Hey, I’m Dylan.

Yes, that Dylan.

The one from Saber. The one who allegedly created a small army of pseudonymous developers and accidentally (okay, maybe not accidentally) inflated Solana’s TVL by several billion dollars. Also known as: “That Guy Who Speedran DeFi Like It Was Elden Ring.”

Let’s talk about it.

Chapter 1: The Year Was 2022

Solana was booming. Everyone was building. The vibes were immaculate. The fees were low. The TPS was high. The serotonin was even higher.

I had one goal: bootstrap the most composable DeFi ecosystem ever.

So I wrote some code. Then I wrote more code. Then I made a few projects. Then I thought, wait... what if all these protocols talked to each other? And then I thought, what if they looked like they were made by different teams to show how composable Solana is?

Spoiler: they were all me. And my brother. And me again, under different names.

Chapter 2: “Sybil Attack” Sounds So Aggressive

People called it a “Sybil attack.”

I called it: one very enthusiastic guy with a keyboard and no sleep schedule.

Sure, I used multiple dev names. But not to deceive — to demonstrate what was possible when everything is open-source and built to interoperate. Was it transparent? Not really. Was it effective? Uh… $7.5B in TVL says yes.

(Shoutout to all the dashboards that unknowingly helped me cook.)

Chapter 3: Mistakes Were Made (Also, Memes)

In hindsight, yeah — I should’ve told people what I was doing. Turns out, when you write half the ecosystem and pretend it's a vibrant community, people notice.

Also, I’ve learned that most ecosystems don’t love it when their top projects turn out to be all coming from the same laptop.

Oops.

Chapter 4: What I’d Do Differently

• Be transparent about who’s building what.

• Focus more on sustainable protocols, not just flashy ones.

• Sleep more.

• Use fewer Discord burner accounts.

• Maybe just publish under my real name once in a while.

Chapter 5: So… Why Am I Back?

Because I still love crypto.

Because I still believe in Solana.

Because I believe you can own your past and still have a future.

Also, because I miss the dopamine hit of shipping something wild and watching Twitter implode for 36 hours.

Final Thoughts

Was I a villain? A visionary? Just a really tired dev in a bull market?

Depends who you ask.

But what I am now is someone who’s learned a lot, laughed a bit, and is ready to build again — for real this time. Fewer names, more impact. Maybe even some docs.

p.s. I launched something dumb again on Solana. Just for the vibes. It’s called $TVL — Total Vibes Locked. Every trade is a tribute to the chaos we built. Inflate responsibly.

– 0xghostchain Ian Dylan Sunny Surya Khosla Saber Cashio Macalinao