Auctions

Hack VC

Check: Not disclosed and not inferable. Peyman is listed as a Research Partner, so founders should treat him as a domain expert and technical thesis contributor unless Hack VC confirms participation in a specific investment decision.

Peyman treats confidentiality as market infrastructure rather than an abstract right. His research uses identity-based encryption and distributed decryption to prevent front-running with dramatically lower communication overhead, while later work combines encryption and auctions for decentralized intent pricing. He argues privacy wins when it improves execution, protects commercial information, enables compliance and creates economically valuable products without extra user friction.

NGC Ventures

Check: NGC does not publish a Jack-specific check range on its official team page. Third-party investor directories estimate broad firm ranges, but those are not treated as verified personal authority. Founders should ask directly about stage, round and allocation fit.

Jack evaluates blockchain projects through their economic and social mechanisms. His official remit emphasizes whether decentralized consensus, incentive provision, industrial organization and smart-contract market structure create stable behavior under real strategic actors. His parallel builder record around decentralized auctions and Bitcoin finance reinforces a practical interest in turning mechanism design into functioning markets rather than treating tokens as narrative alone.