · Sep 21, 2026
QuotedGenLayer@GenLayerEdgars Nemše is the new CEO of the GenLayer Foundation. The GenLayer Foundation has appointed @EdgarsNemse, GenLayer co-founder and Chief Product Officer, as its CEO. He leaves his role at GenLayer Labs and joins the Foundation full-time. The timing is deliberate. Until now the Foundation's job was to set things up: the legal structure, the token framework, the first institutional relationships and the capital to launch well. With the token launch and mainnet approaching, the job changes. The Foundation becomes an operating organization: it stewards the treasury, brings projects onto the network and supports them with engineers, grows the validator set, and establishes the network's governance. On GenLayer those are technical jobs, and they need a technical operator. Edgars co-authored the GenLayer whitepaper and has led the product from first prototype to the current testnet. Before GenLayer he was CTO at StakeHound and worked on trading strategies at Millburn Ridgefield, an $8B quantitative fund. The Foundation's leadership team: @driudor, who founded the Foundation and has led it since, becomes Chief Institutional Officer, leading capital, institutions and key partners. @raskovsky is Chief Ecosystem Officer, bringing companies and their products onto GenLayer and growing its community. Xavi Cabezas is Chief Marketing Officer, taking GenLayer and the projects building on it to market. GenLayer Labs, led by @kstellana, remains the protocol and product company, focused on mainnet. The Foundation's focus under Edgars: — Through launch. Deliver the token launch and the network's early operations well, and run the treasury responsibly and openly. — Adoption. GenLayer's adoption will come from teams and companies integrating intelligent contracts into real products. The Foundation's job is to find them, fund them, and build alongside them. — Handing the network to itself. The Foundation's own work, grants, treasury decisions and governance, should eventually run directly on GenLayer. The end state is DeepThought, the on-chain organization that takes over the Foundation's role. The Foundation is working to a four-year horizon for that handover, and the work starts now. More on each of these as mainnet approaches.
Billions of agents, only one @GenLayer@EdgarsNemseX · Sep 8, 2026
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Reposted Laura Shin@EdgarsNemseX · Sep 7, 2026
RepostedLaura Shin@laurashinAI agents can't be jailed, don't sleep, and cut every corner. @kstellana of GenLayer Labs built them a court instead: 1,500 AI validators, a verdict in minutes, for fifty cents. Live Mon 8:50am ET w/ @laurashin , @cryptohayes . https://t.co/ejFozP3Qfm
Reposted Albert Castellana 卡瑟 - e/acc@EdgarsNemseX · Aug 27, 2026
RepostedAlbert Castellana 卡瑟 - e/acc@kstellanaThe internet runs on a pretty strange assumption: it can move money, execute code and connect billions of people, but if something goes wrong, a company, lawyer or court has to sort it out. GenLayer started with a simple question: what would the internet look like if dispute resolution was actually native to it?
RT @GenLayer: Internet Court has a new consortium member. We're going live today at 4.30PM UTC to talk AI and agent commerce, joined by @l@EdgarsNemseX · Aug 19, 2026
can we make @GenLayer 100% secure? not literally. but we can get as close as possible - and the first layer of defense is the architecture itself: designing the system to make entire classes of bugs impossible i wrote about how the genlayer consensus contracts, validator node,@EdgarsNemseX · Aug 14, 2026
QuotedGenLayer@GenLayerhttps://t.co/ZffACTp13U
RT @GenLayer: Internet Court has a new consortium member. We're going live tomorrow at 4.30PM UTC to talk AI and agent commerce, joined by@EdgarsNemseX · Aug 11, 2026

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