Daniel Hwang is the Head of Protocols at stakefish (a leading proof of stake validator) and Special Projects lead at F2Pool, and the founding organizer of HanDAO. He started his journey into the cryptocurrency and blockchain space as a cryptocurrency miner in 2013. He has since supported cryptocurrency based remittances in south east asia, permissioned blockchain efforts in pharmaceutical supply chain applications, lead an IEEE working group on health data on blockchain, built localized decentralized exchanges in the east asian region, done deep dives on cryptography and distributed systems research as related to blockchains in his graduate program at Johns Hopkins University, lead ecosystem development at layer 1 blockchains, lead special projects and layer 1 protocols at leading blockchain infrastructure service providers, and has extensively supported the NFT and metaverse space for creators.