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Jess Zeng entered the crypto industry as an intern at Gemini while studying finance at SMU. She then moved on to work at Chainlink, where she transitioned from a business development role to an ecosystem-building focus.

After a stint at Fireblocks to gain institutional experience, she joined Mantle, where she now leads ecosystem growth for mETH - the liquid staking platform backed by Mantle.

In this Blockcast episode, Zeng explains Mantle’s unique position as a Layer 2 (L2) network that integrates its own liquid staking derivatives (ME and fBTC) and operates more like a hedge fund than a traditional L2.

She discusses Mantle’s ecosystem strategy, Mantle’s business model shift, moving from optimistic rollups to ZK rollups, and its focus on DeFi applications and AI integrations.

Zeng explains Mantle’s Metamorphosis campaign, which incentivizes early adoption of ME and CME, as well as institutional adoption, regulatory concerns around Ethereum ETFs, and Mantle’s expansion efforts.

Blockcast is hosted by Head of APAC at Ledger, Takatoshi Shibayama. Previous episodes of Blockcast can be found on Podpage, with guests like Samar Sen (Talos), Jason Choi (Tangent), Lasanka Perera (Independent Reserve), Mark Rydon (Aethir), Peter Hui (Moongate), Luca Prosperi (M^0), Charles Hoskinson (Cardano), Aneirin Flynn (Failsafe), and Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) on our most recent shows.

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