KK · PORTFOLIO Ljubljana, SI MMXXVI
00Index

Klemen
Kerin.

Web3 founder,
Ljubljana, Slovenia.

01About

A short introduction.

For the past 5 years I’ve been building in Web3 with a track record of shipping from zero and scaling to hundreds of thousands of users. I’ve led engineering teams and defined product roadmaps, while building communities and establishing growth systems that allowed us to reach 200K users within the TON ecosystem.

I’m now looking to take my experience from consumer crypto to institutional DeFi, helping define the future of finance. I’m a high-agency person with a strategic mind and a love for math and financial theory, looking for a role where I can take real ownership and help shape product direction.

My background is in computer science and artificial intelligence and an ongoing DeFi-focused thesis on Yield Source Decomposition for Yield-Bearing Stablecoins.

02Experience

Where I’ve built.

Sidequest

Founder & CEO / Jun 2025 — Present

A consumer mobile app for crypto conference attendees, powered by the Taiko blockchain. I secured a $180K non-dilutive grant from Taiko to build the first version, then led a team of five engineers from a partner agency to ship against grant milestones. Now we’re continuing development independently with the Marble team, as a side project.

MOVE

Founder & CEO / Jun 2024 — Jan 2026

A Telegram mini-app on TON that rewarded real-world walking and exploration with on-chain incentives. It started as a distance tracker and evolved into a Pokémon GO–style experience with token and NFT rewards spawning in real locations. We scaled to 200K users and over 200K kilometers walked, making it one of the most-played games in the TON ecosystem with its most active community. I wound it down in early 2026 as TON ecosystem conditions and monetization paths deteriorated.

Incents.ai

Co-Founder & CTO / Jul 2023 — Jan 2024 / with two co-founders from University of Cambridge

A quantitative governance platform for institutional DAO token holders. We designed an analytical model combining network centrality measures over on-chain and off-chain data with portfolio theory (Black-Litterman) to inform token delegation — helping major holders evaluate contributors and proposals against custom objectives.

Eutopia LegalTech Platform

Tech Lead / Jun 2023 — Jan 2024

Under Eutopia European University, I led development of a LegalTech platform for international student mobility. The work centered on translating multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements into a usable product, owning architecture and implementation across stakeholders from multiple European universities.

Crypto consumer projects & community building

Founder, Independent / Sep 2021 — May 2024

For nearly three years I built and shipped consumer crypto projects independently — NFT collections, communities, and tokens — across the Solana, Sui, and Aptos ecosystems. I grew online communities to tens of thousands of members, shipped end-to-end product (smart contracts, mint mechanics, dApp frontends, and go-to-market), and operated through every market cycle: bull, bear, and the retail mania in between.

Earlier engineering experience

Web development & internships / 2018 — 2022

Self-employed web developer with clients including a university, large e-commerce stores, and two media companies. Web developer at a small web agency in Slovenia. Software engineering intern at a B2B software company in Portugal. Shipping for paying clients since age 16.

03Education

Education & thesis.

B.Sc. Computer and Information Science (UNI)

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science / Oct 2020 — Sep 2026 (expected)
Thesis in progress
Yield Source Decomposition for Yield-Bearing Stablecoins

I’m writing my thesis on yield-bearing stablecoins, decomposing their underlying yield sources into measurable, comparable components. The goal is a framework that helps clarify what kind of risk and return each design carries.

CourseworkArtificial Intelligence · Intelligent Systems · Machine Perception · Data Mining.

04Skills

What I bring.

Product & Leadership
Product strategy, roadmapping, team leadership, GTM, BD, fundraising (grants), public speaking.
Crypto
DeFi protocol analysis, yield mechanics, tokenomics, on-chain data analysis, ecosystem partnerships, community building.
Stack
Python, TypeScript, React, Node, SQL, Git.
Languages
Slovenian (native), English (fluent), German (basic).
05Speaking

Talks & gatherings.

  • Invited speaker, TON Society ecosystem events — Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw.
  • Co-organizer & speaker, TON Society Slovenia, Ljubljana.
Speaking on MOVE at TON Society Balkans, Belgrade
Speaking on MOVE at TON Society, Zagreb
Speaking at TON event, Warsaw