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Today was my last day at @TrustWallet , and with it, my last day in the Binance ecosystem after more than five years.

Five years is a long time.

I met incredible people, worked on products I’m genuinely proud of, went through difficult moments, ambitious launches, incidents, wins, disagreements, late nights, and a lot of memories I’ll carry with me.

I’m grateful to every person I crossed paths with along the way. Every project and every team taught me something.

For most of my career, my mindset has been simple: give everything I have to whatever I’m working on. Build things that matter. Move fast. Help the company win. Gain market share. Take ownership even when nobody asks you to.

But somewhere along this journey, I learned something else: to trust my own judgment.

Over the years, there were quite a few things I strongly believed would happen in this industry before they became obvious. Some happened. Some didn’t. But enough that I decided to take a leap of faith in myself.

I’m going to build independently, experiment, probably make some stupid decisions, hopefully make a few great ones, and build things that I believe deserve to exist.

And strangely, I think this matters more now than ever.

AI is getting incredibly good at doing the work we once thought made us uniquely valuable. I don’t know exactly what engineering, product, or knowledge work will look like in ten years, But I increasingly believe that what becomes more valuable is what is hardest to automate: judgment, originality, taste, personality, conviction, and the ability to see something before everyone agrees that it is there.

AI can generate a thousand answers. You still have to decide which ones matter.

A special thank you to @cz_binance for inspiring me and welcoming me to this ecosystem, @EowynChen and @felix_fan with whom I worked very closely during my latest chapter at Trust Wallet. I’ll always consider him a friend before a colleague. Jobs and titles are temporary; the relationships we build along the way are much more important.

To everyone I worked with over these five years: thank you. I mean it.

No big announcement about what comes next yet,
But I'll be building with some bright minds in the space.

Looking back at this tweet from a few months ago feels surreal. Really unfortunate what happened to Adam. May he rest in peace.

I remember when everyone here was debating VC vs bootstrapping. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I genuinely believe we're going to see a generation of massive companies built without raising a single dollar.

What's interesting is that the founders who will have the easiest time raising money are probably the ones who won't need it.

Building has become ridiculously cheap. You don't need 50 engineers, millions in funding or a board telling you what to do. A few extremely talented people who know how to build and distribute can go very, very far.

And I think people underestimate how much of an advantage that freedom is.

You own your business. You make your decisions. You don't have to justify every move to investors or chase growth just because someone needs a return.

Obviously some businesses will always need capital. I'm not arguing against VC.

But I do think we're going to see a lot more founders who could easily raise millions simply decide not to.

And I wouldn't be surprised if some of the biggest wealth creation stories of the next decade come from those founders.

Now imagine a team of 10 hustlers.

I wanted to take some time before commenting on the Binance situation, especially after seeing some of the ridiculous reactions online.

I've been in crypto since 2017. I've lived through ICO scams, exchange hacks, Luna, FTX, 10/10, and countless other disasters. I've taken multiple 6 figs losses, watched markets collapse, and seen the worst of what greed can do to this industry.

But one thing I've learned is that it's very easy to criticize from the sidelines when you've never been in the trenches.

I've dealt with security incidents firsthand. And I can tell you that being in the middle of one is one of the worst experiences imaginable. The pressure, the sleepless nights, the responsibility of protecting millions of users. Now imagine that at this scale.

You can say whatever you want about @cz_binance or Binance, but one thing I've consistently respected is the commitment to putting users' funds first.

When things go wrong, what matters is how you respond. Taking responsibility, protecting customers, making people whole, and getting back to work. That deserves recognition, not endless opportunistic outrage.

I have no details on what happened, but I've also seen firsthand how sophisticated these attacks can be. You can build the strongest infrastructure in the world, but social engineering remains one of the hardest threats to eliminate. Nobody is immune.

What bothers me most is the hypocrisy.
We've normalized celebrating extraction, quick-money schemes, and people making fortunes at the expense of retail users. Yet when actual builders face adversity, suddenly everyone wants to see them burn.

Is that really the industry we want?
We should be holding companies accountable, absolutely. But we should also recognize the ones willing to stand behind their users when things go wrong, like they did multiple times.

Kudos to the Binance team and everyone involved in making this right for the users.

Can't wait for YC to help me raise for a more retarded idea.