# Tony Jin

> Tony Jin is the CTO and co-founder of Wormhole, known for his roles at Box, Twitch and Jump Crypto, and a Stanford computer science graduate.

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- Created: 2024-05-31T17:08:02.420Z
- Last updated: 2024-06-24T14:14:55.937Z
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**Tony Jin** is the CTO and co-founder of [Wormhole](https://iq.wiki/wiki/wormhole), a cross-chain protocol enabling seamless asset transfers and interoperability among diverse [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) networks. [\[1\]](#cite-id-wdx36qa0hyj)  
  
# Education  
  
Jin graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science. At Stanford, he was a software engineer intern at Sheyna, Inc. and an associate technology manager intern at Google. [\[1\]](#cite-id-wdx36qa0hyj)  
  
# Career  
  
In March 2012, Jin co-founded an unnamed video-streaming prototype project focused on being like Twitch for artists and musicians. He then worked for five years as a software engineer and manager at Box, a cloud content management company. In October 2018, he became director of engineering at Twitch, a live-streaming platform, where he supported the IVS Video Clients team and worked on SDKs for mobile and web applications until May 2022. Jin later joined Jump [Crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency), the [Web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3) infrastructure division of Jump Trading LLC, as an engineering manager in October 2022, where he worked with other engineering teams contributing to the [Wormhole](https://iq.wiki/wiki/wormhole) protocol. [\[2\]](#cite-id-n38sispched)  
  
## Wormhole  
  
In 2023, Jin co-founded [Wormhole](https://iq.wiki/wiki/wormhole) with his coworkers, [Anthony Ramirez](https://iq.wiki/wiki/anthony-ramirez) and [Saeed Badreg](https://iq.wiki/wiki/saeed-badreg). In December 2023, they raised $225M in funding from various VC backers, including [Coinbase Ventures](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coinbase), Brevan Howard, Jump Trading, Multicoin Capital, [ParaFi](https://iq.wiki/wiki/parafi-capital), Dialectic, Arrington Capital, and Borderless Capital. [\[2\]](#cite-id-n38sispched)[\[3\]](#cite-id-ctwia5dzxce)