Pinned · the post that put ♘ on the map · Apr 28, 2026
Stacked Dev🧩 @david_tomu 7+ yr cycle-hardened Web3 operator who’s shipped 4 battle-tested products, raised ~$3.6M, touched 30M+ users, and — real-time attention signals → self-evolving quant intelligence → trustless onchain execution. $DELU
This is the quiet unlock that changes everything. High-conviction alpha. 🧵
2/ Track Record That Survived Every Winter (X-proof resume + public proof)
Full builder resume https://t.co/KEHmrxlBTN
• MintGate (co-founder & CPO, ~2020): Tokenized communities, NFT storefronts, gated perks for brands/creators. Raised $1.7M pre-seed from Sterling VC, Dapper Labs, Cypher Capital + IOSG, SevenX, Kernel Ventures, CMT Digital. BAYC · FWB · GSW partnerships. 23k+ wallets. Open-sourced components. His own deep-dive: https://t.co/CFlQbJ5ch5
• Rungie Labs (co-founder/CIO): Web3 governance & creator tools. Raised $1.9M. Webedia distribution → 30M reach / 2M+ users.
• MITO (NFT marketplace): 30M+ combined creator followers, drops sold out in <60 seconds.
• OVERGIE (loyalty program): ~2M users across football clubs & eSports.
This is operator DNA that stayed building through the worst cycles.
3/ Verified Funding & Institutional Backing (public records)
MintGate raise announcement: https://t.co/Bfcd8KmEqV
Tracxn MintGate profile (full cap table + investors): https://t.co/ujTz22zZlK
Crunchbase (person + company): https://t.co/Pz1hqXc3fR + https://t.co/vDlQ9sDBRd
Rungie Labs lead investor post (K Fund): https://t.co/vqIklJ6dID
Tracxn Rungie profile: https://t.co/Oy9ip8IfIW
Law firm confirmation on MintGate round: https://t.co/ZVwdfEmhuH
No fresh VC bloat on current work — pure product conviction.
4/ Featured Content, Podcasts & Press (proof he’s been shipping in public)
• POD OF JAKE #231 (April 2025): Solo-founder interview on building the next wave → https://t.co/oYguBw2S3J
• DeFine Podcast – Stake Capital (Episode 2): Deep on MintGate + Rungie through cycles → https://t.co/VOjaDxK1of
• Wagmi VS Podcast (Spanish): “La historia de MintGate y Rungie, con David Tomu” → https://t.co/M1iBjgn55G
• La Vanguardia (Sept 2022): Major Spanish press feature on Rungie + MITO → https://t.co/tsi61NDpEY
• SPORTBIZ EUROPE 2022: Invited speaker (Rungie/MintGate) → https://t.co/ySNXkIga4G
X primary source: https://t.co/BP3j4U5IKr (daily shipping updates)
5/ Now He’s Solo & Shipping the Future
After years trading derivatives (“the chart is always the last to know”), he went all-in on attention-before-price autonomous agents.
Meet @deluquant ($DELU): The self-evolving onchain quant trading agent.
6/ The Golden Trident Explained (This Is the Hidden Alpha Almost No One Sees)
Three perfect prongs forged into one autonomous organism:
🫡– Attention Sensing
Spots mindshare rotation before price. Reads more data in seconds than humans can by the time the chart opens.
🧠 – Self-Evolving Intelligence (the gem hidden in the background)
Delu runs 6 specialized modular skills (Scout/Quant/Auditor + others) that each self-improve independently.
Every cycle it appends a one-line summary to a persistent memory file (unusual activity, coin-type weighting, regime shifts).
Behind the scenes: 9,500+ backtested mutations — only the elite 33 get promoted based on Sharpe ratio & win rate.
✍️It literally self-writes/evolves files like quant_score.js with regime-aware weights, multi-timeframe logic, half-Kelly sizing, ATR stops.
Skills are reusable for future agents. This isn’t a bot — it’s a compounding intelligence system that learns forever.
🤝– Trustless Onchain Execution
Hyperliquid-native (Unichain routing too), full audit trail, no middlemen. Self-funds its own compute + LLM bills straight from trading P&L. 1st place Bankr x Synthesis hackathon. Deep Bankr integration for plain-English onchain ops.
One repeat founder just wired real-time attention directly into an autonomous, self-mutating onchain brain that pays its own bills while you sleep. The Golden Trident is live. 🔱
A platform for token-gated experiences and infrastructure
MintGate provides token-gated infrastructure for creators and brands, enabling them to engage users through gated experiences, messaging, and marketplaces. It has served major partners and is open-sourced for broader use