Espresso Systems is co-founded by Jill Gunter, who bridges Wall Street credit trading, early crypto protocol research, and VC experience, alongside Stanford and Yale cryptography researchers who apply zero-knowledge proofs and consensus research directly into a shared sequencer product that multiple rollups can plug into. The company focuses on making on-chain activity feel more like traditional finance from a privacy and safety standpoint through its Configurable Asset Privacy for Ethereum system, which allows asset issuers to selectively configure what is private versus public to help everyday users and institutions feel comfortable using blockchains for real economic activity.