1/ Some personal news: I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the
@eigenfoundation
to drive marketing/comms & support the
@eigenlayer
protocol & the community as we work towards building the shared security commons.
A really good book costs $10 or $20 and can change your life in a meaningful way. I always spent money on books, I never viewed it as an expense, that's an investment to me. ~
@naval
on
@farnamstreet
Knowledge Podcast with
@ShaneAParrish
DAOs in their purest form
- control value
- align incentives
- govern systems
- punish the fraud
- add open security
- enable collaboration
- are global being local
- bring a universal state layer
it’s amazing to see what crypto + open-source code can do 🙏🔥
BanklessDAO is arguably the first non-proprietary media platform that is:
- open source
- distributed
- internet-scaled
- community-owned
opening the way forward to future media DAOs & adding a paradigm to the creator economy in web3.
@RyanSAdams
@TrustlessState
@BanklessHQ
🙏
- met
@gane5h
first in 2018
- offered me a role in 2019
- scaled back in 2020
- rejoined in 2021
dealt with ❌ h1bs, multiple us/canada travel, challenges with immigration
he’s the sole reason i’m back in Vancouver
to more dosas, coffee, & scaling web3 adoption w/
@covalent_hq
1/ Quick life update:🌱thrilled to share I've joined
@socialgraphvc
, a community-led venture fund.
w/ summoners
@jakub_rusiecki
&
@clujso
+ backers from Polygon, 1kx, DCo, Fabric VC, Avara & more, I'm excited to invest in the future of consumer crypto.
quick🧵↓
Thrilled to announce that I've joined
@bZxHQ
as Growth Lead to help build and scale an open and more accessible financial future. 🚀
Excited to work alongside
@tcbean
,
@BeTheb0x
, and co. -- the stellar team who has been working relentlessly on the protocol relaunch. 💪 🌄
#DeFi
i wouldn't sleep on
@AlchemistDAO
👁 2500 members
👁 300 partners
👁 100 countries
👁 37 genesis founders
vision to transform 1 billion lives
community-led then. community-owned now.
much hype so wow.
probably nothing. 🤭
started my journey in 2011
🇺🇸 j1
🇬🇧 student
🇺🇸 b1/b2
🇨🇦 biz visitor
🇺🇸 h1b ❌
🇺🇸 b1 ext (10 mos)
🇨🇦 biz visitor (6 mos)
🇨🇦 work permit (ext x 1)
despite living in north america for the last 5 years, navigating immigration, esp at the borders has been taxing, particularly as
🥳 excited to finally kick off my onchain newsletter
want to dedicate the first post to developers in crypto
have applied my learnings over the past 6 years + have extensively used the developer report by
@MariaShen
as my go-to resource to piece this up.
link below ⬇️
finally caught up w
@pareenl
in sf after years of knowing each other
hands down the best community operator / entrepreneur i know in crypto
he’s onto building some crazy things onchain! 💪🦅
thrilled to share that I've joined
@powerloomhq
.
today, I celebrate my first ~200 days here, and the experience has been nowhere short of transformative!
i've spent enough time before to see how onchain data will become accessible/practical for everyday users.
there's still
taking stock of what a crazy year this has been -- more wins, few failures, 360 growth, & breakthrough moments.
builders will keep building, bear market or not. 🛠️
all set for yet another massive year for
@covalent_hq
. 🔥🔥🔥
we’re significantly expanding & hiring for *multiple* key tech & marketing positions at
@covalent_hq
.
join us & help build the decentralized future! 🛠
RT & share w/friends. 🙏
✅ ref bonus who puts us in touch with the accepted candidate.
👋 we're still hiring at
@covalent_hq
✨
looking for a senior dev advocate who can
🛠 support devs
🛠 run hackathons
🛠 develop resources/ tech guides
🛠 boost our 27k+ dev community
+ do tons of fun & challenging things!
dm
@harish_yvr
or me for deets
🖼 🔥 just attended one of the most comprehensive dev-focused NFT workshops hosted by
@gyanlakshmi
.
she went into the weeds of how to create your NFTs using IPFS, solidity, and writing scripts in JS to fetch the
@Covalent_HQ
data using rest APIs. 🛠
thrilled to welcome
@gajeshnaik
to north america! ✨
been an honor working with this 15 yo super smart coder for over 2 years (meeting 1st time in person)
excited for what’s next for him! 🔥🔥🔥
at least a dozen alchemists shared heart-touching stories of being an alchemist, working on different things, and what it means to them. 💪 🎧
kudos to
@j_kimperez
for hosting and facilitating the one of the best community-led programs in web3! 🙏
Why build a consumer crypto app?
-----------------------
The
@eigenlayer
vision
-----------------------
Perpetual credible commitments
-----------------------
Commitments -> Promises that apps want to make to users or other builders.
Credible -> Making the enforcement of such
grateful to
@j_kimperez
&
@niallyorke
for investing time and effort in building internet-native communities! 🤌 ♥️
@covalent_hq
's alchemist program is one of its kind, and nothing comes closer to it in web3.
2️⃣, 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ strong & growing! 🌎 🌍 🌍
join the renaissance! 👇
🤩 Season 5 registrations for The
#CovalentAlchemist
Ambassador Program are now open. We're thrilled to continue to grow our fam & are looking to onboard 500 more Alchemists!
📆Deadline to apply: June 27th at 11 pm PDT
🏃♀️Register now as spots are limited!
say hi! to the 3 lovely witches 🧙♀️💃
✨ redshift, the quick ethos
She pays for all of her coven’s subscription services. And bottle dreams for her nightstand. Her magic spawns from salt & starlight. Her room is covered in scraps of paper — spells, recipes, arcane secrets. HARK!
I've closely experienced the hustle in this space but none like what I've seen come from
@maticnetwork
. They genuinely want the ecosystem to grow and mean business! 💯 No cap!
@sandeepnailwal
,
@_anuragarjun
, and
@_jdkanani
-- keep inspiring!🙌
Whoa whoa whoa whoa !!
Is there a possibility of owning a
@Tesla
Cybertruck - "Gureilla Cyber" inside
@BattleRacers
game 🔥🔥
@elonmusk
would love to buy one personally and gift you. Please share your
@ethereum
address here.
[5 DAYS UNTIL SEASON 1 SALE]
1/ 👀🎵 Sharing a DeFi song that y'all probably missed while making your yields and harvests this week. (And thinking about all the gas costs 🤔⛽️)
A thread with the lyrics and the song 🧵⤵️
(via
@bZxHQ
)
Ready for our next episode of the Web3 1:1 Talk show?
@travpreneur
from
@Covalent_HQ
will be joining us to share insights on everything DAOs!
✨DAOs: The path to Decentralization
🗓21/01/22 at 03:30 PM (UTC)
🏃♂️
We’ll be distributing POAP to listeners 🎊
heading to the big orange today for farcon, the flagship farcaster community owned summit for a week 🍊
excited to catchup with
- builders
- based peeps
- fellow casters
- onchain data folks
- hackathon participants
- consumer crypto projects
who else from here is going?
Ethereum has:
- Huge network effects
- A thriving community
- Developer moats
- Open source ecosystem
- Value exchange
- PMF for segments in DeFi & NFTs
- ETH 2.0 vision to scale/secure the network
A strong case to what will drive global open finance and the creator economy.
the fastest way to lose your way in crypto is to focus on "how much money can i make" rather than looking at "how can i add value."
the former is tempting, but the latter creates the outsized return the web3 land needs.
i want to uplift my normie friends into crypto, but when i see them hyped about dogecoin, cardano, safemoon, litecoin, and the likes, i'm saddened.
it's like i want to help, and "your money is your money" and all that, but oh, you're already nine feet deep in the horseshit. 🥺
great catching up w
@jackjack_eth
from
@basenameapp
today here in sf
i have about 30 .base names (more that i have gifted to frens)
they’e building a v imp piece for the
@base
ecosystem 🔵
stoked to have announced a key partnership for
@powerloomhq
with them not long ago 🤝
2/ I consider
@sreeramkannan
to be one of the top thinkers and builders in the space. I have known him as extremely dedicated, intellectually curious, humble, and kind throughout my interactions.
We first connected over a year ago/ this is the DM exchange where he brought up us
1/ Our vision for Polygon is simple: to build the Value Layer of the Internet.
The Internet allows anyone to create and exchange information. The Value Layer allows anyone to create, exchange, and program value.
Enter Polygon 2.0: a blueprint to build the ultimate Value Layer.
.
@covalent_hq
x
@solana
is happening
psyched to see devs get 🔋 🔌
☀️ more power to building on solana
☀️ transparency and visibility within the chain
☀️ devx improvements
lfg
1/ 🤔 what different stages of product-market fit at a crypto project look like and how new projects can leverage the power of web3 in a meaningful way ⬇️ 🧵
The Alchemist program led by
@j_kimperez
since the beginning has received a massive response! ✨
It’s 100x fulfilling when you see someone you referred to gets accepted! 🙌
Onwards to making
@Covalent_HQ
community-owned! 🔥🔥
2 years ago:
- $ETH was $140
- Stablecoin market cap was $3.2bil
- eth2 development was in its very early stages
- 95%+ of DeFi didn't exist
- The only NFT anyone spoke about was CryptoKitties
Ethereum has already come a long way - 2 years from now is going to be even wilder.
human beings seek to be governed
the core of a governance structure comes down to how one builds
- a value system
- mechanism design
- culture
you want the early voters/users aligned to the mission beyond just economic incentives