Hoang Phi Long
Blockchain & AI R&D Engineer · Ha Noi, Viet Nam
“Knowledge is the only thing that nobody can take away from me.”
Journey
Hoang Phi Long (block #0)
Blockchain & AI R&D Engineer · Ha Noi
- Building DeFi infrastructure, wallets, and AI agents.
- 2× IEEE-published · ETH Vietnam 2024 winner · contracts live on 10 EVM chains.
DeFi · AI · Rust · TypeScript · Solidity
HUST (2018 – 2023)
Hanoi University of Science and Technology — Electronics & Telecommunications
- School of Electronics and Telecommunications, CPA 3.18/4.
- Published 2 IEEE papers on Vietnamese emotion recognition (PhoBERT).
Electronics · Telecom · PhoBERT · Research
First Blocks (2021 – 2022)
Fagolabs · DevZone Lab — Software Engineer
- Portals for network & security devices; SEO landing pages (NuxtJS + Strapi).
- Fashion & pharmacy e-commerce builds (NextJS, ExpressJS, MySQL, AWS).
- Mentored a university firmware contest.
NuxtJS · NextJS · WordPress · AWS · MySQL
Airdata Technology (2023 – 2025)
Software Engineer — aviation systems
- Flight management, accounting APIs, automated execution cronjobs.
- Integrated Vietnam Airlines, Amadeus, Sabre, Jetstar, Scoot, AirAsia.
- Retail website in VueJS.
Aviation · APIs · VueJS · Integrations
Krystal — Kyber Group (2022 – now)
R&D Software Engineer — DeFi at scale
- Krystal Wallet Extension — Metamask-class wallet (React, Manifest v2).
- Krystal DApp: exchange, liquidity management & automation across EVM chains.
- Krystal Vault + V4Utils smart contracts live on up to 10 EVM chains.
- Agentic system on ElizaOS; ILO platform; liquid.fun meme launchpad.
- Landing page scoring 100/100 SEO, a11y & best practices.
Solidity · Foundry · React · Go · GCP · ElizaOS
Mining the Future (next block)
Open to hard problems in DeFi × AI
- Shipping DeFi infra on 10 EVM chains at Krystal — hunting the next hard problem in DeFi × AI.
- This block is still empty. Let's mine it together.
AI Agents · DeFi · Open to work
Projects & Constellations
DeFi Galaxy
- Krystal Vault — Asset vault interacting with LP/staking strategies on 7 EVM chains. (Solidity · Foundry) Krystal Vault link
- V4Utils — Uniswap V4 liquidity position tooling on 10 EVM chains (V3 sibling is public). (Solidity · Uniswap V4) V4Utils link
- NFT Subscription — Subscriptions issued as NFTs on 2 EVM chains. (Solidity · Hardhat)
- liquid.fun — Meme launchpad with liquidity mechanisms. (NextJS)
- Krystal ILO — Initial Liquidity Offering platform. (NextJS)
- L2 Flash Loan Aggregator — Cross-L2 flash loan routing. (Foundry · Rust · React)
AI Galaxy
- Krystal Agentic System — Autonomous DeFi agents on ElizaOS. (ElizaOS · TypeScript)
- Support Chatbot AaaS — RAG customer-support bots as a service. (Next.js · tRPC · PostgreSQL)
- Smale — Gamified learning app with AI-generated roadmaps. (Flutter · Go)
Bot Swarm
- Prediction-market Arbitrage — Cross-platform arbitrage engine. (Rust)
- DEX Arb Engine — Multi-strategy DeFi arbitrage. (Foundry · Rust)
- Polymarket Copy-trader — Real-time copy trading bot. (Rust)
- Binance Bot — Trading bot with strategy backtesting. (Rust)
- Affiliate Orchestrator — TikTok/YouTube/Facebook automation for VN market. (Node · FastAPI)
Open Source
- Hearable — Real-time on-device captioning & speaker ID for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users. (Rust · Homebrew) Hearable link
- GENESIS — this site — The living-chain portfolio you are flying through right now. (NextJS · R3F · GSAP)
Awards & Publications
- ETH Vietnam 2024 — NFT Wallet — Silver Winner Polygon Technical · Winner Polygon non-technical · Top 1 DoraHacks. ERC-6551 NFT-linked smart wallet extension. (ERC-6551 · Award)
- IEEE × 2 — PhoBERT Emotion Recognition — NICS 2022 & ATiGB 2023 publications on Vietnamese emotion recognition. (NLP · IEEE) IEEE × 2 — PhoBERT Emotion Recognition link
Skills
Core stack: DeFi, Solidity, NextJS, React, TypeScript, AI Agents, Rust, Go
domains: DeFi, AI, Fintech, E-commerce, Loyalty, Security, Aviation
languages: TypeScript, Solidity, Rust, Go, Python, Shell
frameworks: NextJS, React, NodeJS, Gin, FastAPI, VueJS, NuxtJS, React Native, ElectronJS, Foundry
databases: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Elastic
infra: AWS, GCP, Vercel, Cloudflare, Docker, Oracle Cloud
tools: Claude, Cursor, Git, Docker, Figma, Notion, Ganache
business: Product Management, Corporate Strategy, Economics, Scrum, Startup Spirit