Wei Dai
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWei Dai is a research partner at 1kx specializing in crypto research and investment, with a decade of experience bridging deep cryptography and startup diligence. He holds a PhD in Cryptography from UC San Diego and advanced degrees in CS and Math from UC Santa Barbara, grounding his work in rigorous theory and applied protocol design. Prior roles at Bain Capital Crypto, Heliax, NTT Research, and Visa show a track record of sourcing, evaluating, and technically supporting blockchain projects, particularly in zero-knowledge proofs and circuit implementation. Wei combines hands-on cryptographic engineering—designing ZK circuits and intermediate representations—with investor-facing diligence, making him fluent in both code and capital. Based in San Diego, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to venture: evaluating subtle protocol trade-offs that most investors miss. His background suggests he’s as comfortable proving theorems as he is advising founders on productizing advanced cryptography.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
visualization9
cryptography9
blockchain9
proof-system9
zkp9
autojump6
backend6
command-line6
nft3
rust3
cryptocurrency3
decentralization2
wallet2
blockchain-network2
circom2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
clvv/dotfiles
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
My dotfiles
Contributions:33 commits, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
clvv/rcc
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:10 reviews, 5 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 months
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