Jinglan Wang is the founder of Optimism, a blockchain-based protocol designed to facilitate the development and deployment of decentralized applications (dApps) on the Ethereum network.Jinglan Wang began her involvement in Plasma, now Optimism, by participating in Cryptoeconomics.Study course alongside Karl Floersch, which is now overseen by Kevin Ho. While working on the course, specifically on the plasma chapter,
In 2018, Jinglan Wang co-founded Optimism.
Wang was the Executive Director of the Blockchain Education Network.