Edwin H.

Led X Layer GTM and ecosystem expansion, shaping growth strategy across DeFi protocols and infrastructure while positioning the L2 as OKX's flagship new money chain. Drove next-gen infrastructure upgrades delivering sub-100ms transaction confirmations and coordinated with 20+ providers across RPC, custody, and compliance. Built tier-1 DeFi pipeline and integrations while enhancing Wallet and OKX Pay for 66M+ daily active users through Solana Passkey AA wallet improvements and OKB gas optimizations. Architected secure, policy-driven automation layer for on-chain yield with rule-based risk rebalancing across DeFi protocols.

Launched music-distribution royalty-tokenization platform enabling 1000+ artists to upload, mint, and release songs to 130+ global streaming platforms with automated royalty splits. Led 0-1 release of Android and iOS mobile apps for seamless marketplace purchasing and streaming of cross-chain music-NFTs across Cardano and Solana. Supported development and launch of royalty token marketplace enabling primary and secondary selling with activity reporting and analytics.

First Product Manager at a16z-backed AI-web3 startup where I drove 0-1 launch of consumer-facing applications leveraging the company's underlying IP protocol and blockchain. Launched NFT IP-licensing marketplace enabling provenance tracking for registration, remixing, attribution, and royalty sharing of creative IP, achieving ~50k registered IP assets by ~4k unique creators within the first month. Led build-out of first incubated NFT IP-franchise with David Goyer demonstrating automated commercial licensing and royalty payouts. Released staking dashboard, token faucet, and L1-critical dapps enabling seamless account management and +7M daily transactions upon L1 release. Led API integrations with 10+ generative AI consumer apps and supported end-to-end development of the L1 blockchain.

Led product roadmap for cross-border B2B2C payments product for FIs and fintechs. Launched 5+ new corridors via integrations with WeChat Pay and UniTeller, increasing coverage by 13%. Automated CX and operations workflows, reducing system-error initiated cancellations by 75%. Drove FX rate integration with markets team to expand coverage to 120+ currencies and increased yearly transaction volume by over 1000% ($1.6B increase). Initiated multi-year modernization of legacy USD Wire payments processor handling 800k+ daily transactions totaling $3.3 trillion, migrating 75M retail accounts to modular cloud-based architecture.