I heard and started to buy Bitcoin from 2013 when I served in an IT company and managed a 30-million-dollar annual revenue business unit. I was not satisfied with only doing some investment on Bitcoin but also looked for any opportunity that I can jump in and do more. But at that time, I still doubted bitcoin, not sure if it will work eventually. My final decision is to stay in my comfortable zone. Luckily, I still hold a major part of those bitcoins I bought in 2013 until today.

Back to my IT service role, my BU has an innovation center where I put some R&D resources to follow the latest technology and make new solutions or trial projects. So AI, big data, and later blockchain, they are all in my scope. In 2016, I started to lead them to learn about blockchain technology and try to make some PoC projects. We built a small team and eventually worked with Microsoft together and delivered a PoC project to a national bank. Those investments didn't return because it is too early to do a business oriented blockchain project in year 2016，but it is important to me because I am finally confident about Crypto and its future.

Several months later, I resigned and joined Bitpie Wallet as partner and COO. Bitpie Wallet is a major blockchain wallet in Asia, it is backed by top investors in China and has several millions of active users all over the world. During that time, I worked with a lot of crypto teams(infr, DApp, DeFi, CeFi) to enable users to experience the latest crypto application. I am also an early DeFi user and yield farmer. Starting from Compound, I used to lock more than several million dollars in all kinds of DeFi projects and got good profit from most of those projects.

Right now I am starting a research organization – Empower Labs, it aims for research and incubation on blockchain based innovation. Especially on DAO , DeFi and Metaverse. Empower Labs itself is not a commercial organization but more like a self-motivated off chain DAO with several guilds. We have technical talents, industry experts, crypto veterans and dreamers. They have different backgrounds and interests. I believe those interest-driven guilds will generate surprise and some of them will come out with good innovation sooner or later – the power of community.

As an ex-COO of crypto wallet, I used to meet a lot of DeFi teams, some of them are true innovators, but most of their projects were simple fork or make slight changes from others. Those projects are not good but a lot of users are using them because they don’t have enough information to make a judgement. We attempted to make some guide for users within our wallet but it didn’t work well. One reason is we don’t have enough resources to make guides in this complicated DeFi world. Another reason is even if we do have enough manpower to do it, it is not right to do this in such a centralized way.

That is why I am excited about Aladdin DAO and that is also why I want to be involved in this, leverage my experience and know how to contribute to the community and ecosystem.