Maxey
Liu

Period

Oct 2024 – Jun 2026

Location

Remote — Taiwan

Site

torch.finance

Raised

$1.5M pre-seed led by TVM Ventures, joined by Curve founder Michael Egorov

Peak TVL

$3.54M

FunC / Tolk / TypeScript / NestJS / PostgreSQL / React / Docker / GitHub Actions

• Stable Swap — a Curve-invariant AMM in FunC, built for TON's asynchronous actor model: message chains across sharded contracts, bounce handling, and gas management.
• Telegram USD (tgUSD) — a blue-chip-backed stablecoin with cross-chain staking yield. Building it exposed TON's lack of a vault standard, which led to TEP-524.
• Security — drove remediation across three independent audits: Quantstamp, Zellic and TonBit.

Period

Feb 2026 – Aug 2026

Location

Taiwan

Site

tolearn.tw

Customers

12 cram schools, one a 30-branch chain

Students

400+

Customer discovery / Customer onboarding / Stakeholder communication / Pilot sales

• Diagnoses why a student missed a question, assigns work to level and writes the parent report.
• Sold it on low switching cost from the school's side — no change to how tutors already teach.

Period

Oct 2025 – Feb 2026

Solidity / Python / LLM APIs / evaluation harness design / prompt strategy design

• First repository-level Solidity benchmark — 270 tasks, 8 live protocols, 6 models.
• Using For context strategy: ICR 22.6% → 83.5%, inter-contract Pass@10 +11.6 pts.

Period

2024 – 2025

Period

Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

• Adapted ERC-4626 to TON's async model.
• TonTech closed its rival draft, co-designed with Aave, Ethena and Affluent, in favor of ours.