Charles Lu
Co-Founder, Espresso Systems
Charles Lu is listed as Co-Founder, Espresso Systems. Charles spoke at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 in November 2026 (speaker, “When AI Sweeps Over the Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities at Stake”). Speaks mainly on Digital Assets and Web3 Forum.
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- Topics: Digital Assets and Web3 Forum
About
Charles Lu is co-founder and COO of Espresso Systems. Prior to Espresso's founding in 2020, Charles worked in various investment and technology roles at Binance Labs (now YZi Labs), Citadel, Meta, and Amazon, and conducted research as a Ph.D. student in Dan Boneh's cryptography group at Stanford University. Charles holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford in computer science. Espresso Systems builds digital asset infrastructure for enterprises that need speed and customizability without giving up architectural control. The company is the lead developer of Espresso, a modern high-performance blockchain that provides real-time settlement with subsecond finality and scales to millions of transactions per second. Institutions use Espresso to run dedicated environments for stablecoins, payments, tokenized assets, and collateral management, each with its own compliance and privacy controls, while staying connected to onchain liquidity. Espresso works with leading teams including Offchain La
Sessions at 1 conference
Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 2 November 2026 – 3 November 2026
- When AI Sweeps Over the Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities at Stake Speaker · 3 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Charles at events on B2DB.
- Marieke Flament Chief Executive Officer · N26 1 shared session
- Jack Collier Chief Growth Officer · io.net 1 shared session
- Manouk Termaaten Co-founder · vAPI Network 1 shared session
- Michael Wu Amber Group 1 shared session
Others from Espresso Systems
- Jill Gunter Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer 1 session