Barna is a ZK researcher who co-founded Malda, a unified-liquidity lending protocol built on Linea using RISC Zero's zkVM and zero-knowledge proofs, and previously served as its CEO. Barna's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #83,242 among 486,037 tracked accounts.
Barna co-founded Malda, which emerged as the successor brand to Mendi Finance and is designed to unify liquidity across Ethereum and Layer 2 networks through zero-knowledge proofs. The protocol targets global liquidity pools spanning rollups, with its architecture grounded in RISC Zero's zkVM. Following an exploit, Malda paused operations and put forward a community-governed recovery and relaunch plan known as Operation Phoenix. Barna has since stepped back from the CEO role and is currently experimenting with zk-autoresearch.
Barna has 800 followers as of September 2026 and has published 960 posts. Barna has been mentioned by 9 accounts a total of 22 times.
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The accounts that follow Barna include 44 founders, 10 angel investors and 8 influencers. Among them are mikedemarais.eth, Zooko, Austin Griffith, Eddy Lazzarin, Robert Scoble and Mark Beylin.