Daniel Hwang

Daniel has extensive tenure across the blockchain ecosystem including: infrastructure service providers, L1 ecosystem development, DEX building, piloting permissioned blockchains in enterprise, DAO set up, NFTs, and metaverses. Daniel currently supports proof of stake and zk infra services as a co-founder in Kintsugi Technologies, an infrastructure service provider and leads Aleo’s ecosystem development. Daniel began running Bitcoin miners in 2013 and supporting remittances in the Philippines with crypto. He recently led the Protocols Team at stakefish while also leading the Special Projects team at F2Pool. He contributes extensively to the validator ecosystem and established and founded the validator working group (Validator Commons) and the Blockchain Infrastructure Forum (BIF). He has contributed substantive work in the climate domain leading to the co-founding of the Blockchain Infrastructure Carbon Offset Working Group (BICOWG) which eventually led to the founding of the BlockchainXClimate nonprofit. He supports regional development with the establishment of Korea’s first DAO (HanDAO) supporting the Korean creator ecosystem and was awarded grants to build hyperlocalized DEXs in asia from 0x Protocol. His work has also spanned leading an IEEE workstream on health data on blockchain and leading pilots for large pharmaceutical companies for their supply chain sample management development with permissioned blockchains. He has also led a top 10 L1 ecosystem development team. His formal education includes degrees in Biology, Religion, and Computer Science from Swarthmore College, the University of Maryland College Park, and Johns Hopkins University. His focus in graduate school was on cryptography and distributed systems.