The vibes were high at Zu zu this morning. One of the things I love most about Ethereum is the culture
@VitalikButerin
helped foster. Always fun to talk about soul
bound tokens in the sun โ๏ธ
In the last 12hrs I have 50 msgs from teams looking to deploy on
@modenetwork
Inbox has never been busier. Would encourage teams to deploy if they can & then line up the marketing campaign with our team.
You do not need a call with me to deploy :)
More dApp infra soon.
In Dubai operating with the
@modenetwork
team.
Will be a huge month for Mode. If you are building something cool and want to learn more about Mode and our roadmap reach out ๐
gm gm some news
After 2 years + of building/co-founding DegenScore I am no longer working on the project ๐พ
The vibes are good, DegenScore lives on with the team and the Beacons will continue to run around onchain and succeed.
Some lessons from the arena ๐
@jjhorgan
I am deeply disappointed by your decision to continue site C dam. You were supposed to lead differently than the liberals and listen to first nation communities. Continuing with the project is a mistake and an embarrassment.
Vincent sharing the knowledge on DeSci to the folks attending
@foresightinst
vision weekend.
A small group of people started this entire industry and made it a thing 3 yrs ago and it has been awesome to see it grow.
cc
@vincentweisser
Really enjoyed all the hikes, sets and convos while I've been roaming around SF. Started coming here when I was 22 with my first company and each trip gets better.
gm gm
@modenetwork
doing this level of dApp TVL pre-token is very exciting.
Every team in the Mode eco has been shipping and moving super fast each week to build out a rewarding experience for the onchain users.
Big week coming up ๐กโจ
Today we launched our machine translation system for Amharic for the public to use. ()
The core engineering team (
@asmelashteka
) Abel, Eba and 100+ translators worked so hard on this product over the last year.
Happy Ethiopian New Year! ๐ฅณ
Thread
NYC has been incredible. Ran into Four Tet, met some great founders, played a few shows and just connected with the city ๐๏ธ
Feels like the future happens in SF but life happens in NYC.
Ngl the airport sleepover is a unique energy. Woke up to about 14 ppl sitting around at 5am waiting for flights. Just bid them good morning and boarded to Berlin.
Extremely actionable article for founders. I wrote my first investor update after reading.
@collinmathilde
is a productivity machine among other things.
Missed my flight out of EthCC and slept on the floor of Orly last night for 4hrs. Had 3 coffees and am now ripping Linear tickets in an art studio in Belleville. In Paris till Wednesday eve ๐ซ
Mode broke through 200m in TVL recently.
Big shout out to the devs that are building on
@modenetwork
. If you are thinking about deploying drop into my DMs. We will support you!
With our momentum it is possible to get your dApp from 0 to millions of TVL very very quickly.
gmode
excited to continue growing with you all, we are more dedicated than ever to building the best DeFi ecosystem and know we have a lot of work to do
hereโs whatโs coming next for
@modenetwork
- moar yield-bearing assets
- moar big big big DeFi integrations
- moarโฆ
Cool little report of the state of L2s from
@GearboxProtocol
Excited for a product that aggregates liquidity across chains. gm
@Uniswap
plz do something.
Really amazing to see how fast teams in the eco are shipping as we near
@modenetwork
TGE.
Everyone wantโs to seize the opportunity and be deployed for the big day.
habibis get ready to vibe on Console within the
@modenetwork
ecosystem. One of the coolest DeFi products that is changing the way onchain users explore ecosystems/trade assets.
New Chain Alertโ๏ธ๐ก
Brahma Console's multi-chain experience is expanding to
@modenetwork
with unique features tailored to it.
Stay tuned for updates on boosts and more. Live on Monday!
Today is Lesanโs Demo Day at Facebook. We were part of their accelerator program.
Over the last 3 months we have improved our product significantly at every stage in our pipeline and have started a translation marketplace in our first geo.
We just completely redesigned our website if you want to check it out๐ฅณ
Instant translation will be in demand as more marketplaces, chatbots and user generated content exist on the web.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that Iโm not an idiot. Building a company remotely on another continent during a pandemic is just hard. Working through the weekend for a large customer though so thatโs probably a good sign.
Just downloaded
@usefluent
to improve my french. Super cool. The idea of putting language learning into something that you have to do anyways (consume the web/your job) is smart.
.Does anyone else hate how
@LinkedIn
has become so similar to Instagram? Self-proclaimed influencers post catchy lines like "I was fired but then started 15 companies before I was 24 and finally gave it all away to start an apricot marketing company. Never give up"
#pass
Being a founder equals an endless stream of good news and then bad news and then good news and then bag news. Constant cycle. Today was mostly good news.
Being a start up founder is hard. There is always so much to do, conversations to be had and goals I feel like Iโm not quite achieving.
Getting a bunch of motivated people in a room and getting them excited about the project is the rewarding part.
Cool product hunt today by
@SaketRKumar
for
@VittFinancing
. Lots of work always goes into these. Makes a ton of sense for the right founders with recurring revenue.
ETHCC was so fun. Meeting all the teams and ppl I dm Pepe memes to all year was a highlight. Lots of work still to do to revolutionize finance but every year we get a bit closer.
The last bull market I almost bankrupted myself on transaction fees on mainnet. This time around its awesome there are so many more options like
@modenetwork
to "make it" without having 6 figures onchain.
Took a week off to exercise. Ended up thinking a lot about work but in a vacation sort of way. Creating time and space is really important when youโve had your head down for a year+. Italy is just awesome.
At the Crypto <> AI summit in Austin Texas. I can see legitimate use cases for this space and itโs exciting to see some teams building in these directions. A few but there are more ๐
@gensynai
(distributed training)
@ModulusLabs
(zk verification of models onchain)
@NousResearch
โฆ
Figma is the only software product that is joyful to use. Notion has its moments but there is something special about how light and creative Figma can be.
Stayed up last night in Addis Ababa to listen to
@sama
talk about how
@OpenAI
will become the platform for powerful APIs. Instead of curating a dataset you just use their tooling and find the right application. This lowers the barrier to entry for progress in AI.
Having calls with the team in Ethiopia is the best part of my week. This project is absolutely crazy but thats one of the reasons why it is so special.
Gearbox DAO is comingโฆ So there will be plenty of
governance & integration tasks to work on. Meanwhile, there a couple important roles for full-time contributors!
๐งฐ Smart Contract Dev
โ๏ธ Frontend Engineer
๐ฆ QA Engineer
Small, agile, comfy ๐ค Join!
Dinners or events that are gated by your onchain activity are powerful.
DegenScore hosted some awesome events in Paris over the years and I would love to see more teams think about onchain activity when organizing events as opposed to just emails and your network to gate.
@bryce
Been waiting for this! The redistribution of wealth to different values sets from technology rocket-ships will have rippling effects that will be much different to the last 60 years of millionaires.
Finished a great vacation with the family in Italy. Felt like the Romans were a culture of organized violence but Iโm really not an expert. Hiking is ๐.
Every time I tell my elder neighbour who lives alone Iโm leaving the country in a few days she starts to cry.
Made me think about how important it is to have social connections at all points of life but especially in the later years.
Denver was very lit. Loved meeting all the teams thinking about
@modenetwork
and learning about what is coming. See u in the TG - next week will be extreme sports onchain.
The heroโs of our industry are the application developers who are building products in new categories. This is what pushes everything to new levels over the long term.
Every day I leave the house at 9am and come home at 9pm. This chapter I will remember as the time I worked really hard to find and keep opportunities alive. Thinking about the people experiencing poverty who work longer than that just to stay afloat.
@naval
Absolutely I consider myself very privileged. Intelligence is spread equally around the globe. Financial success is not. If you have the shot and screw it up or donโt take it thatโs your fault. Not everyone has the shot.
First big S/O to
@angelomint
and our magical CTO who shall not bc named.
You guys were the main reason I decided to switch industries and commit to DS/Crypto full time. I learned so much while trying to operate together and build meaningful products.
Small world. Ride has had some massive regulatory challenges as they roll out in Ethiopia but they keep pushing.
@Samrif
is an incredible entrepreneur!
The best co-founder for you is probably someone youโve never met.
Join our next cohort to form a team with some of the most impactful and ambitious people in the world.
Applications close this Sunday 18th for London, Paris and Berlin:
We have started to generate revenue through our website. Feels a bit magical to have someone come from the internet and trust you to deliver a service without meeting.
Things I really have enjoyed as the years go on:
- Building companies
- Helping/watching friends succeed
- Having friends that are building cool things
- Working with intelligent, driven people
- Exploring creative interests
Hopefully many more years of this ๐ซ
There is something magical about working on hard problems. Even if you fail you contributed to the mission that others can build off. You never regret the time spent. If you succeed itโs a huge impact that will significantly change peoples lives. Work on hard problems.
The content of the web is not available in the native languages of a billion people. Lesan AI instantly translates low resource languages - unlocking the web for the next billion users.
#EFEUR12
So far one of my favourite things about working on Lesan is redistributing wealth. Example: charge the multinational consulting firm for a job and then send money to the university student for creating part of the solution.
product demo events in SF are wild AF. currently at one for art and AI. guy is demoing a sensor that measures air particles and electrical current in plants and translates them to sound with a 30 dollar sensor.
The technical staff at
@modenetwork
are some of the most solution oriented devs I have worked with. They just want to get things across the line for the core product and the teams that are deploying.
Absolutely bullish and very fun to work with ๐๏ธ
In Dubai this morning I was trying to get to a meeting, no taxi so I hailed down a random van with 8 construction workers in it and tried to get in. Realized they were not going in the right direction so I got out.
Imagine being able to translate any content on the web to Amharic or Tigrinya instantly. Very soon this will be a reality!โจ
Try out our translation tool this Friday on our website!๐๐
Today we're introducing a new era of clarity for Retro Funding!
The Collective has allocated a total of 850M OP to incentivize impactful work across the
@Optimism
Collective and the Superchain.
There are hundreds of millions of people around the world that need this technology for their language and we are excited to continue to build great products to serve them.