Victor Wong

Victor Wong is a technology entrepreneur and product executive based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a co-founder and chief product officer of BlockApps, an enterprise blockchain company.^[1]​^[2]​^[3]​

Early Career

Wong founded Speak2Me, a social network for English-language learning, and served as its chief technology officer from 2007 to 2009.^[4]​

From 2010 to 2015, Wong founded and led SmarTots, a mobile family startup. The company received a Global Mobile Internet startup award and its apps recorded millions of downloads.^{[4] [1]}​

Wong said he learned about Bitcoin around 2010 or 2011 from an episode of Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast. Before joining the Ethereum community, he met future BlockApps co-founder Jim Hormuzdiar through a venture capitalist in Beijing. They reconnected after Wong returned to the United States around 2014 and began exploring blockchain technology.^[1]​

BlockApps

Wong, Jim Hormuzdiar, and Kieren James-Lubin founded BlockApps in 2015. Wong met James-Lubin in person at the Crypto Economicon conference in San Francisco in January 2015; the three subsequently formed the company.^[1] Wong has led product and business development, while Hormuzdiar and James-Lubin focused on core client development.^[1]​

BlockApps developed a Haskell-based Ethereum client and an application programming interface (API) intended to make blockchain development more accessible. Its early product vision included a REST API for Ethereum that traditional web developers could use to build decentralized applications. Wong said the approach initially met resistance from community members who were wary of introducing servers into a peer-to-peer network.^[1] He also helped define the company’s STRATO architecture, designed to address permissioning, data privacy, and enterprise performance.^[4]​

Microsoft Azure Partnership

In late 2015, ConsenSys connected BlockApps with Microsoft, which was preparing to offer Blockchain as a Service on its Azure cloud platform. Wong led BlockApps’ business engagement. After the Java client team withdrew from the partnership, BlockApps took on the work, with the aim of enabling users to write a decentralized application quickly. The Microsoft announcement at DEVCON1 in London marked a significant enterprise blockchain milestone for the company.^[1]​

STRATO and Security Work

In February 2026, Wong wrote that BlockApps had considered pressure to position STRATO as a Layer 2 network but decided against doing so.^[3] In April 2026, he announced work with ConsenSys Diligence on an artificial intelligence review process intended to improve blockchain security for STRATO and the wider industry, and said the review had been completed.^[3]​

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Wong helped establish the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), an organization formed to support enterprise applications and standards based on Ethereum. At Devcon 2 in Shanghai in September 2016, he took part in discussions that led to the alliance’s conception at a Starbucks. He later participated in meetings to structure the organization and negotiate among enterprise stakeholders.^[1]​

The EEA launched in early 2017 with about 30 founding companies at JPMorgan’s Brooklyn office. Wong was a founding board member; a 2022 conference profile described him as continuing to serve on the board alongside companies including Microsoft, Intel, and JPMorgan Chase.^[1]​^[4]​

Wong was also active in developing BlockApps’ business in China. At Devcon 2, he predicted that China would become one of the world’s largest blockchain markets and served as the team’s China expert, drawing on his earlier experience founding companies there.^[1]​