Byeongjun Moon*

Byeongjun Moon*

About

19. Designer and creative technologist in Los Angeles.

High school dropout, U.S. "Alien of extraordinary ability" designation at 16.

Contact

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Projects

Ongoing

A modular, end-to-end decentralized governance platform.

Interested in working for us? Reach out at team@mainstream.so.

2023

On-chain notification-as-a-service.

2022

A crypto-to-charity donation escrow service. Left after a few months to start Mainstream Labs.

2022
Balance

The first iOS-native open source Ethereum wallet that gave birth to @walletconnect, @uniswap & @rainbowdotme.

Dropped out of high school to work on Balance. Learned a lot about design & Svelte. Also ran a biotech project on the side.

2021

Worked with Google's moonshot factory to build a novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) solution aiding paralyzed patients with rehabilitation.

2020

Built a machine learning-powered water quality sensing solution impacting 27k+ residents in Flint, MI and 12k+ residents in Newark, NY. at Jaden Smith's nonprofit.

Side Projects

2024

A series of live co-working sessions every Sunday to bring together 200+ creatives to work on whatever that isn't school.

2023

A ML-powered patient triage algorithm designed for speed, accessibility & reliability. Submitted to HackSC X.

2023

A 66-person internet prank to create New York's Best (Fake) Steakhouse. Featured on the New York Times, New York Post, The Guardian, abc7NY, and more.

2022

Started a $500k internet experiment to alleviate financial barriers for thousands of students to attend blockchain conferences. Supported by Vitalik Buterin, Ameen Soleimani, and 3,000+ others.

2021

Raised $50k from anonymous internet users to run the world's first decentralized toy drive.

2021

The world's longest hackathon on land, on a train across America, alongside people like Tom Preston-Werner (founder, GitHub).

Exhibitions

2024
Los Angeles, CA

Presented my abstract "A Context-Aware Approach to Dynamic File Organization" at ShowCAIS 2024, held at the University of Southern California.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Los Angeles, CA

Raised $1.1m from world-class investors to reimagine the ways people interact with crypto.

Backed by Lemniscap, Samsung NEXT, Larry Sukernik (Reverie), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Daryl Xu (Coinbase), & more.

2020 — 2020
Design Intern at Talk Social

Volunteering

2020 — 2022
Cambridge, MA

I helped lead a community of 10k+ students at the Harvard Innovation Lab, hosting panels for educational discussions and public policy writing to initiating startup incubators and data science research projects related to the coronavirus.

I led the Coronavirus Visualization Team’s Design team, where we coordinated 350k+ articles of PPEs donated during the pandemic.

I also led a series of policy-writing events called Policy for the People at the Harvard Institute of Politics. We hosted 3,000+ participants, published 700+ policy brief submissions, and more.

2018 — 2020

Education

2022 — Now
Los Angeles, CA

Third year at the Iovine and Young Academy (<40 students/year) on scholarship.

Researched AI (under Alexander Titus), design (under Yihyun Lim), and crypto (under Blockchain@SC). Consulted for organizations such as The Steve Jobs Archive, Thales, and Arup. Contributed to various student startup communities, particularly sundays@usc and Min Family Challenge.