Varun Srinivasan is a crypto protocol founder and engineer who co-founded Farcaster and now works at Tempo on stablecoins for a global payments network. Varun Srinivasan's Twitter Score is 230 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,791 (top 0.5%) among 485,005 tracked accounts.
Varun Srinivasan co-founded Farcaster and Merkle Manufactory, the company that developed and operated the Farcaster protocol. In January 2026, Neynar announced acquiring Farcaster from Merkle Manufactory, with the Farcaster protocol and products transitioning to Neynar's operation; Merkle planned to return roughly $180 million to investors as part of that transition. Varun Srinivasan stepped back from day-to-day leadership at Farcaster in February 2026 and subsequently joined Tempo. Previously, Varun Srinivasan worked at Coinbase before co-founding Farcaster.
Varun Srinivasan now works at Tempo, a payments network focused on stablecoins that was incubated by Paradigm and Stripe, with a reported $500 million raise at a $5 billion valuation. Varun Srinivasan has accumulated 15,034 followers as of August 2026 and 1,722 posts on the platform. Varun Srinivasan has been mentioned by 100 accounts a total of 134 times.
As an angel investor, Varun Srinivasan has backed Irreducible, Voyage and Daimo Pay.
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