Kishin Kato is the founder of Trustless Services K.K., a Japanese company focused mainly on Lightning Network research & development.
Taking interest in money independent from the state in late 2016, Kishin has been working primarily on Bitcoin-related projects since graduating college in 2018. Some of his more popular creations include Paddle, a Lightning-powered auction engine that handles bids and deposits in a trust-minimizing way, and an open-source tool that allows Opendime users to extract a public key from their device for use in multisig address creation.
He also writes and translates technical articles into Japanese.