BaseLayer S2 Ep 5: Jerry Pan (Founder, o1.exchange)

Tue, Jun 2, 2026, 12:00 AM

In episode 5 of BaseLayer S2, meet Jerry, co-founder of o1 Exchange. Non-custodial trading where you actually own your assets. Spot, prediction markets, perpetuals, and event strategies over anything. Jerry grew up across three of the world's top economies: Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, and the SF Bay Area. His parents were engineers at Toshiba and Nintendo in 1990s Tokyo, the Silicon Valley of hardware. He was tinkering with Legos before he could speak. He spent his career in AI, made his money in crypto, and decided it was time to build a place where anyone could trade anything onchain and keep custody of their assets. Jerry breaks down why Base rewards pure meritocracy, why a rockstar team beats a great product every time, and why founders should stop chasing signal and noise and just focus on serving the end user. The good capital, talent, and ecosystem will follow.-- Explore o1.exchange: https://o1.exchange/ Follow Jerry: https://x.com/stambouli_o1 Follow o1.exchange: https://x.com/o1_exchange