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Arthur Cheong is the Founder, CEO & CIO of DeFiance Capital, one of the leading Web3 & Crypto investment firms globally that have made signature investments in the DeFi and Web3 gaming space. He is also the Council President of dYdX Foundation, a foundation set up to support and grow the dYdX protocol ecosystem by enabling communities, developers, and decentralized governance. Before founding DeFiance Capital, Arthur co-founded a crypto start-up and worked on Growth and Strategy role at a blockchain protocol focusing on scalability and sharding. Prior to his work in the Web3 space, Arthur worked in the oil trading industry under BP’s flagship trading development programme, where he worked closely with oil trading professionals in trading, shipping and operation roles.
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Hayden Liu
Haichuan (Hayden) Liu is the Head of Product at OKX. He previously served as the Head of Developer Relations at Particle Network, a Core Developer at Automata Network, and a Senior Developer at Zilliqa. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Michael Ng
Michael Ng is Head of Staking at Nansen, Co-Founder at StakeWith.Us. Formerly, Co-Founder of MW Partners. Full-Time Blockchain Enthusiast.
Nguyen Bui
Nguyen Bui is the Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer at Inferix Labs. He also is the Co-Founder at TazoGames. Prior to this, he served as CEO of DeGaLabs and Chief Strategy Officer of Coin98 Finance.
Yeou Jie Goh
Yeou Jie Goh is Head of Asia Pacific at Chromia and was previously Head of Portfolio Growth at DeFiance Capital. He is a graduate of Monash University.
Sam Weinberg
Sam Weinberg is the Co-Founder / CEO at GoldLink. Presively, he worked as Software Engineer at dYdX and Bloomberg. Sam Weinberg graduated from University of Pennsylvania.
Ben Livshits
Ben Livshits is the Chief Technology Officer of Eclipse. Previously, he was the Vice President of Research at zkSync and the Chief Scientist at clipseBrave. He is also an Associate Professor at Imperial College London, a PhD from Stanford University, and a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. He graduated from Cornell University and Stanford University, has written hundreds of academic papers, and holds dozens of patents.
Germaine Jiang
Germaine Jiang is the General Manager, Singapore and Head of Strategy and Institutional Relations at Mask Network and graduated from Nanyang Technological University.
Eugin Lee
Eugin LEE, Yu Jun is a former Investment Analyst at DeFiance Capital. Formerly, Data Science Bootcamp (Applied Artificial Intelligence) at NVIDIA / Republic Polytechnic. “As software ate the world over the last decade, DeFi will eat traditional finance during the next one.”
Paul Erlanger
Paul Erlanger is the former BD lead at dYdX and worked at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from New York University.
Athena Miao
Athena Miao is the Chief Commercial Officer of BigONE. She graduated from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Raffles Institution, Singapore.