Nate Chastain
Product Engineer at OpenSea
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Chastain is a product engineer and blockchain product leader with a decade of experience building merchant-facing crypto commerce and consumer Web3 experiences. He’s led product at OpenSea and MetaMask, where he helped ship fiat on-ramps, launched MetaMask Institutional, and brokered partner integrations that made buying crypto more accessible. As founder of Daisy Payments and Head of Product at Token Foundry, he focused on reducing friction for crypto payments and designing token-sale tooling that blends developer workflows with real-world commerce. A former front-end engineer with roots in live video and a background in English from Harvard, Nate combines UX-first thinking, engineering fluency, and a knack for storytelling to simplify complex blockchain flows. His North Star is practical: maximize physical goods purchased with cryptocurrency, turning experimental token mechanics into everyday consumer transactions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - A.B., English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts - A.B., English Language and Literature/Letters at Harvard UniversityHigh School Diploma, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, High School Diploma, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Phillips Exeter Academy
Github Skills (28)
browser-extension10
opera10
plug10
brave10
browser10
chrome-extension10
metamask10
firefox10
chrome10
ethereum10
blockchain10
create-react-native-app10
dapp-developers10
react-native9
javascript9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tkcarnage/newman
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:74 PRs, 66 pushes, 63 branches in 5 years 2 months
nchastain/snowballot
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 95 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
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