Varun Srinivasan is a co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network protocol built on Ethereum, and currently works at Tempo, Stripe's stablecoin-focused blockchain. Previously, he spent over four years at Coinbase rising to Senior Director of Platform, and co-founded SoundFocus, a Y Combinator-backed mobile audio startup. A Carnegie Mellon graduate and prolific reader, Srinivasan has spent his career building platforms that give users control over their data and identity.
Linda Xie is a crypto investor, founder, and ecosystem builder who co-founded Scalar Capital in 2017 after serving as an early product manager at Coinbase. She raised a $20 million fund backed by Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam, championed privacy-focused blockchain projects, co-produced the Ethereum documentary 'Ethereum: The Infinite Garden,' and now leads developer ecosystem growth at Farcaster - a decentralized social protocol she first used as a user in 2021, invested in as a VC in 2022, built on in 2023, and officially joined the team in 2025.