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.

139 talks by Robert Leshner

• The Chopping Block: SBF Wants to Win in the Court of Public Opinion. Will He? - Ep. 428
• The Chopping Block on FTX/Alameda: Is Sam Bankman-Fried 'Crypto Kanye'? - Ep. 424
• The Chopping Block: Can Exchange CEOs Like SBF Be Crypto True Believers? - Ep. 416
• The Chopping Block: 'Code Is Law' Is 'Obviously Not How Anything Works Ever' - Ep. 411
• DeFi in the Next Bull Cycle | Stani Kulechov, Robert Leshner
• The Chopping Block: Why ETH Dumped So Hard After the Merge - Ep. 400
• The Chopping Block: ETHPoW Is 'a Terrible Way to Fork the Blockchain' - Ep. 396
• The Chopping Block: How to Manage MakerDAO, With Hasu and Rune - Ep. 383
• The Chopping Block: Why Solana’s Frequent Downtime Doesn't Bother Kyle Samani- Ep. 362
• DeFi State of the Union | Uniswap, Aave, Compound, Synthetix
• The Chopping Block: Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull? - Ep.348
• The Chopping Block: Why ‘One Man’s Bug Is Another Man’s Bounty’ - Ep.338
• The Chopping Block: Do Kwon Pitches a Decentralized NFT Publishing Service - Ep.333
• The Chopping Block: Why the Lack of a Fee Market Created 'Bread Lines' on Solana - Ep.313
• SotN 7/6 - Compound & the DeFi Mullet | Robert Leshner
• How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security - Ep.175
• Going Bankless with Compound | Robert Leshner
• Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens (#295)
• How You'll Earn Interest on Your Crypto With Compound - Ep.82