AdelineWen
Research assistant at the University of Washington Decentralized Computing Lab, and independent developer of arenafi.org.
A bit about me.
I’m Adeline (she/her), an Economics undergrad at the University of Washington. I’m fascinated by how decentralized systems and markets actually behave, and I like to understand them by researching and building things of my own.
- Paradigm Fellowship 2026One of ~30 fellows selected worldwide — leading crypto & frontier-tech VC.N. California · Aug 2026
- Y Combinator Startup School 2026Selected to attend.San Francisco · Jul 2026
- Dempsey Startup Competition 2026Investment Round — Top 40 of 174 teams.Pacific NW · May 2026
- Apr 2026 – PresentResearch & growth at a stablecoin infrastructure company.
- Feb 2026 – PresentResearch under Prof. Wei Cai; built hascidb.org (open-source Sybil database, 2.5M+ wallets) and published on blockchain, crypto, and decentralized AI.
- Dec 2025 – PresentSolo-built arenafi.org, ranking 68,000+ traders.
- 2025 – 2029Informatics minor · Dean’s List.
Papers & research.
At the UW Decentralized Computing Lab with Prof. Wei Cai, first-author and co-authored research in blockchain and decentralized AI, from airdrop Sybil detection (catching one person who fakes thousands of wallets to farm token giveaways) to interpretable on-chain governance.
Explore HasciDB ↗- Accepted · Nanyang Blockchain Conference 2026HasciDB: A Database for Identifying Crypto Sybil Airdrop HuntersFirst author. The largest open-source cross-project airdrop Sybil-detection database (hascidb.org, 2.5M+ wallets). With Wei Cai et al.
- Accepted · IEEE SMC 2026 · IEEE XploreHuman-Centered Decision Support for Crypto Airdrop Governance: Interpretable Behavioral Modeling of Strategic HuntersCo-author. An extension of HasciDB toward interpretable, human-centered airdrop governance. With Wei Cai et al.
Arena, solo-built.
Tennis has the ATP rankings; chess has Elo. Crypto trading moves hundreds of billions a day, yet no one could answer the simplest question: who are the best traders? Arena (arenafi.org) is the cross-platform answer. I designed, built, and shipped it solo, unifying 68,000+ traders across 44+ exchanges (CEX + DEX) into one transparent Arena Score, giving crypto trading a world ranking for the first time.
- 68,000+traders ranked
- 44+exchanges · CEX + DEX
- 60automated data pipelines
- Solodesigned, built & shippedNext.js · Supabase · Redis
Rankings are only step one. Arena’s full form is a three-stage funnel, where each step builds on the data of the last.
Why it’s different
- Cross-platform visibility: The only place that sees every trader on every exchange. Binance won’t show you Bybit’s traders; Arena shows them all.
- One transparent standard: Arena Score, 0–100, weighted 60% return-on-investment and 40% absolute profit, with a published methodology anyone can audit. Accounts under $500 profit are filtered out, and my own Sybil-detection research keeps fake-wallet farming off the board.
- Competition, not display: Not a static dashboard but a live contest.
Roadmap
- V1 · DiscovernowLive leaderboard, trader claiming & verification, community cold start.
- V2 · Prove6–18 moA stable in-app currency, head-to-head battles, spectator betting, the first 12-week season.
- V3 · Follow18–36 moCopy-trading vaults, advanced bet types, ARENA token, institutional data API.
Trading is fiercely competitive, yet it’s the only sport with no world ranking, no official matches, and no star system. Arena fills in all three, in order: discover the best, let them prove it in public, then let anyone follow.
Let’s talk.
Based in Seattle, open to research and building opportunities, always up for a good problem.