Chao Wang

Studying how AI abundance and cryptoeconomic systems redistribute power, governance, and coordination. Backing earliest-stage founders building the infrastructure, organizational primitives, and meaning-driven markets for humanity's second half.


A decade in IT/software services • Former COO at a leading crypto wallet • Investor & advisor across AI+crypto startups.

Research & Studies

The Failure of Collective Intelligence in DAOs

Ongoing

Quantifying how plutocracy, centralization, and voter apathy inhibit collective intelligence in DAO governance experiments.

Assisted Governance with LLM-based Algorithmic Committees

SSRN Preprint

Measuring how LLM committees evaluate high-stakes DAO proposals and why their judgments diverge from human voting patterns.

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Projects

CryptoBench

GitHub →

Benchmarking LLMs on crypto-native knowledge and tasks.

Research Interests

Agent economies; LLM role-based simulations; Basic Income and social distribution in an age of abundance; DAOs, human-AI collaborative governance, and algorithmic governance.

Investment Theory & Focus

Backing the leap from scarce intelligence to abundant intelligence—founders helping humanity move from efficiency-driven survival to meaning-driven existence.

New Infrastructure: Open models, decentralized compute, and developer tooling that democratize advanced intelligence; agent-native payment and collaboration networks.
New Societies: Socialized machines/code with persistent identity, DAO-native polities, human+AI collaborative org and governance patterns, and agentic gig economies where autonomous workers earn and coordinate.
Meaning-as-a-Service: Experiences and tools that help people author purpose in an age of abundance—identity-rich communities, co-creative storytelling, guided quests, and creator rails that turn personal narratives into shared missions.