a personal update // The only thing constant is change. I'm fully welcoming this period of change with the birth of my third child and have been bonding for the past couple of months. During this period, I began to write the final lines of my story with @OpenPageHQ to bring that chapter to a close. To be clear, OP remains one of the top apps creators and collectors use to engage with avatars, wearables, badges and communities. And I'm very proud to have helped build one of the most ambitious creator communities with OP and @OtherSpaceFM. When I joined CR3 Labs, a few of the questions were: What does a universal avatar profile system look like? One that stays with you regardless of the platform you're participating in? What does identity and digital reputation look like across IRL and virtual experiences? How can a creator or team of collaborators build a community and understand who their truest fans are? How can you acknowledge, engage and reward true fans and turn them into collectors and superfans? How does ownership translate to your digital identity and avatar? I'm proud of what we answered together. We built tools that empowered creators and collectors. Hosting and sponsoring experiences, workshops, and building creative tech. We forged new paths with creative workflows, analytics, and tools. We helped communities grow without ever needing a 10k drop, and gave creators the data to understand their truest fans. We brought the culture of collecting onchain badges to ApeChain. Whether it's a digital experience or IRL, to this day the community still uses badges to reward fans, involve artists, and engage their people. It's part of our onchain legacy. The UNCODED Series of OP Avatars. The 3D avatar and wearable system. Threejs, web-based, Otherside-compatible, interoperable from day one. Things I've dreamt of building, built with people I'll never stop being grateful for. This includes the OP team and those who built alongside us. To everyone who participated, claimed a badge, created or minted a collectible, sent feedback: thank you. You all remind me of why I choose to show up every single day. I believe in OP. The tech, the vision, and @0xm1kr. Not only a cracked dev, but one of the brightest minds I've ever met who actively pushes AI, 3D and blockchain tech in the best direction. This isn't goodbye to the project. Just to my chapter in it. I will continue to use the very tools we built because they remain that valuable. What I've come to know about myself across these chapters: I get called when creators need an advocate, when new tools need someone who can speak both creative and technical, and when communities need to be built differently than what any playbook would suggest. What's next, I'm figuring out. I'm taking my time while I bond with my kids, learn and create. But I'm making myself available to explore where creators, communities, and AI intersect next. 🫡