Daniel Chong is a software engineer and co-founder who built and later shut down Harpie, an on-chain firewall designed to protect crypto wallets from hacks, scams, and theft. Daniel Chong's Twitter Score is 12 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #80,681 among 487,620 tracked accounts.
Daniel Chong co-founded Harpie alongside his brother Noah Chong. The project raised a $4.5 million seed round led by Dragonfly Capital, with Coinbase Ventures and OpenSea participating. Before its permanent closure after four years of operation, Harpie helped protect over $100 million in crypto assets and served hundreds of thousands of users.
Daniel Chong also built a live-deployed Solidity rescue contract that recovered over $2 million from compromised wallets and processed more than 7,000 transactions. He placed in the top 10 at the 2022 ETHDenver hackathon with a bot built to detect and halt transactions to unauthorized addresses, presenting the project to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. His crypto background stretches to using Bitcoin in 2012, with Ethereum development work beginning around 2018, alongside independent auditing and security consulting for crypto companies.
Daniel Chong currently works at Lexsy as Engineering Team Lead and is affiliated with Duke Blockchain Labs. He has posted 5,166 times on the platform and has been mentioned by 7 accounts, with 16 total mentions.
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