{"version":1,"id":"justin-im","title":"Justin Im","summary":"Justin Im is a South Korean software engineer and cryptocurrency trader known for co-founding Axis and serving as its chief technology officer.","content":"**Justin Im** is a South Korean software engineer and technology executive with a background in backend development and technical leadership across cryptocurrency, fintech, and consumer technology companies. He is a co-founder of Axis and previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Alpha273 and PAYAP. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-wpssusqv3v) \n\n## Career\n\nIm began his career as a Software Engineer at Jobplanet in July 2015, working there until July 2016. From July 2016 to June 2018, he worked as a Software Engineer at Kakao Corp, developing backend software for Kakao T, the company's taxi service. From July 2018 to June 2020, he worked at Dunamu as a Software Engineer, contributing to backend development for Upbit. In May 2020, he became Chief Technology Officer at PAYAP in Seoul, South Korea, remaining in the role until December 2021. He then served as Chief Technology Officer at Alpha273 in Singapore from December 2021 to November 2025. In September 2025, he co-founded Axis, where he contributes his software engineering and technical leadership experience. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-26a1ypxner)  [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-t68anczowb) \n\n### Axis\n\n![](https://ipfs.everipedia.org/ipfs/QmRzpS65twHzYP1s1FNrZF3Y5gq6bJ4wHBTczPnFCLowac)\n\nAxis is a digital asset market infrastructure company that combines onchain smart contracts with offchain trading, custody, and risk-management operations. Its trading strategies include cross-exchange and cross-currency arbitrage, funding rate arbitrage, market making, and over-the-counter trading. USDx is backed by digital and tokenized assets, traditional assets, and related futures and hedging positions, while sUSDx lets eligible users share in trading returns through staking. Axis also operates Axis Prime, which serves fintech companies, brokerages, remittance providers, and other financial businesses by aggregating liquidity, routing trades, and supporting cross-asset conversions and settlement. Its infrastructure uses smart contracts to manage token issuance, redemption, staking, reward distribution, and access permissions, while trading and custody activities still rely partly on off-chain systems and counterparties.  [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-PkpSl2eraFbFGXia) \n","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"people"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founder"},{"id":"Developer"},{"id":"Researcher"}],"images":[{"id":"QmZDVqk2TECrptURGeu3rJHnsdQyJtu1gfsBYr7tyjGi7u","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[{"id":"QmRzpS65twHzYP1s1FNrZF3Y5gq6bJ4wHBTczPnFCLowac","name":"I4YxhrOh09eG2t6e.png","source":"IPFS_IMG","thumbnail":"QmRzpS65twHzYP1s1FNrZF3Y5gq6bJ4wHBTczPnFCLowac","caption":""}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"26a1ypxner\",\"url\":\"https://linkedin.com/in/justin-im-40b058182\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn profile\",\"timestamp\":1791980900922},{\"id\":\"t68anczowb\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-im-40b058182/details/experience/\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn experience history\",\"timestamp\":1791980900922},{\"id\":\"wpssusqv3v\",\"url\":\"https://axis.to/about\",\"description\":\"Axis leadership profile\",\"timestamp\":1791980900922},{\"id\":\"PkpSl2eraFbFGXia\",\"description\":\"Axis\",\"timestamp\":1791981193929,\"url\":\"https://www.axis.to/\"}]"},{"id":"main-image-origin","value":"{\"imageId\":\"QmZDVqk2TECrptURGeu3rJHnsdQyJtu1gfsBYr7tyjGi7u\",\"originalId\":\"QmZDVqk2TECrptURGeu3rJHnsdQyJtu1gfsBYr7tyjGi7u\"}"},{"id":"website","value":"https://www.axis.to/"},{"id":"github_profile","value":"https://github.com/justin-h-im"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-im-40b058182/"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Add the Justin Im wiki"}],"events":[],"linkedWikis":{"founders":[],"blockchains":["axis"],"speakers":[]},"user":{"id":"0x8af7a19a26d8fbc48defb35aefb15ec8c407f889"},"author":{"id":"0xacb6c5AD52b8f605299B0d774CE97F26e3DB80c2"},"language":"en","operator":{"id":"0xacb6c5AD52b8f605299B0d774CE97F26e3DB80c2"}}