Wizardsardine,
the Bitcoin security team

We are an international team, with our headquarter in the middle of the Atlantic. We are incorporated since 2020 in the Azores, Portugal.

we believe in

Honesty.

Transparency.

Integrity.

Our team

Team Member

Kevin Loaec

CEO

Technologist but not a dev, adversarial thinker who thinks everything is broken. Believes freedom of the individual is paramount.

Team Member

Antoine Poinsot

CTO

Bitcoin contributor who loves advanced scripts but not broken ones. Wants to become a Greek philosopher when he retires.

Team Member

Edouard Paris

Senior DEV

Was into Go, now is into Rust. Kinda like Mario, his goal is to exterminate all mushrooms.

Team Member

Maria Monteiro

Operations Coordinator

She gets all the things done at Wizardsardine, is our shadowy super not-a-coder.

Team Member

Michael Mallan

Rust Dev

Michael doesn't like bugs. They cannot hide from him. He exterminates them.

Our story begins

2019

November

A hedge fund from Luxembourg reach out to Kevin through his consulting firm Chainsmiths to research a self-hosted bitcoin custody solution with spending policies.
Kevin designs a Bitcoin Vault architecture that does not require covenants nor key deletion. This design is too complex to be built for a single client. First technical sanity checks of the protocol are performed by Alekos and Sjors.

2020

March

Antoine builds a technical demonstrator of Revault protocol, through his company Leonod. The protocol is entirely reworked. Antoine and Kevin decide the Revault is worth exploring further and look for funding to build a functional prototype of the protocol.

2020

August

BoostVC and Fulgur Ventures pre-seed Wizardsardine, the company Antoine and Kevin set up to build Revault.

2021

April

The first technical demontrator of Revault, "aquarium", is released.

2021

June

Revault is demoed publicly at the Open Source Dome at Bitcoin 2021 in Miami.

2022

January

Bridge round funding from Bitcoiner Ventures, Portugal Ventures, Stephen Cole, Lionel Jeannerat, Brad Mills.

2022

June

The first Revault Protocol is complete, the watchtowers and hardware integration are on hold until a first large deployment is on the way. Work on our next roadmap item, Liana, begins.

2022

September

The team hosts BTCAzores’22, the first technical Bitcoin unconference in the Azores.

2022

October

The product roadmap for 2023 is defined, including Liana, Liana Lite and more.

2022

December

After a couple months of development, Liana's first beta version is released.

2023

May

Liana v1.0 is released at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami. The Wizardsardine team sponsors the Open Source stage.

2023

September

Second version of Liana is released and BTCAzores’23 second edition takes place in Wizardsardine's headquarters, in Terceira Island.

2023

November

Liana v3.0 is launched with labels and Bitbox support.

2023

December

RBF fee bumping, automatic coin selection, wallet deletion and many other improvement are introduced in Liana v4.0.

2024

March

Safety Net (The ultimate protection against loss) and Liana Lite beta version for Signet are announced at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

2024

April

Liana v5.0 is released with Coldcard and Taproot support.

and continues...