jesper
Blockchain Founder · Engineer · De Fi Researcher · Cornell Ph D
Blockchain founder, engineer, and researcher. CEO & founder of Psi Finance (stablecoin payments, $12M+/yr). Co-founder of Direct.dev (next-generation RPC infrastructure). Co-founder & COO of Panoptic — perpetual-options protocol on Uniswap V3/V4, $12M raised from Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, and Uniswap Labs Ventures. Advanced-Solidity instructor at RareSkills, best-selling author of Automated Market Makers (Apress), and host of the @cryptojesperk crypto-education channel on YouTube.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $250,000
Hourly rate: $100
Nationality: 🇩🇰 Denmark
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience
Course Instructor — Advanced Solidity Bootcamp
RareSkills 2023 - 2026
Taught advanced Solidity, EVM internals, gas optimization, security patterns, assembly, and protocol design to senior engineers. Alumni now at OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits, LayerZero, and Avalanche.
Co-Founder & COO
Panoptic 2021 - 2023
Permissionless, oracle-free perpetual-options protocol built on Uniswap V3/V4 concentrated-liquidity positions. Co-invented the protocol mechanism for perpetual options on LP positions; co-authored the foundational whitepaper; oversaw end-to-end security audits (OpenZeppelin, CertiK, and other leading firms) through to production deployment. Raised $12M (Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, Uniswap Labs Ventures). Ran ops, fundraising, hiring, and GTM. Speaker, ETHDenver 2023 — “Demystifying Options in DeFi.” Stack: Solidity, Foundry, TypeScript, Python.
Head of Research
Advanced Blockchain 2021 - 2022
Built a 12-person research team from scratch (ML, applied math, blockchain protocols, systems) and led it across 10 months. Published 15 research articles in 10 months, including Best Paper Awards at ACM and IEEE; several incubated projects spun out as companies that raised $100M+.
Skills
ai
blockchain
crypto
python
engineering-manager
english