Kenji Tanaka

Kenji leads research at Xenith, guiding the firm's analysis of market trends, emerging technologies, and decentralized innovation. His background spans computer science (PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology) and digital economics. Before Xenith he authored several widely-cited papers on rollup economics and was a visiting researcher at the Ethereum Foundation.

His research focus is on the modular stack, ZK proof systems, and the AI-agent economy. He is the technical lead on every infrastructure investment we make and has authored most of the firm's published thesis pieces.