Bio

Do No Harm, Take No Bull, Change the World 💫 Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022 Tegan Kline is a Founder, cryptocurrency expert, business development savant, and all-around tour de force. With a competitive background in Investment Banking, Tegan uses her experience from “the inside” of traditional finance, both at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays, to bolster explosive growth of the blockchain industry at large. In Co-Founding one and launching two unicorns to date – Edge & Node, The Graph, and Orchid, a A16Z and Sequoia – Tegan is undoubtedly the blockchain ecosystem’s not-so-secret weapon. Tegan is an advocate for personal freedom and empowerment through shifting paradigms of wealth and access to information. Her success in the crypto industry has been integral in making applications on blockchain technology possible and helping individuals gain equal access to the internet. Tegan has a “do no harm, take no bull, change the world” approach to business, always playing the long-game in areas ranging from negotiations to investor relations, business development and beyond. Tegan is the premier source for connecting top leaders and innovators with key stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem today. She is paving the way for DeFi and the broader Web3 ecosystem as a Co-Founder and Business Lead at Edge & Node, the initial team behind the Graph – key infrastructure for the Web3 movement – to ensure blockchains become the future of the Internet, and data becomes a democratized public good. Speaker On: DeFi, Web3, Decentralisation, Crypto, Blockchain, Legacy Finance to Decentralised Finance Past Companies: Bank of America, Barclays, Orchid Advisor: Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition, Blockchain Code of Ethics Volunteer: Crypto Underground, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Blockchain Code of Ethics (Co-Author & Partner) Appeared in: Forbes, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine, CNBC, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph www.tegankline.com