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Tegan Kline Steps Down as CEO of Edge & Node, Transitioning to Board Role
In a move that could reshape the roadmap of one of Web3’s most critical infrastructure projects, co‑founder Tegan Kline announced in January 2025 that she would step down from the CEO position at Edge & Node. The company tapped Rodrigo Coelho—an early member of The Graph’s team—as her successor, while Kline will remain on the board as Edge & Node pivots toward enterprise‑grade data products.
Kline’s departure comes after a little more than a year at the helm, a role she assumed in June 2023. Prior to that, she had been Edge & Node’s chief business officer since 2021, a period that saw the firm raise $77.5 million, according to The Block. Edge & Node is the development team behind The Graph, a decentralized protocol that indexes and queries blockchain data for developers.
Before joining Edge & Node, Kline carved out a career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays. She earned a finance degree and an MBA from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. In 2018 she entered Web3 by joining Orchid, an Ethereum‑based VPN backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, as an international business development manager. That blend of banking acumen and early Web3 experience helped her secure $22.5 million for The Graph’s original indexing tools.
During her tenure as CEO, Edge & Node advanced The Graph’s Sunrise initiative, a program aimed at moving the protocol’s indexing work onto a fully decentralized network of independent operators. In a November 2023 interview with CoinDesk, Kline noted that “almost all of DeFi uses The Graph,” and clarified that the protocol organizes on‑chain data while oracle networks such as Chainlink bring off‑chain data onto blockchains.
Kline’s net worth has not been publicly disclosed. Forbes reported in January 2022 that Edge & Node’s original 8 % stake in the GRT token was worth roughly $650 million at that time—an estimate based on the company’s treasury holdings and the token’s price, not on Kline’s personal assets. No updated valuation has been released since.
Edge & Node’s recent initiatives include the launch of ampersend, a dashboard announced in October 2025 that manages payments for AI agents. The product is part of a broader push toward institutional and automated commerce use cases, according to CoinDesk.
The transition to Coelho is expected to reinforce Edge & Node’s enterprise focus while maintaining its commitment to The Graph’s core infrastructure. Kline’s board role will allow her to continue shaping the protocol’s development and community engagement.
As of mid‑2026, The Graph remains a key layer in the Web3 ecosystem, powering thousands of decentralized applications across multiple blockchains. Edge & Node’s leadership change signals a strategic shift toward expanding enterprise data solutions while preserving the protocol’s decentralized foundation.
Kline’s departure comes after a little more than a year at the helm, a role she assumed in June 2023. Prior to that, she had been Edge & Node’s chief business officer since 2021, a period that saw the firm raise $77.5 million, according to The Block. Edge & Node is the development team behind The Graph, a decentralized protocol that indexes and queries blockchain data for developers.
Before joining Edge & Node, Kline carved out a career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays. She earned a finance degree and an MBA from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. In 2018 she entered Web3 by joining Orchid, an Ethereum‑based VPN backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, as an international business development manager. That blend of banking acumen and early Web3 experience helped her secure $22.5 million for The Graph’s original indexing tools.
During her tenure as CEO, Edge & Node advanced The Graph’s Sunrise initiative, a program aimed at moving the protocol’s indexing work onto a fully decentralized network of independent operators. In a November 2023 interview with CoinDesk, Kline noted that “almost all of DeFi uses The Graph,” and clarified that the protocol organizes on‑chain data while oracle networks such as Chainlink bring off‑chain data onto blockchains.
Kline’s net worth has not been publicly disclosed. Forbes reported in January 2022 that Edge & Node’s original 8 % stake in the GRT token was worth roughly $650 million at that time—an estimate based on the company’s treasury holdings and the token’s price, not on Kline’s personal assets. No updated valuation has been released since.
Edge & Node’s recent initiatives include the launch of ampersend, a dashboard announced in October 2025 that manages payments for AI agents. The product is part of a broader push toward institutional and automated commerce use cases, according to CoinDesk.
The transition to Coelho is expected to reinforce Edge & Node’s enterprise focus while maintaining its commitment to The Graph’s core infrastructure. Kline’s board role will allow her to continue shaping the protocol’s development and community engagement.
As of mid‑2026, The Graph remains a key layer in the Web3 ecosystem, powering thousands of decentralized applications across multiple blockchains. Edge & Node’s leadership change signals a strategic shift toward expanding enterprise data solutions while preserving the protocol’s decentralized foundation.
