SIDEQUEST, with Interspace
Working with the team on experiences outside the conference hall for Devcon week in Mumbai.
LinkedIn updates ↗Writing. Reading.
Getting out there.
Articles, builds, research and rooms that changed how I think. Original dates kept; old product advice belongs to its time.
StimmFolgen
A prototype for following Swiss votes, reading dated sources and keeping reflections private. One reviewed historical explanation; no voting recommendation.
Repository ↗YourTurn 2.0 — Hedera Continuity winner
ETHOnline build exploring booking-specific agent authority across Hedera, World AgentKit and Ledger.
ETHGlobal ↗YourTurn Concierge — Hedera automation winner
The New York continuation: provider policies, human approval and recovery receipts.
ETHGlobal ↗YourTurn — Hedera No Solidity Allowed winner
The original Cannes booking and resale prototype.
ETHGlobal ↗ETHCC Cannes, March 31 to April 5
Still one of the clearer places to watch where product, market structure, and ecosystem narratives are actually moving.
Event ↗Published practical-agent-systems
Turned private workflow ideas into a public proof repo with inspectable agent operations, browser queues, and evidence-grounded loops.
Repo ↗OpenGuild hackathon submission
Submitted ChopDot's new EVM smart-contract closeout proof flow for Polkadot Hub after shipping the March upgrade.
Hackathon ↗ChopDot: Polkadot Hub closeout proof with an EVM smart contract
Added a closeout flow for DOT and USDC pots where ChopDot computes settlement legs offchain, anchors the closeout snapshot on Polkadot Hub, and records settlement proof per leg.
Submission ↗DePIN Stress Test dashboard
Visual stress metrics for DePIN token models. Built to complement the tokenomics paper.
Dashboard ↗HSLU CAS Blockchain presentations
One of the stronger Swiss rooms for pressure-testing blockchain, tokenization, and legal-commercial ideas with people close to the work.
Program ↗DePIN tokenomics: incentives vs. real retention
CAS Blockchain paper at HSLU. Used Onocoy as the case study.
Paper ↗Vitalik on the three transitions
A useful reminder that protocol progress and user reality rarely move at the same speed.
Read ↗What survives after the room is gone
Hackathons, conferences, and builder houses keep feeding the same question back to me. What actually survives once the event energy drops away?
ChopDot — second place in User-centric Apps
ChopDot was conceived and built across Oct–Nov 2025 during the Polkadot Cloud hackathon, then finished second prize in User-centric Apps when results landed in December, with a $2,000 award that helped justify taking it further.
Devpost ↗Build Resilient Apps with Polkadot Cloud
This is where ChopDot started. Six weeks of turning a familiar group-expense problem into a real Polkadot-native product and shipping it under judgment pressure.
Hackathon ↗Swiss DLT rules and tokenized distribution
The interesting part is where legal structure and product design stop being separate conversations.
Read ↗Breaking DePIN, Zurich
Helpful because it kept token design, infrastructure reality, and sustainability in the same room.
Event ↗Built zkWerewolf at ZK Hack Berlin
Built a werewolf game around zero-knowledge proof ideas, with individual player pages, moderator controls, role commitments, and a simple proof flow for demonstrating hidden information without revealing identities.
Repo ↗ZK Hack Berlin
A three-day in-person zero-knowledge hackathon at the tail end of Berlin Blockchain Week. Good room for moving from abstract privacy talk into something playable, inspectable, and fast enough to test with other people.
Hackathon ↗ZuBerlin
A week-long residency inside Berlin Blockchain Week that kept the conversation close to protocol architecture, cryptography, future society, and the human side of ambitious technical work.
Residency ↗Berlin Blockchain Week
Two dense weeks of self-organized events built around education, collaboration, and knowledge exchange. Useful less as a brand moment than as a city-wide way to see which ideas still hold up once they leave their own bubble.
Week ↗Zuitzerland, Zurich
A month-long residency around Swiss governance, network societies, AI x crypto, future living, and public-goods experimentation. More society sandbox than builder meetup, and useful because it put product questions inside larger conversations about institutions, coordination, and how communities hold together.
Event ↗PBA-X: Polkadot Blockchain Academy
One of the stronger Polkadot-native rooms for ecosystem strategy, network mechanics, and getting closer to how the stack actually works.
Program ↗Automation was already the real thread
Long before the current model cycle, the useful work was the same: removing manual friction from onboarding, delivery, and operational decision-making.
About ↗Web3x program
Before: circling. After: building.
Mastering cookie-less strategies with DV360
Historical article on audience strategy and first-party data in the 2023 product context.
Digitl ↗Predictive audiences for Berge & Meer
Co-authored Digitl client case: connecting conversion predictions with automated audience activation.
Digitl ↗Audiences & data leveraging in Google Ads
Start with a data strategy, then choose how to activate it.
Digitl ↗The new SA360 & migration opportunities
Feature readiness, migration timing and operational tradeoffs.
Digitl ↗Data discrepancy: Google Ads & Google Analytics
Counting, attribution and configuration: why two tools can tell different stories.
Digitl ↗MSc thesis on AI integration and adoption
The part that still feels current is not the 2017 tooling landscape. It is the argument that AI succeeds or fails on strategy, organizational fit, and whether people can actually use it well.
Thesis ↗Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
I first read it in 2010. It is still worth returning to because so much later product confusion starts with forgetting how small and concrete the original proposition was.
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Awards link to the event record. Participation is not an award. Prototype and research entries do not imply production adoption.