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Jay Yu

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san francisco, california

About Me

I'm Jay, a Junior Partner at Pantera Capital focusing on research and investments, and a Research Advisor to IC3. I was previously the President of Stanford Blockchain Club and did research on DAOs at Stanford Law School and IC3. I graduated from Stanford with a double major in Computer Science (Systems track) and Philosophy (Philosophy & Literature program), and a minor in French.

Writings

A selection of my writings on tech, literature, and philosophy, collected across multiple platforms.

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Projects

A selection of research and personal projects exploring the future of decentralized digital societies.

PASS Wallet

PASS Wallet

Formal verification and prototype for TEE-based programmable wallets using AWS Nitro Enclaves
(Ethereum Foundation Academic Grant '25)

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Starling Lab Guttenfelder Archive

Starling Lab Guttenfelder Archive

Trust-preserving storage pipeline for David Guttenfelder's North Korea archive with Stanford Starling Lab for Data Integrity

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Voting Bloc Entropy

Voting Bloc Entropy

Measuring decentralization of voting blocs in DAOs
(USENIX Sec '25)

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Liquefaction

Liquefaction

TEE-based wallet platform for private asset access on Oasis
(IEEE S&P '25)

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RaspberryTEE

RaspberryTEE

Bare-metal Raspberry Pi (BCM2835) TEE wallet with ATECC608A secure element for key encumbrance

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RetroPGF Voting Mechanisms

RetroPGF Voting Mechanisms

Evaluating voting designs for Optimism RetroPGF (Optimism RFP Research Grant '24)

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Blockchain Governance

Blockchain Governance

Stanford
LAW 1078/CS 352B Course Assistant. Uniswap DAO Delegate.

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Stanford Blockchain Review

Stanford Blockchain Review

Stanford Blockchain Club Magazine

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TSalon

TSalon

A Web3 Publishing Platform on Ethereum using Story Protocol

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Bookshelf

Reviews of books that have profoundly affected my thinking in the past few years. Ordered by most recently completed.