Brian
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Co-Founder — Remote / Global

At the frontier where AI autonomy meets on-chain accountability, Brian co-founded Sakura AI with a premise the industry had been circling around without solving: if an agent's actions can't be mathematically constrained, they can't be trusted. The protocol — built on Solana's alt_bn128 pairing syscall, selected for Colosseum Frontier 2026 — frames that constraint as infrastructure, not policy.

• —Jupiter, Raydium, Jito, Kamino: $4.48B of Solana TVL moving toward agent-native execution. Phantom, Backpack, and Infinex are building the same future. Sakura AI is building the category standard — ZK-constrained, on-chain, before it became obvious.
• —x402 machine-payments on Solana — when Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code runs, the machine pays. The infrastructure behind that moment, at the intersection of the two fastest-moving technology narratives of 2026.

Founder & Chief Marketing Officer — Remote / Global

When the largest exchanges in crypto need the world to understand what they're building, they hire Quedic. Founded by Brian in 2021, the firm has become the communications infrastructure behind the names that define digital assets — from Binance and OKX to the infrastructure protocols and DeFi ventures shaping the next cycle. Five integrated practices. One team. One narrative.

• —Reuters, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Forbes, TechCrunch — not press lists, but direct lines to the desks that set the global narrative on crypto. CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Decrypt alongside.
• —Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget, HTX, WOO, Orderly Network — the campaigns, KOL networks, and event moments that defined each name's public narrative across a full market cycle.
• —Five practices. One P&L. Five languages: English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Turkish. The infrastructure that lets a single narrative cross borders without losing authority.

Chief Business Officer

SINSO — a Filecoin Layer 2 protocol for decentralised data caching — raised at a $150M valuation, co-backed by Protocol Labs (the organisation behind Filecoin and IPFS) and Yusaku Maezawa's MZ Web3 Fund. As Chief Business Officer, Brian led the strategic partnerships, exchange relationships, and media narrative that put the protocol on the world stage. Not as a panelist. As a keynote speaker at Davos.

• —World Economic Forum, January 2024. The Filecoin Sanctuary at Davos, co-hosted with CNBC International. Covered by the Filecoin Foundation, Crypto Times Japan, and Binance News.
• —LabWeek23, Istanbul, November 2023. Sinso-V2's IPC architecture presented alongside Filecoin Foundation's Clara Tsao and Protocol Labs' Colin Evran. Covered by BeInCrypto.

Manager of Operations

Four years. Multiple market cycles. This is where Brian learned the foundational rule of Web3 growth: a protocol's reach is determined not by its whitepaper, but by the depth of the community that chooses to believe in it. Ultrain's footprint across Greater China and adjacent Asian markets was built from the ground up — one relationship, one event, one conviction at a time.

• —Morningside Capital (early Xiaomi backer), Danhua Capital (DHVC), DraperDragon, Bluerun Ventures, NEO Global Capital — $20M raised at a $200M valuation. The institutional conviction behind the protocol whose community Brian spent four years building from the ground up.
• —WeChat, Telegram, X, Discord — four platforms, one mandate: build communities that outlast market cycles. Greater China to Southeast Asia and the diaspora networks connecting them — active from 2018 through multiple complete bull-bear reversals.
• —Hackathons, developer meetups, and partnership activations across the region — translating grassroots market signal directly into the product and positioning decisions that kept Ultrain relevant when newer chains were threatening to erase older ones.

Relationship Manager — New York / Remote

Shirley Ze Yu is a Harvard Kennedy School Senior Practitioner Fellow, Director of the China-Africa Initiative at the LSE, and a Davos WEF Expert on China, 5G, and geo-economics — a regular op-ed voice at the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, and author of Huawei Goes Global (Palgrave Macmillan). As Relationship Manager, Brian supported the communications architecture behind her global influence: media positioning, think-tank partnerships, and editorial strategy that shaped the Western institutional narrative on China during 2020–2021, the most contested period in modern Sino-American economic relations.

• —Not quoted. Cited. The policy layer that financial journalists and institutional analysts reach for when they need the China context right — produced during 2020–2021, when the stakes of getting that context wrong were highest.