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Informal Systems

Informal Systems is a remote-first company builder and incubator focused on fostering trust in software and money. It stewards and supports Quint, an executable-specification tool for verifying software behavior, and Cycles, infrastructure for multilateral financial clearing.
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6 current maintainers5 active leads2 new active leads2 lead step-downs1 early lead departure

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

6

Current maintainers

5

Active leads

2

New active leads

2

Lead step-downs

0

Lead movements

1

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/informalsystems

Maintainers (70)

@arlai-mkCurrent employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Nov 13, 2025
Last merge
Jul 3, 2026
Active lead
Open GitHub profile ↗
@dcgr11Current employee
PRs merged
0
Internal authors supported
0
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Mar 20, 2025
Last merge
Jun 5, 2026
Active lead
Open GitHub profile ↗

Maintainer Movements (20)

@ancazamfir moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Feb 4, 2026 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 28, 2024 · First destination merge Feb 4, 2026

@mircea-c moved lead merge authority to Anza.

Confirmed Jan 23, 2026 · Observed

Last source merge Nov 8, 2024 · First destination merge Jan 23, 2026

@Farhad-Shabani moved lead merge authority to Succinct.

Confirmed Dec 5, 2025 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 5, 2025 · First destination merge Oct 17, 2025

@hvanz moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Feb 11, 2025 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Apr 11, 2024 · First destination merge Feb 11, 2025

@adizere moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Dec 17, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Mar 26, 2024 · First destination merge Dec 17, 2024

@greg-szabo moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Jun 20, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 15, 2023 · First destination merge Jun 20, 2024

@danwt moved lead merge authority to Dymension.

Confirmed May 2, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Mar 31, 2022 · First destination merge May 2, 2024

@ebuchman moved lead merge authority to Celestia Foundation.

Confirmed Apr 3, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Mar 30, 2022 · First destination merge Apr 3, 2024

@hvanz moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Feb 9, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Nov 9, 2023 · First destination merge Dec 7, 2023

@plafer moved lead merge authority to Miden.

Confirmed Dec 22, 2023 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 22, 2023 · First destination merge Oct 17, 2023

@josef-widder moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Dec 19, 2023 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Sep 19, 2023 · First destination merge Oct 25, 2023

@ancazamfir moved lead merge authority to Circle.

Confirmed Oct 25, 2023 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge May 29, 2023 · First destination merge Oct 25, 2023

@liamsi moved lead merge authority to Celestia Foundation.

Confirmed Oct 21, 2023 · Observed

Last source merge Jun 25, 2020 · First destination merge Oct 21, 2023

@tac0turtle moved lead merge authority to Tendermint.

Confirmed Jul 29, 2022 · Observed

Last source merge Sep 30, 2021 · First destination merge Jul 29, 2022

@josef-widder moved lead merge authority to Tendermint.

Confirmed Jul 15, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jul 30, 2021 · First destination merge Jul 15, 2022

@thanethomson moved lead merge authority to Tendermint.

Confirmed Apr 19, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jan 19, 2022 · First destination merge Mar 2, 2022

@ebuchman moved lead merge authority to Tendermint.

Confirmed May 7, 2021 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jan 20, 2021 · First destination merge May 7, 2021

@tac0turtle moved lead merge authority to Celestia Foundation.

Confirmed Apr 20, 2021 · Observed

Last source merge Jan 20, 2021 · First destination merge Feb 5, 2021

@brapse moved lead merge authority to Tendermint.

Confirmed Feb 2, 2021 · Observed

Last source merge Nov 2, 2020 · First destination merge Dec 18, 2020

@greg-szabo moved lead merge authority to Interchain Foundation.

Confirmed May 14, 2020 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Feb 14, 2020 · First destination merge Apr 20, 2020