Bio

Warren Paul Anderson is a blockchain / crypto / web3 technology executive, startup founder, and strategic product visionary with deep experience building distributed systems and open protocols using applied cryptography. Warren got started in the crypto industry as a hobbyist Bitcoin miner in 2011, back when one could still mine a block with a CPU. He parlayed his passion to jump into blockchain full-time in 2013, starting with the co-founding of Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms to have built smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain. Hedgy was acquired by Wyre. Warren joined Ripple in 2016 to lead product across a variety of different crypto protocols, platforms, and products. While at Ripple, he picked up his first patent, as the co-inventor of 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 60+ engineers and operators building scalable privacy systems using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) for web3. Warren is a frequent public speaker, and has guest lectured at institutions such as Stanford, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Wharton, University College London, and University of Zurich on topics related to web3, blockchain, cryptocurrency, fintech, and technology more broadly.