Matt Huang co-founded Paradigm, a crypto-focused venture firm, and founded Tempo, a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain jointly incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. He serves as Managing Partner at Paradigm and CEO at Tempo, and is a board member at Stripe. He is also affiliated with Kalshi. Matt Huang's Twitter Score is 958 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, placing him at rank #24 (top 0.1%) out of 493,952 accounts tracked on this platform and among the 35 accounts that exceed the 900 threshold.
Matt Huang previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a partner, where he led the firm's crypto efforts, before co-founding Paradigm in 2018 with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam. He also founded Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012. Paradigm has grown to $12.7 billion in assets under management as of 2024 and raised an $850M third venture fund focused on early-stage crypto projects, announced June 13, 2024. The firm has also built open-source crypto infrastructure including Foundry and Reth, and in June 2026 announced it is the steward of artist Jim Sanborn's Kryptos sculpture secret, launching a K4 verification site and capture-the-flag challenge.
Matt Huang announced Tempo on September 4, 2025; it will not launch with its own token and will accept stablecoins as gas fees. He also co-authored an April 21, 2025 Paradigm policy essay arguing the SDNY should drop charges against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm.
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