Varun Srinivasan is an engineer and entrepreneur working on blockchain payment infrastructure at Tempo. He previously co-founded Farcaster and led engineering and product teams at Coinbase, and has invested in startups including Bridge, Privy and Fal.

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Varun Srinivasan is an engineer and entrepreneur working on blockchain payment infrastructure at Tempo. He previously co-founded Farcaster and led engineering and product teams at Coinbase, and has invested in startups including Bridge, Privy and Fal.

Career

Engineer at Tempo from 2026-02 to PresentEngineer. Works on infrastructure for fast, inexpensive, and transparent stablecoin payments.
Co-founder at Farcaster until 2026
Senior Director, Engineering and Product at Coinbase from 2015-04 to 2019-10Held engineering, product, and platform leadership roles at Coinbase.

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Linda XieCo-founder of Scalar Capital and Bountycaster
First Cosign
work with @dwr @v and the entire team on Farcaster. They have been extraordinary teammates to build with and learn from.
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jesse.base.ethHead of Base and Coinbase Wallet at Coinbase
Second Cosign
grateful to @dwr, @v, and the entire farcaster team for their years of partnership on making @farcaster and @base.base.eth what they are today
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Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks

Srinivasan explains how user-owned audiences, open clients and a hybrid on-chain/off-chain architecture could support a decentralized social network.

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The Problem with Passkeys

Srinivasan examines the usability and trust tradeoffs of using passkeys for crypto wallets, including recovery, transaction signing and server-side custody.

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FarCon NYC Keynote: The Future of Farcaster

Varun Srinivasan and Dan Romero present Farcaster’s product direction and answer community questions about building and growing the network.

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Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent: Four Rules for Scaling

In this First Round interview, Srinivasan uses Coinbase examples to explain team structure, strategic delegation and cross-functional coordination during rapid growth.

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