gm DAOpunks, time is up on cohort_3 and this is the final post! It is a time to reflect on what has been done and delivered over the past six weeks.

Apologies for the hasty entry, as I’m writing this between pockets of time during Ethcon (and then losing parts of my draft later on somehow).

The Intended Game

First I want to say thank you to those reading this, especially those that voted for me because I had intended to use this cohort time window to work on Voyageur, a security awareness training platform for web3.

However the cohort had started at the beginning of an exciting series of events, starting with me helping with Bankless Japan at the WebX conference. As my involvement with them increased, my ability to deliver on Voyageur receded.

But throughout my six weeks during the cohort, my passion for working with APAC teams and educating others about crypto security never waned. It had just started to take different forms, as it usually does when one starts with an ideal vision but eventually realized they need to pivot to something more deliverable.

The New Game

Hackathons

As mentioned before, I am writing this from Ethcon, a conference and hackathon in Seoul. While I had failed to deliver on the online hackathons I had signed up for previously, it was much easier to deliver during an in-person hackathon with a relatively smaller time window.

During two days I hacked on a Chrome extension called Hookbreaker, with accurately detects if your current website is a crypto phishing website or not. It does this through analyzing not just the domain name, which most similar extensions do, but also the HTML and external scripts included (to an extent).

While Hookbreaker wasn't the education part of the security duality I have mentioned before, that technology or education can only go so far and you need both to curb crypto fraud, it did help me keep up the momentum of staying in the security tool building game.

I am not sure if I will continue working on this after Ethcon. But at the least I can say I helped push the anti-phishing capabilities of our community a bit and actually did deliver a security product at the end of this cohort. ;)

I also have one more hackathon that I will be participating in at Permissionless at the end of this week. But it would be nice to work on something non-security related for this one.

Collaborations

I’ve learned throughout cohort_3 that building a new platform for security education in six weeks was too ambitious for someone that hadn’t been building much in the past few years.

Part of my new game will be to instead extend what I had been doing with BanklessDAO: collaborate with established platforms to disseminate the security knowledge I have.

Asia

I will continue working with Bankless Japan on pushing the Bankless movement here in Japan, along with our newfound partners and those we come in contact along the way. But as I spend a lot of time in Korea as well, I hope to be able to help both crypto ecosystems flourish somehow. Given their proximity and some similarities I’m betting that there will be a lot of collaborative opportunities here.

That is all for now! I may not be as active on my Mirror going further but I will continue to post on X and Lens going forward if you want to keep up with where my journey takes me next!