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.