Jesse Pollak

▸ Base: $15B+ TVL, #2 L2; also leading Coinbase Wallet + Coinbase exec team since Oct 2024

Creator of Base — Coinbase's Ethereum L2 that crossed $15B TVL in January 2025, making it the #2 L2 behind Arbitrum. In October 2024 also took over as lead of Coinbase Wallet and joined Coinbase's executive team. CoinDesk Most Influential 2025. Mission: bring a billion people and a million builders onchain. Base has sub-cent fees and a thriving DeFi and creator economy — Aerodrome surpassed $1B TVL, Zora launched its token on Base. At Coinbase since 2017.

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Michael Heinrich@michaelh_0g

Co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs — the first modular AI chain, built as a Layer 1 for decentralized AI infrastructure with 50GB/s throughput. Launched Aristotle Mainnet in September 2025 with 100+ day-one partners. $75M raised, $88.8M ecosystem fund. Also executive chairman of Stack0G. Previously founded Garten (YC S16, $200M revenue). Early investor in Anthropic, Filecoin, and Uniswap.

$88.8M ecosystem fund

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Sam Kazemian@samkazemian

Founder and CEO of Frax Finance — the algorithmic stablecoin protocol behind frxUSD, frxETH, and the Fraxtal L2 chain. Pioneered algorithmic stablecoins and fractional reserve mechanisms in DeFi. frxUSD positioned for U.S. GENIUS Act regulatory compliance. Also joined Stable (Tether ecosystem) as CTO in March 2026 while continuing to lead Frax. Forbes 30 Under 30. UCLA grad.

Frax: $86M revenue in first year; frxUSD GENIUS Act compliant; now CTO at Stable

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Both building infrastructure on Ethereum

Nick Emmons@nickemmons

Co-founder and CEO of Allora Labs — previously known as Upshot. Built industry-leading NFT appraisals then pivoted to decentralized AI. Allora is a self-improving decentralized AI network where thousands of ML models collaborate to generate collective intelligence. Mainnet launched November 2025 with ALLO token. $35M raised from Polychain, Framework Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Delphi.

Allora mainnet live Nov 2025; $35M raised; 692M+ inferences on testnet

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