Members Category: Advisors

Suji Yan is the founder of Mask Network. He studied computer engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Dropping out of university at the age of 20, Suji in 2017 founded the decentralized social network Mask Network, which has become a leader in the vibrant decentralized social network ecosystem. In 2022, Suji founded Bonfire Union as a venture arm to strategically invest in decentralized social networks, infrastructure, and creative contents with the goal of making Web3 more accessible to all. Suji is also a firm believer in supporting communities. He has made sizable donations to universities and NGOs such as UIUC and RadicalxChange to support related research and events.

TN is the co-founder & CEO of Pendle, an on-chain yield trading protocol. Prior to founding Pendle, he was the Head of Business at Kyber.

Varun Mittal is experienced at the cross-section of digital business building and financial services in South East Asia and global emerging markets. He undertook his MBA at the National University of Singapore and graduated with computer science engineering as his undergraduate major.
Currently he leads digital for Singlife, and is a founding member of Fintech Choupal ASEAN, the largest and most active fintech community in South East Asia.

As a pioneer backer for decentralized financial solutions in Singapore, Varun has been associated with the first crypto debit card, crypto payment gateway and crypto robo advisor in Singapore, helping founders navigate regulator landscape in the region.

Founder of Bitmain and MatrixPort

Founder of TechCrunch and Arrington Capital

Loi is founder of Kyber Network, an early decentralized exchange launched on Ethereum. Loi is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security, and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON. Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technologies and much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente, the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open-source project which embraces the decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralization and trustless properties of the Blockchain with Kyber Network, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.

Stephen Phua teaches Income Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Corporate Taxation, International Tax and Business & Finance for Lawyers in the Faculty of Law, NUS where he also serves as Tax Director, EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. He was a visiting scholar/professor to several leading universities in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Switzerland and the USA. He served as a member for more than a decade on each one of the three tax tribunals in Singapore (Income Tax Board of Review, Goods and Services Tax Board of Review and Valuation Review Board).