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+title: XMTP Labs Rebranded To Ephemera
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+author: Linfeng (Daniel) Zhou
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+We are excited to announce our rebranding from XMTP Labs to Ephemera. This name change underscores that Ephemera, the company, is distinct and separate from XMTP, the protocol. The name also reinforces that Ephemera's core role in nurturing XMTP is not meant to be permanent. In fact, the true marker of Ephemera's success is a future in which it can step away and have XMTP endure as a decentralized, secure, private, and resilient protocol, maintained by a committed and diverse community of contributors and participants. More details see the [announcement](https://paragraph.xyz/@ephemera/gm-ephemera). 

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 My name is Linfeng (Daniel) Zhou. I'm a cryptographer and also an investor. 
 
-I'm currently the Principal Cryptographer at [XMTP Labs](https://xmtp.org/). I also founded [Fertile Fields Labs](https://sites.google.com/view/fertilefieldslabs/home), a crypto consulting firm for security auditing and business advising. Before that, I was co-leading the cryptography team at Coinbase and then engineering lead for Coinbase Wallet. I also worked for Transparent Financial Systems, State Street, IBM Research, Cheetah Mobile and Google. For more details, please check my [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellinfeng/)
+I'm currently the Principal Cryptographer at [Ephemera](https://ephemerahq.com/). I also founded [Fertile Fields Labs](https://sites.google.com/view/fertilefieldslabs/home), a crypto consulting firm for security auditing and business advising. Before that, I was co-leading the cryptography team at Coinbase and then engineering lead for Coinbase Wallet. I also worked for Transparent Financial Systems, State Street, IBM Research, Cheetah Mobile and Google. For more details, please check my [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellinfeng/)
 
 I co-founded [Pepper Ventures](https://sites.google.com/view/pepperventures) with my fantastic partners in late 2022 to invest in crypto/web3 and help companies go public with IPO and SPAC Mergers. Our crypto/web3 investment check size is usually from $50K to $250K. We already filed two SPAC IPOs and have another two in progress.