NOW →

• Founder of Argus Labs — to make Sword Art Online a reality.
  
  

• (Personal) investor in consumer & frontier tech incl. crypto, AI, and games.
  
  

• Existing in San Francisco, CA.

PREV →

• Grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  
  

• Withdrew from college (before my first day) to work at a crypto exchange in Asia; did blockchain engineering, market making, etc.
  
  

• Worked on Dark Forest — the world's first fully onchain MMORTS game built using zero-knowledge cryptography.
  
  

• Retired competitive parliamentary debater.

INTEREST →

The invisible forces that influences human behavior

• Our past — cognitive schema, analytical psychology, etc

• Our incentives — principal-agent theory, coordination games, etc

• Our desires — mimetic theory, existentialism, etc
  
  

Strategy under incomplete (or byzantine) information

• For peace — mosaic warfare, information warfare

• For entertainment — Sid Meier's Civilization, Stellaris, poker

• For technology — byzantine fault tolerance (BFT), P2P, (crypto)graphy

Food

• How geography, trade, and culture shapes it — culinary history

• How to create it — culinary arts

• How to get people to pay for it — the art of fleecing a "foodie"

INVESTMENTS →

• [CRYPTO] EigenLayer — Ethereum restaking protocol

• [CRYPTO] Monad — Parallelized EVM-compatible L1

• [CRYPTO] Succinct — Verifiable computation via zkVM

• [CRYPTO] Conduit — Rollup-as-a-service

• [CRYPTO] Veridise — Blockchain security + formal verification research

• [CRYPTO] Movement — MoveVM L2

• [GAMING] Pahdo Labs — MMO ARPG game studio

• … and others