The people building BWL's financial runtime — from settlement infrastructure and institutional liquidity to production engineering. Profiles are kept current. For partnerships or diligence, reach us through Contact or the member data room.
Founder & CEO · Blockwave Labs
Minik Kim (Seung-hyun Kim)
Seoul National University · Business Administration
Web3 and fintech infrastructure founder since 2019. Leads BWL's shift from multi-chain delivery to the SoftBlock financial operations platform — settlement runtime, agent workflows, treasury/reporting.
- ·Settlement State Machine · Receipt Standard · Hybrid Ledger
- ·SoftBlock 4 packages · IEUM/SoftMint · Pay/PG as collaboration implementations of BWL core IP
- ·DeFi, MEV, arbitrage, and institutional Web2↔Web3 bridge experience
- ·Awards: multiple ministerial & SNU prizes; 10+ blockchain hackathon wins
- ·Building the World's Ledger — payment, treasury, liquidity, and agent execution
CTO · Blockwave Labs
Tim Kim (Yuseong Kim)
Hanyang University · Computer Science & Engineering
End-to-end engineer across smart contracts, low-latency backends, and validator operations. Owns DeFi and stablecoin infrastructure delivery, security audit response, and AI-native workflows.
- ·TypeScript, Rust, Solidity, Go — Anchor, Foundry, EVM, Solana
- ·Quant system: multi-strategy execution, vault contracts, risk guards
- ·Stablecoin B2B SaaS: off-chain state machine, idempotent settlement core
- ·Public-chain validator nodes — sync, metrics, and on-call operations
- ·NestJS, Postgres, Redis, AWS/Terraform — production-grade ops
COO · Blockwave Labs
Day Lee (Da-hye Jang)
Operations · business execution · partnerships
Leads operations, business execution, and partnership management — connecting strategic partners (Danal, Infinite Block) to day-to-day delivery velocity.
- ·Partnership ops — PayChain · IEUM · ISMS/VASP infra collaboration
- ·Business execution — services revenue and recurring collaboration MRR rhythm
- ·Org operations — projects, customers, internal process alignment
- ·IR & DD support — partner diligence and document sync