MIMBOKU.
First native liquidity aggregator and top NFT community on Story — swap tokens or earn ecosystem rewards from staking, LPs, and IP creation.
- ORG
- Tentou Labs
- Year
- 2025
- Role
- Frontend developer
- Timeline
- 8 weeks → mainnet
- Live
- mimboku.com ↗
The brief
Story shipped a chain for IP, but the on-chain economy didn’t have a front door — no native aggregator, fragmented liquidity, and no community ritual to bring users back.
Story Protocol launched as the chain for programmable IP — a fresh EVM L1 with a thin DeFi layer and a small but loud community. Liquidity sat in a handful of pools that didn’t talk to each other, and NFT distribution was tied to one-off mint pages with no shared identity.
Tentou Labs wanted to ship the first native aggregator on Story and anchor it with an NFT community that doubled as a loyalty layer — one product surface where swap, stake, mint and rewards lived together instead of scattered across five tabs.
The job: design and ship the frontend for the aggregator, the staking flow, the NFT mint, and the connective tissue (perks, missions, leaderboard) — fast enough to land in the first wave of Story’s mainnet rollout.
What changed
How it got built
- 01
Read the chain before drawing a screen.
Spent the first week inside Story’s docs and Wagmi internals — mapped the IP module, the royalty primitives, and what was actually exposed via RPC. The aggregator’s UX hinged on which calls we could batch; the design followed the contract surface, not the other way around.
- 02
Built the swap flow as a single state machine.
Quote → approve → sign → confirm → settle. Modeled the whole route as an explicit state machine in
useReducer, so every error path (rejected sig, insufficient gas, slippage exceeded, RPC dropout) had a named state instead of a dangling toast. - 03
Designed the NFT mint to feel like a moment, not a form.
The Great Mimgration mint had to land like an event — countdown, queue, allowlist tiers, post-mint celebration. Built the mint flow with optimistic UI (claim renders before tx confirmation), reconciling against the contract on settle. 2,792 mints, no stuck states.
- 04
Wired the loyalty layer across products.
Perks, missions, and the leaderboard share one points ledger — earn from swap volume, NFT holds, or staking. Built a thin client SDK so each product surface (ag, app, world) reads/writes through the same hook, and a holder’s identity carries between them.
- 05
Shipped to mainnet, then stayed for the next four releases.
Mainnet went live in week 8. Then: a staking dashboard with validator picker, perk redemption, mission streaks, and a Story-native session-key flow that cuts wallet pop-ups by ~60% on repeat actions. Each release scoped to ride a specific community moment.
What it’s built on
$2M in volume, 2,792 mints, 1,800+ holders — and zero swap-flow regressions since mainnet.