Nina Rong is a technology and Web3 executive who serves as the Executive Director of Growth for BNB Chain. ^[1] She is recognized for her expertise in scaling global ecosystems and developing strategic partnerships within the technology industry. ^[2] Before her role at BNB Chain, she held leadership positions at the Arbitrum Foundation, TRON DAO, and Google. ^[3]​

Education

Rong earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. ^[3]

Career

Rong's career spans business development roles in mobile gaming, big tech, and executive leadership positions within major Web3 ecosystems. ^[3]​

Early Career and Google

Rong began her career in the technology sector with a focus on business development. From January 2010 to February 2012, she was the Director of Business Development for Asia at Tapjoy. She then served as the VP of Business Development at Wemo Media from February 2012 to May 2013. Following this, she joined the mobile gaming company Kabam as Director of Business Development, a role she held from May 2013 to February 2017, where she focused on global partnerships and distribution. ^[3]​

In March 2017, Rong joined Google, where she worked in Business Development for Google Play. During her five-year tenure, which concluded in April 2022, she focused on growth initiatives for applications and games within the North American market. In addition to her corporate roles, Rong became an active angel investor in the Metaverse and Web3 sectors starting in January 2022. ^[3]​

Transition to Web3

Rong stated that she entered the cryptocurrency industry in 2021. She described this period as a time when "blockchains were congested" and a single transaction "could cost thousands in USD value." Her initial work in the space was motivated by a desire to contribute to scaling solutions that would make Web3 more accessible by lowering transaction costs. ^[4]​

Her first major Web3 role was with TRON DAO, where she served as Head of Ecosystem from April 2022 to May 2023. In this position, she was responsible for leading global ecosystem development and growth for both the TRON and BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) ecosystems. ^[3]​

Arbitrum Foundation

In May 2023, Rong joined the Arbitrum ecosystem, first leading regional partnerships at Offchain Labs, the development company behind the Arbitrum network. Her work was instrumental in supporting the network's early expansion and onboarding developers and projects, particularly across Asia. ^[2]​

Her role later evolved to Head of Ecosystem Development at the Arbitrum Foundation, a position she held until November 2025. In this capacity, she led and spearheaded the broader ecosystem growth for the Arbitrum network, a prominent Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Her work involved fostering the developer community, attracting new projects, and driving overall network adoption. ^[3]​

BNB Chain

On November 27, 2025, BNB Chain announced the appointment of Nina Rong as its new Executive Director of Growth. ^[1] In her role, Rong is responsible for leading the network's global expansion, deepening developer engagement and support, and accelerating the overall growth of the BNB Chain ecosystem. ^[2] The stated mission of her role is to help onboard the next billion users to Web3 and simplify liquidity discovery for everyone. ^[1]​

Upon her appointment, Rong stated:

"I’m honored to join the mission to onboard the next billion users to web3. BNB Chain has the scale, community, and technology to empower builders to make liquidity truly accessible to everyone. I am eager to work with our partners and ecosystem contributors to strengthen our position as the home for both crypto-native and TradFi assets." ^[2]

Rong's appointment was publicly welcomed by key figures in the Binance and BNB Chain ecosystem. Yi He, Co-Founder of Binance, commented, "Welcome to the team! Your experience in ecosystem growth is impressive. Together we will bring the next billion users to Web3." ^[5] Changpeng Zhao also welcomed her, stating, "Welcome . Excited to see you drive growth for the BNB ecosystem." ^[6]​

Industry Perspective

Rong has articulated a view that the primary challenge facing the crypto industry has shifted from technical scaling to "the challenge of discovery." She has noted that despite the existence of over 150 Layer 2 solutions and numerous high-throughput Layer 1 blockchains, the majority of ecosystems launched in the preceding two years had failed to attract a critical mass of users or developers. ^[4]

She identifies this as a two-sided problem:

1. Product-to-User: Crypto products struggle to reach retail users.
2. User-to-Product: Retail users face significant challenges with liquidity discovery.

Rong has pointed out that less than 10% of on-chain assets are "activated," highlighting a major inefficiency in the market. She believes BNB Chain is uniquely positioned to address this discovery problem due to its core strengths, including its large user base of over 695 million unique addresses and more than 2 million daily active users, its platform optimizations for performance, and its capacity for robust developer support. ^[4]