Kevin Lee

Founder & Managing Partner @L2Iterative
Co-founder & Partner at L2 Capital Management
AI Strategy & Frontier Technology Operator | Founder, Investor & Ex-CFO |

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of the biggest disconnects between school and reality: schools give you credit for effort, but customers don't. Young founders often get whiplash from this transition at YC. After 21 years of getting credit for effort, it suddenly stops.

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

Excited to be hosting @BTCON_Seoul in Seoul again this week.

When we started @BTCON_Seoul , our vision was simple: create a forum where institutions, innovators, and policymakers could meet at the same table to shape the future of digital assets. Korea has quickly become one of the most important markets globally — not only a top trading hub, but also a country where regulation, technology, and capital markets are converging at speed.

This year’s conversations will go deep into:
- How digital asset treasuries are evolving
- The trillion-dollar opportunity in real-world asset tokenization
- The infrastructure driving institutional crypto adoption
- The regulatory shifts creating new opportunities in Korea

I’m grateful to the many global leaders joining us, and I look forward to the candid, forward-looking debates that make BTCON so special.

See you in Seoul.

#BTCON2025

[L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV) @l2iterative]

This week, our Managing Partner, @klee_049, will be speaking a series of forward-looking panels at #BTCON2025 in Seoul.

Joined by leading voices from across the industry - such as Andrew Kim from @Parataxis_Korea, @LucasKozinski from @renzoai, @jeremyng777 from @OpenEden_X, @cktlore from @yalaorg, Rania Rah from @OndoFinance, @konyk001 from @gaib_ai, Terence Lam from @taikoxyz, Brett Carter from @boundless_xyz, and many others - Kevin will delve into the evolution of digital asset treasuries, unpack the trillion-dollar opportunity in real-world asset tokenization, and explore the infrastructure enabling institutional crypto adoption. Most importantly, these panels will offer actionable strategies and discuss the unique opportunities emerging from Korea’s rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.

Whether you’re investing in digital assets, shaping policy, or driving innovation in the industry, we invite you to join these conversations for fresh perspectives and valuable connections.

We look forward to connecting with you at #BTCON2025 and we work together to shape the future of the digital asset ecosystem. See you in Seoul!

Event Details:
📅 Date: Sep 10, 2025 (Wed), 11:30am – 6:00pm KST
📍 Venue: Spigen Hall, Spigen HQ, Seoul, South Korea
🔗 https://t.co/ULczxYTDE0

#Blockchain #DigitalAsset #Crypto

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

Excited to share that @l2iterative is co-hosting this exclusive event with our portfolio company, @babylonlabs_io , during Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong today.

As we push the boundaries of Bitcoin's programmability innovations, gatherings like this are crucial for fostering collaboration among builders, investors, and visionaries shaping the ecosystem.

From Babylon's trustless vaults unlocking new security paradigms to BitVM3's potential to enable Turing-complete computation on Bitcoin without forks—specifically, my Co-founder and Research Partner, @weikengchen will be sharing a keynote on the "Power of BitVM3"—and the evolving landscape of BTC-Fi—these discussions couldn't be more timely.

At @l2iterative , we're all in on accelerating Bitcoin's scalability and utility, and events like this highlight why the future is so promising.

If you're in HK for Bitcoin Asia, join us for what promises to be an inspiring deep dive. Let's connect and explore the frontier together!

[L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV) @l2iterative]

L2IV and @babylonlabs_io are hosting an exclusive event for the pioneers building Bitcoin's future during Bitcoin Asia this Thursday, August 28th

We are convening the ecosystem's leading minds for a deep dive into the next evolution of Bitcoin, featuring:
🚀 Trustless Bitcoin Vaults: The latest from Babylon, presented by @baby_fisherman
💡 The Power of BitVM3: A comprehensive overview by @weikengchen
🔎 The future of BTC-Fi: An insightful panel discussion with top builders and investors

Come and join us to explore the frontier of Bitcoin innovation!

📍 https://t.co/hqCwR36Mgy

[Chris Dixon @cdixon]

It’s time to pass bipartisan stablecoin legislation. The GENIUS Act will protect consumers and increase transparency--a significant improvement on the status quo.

We support any legislation that achieves that progress while safeguarding the core benefits of blockchain technology — empowering peer-to-peer digital economies to operate without intermediaries.

The bill isn't perfect and will require refinements to achieve these goals, but it is essential that the Senate complete its bipartisan work on the GENIUS Act.

Moving quickly on this and a market structure bill would provide long-overdue clarity for consumers and the industry so that we entrench dollar dominance and the U.S. remains the leader in blockchain technology. 🇺🇸

[Solana Insiders 🔬 @SolanaInsiders]

1/ Public blockchains are transparent by design, which is great for trust but creates major challenges for sensitive applications like AI, DeFi, and secure data sharing.

Without strong privacy guarantees, institutions avoid blockchains, DeFi traders get front-run, and private machine learning models cannot be deployed securely.

Arcium pioneers Privacy 2.0, enabling secure, collaborative encrypted computation directly on-chain. In this deep dive, we will explore how Arcium works and why Privacy 2.0 is a critical evolution in blockchain privacy. ☂️🧵↓

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

Join the data revolution. Discover Arcium.

[Arcium ☂️ @Arcium]

Another protocol won’t change the world.

A revolution will — this is the encrypted one.

Community round is live: https://t.co/t7CvhNOhdR

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

I am going to be speaking at Southeast Asia Blockchain Week in Bangkok from April 1-3.

I’ll be diving into how AI is transforming DeFi—unlocking better UX and seamless interactions. Expect insights on agentic systems as a game-changer for reducing friction in crypto adoption, and why I see AI as the new interface layer driving mainstream trust-minimized finance.

If you’re attending and want to connect 1:1, let’s make it happen—would love to discuss the future of the internet, finance, bitcoin, AI, RWA and trust-minimized systems.

https://t.co/Vu20TBLqU9

[S🅾️PHIΞ @crypto_sis]

A new era of crypto finance in Korea has been unveiled.
The FSC disclosed corporate account openings, with details for exchanges and institutional investors. 🧵

https://t.co/AXshnBBaDa

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

10/ DeepSeek reminds me of Nietzsche: "What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger." Instead of throwing compute at problems, they turned limitations into a framework for creativity. The future of AI may belong to those who embrace constraints and innovate within them.

#DeepSeek #LLM #DeepLearning #TechInnovation #VC

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

1/ Been closely watching the AI space evolve, but what @deepseek_ai just accomplished has me genuinely excited. Their breakthroughs in model efficiency aren’t just incremental—they reveal something profound about innovation itself. 🧵👇

[Kevin Lee @klee_049]

9/ The Power of Open Innovation

DeepSeek’s choice to open-source under MIT license is game-changing:

- Permissionless Innovation: Anyone can adapt their work.
- Community Progress: Diverse contributors = unexpected breakthroughs.
- Decentralized AI: No longer confined to a few big labs.
- Shared Knowledge: Collective progress accelerates.