Thank you for 5,000 followers! I started writing actively on this platform only 15 months ago. I never chased a high follower count, but wanted to share my opinions and theses on things. This might sound like a cliché, but this really changed my life. After I started publishing research and thoughts, tons of people reached out to me to talk or to work with me. I quit my previous VC job a year ago (3 months after I started writing) and I certainly had an idea of what to do next. During the next 5 months, I was able to work with amazing protocols like @eigenlayer, @ArciumHQ, @SeiNetwork, @ritualnet, and especially @SonicLabs (if you go to their whitepaper, you can see my name on the first page). In April this year, I created Hazeflow, where our core mission has been to remove blockchain complexity so potential users, investors, developers, researchers, and anyone in general can understand protocols' value propositions. Deeply proud to work with @raikucom, @PhalaNetwork, @stable on the Hazeflow side with our great team members (we're 4 people full-time already!) Looking back, it seems pretty surreal: I dropped out of the best university in Russia where I had 100% scholarship coverage, escaped the country in 2023 with a couple thousand bucks in my pocket and basically started life from scratch. Who knew that it would lead to this, but I'm the person who is never satisfied and always striving for more, so currently all of my efforts go into growing Hazeflow. The past months have literally been me waking up at 11 am, working till 3-4 am, and that's it. Thanks everyone for their support over these months, definitely more to come!