> me
•born and raised in Ukraine 🇺🇦
•ethnically Vietnamese 🇻🇳
•based in Canada 🇨🇦
•speak 4 languages
•into building, learning, and shipping in public [random content]
•i like supporting builders and founders @sozuhaus
•love a good, well-planned and well-designed product
•bullish on both sides of the spectrum [ crypto-natives → normies ]
•and ofc - AI, gotta add the buzzword here somewhere
LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains, uniquely supporting censorship-resistant messages and permissionless development through immutable smart contracts.
•teams that build on LayerZero:
★BitGo : [ WBTC ] - ~11.5B USD TVL
★EtherFi : [ weETH ] - ~7.5B USD TVL
★Ethena : [ ENA, USDE, sUSDE ] - ~7B USD TVL
★Tether : [ USDT0, XAUT0 ] - ~5B USD TVL
★Ondo Global Markets : [ 150+ Tokenized Stocks ] - ~400M USD TVL
L2 built for financial applications, we also build and incubate many products like: meth, ftbc, and ur. here're some of my contributions:
•mantle network: testnet → mainnet, $0 → $2B TVL.
•led devex, devsuccess. worked across devrel, infra, product, engineering.
•some products i built / contributed to:
★rewards station [ auth migration, rainbow → privy ]
★refuel app [ swap migration, stargate → omni ]
★developer documentation [ revamp, gitbook → mintlify ]
★mantle passport
★and many more...
•took part in building and educating the developer community from scratch.
•supported founders via: hackathons, grants, and residencies.
> sozu haus - [ nov 2022 → ... ]
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builder / founder residency program supporting teams building from 1 → 100.
> just a boy - [ tech lead ]
fun lil experimental product co-built with one of the founding engineers of pump.fun.
•art by Petravoice, arguably the most viral ct artist.
•what began as an experiment, became the largest ever mint on Mantle.
•some numbers: 652,155 mints, ~500k txs, ~10k unique holders.
•built as an experimentation of consumer-friendly UX in crypto using privy and a custom gas abstraction backend.
> boys - [ tech lead ]
Boys NFT Collection launched by Petravoice on Mantle Network.
•fully-minted in 10 minutes [actually 5 minutes, had to fix a bug...].
•some numbers: ~110k MNT collected in total, ~250k MNT volume on exchanges.
•many reputable individuals on ct supported the project.
a complex defi product, offering a new way to take leverage in DeFi: compounding exposure without the usual drag.
•built the auth module and staking page.
•learnt a ton about smart-contracts in defi.
•met good people and frens.
> crystalize - [ SC Engineer intern ]
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my first position in this space, which taught me so much and lead me to meeting @dcbuilder, @0xveer, and @doctorgm who changed my life, if you're reading this - thank you! 🙏