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Berlin, Germany

Hagan Dietz-Rosales

Overview

Hi, I'm Hagan.

I'm a Web3 growth and ecosystem strategist with over ten years of experience building brands, scaling products, and driving adoption in DeFi, fintech, and gaming verticals. I've led growth initiatives at TON Foundation, Bungee, Threshold Network, and Upland, helping scale ecosystems to millions of users and billions in transaction volume.

Along the way, I've helped grow Upland to 600,000 monthly active users, launched tBTC v2 to $60M in TVL, drove adoption of USDT on TON to $1B in supply, and grew Bungee's cumulative trading volume to $24B. My experience spans ecosystem growth, strategic partnerships, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy.

I'm just as comfortable writing about complex blockchain technology as I am developing an overarching ecosystem strategy, building partnerships, or bringing new products to market. Above all, I combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, finding creative, resource-efficient ways to accelerate adoption and deliver measurable results.

Feel free to contact me via hagandietz (at) gmail dot com.

Education

I completed my B.A. in Liberal Arts & Sciences at University College Maastricht in 2019.

Experience

Bungee is a cross-chain liquidity marketplace powered by SOCKET, enabling users to swap any token across dozens of blockchains through a single interface. Its Open Liquidity Marketplace aggregates liquidity across bridges and DEXs to deliver seamless, chain-abstracted transactions. I led growth, go-to-market strategy, ecosystem partnerships, and adoption of Bungee's next-generation products.

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Highlights:

  • Led go-to-market strategy for Bungee v2 and Solana chain-abstracted swaps, pushing cumulative platform volume past $24B.
  • Built and executed ecosystem co-marketing initiatives with Arbitrum, Monad, Linea, Solana, KyberSwap, and Wormhole, generating tens of millions of impressions.
  • Designed and launched cross-chain growth campaigns that generated tens of millions of dollars in incremental trading volume.
  • Defined product narratives, positioning, and launch strategies for technical innovations including agent-based routing, gasless execution, and chain-abstracted swaps.
  • Directed integrated creative strategy across video, social, paid media, and content, delivering 4x growth in engagement.

TON Foundation supports the growth and adoption of The Open Network (TON), a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain  integrated with Telegram. TON's ecosystem spans decentralized finance, payments, gaming, and consumer applications, with the ambition of bringing Web3 to over a billion users. I  led ecosystem marketing initiatives, strategic partner activations, and large-scale user acquisition.

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Highlights:

  • Led ecosystem marketing for the launch of USDT on TON, coordinating partner co-marketing, KOL strategy, and paid acquisition campaigns that contributed to $1B in USDT supply within nine months.
  • Managed 7-figure advertising budgets across Telegram Ads, Meta, and X, generating billions of impressions and tens of millions of clicks.
  • Led social growth initiatives, driving 900% growth on X and 1,020% growth on Telegram, while scaling YouTube to over 600K subscribers within 12 months.
  • Rebuilt and optimized TON's creator and KOL ecosystem, generating hundreds of millions of impressions while reducing CPMs by 86%.
  • Launched TONCircleBot, a SocialFi Telegram Mini App designed to scale creator engagement and ecosystem activations to tens of thousands of participants.

Threshold provides a suite of threshold cryptography services that power user sovereignty on the blockchain, including tBTC v2, the  only trustless Bitcoin to Ethereum bridge. Threshold was formed following an on-chain merger between KEEP Network and NuCypher. I came onboard to  lead the GTM process for tBTC v2's launch.

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Highlights:

  • I led all GTM efforts for tBTC v2, including audience definition, competitor research, segmented customer personas & messaging campaigns, user journey refinement, and multi-channel marketing strategies.
  • Translated the technical genius of the protocol into persuasive and simple messaging that drove adoption, with tBTC v2 reaching $60m in TVL.
  • Tripled the number of Threshold Network Twitter/X followers from 10,000 to 30,000.
  • Headed co-marketing initiatives with 10 major DeFi protocols including Curve, Connext, Synthetix, Alchemix, Euler, Yearn, Catalog, and Entropy.
  • Created all content for blog articles, partnership collateral and presentations.
  • Managed PR efforts that led to organic thought leadership placements in Bloomberg, IBTimes, and Unchained with Laura Shin.

Upland is a web3 metaverse platform mapped to the real world that lets users buy, sell, and trade property tied to actual locations.  Upland is currently one of the most widely used web3 platforms with over 3 million registered accounts, 300,000 landowners, and more than 6 million NFTs sold. I came onboard to lead growth, partnership, and user acquisition initiatives.

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Highlights:

  • Responsible for all campaigns that drove user acquisition hyper-growth, with MAUs growing from 40,000 to over 600,000 in 18 months.
  • Grew Upland’s Twitter/X account from 2,700 followers to 100,000 followers.
  • Discovered new audiences, partnerships, and growth opportunities through a variety of organic and paid campaigns. My top 10 performing campaigns averaged 726.1% ROAS, bolstered by a data-first approach that constantly optimised for higher conversion rates and more efficient spends.
  • Directed the production and launch of Upland’s flagship collectible NFT card set, driving $2,000,000 in total revenue.
  • Worked cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Community teams to creatively implement partnership activations for Spirit Halloween, Hyperloop, and EOS Authority.

Silicon Matter specializes in content marketing and social media management that delivers results. I was their lead marketing consultant for four years, working with companies in AI, SaaS, eCommerce, crypto, and fintech.

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Highlights:

  • Managed and optimised performance campaigns on Facebook, Google, Twitter/X, and Instagram with 6-figure monthly budgets. Top 10 campaigns averaged 345% ROAS.
  • Created and executed marketing campaigns for B2B and B2C companies in a variety of verticals including AI, SaaS, video, crowdsourcing, and crypto.
  • Developed a thought leadership strategy for a crypto startup founded by an early Coinbase investor. I ghost wrote articles that were published in Cointelegraph and Cryptoglobe, generating PR wins that led to new investments and strategic partnerships.
  • Developed and executed an AI-powered investment app’s go-to-market strategy that increased its customer base from 30 to 3,000 users in 90 days on a bootstrapped performance budget, an organic social media strategy, and successful PR outreach.