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Linda Xie

Linda Xie is a cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur who worked as a product manager at CoinbaseCoinbaseCoinbase is a U.S. operator of crypto asset trading platforms, founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, whose listed parent is Coinbase Global, Inc.; it went public through a direct listing on Nasdaq (ticker COIN) in April 2021 and joined the S&P 500 in May 2025. It provides crypto trading, custody, staking, and stablecoin-related services, launched USDC with Circle, develops the Ethereum layer-2 network Base, and acquired the crypto options exchange Deribit in 2025; its venture investing operates as Coinbase Ventures.Open the full entry and co-founded the crypto asset investment firm Scalar Capital with Jordan Clifford; she later turned to the ecosystem of the decentralized social protocol Farcaster, where she created the bounty app Bountycaster.

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Before 2017Working at AIG and Coinbase

She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and after graduating worked for about two years as a portfolio risk analyst at AIG.⁠[1][2]

She then joined the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase as a product manager for more than three years, working on internal tools and data analytics products.⁠[2][3]

Fall 2017: Founding Scalar Capital

According to a TechCrunch report from July 2018, she left Coinbase the previous fall to start Scalar Capital, an investment firm focused on crypto assets, with Jordan Clifford, a software engineer she had met at Coinbase; both served as managing directors.⁠[2][1][3]

September 18, 2023Stepping Back from a Full-Time Investor Role

The Block reported on September 18, 2023, that she was leaving her full-time investor role and said she was returning to building; Scalar Capital moved into maintenance mode and stopped making new investments, while she remained a managing director and began working on a new crypto project with Daniel Pyrathon.⁠[3]

2024Creating Bountycaster

When Bankless introduced Bountycaster in March 2024, it named her as the app’s founder; built on Farcaster and Base, Bountycaster lets users post bounties or services, with payments made directly peer to peer.⁠[4]

May 2025Interviewed as Farcaster’s Developer Ecosystem Lead

In May 2025, she was interviewed as Farcaster’s developer ecosystem lead on Unchained, the crypto podcast by Laura ShinLaura ShinLaura Shin is a cryptocurrency journalist, podcast host and author, a former senior editor at Forbes who founded the crypto media outlet Unchained, hosts its podcast of the same name, and wrote “The Cryptopians,” about the first big cryptocurrency craze.Open the full entry, discussing mini apps on Farcaster.⁠[5]

Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts

Coinbase: Official website: https://www.coinbase.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]

Bountycaster: Official website: https://www.bountycaster.xyz/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

Farcaster: Public account: https://warpcast.com/linda (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

Sources

  1. Linda Xie #65 (opens in a new window)
  2. Scalar Capital, a hedge fund for crypto assets, plants its flag in an increasingly crowded landscape (opens in a new window)
  3. Crypto VC Scalar Capital co-founder is transitioning out of investor role (opens in a new window)
  4. Get Started with Bountycaster (opens in a new window)
  5. Linda Xie on How Mini Apps Are Helping Farcaster Take On Web2 Social Media (opens in a new window)