"Crypto came later. I wasn’t deep into Bitcoin. I wasn’t trading DeFi tokens. What actually pulled me in was Ethereum—not as money, but as a new kind of computing platform. That clicked for me immediately. I’d already obsessed over the history of the internet and personal computers, and Ethereum felt like the next chapter. Around 2021, I started reading everything I could, especially about rollups and modular blockchains. Coming from a cloud and microservices background, rollups just made sense to me. I started writing, making graphics, trying to map out how it all worked.."