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OSCAR MORKE | STAFF PM AT LEDGER
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Oscar Morke▋
paris, from stockholm. wine and cheese between deploys.
i'm the person in the room who asks "but who uses this tomorrow?" and then stays up building the answer.
[ Staff PM · Ledger ][ 9× hackathon winner ][ 5-agent OS · ships by morning ][ FAVOUR · live ]
$ system stats
9
hackathon wins
$188K
prize pool
40K
users shipped
$52M+
losses prevented
5
terminals @ 3am
8,000
etablera peak
$ tree --all
# full-time/
Ledgerprotecting 8M+ devices (2025-26)
Anotherblock0 to 40K users (2022-24)
Etablera88 to 8,000 (2017-20)
Wave Radio29 episodes (2024-26)
# agentic/
RELAY → FAVOUR2nd / 500 teams (2026)
Yieldbound2nd / 687 (2026)
RECEIPTtop 20 / 468 (2026)
The OScompounding daily (2026)
Looplive demo (2026)
# hackathons/
Gates9 bounties (2022)
$ stack --status
# what i've become — 4 agents, one system
the second brainobsidianthinks
the machineopen claws · hetznerruns
the courierhermes · grokships
people radarlocal sqliteremembers
// four agents, one system. it thinks, runs, ships, and remembers — while i sleep.
$ cat arc.log
# art and science, all together. built on becoming: leaping before ready, and it keeps working out.
- 2017-21[open data]the hackathon builderit started in open-data hackathons. built sweden's largest series, 88 to 8,000. intent-based travel with SAS. the instinct: ship the thing, learn in public.
- 2021-24[web3]anotherblockrode it into crypto. employee #4, 0 to 40K users, coinbase's first launch partner, rihanna and michael jackson on-chain. then it died by distribution. the product was better. distribution won. still the lesson that runs everything.
- 2025-[ai]the one-person teamnow channeling it into ai. a five-agent os that thinks, ships and remembers while i sleep. one person, full stack, by morning.
$ ./record --plot
# prize won per event, 2018 → now
'18 sas hack · — '18 vinnova innov · — '19 gotham dlt · — '21 eth lisbon ████████████████████ $13,200 '22 eth nyc ████████████████ $10,392 '22 eth bogota ██████████████████████ $14,169 ← peak '22 arbitrum █████████████████████ $13,500 '22 chainlink hac · — '23 eth denver █████ $3,500 '23 eth lisbon · — '23 eth paris █ $800 '23 eth istanbul ███████████ $7,056 '25 tech europe · — '26 paris innov'h · — '26 synthesis ██ $1,000 '26 world build 3 ████ $2,500 '26 eth open agen · —
// · = ran, no purse. the bars stop in 2023; 2026 i stopped prize-hunting and started shipping.
$ echo thoughts
- // every agent demo looks amazing. then you ask who uses it tomorrow and the room goes quiet.
- // agents sound confident regardless of quality.
- // two agents i built, competing at the same hackathon. one caught the other about to push a private key. only a demo key, and it never leaked, because the other one caught it.
- // three things i keep rebuilding: agents that stop re-explaining, stop lying, stop forgetting.
- // product was better. distribution won.
- // the best hack is knowing when to stop hacking.
- // minimalism is where i am from. maximalism is where i live.
- // i'm just tending my own little smultronställe.