Rika Khurdayan, a legal veteran with deep roots in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries, has joined Microsoft-backed decentralized data platform Space and Time Labs as chief legal officer.

This move comes as the 2-year-old, San Clemente, California-based company, known for developing a “verifiable compute layer” that merges AI and blockchain, prepares to launch its mainnet—the decentralized, fully operational version of Space and Time, where node operators participate in securing the network.