Harmony is a community-first, culture-driven project. In our commitment to open development and radical transparency, the team shares peer feedback and performance reviews in public. Beyond a shared mission, we bond over the unique culture of our community. That’s the social change we are spreading to the world.

3/14 Mon: Write ownership percentages, self-assessment on impact, and 3+ peer reviews.
3/21 Mon: Allocate peer bonus (among $200k total pool) to max 5 people on Coordinape.
3/31 Thu: Managers calibrate for additional bonus, invite community for comments.

1+22 Core Team

💙 Stephen Tse*: 20% vision, 50% strategy, 30% roadmap

3️⃣ (March Deliverables) Write keynote “10K DAO & ZK Scholars”, Blue Metaverse with demos & roadmap at NFT.LA, Timeless Wallet campaigns on daily active users.

🛡 Rongjian Lan 💙: 50% protocol, 30% staking, 20% cryptography

🛡 (self assessment) In Q1, I drove the implementation and launch of staking precompile and Metamask integration, including code review with Max, testing with Ganesha/Soph/Max, and Medium article with Daniel.
🛡 I worked closely with the Suited agency for sourcing engineer candidates and with Ganesha/Leo/Jack on interviewing them. So far, we have 3 engineers onboarded (Max, Konstantin, Xiaopeng) and 1 engineer to start in April (Gheis) and 1 pending offer (Marco).
🛡 After months of discussion and iteration, research DAO published the technical report on our protocol analysis. We also published the cross-shard smart contract messaging design in collaboration with the MuKn group. Besides, I dug into the root cause of RPC issues, proposed the indexed getLog rpc solution, and experimented various other solutions (e.g. rate limit, database tuning).
🛡 I also led engineering team to recover the mainnet outage with a 36+ hour war-mode session, and wrote detailed post-mortem with Daniel. In Q2, I will continue pushing to hire more engineers so we can further strengthen our product’s quality and speed up new feature development.
3️⃣ Cross-shard smart contract design, Efficient signature collection, Research DAO eng plan on consensus, sharding & security. 100/80/100%
⚔ RJ is always available to answer technical questions via dm and I really appreciated the time he is taking to answer them. Learning is one of the behaviors everyone should always have.
🐉 RJ’s stoic and detail-oriented nature helped guide us through one of the toughest episodes of recent memory for Harmony’s chain. Under tremendous pressure to resolve a historic chain issue, he ensured that we covered all imaginable use cases and pushed for gas fee increase which contributed to our sustained recovery. He’s also pushing to hire as quickly as possible while keeping the bar high, which is key: think big. 💙
🚗 RJ’s support and input are always on-point and the work he’s doing at the protocol level is fundamental. A heavy lifter and a great teammate.
☁️ RJ is incredibly good at what he does and the community is excited for all the protocol improvements such as cross-shard transactions and 1s finality. With his growing team, I'm hoping to see even more great things released in the coming months. The community loves learning about our plans so I want to encourage RJ to be more open about his progress on these projects. I think AMAs, more blog posts, and tweets would be really appreciated by the community.
🎽 Would like to see RJ write weekly on our forum and twitter on technical topics. (conversation turn taking).
🏃 RJ is keen on protocol improvement with deep thinking. He led the mainnet recovery under huge pressure with limited resources for a continuous 48 hours. Thanks a lot! I would like to see RJ push for other shard’s adoption to demonstrate the horizontal scalability of Harmony protocol. Personally, I think 1s finally is less critical than the scalability of other shards at this moment. Avax’s subnet is gaining popularity, we shouldn’t lag behind on this scaling solution.
🎤 RJ is true war mode. While soft spoken, he is tenacious in his approach to establishing Harmony as a top tier chain (not to mention his basketball skills). Without RJ’s vision and drive, our ops team could not do what we do. I am delighted when RJ speaks, so I can gain a deeper glimpse into his world and look forward to the incredible things RJ and his team have in store for us in 2022.

🏃 Leo Chen 💙: 50% technical partners, 25% system, 25% NFT/Metaverse

🏃 In Q1 I led the Rosetta validation process with our partners, fixed many tech issues and improved the entire process for fast validation. In addition, I launched the iToken standard to integrate BAYC with DFK, worked with RJ on mainnet recovery, proposed a libp2p tuning to recover the mainnet, gave talks to NFT community, talked to many community projects (especially in NFT/metaverse field), and established the roadmap with 1wallet and multiple metaverse partners. I also led the China team with continuous community support, PR/marketing, and partnerships.
🏃 In Q2 I will focus on RPC new architecture and continuous system optimization, and continue to drive our metaverse initiatives.
3️⃣ Coinbase’s Rosetta integration, Design CloudDB setup for Elastic RPC, Blockchain checkpoint and LevelDB optimization. 100/100/75%
⛵I didn’t get to work a lot directly with Leo this quarter but I was impressed by how much he’s willing to spend time to help onboard a fellow I’ve worked with, who is not a dev and just needed some guidance on NFT, tokens, and some slightly technical things. I know Leo jokes that he’s one of the most sociable engineers on the team, but I think he’s just socially supportive to everyone all around, regardless of their rank/beginner status. He also put me in touch with some really useful connections in the Chinese community - zkDAO is now a partner w/ KuCoin thanks to that. 💙
⚔ Leo has been working on a lot of meaningful work with the Rosetta integration and all the NFT initiatives, but also on improving the infra side - kudos to him! An area of improvement would be to communicate more on all the work he is doing and give more frequent updates.
🛡 Leo helped a lot on the NFT, metaverse, and DAO strategy with his in-depth knowledge in these fields, which I think is very important. I also appreciate him leading the Rosetta integration which is a complicated process with many technical issues to resolve. Leo also helps organize the weekly on-call meeting which is a good venue for the eng team to communicate and sync up.
🐉 When Leo touches upon NFTs, it’s all fireworks. Highly optimistic and envisions a hyperconnected world of gazillion use cases for NFTs in the metaverse. Harmony’s going to go places in this new paradigm of human interactions via this new medium.
🚗 Whether NFTs, DeFi, or DevOps, Leo is always a vast source of knowledge and advice. Most of my interactions with him had to do with DevOps, and I can say that we would not be able to keep the show running without him.
☁️ Leo has been doing a stellar job leading the DevOps team. The recent improvements in our uptime and general stability have been substantial and noticeable. Leo is always available to provide support and is extremely professional in all aspects of his role. Leo has been a role model for me on how to think about decentralization and how to plan for short-term and long-term product development to benefit the community. One thing I'd love to see from Leo is improving our monitoring tools and opening them up to the community for better real-time visibility into the health of the ecosystem.
⏳ Shepard the network and preach the gospel of NFTs. Let’s make social NFTs a real thing in Q2.

🎽 Li Jiang 💙: 60% operations, 30% roadmap, 10% DAOs

🎽 In Q1, I pushed forward launches with Aave, Stake DAO, Poolz, and M6. These launches were valuable for the ecosystem but still at the individual campaign level. Helping the team complete Project X with 35 new partners at ETH Denver had more impact on the entire ecosystem.
🎽 With 1wallet, it’s not so much about onboarding 100 people myself but pushing the team to activate 500+ users in San Francisco, South by Southwest, and Game Developer Conference.
🎽 In Q2, I’ll be delegating more team ops and events while focusing on external engagements that can impact the entire platform and team meta-processes to decentralize and scale our decision-making.
3️⃣ Engage 1k users for 1Wallet @ ETHAustin/GDC, 10 investors due diligence on 2026 Plan, Publish Bitcoin Bridge DAO proposal, incentives, nominations. 80/90/100%
⚽️ Li is an absolute superhuman and I am in awe of his discipline. I appreciate the efforts he put in mentoring me and onboarding me. He still manages time for feedback and ideation in spite of the million other things he does. An inspiration to work with.
⛵ I continue to be amazed by how quickly Li can respond to my telegram messages, even while we’re traveling / when we got sick / under any condition - while he must be doing a million other things at the same time. As remote working is becoming part of the norm, we can’t chit-chat and update each other during coffee / lunch breaks like how work used to be. His virtually unlimited bandwidth becomes so important in holding everything together.
🛹 I want to be like Li when I grow up. I mean that. He is positive, energetic, professional, credible, humble, skilled - literally everything I wish I was. He’s a great example to me and I’m very lucky to learn from and work with him. 💙
🐉 Li sets the pace and everyone follows. He’s incredibly genuine. Thinks Harmony blue. Dreams Harmony blue. Selfless, bright, practices healthy living, and always pushes for the next level of impact. No wonder anyone and everyone that knows him has such high respect for him. I’m truly honored to be able to be a part of the team with his leadership.
🔭 It’s impressive to see Li take on and tackle a great number of tasks while displaying incredible multi-tasking skills. Yet despite being pulled in so many directions, he still finds the time to follow-up with the team, ensures nothing sits lingering for long, and spends some 1:1 time with his colleagues. From assisting us on the grants committee to spearheading operations, to events, partnerships, and so many other items on his plate; I’m impressed by his ability to manage everything on his plate and hope to improve my time management skills to match Li’s someday.
🌲 As Thoreau stated “Simplify simplify”. That is Li. The ability to move something from extremely complicated to simplicity itself is the hallmark of thoughtfulness and intelligence. Li is the paragon of operational scaling. Less calls, more writing. Empower the team to make tough decisions. Demand excellence in performance while allowing for the volatility inherent in humanity. Li is constantly available, constantly working, constantly supporting and inspires his team to reach higher, dream bigger and enjoy the journey. It is an absolute pleasure to work with, for and together with Li.
🚗 ”To be calm is the highest achievement of the self,” Li’s leadership is an example of that. I can always find a solution to any problem and help when needed.
☁️ I wouldn't be surprised if one day we discover that Li is actually a cyborg or some sort of superhuman being. I'm constantly surprised by how many things Li can juggle and still remain calm and productive. Li is humble and beyond helpful and truly brings out the best in everyone. He's an incredible role model and his passion for his work is unmatched. It seems to me Li is always helping others but I would love to see him ask for more help also. My goal is to help Li scale by taking on some of the many admin tasks that he owns to allow him to be even more productive at expanding the ecosystem.
🎤 Li is a fantastic example of great leadership. Despite having a wealth of knowledge and experience, Li always strives to amplify the efforts of those around him. His unlimited bandwidth continues to baffle me. Despite these incredible gifts, Li remains one of the most humble people I have ever met. He is a massive gift to our team and ecosystem, and exemplifies our values with every breath he takes. I am honored to have a seat next to him and so thankful for what he has taught me in such a short time.
🏃 Li is always tireless and promptly responds to all requests. I would like to see a clearer process with better planning, especially on internal processes. Sometimes I’ve felt we are a bit too ad-hoc’ish.
⏳ As Harmony grows, the stakes are high. A growing team, bigger treasury, expanding partnerships ... it is easy to lose your north compass. Yet Li maintains the purity of his heart and does not let the noise and chaos dictate his own cadence.
💃🏻 Li has been an incredible leader, and I am so grateful to be learning from him. Li has shown patience, wisdom, and emotional intelligence in every situation I have seen him in, and he has shown a genuine desire to help others around him grow. I have watched Li interact with everyone under the sun, and he always treats them with the same respect and care, something I admire greatly. Along with this, Li can also complete his work more quickly than anyone I've ever known. Because of his example, we can learn what is possible and how to accomplish it. In addition, he provides resources, correction, and feedback to teach and strengthen us.

🏏 Ganesha Upadhyaya 🛡: 70% bridges, 20% research, 10% SDK

🏏 In Q1 I was mainly focused on delivering the much-awaited bitcoin bridge. We were able to launch timely just before ETH Denver and since then the bridge accrued over 115 BTC (exceeding my expectation of 100 BTC for Q1). 🏏 For ensuring top security of the BTC Bridge, the smart contracts were revised/optimized several times. Also, the vault clients & relayers were optimized to improve the UX and efficiency. Overall, vault runners (30+) are actively participating and we have proposed (implementation in progress) revision of their incentives which should help further attract more vaults with higher collaterals.
🏏 I also worked on a feature release for BTC Bridge which consists of security patches and optimizations. In Q1, I am also pushing to achieve code completion for the trustless ETH bridge, which has several moving pieces, for April/May launch. Apart from these, I aim to always being available to help partners with their technical questions to provide the best experience for them to build on Harmony.
3️⃣ Full Bitcoin bridge & relay features, BTC vault incentives, Trustless ETH bridge code completion & full unit tests. 75/90/80%
⛵I want to thank Ganesha for coming to chat in one of our ZKU classes (and not making me sound like a fraud for not knowing what I’m talking about!). Talking to Ganesha is always such a joy, because not only does he actually know how to build things, he can also boil down the complex ideas from research papers down to the conceptual essence, so we can talk and think big about them. Without him, we wouldn’t dare go deep into infrastructure work at ZKU, as we attempt to do so now.
🛡 Great to see Ganesha launched the BTC bridge with the team, another time showing his technical capability, leadership, and project planning skills. BTC bridge is a complicated protocol that involves both on-chain and off-chain protocol development with incentive design for the validators. Ensuring this system continues to function smoothly is not an easy task. I am impressed by the quality and timeliness of the BTC bridge launch driven by Ganesha.
🌻 It was great to work with Ganesha on the launch of the BTC bridge. As always, he provided quick support on contract development and help with architecture design. Ganesha also helps a lot to resolve issues with the community. Ganesha is an excellent manager and I admire his ability to take on many projects and participate in many events in parallel. 💙
🐉 Last quarter I was in awe of his DayONE speech, and this quarter my jaw dropped with the launch of the first-ever trustless BTC bridge in blockchain history. He’s humble and thoughtful, quietly resolving issues big and small, which I wish he would brag more about. I’m glad that he’s bringing on more direct help to scale Harmony’s efforts to bridge across all chains.
🛹 I want to thank Ganesha for being a technical leader that is also always available to help on biz dev calls when a technical person is needed. He’s humble, highly professional, and just easy to work with.
🚗 Ganesha’s work with BTC Bridge and Trustless Bridge keeps leading the innovation effort in Harmony. And as I push forward to keep innovating, his mentorship is always very helpful. Finally, I found his approach to ZK rollups for crosschain and scaling to be one of the most powerful ideas in Harmony’s roadmap.
☁️ Ganesha is an amazing builder and researcher. The depth of his knowledge and dedication to his work is truly commendable. Ganesha has provided so much support for our partners and has always been available to jump in and help answer questions and to troubleshoot. Leading a small team of developers, Ganesha is very hands-on and is able to produce sophisticated applications that the community loves to use. My recommendation to Ganesha is to work closely with the product team to ensure timely delivery of projects and to insist on the highest standards by introducing thorough testing/QA into his team's development workflow.
🏃Ganesha had very deep NFT and GameFi experience and knowledge in the industry. I highly recommend he advise our NFT and GameFi strategy. He always pushes to bring more users to Harmony, which should be in everyone’s mind. BTC bridge launch was amazing and very well received in the community. Great work!

🌻 Yuriy Menkov ☁️: 70% bridges, 20% staking, 10% support

🌻 My Q1 main focus was on the BTC bridge launch. Finalizing and launching BTC bridge services in production: vaults, relayer, dashboard, security monitoring. After launch (early February) - user and services support, bug fixing. To improve user support for all bridges: helpdesk set up, support documentation, support specialist were hired. (All this helped to remove the burden of supporting bridges from developers). Optimizations for Horizon bridge: better security validations and supporting operations management.
🌻 In the end of Q1 we have reworked Horizon bridge UI (together with Sergey). Mentored Sergey and working together with him on Staking dashboard: added MetaMask support and finished part of Validator DAO HIP proposals. Q2 main goals: improvement of bridges, development and support of bridges dev tools.
3️⃣ Launch wrong payments refund for BTC bridge, Finish dark UX theme for Horizon bridge, Publish vault-cli for BTC bridge. 100/80/90%
☁️ Yuriy successfully helped launch the much anticipated BTC Bridge. I am extremely impressed by how quickly he was able to ramp up and become a key contributor to this project. Yuriy is also working very well with UI/UX designers to refresh the Horizon bridge. I would like to encourage Yuriy to be more involved on the Product development side of things and think about user experience and utilizing external resources to create great products.
🎸 Efficiently develops and leads Horizon and BTC bridges and staking. Invaluable help on designing components of the new Ethereum trustless bridge. Thanks!
🏏 Great end-to-end efforts in launching BTC Bridge and making it successful. I am super impressed (as always) with Yuriy’s dedication to launching products and making sure all aspects are covered to sustain the successful launch. The launch wouldn’t have been possible without Yuriy’s consistent, high-quality, and timely deliverables. Looking forward to launching more products with Yuriy. 💙
🚗 Yuriy is my DevOps partner and he’s always very helpful! I also know he has been doing great stuff with the BTC bridge.