Adrian Li
Asia EcoDev Lead at Ethereum Foundation
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Li is an APAC policy lead and ecosystem builder at the Ethereum Foundation with 11+ years bridging software engineering, law, and blockchain policy across Japan, Korea, Greater China, and Singapore. He pairs hands-on open-source development—contributions to Truffle, Ganache, and Drizzle that improved developer tooling and EIP-1102 support—with founder-facing ecosystem growth and zero-knowledge education programs impacting hundreds of learners. As a founder and consultant, he has built products and teams (including a DeFi startup and enterprise POCs in Japan) while advising Techstars/Y Combinator-backed ventures. Fluent in English, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and learning Korean, he operates effectively across multilingual markets and regulatory contexts. His background uniquely combines frontend and backend engineering chops with formal legal training, enabling practical policy strategy informed by deep technical understanding.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Law, Juris Doctor, Law at The University of British ColumbiaBASc, Mechanical Engineering, BASc, Mechanical Engineering at University of TorontoDr Norman Bethune
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (42)
javascript10
solidity10
draft-js-plugins10
electron10
hashtag10
contract10
typescript10
redux10
draft-js10
f10
web3js10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
truffle10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
truffle-box/react-box
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Truffle, Webpack and React boilerplate.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 23 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to integrating a React frontend with a Truffle-based Ethereum smart contract backend. Their work involved adding create-react-app boilerplate, setting up web3 interaction, and deploying a simple storage contract. They refactored the code to use the web3 API instead of truffle-contract and updated the frontend client and Solidity contract versions.
reactreact-boilerplateboilerplatedappethereum
studydefi/money-legos
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
💰One stop shop for Ethereum ABIs, addresses, and Solidity interfaces!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 143 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Adrian's contributions center on establishing the foundational structure for an Ethereum-focused project, including the creation of core modules, and defining the network configurations. The user implemented smart contract ABIs, addresses, and interfaces for various DeFi protocols like Compound, Maker, and ERC20 tokens, which enables access to the necessary data for interactions. Moreover, the user wrote tests to validate the proper address replacement based on network ID.
abisethereumstopblockchainmoney-legos
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