Who Steven Gates is
Steven Gates is co-founder and CEO of Multisig Labs, the company behind the Avalanche liquid-staking protocol GoGoPool, later branded Hypha. Multisig Labs’ own about page states the company was "founded in 2021 by Steven Gates"; GoGoPool’s company page says he and Johnny Gault met at the first Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. Both products shut down on 15 August 2026.
Ecosystem
Steven Gates appears in no ecosystem directory. This record comes from the 2026-09-04 AVAX typed-edge research pass (backend/scripts/data/avax-typed-edges-proposal-2026-09.json), which sources relationships from first-party prose rather than from listings. Named in FIRST-PARTY prose as co-founder & CEO, Multisig Labs. Sourced in the 2026-09-04 AVAX DeFi founder-cluster research pass (batch defi-founders-2026-09-04); this row exists to carry that researched edge, not because the person appears in any directory.
Enrichment note
This entry is a SHELL created from the 2026-09-04 typed-edge research pass. Its prose restates what the cited first-party sources say and nothing more — it is not editorial and no biography has been written. It exists so the graph can carry the researched typed edge for Steven Gates; replace it with a researched About body before it carries coverage.
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