Dan Robinson

His LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry lists Paul Weiss associate (September 2013–January 2016), Chain product architect (June 2016–September 2018), then Interstellar protocol architect until January 2019.⁠[1]

He announced his appointment as a Paradigm research partner, working with Matt Huang, Fred Ehrsam and Charlie Noyes on investments and open-source protocol research. He had spent about two and a half years at Chain and Interstellar.⁠[2]

He and Georgios Konstantopoulos described a failed attempt to recover roughly $12,000 in Uniswap liquidity tokens for a user. Their transactions missed the planned same-block execution and a generalized frontrunner captured the funds. The authors acknowledged execution errors and examined risks from publicly pending transactions.⁠[3]

His LinkedIn dates his promotion to general partner to February 2023; Paradigm still listed that title in October 2026.⁠[1][4]

In a joint article with Matt Huang and Georgios Konstantopoulos, Paradigm described Robinson’s work on Uniswap since 2019, including contributions to v2, v3, v4 and UniswapX.⁠[5]

He criticized Blast’s pre-L2 bridge, three-month lock and marketing undermining the team’s work, while praising founders’ product skills.⁠[6]

He said he had worked with Blast on an open-source timelocked upgrade system planned for adoption the following week. The statement did not establish that deployment occurred.⁠[7]

In Senate Banking Committee testimony, he advocated commodity treatment for most crypto assets, registration exemptions for noncustodial DeFi software, and custody and bankruptcy protections. He also described helping design Blend and Uniswap v3.⁠[8]

He proposed timestamped private commitments to address control that might support zero-knowledge recovery after a Bitcoin quantum-related spending freeze. The design still required standardization and protocol adoption; it was not an implemented or guaranteed defense.⁠[9]

He introduced Solidus, a Lean compiler project built with automated research. Its Yul-to-EVM backend was implemented and proved, but the Solidity frontend remained unfinished. He described an unaudited pre-alpha, unsuitable for production, with possible gaps in its formal semantics.⁠[10]

With Justin Wang and Andrew Koh, he presented Pace, a game modeling how competition between two AI labs can accelerate development and increase risk. They noted limits: more real-world competitors, an unknown safety frontier and incomplete transparency.⁠[11]

He introduced a Tempo-linked claw machine: MPP auctions plays, stablecoins fund an onchain pot; catching the ball wins half.⁠[12][13]

He co-announced a challenge with Meta and Andromeda to optimize Muse Spark Open inference on H200s, with $100,000 in prizes.⁠[14]

Paradigm: Official link: https://www.paradigm.xyz/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

Paradigm biography: https://www.paradigm.xyz/team/dan-robinson (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

X: Public account: https://x.com/danrobinson (opens in a new window)⁠[15]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielprobinson/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]