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Haze

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Haze
Haze
Image: X profile avatar of @haze0x
handle@haze0x
roleco founder of GMGN
known forGMGN terminal, NFTTrack, BitUniverse China operations

Haze is the co founder of GMGN, the meme coin trading terminal dominant among Chinese speaking traders, a former quant trading employee who built his way from NFT tracking tools to one of the busiest platforms in the trenches.

Contents
  1. 1 Background
  2. 2 GMGN
  3. 3 Significance
  4. 4 References

Haze is the co founder of gmgn, the trading terminal that became the default venue for meme coin trading among Chinese speaking participants in the trenches and one of the highest volume interfaces on Solana. He posts as @haze0x and is known in Chinese crypto media by a nickname rendered in interviews as Brother Chicken. Unusually for a terminal founder, he gives long interviews about his background and philosophy, making him one of the better documented builders of the era.

Background

Born in 1985, Haze has described a deliberately ordinary pre crypto life: a standard office job, no grand ambitions, and by his own account no special technical genius. He encountered Bitcoin through a news report around the end of 2017 and decided it was an opportunity worth pursuing. In 2018 he joined a quantitative trading firm focused on grid trading, where he learned the mechanics of markets and automation. He went on to lead the China operation of portfolio tracker BitUniverse and was an early member at the exchange Pionex, then founded NFTTrack, an analytics tool for NFT traders, before pivoting with the market toward meme coins.

GMGN

GMGN launched in May 2023 to attack a specific problem: on chain meme trading was too slow. The terminal fused real time token discovery, smart money wallet tracker feeds, copy trading and one click execution into a single surface, and rode the pump fun explosion to enormous scale; by November 2024 it was handling around 14 million monthly visits and 600,000 trades a day. In interviews Haze attributes the platform's endurance to staying sharp and long termism, keeping a small team focused on execution speed while competitors chased token launches and incentive programs. GMGN expanded aggressively as the launchpad wars unfolded, adding support for PumpSwap and rival venues as flow migrated.

Significance

Haze occupies a distinctive position among trench builders: a trader turned toolmaker whose product profits from volume rather than issuance. GMGN neither launches tokens nor runs curves; it sells speed and information to the people fighting in them, which has largely kept Haze out of the litigation and scandal cycles that consumed launchpad founders. His interviews, unusually candid about luck, timing and the limits of his own foresight, circulate widely in Chinese speaking crypto communities as a builder's account of the meme coin era.

References

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