DeCent People With Sicco Naets

DeCent People With Sicco Naets

Sicco is helping build Moonbeam, a smart contract platform that connects blockchain applications between Ethereum and Polkadot.

Sicco is an experienced software development leader with a background in tech, politics, history, and sociology. We spoke about his early desire and then rejection of a career in journalism, how he loved becoming a software developer and his discovery of blockchain tech in 2021. Sicco has a passion for video, tabletop, and collectible card gaming, which informs his approach to teamwork and strategic thinking, and led to some very interesting observations about where blockchain can help — and hinder — gaming.