# Resume See also [llms.txt](/llms.txt) for more general information about Zach and this website. ## Professional summary Zach Wong works across business strategy, partnerships, policy, product, and operations, with technical interests spanning software engineering and data analysis. He currently works in Product, Growth, and Operations at Native Markets. ## Experience ### Native Markets **Oct 2025 - Present** Second full-time hire and first non-engineer Native Markets' first product was [the USDH stablecoin](https://usdh.com/), a dollar on the Hyperliquid blockchain that made payments faster, cheaper, and instantly cross-border. I led product and growth for USDH. We grew USDH from 0 to $100m supply in nine months then sold the rights to Coinbase. We're currently conducting R&D for other products. #### Product, Growth, and Operations *Oct 2025 - Present* - Led GTM for [USDH.com](https://usdh.com/), a Hyperliquid-specific fiat on- and off-ramp that reduced user transaction time from days to <1 hour. Two weeks after launching, the product had facilitated $24.5m in transaction volume and generated ~15 [organic](https://x.com/smartestmoney/status/2047619740785578350) [user](https://x.com/kirbyongeo/status/2046594196413522404) [endorsements](https://x.com/nellimkopi/status/2046254805455352267) on x.com with >430K collective impressions. - Owned partner workstreams from commercial negotiation through launch and growth across three trading venues exclusively using USDH, generating >$8b in USDH trading volume. - Won the specially-designated "USDH" (i.e., "US Dollar Hyperliquid") ticker in a contentious Hyperliquid tokenholder vote (see [Bloomberg coverage](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/crypto-power-struggle-flares-as-stripe-nabs-big-stablecoin-win)), beating large incumbents Paxos (partnered with PayPal) and Anchorage Digital (federal bank with $56b AUC). Won 70% of voting tokens, equivalent to $6.2b in economic value. - Engineered software for production use including a Rust tool to retrieve data schemas for use with agentic AI, an external-facing Typescript API to calculate and report USDH supply, and Python services to automatically verify end-of-month partner payment calculations. ### Uniswap **Nov 2023 - Dec 2025** Strategy and execution for major product, partnerships, and public affairs initiatives [Uniswap](https://app.uniswap.org/) is the inventor and developer of the most-used decentralized finance application, the Uniswap Protocol. The Uniswap Protocol has facilitated more than $4.5 trillion in lifetime trading volume. #### Advisor *Oct 2025 - Dec 2025* - Continued advising on Uniswap Fee Switch research and strategy. #### Strategy & Operations Lead *Oct 2024 - Oct 2025* - Led business analysis and pricing strategy for the [Uniswap Fee Switch](https://blog.uniswap.org/unification) initiative, which transformed Uniswap Labs from a profitable, ~$100m ARR company valued at $1.66b to an entirely onchain, token-based business (the "UNI" token). - Sourced, negotiated, and closed Uniswap's second-largest commercial partnership ever (7-figure deal). - Co-authored the [Protocol Fee Discount Auction](https://moallemi.com/ciamac/papers/uniswap-pfda-2025.pdf) whitepaper, a new auction mechanism designed to improve liquidity-provider returns while generating protocol fees. #### Chief of Staff to the President & COO *Nov 2023 - Oct 2024* - Managed the RFP selecting Unichain's technology service provider, supported the 9-figure commercial negotiation, and led business analysis for the blockchain, which reached $1.4b in user funds within 12 months. - Led business analysis and strategy for Unichain, Uniswap's blockchain, which grew from 0 to $1.5b in user funds in 12 months. - Supported the President and COO with presidential campaigns, incoming agency chairmen, and Members of Congress at a time when crypto was at the center of electoral politics, and Uniswap was one of the few indisputably successful onchain companies. - Invented the Unichain Validation Network and co-authored the [Unichain whitepaper](https://developers.uniswap.org/whitepaper_unichain.pdf) (the only non-product/engineering employee to have ever co-authored a Uniswap whitepaper). ### Circle **Jun 2022 - Jul 2023** Public advocacy for the issuer of USDC (the largest US-based stablecoin) [Circle](https://www.circle.com/) (NYSE:CRCL) issues USDC, the largest US-based stablecoin with >$70b in circulation. I joined Circle's public policy team at a time when stablecoins were emerging as a major area of focus for financial regulators. #### Senior Analyst, Global Policy & Strategy *Jun 2022 - Jul 2023* - Reviewed cross-functional product design for policy-specific risks and provided feedback on behalf of the Policy team for over 10 non-public products. - Wrote 16-page [comment letter](https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-02-22/s70222-204159-410923.pdf) responding to the SEC’s Exchange Act Rule 3b-16 proposal to regulate DeFi exchanges. - Managed and was primary author for comment letters on the Financial Stability Board’s [proposal for global stablecoin regulation](https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-urges-the-fsb-to-implement-balanced-standards-for-financial-stability) (23 pages), the Basel Committee’s consultation on the [prudential treatment of bank cryptoasset exposures](https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-responds-to-the-basel-committee-on-banking-supervisions-second-consultation-on-the-prudential-treatment-of-cryptoasset-exposures) (12 pages), and the SEC’s proposed “Safeguarding” rule for [cryptoasset custody](https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-provides-feedback-to-the-sec-on-safe-crypto-custody) (11 pages). - Distributed a bi-weekly internal newsletter to approximately 25% of the company about market developments in traditional finance, crypto, and data privacy. ### U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau **Mar 2020 - Jun 2022** Payments and retail banking policy as part of a selective rotational fellowship The U.S. CFPB regulates consumer financial products such as debit cards, mortgages, auto loans, etc. I joined the CFPB via its highly selective, [two-year rotational fellowship](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/careers/students-and-graduates/cfpb-directors-financial-analyst-program/) for recent graduates (3% acceptance rate). #### Director's Financial Analyst *Mar 2020 - Jun 2022* - Helped draft 33-page [Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/archive/newsroom/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-releases-advance-notice-proposed-rulemaking-consumer-access-financial-records/) to implement Dodd-Frank Section 1033, the first Open Banking rule. - Managed flagship [“Consumer Financial Protection Week”](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/archive/newsroom/cfpb-announces-consumer-financial-protection-week-virtual-events/) event which featured 9 virtual webinars about the Bureau’s work, attracting approximately 2,000 total attendees. - Co-authored the CFPB's ["Big Tech Information Orders"](https://www.regulations.gov/document/CFPB-2021-0017-0097) which sought market-monitoring information about consumer payments apps. - Earned 2 CFPB Performance Awards for my work on the [2021 CARD Act Report](https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_consumer-credit-card-market-report_2021.pdf) and the [2020 Open Banking ANPR](https://www.consumerfinance.gov/archive/newsroom/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-releases-advance-notice-proposed-rulemaking-consumer-access-financial-records/). ### U.S. House of Representatives **Sep 2019 - Mar 2020** Career start in politics with a member of congressional leadership I worked for Congressman Jason Smith of Missouri where I learned about party politics, the policymaking process, and communications strategy. #### Press Assistant *Jan 2020 - Mar 2020* - Managed the Congressman's social media accounts, drafted approximately 15 posts per week across all platforms, created graphics and videos of the Congressman, tracked engagement and built strategies to increase reach. - Produced weekly newsletter which featured an original, 600-word column on a hot topic of the week, highlighted local news stories that were relevant to the Congressman's agenda, and summarized the Congressman's activities in DC. #### Staff Assistant *Sep 2019 - Jan 2020* - Prepared memos for Congressman’s political meetings with other Members including detailed personal bios and summaries of their proposed legislation. - Drove the Congressman around DC, organized constituent tours, managed intern program. ## Personal ### Technical work Small showcase of work and personal projects I taught myself to code in 2023, and I work on personal projects in my free time. As my skills have improved, I've increasingly been able to use my software engineering skills at work. I'm a huge fan of using AI, but most of my personal projects tend to be hand-coded because I enjoy it! I can speak to the technical details and tradeoffs of every project on this page. *Figure: My GitHub activity graph. I try to code as much as possible given work and my other hobbies.* #### Open Source Contributions I'm most drawn to very high-performance data tooling. I really enjoy Rust. - **Kuva** (750 stars): A high-performance charting CLI tool. I implemented [parquet as an input data type](https://github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva/pull/79), which required working with low-level Apache Arrow APIs. Adding parquet support made certain tasks 150x faster with 29x less memory usage. - **Charton** (350 stars): An alternative Rust charting library [I was comparing](/writing/plotting-benchmarks/) against Kuva. I added [a performance optimization](https://github.com/wangjiawen2013/charton/pull/62) to Charton's PNG rasterization backend which reduced runtime by 25% in extreme cases. - **Cryo** (1,600 stars): The easiest way to extract blockchain data in bulk, published by Paradigm. I [found and fixed a bug](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/cryo/pull/201) that was preventing accurate display of a setting. While a small bug, this represented a big win for me because it was the first time I proved I could read, comprehend, and operate on a production Rust codebase. #### Personal Projects - [Islands](https://github.com/mud2monarch/islands): A tool that intelligently finds ads in podcasts, removes them, then reuploads the ad-free episode to an RSS feed. I run this for personal use for a few podcasts I like. Everyday it downloads new episodes, removes ads, and re-uploads them to the RSS feed, which I import directly to my podcast player. - [Schema Searcher](https://github.com/mud2monarch/schema-searcher): A tool to download BigQuery schema tools in bulk, for use in LLM context. This was more relevant when LLMs were less powerful in 2024 and 2025. This was the first genuinely useful Rust program I ever made. I wrote this during Uniswap's [Spring 2025 hackathon](/writing/uni-schema-tool-demo/). #### Native Markets I wrote external-facing services as well as internal tools that we used daily. - **Typescript API for supply stats.** Queried RPCs for the USDH supply, did some transformations, and re-published the number for external consumption. Relied upon by Coinmarketcap. Had a nice feature I picked up from a colleague that raced different RPCs against each other and took the result from whatever returned first (made the tool fast). - **Python service for invoice generation.** Queried RPCs for various account balances related to a partner. Used that data as inputs for an end-of-month payment calculation then automatically wrote the results to a PDF and CSV that were uploaded to our Head of Finance's Google Drive. #### Uniswap I co-authored two technical product whitepapers at Uniswap, the only non-engineering/product employee to have ever co-authored a Uniswap whitepaper. - [Protocol Fee Discount Auction](https://moallemi.com/ciamac/papers/uniswap-pfda-2025.pdf). Co-authored with Columbia professor Ciamac Moallemi and LSE professor Alex Nezlobin. A new auction mechanism designed to improve liquidity-provider returns while generating protocol fees. - [Unichain](https://developers.uniswap.org/whitepaper_unichain.pdf). A new layer two blockchain with custom modifications/additions to the OP Stack. I invented the Unichain Validation Network (section 4 of the paper), which would have helped UNI token holders participate in the operation of the chain and increased the security of the chain. Unfortunately, the Unichain roadmap priorities shifted, and the Unichain Validation Network never shipped. ### More about me The outdoors, cooking, and more! #### The outdoors I lived in Salt Lake City for three years and recreated in the mountains everyday. In particular, I love ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing. *Figure: Rappelling into the Northwest Couloir of the Pfeifferhorn. In the Wasatch Mountains next to Salt Lake City, January 2022.* #### Cooking I enjoy cooking, especially braised or smoked meats. I also enjoy fine food and wine, especially chilled red wine, minerally white wine, and all dessert wines. *Figure: Holiday prime rib 😋* #### Writing Sometimes I write about what I'm working on or thinking about. I used to write mostly about [crypto public policy](/writing/comprehensive-explanation-sab-121/), but most recently I've been writing about [technical projects](/writing/plotting-benchmarks/). *Figure: So cool: an explanatory blog I wrote in 2023 was cited by an SEC Commissioner in a 2024 speech!* ## Education ### Claremont McKenna College B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, cum laude I attended [Claremont McKenna College](https://www.cmc.edu/) (CMC) in Southern California, graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), with honors, *cum laude*. - Served as one of four students on the committee that created [the CMC Strategy Report](https://www.cmc.edu/strategy/cmc-strategy-report-2019), a strategic review which served as the baseline for the next phase of CMC's growth. The capital campaign based on the CMC Strategy Report raised almost $1.1bn, the first time a liberal arts college had raised over $1bn. - Led [the Free Food for Thought podcast](https://www.cmc.edu/news/dialogue-for-everyone-student-led-%E2%80%98free-food-for-thought%E2%80%99-podcast-finds-its-voice), a career and leadership-focused podcast. - Published research on California politics at the [Rose Institute of State and Local Government](https://roseinstitute.cmc.edu/). - Won awards for CMC's Model UN team, which was a top-10 nationally ranked team. During my Sophomore year I managed a seven-figure budget as Treasurer. ## Looking for I'm best suited for roles that combine business strategy, product judgment, partnerships, policy context, and technical depth. My background is unusual because I've worked across government, business strategy, operations, product, GTM, and hands-on software work. I particularly enjoy ambiguous, high-agency environments where commercial execution depends on understanding technical systems and communicating clearly across functions. I'm open to roles that combine technical work, strategic thinking, and high-stakes commercial execution. In particular, I think I'd be great at Solutions Engineering and Product roles at growth-stage tech companies. I want to work in-person in New York City, three to five days per week.