Yves La Rose is the Executive Director and Founder of the Action Now Network
Foundation (ENF). A consummate consensus builder within the EOS ecosystem, he lives and breathes EOS,
working to ensure the success of the network.
At a young age, Yves was attracted to technology. Through the
experience of building his first computer and writing his first program at the age of seven, a
lifelong interest in the potential of technology was born.
After completing studies in psychology at the University of Ottawa,
Yves moved to Japan where he began his professional career in business and education.�
With an entrepreneurial and inquisitive nature, six years passed,
living and working while steeped in Japanese language and culture. At the same time, his early
intrigue with technology was being further amplified by the revelations of Bitcoin. In 2010, he began
mining Bitcoin on his laptop, and exploring the potential of decentralized networks.
Returning to Ottawa in 2011, Yves resumed his university education in
pure sciences, focusing on perceptual and computational neuropsychology, and additional studies in
behavioral economics.
In 2017, with additional years of business planning and analysis
experience, Yves began seriously considering an endeavor in the emerging blockchain industry.�
Along with a handful of interested associates, he formed a blockchain book club, and having made a
thorough survey of second and third generation blockchains, they began focusing their attention on the
promising open source blockchain platform, EOSIO.
In February of 2018 Yves co-founded EOS Nation and led it to
become the top rated block producer on the largest and most valuable network using EOSIO, the EOS
Mainnet.
For over three years as founder and CEO of EOS Nation, Yves
helped navigate the company through a great deal of operational uncertainty. Running network
infrastructure, providing community outreach, exploring governance models, and contemplating
approaches to public goods funding. His undivided attention was on EOS.
EOSIO was at the bleeding edge of public blockchain development, but it
was also a global, decentralized network that was increasingly hobbled by distant and ambiguous
leadership, misallocation of capital, and misalignment of incentives. Various teams sought to create a
foundation, or a worker proposal system that could fund the development of public goods for the
network, but these efforts stalled, and EOS was adrift. In May
of 2021 Yves resigned as CEO of EOS Nation and began to contemplate a new path forward.
Throughout his tenure as CEO of EOS Nation, Yves had formed many good
relationships across the Action Now Network, among BP’s in the East, West & in the global South. Yves
recognized that he was uniquely positioned to coalesce the stakeholders of the Action Now Network around a
foundation that would work on behalf of all EOS token holders to realize the true potential of
EOS.� With the assurance of support from a coalition of stakeholders, Yves founded the EOS
Network Foundation.
Since founding the ENF, Yves has dedicated himself with singular focus,
in the spirit of a modern day samurai, to work for the benefit of the EOS public blockchain and the
many stakeholders of which it is composed.� Yves continues to cultivate a team at the ENF that
can serve the needs of the EOS community by lifting up and empowering the community itself.
Grounded in the lived experience of Eastern thought and traditions from
his time living and studying in Japan and traveling throughout Asia, Yves brings a holistic approach
to unifying the global EOS community through mutual respect, and a willingness to meet others wherever
they are at.