kedache
Ceo
Keda Che is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and ecosystem builder with a decade of experience founding and leading innovative ventures at the intersection of blockchain, AI, and decentralized infrastructure.
Previously, Keda founded and scaled multiple pioneering startups, such as Universal Labs (developer of a decentralized physical infrastructure network), Ownership Foundation (decentralized data computation protocol), and Ownership Technology in Silicon Valley. His leadership has attracted tens of millions in venture funding from global investors, built cross-functional teams of up to 50+ people, and grown communities of over 100,000 members worldwide.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Keda has been a senior lecturer at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, designing and teaching graduate-level blockchain courses. His work spans product design, AI strategy, tokenomics, and consensus algorithm development, underpinned by a rigorous academic foundation: a Master’s in Computer Science from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Economics with a minor in Theoretical Mathematics from The Ohio State University.
Fluent in English, Mandarin, and conversational Japanese, Keda combines technical expertise, business acumen, and global perspective to bring transformative ideas from concept to market.
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $300,000
Hourly rate: $500
Nationality: 🇨🇳 China
Residency: 🇹🇭 Thailand
Experience
Partner and Stablecoin Project Leader
A Leading Payment Tech Company (NDA-bound) 2025 - 2026
- Collaborated with HKMA and industry partners (e.g., major banks, local merchants) to design and test fiat-referenced stablecoin (FRS) issuance mechanisms, ensuring compliance with emerging regulatory standards. - Led core system and blockchain architecture design in the future HKD stablecoin for credit card settlement. - Contributed to sandbox simulations processing tokenized HKD in mock transactions, achieving 99.9% settlement efficiency and reducing cross-border latency by 95%. - Developed smart contract prototypes for HKD-pegged stablecoin and settlement, enabling seamless domestic and cross-border payments while integrating tokenized deposits for enhanced liquidity. - Provided technical advisory on risk mitigation, including oracle-based price verification and AML&KYC integrations.
Ecosystem Project Co-founder and Leader
ChronoAI 2024 - 2025
(ChronoAI is previously known as aelf) - Led cross-functional teams (Singapore and China) to develop and maintain several Web3 and AI projects on the aelf blockchain and Aevatar AI framework (e.g.,Telegram Mini-apps Aggregator: Votigram, IDO Platform: Ewell, DAO Platform: TMRW DAO, NFT Marketplace: Forrest, AI and Metaphysics tool: GodGPT and AI assisted on-chain smart wallet tracking: EchoListen). - Inspired an internal team through various brainstorming sessions, which generated an idea to integrate TMRW DAO's DAO infrastructure with Telegram Mini-app ecosystem and then built Votigram (a web2 user experience on a web3 infrastructure). - Achieved around 50,000 TomorrowPass-1 NFT holders and 100,000 unique visitors for Votigram in 2 months. - Created economic models (Tokenomics) and designed detailed TGE plans for different projects. - Developed AI agent strategies, workflows and system prompts for different internal teams, while overseeing the progress and implementation of these strategies and workflows.
Founder and Alpha Hunter
The Way Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) 2020 - 2024
- Created a small crypto DEGEN community and researched over 1000 crypto projects annually. - Analyzed overall crypto market and on-chain data with the help of tools like Dune Analytics, DefiLlama, Coinglass, and ChatGPT to identify potential investment narratives and opportunities. - Traded Bitcoin, Altcoins, and NFTs during the 2020-2021 bull market and achieved a 30000% return with a $70000 initial capital (around $20,000,000 net profits). - Spotted an early investment opportunity on $PEPE and made a 5000% return in two weeks in April 2023 ($1,000,000 net profits).
Senior Lecturer
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 2018 - 2020
- Developed graduate-level courses in blockchain and applications with 50 students annually (cross-listed in the Business and Economics Department and Computer Science Department). - Lectured cutting-edge knowledge related to blockchain and finance to students, including blockchain fundamentals, Byzantine agreement problem, consensus algorithms, DAO, dApps, DeFi, AMM, Tokenomics, and other advanced topics in the field.
Founder and CEO
Universal Labs Foundation and Ubbey Tech, Ltd. 2018 - 2020
- From 0 to 1, designed and created a private cloud devices based decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN). - Successfully built a cohesive engineering team including consensus algorithm engineers, manufacturing engineers, product and application test engineers, frontend and backend engineers, hardware design engineers, blockchain/wallet engineers, embedded system engineers, and supply chain engineers. - Efficiently led a cross-functional team in designing, producing, and implementing an L1 blockchain (proof of space consensus), blockchain explorer, desktop application, wallet application, mobile application, p2p data marketplace, and two generations of private cloud hardwares (Ubbey Box and NEXT). - Collaborated with a marketing team led by Arthur Cheong (Founder and CEO of DeFiance Capital) and created several successful marketing campaigns globally. - 30 full-time employees; 30000+ community members; $16,000,000 raised from accredited investors and VCs from Canada, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, UAE and China.
Co-founder and CTO
Ownership Foundation 2017 - 2017
- Architected and drafted the technical details of Ownership, a decentralized secure data computation and exchange protocol. - 4 full-time employees; 20000+ ICO participants; $30,000,000 raised in 15 minutes (a full refund has been provided to all participants).
Founder and CEO
YQTC Technology Co., Ltd. 2016 - 2020
- Relocated Ownership Technology from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen and operated as a leading blockchain service provider in China for 5 years; grew the company from a team of 2 to 20 in 8 months. - Provided blockchain-related consulting and development services to over 20 famous companies (e.g. Alibaba, Chow Tai Fook, Hainan Airlines, and BGI Genomics) and city governments (e.g. Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Dubai). - Raised multi-million dollars from top VCs, e.g. Innoangel Fund, Milestone Ventures, and Plum Ventures. - Acquired ZhiQian Tech, an AI + blockchain company, founded by AI expert Dr. Lei Ding (Ex-Chief Data Scientist at Baidu) and developed an intelligent L1 blockchain ATLANTIS.
Founder and CEO
Ownership Technology, Ltd. 2015 - 2016
- Created a platform to protect intellectual properties for individuals and enterprises with the OP_RETURN opcode and Bitcoin blockchain. - Secured seed funding from two elite Harvard alumni, Sanjeev Mehra (Co-founder of Goldman Sachs’ PE Department) and Boost VC. - Acquired Shield128, a blockchain security company founded by ZK expert Kobi Gurkan (Partner at Bain Capital) and security expert Eli Ben-Nun.
Venture Designer and Blockchain Engineer at Bits + Blocks Lab
IDEO CoLab Ventures 2015 - 2015
- Defined design opportunities based on IDEO’s human-centered design process; created tangible design expressions. - Explored the potential applications of blockchain technology (Bitcoin and Ethereum) and coded both on-chain and off-chain. - Worked collaboratively and creatively within interdisciplinary teams from IDEO, Harvard, Fidelity and Citi Ventures (e.g., Jing Wang (Co-founder of Optimism), Dan Elitzer (Co-founder of Nascent), and Ian Lee (Co-founder of Syndicate)).
Skills
ai
blockchain
community-manager
growth-hacker
growth-marketing
gtm
marketing-strategist
product-lead
product-manager
product-marketing
project-manager
prompt
protocol
smart-contract
strategy
user acquisition
english
chinese-mandarin
japanese