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Jason Vranek

Founding Contributor at Puffer Finance

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Jason Vranek is the co-founder and CTO of Puffer Finance and previously was a research engineer at Chainlink Labs. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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RedStone RedStone
Series A -- $ 15 M
Jul 01, 2024

Jason Vranek 🥐

@jasnoodle
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