Ben Zumbrunn @benzumbrunn Twitter profile

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 years

You can now borrow on @cakedefi . Put your sats and fi into a vault and get those DUSD for high yields in our other products. Shout-out to the tech, QA, design and content team to make this happen!

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

7 months

Thank you for the support everybody, I'm happy to serve!

Bake

@bake_io

7 months

Cake Group appoints new Board Member. Following a successful vote by shareholders, VP of Product Engineering at Cake Group, Mr. Ben Zumbrunn is added to the Board of Directors with immediate effect.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

1/90 Following @bake_io 's efforts to crawl back to a sustainable company, I will dedicate 90 posts to our product, tech insights, personal thoughts and some history regarding the platform. Are we going to make it? Honestly no idea, but at least you get some free entertainment.

Bake

@bake_io

2 months

New day, new mission. Over the next 90 days, Bake will be listing 90 new coins! 🚀 It's time for you to shill us your favorites in the comments 📢

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 year

A big thank you from all @cakedefi engineers to @mackcoiner for informing us about performance issues on our @defichain nodes. We are improving our internal monitoring on this currently.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

9/90 Today's 5th "Cakeaversary" celebration was unexpected. We employees attended a small, joyful event. But at the afterparty I learned how deeply impacted other teams were during the last months. The most ambitious people were hit the hardest. Opportunity cost is expensive.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

2/90 Contrary to popular belief, I didn't join via Julian. In May 2019, while visiting Singapore, I emailed some local blockchain companies to network. @uzyn replied, we met up for coffee and talked about blockchain. We clicked and he wanted me to interview for his new startup.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

17/90 Our Bitcoin lending product (which we named "Lapis") was the first project I was able to oversee from the software engineering side. Looking back, how the back-end code (mostly written by myself) handled transactions was a disaster for scaling. The front-end was stitched

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

6/90 On 22/7/2019 we had our official kickoff call for "CakePool". I was still living and working in Zurich, and joined in for a few minutes to say hello before heading to work. It was only 6 employees, and I would become number 7 about a month later.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

8/90 Usually when Swiss people migrate to Singapore, their company (commonly a bank) pays them a "container" to ship all their furniture over for free. In my case, I sold, gave away, and threw away most belongings. I was left with a sports bag and a luggage of mostly clothes.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

29 days

44/90 Check out our new Trade tab on the @bake_io mobile app! We also just pushed out Credit Card purchases for all users. So it's super convenient to buy into opportunities.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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37/90 A sneak peak to what's coming to @bake_io soon. We're still testing this internally and are ironing small things out.

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@benzumbrunn

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28/90 When we were in our late teens, @andreattafabio and I saw each other almost every weekend. Once he moved to the Netherlands and I to Singapore, we didn't even see each other every year. But it's a blast working with such a close friend on such a fast-paced project.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

14/90 This is how @bake_io looked like in late 2019. Back then it was called "Pool by Cake". Our only service was staking. DeFi wasn't too known, and high returns were not necessarily a thing yet. So our "SINS" return of 67% was how we attracted a lot of first attention.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

24/90 Around the exciting DeFiChain launch in May 2020 was also a very defining phase of my personal life. My girlfriend became my fiancée and we announced that we are awaiting a baby.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Ojeh, in meinem Abstimmungsbüchlein ging beim #Geldspielgesetz wohl ein Wortteil vergessen! Das müsste heissen: "digitale Steinzeitalter". #GSGnein

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 year

Aaand it's live! Super proud of the team how quickly you took this from recipe to doorstep delivery in less than 4 weeks. Thanks to the bakers Michael, Kun, Jeff, Shaun, Anli, Hitesh, Josh

Dr. Julian Hosp

@julianhosp

1 year

When @DFX_Swiss aims low, we go high. Quickly aligned with @uzyn and we decided to prioritize a zero-fee onramp for $DFI as a dollar cost averaging on @bake_io . Will push to have this out as an even better service to the @defichain community as soon as possible. Will also look

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7/90 This was the original product team for @bake_io as shared in kickoff. Luckily @StevenCodes_ is still here, and we both got our hands dirty with more "etc." work than coding, the more employees and users we gained over the years.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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52/90 Our first, smaller offices were always a sanctuary to me. Even if we didn't have any mandatory office days at first, I would love to go down and work in a quiet environment. Toddlers can be very distracting at home, and parents felt this probably the most during Covid.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

20/90 Pre-covid @bake_io company culture was: Everybody works remote. Singapore based employees meet every week for lunch or dinner in the city. Julian would organize card game nights at his place every now and then. Sometimes we'd head off to Boat Quay afterwards for drinks.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

30/90 I just finished writing @bake_io 's engineering OKRs for Q3. We are stepping heavily on the breaks for anything too technical, to work on user-centric features and feedback for most of the quarter. One important "tech" thing: Improve monitoring on transactions and rewards.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

3/90 It's maybe not what some community members or current employees want to hear, but I learned so much from U-Zyn over more than four years - be it on blockchain, building products, managing engineering teams. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity and trust he offered me.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

10/90 My girlfriend (now wife) was a Singapore Airlines stewardess. She planned her flights so she can work on my no-return trip to Singapore in August 2019. After giving up my apartment keys, I was basically homeless for two nights and stayed in her hotel room till departure.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

39/90 We are processing all the custom smart bundle submissions now that you guys sent it. It's a lot of manual work to check and create all bundles, as we're launching this without much automation. If the bundles take off in usage, we will automate the entire process.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

11/90 Arriving in Singapore, my apartment wasn't ready yet, so my Swiss friends offered me their guest room for a few days. I started coding for @bake_io on their balcony and was searching for a co-working space.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

4/90 I was also very fortunate to meet @julianhosp in person before committing. He just arrived in Zürich for his "Cryptonight tour". We rushed though an interview at the Baslerpark lobby. I got a sense of his busy schedule as tour guests lined up behind us while we talked.

Dr. Julian Hosp

@julianhosp

2 months

@benzumbrunn @uzyn fake news 🤣 lol on a serious note: I am glad the connection worked out this way. And for me to add some fun trivia: I told Ben in June 2019, when I met him in Zurich, that we were "ok funded", had a functioning prototype and were excited to have him on. The last statement was

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@benzumbrunn

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25/90 Two days after DeFiChain's launch, we did the first DFI airdrop to @bake_io customers. There was no DFI exchange up yet, users could just stake it at that time. To determine how much each user will receive, we took a snapshot of USD holdings a few days prior.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Die @glp_BL beschliesst einstimmig (1 Enthaltung) die NEIN-Parole zum #Geldspielgesetz und sagt somit NEIN zu Internetzensur und digitaler Abschottung. Danke! #GSGNein

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@benzumbrunn

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34/90 The timing of our liquidity mining launch was perfect by accident. A few days before the Christmas holidays (a good window for research), @julianhosp and @lordmarkcrypto shipped this video which got the excitement up with users and employees alike.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

36/90 For those curious about our tech stack: We are using Javascript / Typescript exclusively on @bake_io . This means all engineers are able to read the entire code base with relative ease. All our front-ends are React-based, and we're using React Native for our mobile app.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

3 years

The first DUSD transaction recorded by @dfi_whale_alert - which from now on also watches the newly added dToken DEX pools on @defichain .

DFI Whale Alert

@dfi_whale_alert

3 years

19,000 #DFI swapped to 64,736.38609249 #DUSD 🦐 Value: 64,736.38 USD db7ccf0705e6e173c98e99d1e90db7234f00f9a0776ab86c4206825470dca89e

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

29/90 Another cool thing about this is, as a user, you can basically decide which tokens we're going to list next based on what your bundle holds. There's lots of coins to pick from in the form that we have yet to launch.

Bake

@bake_io

1 month

🚀 We’ve shipped it! For the very first time, you can now turn your crypto expertise, influence and passion into profit with Bake's Custom Smart Bundles. Think Amazon Affiliates - but for crypto! curious? Visit .

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41/90 For the most part, we didn't hire tech leads for @bake_io . The best leads turned out to be the people who just wanted to build great products with their colleagues and strived to improve, but keep the process light. We are most efficient with a thin layer of management.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

27 days

47/90 Today is the last day of the first QA engineer we hired for @bake_io . I still remember the interview about 4 years ago, it was a complete shot in the dark (probably for both of us). But it worked out super well and she could contribute to all our verticals. Thanks Bella!

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

28 days

46/90 Over the years, we did a lot of marketing campaigns. Some of them super rushed, without having the actual implementation ready, like this Xmas campaign. Some had very complicated mechanics. We learned that users don't care about mechanics much as long as it's a good deal.

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@benzumbrunn

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38/90 This was our first office, located in the WeWork at 71 Robinson Rd. A small room that fits maybe 15 people. There were probably never more than 5 people there at one time as the team was still small. Great food options nearby there.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 years

Beluga is back!

DFI Whale Alert

@dfi_whale_alert

2 years

2.77562301 $BTC swapped to 38,451.92600352 $DFI 🐟 Value: 132,274.62 USD f47777a7f74e3a006d51bc5f0c1199141a4fed71ff5514f190d2476d4b1beaf7

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Die Ständeräte sprechen immer vom Kompromiss "von links bis rechts". Bei jedem dieser Deals werden die Jungen in letzter Zeit konsequent ausgeklammert. #srfarena #FaulerZauber

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

26/90 As an engineer, I always love campaigns that work without much coding. Lets us focus on the hundreds of other big and small things we want to deliver in the next few months. The complicated but interesting things are the ones that we don't yet list in the progress widget.

Bake

@bake_io

2 months

Bake’s #ComebackCampaign rewards the driving force behind Bake’s resurgence: 𝗬𝗢𝗨. Win up to $500 in #rewards weekly, and secure a share of Bake’s earned transaction fees 💰 Catapult Bake to new heights, join the win-win. Watch to learn more. 🔗

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

7 years

#AV2020 ignoriert Herausforderungen der Demographie. Wir Jungen wollen eine nachhaltige Vorlage, keine Verschiebung der Probleme auf morgen.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

16/90 Late 2019 was absolute startup mode for us. Our only operations employee was Bettina. Marketing and community were handled solely by Julian and Ewald. Legal and finance were part-time contractors. Our only designer was Aen. The rest was a handful of engineers.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

13/90 As we didn't have an office, the first months I worked in a tiny co-working space at Ubi (industrial area). Every day I ate hawker food lunch with a group of Chinese-Malaysian warehouse workers between car mechanic shops. Everybody else in the company worked from home.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

5/90 My contract wasn't even signed but a problem surfaced already. The emails sent via all went to spam when sent to externals. This made me super nervous as I thought nobody bothered to reply me. The email problem was so unfixable that we eventually

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

11 days

75/90 While our newer brand is simple, I always wonder if it was a mistake to move away from , as .com domains are just superior when it comes to trust, recognition and simply SEO. Technically, .io is a country top-level domain.

Bake

The most transparent way to get cashflow from your cryptocurrencies.

bake.io

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

16 days

65/90 I did my second Singapore Marathon in December. We got Cake Group jerseys and a lot of @bake_io / Cake Group employees ran different distances. @jjidol from @ordzaar completed his first marathon as well then, props! Running in this heat and humidity is no joke.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

42/90 The more engineers that joined @bake_io , the less code was I able to contribute. On one side it was sad as I love coding. But my value add when managing the team, hiring, planning products, doing operations, and third level tech support was much more needed after a while.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

7 days

82/90 We've now listed 90 new coins to trade on @bake_io within 58 days. 154 coins are tradeable in total now. We list 96 Smart Bundles, of which 79 are user submissions.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

3 years

Thank you for the opportunity and trust @julianhosp @uzyn @cakedefi ! Those were definitely the two craziest, most eventful, educational, fun, challenging and stressful years of my life so far. And I never regretted any of it.

Dr. Julian Hosp

@julianhosp

3 years

Happy 2nd #Cakeaversary @benzumbrunn . Thx for having believed in us when we had nothing, cleaned up and brought some structure in. Nowhere close to where we want to get to yet, but we wouldn't be where we are with @cakedefi without ya! #dadprops

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33/90 I had the occasional honor to do the "Cake tech" sections of our transparency reports on youtube in the early days. Here the Q3 2020 video where we showcased the buy feature and the redo of the webapp among other things:

Ben's Preview - Cake Transparency Report Q3 2020 English

Get cashflow from cryptocurrencies for free now: https://cakedefi.comMore English Videos around this topic: https://bit.ly/btclapisenMore German Videos aroun...

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

5 years

Super stoked for my first day of work at @cakedefi today! Let's #buidl decentralized finance with extra sweet frosting 🧁

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@benzumbrunn

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43/90 One of the best things of early-day @bake_io was the workplace flexibility. The founders granted me 3 months of remote work in 2021. After our first Covid shots, we took a plane to Switzerland, and my parents were able to witness my first born's first steps and birthday.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

19/90 A small feature we launched today, but your data and marketing comms consent can now conveniently be toggled on and off via our app. Would be cool if you go check and turn on the marketing communications, it's off by default for older accounts.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Unsere Co-Präsidentin @AnaisGrandjean fasst die Folgen des Geldspielgesetzes an der #MVjglpCH zusammen. @jglpCH

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

18/90 The trades we executed with Lapis were traceable via hash. Some things needed to move quickly, so it was sometimes easier for myself to just draft an idea of user interaction in to start coding parts of the product.

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@benzumbrunn

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31/90 Quite a long time passed between launching @defichain and the next product on @bake_io , which would be liquidity mining. We first had to wrap our heads around how LM works and how to provide decent UX. We also needed to build the "Cake bridge" for all tokens to DeFiChain.

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@benzumbrunn

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54/90 The first version of the @bake_io mobile app, from a UX perspective, was more or less a clone of our webapp, with a few tweaks. We needed to get a bunch more front-end engineers in and management became a bit trickier.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Die Behauptung von @geldspiel_ja , der Zugangsschutz sei wirkungsvoll, ist totaler quatsch. Wer sich bei einem Onlinecasino registrieren kann, kann auch VPN einrichten. Das erste ist sogar noch komplizierter. #RefGSG #GSGnein

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

15/90 All the customer assets of @bake_io from August 2019 in one picture. The green dots are staking nodes. The light green ones didn't earn any rewards at that time yet as we just spun them up. The most valuable asset was the Dash node, worth a bit over 100k USD back then.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

21/90 When covid hit, only two minor things changed for Cake. We skipped our weekly lunches, and everybody was more focused on work. It might have even helped us, since customers would spend more on our platform vs. outside. My girlfriend was grounded from flying though.

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@benzumbrunn

2 months

22/90 For a while, our website listed all employees by name, function and photo (for those who wanted). After we hit a certain number of people, we stopped doing this. It was a good trust element though, in a space where a lot of projects prefer to stay anonymous.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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60/90 What always impressed me is how many smaller software project contributions came out of DeFiChain before there was an EVM layer. I also wrote a tool in 2021, "Chickadee", to track my DFI masternode rewards via telegram messages:

GitHub - benzumbrunn/chickadee

Contribute to benzumbrunn/chickadee development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 months

23/90 Some exchanges impose daily or weekly withdrawal limits (even with low amounts) that they don't even explicitly mention anywhere. It could take up to 72 hours for large withdrawals on @bake_io , but we don't limit how much you can move in what timeframe with full KYC.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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61/90 I wrote a second tool, "Beluga", which posts bigger DEX trades to @dfi_whale_alert . Anybody doing bigger trades got wind of this though I think and avoided the publicity by doing multiple smaller trades. It only reported swaps above 100k USD.

GitHub - benzumbrunn/beluga: code running twitter.com/dfi_whale_alert

code running twitter.com/dfi_whale_alert. Contribute to benzumbrunn/beluga development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

20 days

59/90 For the first 3 years of @bake_io , product development worked decently even without a single product manager. Sometime in 2022, @yingzhongng joined our vertical via @BirthdayDev as group PM and shaped our rough processes. He has since left Bake, but I gained a good friend.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

18 days

62/90 On the 1st November 2022, we were able to move into our current office in the "Plus" building next to Raffles Place. The @bake_io engineering team secured this corner. We would run out of seats a few months later when the employee count peaked.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

12 days

74/90 We have a townhall with the entire Cake Group every second Friday afternoon. We usually only see what our own department is doing so it's good to have a bigger picture. And the best section is by @andreattafabio who gives us a healthy portion of crypto hopium every time.

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32/90 We wouldn't have launched liquidity mining in December 2020 if Denis wouldn't have joined us earlier that year. He was our most influential back-end engineer in the early days and also shaped products like LM to the success they would become with his own ideas.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Die Handlung wird illegal? Das ist ja fast schon gefährlich, wie schlecht sich die Mitglieder der @JCVPSchweiz über das #Geldspielgesetz informiert haben. Immerhin können wir jetzt nachverfolgen, warum ihr die Ja-Parole gefasst habt. #GSGNein

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

2 years

@Bourbon_Capital @julianhosp For earn, referral rewards will be paid out in the native coin. So if your referral allocates BTC, you will also get BTC.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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45/90 Besides my son distracting me a bit more during my Europe remote work, it was great for focus as most of the team is Singapore based. So I was still able to tackle bigger projects myself, like revamping all our emails with @mjmlio , to make them pretty and dynamic.

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Ben Zumbrunn

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50/90 There was only one other Covid victim in Munich... Myself. With Germany's rules back then, it meant I couldn't leave my hotel room for almost a month. My wife who came along for the trip was a "close contact", so she was also stuck in Germany - and a few months pregnant.

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@benzumbrunn

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58/90 In the exact same week we were on our company trip in Dubai, Terra LUNA and UST crashed, and would ring in the end of the 21/22 bull market. Any crypto related discussions, internally and externally, were dominated by this after the incident on May 10th for months to come.

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27/90 One thing I really value about working in Cake is the openness to feedback internally and externally. Fabio, my childhood friend, joined us in July 2020 as community manager and was immediately shaping the product as well - and so were other family members at this time.

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@benzumbrunn

6 years

Die @jglpBLBS beschliesst einstimmig folgende Parolen: NEIN zur #Vollgeld -Initiative und NEIN zum #Geldspielgesetz @vollgeld_nein @Internet_Zensur

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6 years

Das Casinokartell steckt lieber Geld in die Promotion von #Internetzensur als in Suchtprävention. Schade! #GSGNein

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

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48/90 In January 2022, we had our first official company trip to Munich. Those outings are great for team bonding and talking face to face to many people who are working remotely. We had this very Covid-friendly desk setup in the midst of European virus expansion. Did it work?

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

3 years

Finally a #NFT project around an original idea. Check out @lissajous_art at by my friend @schmid_si - art created WITH the blockchain. Makes total sense.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

12 days

73/90 We managed to hire 5 superb interns for @bake_io (2 back-end devs, 2 front-end devs, 1 product manager). But first we had to go through a harsh selection process, as we got over 80 applications for the positions.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

24 days

51/90 Regardless of the Covid prison and other company incidents, I'm still remembering the Munich trip as a fun one, hanging in hotel rooms with @DCT_cpp , @andreattafabio and other rebels, having a glimpse of personal freedom from the still very strict Singapore back then.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

23 days

53/90 As the strict Singapore Covid measures got lifted a bit around 21/22, we moved into a bigger WeWork space that had room for everybody - short term. It also marked the end of our fully remote era as we introduced 2 mandatory office days a week for Singapore based employees.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

10 days

76/90 One of the tougher lessons I had to learn at @bake_io is how to let people go when needed. I think that the one job you have as a manager is to let people know when they are not performing. If you do this as early and clearly as possible, and things are still not

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

26 days

49/90 Despite our awesome desk setup, we had our Covid patient zero in Munich. Things got a bit crazy then, the hotel staff chased us out of common areas even though the rest tested negative. Well, in Singapore such a big meetup wouldn't have been possible in the first place.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Wenn nach dem Rücktritt von @_BR_JSA keine junge grün/grünliberale Bundesrätin gewählt wird, sehe ich keinen Grund mehr, von Konkordanz zu sprechen. @grunliberale & @GrueneCH haben jetzt zusammen 11,7% der Sitze im NR ohne Bundesrat, @FDP_Liberalen nur 16,4% mit 2 Bundesräten.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

17 days

64/90 Working at @bake_io , I also found deep appreciation for long runs. I do a ton of reflections on work during jogs. @julianhosp inspired me to run my first marathon in December 2022. After this, I seem to have inspired him in return to run the Berlin marathon in 2023.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

40/90 As I am responsible to organize engineering efforts, I am often pondering if we are using the right task tracking tool. We started off with @pivotaltracker which worked well when we were less than 10 devs, moved to @Jira (unfortunately), and are happy with @linear now.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

16 days

66/90 I also created my own custom smart bundle, Ethereum DeFi Rodeo, including the most important DeFi projects in the ETH ecosystem: Submit your own bundle idea here and we'll list it!

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

7 years

@cwasi @cedricwermuth Du hast wohl vergessen, dass die FDP im Nationalrat das Gesetz mit 25 Ja-Stimmen befürwortet hat?

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

15 days

67/90 On every company outing we do, something bad happens. So for our Phuket trip in May 2023, we needed to retire "Earn" - our single-sided liquidity mining product, in a haste, as the risks of running it any longer far exceeded the upside.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Der Bundesrat hat anscheinend vergessen, dass neben den Jungparteien @jglpCH @jungesvp @Jungfreisinnige @jGruene_jVertEs auch 1/3 des Nationalrats gegen das Geldspielgesetz war. #RefGSG #GSGNein

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

21 days

57/90 In May 2022, we went to our second company trip, to Dubai. I brought my wife and toddler, and had health issues almost throughout the whole trip, so I missed out on a lot of fun in the evenings and it was more of a work trip with 8pm bedtime.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

10 days

77/90 It still keeps me up at night for a few days though when it becomes evident I need to let somebody go. No matter the circumstances, there's just something I feel I failed at personally when it happens. Or maybe it's also my worry that people might still not process it

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

9 days

78/90 Steve Jobs said the best managers never actually want to be managers. We also struggle with that at @bake_io . The people who turned out to be the best engineering leads all started out as individual contributors. Then there's the flip side of that: There were always

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

14 days

70/90 Our current version of the mobile app is a full code and UX overhaul of the initial app. We got really unlucky as the App store blocked our release, and we needed to provide a lot more information to get accepted. It was a long back and forth that lasted almost a month.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

15 days

68/90 We also had a good amount of fun and great team bonding in Phuket though after work hours. The highlight being our 80's themed party, with an even crazier afterparty.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

13 days

72/90 In February 2023, we were at the @NUSingapore career fest to hunt for fresh grads and interns. Very interesting event, we had a lot of folks that were interested in what we're building. It was great to chat with CS students about blockchain and crypto.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

1 month

35/90 In 2021, we ran a couple of @brave ads in this fluorescent tone @aentan designed. I got inspired and bought some LED lights for my home office. And yes this is a Swiss keyboard layout, I have one at home and one in the office because I can't live without my Umlauts.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Ein historischer Tag für unser Rechtssystem: Mit dem #Geldspielgesetz haben wir ein Gesetz, dass wegen den #Netzsperren gar nicht wirkungsvoll umsetzbar ist.

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

13 days

71/90 Our back-end is mostly a monolith, and we were very careful to add complexity, i.e. microservices, to it. There were two exceptions so far where encapsulation made sense for security: 1. Code that interfaces with blockchain 2. Code that interfaces with exchanges

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

8 days

81/90 One of the hardest problems we face is what to work on next. Every department, team member, customer has a different idea on what's most important. There's a lot of great user feedback for example, but it's also important to stick to a plan and don't get distracted by

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Ben Zumbrunn

@benzumbrunn

6 years

Listening to a brief but interesting presentation by @schmid_si of @melonport in the @KraftwerkZH about money, economics and the #blockchain @impacthubzurich

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