Dan Romero co-founded Farcaster, an open decentralized social networking protocol where users own their identities, content, and social graph, and co-founded Merkle Manufactory, the software company behind Farcaster and its Warpcast client. He previously worked at Coinbase, helping build and scale the platform early on, and works at Tempo, a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm for stablecoin and real-world payments. Dan Romero's Twitter Score is 762 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #85 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked.
Dan Romero spent over a decade in crypto, first helping build and scale Coinbase early on, then roughly five years building Farcaster before the Merkle Manufactory team moved to Tempo in February 2026, with Tempo's mainnet launching in March 2026. Farcaster drew backing from Paradigm, which lists it in its investment portfolio, and from Union Square Ventures. Dan Romero also makes angel investments, though he notes he makes very few new ones these days.
Dan Romero has 143,481 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 11,029 posts since 2007. He has been mentioned by 651 accounts, with 1,075 total mentions.
Dan Romero's investment portfolio includes Recall, Yup, Golden, XMTP, PRAXIS, Center, Privy and Sardine.
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