Constance Wang
Overview
Constance Wang co-founded Pacifica and publishes reflections on building it under the name Constance W.[1]
Contents9 sections
Key facts
Education and Early Career
CoinDeskCoinDeskCoinDesk is a cryptocurrency media, events, index, and data company founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York. Its businesses include the CoinDesk news website, the annual crypto industry conference Consensus, and the CoinDesk Indices index business. In November 2023, the digital asset exchange Bullish acquired CoinDesk from Digital Currency Group, and CoinDesk has since operated as an independent subsidiary of Bullish.Open the full entry dates her graduation to 2015.[2]
She earned a Finance degree at the National University of Singapore, worked on private-banking AML and risk controls at Credit Suisse, then managed institutional business development for Huobi Global in APAC.[3]
2019FTX
Vivi Lin reports that she joined FTX in early 2019 and led global growth.[4]
Her X biography lists former roles as FTX COO and co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets.[5]
In a December 2019 Blockcast interview, she discussed stablecoin settlement, leveraged tokens and liquidation design, saying the team sought to simplify derivatives trading.[6]
2022–2023Career Transition
FTX collapsed in 2022. In July 2023, CoinDesk reported her appointment as Sino Global Capital's head of gaming, citing confirmation from founder and CEO Matthew Graham.[2]
2025Establishing Pacifica
In her introduction to Pacifica, she said it was founded in January 2025 to combine trading performance, user experience and AI tools, and was then self-funded without external capital.[7]
2025Product Development
In a retrospective dated December 31, 2025 and published the next day, she described a March 29 Closed Alpha, a June 10 Closed Beta and order features developed from trader feedback, while distinguishing points-driven growth from product-market fit.[8]
2026Views on AI Trading
On October 12, 2026, she argued that language models were more useful for pre-trade data research than price prediction or trade decisions. She cautioned that cheap backtests could produce apparently convincing results by chance, requiring human judgment.[9]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Pacifica: Official website: https://app.pacifica.fi/ (opens in a new window)[10]
X: Public account: https://x.com/ConstanceWaing (opens in a new window)[5]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/constancewz/ (opens in a new window)[1]
Sources
- Constance W. | LinkedIn (opens in a new window)
- Ex-FTX COO Constance Wang Joins Crypto Fund Sino Global (opens in a new window)
- Constance Wang (opens in a new window)
- Ex-FTX boss finds Sam Bankman-Fried ‘love story’ series on Netflix laughable: ‘No f–king way’ (opens in a new window)
- Constance W 🌊 (@ConstanceWaing) / X (opens in a new window)
- FTX:我們為交易員而生! 此話怎麼說?跟著區塊客一探「內情」 (opens in a new window)
- What is Pacifica? (opens in a new window)
- Building Pacifica: Year One (opens in a new window)
- X | Constance W: Agentic Trading (opens in a new window)
- Pacifica (opens in a new window)