Let me break this down properly because I think there's a disconnect between what you're asking and what I actually do.
I'm not a developer. I never claimed to be one. I'm an investor, a speculator, and a financial professional who built a community of over 350,000 people from the ground up starting in 2015 with Passion Plant. I know how to build communities, I know how to identify value, and I know how to put capital behind conviction. That's what I do. ICP is where I chose to put that energy because I believe in the chain.
Here's the full history, and all of it is provable on-chain:
Clown (Early Days) — This was my entry into ICP tokens. Clown eventually built a genuinely innovative social marketing system — a new type of on-chain marketing that hadn't been done before. I saw the potential and wanted to help build a Circus Arcade around it. I hired devs, spent over $10K of my own money trying to make it happen. This was before vibe coding on IC was even a thing — building anything custom on-chain was brutally expensive and difficult. Then the dev pulled the ICP LP pool. I didn't even fully understand how LP mechanics worked at the time. I lost 70K from that experience alone.
Hard lesson. Learned it.
Rosetta — Launched by the team at Code and State. They brought me in to help market and raise awareness for a token that could leverage the Rosetta API. I believed in the concept. They utterly failed on execution. I lost over $10K including in the LBP on Sonic — they front-ran their own launch, swapped before I could, pulled supply and made 700 ICP off me in under 10 minutes. Another hard lesson. Another receipt on-chain.
BIL — Top investor. The code came from Plug's team and got exploited. That wasn't my build failing — that was my capital at risk in someone else's hands. I knew the odds going in.
YUGE (Tacos) — Early speculation on a concept that went the way 99% of projects go. Signed up knowing the odds.
McDOMS — When Scott rugged and walked away, the community was left holding nothing. I stepped in, bought supply, and started building real utility around the token. That wasn't someone else's vision — that was me seeing an opportunity to take something abandoned and give it life.
Ape Wif Bull, Scott tokens — I hold decent supply in these. I may help add utility down the line, but I want to be clear about something: I'm not here to build the dApp that makes everyone rich. I'm here to build the dApp that gives the most back. There's a difference.
And there's a much bigger plan behind all of this.
DEAD — This is the culmination of every lesson above. Every rug, every front-run, every failed partnership, every dollar lost — it all led here. My team and I created and launched DEAD with zero public backing, zero VC money, zero influencer pump, zero presale. Nobody hyped it. Nobody shilled it. We built Dead Roulette from scratch — a real game with real on-chain mechanics, real token rewards, real treasuries funded from our own pockets, real LP seeded with our own capital. And it has organically become one of the strongest ICRC token launches in the ICP ecosystem.
Active players. Working dApp. A community that showed up because the product is real — not because someone paid them to be there. And DEAD is just the test bed. It's proof of concept for what I'm ultimately building. I can't say more than that yet, but the people who've been watching know this isn't a one-token play.
Now — Bobby made videos years ago with my name and PFP calling me a scammer and an extractor. That's exactly why I'm telling you all of this. Because the receipts are on-chain, the history is on my X timeline, and anyone who actually looks will see the same thing: a guy who lost a quarter million dollars learning how this chain really works— the mechanics, the exploits, the LP dynamics, the front-running, the rugs — and came back to build something that actually gives back to the ecosystem instead of taking from it.
I look at that $250K as a Harvard-level education in how ICP actually works. Not the whitepaper version. The real version. The chain doesn't lie, and I have every receipt if you'd like to see them.
So to answer your question — no, I'm not a "builder" in the way you mean it. I'm something the ICP ecosystem has very few of: someone who puts real capital at risk, takes real losses, learns real lessons, and keeps showing up.
Everything I've told you is verifiable on-chain. Ask me for the transactions and I'll send them.
Dead Roulette:
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DEAD token: mbv5p-uyaaa-aaaam-qhjla-cai
X history:
@PassionPlanet — it's all there.