{"id":"hedy-wang","title":"Hedy Wang","content":"**Hedy Wang** is the co‑founder of [Block Street](https://iq.wiki/wiki/block-street), a crypto infrastructure venture developing execution, lending, and liquidity tooling for tokenized equities. Multiple business and crypto publications have quoted her on Block Street’s strategy and the legal and market structure issues around [decentralized finance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/defi), and she has been identified as the company’s CEO. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-r4caijKdVymrkk4Z) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-03r1OQ3PGRh0918V)​\n\n## Education\n\nHedy Wang completed graduate studies in Computer Science and Mathematics at Harvard University between August 2018 and December 2020, earning a Master of Science (MS). Her coursework included Statistics and Mathematics. During the same period, she was enrolled in a joint Master of Science (MS) program in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with coursework in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Engineering, and related subjects.\n\nFrom March 2015 to June 2018, Wang participated in an exchange program at University of California, Los Angeles, where she attended PhD-level courses in Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and MBA entrepreneurship. Between July 2016 and July 2017, she also took part in an exchange program at Stanford University. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-N655sfwmhBCgVP4B) [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-dIPuFx9A1AvPRzWq)​\n\n## Career\n\nHedy Wang’s early professional background has been described in media author profiles as involving product leadership and quantitative finance. Her author page at AI Journal states that she worked as a product leader at Capital One, contributing to a credit card product serving approximately 40 million customers. Additional educational materials have attributed prior experience to roles at Apollo and Cubist Systematic Strategies; these attributions originate from secondary sources and may require confirmation through primary records, which served as a basis for later work with [web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3).\n\nFrom February 2019 to February 2020, Wang held the position of Risk and Product Manager at Capital One, where she worked on product development, risk systems, and valuation models related to large-scale credit operations.\n\nBetween February 2020 and October 2024, she served as a Portfolio Manager at a multi-strategy family office in the New York City metropolitan area. In that role, she managed quantitative investment portfolios with assets exceeding $100 million and developed trading infrastructure focused on execution, risk management, and analytics.\n\nIn October 2024, Wang became co-founder and chief executive officer of [Block Street](https://iq.wiki/wiki/block-street). Media coverage by The [Defiant](https://iq.wiki/wiki/the-defiant) identified her in this capacity in November 2025. Other directory listings similarly describe her as CEO and co-founder and reference her public statements on digital asset regulation and institutional participation.\n\nEarlier descriptions of her career in media sources characterize her work as spanning product development, quantitative investment management, and financial infrastructure. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-U1PysuJArp7eI1Ar) [\\[6\\]](#cite-id-ritJr5kWhT1ZvW0G) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-03r1OQ3PGRh0918V) [\\[7\\]](#cite-id-AARucVt8dl3UiLDl)​\n\n## Selected Statements\n\n* “Our mandate is infra, not just an app.” In the same coverage, she said Monad’s parallel EVM provided settlement guarantees and a latency budget aligned with institutional expectations, while products like Aqua and Everst aimed to implement best‑execution and equity‑native risk controls directly on‑chain. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-r4caijKdVymrkk4Z)\n\n* “When a Cayman court blocks Maple from launching a competing BTC product, it’s basically a reminder that off‑chain contracts still matter, even in DeFi. … DeFi isn’t lawless. The moment you incorporate, raise capital, or work with a foundation, you’re under traditional rules.” [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-03r1OQ3PGRh0918V)\n\n* “Our mission has always been to make stock trading as free and global as the Internet. … Together, we’re turning tokenized stocks from static wrappers into financial primitives.” [\\[10\\]](#cite-id-bkdqps39gdsrGe4Y)\n\n## Name and Identity\n\nMost mainstream crypto business coverage and author pages identify her as “Hedy Wang,” including a September 2025 partnership article and the October 2025 funding coverage. However, several outlets—including a funding roundup and ecosystem explainers—have referred to her as “Hedy Wong.” Her LinkedIn display name appears as “Hedy W.”  [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-r4caijKdVymrkk4Z) [\\[9\\]](#cite-id-ZCgIKwFmNLzC1pbI)​","summary":"Hedy Wang is CEO and cofounder of Block Street, which builds execution, lending and liquidity infrastructure for tokenized equities. 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