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01 Builder · Capital · Market I have worked where Web3 products are built, funded, and taken to market. 02 Growth reached revenue A channel I developed generated 35% of monthly revenue. 03 Research informed focus Research narrowed the product focus; education, trader community, and OTC financing supported the ecosystem. 04 Ecosystem reality I learned that outreach cannot manufacture product pull in an inactive ecosystem. 05 Grant-funded mainnets Impulse Labs turned protocol opportunities into three grant-funded mainnet products. 06 Vision → commercial truth A separate $350K angel-backed Web3 esports venture tested whether activity could become revenue. 07 Capital lens At VC, I turned public funding data and technical claims into a repeatable decision workflow. 08 Current systems Today I test product and market hypotheses close to the data and code. 09 Product Lead Builder, capital, and market experience—brought together as a Product Lead.
informed the focus shipped test activity ≠ paid demand VISION · PRODUCT · GROWTH what I bring to product decisions Market context without losing technical or commercial reality Builder side protocol ecosystems · ETHGlobal · mainnet products Astar · Gear/Vara · Cairo Arena · Impulse Labs Capital side funding · venture analysis · technical DD $500K OTC · $150K grants · $350K angel round · VC Market side growth · user behavior · onchain analytics Revenue channels · commercial tests · Hyperliquid data 2020 Crypto-friendly neobank Head of Growth Joined at the pre-revenue stage proof ↗ $0 → $300K / month company revenue during my tenure A team result—not a sole-attribution claim proof ↗ 5× opened corporate accounts in three months Opened accounts—not leads or applications proof ↗ 35% of monthly revenue through a channel I developed A distribution channel became material to the business proof ↗ 2020–2021 Robonomics Chief Marketing Officer Product discovery · developer education · trader community proof ↗ 100+ engineer interviews robotics · IoT Tested assumptions with the people expected to build proof ↗ A narrower product focus research contributed to the direction In-house products and education over a broader Web Services narrative proof ↗ ≈300 completed lesson one first online Academy · prior cohorts ≤20 Registered and completed the first lesson proof ↗ XRT ≈20× · $500K OTC trader community + developer funding Built the XRT community · arranged OTC funding for the developer DAO proof ↗ 2021–2022 Astar Network Ecosystem Success Builder onboarding · partner success · platform requirements proof ↗ 2022–2023 Gear Technologies Head of Gaming Gaming as hands-on developer onboarding proof ↗ Inside the platform team ~50-person org · smart-contract engineers Connected ecosystem needs with product and engineering proof ↗ External developer pull did not emerge the network still lacked activity Outreach could not solve the chicken-and-egg problem proof ↗ So I tested it directly independent products on Gear / Vara Moved from growing the ecosystem to product proof proof ↗ 2023–2025 Impulse Labs Founder & Product Lead Product direction · economics · delivery across two networks proof ↗ $150K in grants Gear Foundation · Starknet Foundation Received in full · separate from GG Labs capital proof ↗ Three products reached mainnet Vara Arena · Cairo Arena · Warpacks Fully onchain games · Cairo Arena won at ETHGlobal Istanbul proof ↗ The Fully Onchain Games narrative lost momentum & attention. the market moved before the category matured Capital and attention moved away from FOCG proof ↗ GG Labs Founder & Product Lead $350K angel round · separate company and team from Impulse Labs proof ↗ GG Launcher Steam identity → wallet → competition Make Web3 onboarding largely invisible to the player proof ↗ Tokenized esport profile portable representation of player skill Verified skill, reputation, and incentives follow the player proof ↗ zkTLS + Symbiotic architecture verified offchain matches → onchain logic Connect match data with identity, reputation, and incentives proof ↗ 3,705 accounts · 1,268 transactions one measured month · free leagues Steam-authenticated accounts + recorded prediction transactions proof ↗ No paid participation → $350K returned no paid-league participation Stopped the project · returned 100% of the angel round proof ↗ 2026 V3V Ventures Research Lead & Venture Analyst Capital · markets · product · technical judgment proof ↗ 11K+ crypto funding rounds indexed pre-seed · seed · later stages · source trails Public venture activity turned into a research dataset proof ↗ Scoring and prioritization comparison · sourcing · research Stopped rebuilding the same context manually proof ↗ Technical DD + code testing DeFi · RWA · AI · AI payments · ZK Architecture · product claims · economics · open-source code proof ↗ ≈2 TB of Hyperliquid node data ClickHouse · ingestion · features · replay Testing market-regime and trading hypotheses proof ↗ Applied ML evaluation XGBoost · CatBoost · LSTM · walk-forward Evaluation before performance claims proof ↗ Rialto + Watson AI-assisted Rust/Python execution and research system Architecture · data sources · UX · product and risk logic · QA proof ↗ Three reviewed contributions merged replay · reconciliation · readiness Deterministic replay boundaries Fail-closed reconciliation · read-only readiness proof ↗ VISION protocol timing · narratives · capital lens PRODUCT research · architecture · delivery · AI systems GROWTH positioning · channels · partnerships · revenue Product Lead VISION · PRODUCT · GROWTH I can speak developer, capital, and degen Technical depth · market context · commercial ownership work with me ↗ Join one team as Product Lead looking for a global-remote full-time role Vision · product · growth ownership Crypto infrastructure · data · fintech · applied AI discuss a role ↗ Find the audience. Sharpen the product. Sell it. positioning · target audience · sales path · feature discovery Positioning · ICP · sales narrative Customer discovery · new feature opportunities discuss a project ↗ 01 · Three sides of Web3
I have worked where Web3 products are built, funded, and taken to market. Inside protocol ecosystems and as a founder, I led product from platform constraints to ETHGlobal and mainnet delivery.
01 Builder · Capital · Market I have worked where Web3 products are built, funded, and taken to market. 02 Growth reached revenue A channel I developed generated 35% of monthly revenue. 03 Research informed focus Research narrowed the product focus; education, trader community, and OTC financing supported the ecosystem. 04 Ecosystem reality I learned that outreach cannot manufacture product pull in an inactive ecosystem. 05 Grant-funded mainnets Impulse Labs turned protocol opportunities into three grant-funded mainnet products. 06 Vision → commercial truth A separate $350K angel-backed Web3 esports venture tested whether activity could become revenue. 07 Capital lens At VC, I turned public funding data and technical claims into a repeatable decision workflow. 08 Current systems Today I test product and market hypotheses close to the data and code. 09 Product Lead Builder, capital, and market experience—brought together as a Product Lead.
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