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Felix Xu

Felix Xu

Co-Founder & CEO of ARPA Network; Co-Founder of Bella Protocol, ARPA Network

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Bio

Felix Xu is the Co-Founder and CEO of ARPA Network, a cryptographic infrastructure project focused on threshold BLS signatures and verifiable randomness, and the Co-Founder of Bella Protocol, a DeFi platform. He co-founded ARPA in 2018 with a team that included contributors to its original whitepaper — Derek Zhang, Alex Su, and Jiang Chen — with the goal of bringing privacy-preserving computation and secure multi-party computation to blockchain applications.

ARPA's primary product in 2026 is Randcast, a verifiable random number generation service built on threshold BLS cryptography, used by smart contracts requiring tamper-proof randomness. Felix Xu has also been involved in Bella Protocol, a DeFi automation and yield product. Prior to ARPA, his background included finance and information systems studies and roles in investment. As of August 2026, Felix Xu remains active as CEO of ARPA Network, which continues to develop its randomness infrastructure and expand node operator economics.

Profile at a glance

Status
Active

Work & Project Background

  • ARPA Network

    Co-founder

  • Bella Protocol

    Co-founder

Key Contributions

ARPA Network

Co-founded ARPA Network, building threshold BLS signature infrastructure and verifiable randomness for decentralized applications.

Randcast

Led development of Randcast, ARPA's production verifiable random function (VRF) service enabling tamper-proof on-chain randomness for smart contracts.

Bella Protocol

Co-founded Bella Protocol, a DeFi platform providing automated yield and financial products for crypto users.

Threshold Cryptography Infrastructure

Contributed to applying threshold BLS signatures — a branch of cryptography requiring multiple parties to cooperate — to real-world blockchain applications.

ARPA Node Economics

Developed ARPA's node operator model enabling decentralized participants to provide randomness and computation services in exchange for protocol rewards.

Timeline

Pre-2018
Studied finance and information systems; worked in investment and venture roles before entering crypto.
2018
Co-founded ARPA Network with Derek Zhang, Alex Su, Jiang Chen and others to develop privacy-preserving computation for blockchains.
2020
Co-founded Bella Protocol, an automated DeFi yield platform.
2023
Launched Randcast, ARPA's verifiable randomness product built on threshold BLS signatures.
2025–2026
Continued leading ARPA Network as CEO, expanding randomness infrastructure and node operator program.

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