Recently hit 15k followers so here's an intro for all the new followers: - Ex-web2 growth background - Stumbled into crypto in 2016 while withdrawing funds via bitcoin from a defunct payment processor - Rode the 2017 wave up, and then all the way down in 2018 - Decided to work full-time in crypto after defi TVL went vertical in summer 202 - Joined the ACryptoS team - it went from $5M to $500M deposits in a couple months, becoming top 50 defi protocols by TVL - Interfaced with many L1 ecosystem teams while doing cross-chain expansions and realized room for improvement on the other side - Joined an L2 team building on terra in 2022 - Terra later goes to zero and ecosystem is left stranded - Joined the sei team to work on a high-performance L1, working on BD and strategy - Joined the monad team in 2023 to build out dapps ecosystem - I'm now focused on building a great defi ecosystem on monad for builders and users, learning from mistakes and wins from the past, gmonad