defi-infrastructure
(2)
The Team That Indexed Crypto Now Wants Banks to Prove It
Edge & Node built the query layer beneath most of DeFi. Now the same engineers are packaging blockchain data for the banks, stablecoin issuers, and AI agents that need to prove where every number came from.
Will Warren
Will Warren co-founded 0x in October 2016 alongside Amir Bandeali, building the open protocol that became foundational DeFi infrastructure for peer-to-peer trading of Ethereum-based digital assets. A former applied physics researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory who left a PhD program in structural engineering to bet everything on Ethereum, Warren grew 0x from a whitepaper into a protocol powering billions in DEX volume and a developer platform serving the broadest ecosystem of DeFi apps, wallets, and market makers. In May 2026 he stepped down as Co-CEO while remaining a major shareholder and board member.