Director of brand & product design @EigenCloud, co-founder of @VectorDAO. Previously @Coinbase & @ycombinator alum.

Joined September 2011
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jon yan retweeted
Say hello to EigenCloud AgentKit Beta! 🧰 A toolkit for building sovereign agents that can: - Hold assets - Make payments - Run continuously - Prove what they’re running The agentic era needs more than intelligence. It needs sovereignty and verifiability.
Mar 26
personal news: stepping into leading developer growth; still doing research engineering. first order of business: sovereign agentkit. deploy a media agent in a few clicks for $10. it owns its own substack, email, and wallet. agents that own property are agents you can own. demo below. it's an experimental beta -- if you face any issues, let us know. try now -- link in reply
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Big launch today by @YI_LON. Ryan was pivotal to many of our biggest token deals at @VectorDAO. Rare ability to reconcile informed optimism of what's possible with technical risks and constraints. Excited for his next chapter with @onchaingroup_, crypto is lucky to have him.
Introducing Onchain Group (OG). After leaving Coinbase, I spent time reflecting on what was actually worth working on. My background was as a venture investor — pattern matching, working with founders, and figuring out what’s coming next. What I realized, though, was that the most energizing part wasn’t investing. It was working with teams to define strategy and bring the right transaction into existence, like architecting the Coinbase <> Morpho deal — a new kind of onchain alliance that combined product, capital, and distribution to create an entirely new category and market. It made me wonder: was this a one-off, or the start of something new? Having been in crypto for nearly a decade, this is the most dynamic the space has felt. Onchain products are becoming real businesses, tokens are becoming real assets, and regulatory clarity is opening up an entirely new design space — introducing a new class of capital structuring opportunities. Over the past year, working closely with founders, it became clear that this wasn’t a one-off, but the first of many. The opportunity design space is just beginning — from tokens turning on fees, to restructurings, to equity-like conversions, to acquisitions and distribution partnerships involving tokens. Teams are realizing that getting this right is no longer optional. As onchain products mature into real businesses, taking ambitious steps toward the right capital structure becomes a requirement — and the market is beginning to reward those who do it well. In our conversations with builders, investors, and stakeholders over the past year, it became clear that nobody was exploring this area the right way — with an early-stage mindset, cryptonative intuition, and institutional rigor all at once. So we started Onchain Group. OG exists to define and execute the transactions that create new markets and shape this new system. If crypto is the software upgrade to finance, then capital structure needs to evolve alongside it — requiring ambitious strategy and creative execution.
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Mar 13
"Become deeply self aware and when the right thing comes, you will know it. If you know yourself, your next thing, your new idea, your work soulmate will reveal itself." Love this from @travisk...searching for what you should do next is like cleaning your house when you’re procrastinating. It feels productive but is actually you avoiding the real work which is being self aware enough to live each moment presently and fully
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jon yan retweeted
kicking off New Canvas—a space for designers to get real about AI. demos of the actual tools, actual workflows from @jameygannon @seanxthielen @gabrielvaldivia @neogeomancer yours truly more. if you're a designer actively figuring out how to use AI in your work, this is for you. 3/19, noho, co-hosted with @melodyskim luma.com/ulf7cwvv
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Feb 25
Refreshing a brand can be nerve-wracking, but its also chance to fully commit to your ambition and shed the baggage of the past. Over the last few months, our Head of Design @jonjyan has been working with the team @mouthwashstudio to update the brand identity for EigenCloud. They've done an amazing job evolving the visual system for Eigen's next chapter, while preserving what makes it one of the strongest brands in our space. Excited to see this work come to life at exactly the moment the world is waking up to the need for verifiable, accountable AI.
✨ New look: The agentic era is here! As this era unfolds, agents will observe, decide, transact, and execute tasks with real value on the line. The next generation of apps and agents will require trust built in. That’s why we’re building EigenCloud, a verifiable cloud for the agentic economy.
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Feb 24
RT @sreeramkannan: EigenCloud has a fresh look and it goes beyond aesthetics. The transforming logo is at the heart of our thesis: 1) Eig…
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Spent the last three months working closely with @mouthwashstudio on a refreshed brand identity for EigenCloud. While prices are down, and while it feels like all the hype is draining out of crypto, this brand refresh is us doubling down on our core thesis. As AI takes on increasingly higher stakes tasks in our lives, the need for accountability and verifiability on agent outcomes becomes increasingly critical. EigenCloud is the infrastructure that allows agents to be trusted. We’ve visited and revisited our core thesis and are more optimistic than ever. This brand refresh reflects our conviction in what we’re building and I couldn’t be more excited to reveal it to the world.
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Feb 24
Also checkout the fun easter egg in the footer of our new site eigencloud.xyz/
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jon yan retweeted
✨ New look: The agentic era is here! As this era unfolds, agents will observe, decide, transact, and execute tasks with real value on the line. The next generation of apps and agents will require trust built in. That’s why we’re building EigenCloud, a verifiable cloud for the agentic economy.
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I thought the coinbase ad was successful. I read the negative reactions to the coinbase ad as sentiment to crypto generally, not to coinbase in particular. If / when crypto comes back, I'm willing to bet coinbase will be the top name americans think of when reaching for an app to buy crypto from.
If you're talking about it, it worked. Crypto is for everybody.
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Crypto sacrificed UX for decentralization, self-custody, permissionlessness, and composability. These very tradeoffs that limited consumer adoption are exactly what make crypto perfect for agent adoption. Agents aren't going to give up because an action takes 12 clicks to complete. Agents can read smart contract code and avoid malicious transactions. Crypto lives in code, the native language of agents. Crypto is permissionless, no API keys needed. Crypto is composable allowing agents to chain actions across protocols at machine speed.
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jon yan retweeted
Venture brand building starts with one idea: the people are the product. @HaunVentures is a young fund that aims to blend the hunger of a startup with the credibility of an institution. Grateful to the team at @VectorDAO (@saniaio and my buddy from Coinbase days @jonjyan) for helping us evolve our website so that how we show up online reflects how we operate. They’re the only team I trust because of taste, their execution is fast and elite, and the bonus is they actually understand crypto. If you can get them to work with you, you should. haun.co
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jon yan retweeted
5 Jun 2025
Protocol UX, leveled up. Clean, fast, composable. Multi-asset withdrawals, redelegation, queued views, all in one place. h/t: @zherring, @jonjyan, Rich Link in 🧵
4 Jun 2025
Latest improvement to app[.]eigenlayer restaking app dramatically simplifies withdrawals. Users can now check queued withdraws, redelegate, and trigger multi-asset withdrawals in a single view, easy peasy. Kudos to Rich, @lemurf and @jonjyan for the launch
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jon yan retweeted
21 May 2025
New brand and site for @awenetwork_ai Endless worlds, endless possibilities — we created a brand to reflect the infinite environments where AI agents can evolve. Design Lead @saniaio
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10 Dec 2024
Introducing the EigenLayer User Testing Program We are excited to launch our user testing program where volunteers will be able to provide us feedback on upcoming features and products, be a part of the development process, and contribute to a better user experience for all. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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jon yan retweeted
Honored to be chosen as finalist! See you all in Tokyo this December!!
Replying to @notahotel_inc
【Finalist 07】 Title: MORI-HAKO Designer: Vincent Yee Foo Lai, Douglas Min Yi Lee, Xuecheng Kang, River Country: United States
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18 Oct 2024
Early @coinbase design team produced tons of founders! in chronological order of joining: @karrisaarinen – Linear @js_horne – Zora @yitong – Agora @vkm – Logic Rythm @jaysonhobby – Legend @jonjyan – Vector DAO @danielnordh – Playmobil
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jon yan retweeted
The talent vortex at Eigen is insane. Amazing to have super players like @jonjyan on the team!
1 Oct 2024
Good time to announce that I’ve recently joined @eigencloud as the Head of Product Design. @sreeramkannan came to @VectorDAO back in 2022 for a rebrand and I became completely bought into his vision for open innovation ⬇️
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