Keeping It Real, With Jen Stein

Jen Stein didn’t plan to end up in the Solana trenches.

Originally from the world of music and media, Jen’s entry to crypto came during the 2020 lockdown. She was looking for censorship-resistant systems and stumbled across a Clubhouse room talking about Bitcoin which led her to the Bitcoin whitepaper, and then off down the proverbial rabbit hole.

“I only knew crypto bros. I didn’t know the whole point was decentralization. That changed everything.”

What drew her in wasn’t price action — it was principle. It was ownership and freedom of speech. “I came for censorship resistance,” she says, “and I stayed because crypto lets you meet people you’d never meet anywhere else.”

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She knows it’s not all ideals. The compromises are real. Not everyone cares about decentralization. And some systems — even ones built on crypto — still depend on centralized structures. “But that’s part of it,” she says. “Decentralization means choice.”

Jen's crypto journey has been anything but linear. From NFTs on Ethereum to ordinals on Bitcoin, and now, deep in the Solana trenches. Day to day, that's where you'll find her — in the trenches — trading, creating, advising, and hosting.

She’s hosting an LA event for Gen-O soon, there's no doubt it will have it's own unique flavour. Last time Jen organized an event with us, it was a block party in Nashville, and it will last long in the memory.

Jen is passionate about helping onboard newcomers. That's where she finds true satisfaction. All while staying far away from the performative side of the space.

“Once you start making decisions for engagement, you’re not being real anymore.”

Away from crypto, she’s into art, crafts, concerts, and building weird things with hot glue guns. “I make sculptures on dildos. Probably not article-appropriate,” she laughs.

Jen’s take on the future is both grounded and curious. She’s watching AI closely, thinking about what gets remembered, what gets erased, and how language — especially on platforms like TikTok — keeps shifting under censorship and algorithms.

“We’re literally changing language to get around filters. What happens when AI can’t understand that nuance?”

She’s also deeply human in a space that often forgets to be. That’s probably why she’s trusted across so many scenes — from Bitcoin purists to Solana degenerates. She’s opinionated, real, and never afraid to call it how she sees it.

Right now? She’s got some travel planned. A few ideas in motion. And she’s still figuring it out — like the rest of us. But if you ask her where she wants to be?

“In the trenches,” she grins. “That’s where the good stuff happens.”