Haonan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, previously worked as a developer at Optimism where he helped launch its token before founding Codex in 2023

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Li rubbed shoulders with iconic crypto figures like Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin, and helped launch Optimism’s cryptocurrency.

He started working on Optimism, a layer-two blockchain that aims to speed up and reduce the costs of Ethereum.

In 2023, he left to found his own company “with the hunch that stablecoins are what’s most important to focus on,” he said.

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