Inal Kardan is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building GameFi and blockchain ecosystems, currently serving as Director of Gaming at TON Foundation. He designed and executed the strategy that made TON the #1 blockchain for GameFi in 2024, shipped core SDKs and developer tooling, and authored the playbook for gaming products within the Telegram ecosystem. A serial founder and former CTO, Inal has launched high‑growth projects (including a top-ranked Waves Ducks GameFi with 200k+ users in nine months) and co-founded Meta0 to solve cross‑chain interoperability for games. He blends hands‑on engineering, developer advocacy, and VC experience (TON Ventures) to drive adoption, partnerships, and onboarding pipelines for teams and Mini Apps. Known for turning complex blockchain primitives into usable SDKs and onboarding flows, he thrives at the intersection of product, dev tools, and community growth.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Digital Entertainment & Game engineering, Exchange Student, Digital Entertainment & Game engineering at Tongmyong University of Information Technology
Master's degree, Tech entrepreneurship and acceleration of IT startups, Master's degree, Tech entrepreneurship and acceleration of IT startups at State University of Management (SUM)
Examples of scripts for accounts, dApps and assets using RIDE programming language.
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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Inal Kardan - Director Of Gaming at TON Foundation