eng @neynarxyz | Occasional doffer @HatsProtocol | #buidl maximalist, hype minimalist

Rochester, MN
Joined February 2012
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For the first time in years, I'm a free agent Now I'm looking for what's next. These are the problems I'm most drawn to: → Enabling both humans and AIs to coordinate across trust boundaries → Ensuring humans can trust the AI agents they rely on (alignment) → Getting DAOs to actually work (yes really!) → Creating the new societal institutions our era needs → Making Ethereum the credibly neutral foundation the world actually runs on What I bring: ⋅Protocol & systems engineering ⋅Mechanism design ⋅Agentic engineering ⋅First-principles thinking ⋅Product sense & tech/business strategy ⋅Forward-deployed engineering I'm open to the right role — full-time, advisory, or fractional, at a funded startup or a larger org. If you're working on any of this, or something else you think I'd be into, I'd love to talk. My DMs are open. (Referrals and signal-boosts welcome 🙏)
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It's never too early to have "the talk" with your children.
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Our first episode of Role Call is LIVE with @tracheopteryx from @eigenfoundation‼️ Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by @hatsprotocol. In our first episode @ddwchen is joined by co-hosts @spengrah and @0xNN2 to talk about all things decentralized governance and reputation systems with Trach Tune in at the links below:
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if most of the code is offchain the agent isn't autonomous
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And always the Mets.
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all posts from AI maxxis encourage you to stop coding my takeaway: they want to be able to sell you critical and logical thinking for a premium. its to scare people into stupidity and helplessness and then sell them the cure
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Replying to @functi0nZer0
a vending machine, but you shove the receipt in
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Wait a minute ... @jbaylina ?!?
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May your convictions determine your bags Never let your bags determine your convictions
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Come hang out and vibe deep onchain
Did you know Hats Protocol token ids are semantic? They have meaning 🧙 Every hat id encodes the hat's location within its tree This creates powerful tools for builders & integrators Join us Thursday 12pmET for a deep dive into hat ids & how to use them w/ @topocount Deets ⬇️
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Celebro la salida de Julian Assange de la cárcel. Cuando menos en este caso, la Estatua de la Libertad no quedó como un símbolo vacío; está viva y contenta como millones en el mundo.
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ahhh yes crypto is a in intrinsically right wing technology for *checks notes* building free and open source peer to peer technologies run by communities and not controlled by corporate equity holders
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Re-retweeting this because it's how I basically do most stuff in life
FAFIO (fuck around and figure it out)
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login with email & verification code is not better ux than a hot wallet signature what in the hell is wrong with you
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*ೃ༄*ೃ༄ Welcome SC07: Consumer Crypto *ೃ༄*ೃ༄ Many still don’t believe that consumer crypto presents big investable opportunities. We obviously disagree. We’ve long held the belief that owning the relationship with and the attention of consumers will be an even greater point of leverage in a world of open data and protocols than it is in web2. We are surrounded by a growing group of builders who share an unwavering belief in consumer crypto. They are tirelessly navigating through uncertainty and widespread skepticism, pushing towards a vision of a dramatically more interesting internet. After reviewing 300 apps and conducting 50+ interviews, it's clear to us that we’re right at the edge of the inflection point. Today we’re excited to announce SC07: Consumer Crypto, and introduce you to the eight companies building category-defining consumer crypto products.
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Riley deactivated over this (and other things) but if you didn’t read his last post, he was absolutely spitting All crypto devs eventually go through a black night of the soul over how the engines we build are used And it’s often dismissed as boiling seethe by the nontechnical
I’m so sorry but slapping “experimental” on an ERC to subvert the fact that this is something that has no consensus over design, break events in weird ways and is showing us up as mercenary shitcoiners that I can’t and don’t want to defend It makes us look like clowns
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The real question isn't 'what is money'... the real question is, 'who is money'?
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gm to everyone making web3 more accessible to i̶n̶s̶t̶i̶t̶u̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ everyday people
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An elegant solution is worthless if it doesn’t lead down the path to the best user experience possible for your customers.
As much as it hurts me to say because I love it, teams in crypto imo still do too much tech. It's prestigious and grinds your gears. Not enough do product, focused on product and only product. Do more product. Talk to customers, build what they want! Don't do tech for tech.
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Bonding curves are completely inaccessible to the average person using the internet for several reasons. It's a fun mechanic for cryptonatives and degens, but when I explained to people over the holidays, I saw so much confusion and concern for me in people's faces
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