L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

Dennis Won is a Technical Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures, where he leads developer relations initiatives, running bootcamps, workshops, and incubation programs for developers in the San Francisco Bay Area and South Korea. He was a founding member and Core Protocol Lead at Harmony Protocol, working on decentralized sharding and consensus mechanisms, and previously conducted zero-knowledge proof and layer 2 rollup research through an Ethereum Protocol Fellowship with the Ethereum Foundation. Earlier in his career he spent four years at Meta leading the Facebook Virtual Reality infrastructure team, and he holds a BS with Honors from Stanford University focused on deep learning and distributed systems.

Weikeng Chen is a researcher focused on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and multi-party computation (MPC), with work spanning hardware acceleration, application-specific proof systems, private and anonymous payments, and cryptography. He previously co-founded DZK Labs, where he worked on hardware acceleration, and served as chief scientist at Discreet Labs, researching privacy coins. He earned a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley under Associate Professor Raluca Ada Popa, and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Lily Liu is a Senior Advisor at L2 Iterative Ventures with a background as a Web3 entrepreneur and investor. She co-founded the blockchain venture Anagram, serves as chair of the Solana Foundation, and was a founding member of Osmosis. She previously co-founded Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase in 2018), served as CFO of Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, and worked at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and McKinsey. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations from Stanford University and pursued East Asian studies at Harvard University.

Yu Guo is the Co-Founder of SETBIT Labs, which focuses on smart contract auditing, formal verification, and zero-knowledge proofs. He previously spent ten years as an associate professor of formal verification (with a focus on operating system verification) at the University of Science and Technology of China, and worked for a year as a research scientist at Yale University building certified operating systems. He currently works on blockchain infrastructure security using approaches such as logical reasoning and zero-knowledge proofs, and serves as research lead of the ZKCPlus protocol.