Robert Leshner

Robert Leshner is the co-founder and CEO of Superstate, an asset tokenization firm behind tokenized US Treasury funds and Opening Bell, a platform that puts SEC-registered shares of public companies on-chain. He is best known as the founder of Compound, the DeFi lending protocol he launched in 2017 whose COMP token distribution in 2020 is widely credited with kicking off DeFi Summer. He is also a venture investor at Robot Ventures, a member of Nansen's board of directors, and a co-host of The Chopping Block podcast. A CFA charterholder with an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he designed smart contracts including Governor Bravo and the ERC-7246 Encumber standard.

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