{"version":1,"id":"nick-thoma","title":"Nick Thoma","summary":"Nick Thoma is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for co-founding Turtle and serving as its chief technology officer.","content":"**Nick Thoma** is a software engineer and entrepreneur who became a co-founder and chief technology officer of Turtle.xyz in October 2024. His profile describes Turtle as a [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain)-services company and a phantom-liquidity protocol.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8)​[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-fh3lq9o7e4)​\n\n## Education\n\nThoma studied computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2017 and earned a bachelor’s degree.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8)​[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-o3sfoan4sp)​\n\n## Career\n\nBefore joining Turtle, Thoma worked as a software engineer at [ParaFi Capital](https://iq.wiki/wiki/parafi-capital) from November 2021 to March 2024 and as a senior software engineer at Brain Corp from February 2018 to November 2021. Earlier, he completed a Pathways internship at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from January 2016 to August 2017, a software engineering internship at Epic from May to August 2015, and a software engineering internship at Fetch from February to August 2014.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8)​[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-o3sfoan4sp)​\n\nSince May 2024, Thoma has owned Thoma Technologies LLC. His profile lists work through the company as a technical adviser to Thala Labs, creator of Ovrlook, and operator of distributed validator clusters for Lido and EtherFi.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8)​\n\n## Robotics and Research\n\nThoma’s listed robotics projects include Robartender, a drink-mixing robot operated through a mobile app, begun in April 2015, and Handroid, a humanoid hand operated by a glove, begun in March 2015. He also worked on Bit-zee Bot, a two-wheeled robot with a camera and voice recording and playback, in April 2013, and a four-wheeled, webcam-equipped robot designed to track colored objects from September 2017 to December 2018. From January to August 2017, he worked on NASA’s Valkyrie, a humanoid robot used as a robotics research platform.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8)​\n\n## Work at Turtle\n\nThoma described Turtle’s goal as creating an efficient market for liquidity, allowing protocols to build distribution and raise liquidity without relying on traditional approaches.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-s07gjqmar8) Thoma said Turtle had secured more than $1 billion in liquidity across campaigns with TacBuild and [Katana](https://iq.wiki/wiki/katana).[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-fh3lq9o7e4) In July, he described Turtle Accounts as a way to bundle social accounts and wallets under one account; Turtle’s announcement said users could link a wallet, social accounts, or email to access rewards and yield.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-fh3lq9o7e4)​\n\nOn September 5, 2025, Thoma said Turtle had added support for [Solana](https://iq.wiki/wiki/solana) and [TON](https://iq.wiki/wiki/the-open-network-toncoin) wallets, extending the service beyond [Ethereum Virtual Machine](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum-virtual-machine-evm) ecosystems. He described linking wallets and social accounts to one profile as foundational to planned features.[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-fh3lq9o7e4)  \n","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"people"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founder"},{"id":"Developer"},{"id":"Solana"}],"images":[{"id":"QmQCCW4ktm8T3kq3iT2d1pz5xD9FHMpP9M82LgG7nTYhWe","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"s07gjqmar8\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/njthoma/\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn profile\",\"timestamp\":1793433184553},{\"id\":\"fh3lq9o7e4\",\"url\":\"https://x.com/nickjthoma\",\"description\":\"X profile\",\"timestamp\":1793433184553},{\"id\":\"o3sfoan4sp\",\"url\":\"https://rocketreach.co/nick-thoma-email_74334511\",\"description\":\"Career and education profile\",\"timestamp\":1793433184554}]"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/njthoma/"},{"id":"twitter_profile","value":"https://x.com/nickjthoma"},{"id":"main-image-origin","value":"{\"imageId\":\"QmQCCW4ktm8T3kq3iT2d1pz5xD9FHMpP9M82LgG7nTYhWe\",\"originalId\":\"QmQCCW4ktm8T3kq3iT2d1pz5xD9FHMpP9M82LgG7nTYhWe\"}"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Add Nick Thoma wiki"}],"events":[],"linkedWikis":{"founders":[],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"user":{"id":"0x8af7a19a26d8fbc48defb35aefb15ec8c407f889"},"author":{"id":"0x4a2bc97afbf41a2cbf4b4628f63420682ff4cf2a"},"language":"en","operator":{"id":"0x4a2bc97afbf41a2cbf4b4628f63420682ff4cf2a"}}