Robert Leshner (DeFi / Blockchain) at Compound Finance — San Francisco, United States
Robert Leshner founded Compound in 2017, creating one of the first algorithmic money markets on Ethereum and pioneering the concept of yield farming in DeFi. Compound's COMP governance token launch in 2020 sparked the DeFi Summer that brought hundreds of billions of dollars into decentralized finance. Leshner later founded Superstate, which tokenizes traditional financial assets like US Treasury bills on blockchain, bridging traditional finance and DeFi.