Yen-Lin (mashbean) Huang is a cypherpunk advocate in several aspects. He had been a medical doctor in Taiwan and currently serves as a general manager of Matters Lab, a censorshop-resilience social platform especially in the Chinese-speaking community. He is a Policy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a Next Billion Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation.

From 2023 to 2025, he served at Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, leading projects on digital civic infrastructure, including digital identity wallets and web3 policy. Yen-Lin founded FAB DAO, a civic tech Web3 collective supporting Taiwanese nonprofits, with works exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival. He also writes a digital arts column for ARTouch and translates on participatory art and digital activism.