Stefan Thomas

Stefan Thomas (also known online as justmoon)

Stefan Thomas is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for work on cryptocurrency- and payments-related protocols and open-source software. His personal website, justmoon.com, functions as a minimal landing page listing his name and outbound links (e.g., GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter/X). (justmoon.com)

Notability and roles

• Interledger Protocol (ILP): Thomas is widely described as a co-creator of the Interledger Protocol, and he has served in leadership capacities within the Interledger ecosystem (including being identified as chairperson of the Interledger Foundation’s board in Interledger Foundation materials). (interledger.org)
• Coil: He is described as the Founder and CEO of Coil, a company associated with web monetization and Interledger-based payment technology. (interledger.org)
• Ripple: Multiple biographical sources describe Thomas as an early engineer and later CTO of Ripple (formerly OpenCoin/Ripple Labs), with his tenure commonly placed in the 2010s. (xing.com)

Early Bitcoin-related work

Thomas is also associated with early Bitcoin community contributions, including:

• the “What is Bitcoin?” explainer video published via WeUseCoins, and
• BitcoinJS, described as an early JavaScript implementation/library related to Bitcoin. (en.bitcoin.it)

Social-media identity (@justmoon)

On X (formerly Twitter), the account @justmoon is presented as Stefan Thomas and describes him in profile text as an open-source developer and distributed systems advocate, and as co-creator of Interledger and Founder & CEO at Coil. (x.com)

Provided links (verbatim)

text Website: https://justmoon.com X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/justmoon