Jun Kim is a crypto engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Paxos Labs, the structured-products venture built around the acquisition of Nucleus. Jun Kim's Twitter Score is 30 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #32,023 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Jun Kim co-founded Ion Protocol, a lending protocol that raised a $2M pre-seed round co-led by Portal Ventures and SevenX Ventures, announced in July 2023. Ion Protocol subsequently evolved into Nucleus, a structured-products issuance desk and vault-infrastructure provider. Nucleus then raised a $4.8M seed round led by gumi Cryptos Capital, bringing total funds raised to $7M, before being acquired by Paxos to form the core of Paxos Labs. Jun Kim also co-founded Molecular Labs.
Jun Kim co-leads engineering at Paxos Labs, which raised a $12M strategic round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures, Maelstrom, and Uniswap, and launched its Amplify platform in April 2026. Paxos Labs also developed USDG0, powered by LayerZero, to extend the Global Dollar Network's USDG across ecosystems including Hyperliquid, Plume, and Aptos. Previously, Jun Kim worked at Terraform Labs as an engineering intern and was a research scholar at Blockchain Capital.
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