Chris Astles Resume
All Work

Mezo Red Envelope — TGE Growth Campaign

Turning a token airdrop into a viral digital gifting experience — shipped in 4 weeks for Chinese New Year.

RoleProduct Design Lead
CompanyThesis (Mezo)
Year2026
ScopeGrowth campaign · Viral mechanics · Rapid prototyping
Mezo Red Envelope — campaign experience
The Problem

Phase 1 reached 12k users but the airdrop felt like farming — the community was divided. Phase 2 needed to re-engage existing users and attract new ones through real on-chain activity, all by a hard deadline of Chinese New Year.

The Goal

Reward long-term engagement over short-term extraction. Create a viral growth loop that feels like gifting, not referring. Ship a complex multi-state experience in 4 weeks with a distributed team.

Red Envelope gifting flow
Process

AI as a design partner — operating at the speed of a small team as one designer

System thinking

Stress-tested campaign mechanics and edge cases before any visual work began.

Rapid prototyping

Functional React prototypes shared via Discord within hours, replacing the Figma-first bottleneck.

Design critique

Sounding board for UX decisions — verification flows, visual hierarchy, information architecture.

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Red Envelope campaign states
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Outcomes
51.4%

Gift conversion rate — 2–3× industry average for referral campaigns

94.6%

Day-over-day retention across the campaign window

18,257

Envelopes in circulation through viral gifting mechanics

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