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Since July 2022 he has been a partner at Standard Crypto, a crypto-focused venture capital firm.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr)​[\\[4\\]](#cite-id-xkdkjffaao)​[\\[5\\]](#cite-id-is6fcf28hq) He previously spent roughly a decade in trading, market making, and quantitative research.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr)​[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-1jrbzjg3zc)​\n\n## Early Life and Education\n\nHong graduated from the Punahou School in Hawaii in 2011, where he was a National Merit finalist and a member of the National Honors Society.[[3]](#cite-id-mgkwyhl961) As a high school athlete he competed at the Hawaii State track and field championship, finishing fifth as a junior and fourth as a senior.[[3]](#cite-id-mgkwyhl961)​\n\nHong earned a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering and Management Science (2011–2015)..[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr) \n\nDuring his undergraduate years he took part in Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, conducting data analysis for Professor Gruber and Jason Abaluck.[[2]](#cite-id-1jrbzjg3zc) He was a co-founder of Revivo Energy Chews and served as treasurer for the Alpha Theta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.[[2]](#cite-id-1jrbzjg3zc)​[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr) From August 2013 to May 2014 he worked as a Peer Advisor at the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship.[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr)​\n\n## Career\n\nHong began his finance career at Morgan Stanley, the New York–headquartered financial services firm, where he held two roles. He first worked as a Summer Trading Analyst in New York City from June to August 2014, and later held a full-time position in Automated Market Making from July 2015 to May 2019.[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr) Automated market making is the practice of using computer programs to continuously quote buy and sell prices in securities, providing liquidity to markets through algorithmic trading.\n\nFrom June 2019 to July 2022 he was a Quantitative Research Analyst at Millennium Management, a global, diversified alternative investment firm founded in 1989 and headquartered in New York. Millennium operates in nine countries with a workforce distributed across dozens of countries.[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr) \n\nIn July 2022 he moved into venture investing as a venture partner (also described as partner) at Standard, a crypto-focused venture capital firm commonly referred to as Standard Crypto, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco with an office in New York.[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr)[[4]](#cite-id-xkdkjffaao)[[5]](#cite-id-is6fcf28hq) He has remained active in this venture partner role while also working as an angel investor.\n\nSince June 2024, Hong has worked as a self-employed angel investor based in New York, listing the role at a founder level.[[1]](#cite-id-qprvu3vkmr) He has participated in several early-stage [decentralized finance (DeFi)](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi) investments in roles such as angel investor and venture partner, as recorded in venture and fundraising databases.[[5]](#cite-id-is6fcf28hq)[[6]](#cite-id-tuhpkbuu56)","recentActivity":null,"operator":{"id":"0x1E23b34d3106F0C1c74D17f2Cd0F65cdb039b138"},"categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"tags":[{"id":"Advisor"},{"id":"Founder"},{"id":"Investor"},{"id":"Researcher"}],"images":[{"id":"Qme3RFuSwfrrdN9z46DhezP6TZZoY1USykmJSwp2o9hdY2","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[],"linkedWikis":{"founders":[],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"events":[{"id":"70134cd6-8759-468e-b0ec-32eca89b43a4","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2013-08-01","multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"country":null,"continent":null,"title":"Peer Advisor, MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship","description":"","link":null},{"id":"42e632c3-e5a2-4c53-8c8f-cd6c39f1695d","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2014-06-01","multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"country":null,"continent":null,"title":"Summer Trading Analyst, Morgan Stanley","description":"","link":null},{"id":"5f6857d7-cbdc-4676-a023-c5f276d61363","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2014-09-01","multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"country":null,"continent":null,"title":"Scored two goals vs Anna Maria College","description":"","link":null},{"id":"d10e63ab-d52c-4712-a569-951edd3927f9","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2014-11-01","multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"country":null,"continent":null,"title":"Started and shut out WPI in goal","description":"","link":null},{"id":"3c48f90c-eeb3-44c1-973b-e55e2c559dcf","type":"DEFAULT","date":"2015-01-01","multiDateStart":null,"multiDateEnd":null,"country":null,"continent":null,"title":"Graduated, MIT (B.S. 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