Wei Dai

Wei Dai is a research partner at crypto venture firm 1kx, where he focuses on financial and security infrastructure across AI, blockchain, and frontier technologies. Before joining 1kx he was a research partner at Bain Capital Crypto, and before venture he published more than a dozen academic papers on cryptography and blockchains. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in cryptography from UC San Diego, and he is a frequent speaker at the Zero Knowledge Summit on topics like zkVM design and onchain privacy.

11 talks by Wei Dai

• Is Onchain Privacy Finally Possible?: Naomi Brockwell, Bobbin Threadbare, Wei Dai, Ilia Volokh
• ZK13: The Onchain Privacy Trilemma - Wei Dai
• What Went Wrong with Crypto AI Agents (and what's coming next) - Tarun Chitra & Wei Dai
• The Massive 'Infra to Apps' Shift in Crypto Investing with Wei Dai
• Programmable Cryptography and d/acc | Devcon SEA
• Interoperability between L2s: Latest developments, Framework and Challenges
• Horizontal Scalability for L2s | Wei Dai - 1kx
• ZK10: Analysis of zkVM Designs - Wei Dai & Terry Chung
• Why We Need Threshold FHE for Blockchains by Wei Dai | Devcon Bogotá
• Towards a Feature-Complete and Backwards-Compatible Privacy Layer for Ethereum | Devcon Bogotá
• ZK7: Structuring Computation for Privacy-Preserving Apps - Wei Dai - Bain Capital Crypto