Kain Warwick

Dan Romero@dwr

Co-founder of Farcaster — the decentralized social protocol that launched Clanker and defined crypto-native social. Farcaster was acquired by Neynar in January 2026. Now at Tempo — the Stripe and Paradigm-backed stablecoin L1 raising $500M at $5B valuation, targeting mainstream global payments.

Robert Leshner@rleshner

Founder of Compound Finance — one of DeFi's foundational lending protocols. Now CEO and co-founder of Superstate — a tokenization firm bringing Wall Street assets onchain. Raised $82.5M in January 2026 from Bain Capital Crypto and Galaxy Digital. Managing $1.2B+ in tokenized assets including USTB (tokenized US Treasuries). Invesco taking over USTB management in Q2 2026 — the blueprint for how funds come onchain. Building Opening Bell to enable onchain IPOs.

Michael Egorov@newmichwill

Founder of Curve Finance — the stablecoin liquidity backbone of all DeFi. Curve's AMM design for low-slippage stablecoin swaps is the infrastructure every major DeFi protocol routes through. $2B+ TVL. PhD in Physics from Australian National University. Also built crvUSD, Curve's native stablecoin.