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Leadership & core team

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