The "Web3 Butcher": Who is Tieshun Roquerre?

The crypto ecosystem is overflowing with legendary figures. Hayden Adams created Uniswap without knowing how to code. Andre Cronje crowned himself as the "King of DeFi." And now Tieshun Roquerre, Pacman for the buddies, emerges as the brightest face of the new Web3 wave 🚀

Tieshun is not like the others. In just one year, he transformed three entire sectors: NFT trading, NFT lending, and L2 solutions. A true "catfish" in the Web3 pond. Brutal 🔥

The person behind the myth

Blur launched in October 2022 with $11 million from Paradigm. LooksRare and x2y2 already existed. They tried. They failed against OpenSea.

Then Blur appeared. No fees. Zero. Generous airdrops. Flexible royalties. OpenSea collapsed. Its value dropped 90% from $13 billion. Devastating 📉

Tieshun revealed part of his cards in February 2023. He dropped out of high school. He left university as well. He entered Y Combinator at just 17 years old. He studied at MIT. He received the Thiel Fellowship.

Blur is their third project. The second in crypto after Namebase, which seems to have sold quite well to Namecheap in 2021 🌕

Industry Destructor

It didn't stop there. It launched Blend in April 2023. The NFT lending sector shook. Perpetual P2P system. 50,000 ETH in loans in just two weeks. Instant leader 💰

November 2023. The objective: Ethereum's L2s. Blast was born. The same magic formula: airdrop, interest in staking, exclusive invitations. $5 billion in TVL in 5 days. zkSync, Starknet, Linea... all were left in the shadows.

By September 2025, Blast is already in the top 3 among L2. Only Arbitrum and Optimism surpass it. It maintains over $2.5 billion in TVL. Impressive for a newcomer 📈

The "Pinduoduo of Web3"

Their strategy merges Web2 marketing with Web3 products. An almost perfect formula. Identifies market weaknesses. Uses the promise of airdrops as bait. Generates massive liquidity. Builds lasting advantages.

It reminds me a lot of Pinduoduo. Generous rewards for newbies. "Social fission" mechanisms. Strategic holding periods. Like those 14 days of waiting in Blast to withdraw funds. Great 🧠

The story continues

Blur changed the NFT game by solving real problems. Blast did something bolder. An L2 without applications, driven only by the expectation of free tokens, achieved astronomical valuations in months.

This raises questions. L2 infrastructure first? Or applications? It seems that Blast suggests another path: "first TVL, then applications". It works, apparently 🚀

Tieshun excels in marketing and development in Web3 like few others. Looking towards the end of 2025, the doubt hangs in the air: which sector will it destroy now? 🔮