Nemil Dalal is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, supporting early stage crypto teams. He has been a builder in the crypto space for 10+ years, leading small crypto startups to large teams at Coinbase. He led developer products, asset integrations, and stablecoins over 7 years at Coinbase, helping grow USDC to $1 BN in market cap and launching Coinbase Developer Platform (cdp.coinbase.com) while reporting to the CEO. Before that, he founded CryptoFin, one of the earliest decentralized finance protocols (Bskt), which was acquired by Coinbase. He wrote one of the first programming guides for Solidity in 2015, and the first security guide for smart contracts in 2016 with Consensys. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering and MBA from Stanford University.