6–10+ years in DeFi, L1/L2, or crypto-native ecosystem leadership. Comfortable designing incentives or debating rollup architecture. Proven experience building ecosystems from 0 → 1 and 1 → 100. Ability to manage up, sideways, and externally, aligning multiple orgs and stakeholders without direct authority. Possess the trust of developers, partners, and governance participants. Judgment to speak for OP Mainnet publicly.