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✉️A Letter to @Stacks and its community Hello friends, old and new 👋 Louise here, CEO and Co-Founder of Ryder and I’m very happy to say that I'm stepping up my involvement in the ecosystem not just as a community member, a founder building app, or an employee from one of the entities, but this time as one of the selected Stacks Treasury Committee members, a board-level body that will approve the strategy and budgets with a mission to make Stacks a top 10 project in the crypto space. If you know me or have been in the ecosystem way back in 2018, you know how passionate I am about $STX. It was my first love. Ever since I came across Muneeb's TED talk in 2017, something clicked. For the first time, I wanted to be part of a mission so badly it felt bigger than me. It was almost like stepping into the kind of cyberpunk movement I’ve only read about online. A community of sharp minds, all bound together by the same goal: to rewrite the rules of society. My journey started as a community member, just like you. I still remember sending my very first message on the Slack community feeling intimidated, second-guessing if I even asked the right question. After all, i was exposing my ideas infront of some really smart people. But I was hooked. I found myself lurking there most of the time, like a true internet anon. Over time, that lurking turned into a desire to be part of the team. I hustled my way in by hosting meetups wherever I went non paid, I designed posters, and was doing endless outreach to dev communities cause I believed in what they were doing, I wanted to show my passion and prove I belonged. Three months later, the team noticed. I got offered a contract with Hiro Systems (then Blockstack) as a community partner. From there, the journey kept building until I became Growth Lead at the Stacks Foundation. During this time, I wore every hat you can imagine. I treated STX like it was my own baby, I wanted it to grow, I wanted it to win. From onboarding developers, running Discord support, growing the X account, leading integrations, hosting meetups that started with 8 people and scaled to a 600-person summit with @svoight, to chasing every integration and partnership @mcuevasm or @br_ttany wanted to pursue, we were hustling 24/7. A lot of it wasn’t visible from the outside, but it was nonstop. Those four years were some of the most rewarding of my career. I grew exponentially, built my entire network, and wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Stacks gave me everything I needed to get where I am today, and I’m grateful to the people who made work never feel like work at all. After this, I took a step back but kept watching from the sidelines. I knew that with everything I had learned at Stacks, it was time to bet on myself. I wanted to be a founder. I wanted to see what would happen if I built something of my own pick a problem worth solving, build a team around it, raise money for it, fail, succeed, and keep iterating. That’s when I co-founded Ryder with one of the smartest people I know, Marvin. If you didn’t know, Ryder started as a $5K grant from the Foundation and has grown into a venture-backed startup serving thousands of users globally. We took it from sketches to mass production, proving our ability to execute, generate revenue, and build early traction. Today, Ryder acts as a top-of-funnel for Stacks, onboarding users from ecosystems like Solana and Ethereum. We also absorbed and now operate Fast Pool the oldest and most reliable STX pool with 59M+ STX locked, 6,500+ stackers, and zero missed cycles. Together, Ryder and Fast Pool stand as two of the most successful grant-backed projects in the ecosystem, with Ryder likely the only survivor from its original grant cohort still alive today. Having gone on every journey you can think of in STX, I know I can bring a lot to the table. I know what you’re experiencing as a community member, I know the feeling of being frustrated, and how passionate you are to contribute to an ecosystem you resonate with. If you’re a founder, I know firsthand what kind of problems you’re experiencing, and probably that feeling that the people or entities working on Stacks could support you better. Or if you’re working at a Stacks entity, you probably find all these community members tiring and relentless. I know the feeling, I’ve been in the same shoes. With everything I’ve learned from building in Stacks to working across ecosystems like Solana and ETH L2s I know I can bring real value. I won’t take this role for granted and I’ll put the same passion into it that I’ve poured into Ryder and that I had when I first discovered Stacks. At the end of the day, I want us to win. Together, we have a chance to grow STX into something much bigger than any of us imagined, I can’t wait for it. Regards, Louise