For those who have newly connected with me let me introduce myself. 👋 I'm Chen. Or Christian. But most people call me Chen. By day I work in adtech/martech doing solutions consulting and technical sales, sometimes surrogate product manager, and sometimes surrogate data analyst. 👨‍💻 At night I've been working on a couple side projects related to gaming media and mentorship networking. I also like filling gaps in teams for people I know who reach out when I have extra free time. I just like helping people achieve their goals 💪 Native New Yorker and want to raise my kids in NYC so probably never leaving. Currently trying to grow habaneros, shishitos, tomatoes, and cucamelons on my terrace. 🗽 And in the time in between I degen in web3. I love art and I have REAL dev experience, but I have yet to put those skills to work in the space...yet. My home is @SpaceRidersXYZ, and my side piece is @Racerz_eth. Also, have to shill @RobinWifHat because yes 😂 I have a mohawk. Used to have an afro. Blasian. I like my whiskey on the rocks. I cook like a boss. 🤍 dancing. I love meeting new people. Hit me up 🥂

Fixed the messaging. Extend your dog. @spotandtango

Looking for ARTISTS 👀🎨 Tag your favourite artists below Any style, any medium. They might just get a DM from me. 🧪 Something is brewing...

RAT-TOBER ✍️🐀 31 days. 31 prompts. One infected world. Pick the daily prompt. Draw it, create it, twist it into your own styles Traditional, digital, AI… anything goes. Let’s see what Blackwater looks like through your eyes. We missed day 1 but let’s see what you got from here 🐀 #inktoberblackwater

*enter cryptic post below* making moves, timing is important with this one

RAT-TOBER begins. New rats. New events. New ways to cause mischief. The Labs are about to get a little strange. Stay close. 🕷️

Tek made for web3 degenz. Bought a bag for the culture 🍆

There have been several questions I’ve seen repeated over the past 2 months. Namely why haven’t you or the @ClutchMarkets received the follow on X from @vladtenev despite relentless grassroots experimenting/building and community/value creation with robinhood chain stock tokens. My answer is simple. Although naturally this is welcomed high level teams cannot rely on this moment as a point of success in other words. You have to deliver and execute to the best of your ability. Build and create value and provide the best possible service and good things will come naturally. That’s why I am proud to have developed a community of over 50,000 holders on Robinhood. I am proud that we have created over 150 million dollars in trading volume throughout the StonkBrokers ecosystem, and I trust without question the Robinhood Chain team and leadership who continue to create cool initiatives (like Hood Summit) to make excellent decisions with excellent timing. At StonkBrokers we will continue to do what we do best without question of floor or token price, and that is experiment and create value through new on chain decentralized financial technologies. We are here for the process of building. Not the result that comes from that process. Let’s cook.

There’s one major thing about this space I enjoy the most. That’s the community and being a founder now allows me to tap into so much creativity. Pushing a lure based project with gamified experiences really drives out some sparks in the community we’re building. I’m actually looking faward to seeing what’s next. And a genuine focus point is now we all have access to ai. This is such a powerful tool in the space allowing for the majority now to put words into art and tell there stories to

Sometimes the wall taketh and sometimes the wall giveth back @TheCardWall What a fucking last $100 pull gamble... #MEWTWO

Mancer is now the best DEX aggregator on the market so we made this short video to show just how good it is.

I am blown away, so proud and so grateful for @H20KT36 A year ago he said, I'm going to make a post about Quirkies every single day for the next 365 days I can't believe he stuck with it but man do I respect someone who is consistent Everyone should follow Water - I have granted him the 20th Quirkie Affiliate Badge and he is now our official Quirkie Brand Reporter 🔥💯 Thank you brother, been waiting to drop this badge on you for a while now.

You've been botted @CallMeChenAgain 🤖

If you're interested in learning about some of the @ClutchMarkets ecosystem tools check out the "Training Floor" on my community app placementdesk.xyz! Also, I set up my first $STONBROKER/WETH position with Smart LP 😎 @OxSimpleFarmer #CLOCKIN

This might take a minute, I appreciate your time fam. My web3 journey started like most people, COVID left me bored with a paused career and two little kids going to school on screens at home. We found art in NFT form together and have spent the past 5 years exploring the space as a family. At first, I had no idea what I was doing. I collected and minted things I had no clue about just because they seemed popular. I had no clue how to do my own research or what community meant in this space. It was mid-2021 when I found my first community home. The Whoopsies is where I met some lifelong friends and learned some valuable lessons about this space and even started a weekly Spaces that ran for about a year with my three closest friends in web3, @missifusita @CallMeChenAgain and @H20KT36 where the motto was WACMI - we all CAN make it, but only if we do it together by sharing information and resources. Shortly after joining Whoopsies the bag began to upgrade due to my new found friends and knowledge. I was able to join the @SpaceRidersXYZ followed by @GenuinelyUndead building my bag and my connections. Learning about how the space treats art, artists, community, holders, whales, etc. Then came @GhostLabNFT @LazyLionsNFT @alwaystirednfts @LongLostNFT @SmallBrosNFT @meetnippy and @killabearsnft where I met more amazing people and learned more valuable lessons but the BIG upgrade was still out of reach. Joining the @BoredApeYC was always the goal but I was still two steps away from being able to join. Then August of 2025 I saw @quirkies floor was lower than it should have been. This was a community that had always been one step too far to join until the floor dropped. Internal project transitions were the reason, @RealPapii was a couple of weeks from taking over the operation. I reached out to him to see if he wanted to buy one of my assets so I could afford entry to the Quirkies community. He was generous with what he gave me for that asset but it got me my very first Quirk (QuirkMaster Flash) when the floor was .45e. I was able to leverage some things both IRL and web3 to secure five total OG Quirks. The floor rose to over 1E where it has consistently remained due to the incredible efforts by an amazing group of humans in the Quirkverse. As the floor of BAYC and MAYC have fallen and the Quirkies have risen I was able to rotate some rebellion INX (IYKYK) into my first official entry to the Yacht Club without having to sell an OG Quirkie! After literally sitting there at 3:00am watching @0xQuit jump into action to save this entire world of ours last week I knew it was finally time to join. @RealPapii helped make it happen, @CallMeChenAgain and @H20KT36 helped me stalk the right Mutant and I was able to nab this naked 5T for a STEAL!! Is Ape follow Ape still a thing? #newPFP #PFP #NFT #MAYC

Something has changed inside Blackwater. We’ve spent the last few days looking at where we are, where we’re going, and what comes next. The plan is taking shape. A full Blackwater update is coming. 🐀 The Mischief is only getting started.

Join the tide seals.garden/ (🌱)

Vibe coding gets a lot more powerful when you know enough software to refuse the AI’s first “that’s not possible.” I learned that pretty literally while building what is basically StonkBrokers HR. I built placementdesk.xyz unofficially for the @ClutchMarkets community in a couple days, got it live, and then hit the first real wall: my AI builder didn’t support X OAuth as a native user identity. The AI said it wasn’t possible. Technical support said it wasn’t possible. The limitation was real. The conclusion wasn’t. What I actually needed was simple: X should be the account. My audience is Web3-native. Asking them to hand over an email just to use the app is basically asking for immediate side-eye. 😒 Log in with X, come back later, same identity, same profile, same wallet links, same applications, same history. No awkward email account bolted underneath it. The platform couldn’t turn a custom X OAuth flow into one of its native sessions, so instead of accepting a worse product or rebuilding the whole app somewhere else, I built the missing identity layer around it. The architecture became: X OAuth 2.0 + PKCE → immutable X user ID → internal Placement Desk Account → server-side AppSession → hashed session token → Secure/HttpOnly/SameSite cookie → backend-authorized reads and writes. Then came the slightly less fun part: migrating an already-working app without accidentally turning it into a smoking crater. 🔥 So I did it in phases: prove X login could restore the same account, bridge legacy users, then migrate profiles, wallet signing, NFT ownership, applications, positions, admin, bans, session revocation, blocklists, reports, lesson progress, privacy controls, account deactivation, and finally the production login flow. And because “it works” and “it’s safe” are not the same thing, I spent a mildly unhealthy amount of time attacking it: tampered payloads, cross-account access, replayed wallet challenges, expired challenges, fake admin fields, OAuth state replay, PKCE failures, blocked-user sessions, X-only users with no legacy account, dual-identity edge cases, and one lovely background revalidation path that would have false-closed valid X-only positions because it was still looking for the old user ID. Very chill. Very no-code. 🫠 The biggest lesson was realizing the AI was answering a narrower question than the product actually needed answered. “X cannot be a native auth provider here” was true. “X cannot be the user identity for this product” was not. That distinction was the whole project. A lot of my old product management and software development brain came back online during this one: define the real requirement, separate platform constraints from product constraints, design around them, migrate incrementally, test the ugly edge cases, and don’t let a tool limitation become a product limitation. That’s where I think real development experience takes vibe coding to another level. AI can help you build insanely fast, but understanding application systems and knowing how to problem-solve around constraints is what lets you keep building the thing you actually envisioned. Anyway, placementdesk.xyz aka StonkBrokers HR, now has custom X identity infrastructure. Naturally. 🤝 Also rebuilt the UI with mobile-first in mind, because of course I did. 😉 $STONKBROKER @OxSimpleFarmer

If you haven't minted some @Blackwater_Z26 I'd say do so before the next phase... The rats ingest, learn, iterate, and adapt...