I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at MIT Sloan Finance, interested in money, technology, and entrepreneurship. Using blockchain data, I work on prediction markets, fund competitions, stablecoin runs, and bitcoin usages. I am also interested in financial repressions. I studied statistics at the University of Chicago, where I briefly reflected on the IPO market in China. I received B.S. in mathematics summa cum laude from UCLA, where I worked on large-scale optimization algorithms. I first came to the U.S. in 2013 as an asteroid astronomer. Born and raised in Zhengzhou, China, I miss hulatang, a spicy breakfast soup