0xJChen

Crypto researcher bridging mechanism design and applied engineering.

About

2022 – 2024 I lead the Compound & AAVE delegation program at Michigan Blockchain Club and Arana Digital , focused on Quantitative DeFi Risk Management.

2022 – 2024 I run the Crypto Option Blocktrade Desk at Greeks.live (top broker for Deribit), working on DeFi/CeFi options trading, and write commentary on option orderflow analysis.

2019 – 2022 I spent three years on Reinforcement Learning research in multi-agent systems and game theory, with a particular focus on model-based RL and search algorithms.

Jan 2024 – May 2024 I joined Amber Group as a DeFi Quant Intern, working on long tail MEV on Ethereum and Solana. Thanks Aaron for the kind mentoring!

May 2024 – Apr 2026 I joined aPriori as a MEV Engineer, working on MEV Infrastructure for Parallel EVM.

News I am now building on Bittensor and Prediction Markets. Open to new opportunities.

Interests

MEV · Crypto Derivatives · Market Microstructure

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