{"id":3096,"date":"2022-12-02T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2023-03-20T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:11:45","slug":"jinglan-wang-optimism-blockchain-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/jinglan-wang-optimism-blockchain-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Jinglan Wang? Founder of Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_56_1 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/jinglan-wang-optimism-blockchain-profile\/#Background\" title=\"Background\">Background<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/jinglan-wang-optimism-blockchain-profile\/#Building_Optimism\" title=\"Building Optimism\">Building Optimism<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>Jinglan Wang is a blockchain career professional and the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/blockchains\/optimism\">Optimism<\/a>, a blockchain-based protocol that enables developers to build and deploy <a href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/courses\/build-your-own-web3-twitter-dapp-with-solidity?ref=Articles&amp;utm_source=Blog_Organic\">decentralized applications<\/a> (dApps) on <a href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/ethereum?ref=Articles&amp;utm_source=Blog_Organic\">Ethereum<\/a>. She is a leading figure in the blockchain industry and has been instrumental in driving the development of the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"background\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Background\"><\/span>Background<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jinglan Wang has a long history of working in the blockchain space. She began her career as a software engineer at Microsoft, where she worked on the development of the Windows operating system. After leaving Microsoft, she joined the Ethereum Foundation, where she worked on the development of the Ethereum blockchain. She then went on to become the Chief Operating Officer of the Ethereum Classic project, where she was responsible for the development and deployment of the Ethereum Classic blockchain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jinglan Wang has also been involved in a number of other blockchain projects, including the development of the Zcash cryptocurrency. She has also been involved in the development of the Polkadot blockchain, where she was responsible for the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/polkadot.network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polkadot<\/a> network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"building-optimism\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Building_Optimism\"><\/span>Building Optimism<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Jinglan Wang founded Optimism, a layer-2 scaling solution that allows developers to build and deploy dApps on Ethereum without having to worry about the scalability issues that are associated with the Ethereum blockchain. Optimism also provides developers with a secure and reliable platform for building and deploying <a href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/building-a-dapp-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dApps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jinglan Wang has been instrumental in driving the development of the Optimism protocol. She has been involved in the development of the protocol from the beginning, and has been responsible for the development of the protocol\u2019s core features. She has also been involved in the development of the protocol\u2019s security features, and has been responsible for the development of the protocol\u2019s privacy features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been responsible for the development of the platform\u2019s user interface, which makes it easy for developers to <a href=\"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/courses\/build-your-own-web3-twitter-dapp-with-solidity?ref=Articles&amp;utm_source=Blog_Organic\">build and deploy dApps<\/a> on the platform. She has also been involved in the development of the platform\u2019s wallet, which allows users to securely store and manage their digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only has she made strides with Optimism, but her contribution to development of several other blockchain projects have led to successes like the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange 0x, the Ethereum-based decentralized prediction market Augur, and the Ethereum-based decentralized finance platform Dharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291,14],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","category-web3","tag-web3-founders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaschool.so\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}