One of the founders of the booming NFT marketplace unveiled his identity as a 24-year-old guy, Tieshun Roquerre, who was using the pseudonym “Pacman” to hide his identity until now.
However, one of the users on Twitter started to solve a puzzle to disclose the person behind the successful NFT platform, BLUR. The NFT platform is backed by notorious crypto venture capital (VC), Paradigm which contains a zero-fees model, specially designed for pro-traders.
Blur has taken over Opesea from the top place in the weekly trading volume. As per the report, Blur is currently dominating 80.6% of the NFT market, while OpenSea is just holding 14.5% market shares based on trading volume.
Interestingly, Roquerre has been involved with different web 3.0 innovations. If we talk about his journey, he is a 24 year-old school dropout and holds work experience as a software engineer at the e-commerce site Teespring.
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Other than that, Roquerre jointly founded StrongIntro and took it through the Y Combinator startup accelerator. Afterward, he enrolled himself at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and studied there for two years before he dropped out to join found crypto domain startup Namebase. For that, he fetched $5 million and then ultimately sold to Namecheap after three years.
“As we built Blur I enjoyed the privacy of being pseudo[anonymous],” Roquerre explained in a Twitter thread. “I would often doxx in private calls to establish trust, or if the vibes were good.”
“I’ll continue to refer to myself as Pacman and using my VTuber for calls,” said Pacman.
