name: Espresso Systems
categories:
  - infrastructure
description: Espresso is building a marketplace for shared sequencing, allowing rollups to auction the rights to build their blocks.
team:
- name: Ben Fisch
  role: CEO
- name: Charles Lu
  role: COO
- name: Jill Gunter
  role: CSO
- name: Benedikt Bünz
  role: Chief Scientist
- name: Binyi Chen
  role: Chief Cryptographer 
product_readiness: testnet
links:
  web: https://www.espressosys.com
  github: https://github.com/EspressoSystems/
  whitepaper: https://github.com/EspressoSystems/HotShot/blob/main/docs/espresso-sequencer-paper.pdf
  docs: https://docs.espressosys.com/
project_status:
  live_status: true
  version: false
  testnet: true
  mainnet: false