Michael Kantor is an influential figure in the field of distributed ledger technologies and autonomous systems, currently serving as the President of Hashgraph Online. With over 15 years of engineering experience, Kantor plays a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure and standards necessary for an internet where identity, trust, and computation are seamlessly integrated. ^{[2] [1]}

Career

Michael Kantor is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and open-source contributor focused on blockchain infrastructure and AI-agent systems. Since August 2024, he has served as President of HOL (Hashgraph Online), an organization that develops open infrastructure for AI agents, including standards, registries, discovery mechanisms, and trust frameworks across Web2 and Web3 environments. He also founded KiloScribe in 2024, a platform for storing and retrieving on-chain content through Hedera Consensus Service (HCS).

In June 2025, Kantor joined the Linux Foundation’s Hiero Technical Steering Committee, where he contributes to the development of technical proposals and open-source infrastructure related to the Hedera ecosystem.

Before his work in blockchain, Kantor held engineering leadership and software development roles at Finder, ViewLift, Online Learning Consortium, and RIFT Solutions. At Finder, he served as Engineering Lead from 2021 to 2024 after previously working as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer. Earlier in his career, he worked as a freelance software developer, building web applications and digital platforms using technologies including PHP, Laravel, React, Node.js, and WordPress. ^{[3] [1] [4]}

Media Appearances

In July 2025, Michael Kantor appeared at the Project NANDA Summit, where he presented Hashgraph Online’s Open Convey registry broker framework. During the session, he described Open Convey as a decentralized registry system for AI agents that aims to facilitate agent discovery and interoperability across Web2 and Web3 environments. Kantor explained that the system operates on the Hedera network and uses multiple independent registry brokers with a two-of-three consensus model to support federated discovery.