Hasu is a crypto researcher and angel investor who works at Flashbots as strategy steward, serves as strategic advisor to Lido, and advises Steakhouse Financial. He discovered crypto in 2018 and has operated as a co-builder and angel investor across the space since his early years focused on research, writing, and education. Hasu's Twitter Score is 853 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, placing him at rank #45 (top 0.1%) out of 486,037 accounts tracked on this platform.
Hasu co-founded Deribit Insights in 2019, later moving to a general editor role there in May 2021. He was previously a research collaborator at Paradigm from 2021 to 2023, co-authoring an analysis of EIP-1559, a paper on staking pools and staking derivatives, and a guide to effective NFT launches. He also collaborated with the Lido team on Lido's Roadmap to Decentralization.
Hasu co-hosts Uncommon Core 2.0 with Jon Charbonneau, continuing from the Uncommon Core podcast he previously hosted with Su Zhu from 2020 to 2022. He was formerly a delegate at MakerDAO. During the UST/Terra collapse in May 2022, he publicly argued it was worse than Bitconnect and not truly decentralized. In June 2022, he disclosed holding BlockFi equity and stated that wiping out equity holders is the appropriate outcome if a lender becomes insolvent.
Hasu's portfolio includes CoW DAO, Biconomy, Derive.xyz, Euler Labs, Monad, Safe.eth, Eclipse and Axiom.
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Hasu has 261,847 followers as of September 2026 and 32,423 posts on X. The accounts that follow Hasu include 3,374 founders, 952 angel investors, 1,301 influencers and 94 VCs, among them Balaji, CZ BNB, Solana, vitalik.eth, Erik Voorhees and Chris Dixon. Hasu has been mentioned by 923 accounts, with 2,500 total mentions across the platform.