Jesper Kristensen

Jesper is an investor and entrepreneur dedicated to pioneering technological advancements and fostering growth in the Web3 space. With multiple graduate degrees and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Computer Science from Cornell University, his career spans industry R&D, software engineering, quantitative finance, and startup incubation. Jesper has invested in groundbreaking companies like SpaceX, Databricks, and Neuralink, and has founded multiple startups. As the CEO and founder of Psi Finance (psifi.app), he is revolutionizing peer-to-peer cross-border payments using stablecoins, aiming to solve remittance challenges and make international money transfers more efficient and accessible. In 2022, he founded Panoptic (panoptic.xyz), a DeFi options protocol built on top of concentrated liquidity AMMs. Under his leadership, Panoptic secured a successful $4.5M SAFE funding round and a $7.5M Series Seed round, attracting support from notable investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, Uniswap Labs Ventures, and more. The innovative protocol has been recognized in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas and received the #WAGBI grant from Alchemy. An active contributor to the crypto and DeFi communities, Jesper runs a YouTube channel where he shares insights and tutorials. He is the author of the best-selling book “Automated Market Makers,” a top resource on Amazon for understanding the mathematics behind this essential DeFi concept, and has written a book on how perpetual options on AMMs work, deriving their underlying math (defibooks.org). Jesper holds multiple patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles with hundreds of citations. His academic contributions can be explored on Google Scholar.