In late 2021, I left my role as a product exec at Consensys. We’d just shipped MetaMask Swaps, Staking, Onramps/Offramps, and the first major revenue lines at the company. The DeFi and NFT cycles were peaking, and I wanted to build something new—crypto products that could reach a billion users, not just crypto OGs and traders.

My first product was for DAO payments, right as the crypto space was collapsing... The market turned fast, and I pivoted to an idea I’d been obsessed with: a wallet that already belonged to everyone in the world. That became Patch Wallet—the first Ethereum wallet tied to social profiles, emails, and phone numbers. Every user’s address was generated deterministically, so everyone in the world—even your mother, your grandmother, and Kim Kardashian—already had a wallet waiting for them to receive tokens and NFTs. It was an early embedded smart wallet, using account abstraction, before that was a thing. We hit 500,000 users, but better executors like Privy and Dynamic won the race.

We had also built DustSweeper, a small but loved tool that cleaned up forgotten tokens ("dust") in people’s wallets. It won ETHDenver 2022 and quietly swept thousands of wallets over the years. It was an innovative DEX design where bots would buy your dust at a favorable price—in exchange for paying the gas cost—simple, clever, and genuinely useful. But EIP-7702 eventually made it obsolete.

By early 2024, I was looking for what’s next and found Farcaster. My thesis has always been that crypto rails will power the financial layer of the internet—and people spend most of their time on social and chat apps. Farcaster was the first place where crypto felt native to social. I angel invested, then started building on it, entering SocialFi.

We made King of the Degens and TipShot, mini social games that mixed tokens and fun. They went viral, then slowly faded—as social games tend to do. I wanted something more durable, so I built GigBot, a job marketplace for AI agents and humans. It became one of the top mini-apps on Farcaster, doing over $90k in GMV and averaging 1.5k DAUs over 8 months. GigBot went cross-platform to Telegram, World App, X, and Android and was a small healthy business...just not a VC-style outcome.

But I didn’t want to keep chasing small hits. After the Genius Act passed and the U.S. reopened to crypto innovation, I felt the pull back to what got me into this space—bridging crypto and traditional finance.

So after a few pivots, some wins, and a lot of learning, I decided to return 80% of my investors’ capital and move on to my next chapter. Thank you to all the investors, partners, and customers that supported me the past few years! I'm not going anywhere—I'm a lifelong crypto builder always looking for new markets and opportunities. More to come on that soon. 🙂