Selected work
The products are the proof.
Talise and Maren began as difficult product questions. We carried both through research, product strategy, interface design, and engineering into software people can inspect and use.
Talise and Maren are not case-study decorations. They are the products we ship, and the evidence we leave behind.
Talise asked whether stablecoins could become useful to people who do not want wallet addresses, gas, or seed phrases. The answer is a dollar account on Sui: a name instead of a hash, sponsored fees, cheque links, optional private send, yield on idle USDsui, and a Nigeria cash-out rail. It took 2nd place in DeFi & Payments at Sui Overflow 2026.
Maren asked whether Bitcoin could become spendable without a sale. The answer is an amount-first MUSD borrow on Mezo, payments by @handle, and receipts that only say done when the chain does. The beta is testnet and pre-audit, and we keep that status visible.
The write-ups below are the longer versions: the product questions, the constraints we would not soften, and what is actually live.
The product question
Could stablecoins become useful to people who do not want to understand wallet addresses, gas, seed phrases, or blockchain mechanics?
What we built
A dollar account on Sui with human handles, gasless transfers, cheque links, private sends, yield on idle balances, and a Nigeria bank cash-out rail.
What changed
The blockchain moved behind the interaction. Sending money became an amount and a name, while receipts and custody stayed available when they mattered.
2nd place
Sui Overflow 2026 · DeFi & Payments
$15,000
Prize
1,416
On-chain transactions
~$9.5k
Ledger volume
Case 02 · Maren
Let Bitcoin become spendable without selling it.
Maren turns a Bitcoin-backed borrowing position into a money app: borrow MUSD, pay a person by handle, and keep every action inspectable.
The product question
Could someone use the value of their Bitcoin without selling the asset or turning a borrowing flow into a trading terminal?
What we built
An amount-first MUSD borrowing flow, payments by @handle, address resolution before signing, self-custody, and honest on-chain receipts on Mezo.
Current state
The beta exposes the real interaction model and product surfaces while keeping its status explicit. It is product evidence, not a claim of finished scale.
Beta
Product status
Mezo
Bitcoin layer 2
MUSD
Bitcoin-backed dollars
Self-custody
Key model
Writing
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