Suji Yan is the Founder Mask Network and the Bonfire Union fund. He studied computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and left university at the age of 20 to launch the Mask Network protocol in 2017. Since then, it has become a key player in the decentralized social ecosystem. A strong advocate for community empowerment and Web3 education, Suji has made substantial contributions to leading universities and institutions in support of Web3 research and journalism.

Validator/Infra Partnership lead at Story
Background in researching IP & Blockchain.

Jeff Wentworth is a Co-founder of Curvegrid, a blockchain software company founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2017. Curvegrid's MultiBaas blockchain development platform makes it easy and cost effective to build on blockchain. Jeff is also Chief Architect of Japan Smart Chain, a sovereign, public, Ethereum-equivalent Layer 1 blockchain. Previously, Jeff worked in financial services and enterprise data storage.

Founder of Humanity Protocol

Terence Kwok was born in Chicago and raised in Hong Kong. He briefly attended the University of Chicago, aiming to major in philosophy and Arabic, but dropped out to pursue entrepreneurship. At 20, he founded a hospitality tech company that became one of Hong Kong’s first startups valued at over $1 billion. Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, Terence founded Humanity Protocol in 2023, focusing on blockchain solutions for data and identity.