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Handyman. Co-founder @icebreaker_xyz. Ex @coinbase, @google, startups. ❤️ Art + AI + crypto + privacy + history

NYC
Joined February 2009
Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values. Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line. After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs. The values in an open model are one fine-tune away. Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Want to build credibility without paying $10,000 annually? Verify handles, colleagues, employment and use your verifications on any platform (not just this one!) Free and unlimited forever on Icebreaker. Trust is earned, not bought.
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
I am still confused why web3 people cling to Twitter when Farcaster exists I've personally made loads of new friends and contacts in addition to 6 figures in airdrops just for being active on the platform, and the developer ecosystem is rapidly growing. Mini Apps are going to be their own entire business. Casts are available to ingest openly. It’s coming. Meanwhile, everyone is still shuffling about on this centralized service that can ban you anytime and charges through the nose for its API Genuinely curious: if you're in crypto, what's keeping you from making the switch? Time to walk the walk
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Spent half of today at the NYC High School CS Fair showing students what's possible vibecoding with AI tools like @lovable @Cursor @replit @boltdotnew v0 alongside @web3pm & @BrennerSpear It was a treat watching their minds get blown as we built full websites and games in minutes - the highlight of my month! ~25% of students hadn't even tried ChatGPT before. Seeing their faces when we prompted a complete webpage about their interests (vintage clothing, horses, you name it) in real-time was priceless. Giving them a public link at the end of a few minutes to share with their family and friends was really enjoyable. One student built a flag guessing game with @web3pm that was really fun! Something that would have taken weeks to learn and code from scratch just a year ago. I was curious for their POV on AI – there’s a mix of mix of fear and excitement for sure (understandably). They're both concerned about the future AND eager to build with the tools. The most enjoyable moment for me was watching students transition from "wow, that's cool" to "wait, I could build MY idea with this" in real-time. The mental switch from consumer to creator. I met one student who was already selling online but needed an improved website and absolutely *lit up* when he saw the potential. Despite the pervasiveness of AI in my life, it was a solid reminder that is not the de facto state for most people. So great to meet many youths today! Big thanks to @bethanymarz for inviting us, very rewarding experience I’ll add some links to some of the projects we built together below
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
how it feels not building casino products in crypto
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Replying to @anothercohen
nice! i’ve been verified CEO of Google for awhile now great to meet another executive
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Attesting to metadata is a simple yet powerful use case for builders. - gives data structure - easily verifiable - highly composable - trigger sc’s w/ resolvers Eg. @CoinbaseWallet = token metadata attestations @Optimism = retro funding profile / org metadata attestations
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
i'm building @icebreaker_xyz with @web3pm & team – the open professional network for word-of-mouth hiring this week: 🧊 Now show hiring team and bounties on job pages 🧊 Now show all jobs we know about on jobs page 🧊 Job search on All jobs page (enabled soon) 🧊 Added a "Met in-person" note when you exchange info with anyone 🐛 Bug fixes
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Imagine taking the ultimate career risk to start a company, hire a team, scale a product to customers. Wake up one day and your bank account is shut down. No warning. No reason. No recourse. Unlawful debanking is an existential risk to founders -- and we are pushing back.
The facts are the facts. 🛡️
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Found several highly qualified anon profiles today, here’s one
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
sparks from @zora is super smart i thought it was just another platform token, but it's just a new name for smaller units of ETH 1 ETH = 1M Sparks their process for picking the name was incredibly thoughtful also. i'm on board! ✧✧✧
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
so many of you will remember my reporting around "operation choke point 2.0" from the spring of 2023; TLDR, Biden's financial regulators, namely the Fed, FDIC, and OCC launched a crackdown on banks covering the crypto space...
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
gm I’ve spoken to a lot of friends in private, but wanted to publicly share that my time at @ProhibitionArt has come to a close. It was an enormous privilege to be a part of the team and I’m grateful for the opportunity. I am now looking for new roles and ask that if you hear of something or know of someone that would be good to connect with, please reach out or tag them in the comments below! Any art / entertainment projects in need of a non-technical role, I would love to be considered. I love this community and I plan to be here for a long time. Most important is that I build lasting relationships and learn from the best. Even if you don’t have an opportunity in mind, I’d still love to connect with you all. Much love ❤️
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
back at you! 🫡 looking forward to building interoperable reputation systems together 🤝
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
PSA: The @poapxyz x @icebreaker_xyz integration is the easiest way to find people you’ve partied with online. Get your icebreaker profile, get POAPs when you go to events, find the other guests wherever it suits them.
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Teams I have no affiliation with but am very bullish on (in no particular order): - @ourZORA - @seedclub - @glitchmarfa - @0xDecaArt - @foundation - @GALLERY - @oncyber - @decentxyz - @icebreaker_xyz - @floor - @Highlight_xyz - @privy_io - @daylight All crushing it 👏
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Excited for Bountycaster to host the community-run bounties for the Onchain Summer Buildathon! Sign up here to post a community-hosted bounty for the Buildathon bountycaster.xyz/onchainsumm…
🔆 ONCHAIN SUMMER BUILDATHON 🔆 We’re inviting builders around the world to join an online hackathon with 200 ETH in prizes, sponsored by @stripe, @Shopify, @farcaster_xyz, @ourZORA, @fleek, @thirdweb, @nounsdao, @aeroxyz, and @synthetix base.mirror.xyz/iYQH5yxgH976…
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Reuniting with ex-Google friends at Farcon Great vibe and the conference @farcaster_xyz @gabrielayuso @web3pm @Jack_Dille
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
You might want to RT and cosign this on @WitnessCo_, anon cosign.witness.co/ipfs%3A%2F…
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Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth retweeted
Bountycaster user profiles now show externally verified X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub profiles linked through @icebreaker_xyz Huge thanks to @Jack_Dille @web3pm for the user profile design and API support 🙏 Example: bountycaster.xyz/fid/12
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