Background & Biography
Feng studied finance and accounting at New York University, with a minor in philosophy. His professional path began in Barclays’ investment-banking analyst program before he moved into fundamental long/short equity investing at Citadel and then Point72. At those firms, his coverage included technology, media and telecommunications. CoinFund’s current media biography presents that experience as the background to his later work across decentralized finance, AI and gaming.
Opalesque reported his arrival on CoinFund’s investment-research team in September 2020. The report, based on the firm’s announcement, described his earlier public-market experience and more recent independent digital-asset research. Feng explained at the time that the expanding range of blockchain data and products made the application of fundamental investment analysis more useful. That statement records his rationale for the move into the sector.
The firm’s current team page identifies Feng as a partner, while its media biography also describes his director-of-research responsibilities. In a June 2024 Artemis interview, he discussed combining venture-deal work and liquid-token recommendations with hiring, mentorship and improvements to the investment process. His description included research tools and portfolio-support measurement, giving the role an operational dimension alongside selecting investments.
Feng’s own Medium profile identifies him as a New York City-based digital-asset investor at CoinFund, a professional location also listed by NFX’s Signal directory. That supports the United States market association used here. His international speaking engagements are documented individually rather than treated as evidence of residence in those countries.
Notable Contributions
A September 2021 CoinDesk report by Tracy Wang provides an early example of Feng’s public DeFi analysis. Discussing NFTfi, he described a possible future in which NFTs carried financial functions alongside their visual or gaming uses. The article examined lending against NFTs and the risks created by additional leverage. Feng’s contribution was an attributable investor perspective on how digital assets might connect with financial services.
His February 2024 essay about ether.fi set out an investment thesis around liquid restaking. He discussed combining staking-related rewards with liquidity through a tradable token and explored how a provider might develop additional services. The article also acknowledged that restaking could involve more risk than ordinary base-layer staking. These are useful elements of his stated investment reasoning: the proposed service, its commercial possibilities and an identified source of risk.
Feng’s March 2024 Gunzilla essay described participation in multiplayer testing before CoinFund’s further investment. He focused on gameplay, the treatment of digital items and allowing users to engage with blockchain components on an opt-in basis. The source supports his involvement in evaluating and explaining the investment. Its expectations for adoption and platform growth were forward-looking judgments made before the launch discussed in that article.
The financing amounts require their original context. Feng’s essay described a $10 million strategic financing round. RT Watson’s contemporaneous reporting for The Block described a combined $30 million financing announcement that also included previously unreported equity and validator sales. CoinFund and Avalanche’s Blizzard Fund were identified as co-leads. The larger total therefore describes the combined announcement rather than an additional $30 million personally invested or controlled by Feng.
An October 2024 article carrying his byline announced CoinFund’s lead investment in Kiva AI’s $7 million seed financing. Feng’s thesis centered on specialist human feedback for AI systems, including data labeling and the matching of expert contributors to tasks. He described token-based incentives and blockchain-enabled payments as development possibilities. The account documents an investor’s rationale for supporting the company; it leaves implementation and demonstrated operating results to the company’s subsequent record.
Veda supplied another example in June 2025. Feng authored CoinFund’s explanation of its lead role in the company’s $18 million Series A round, emphasizing vault infrastructure and the ability to make complicated DeFi strategies easier to access through applications. The Block separately reported the round and interviewed Veda chief executive Sun Raghupathi, who said it had closed in May. The announcement date and closing date are distinct parts of the transaction’s chronology.
CoinFund’s portfolio record names Feng alongside David Pakman for Veda. His own investment essay discusses BoringVault, strategy-management components and possible integrations with financial-service providers. These sources establish shared investment involvement and a personally attributable analysis. The technical system was developed by Veda’s team, and the investment argument is separate from an independent assessment of its security or returns.
He also appeared in CoinFund’s June 23, 2025 episode about Veda with Sun Raghupathi, Stephanie Vaughan and fellow investor Kavan Canekeratne. The published show notes identify BoringVault, the company’s roadmap and advice for founders as discussion topics. This is a firm-produced conversation that makes portfolio-company discussions publicly accessible. The show notes establish the participants and subjects without serving as a transcript of every statement.
Why Katharos.ai Follows Evan Feng
Katharos.ai follows Feng for the connection between research methods and capital allocation. In his Artemis interview, he emphasized choosing metrics that matter, testing ideas against outside perspectives and deciding what evidence would invalidate an investment thesis. That gives readers a concrete framework to examine alongside his subsequent investment explanations, rather than relying on a list of portfolio names.
His published work also allows comparison across different products. NFT-backed lending, liquid restaking, game economies and AI feedback services pose different questions about customers, incentives and implementation. The recurring subject is how he explains a proposed business and its relevance to an investment decision. Those explanations can be evaluated against later evidence of product use and execution.
Areas to Follow
Proof of Talk’s 2026 program records his participation in a Paris panel on institutional crypto yield and onchain vaults, alongside industry participants including Veda’s chief executive. The organizer also lists him on the General Track jury for its pitch competition. These appearances extend his investment work into public discussion and founder evaluation. Specific remarks require a recording or transcript rather than inference from the session’s title.
Useful future evidence includes fresh investment essays, changes in his research responsibilities and documented results from the products he discusses. For vault infrastructure, the relevant questions include which applications integrate it and how its operating scope develops. Funding announcements, stated commercial ambitions and actual adoption should remain distinguishable as those businesses evolve.
Reporting Scope
This profile covers public professional roles, named investments, authored essays and reported interviews. CoinFund’s descriptions establish its own participation and views; independent reporting provides additional context and transaction chronology. Portfolio-company metrics and product claims are attributed when used, and the profile does not rely on personal performance rankings or wealth estimates.
Investor involvement does not confer technical authorship, sole control of a shared transaction or responsibility for every decision of a portfolio company. The article does not certify a product’s safeguards, forecast investment returns or recommend purchasing a token or fund. Historical role descriptions and investment opinions retain their dates.
Areas of Influence
Feng’s main influence channels are investment analysis, venture participation and the public explanation of emerging digital-asset businesses. The directory’s Investment & Founders category reflects capital allocation; Exchanges & Infrastructure covers the systems he evaluates; Community, Media & Education reflects his authored articles, interviews and conference discussions.
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