It feels like the only thing the United States is ever prepared for is war. Not for pandemics, never for natural disasters, can't do anything right about homelessness...
Life update:
After an amazing run with
@gitcoin
I will be stepping down at the end of the month. Proud of everything we accomplished here.
Plan to be an active steward. Too many people to thank in a tweet. Can't wait to announce what's next soon.
Public goods are still good!
Excited to announce I'm going to be consulting with the
@UNICEF
CryptoFund! Primarily will be focusing on helping raise capital for the next fund. This is web3 for good reasons
If that's personally interesting to you or your organization please reach out. Would love to have chat
I need to find some journalists to cover GR14 for
@gitcoin
. Weโre giving away over $3m this round and have given over $60m cumulatively to help fund a variety of things from open source software to climate. This deserves way more attention.
The Web3 industry is currently stagnating when it comes to delivering products that people will actually use, rather than just another gambling tool. This is a point of agreement among many in the space. For months, the conversation has revolved around when funding will arrive
Took almost 11 months for this deal to come to fruition, but couldn't be happier to announce
@AmericanCancer
using
@grantsstack
to open source cancer research funding
Big shout out to everyone on the
@gitcoin
team who helped bring this deal to life ๐.
I'm looking to hire people across a handful of verticals not listed on the
@MorphL2
website now that the fundraising is done.
Ecosystem, marketing, social media, pr, content, AI, research, and others.
Tag some people looking or give me an RT please.
@SkiiMaskJordan
If you are an unsigned artist who is trying to get on, then you should be releasing quality music on a consistent basis. Why is it implied that quantity means lack of quality?
@adribbleofink
I was riding my bike home from a friendโs house in 8th grade when three people stopped me to steal my bike. Mid theft my mother called me screaming at me for being late for dinner. They could hear the yelling through the phone so they let me keep my bike and told me to get home.
The important part of generosity that people seem to miss is never making the person who accepted the help feel less than for needing it in the first place.
Excited to announce I am officially a
@Forbes
Contributor covering Digital Assets and Web3!
For my first piece I wrote about
@Drake
quietly being the most successful celebrity to enter Web3 to date.
Looking forward to getting more thoughts out there.
Even if you don't live in VA please consider donating to this campaign. He's a dear friend but more importantly, he's the kind of candidate we need to see more of in this country if we want to see the change we need.
Even with TSA Pre Check, CLEAR, and flying business class Iโm still getting โrandomly searchedโ because at the end of the day no matter what Iโm a brown Muslim dude at the airport.
This is as good a time as any to announce I'm officially a columnist with
@CoinDesk
now!!!
Been writing with them for some time, but moving forward I'll do at least two articles a month.
Decided to jump into DeSci this week..
Really excited to announce our $20 million ecosystem fund with
@MorphL2
x
@ForesightVen
!
Building blockchains ecosystem is something I deeply care about and also write about for
@CoinDesk
often. Fun putting it into practice.
More announcements coming soon ๐คซ
Announcing the $20M Morph Ecosystem Fund with
@ForesightVen
!
As a founder, I know the challenges of innovation. This important fund offers not just capital, but the strategic support and resources your team needs to grow and scale.
We're seeking visionaries building
@seejenwrite
I ran the Boston Marathon in 2013 that had the bombings. Rescinded apps from med school, left a biotech job, and went into tech by founding a company instead after seeing life was too short to do something I didn't love.
1/7 Since NFT NYC is this week, I wanted to share something I haven't before, which is that web3 is why my home isn't in forclosure anymore, I'm out of credit card debt, I've got savings, and have even started making investments.
Happy to hear the news is finally out. Back to founder life for me! Launching a new L2 and while I know that feels cliche at this point, I'm excited to slowly start to share why you'll be seeing way more of
@MorphL2
"We can't mature this industry until we make products easier for people to use," Morph co-founder and COO
@azeemk_
says.
Watch "The Protocol", presented by
@StellarOrg
:
@APompliano
If it's this easy to get on CNBC spouting bullshit then I want to figure out how to get booked where I say something halfway worth listening to haha.
The BD vs Dev Rel debate is a side quest at best to divert attention from the fact that we aren't making real products useful to everyday people.
All of us collectively need to do better. Blockchains, builders, VCs, and exchanges.
It's the only way forward.
I had a VC tell me the other day that DAOs would ultimately fail and provided no value to society, which was when I became even more bullish on DAOs because I've rarely met a VC who knows what they're talking about.
@therealstylesp
We don't have to care what she thinks, but she's saying the same things many of us do on a bigger platform. Rappers these days don't live the life at all that their music says. And she's allowed to have an opinion, even more so if she's not wrong. She's just a messenger.
I was wrong about Brussels. This place is actually really nice.
All it took was for me to intentionally get lost on one of the electric scooters riding around the city. I like this place. The hate is overblown.
Kobe, Did Kobe, KOBE DIED, Helicopter, Wait Kobe, Nah Kobe, Please God, and # BlackMamba are the only trends on my Twitter right now. Literally every trend is him. I really, really hope this news isn't true.
Excited to announce working with
@a16z
crypto for GR15.
Any open source devs working on zero-knowledge proofs, infra/eth2.0, L2, and other smart contract languages should apply this round of grants with
@gitcoin
.
The maintenance and advancement of open-source software is crucial for the crypto community. To increase our support of public goods in web3,
@a16z
crypto is committing $300,000 for open-source developers in the next round of
@Gitcoin
Grants (GR15).
@robpetrozzo
When the people who cry about zero regulation start losing some money, they get to recalibrate. When everyone else loses money, "the free markets decide winners and losers"
Excited to announce that I took a Venture Fellow position at
@ldvcapital
for the summer. My focus is going to be on NFTs, gaming, and the metaverse.
Please tag any company or person that you think I should talk to/look into.
One of the things I'm most excited about in the journey with
@MorphL2
is how we're taking Global South adoption very seriously.
Because while there's been a lot of lip service around it, there hasn't been much action. Excited to change that.
Whether because of my fundraising efforts at
@gitcoin
, through mentorship at accelerators, or with the recent fundraising announcement of
@MorphL2
I am constantly getting asked about tips on how to raise money, so I decided to do a short write up
The dark horse of web3 that people aren't paying enough attention to is DeSci. All of the post economic (too rich to care about money) people are betting on it big.
It's one place I'm looking to meet more founders and see how
@MorphL2
can support them in their journeys.
Potential hot take:
Dev Rels are technical business development people at the end of the day. Their end audience is just different from traditional business development ones.
And the best of both are doing sales at the end of the day.
@OrchidBertelsen
I've yet to understand why a large funding round is cooler than actually making money. People will congratulate you way more for funding than a huge monthly recurring revenue. Blows my mind.
J. Cole doing a surprise concert, Drake announced his newest album release date, and Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize today. It's a beautiful day for hip hop.
Big thank you to
@shefiorg
x
@coinbase
for helping me watch my first
@WNBA
game last week. In a suite, at that ๐
Had a blast. Go watch a game too. Stop sleeping on womenโs sports.
Genuinely honored to be on a list for being one of the 2023 Faces of Crypto Philanthropy with so many other amazing people in this space.
Thank you
@TheGivingBlock
๐.
Thank you to
@standwithcrypto
for honoring me with being 100 Faces of Crypto. They're one of my favorite orgs in the whole space who are doing some of the most important work.
If you're not aware of them and work in web3 then please go to and join the
๐ก๏ธ 100 Faces of Crypto ๐ก๏ธ
@azeemk_
co-founded Morph L2 with $20 million in seed funding. Recognized as a "2023 Face of Crypto Philanthropy" by The Giving Block, Azeem has made significant contributions to the crypto sector, including raising tens of millions for Gitcoin and
@TaylorLorenz
We both know a majority of people posted because it was the fad to partake in, and bc they didnโt want to be ridiculed for not doing so. Not because they actually care.
@TaylorLorenz
You really get to write about the most intriguing stuff going on in the online space right now. I'm sorry for all the harassment and shit you must deal with in the process though.
My latest Forbes article explores one of the biggest challenges in Web3: distribution. But this isnโt just about marketingโit's about all the hurdles a builder must clear to successfully launch in the space.
Distribution in Web3 encompasses community building, media coverage,
Eid Mubarak ๐
Decided that moving forward all eidi will be given in crypto. New onboarding tactic for the ummah. People will learn what seed phrases are much faster this way than with educational videos ๐.
It's no secret that
@gitcoin
has been a core pillar of the Ethereum ecosystem for years. The grants rounds do matter.
I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the rounds I donated to in the Asia Round and why you should consider donating to ones that speak to you
This is the first Father's Day since my dad passed. All morning I've been thinking about what I'd give for another conversation with him. Definitely call your parents, people.
Excited to be speaking at
#Consensus2024
by
@CoinDesk
later this month.
Who else is going to be out there? Would love to connect. Haven't been to Austin since 2014.
PS - For anyone from Austin, I need some bbq recommendations please.
Thrilled to announce I was accepted into Batch 7 of
@Safaryclub
.
For anyone who doesn't know, it's the place where the best growth leaders in web3 reside.
If you've seen all those
@jonwu_
threads, then you know how much important a community like this is.
Women are known to make a majority over 80% of consumer decisions but crypto has still yet to figure out we need to court them instead of scare them away ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
@thehill
His thought process on this comes from a time when it was so expensive only governments could do it. But as technology evolves over time things become cheaper. Itโs why two people can. Plus, the US govt hasnโt really made much progress on this front in years.
Recently was on a panel at
@nyuniversity
with a group of professionals across different industries talking to incoming freshmen about picking their majors.
Biggest takeaways talking to them about Web3 were:
1. They saw Web3 as a very niche industry.
2. Everyone asked why I
Shout out to the
@SoleSavy
team. Because of their initiative I was selected to get a pair of these for my mother who has Parkinson's Disease.
There was no way in the world I could have gotten these otherwise. Amazing idea that I can't praise enough.
We announced our latest initiative helping sneakerheads get their hands on a pair of Nike Go FlyEase for retail, ensuring that this shoe is given to those who need it to most and not feeding the resell beast.
Shout out to
@Uniswap
for this dope capsule collection they sent me.
Huge win to do this with
@KidSuper
! Iโve been waiting for streetwear collaborations to start with web3 brands.
The colors, design, quality, and even packaging is perfect.
Excited to talk to this cohort of builders about some of the things Iโve been fortunate to do in Web3 when it comes to dealmaking and partnerships.
Iโm a huge fan of all the things
@OctantApp
is doing.
Funding public goods is a must, but sometimes there are ways to support