Prabal Banerjee is the co-founder of Avail, a web3 infrastructure layer designed to allow modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way. With a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science and cryptography, he focuses on blockchain-based security solutions which has laid the groundwork for his role at the company. Before Avail, Prabal was a Lead researcher at Polygon, developing blockchain scalability solutions. His work at Avail is crucial in creating a secure and scalable infrastructure for trustless applications, enhancing the blockchain development ecosystem.