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Faustine Fleuret is Head of Public Affairs at Morpho, a French fintech company developing open blockchain infrastructure for lending and borrowing. In this role, she focuses on fostering dialogue between DeFi builders and regulators, ensuring that policy discussions are grounded in how decentralised lending protocols function and in their potential contribution to more open financial markets. She joined Morpho as a Public Affairs Advisor in February 2025 before being appointed to her current position in August 2025.

Prior to joining Morpho, Fleuret co-founded Adan, the Association for the Development of Digital Assets, and served as its President and Managing Director from 2021. During her tenure, she grew the association from approximately fifty member companies to over 200, spanning crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and video games, and welcomed major players including Visa and Mastercard. She was re-elected as President in 2023 for a two-year term before stepping down at the end of 2024. Her work at Adan centred on crypto-asset regulation at both French and European levels, including engagement around the MiCA framework. She is also the author of four books on financial and crypto regulations, and currently serves as Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board at Dowgo, a company focused on green bonds on the blockchain, and as an Advisor to Cube3. She completed studies at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Merlin Egalite is Co-founder of Morpho, an onchain lending protocol with more than $10 billion in total deposits, which he has helped build since September 2021. At Morpho, he serves as integration team lead, contributing to the protocol's development and strategic direction. He is also an active contributor to the codebase, with public repositories on GitHub including a universal rewards distributor and vesting contracts written in Solidity, and recent activity spanning code review and commits to Morpho's open-source repositories.

Prior to co-founding Morpho, Egalite interned at Blockpulse from August 2020 to February 2021, working on blockchain protocol development and digital equity management tools. In December 2020, he began contributing to The Commons Stack, a project focused on public goods funding mechanisms using blockchain tools. He also held roles as a full-stack engineer at AtTheSpring, a data scientist at Randstad.fr where he built a job title and skill normalization system using deep learning, and a data science intern at Paris Digital Lab developing a recommender system for BNP Paribas Asset Management. Earlier in his career, he worked as a mobile and web development consultant at Junior CentraleSupélec and as an assistant to the CEO at Octobot, a startup incubated at Schoolab in Paris. In 2021, he worked as a smart contract analyst at Kleros. He was a finalist at the ETHGlobal hackathon in late 2020 for Unite.community, a token distribution project. Egalite graduated from CentraleSupélec with a degree in engineering in 2021.