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CDP Stablecoin on TON

Task

Launch a decentralized collateralized stablecoin (CDP) on a target L1 from scratch, grow TVL, and reach profitability.

$1.3M

TVL (2 wks)

$4M

TVL (1 mo)

1st place

TON Ecosystem Competition for TVL Growth Among New Products

My actions

Shipped end-to-end from idea to mainnet with 11,000 testers. CTO owned engineering — I owned product strategy, tokenomics, partnerships (GemsWall, Storm Trade, Nomis), acquisition, and GTM in the target ecosystem.

Outcome

What didn’t work: institutional demand for the CDP stablecoin was weaker than early signals. The market “said yes” but didn’t pay at the required level. The protocol shut down. Lesson: ecosystem hype ≠ paying demand. I now validate willingness to pay before launch, not after.