Aṣíwájú🦅

Ex-Head of Operations @web3bridge | Philomath | Builder

[Aṣíwájú🦅 @SamuelBabalola_]

Ideas are a great starting point for building any product.
Article: https://t.co/1y0fUPlvmR
As a builder or product lead, it’s essential to go through an ideation phase, but that’s only the beginning. To know whether your idea is truly valid and if there’s space for it in the

[BeyondAfrica.org, Austin TX, Nov 7 @AdewaleYusuf_]

Don’t hire an expert too early.

It was an expensive lesson that almost cost me $300,000.

After raising our pre-seed round (over $300,000), we felt unstoppable. Validated. Funded. Ready to “build properly.”
So we did what seemed logical.
We hired an experienced operator from a company that had raised over $30M.
On paper, she was perfect:
• Strong pedigree
• Structured
• Process-driven
• Operationally excellent
But we made one critical mistake.
We were still pre–product-market fit.
We were iterating weekly.
Sometimes daily.
Testing positioning.
Changing messaging.
Tweaking the product.
There was no stability.
And that’s where the friction started.
She needed structure to operate effectively.
Clear scope. Defined systems. Predictable workflow.
We had chaos.
She also came with rules: no work beyond 4 PM.
No work on weekends.
No after-hours email.
And to be clear, she wasn't wrong.
It just wasn’t compatible with our stage.
At that time, it was just my co-founders and me.
She was our first hire.
We were constantly experimenting, trying to reach product-market fit.
Despite having cash in the bank, we were still searching.
Speed mattered more than structure.
Eventually, we parted ways.
No villains. Just a stage mismatch.
Here’s what I learned:
Early stage (pre-PMF) → Hire generalists.
Post-PMF → Hire specialists.
Scaling → Hire experts.
Generalists thrive in ambiguity.
They can switch hats mid-day.
They optimize for momentum, not perfection.
Experts optimize for efficiency and structure, but structure only works when something is already working.
Many founders burn through their runway trying to install enterprise-grade processes in a startup that hasn’t found traction.
Don’t hire for pedigree.
Hire for stage-fit.
The right talent at the wrong time can still be a wrong hire.

Founders: what’s a hiring mistake that taught you something expensive?

[Resolva @ResolvaHQ]

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[Resolva @ResolvaHQ]

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[Web3bridge™ Africa @Web3Bridge]

Welcoming Cohort XIV into a system of structure, discipline, and global relevance. 🌎🚀

This journey wouldn’t be possible without our amazing sponsors @Lisk @LiskAfrica Thank you for believing in this vision and making it possible. ❤️

Africa is building. 🌍🚀

#Web3bridge #AfricanDevelopers #BlockchainEducation #Web3Africa #DeveloperTraining #BuildInPublic #TechTalent #GlobalDevelopers

[Juan Blanco ☀️☀️🍞🍞🦇🔊 @juanfranblanco]

The extension that was impersonating vscode solidity (and many others following the same pattern) have been removed. We have seen that a fake extension or virus can spam many downloads (if that was their technique). So how to identify is the right extension? The best way is to look at the published date. The vscode solidity extension was published on the 2015-11-19 at 7:35 am, the published date cannot be faked. The extension was one of the first ones in the marketplace, after the official announcement of the extension sdk the day before. So in case of doubt, when choosing any extension.. check the date. @ethereum @code

[Harri @Harri_obi]

Marketing is applied psychology 🧠

[SB @seyedele]

Excuse my audacity in requesting 3 minutes of your time to watch this video.

Also pardon any oversimplifications and do your own additional research 😊

But here’s a lesson from my founder notes.

Cheers!

[Uche🐺🧑🏾‍💻🎥 @uche2v]

🍫 Meet the BTC flavours powering BTCFi on @Starknet ! ⚡

From $SolvBTC to $LBTC, $tBTC, and $wBTC, each plays a unique role in Bitcoin’s on-chain evolution. Whether you’re lending on Vesu or swapping on @EkuboProtocol, Starknet is where Bitcoin meets DeFi.

We explore each flavour, how to bridge them to Starknet, and the top protocols to put them to work for the best yields in the BTCFi ecosystem. ☕

This is not financial advice, but it makes economic sense; therefore, do your own research.
@Lombard_Finance @SolvProtocol @TheTNetwork @vesuxyz @BitGo

[Web3bridge™ Africa @Web3Bridge]

If you’re not sacrificing for your dreams… you’re not serious yet. 😤

Loading peppers 🌶️ in trucks just to save up for a laptop? That’s how it started.
Today, @codingcas ranks among the best devs to ever come out of Web3bridge. 💪🏾

Your story could be next.
Invest in your future, learn Rust or ZK today.

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[Ebunayo.eth 🇳🇬 @Ebunayo08]

Coming to @africablockfest? Let's connect and chat about @Web3Bridge

[Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre]

If you want to work in DeFi or ZK, you really ought to be comfortable with at least calculus level math.

DeFi is Finance and Finance is math.

ZK is also math.

When we (@RareSkills_io) try to explain something mathematical, we don’t avoid the math. Instead, we determine what is the “shortest prerequisite path” to get to the target of understanding.

If you don’t understand the prerequisites, you don’t genuinely understand the subject and you are just reading such tutorials to feel smart.

If you don’t want to wait for us to craft the tutorial series, you could just get cracked at math and read the academic papers and white papers directly. That’s what people who graduate from the ZK Bootcamp do (or did in the past).

By the time there is a tutorial series for something, it’s not alpha anymore (which is good for the ecosystem, but bad if you profit from having knowledge/skills most other people don’t).

[Jeffrey Scholz @Jeyffre]

Sometimes I get asked

“what area of web3 should I study to advance my career?”

The best thing for you to do is to shake the

“how can I make the most money in the shortest time?”

attitude.

Number one rule of Web3: Nobody - I don't care if you're Vitalik Buterin or Anatoly Yakovenko - Nobody knows if the a web3 meta is going to go up, down, sideways, or in freaking circles, least of all people who yap on X.

So pick what you are genuinely passionate about and stick with it for two years — that puts you miles ahead of everyone who can’t stay committed to something for more than two weeks. Even if your subfield isn’t “hot” you’ll be that much more competitive than the other people.

For example — technical content creation is literally the most trash subfield you could pick. People don’t see the value in it and/or aren’t willing to pay for it. Everyone expects it to be free, so that’s already a massive uphill battle.

But that’s my specialization and I’m still in business.

So all you have to do is pick some random thing that people pay for and do a really good job at it for 2 years.

A sad thing I see is people who haven’t experienced being cracked at anything because they don’t stick to things long enough.

They keep switching to whatever is hot and become an advanced beginner in a lot of things.

They never learn how to break out of the intermediate plateau because they’ve never done it before in any subject whatsoever.

It’s far better to be cracked at something that isn’t meta than to never have experienced being cracked at anything at all.

If that strategy is distasteful to you, then become so absurdly cracked at core math and core CS that you can pick up on any meta rapidly (that’s still a 2yr+ investment to get to that point though).

[Adekunle.eth @0xAdek]

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[Glory Praise Emmanuel @emmaglorypraise]

@palomasupremacy This is sad. 😔 That’s exactly why I started my newsletter @0xshiphq last year, to help more people find these kinds of opportunities easily.
I send out newsletters every Monday with tons of updates, including ones for creators.
Check it out here 👉 https://t.co/eMN7FytJH6

[Aṣíwájú🦅 @SamuelBabalola_]

Looking forward to connecting with builders and community leads at Confluence! Let’s talk about creating products that solve real problems. See you there🚀

[Blockchain Club LAUTECH @BlockchainLAUT1]

𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞.
𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬.
But how do you build something that 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬?

𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐚 @SamuelBabalola_- 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫, former @Web3Bridge 𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝, and 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 behind 𝟓+ 𝐝𝐞𝐯 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 & 𝟑𝟎𝟎+ 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 — is bringing the answer to #𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔥

🎙️ 𝐃𝐞𝐯 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: “𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬.”

👉 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐰: https://t.co/POpTt0DmJZ

[Glory Praise Emmanuel @emmaglorypraise]

I have spent the last 4 months tinkering with Rust across different stacks, from building backend APIs to writing smart contracts on chains like Arbitrum (Stylus), Stellar (Soroban), Solana (Anchor), and Polkadot (Ink!).

My conclusion: Rust is a beautiful and versatile language. I’m hooked. 🦀✨

[Adekunle.eth @0xAdek]

While we're still on this, if you're a software developer, accessibility shouldn't be optional in your work.

Here are practical ways to make your apps/websites accessible:

For visually impaired users:
- Use semantic HTML and proper heading hierarchy.
- Add alt text to all images.
- Ensure sufficient color contrast (WCAG standards).
- Test with screen readers (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver).

For hearing impaired users:
- Provide captions/subtitles for visual content
Include transcripts for audio.
- Use visual indicators alongside sound alerts.

For motor impaired users:
- Make everything keyboard navigable.
- Ensure touch targets are at least 44x44px.
- Avoid time-sensitive interactions.
- Support voice commands where possible.

For cognitive disabilities:
- Use clear, simple language.
- Provide consistent navigation.
- Allow users to pause animations.
- Break complex tasks into smaller steps.

General best practices:
- Use ARIA labels appropriately.
- Test with actual assistive technologies.
- Run automated accessibility audits (Axe, Lighthouse).

Follow WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
It doesn't take that much extra time, honestly, and it makes your product usable for millions more people.
For more tips, consider joining A11y communities. @A11yNGN is a good example.

[Ebunayo.eth 🇳🇬 @Ebunayo08]

Was visited in the office today by one of the team members of @quikdb_online who mentioned they graduated from @ayahq_ incubation and was among those who got the final funding!

Excited to share that more than 70% of the members of this team if not all are @Web3Bridge alumni! This result signals our continous value add to @LiskHQ ecosystem and in the coming days, we will be rallying the community around them to ensure that they succeed!

Another day to be proud of the works we do at Web3bridge

[Uche🐺🧑🏾‍💻🎥 @uche2v]

🎙️ New Episode Brewed☕️
We sat down with Cris from @OpusMoney on @StarknetEspreso to unpack how they’re redefining lending market yields on @Starknet

From automated vault strategies to modular DeFi architecture, Opus has built the rails for the next phase of on-chain capital efficiency, plus conversation on the opportunity available to bitcoiners in starknet's BTCFI season

This one’s a must-watch for DeFi builders and yield chasers 👀

#DEFİ #Yield #Bitcoin #starknet #BTCFi #Blockchain
@StarknetWPL