Erik Reppel created x402, an open protocol for internet-native payments, and previously led engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform and Zora. He advises founders and engineering leaders on technical design, team management and technical due diligence, and makes angel investments in developer tools and AI.

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Erik Reppel created x402, an open protocol for internet-native payments, and previously led engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform and Zora. He advises founders and engineering leaders on technical design, team management and technical due diligence, and makes angel investments in developer tools and AI.

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Erik Reppel holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSeng), Computer Science from University of Victoria.

Founder / CEO at 5D
TSC Chair & Governing Board Liasion at x402Chairs the Technical Steering Committee and serves as a governing-board liaison for x402, an open standard for internet-native payments.
Advisor, Agentic Commerce at CoinbaseAdvised Coinbase on agentic commerce after leading engineering for Coinbase Developer Platform from January 2025 to May 2026, including x402, stablecoins, wallets, onramp and developer data infrastructure.
Head of Engineering at ZoraOversaw engineering across protocol, backend, frontend, mobile, and security, and led work on Zora’s engineering team and infrastructure.
Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer at Clubhouse
Software Engineering Intern at General FusionBuilt big-data infrastructure and APIs for processing and accessing experimental physics data.
Software and Data Intern at IntuitiveBuilt applications and infrastructure for data from the da Vinci surgical robot.

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