Yiping Lu
Investment Associate at IOSG Ventures
Yiping Lu
Investment Associate at IOSG Ventures
Durham, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Associate
2023 - Current
- Managed full investment cycle. Developed AI and DeSci investment thesis/strategies and dashboards. - Sourced projects like Particle Network, Giza, Myshell, Andrena, Peaq and Fhenix. Led projects like Vanna, Pond, Giza, EZKL, Particle, Sunscreen, Fhenix, Andrena, Taiko… Invested in Fhenix. - Authored research reports on DeSci, AI, ZK, Layer2, and Risk. - Helped organize IOSG events on ETH Denver for over 1000 guests. Joined Panel discussions, judged pitch competitions. - Research paper and Twitter threads ZK Cross-chain Message Protocol: Secure, Cheap, Foundation of Multichain Dapps https://medium.com/iosg-ventures/zk-cross-chain-message-protocol-secure-cheap-foundation-of-multichain-dapps-66adc65cedc9 - Solutions of Financial Risks in DeFi https://medium.com/iosg-ventures/solutions-of-financial-risks-in-defi-12e350042eca - Exploring Developer Experience on ZKRUs: An In-Depth Analysis https://medium.com/iosg-ventures/exploring-developer-experience-on-zkrus-an-in-depth-analysis-785e1de3a7da
Co-Founder
2021
• un.Block Weekly is a newsletter about Blockchain, updated every week since April 2021, published over 40 issues on Substack, ChainNews, sspai, and Mirror, with total 300k reads and thousands of followers. • Led a team of 7 to share the latest Blockchain technological news and unique products to DApp developers and Blockchain knowledge with the new learners and guide them to develop DApp. Read the whitepaper of different projects, like farming, NFT, GameFi, cross-chain, stable coin, DAO, and compare them with similar projects. • Analyzed the whole crypto market and do research in different blockchain areas like DeFi, GameFi, NFT, and Algorithm Stable Coin to find potential investment opportunities. • Used Linear, Notion to accelerate the teamwork. Optimized the workflow and developed linting integrations for Notion. • Designed and implemented a redeem code mechanism for NFT. Users can use the redeem code to get NFT on-chain. This can save numerous fees for projects operators. • Held several workshops about smart contract development and usage of common Dapps. • Made donations on Gitcoin to support open source projects since GR11. • Developed NFT bot with Infura, Eden Network, Flashbot and typescript. The bot can ape in within one block after the NFT starting to mint.
Editor
2020
- Newlearner Tech Channel is a Telegram channel, sharing IT news every day, with 23 editors, 56k+ subscribers. - Reviewed open-source software - Developed LLM tools for auto-generating news and conducted annual data analysis to enhance content creation and contributor management, using Langchain, Streamlit, SQL, and Pandas.
Investment Analyst
2022 - 2022
* Provide tech consultant to the investment team * Research and analyze infra * Call with different project teams
Tech Assosiate
2022 - 2022
• Fundamental Labs is a global venture capital focusing on crypto and web3 infrastructure ,with over $1B AUM. Its portfolio contains Binance, Canaan, CertiK and Coinbase. • Used tech insight to guide investments in promising areas, like zero knowledge and cross chain. • Wrote industry research and contributed to weekly newsletter. Published the English and Chinese versions on multiple medias platforms. Featured publication: Zero Knowledge Proof, Cross-chain Bridges, PoS Ecosystem, PoS Consensus Algorithm and Aptos & Sui & Linera. • Sourcing potential cases, pitch and presented in on I.C.. • Reading the whitepaper and test the development kit to understand the infrastructure • Established an extremely comprehensive network of blockchain industry contacts and security experts that helped to find significant opportunities. • Assisted clients’ community build, design, tech and security. Connected client with KOLs. • Hacker Noon Contributing Writer. Reports promoted and published on the index page. • Nominated in the 2022 Noonies for Web3 PoS writings.
Software Engineer
2021 - 2022
* Worked in Certik, a world leading security company in blockchain industry * Led a team of two to manually audit, test, and deploy over 20+ smart contracts, including token, farming, game, insurance, and other financial derivatives, secured over $3.5B assets * Mentored the smart contract audit intern. * Develop new detectors for math calculation vulnerabilities * Design an insurance product with a unique mechanism * Compared 200 similar projects and evaluate their differences * Featured Audit: AutoFarm