Grants, wins, and rooms I've been in
Foundation grants, hackathon finishes, and workshops run for developer communities across the Sui and IOTA ecosystems.
Talise placed 2nd in the DeFi & Payments track at Sui Overflow 2026, taking a $15,000 prize. The submission shipped a gasless dollar wallet with Google sign-in, no seed phrase and no gas token, name-based transfers settling in under a second, and yield on idle balances. It recorded $5,000+ in volume across 1,233 on-chain transactions.
Received a payment from the Sui Foundation funding continued development of Deeplens, a trading hub and community dashboard tracking the DeepBook Points Program. The grant supports work on perpetual trading, swap aggregation, and leaderboard infrastructure.
Winner of the IOTA Moveathon Europe 2025 Open Novice Track for Blitzz Protocol, a DeFi platform on IOTA Move with liquidity pools and trading workflows.
Travel grant recipient for Sui Basecamp Dubai 2025 in recognition of technical and community contributions across the Sui ecosystem.
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Delivered hands-on Move workshops and onboarding sessions for the Sui developer community in Ibadan, Nigeria, as part of a 5-module curriculum.
On-ground builder activity and community participation across Sui ecosystem events.
Connecting with developers from across the Sui ecosystem at Sui Basecamp. Time on the ground with the people building the protocol, comparing notes on Move patterns, tooling gaps, and what teams are shipping next.
Taught the Sui Developer Workshop in Ilorin, Nigeria, walking local developers through Move fundamentals and their first on-chain deployments. Part of ongoing hands-on onboarding work across Nigerian developer communities.