Jesper Kristensen

Jesper (jtk.eth) Kristensen

Entrepreneur, ex-quant, ex-Army, investor, Amazon best-selling author, agentic engineer & Cornell PhD

Featured Two DeFi Books: Automated Market Makers and Perpetual Options defibooks.org

In the News

Finance Feeds: How do you bring options trading to the blockchain? financefeeds.com EU Financial Review: Why Should Traditional Finance Adopt Decentralised Technology? europeanfinancialreview.com Crypto.News: Blockchain really is the answer to the current banking saga! crypto.news

Building Psi Finance

Psi Finance: $60M+ processed on stablecoin-native Circle and Visa rails psifi.app Use Psi Finance Stablecoin Payments my.psifi.app Psi Finance - the PayPal of stablecoins psifi.app Request Access to Psi Finance for Global Business Payments enterprise.psifi.app PsiFi Whitepaper paper.psifi.app Meeting Users Where They Are Drives Cryptocurrency Adoption | HackerNoon hackernoon.com

Co-Founder of Direct.dev

Direct.dev: 100x performance and ~90% cost reduction for Web3 RPC direct.dev

Co-Founder & COO of Panoptic

Panoptic: $12M-backed, oracle-free perpetual options on Uniswap V3/V4 panoptic.xyz Panoptic Whitepaper: perpetual, oracle-free options protocol arxiv.org

Experience, Education, and Skills

Earlier Experience: Advanced Blockchain, Balyasny, Flatiron Health, GE Research, and Mentore linkedin.com Advanced Blockchain: Head of Research, 12-person team, 15 papers, ACM/IEEE awards advancedblockchain.com Mentore BSAFE: patented ML analytics platform for wearable safety data patents.justia.com Cornell University: PhD in Applied Physics & Computer Science; MS in Applied Engineering Physics cornell.edu Technical University of Denmark: BS in Physics & Nanotechnology dtu.dk Technical Stack: Solidity, Foundry, TypeScript, Python, Node, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Ethereum, Base, Solana, and AI workflows github.com

Teaching, Writing, and Community

Advanced Solidity Bootcamp Instructor at RareSkills rareskills.io Blockchain Education on YouTube with 7,400+ Subscribers and 80,000+ views youtube.com Top Reputation on Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com Cornell Blockchain Accelerator Mentor and Royal Danish Army Veteran (NATO) linkedin.com

Innovating

450+ Academic Citations and h-index 13 scholar.google.com Filed Patent 63/664,394: System and Method for Providing Compute Exchange Networked Services arxiv.org US Patent 12,109,015: Monitoring Performance of a Physical Activity patents.justia.com GE Patent: Multi-source Modeling with Legacy Data patents.google.com