In the OmiseGO (OMG) community, soonalisa is the nickname that is used to address Jun Hasegawa, CEO and co-founder of Omise and OmiseGO.

Soona Lisa — soonalisa

Jun is no stranger to the startup world. He’s a deep thinker and entrepreneur who has involved in founding LIFEmee and has come to establish Omise, a Thailand-based payment gateway in late 2014. Besides holding a dynamic professional background, he brings over 16 years of experience in web & product design, proficiency in marketing, and great appreciation of what it takes to truly make the payment industry in Thailand continue on a path of progress. With a remarkable vision, he looks to expand Omise beyond its existing borders to countries across Asia Pacific.

OmiseGO is a billion-dollar blockchain network that works on top of the Ethereum protocol and that aims to scale Ethereum to mainstream audience. Jun foresees massive scaling and adoption of Ethereum by 2020, as he outlined the future of Ethereum and the roadmap of OmiseGO. Both Ethereum and OmiseGO and their respective founders Vitalik and Jun have been working together and they share a wonderful relationship for many years. Jun has first-hand insights on not only the way things are progressing in the crypto industry but also but also on how Vitalik plans the future of Ethereum.

Jun Hasegawa, CEO / Founder

Jun Hasegawa has made some notable statements in the past that didn’t go unnoticed by the community. Some of them were the trigger to give Jun the nickname Soona Lisa:

Twitter — December 25, 2017

Thank you for all your support in 2017! We are going to deliver a big win for whole crypto community in 2018. Watch #OMG and HODL!

Twitter — December 30, 2017

2018 will be our actual Rock Year!

Twitter — December 31, 2017

今年最後のツイートは日本語で。 来年は真剣に日本のマーケットで、もっと #OmiseGO 知ってもらうように努力して行きます。 そして世界中で利用される Public chain になります。 2018年は、さらに全力、全速力で駆け抜けます！ よろしくお願いします。

Twitter — January 5, 2018

Personally just got 2 new domains. Just just just in case … http://unbank.country / http://unbank.city

Twitter — January 16, 2018

To emphasize Plasma / OmiseGO capability. The Plasma MVP is a step towards both (i) realizing the potential of Ethereum by scaling the Ethereum mainnet, and (ii) building the OMG decentralized exchange, making it ready for mainstream financial use.

Twitter — April 12, 2018

My latest fav word “OMG World Exchange” and Yes we will be

Twitter — April 12, 2018

Deliver! And Get shit done!

Twitter — April 26, 2018

In response to the Coindesk publication error concerning an OMG scam action

People’s livelihoods are on the line when we fail to vet our sources.

Twitter — April 26, 2018

In response to the Coindesk publication error concerning an OMG scam action

As a community, we will make mistakes as we endeavor to build something that is bigger and better and less fallible than our small selves. One of the most important things we must do if we are to succeed together is to own up to our mistakes and learn from them.

Twitter — April 30, 2018

Mining Pool + Proof of Stake = …..?

Twitter — May 1, 2018

OmiseGO は世界をつなぐ新たなインターネットとして頑張っていきます！

Edcon — May 3, 2018

Real businesses are coming very soon.

Cryptovest — May 12, 2018

We actually cannot disclose it yet [laughs], unfortunately, but there are so many different businesses that have already starting utilizing our SDK, and then they are going to launch their services very soon, in the real world.

Twitter — May 18, 2018

Now, even if you have crypto maybe what you do is hodl or just speculate. Once you have access to staking pools, the way you make decisions about token assets is going to be totally different.

Twitter — May 18, 2018

PoS validation should give anyone fair opportunity to participate as validator. Small machines or eventually even mobile apps should be able to do staking.

Twitter — May 19, 2018

Exciting times ahead!

EdCon — May 25, 2018

OmiseGO: Bridging the Gap between Vitalik’s Mind and Your Grandma.

Twitter — June 11, 2018

Thinking deeply regarding the terms and definition of “ Decentralization ”. Easy part is “breaking / splitting” centralized governance / systems that transform to govern by crowd of this network, protocol participants (who has access). But…. Objective is not breaking or splitting. Objective is connecting dots (who doesn’t have access to existing ecosystem ) in permissionless / secure way. Especially OmiseGO case we want to connecting Unbanked “Peoples” by utilizing phenomenal scaling solution.

Facebook — July 8, 2018

Arts facing serious issue with tourists… they took selfie with Mona Lisa…. why? I have no clue. History / Emotion / Sensibility / Story that attaches to one paint but no one care other than take a picture with it. Meh

Twitter — July 16, 2018

You get a Plasma, you get a Plasma, everybody gets a Plasma!

Twitter — July 29, 2018

2017 : Speculation (ICOs)

2018 : PoC / Eco-system buidl / Scaling solutions ( L2 Plasma OmiseGO/ L1 Sharding Casper ) / Interchain protocols

2019 : Real business adoption / UIUX focus tools / More Dapps

2019~2020 : Ethereum massively scale and used by gov.

Edit: small makeup fixes

Disclaimer: this is no financial advise in any way. Always do your own research.