About
Johnson Lai
Self-taught engineer and UWA alum, currently Head of Data & AI at Chromia. Former CTO at Chasm Network & COO/CTO at Hooga Gaming and R&D & mobile engineer at CoinGecko. Passionate about blockchain, AI, and building product.
Previous experience Link to heading
- 10/2024 - Now Chromia
- Head of Data & AI
- 11/2023 - 15/10/2024 Chasm Network
- Cofounder & CTO
- 06/2021 - 11/2023 Hooga Gaming
- COO
- CTO
- 2022 Pacer
- Head Of Product
- Product Advisor
- 2020 ETHKL Co-Organizer
- 12/2018 - 02/2022 CoinGecko
- Software Engineer
- Product Engineer
- Senior Mobile Engineer
- Senior R&D Engineer
- 06/2017 - 01/2018 PhytoMark Fullstack Software Engineer
My work Link to heading
Publication Link to heading
- Chasm Protocol: Pioneering the evolution of AI with Decentralized Panel of Experts and Blockchain Integration (2024)
- State Transfer on Polygon for moving assets from L2 to L1 trustlessly (February 10, 2023)
- Understanding Risk of Rebase Tokens Through Smart Contract Analysis (August 16, 2020)
- Behind The scene of CoinGecko DeFi Page (August 1, 2020)
- RxJS for building UI (August 12, 2018)
Talks Link to heading
- Breaking Down the Current State of Decentralized AI (Jun 5, 2024)
- The Synergy of AI and Web 3 (Jun 17, 2023)
- Dead Man Switch’s Smart Contract (Feb 6, 2020)
- Using Steem as an Effective Marketing Channel @ CoinGecko (November 7, 2019)
- How NFT works? (Oct 3, 2019)
Hackathon Link to heading
- Finalist for ETHKL 2023 Hackathon: PenguMon (Oct 13, 2023)
- ETHGlobal Tokyo 2023: PPSwap (Apr 16, 2023)
- (Quanstamp) Most Creative Solution
- (Worldcoin) Honorable Mention
- (Polygon) Pool Prize
- Utopian Hackathon 2018: Steem Web Wallet