Warren

Warren has been working full time in crypto and web3 for over ten years. In 2014, Warren co-founded Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms which pioneered the use of multisig and hashed timelock contracts for atomic transactions of OTC trades on the Bitcoin blockchain. Hedgy was acquired by Wyre. Warren joined Ripple in 2016 to lead product development across a variety of open crypto protocols, platforms, and products, including RippleX, the XRP Ledger, Interledger, and Paystring. While at Ripple, he co-created On-Demand Liquidity, an enterprise payment API that uses crypto to settle cross-border payments in seconds. Warren initially joined Discreet Labs in 2021 as VP of Product, and was promoted to CEO in 2022 to lead a team of over 80 engineers and operators building scalable privacy systems using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) for web3. Warren earned two bachelor’s degrees from Northwestern University, where he completed coursework in three years. He also joined a dual master’s program in Computer Science and Environmental Science at Harvard University, but later dropped out to start a company.