we got pulled into something kinda wild recently.
we were invited by SEC to contribute to ASEANβs work on tokenized capital markets.
not a thinkpiece, but an actual input into how RWA around southeast asia might be shaped.
It's official π΄β¨
Danki is now a collaborator with Avalanche Team1
I'll be helping grow the next generation of EVM builders in the Philippines through technical education, community initiatives, and more.
Got a few things in the works, but it's too early to spoil em yet. π
Going LIVE in 1 hour here on X and on YouTube
ZK meets FHE for a live conversation on where privacy should live, what encrypted computation unlocks, and how these technologies can grow the privacy ecosystem together.
The residency is complete, but support for founders continues! π€
This Monday, we kicked off the follow-up phase with Founder Financial Literacy, led by @sqrdao_intern πͺ
For the next 3 months, our mentors are backing every EMpower founder on traction, fundraising, product delivery, and any other needed angles to ensure real output from the program.
The kick-off call was just the beginning!
Gm everyone,
I'm no longer with Lisk SEA (@LiskSEA).
A few builders have been DMing me asking what's happening with the Lisk SEA programs, and I owe everyone a real answer instead of letting it stay quiet.
My last day was at the end of May. I sat on this for almost three weeks to reflect because the brand has stuck with my name for a while.
It was a good run.
I started as an ambassador for Lisk in Vietnam, building @LiskVietnam. Then, I got more involved in expanding the builder ecosystem for Lisk, building as an internal team member. Three months in, Alexis (@alxs0x) handed me the keys to the wider SEA region, and everything opened up from there. We were 8 people back then. That's where I started meeting the people who made the work stop feeling like work, and built things I'll carry with me for a long time, with partners like @sqrDAO, @Suci_Community, and @blockdev_id.
Together as a team, we shipped so many initiatives for builders:
> 30+ meetups across SEA
> 2 incubation programs
> 4 hackathons
Then the team started shrinking. Eventually, it was just me and Alexis, two people holding up a whole region.
And we still built one more thing, the one closest to my heart: 1 residency. 7 teams, 3 weeks locked in together in Danang, prepping for the Web3 Builders Summit and DAVAS last May.
Those three weeks in Danang were my proudest proof of work. 7 teams under one roof, shared meals, late nights, the debugging, the small wins that felt huge at 2 am. That's the part I'd do all over again.
At Lisk SEA, I was a key executionist and operator, basically ran the whole thing on the ground. BD owned content pipeline, partnership management, events, and builder community. All it took to grow the ecosystem.
And it was working. Word got around, and founders started coming to us directly, asking about the Lisk SEA incentives, asking how to get their projects involved. The inbound was real. The ecosystem was alive.
Then @Lisk underwent a restructuring. That one hurt. The seeds were right about to bloom and then the lights went out.
But it is what it is. Every game has to come to an end.
Still, what a run.
Thank you, @alxs0x, for the chance to shine and for trusting me with all of it. And to every partner for supporting me during my journey, @sqrDAO, @Suci_Community, @blockdev_id, etc.
On to the next.
If you're building in SEA, or you know someone who needs a person who can actually grow things on the ground, build the partnerships, bring the momentum, and expand the ecosystem, my DMs are open.
i don't hav much to say except i've been very lucky to build with people who believe in openness, collaboration, and permissionless tech π₯Ή the work continues. π΄π¦π
@philippinebc_wk@bcphilippines
very important conversation to be had. this is a rare chance where startups, government, cypherpunks and legal sit together in one room and tackle privacy
We're sitting down with ETH PH and @WPReadingClub to work through whether privacy infrastructure can meet compliance requirements and create entirely new data markets.
If this sounds like your kind of conversation, register here: https://t.co/qWvJTzGyqY
I completely vibecoded the following presentation using codex + @editframe + @ElevenLabs for the voice over using my cloned voice. This video is about my personal AI stack using @runneragent + my personal site https://t.co/yI0NSshmcL + codex + @obsdmd and many other tools. Enjoy!
"emerging market founders are built differently. they operate under the assumption that if there's no door for us, then we'll build one for ourselves!"
3 weeks. hear their pitches tomorrow at @sqrDAO@LiskSEA !
Seven years ago, FHE sounded exactly like quantum computing sounds today - fascinating, theoretical, and decades away.
Itβs 2019. I am sitting in a room listening to Shafi Goldwasser, a Turing Award winner, explain fully homomorphic encryption. At the time, I was leading the Intel team responsible for bringing TEEs to market. The idea that you could get similar outcomes with cryptography alone sounded unrealistic.
I remember thinking: This is amazing, maybe too amazing. Such complex cryptography will never mature.
But hard tech does not move that way. Smart researchers improve the math, good engineers improve the stack, and when hardware catches up, the magic happens.
Now, 7 years later, I am on the opposite side, explaining to trading desks, VCs, DeFi teams, and financial experts that we can solve Ethereumβs βexpose it allβ problem, and that they do not need to know how the tech works.
This is what closing the loop feels like.
i will be moderating a debate on whether stables will flip SWIFT for cross-border B2B settlements. @TheVinhNguyen4 on the bull side and @harrybui31 on the bear side
see you at Web3 Builders' Summit in Da Nang!