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investing & research partner @paradigm focused on infra, marketplaces, and consumer apps // walking around the internet
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hosting small group dinners every ~other week this summer in NYC! open to anyone building in crypto :)
expect dinners to be mostly general, with occasional focused ones around topics like reth exex’s, stablecoin finance, telegram x consumer GTM, etc.
RSVP/interest form below
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tech bros will write "building something new 🤫" in their bio but it's just kyle and another note-taking app
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this week’s project ☀️
custom 60% wooden mechanical keyboard with koi keycaps
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1/ excited to share i've joined
@paradigm
as an investor to help founders build enduring crypto companies and protocols. read more about my decision to join the team:
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excited to share our investment in
@friendtech
!
@0xraceralt
and
@shrimppepe
have created some of the most fun we’ve had onchain this year — first with stealcam and now with friendtech…
Earlier this year, we partnered with
@paradigm
to build tools for new online social interactions.
We're grateful for the community's warm reception and excited to continue growing with you all
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excited to be in bogota next week for devcon, some cool comparative stats on crypto adoption here
- transacted w/ crypto: 16% of US vs. 51% of LATAM
- used in real-world payments: 2% of US vs. 33% of LATAM
- share of global p2p platform traffic: 15% from NA vs. 33% from LATAM
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1/ thrilled to share the proposal for
@paradigm
to join the
@code4rena
DAO with $6M.
C4 created the competitive audit, providing projects with more thorough reviews of smart contract code + expanding the freelance market for the solo security researcher.
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come cowork with the paradigm team again, this time in new york :)
9am-5pm on 1/24 at one of our favorite coffee shops in the city. free caffeine all day for crypto founders and builders - details and rsvp link below.
come cowork with the paradigm team in SF on thursday, oct 19!! we booked out one of our favorite coffee shops
open to any crypto builder, details + RSVP below
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having a rlly hard time wrapping my head around how i entered the pandemic as a 20 y/o college junior and am exiting it as a 22 y/o full-time employee
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1/ ya girl's first product hunt launch!
been hacking on a social podcasting & listening platform for the last 2 years with my favorite ppl. so excited to finally release out it into the wild (~the internet~)
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we're excited to share our investment in
@privy_io
!
privy makes it easy to onboard anyone into crypto apps, regardless of whether they’ve touched crypto before. if you tried a new consumer crypto app this year…chances are you logged in through privy.
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in nyc through friday!
dm if you’d like to grab a green drink
in nyc this week, dm if you’re around
will treat you to a green drink (company-mandated)
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🧵(1/7) no one asked for this but it's my 4th summer in nyc! here's a thread of some of my favorite food, coffee/matcha, and drink recs in the city
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spot the paradigm research papers
come cowork with the paradigm team again, this time in new york :)
9am-5pm on 1/24 at one of our favorite coffee shops in the city. free caffeine all day for crypto founders and builders - details and rsvp link below.
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in nyc this week, dm if you’re around
will treat you to a green drink (company-mandated)
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the most interesting platform in consumer crypto rn is telegram
- arguably the biggest distribution point for all crypto users
- natural home for group chats and community forums
- easy to create native bot experiences (single or multi-player!) or mini apps
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there's a heat wave in NYC and paradigm would like to buy you an iced coffee...
next thursday, 7/25, from 10am-4pm. we'll be around all day to provide feedback on your unfinished code, figma prototypes, or working drafts :)
RSVP details below
come cowork with the paradigm team again, this time in new york :)
9am-5pm on 1/24 at one of our favorite coffee shops in the city. free caffeine all day for crypto founders and builders - details and rsvp link below.
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🍂 fall recs! nyc’s mixed use spaces edition
- usagi (art x coffee shop)
- happy medium (art supplies x cafe)
- angelika (films x coffee/bar)
- rosecrans (plants x coffee)
- remi flower (flowers x coffee)
- book club (books x coffee/bar)
- uncommons (board games x cafe)
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a fun week in the crypto world (📜, 📜).
i wrote a blog post on
@ConstitutionDAO
's impressive playbook and its narrow loss to a hedge fund giant. plus, a few thoughts on the future of DAO tooling, strategy, and governance structures.
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come cowork with the paradigm team in SF on thursday, oct 19!! we booked out one of our favorite coffee shops
open to any crypto builder, details + RSVP below
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if you're thinking about fun consumer crypto ideas and up for jamming on it with us in nyc, pls fill out the form!
strongly considering throwing a 1-day hackathon focused on consumer crypto apps in NYC end of October/beginning of Nov.
pls indicate interest in the form below, and if we get enough we'll do something about it.
we'll have mentors from popular apps/tools etc.
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consumer hackathon on friday, october 27th 💚
to start the day, we'll have flash talks from
@buildonbase
@privy_io
@wagmi_sh
@axiom_xyz
etc. the rest of the day will be spent hacking with paradigm investing, research, and design team members.
apply if you haven't already!
we've sent a first wave of invites to most of the folks who applied :)
final date: friday october 27th all day, nyc
mark your calendars, apply in the form below if you'd like to be there and haven't applied yet.
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wrote a blog post on trends we've seen in the design tool space and what the future will look like 💫
key points covered:
-low/no-code's commoditization of development
-rise of data-driven design
-designers as the gatekeepers of successful B2B sales
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it’s that time of year again — in nyc for the next week
dm if you’re up for a green drink
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oh?
consumer hackathon on friday, october 27th 💚
to start the day, we'll have flash talks from
@buildonbase
@privy_io
@wagmi_sh
@axiom_xyz
etc. the rest of the day will be spent hacking with paradigm investing, research, and design team members.
apply if you haven't already!
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new york startup culture: figure drawing night at an art cafe, sponsored by
@poolsuite
@drinkhaus
@bloccollective
ty
@gethappymedium
🎨
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we're excited to be backing
@_shadowxyz
!
ethereum users have paid $700M+ (!) in gas fees to emit events. *shadow events* give everyone edit mode on any smart contract...meaning cheaper contracts and a new world of data {creation, indexing, analysis}.
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all of a sudden i’m feeling particularly aligned…
gm -- some alignment green tea in preparation for another round of debates with the dissidents
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crypto crypto crypto
*The Casino on Mars*
It’s useful to think of crypto as a new planet that’s being settled.
Skeptics see a desolate planet without purpose. Or worse, a haven for an unsavory casino.
Optimists see the planet’s potential: a blank slate on which we can build an upgraded financial
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flexing crypto gains on the internet with a non-anon acct is like taping cash to your forehead and then walking alone at night on a city street
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pretty sick
@cmichelio
Huge, ridiculously exciting news.
We’ve just released Code4rena Profiles: a solo auditor’s highlight reel 🤝
We know you want to learn more:
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want to see more folks building in consumer keep it simple, try net new ideas, and lean into crypto's natural feature set...
- coordination & competition
- real-time, public provenance
- 24/7 instant value transfer
- token-gating
RFP: pick only one & create a fun app around it
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diversification of smart contract programming languages is good, gradual, and inevitable
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pls report
@caitllnxyz
if i knew a way to get a 21% return every day, i wouldn’t tell you about it
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excited to be in denver for the 3rd yr in a row
if you are a team shipping (1) high-performance infra on top of reth or (2) novel consumer experiences on top of
@privy_io
, would love to meet you - DM me
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the friendtech team has worked incredibly hard to create truly novel, fun experiences onchain.
some of my favorite times on the internet have been on v1, and i couldn't be more excited to hang out with everyone on v2 👯♀️.
Audits complete ✅
Launch day locked in ✅
Let's do this 👯
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google calendar automatically attaching google meets links to every invite is one of the saddest growth hacks i have ever seen
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the modern-day library of alexandria: open browser tabs, twitter bookmarks, & article screenshots
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ahhhhh i'm searching
I'm excited to announce we are open-sourcing Artemis, a framework for writing MEV bots in Rust.
We built Artemis to make it as easy as possible to get started with searching, and designed the library to be simple, modular, and fast.
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started this week with it’s so over
ending this week with we’re so back
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5/ thanks to those who've been supportive along the way
@djparekh
,
@helloerhan
,
@evanbfish
,
@dadkins_
,
@darrenlautf
,
@daryllautk
,
@cindyleowtt
,
@mark_goldberg_
,
@willgural
,
@billcoughran
,
@kaiskhimji
,
@scho_026
, and many others not on twitter
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200+ responses in the last two days ⚡️
if you're thinking about fun consumer crypto ideas and up for jamming on it with us in nyc, pls fill out the form!
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goerli rn
Just saw a bumper sticker that said “bestie please let me merge!”
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4/ at paradigm, i'll be finding and partnering with founders from their earliest days and beyond. if you're thinking of or actively building something interesting, send me a note at caitlin [at] paradigm [dot] xyz or here on twitter
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my 2022 prediction: 'web3' & 'metaverse' both become cheugy and we just reverse-brand into calling everything crypto again
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come hang out with me on , where i’ll be sharing good music and all of my deepest secrets
ft-yx4rryna
ft-c2ccxk80
ft-xt9dxkx4
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so many spicy takes today
@summit_defi
day 2 — great panel and fiery debate rn on audits (conventional vs. community)
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headed to ethdenver next week
lmk if you'll be around, some fun things in the works from the paradigm team
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whether you're building for speculation or beyond speculation, we'd love to chat with you
A common (and tired) criticism of crypto
is, “well, it’s all speculation.”
Matt’s essay offers the cleanest mental
model for why speculation is not just necessary, but productive:
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so excited to have shadowy super siblings
@alvinhsia
and
@emhsia
as
@paradigm
’s newest EIRs!
@gakonst
and I are thrilled to be working with them as they address a core onchain dynamic at
@_shadowxyz
...data producers ≠ data consumers ≠ data payors
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Gensler’s admonition that crypto projects should “just come in and register” to “come into compliance” is impossible to abide by. We wrote a 4 part series explaining why
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we're thrilled to be working with
@theyisun
and
@jonathanpwang
. with axiom, you can now inexpensively compute over the entire history of ethereum - natively in your smart contract.
this opens up rich design spaces in areas like onchain incentive systems. reach out :)
We're excited to announce we've raised $20 million led by
@paradigm
and
@standardcrypto
, with participation from
@robotventures
and
@etherealvc
We are building infrastructure to give smart contract developers access to more data on-chain.
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i'd be much more surprised if after nearly 2 years of lockdowns/restrictions the startup community responded with anything but ever increasing abstractions of reality
e.g. mapping covid timelines w shifts from in person -> vid chat -> voice only -> metaverse narratives
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one of the most underrated trends in the crypto bear rn is the inc # of solo auditors and bounty hunters making > six figures from freelance opps alone
Being an independent smart contract security researcher/auditor full-time is the good life
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The next iteration of our Rust x Ethereum hackathon is Frontiers on August 16-17...
- Bring your best Reth ExEx idea
- Come ready to spend time with the core teams of Reth, Foundry, Alloy, Wagmi/Viem, and Cryo
Excited to share Frontiers by
@paradigm
, August 16-17th, in San Francisco, the week after SBC NY!
Join some of the best crypto builders for two days of high-performance crypto infra, tools and community building!
By open source engineers, for open source engineers.
RSVP Below!
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RFP: this as a telegram mini app or bot
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increased accessibility of LLMs -> improvements of smart contract security tools
really excited to see
@code4rena
taking charge here w/ bot races, which incentivize the development of these tools in competitive, pvp environments
Gentlefrens, start your engines! Bot Races are the Code4rena way of making AI the first stage of competitive audits 🤖
Get ready to race your bot and earn rewards:
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we do a little entropy
(keeping my laptop open for hours and redoing randomness sign 5x a day after it signs me out as I wait for my contribution to be accepted from the lobby)
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what used to matter in crypto a year ago that no longer matters today?
- having DAO or similar acronyms in your company name and landing page
- wagmi energy in your marketing copy
- quick defi forks
- launching a token
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the future of smart contract security is a machine-enabled labor force 🤖
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the best crypto security researchers can come from anywhere on the internet at anytime
chances are you'll find them on
@code4rena
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3/
@matthuang
and
@fehrsam
have captured much of this internet magic at paradigm. i feel fortunate to be working alongside
@arjunblj
@caseykcaruso
,
@mizbani_
,
@jacksondahl
,
@snmishra311
,
@dougfeagin
,
@_charlienoyes
,
@gakonst
,
@samczsun
,
@danrobinson
,
@_dave__white_
, and team
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2/ number up or down, good things come from smart people meeting and building across the internet. i've seen this happen over the last few years in crypto twitter and discord servers, where my smartest IRL and URL friends have been hacking on new ideas together
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been w/o normal social interaction for so long i tried to shake someone's right hand with my left hand
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we are so back
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starkware open sourcing its prover, optimism's upcoming bedrock launch, several zkEVM audits underway...
crypto feeling quite electric lately
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the world is converging towards self-custodial wallet logins, with familiar user patterns like email/SMS/social credentialing and cross-app accounts
excited for solana devs to now have access to privy's embedded wallets
1/ We are thrilled to launch Privy’s Solana support!
Solana has cultivated an ecosystem of thoughtful builders focused on world-class experiences.
We saw this building alongside
@tensor_hq
’s
@VECTORDOTFUN
and incredible teams
@BAXUSco
,
@HypeshotHQ
,
@loredotxyz
,
@prerich_app
.
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lots of zk unlocks emerging in 2023!
@axiom_xyz
is one of the cooler ones when it comes to accessible scaling + more expressive compute, good potential to be a new staple for crypto devs
We are announcing Axiom, the ZK coprocessor for Ethereum:
Axiom provides smart contracts trustless access to all on-chain data and arbitrary expressive compute over it. Like GPUs do for CPUs, Axiom augments blockchain consensus with zero-knowledge proofs.
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feature request: inbox zero but for the 89 new browser tabs i open every day
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had fun speaking
@ethereumdenver
and sharing some POVs on the current crypto market environment🌱
ty for moderating
@kangpandabear
+ co-paneling
@craigburel
@shacheng
!
We have a PACKED crowd over in the
#DeFiDistrict
at
#ETHDenver
for an insightful discussion from industry experts on VC perspectives on Web3! 😯
✨
@paradigm
@ConsenSysMesh
@ReciprocalVC
@TwoSigmaVC
✨
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going to be an insanely cracked week dedicated to all the latest open source developments in crypto
excited to hang out with all 330+ of you
Frontiers is right around the corner!
We have a stacked list of speakers from our own team and from externals building open source software across the entire stack, for the future of bleeding edge crypto tech.
See below for a fun list of other things happening this week.
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coworking at the rust house w/
@gakonst
@frankieislost
right now until 12pm
come say hi!
Tuesday, 7/18:
ZK & Rust BuidlGuidl Cafe (Rust House)
- 6 min walk from
@class_lambda
hackathon
- Doors open 7 am - 7 pm
- Cowork & get nerdsniped by
@gakonst
@caitlinxyz
@FrankieIsLost
from
@paradigm
and
@axiom_xyz
in the morning
Signup to cowork:
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it's really cool to get ppl excited about the financial opportunity and upside in crypto (esp in a crazy bull run), but feel like many have lost their sense of street smarts in the process
lots of opps for better personal security and insurance in crypto
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gem from the archives, rip yahoo answers
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@glennonchain
you already can ;)
don't need to use ton. just pick your chain of choice x
@privy_io
(e.g.,
@frenpetonbase
)
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don't have a soundcloud to promote, but subscribe to my substack
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holding a “future computing research workshop” in a church goes very hard
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given the state of most ppl's opsec, if i were a hacker i'd be having a field day:
- blue-chip nft pfps on twitter accts with pii
- ens with full names or usernames
- posting screenshots of your wallet
- talking about how much money you have in crypto
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twitter space in 15 min!
will be talking with
@sockdrawermoney
about how paradigm's partnership with
@code4rena
started and our shared collective vision for its future (🟣_🟢)
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