Markus Haas

Founder & CEO at Freedom Factory Inc. (since 2021)

Building PQ1 - the first quantum-secure hardware wallet.

Now

• Founded Freedom Factory in 2021 and raised its funding
• Write most of the mission-critical code and drive product direction
• Leading a team of 4
• Based in Vienna

dGEN1

• Took it from idea to customers in 18 months
• Shipped 6,000+ devices to every continent except Antarctica

PQ1

• Designed the approach: the post-quantum algorithms, the software and the hardware
• Open source on GitHub

Backed by

Vitalik Buterin · Balaji Srinivasan

Grants: NounsDAO · Optimism Foundation

Talks

• Devcon 7 SEA - d/acc Day, Bangkok, 2024
• d/acc Day Buenos Aires, 2025
• ETHGlobal Pragma SF, 2024
• ETHGlobal Pragma Prague, 2025
• Stanford University - guest lecture on blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs, 2025

Podcasts & Calls

• Into the Bytecode with Sina Habibian, 2024
• XMTP Community Call - Building the dGEN1 EDC, 2024

Press

• Decrypt, 2024
• The Block, 2024
• The Defiant, 2024
• CoinGape, 2025

Before Freedom Factory

• Built a decentralized music streaming protocol
• Built a machine-learning platform for wildfire prediction
• Built a secure messenger
• Various other software projects

Reach me on X or markus@freedomfactory.io