Zo Hiring is a crypto entrepreneur who co-founded Blackwing, a modular layer 2 blockchain designed for liquidation-free leveraged trading. Zo Hiring's Twitter Score is 61 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #17,948 (top 5%) among 473,418 tracked accounts.
Zo Hiring co-founded Blackwing alongside Shahmeer Navid in November 2022. The project raised a $4.5 million funding round in March 2024, led by Hashed and Gumi Cryptos, to build out its modular layer 2 infrastructure. Blackwing is built on the Initia framework and employs a Limitless Pools mechanism that enables leveraged trading on long-tail assets without liquidation risk. The project's Tomcat-1 testnet is live, and Blackwing also runs a Blackwing XP points program tied to testnet participation and future airdrop eligibility, though no token has launched yet.
Zo Hiring previously worked at Meta as a software engineer and engineering manager, contributing to the growth of Messenger from a few million to a billion active users, and later worked on the Stories team overseeing its international launch and growth strategy. Before Blackwing, Zo Hiring was also part of the Pearl team that won ETHNewYork 2022, an ETHGlobal hackathon, for a wallet-to-wallet web3 messaging protocol called YAMP, which placed in the Polygon Top 10 and received an Optimism Just Deploy award. Zo Hiring has spoken at events including Asia Blockchain Summit 2024 and appeared on the Expansion podcast to discuss Blackwing's trading system and its integration with Initia.
Zo Hiring has 22,610 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 3,027 posts. Zo Hiring has been mentioned by 10 accounts a total of 14 times.
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