what i've tried before

• Built a crypto payments platform for merchants using USDe — paused due to tough competition and unclear regulations.view code →
• Launched a two-sided bounty marketplace for the Ethereum community — no one really wanted it enough
• Was CTO at an insurance aggregator, built full auth and infra — exited due to vision misalignment with founders and investors
• Wrote a full design paper for a forex risk engine using perpetual futures — failed due to chicken-egg problem with traders and liquidity.view whitepaper →
• Worked on building ZK cryptographic libraries and audited a PSE project (Jan 2023 – May 2024)