I’m 30 today
In my 20s, I spent 3 years studying, 3 years climbing the corporate ladder, and 3 years building a startup from the ground up.
Here are 20 lessons from my 20s to help you make the best of life's most pivotal decade
👇
@Coinfirm_io
ICO now live and gaining huge momentum -
@AMLT_Token
A unique and revolutionary way of managing AML utilising
#blockchain
- I have huge respect for this having cited Coinfirm in my dissertation
#trustnology
Join now: .
1/ Pumped to have released
@creds_xyz
this week...
We're creating a new way to establish a trusted, verifiable, interchain reputation, that enhances the community experience, across the
@cosmos
ecosystem...
So what's
#Creds
all about?
👇
Masterclass in how you explain the poor UX in web 3 and how to solve it ✅
This could massively help onboard more users into
@cosmos
and Web 3 more generally
@sunnya97
sharing that for DEX’s like
@osmosiszone
@Uniswap
to compete with CEX’s like
@coinbase
@binance
the UX has…
Is AI destroying Art?
Tl;dr - we’re at a pivotal moment where protecting the creation of creativity is more important than ever
But AI is not destroying art - it’s decentralising creativity and offering new ways to monetise ideas
Loved this talk from
@imgn_ai
@networkspirits
…
Successful people tend to credit a tonne of luck for they are.
Whilst you can’t change where you’re born or what you're born into, there’s a lot you can do.
Increase your chances of getting lucky with these steps.
Location | Understanding | Connections | Knowledge
👇
Big day for
@cheqd_io
Credential Payments out in the wild
Let’s go…
💸<> 🪪 <> ✅
Very proud of the full team for making this vision a reality
Great conversations in flight on use cases for Credential Payments
@MessariCrypto
#MessariMainnet
Come say hi 👋🏼
Celebrating a great achievement -
@cheqd_io
winning 2nd place 🥈 in
#EBC23
Startup Awards
Great work with the pitch
@fraser_again
, a huge shout out to
@tmfh83
for an incredible week on the partnerships front, and of course a massive congratulations to Co-founder
@ankurb
#LFG
🚀
Good to see Credential Payments as a core part of the EUDI Wallet Consortium (EWC) strategy...
"Payments are a key factor to enable the use of the EUDI wallet as this will be the biggest trigger for adoption"
Music to our ears
@cheqd_io
.. been a long time coming but payments…
don't tell people your plans
show them your results
i spent way too long telling people what i was going to do
sharing your plans gives you a hit
and this hit reduces your motivation to go get the goal
the more you tell
the more hits you get
the harder it is to go do it
26 Days 2 Hours 49 Minutes left in
@AMLT_Token
@Coinfirm_io
#ICO
Not one you want to miss: 'A recognized leader and ranked among the most influential blockchain and regtech companies'. 10,500 ETH raised already. Follow the link to buy with
#ETH
Really enjoyed
@OVioHQ
@jamie247
's latest Thesis on the convergence of AI x Crypto
Getting me increasingly excited and motivated by what
@cheqd_io
can do in the space, particularly when so many of the challenges with the rise of AI come down to the very things DID and…
Just updated our Live Product Roadmap on our website - felt good moving this one to "In Progress ⏳"
@cheqd_io
is founded on the principle that to catalyse the shift to a user-centred identity paradigm, a new commercial environment is needed that incentivises issuers to release…
In the 🐻 market, celebrating crypto projects with live use cases of the tech is vital...
I loved getting totally absorbed by the mission
@regen_network
during the Regen Summit
5️⃣ takeaways from the 4 day Summit
👇
ICO
@Coinfirm_io
live, also cited in my
#Dissertation
"Organizations such as ‘Coinfirm’ act as a way for any user to check and verify the legitimacy of another user, essentially a way to establish whether they can be trusted"
#trustnology
#blockchain
@Creds_xyz
we've spent the last few months working on a whole new way to build and issue Digital Credentials (Creds) to engage, nurture and reward the best of your community
Here's a little more about what you can do with the Creator Studio...
When
@coinbase
CEO
@brian_armstrong
places the exact idea you’ve been building as no 2 on the top concepts developers should be working on
@Creds_xyz
is bringing on and off-chain reputation to Web 3 using DID powered by
@cheqd_io
Would be great to chat to you
@messarimainnet
…
1/ I'm sharing the 10 ideas I'm most excited about in crypto right now. If you're building something in crypto or thinking about doing so - check it out.
We’re building lots at Coinbase, but we don't have time to tackle everything. So I figured I'd share these. Bear markets are…
EU Member states will have digital wallets next year
A long journey here, but EU citizens will soon have much more control over their identity
DID is happening
Come have a play with Creds!
With our Creator Studio you can build new credentials in minutes, and issue these to a friend or community members in a few clicks - using their email, telegram or discord handle.
Think reputation NFTs but OFF CHAIN, private and far more secure.
let's do it
- back at it today with
@cheqd_io
after the longest time off I've had since joining 3 years ago
- relocated and now settled in bali
- excited to get back to our team, community, partners and ofc friends of the interchain
same great team & products...different view
@brian_armstrong
giving another idea which very neatly fits into our mission with
@Creds_xyz
- Web 3 LinkedIn / CV
The only challenge is using soulbound NFTs - this is a no no
Instead W3C Verifiable Credentials offer more portability, security, privacy and trust…
When
@coinbase
CEO
@brian_armstrong
places the exact idea you’ve been building as no 2 on the top concepts developers should be working on
@Creds_xyz
is bringing on and off-chain reputation to Web 3 using DID powered by
@cheqd_io
Would be great to chat to you
@messarimainnet
…
Kicking off the year with a new role alongside my work building the infrastructure and payment rails for verifiable creds at
@cheqd_io
🚀
🆔 This week I started a position as Co-Chair of
@DecentralizedID
's Product Managers Community (alongside Keith Kowal)
After months of hard work 🏗️ from the
@cheqd_io
team I’m excited and pretty proud to launch
@Creds_xyz
at
@NebularBuilders
(and beyond)!
We’re creating a better way to build your Digital Reputation 📱making it easier to prove who you are and what you want to be known for 🤝
If…
Looking forward to chatting with
@veramolabs
next Wednesday in a Twitter spaces focused on the huge amount more utility the Veramo SDK to
@cheqd_io
brings to our partners.
Set a reminder using the link below (some context in follow-up tweet)
👇
@Coinfirm_io
Awesome ICO now live. Cited this in my dissertation "Organizations such as ‘Coinfirm’ act as a way for any user to check and verify the legitimacy of another user, essentially a way to establish whether they can be trusted"
#trustnology
Brilliant from
@Tweetddale
- a dummy Ironman Cred mimicking what we're issuing on
@Creds_xyz
Great demonstration of the endless possibilities for how Creds can become more incorporated into our lives beyond Web3, enabling individuals to build a reputation that truly…
@fraser_again
on the panel
#ATOMDenver2024
with friends from
@SecretNetwork
and
@passageio
talking gaming and decentralized identity…
1️⃣Incentivised gaming with pay to play is good, but the game itself has to come first to stop it turning into an airdrop / airdrop farming…
Big congrats to
@seb3point0
,
@miakoddda
and the
@NebularBuilders
volunteers on a great first day 1️⃣
400 attendees, engaging talks and great conversations throughout the day
Thank you for all your support in launching
@Creds_xyz
to the
@cosmos
ecosystem 🚀🌌
@Coinfirm_io
@AMLT_Token
Awesome ICO now live. I cited this back in my Dissertation "Organizations such as ‘Coinfirm’ act as a way for any user to check and verify the legitimacy of another user, essentially a way to establish whether they can be trusted"
#blockchain
#trustnology
Day 2️⃣ at
@EthereumDenver
#ETHDenver2024
We’re at the
@DoraHacks
AppChain day
If you’re here, come to the workshop room ~11 30 where you can build along with us - setting up an on-chain profile (DID) and issue a cred (Verifiable Credential) in minutes with our no-code studio -…
@CL207
I see this as one of the big opportunities for blockchain, with all the great work done in the decentralised identity space.
Blending a KYC credential, with a combination of attestations for an individual's abilities, interests and past endorsements is exactly the path many…
Awesome to see
@okay_nick
a friend from
@veramolabs
which has been huge for us
@cheqd_io
Nick is proposing an AI agent framework with 3 core standards
- DIDs
- Verifiable Credentials
- DIDComm
If you build agents with these frameworks it becomes much easier and more flexible…
Whenever myself,
@fraser_again
or anyone else in the
@cheqd_io
team returns from conferencing, we try to do a brain dump internally on what we took away...
I decided to turn my internal ponderings and lessons learnt from
@EthereumDenver
a few weeks into this blog, covering 5…
Great meeting
@The_BendyOne
and jamming on
@ATOMAccelerator
being a potential
@Creds_xyz
Creator to start issuing Accelerator creds 🕺🏾
We’re building a trusted, reusable and verifiable Interchain Reputation for
@Cosmos
chains and members
Looking forward to continuing the…
Great moment when you’ve been building product for nearly 3 years…
Printing some flyers out for
@EthereumDenver
at
@FedEx
and when the print assistant saw our
@cheqd_io
logos on the flyer he lit up recognising us as a
@cosmos
project
He also holds and stakes $ATOM🐂
Will be…
#CredPacks
are flying out from the
@cheqd_io
community...
Here's a
#CredPack
with some of my favourite creds that verify my reputation, so what does this show:
1⃣Proves my
@discord
username (and helps link me to my other creds in this CredPack)
2⃣ Proves I attended last weeks'…
Come find us at the
@cheqd_io
booth
@NebularBuilders
to be in with a chance of a winning a polaroid camera...
The most portable, private, and secure camera out there 😉 (see what we did there)
Claim your Cred today with
@Creds_xyz
!
✨ Nebular Summit attendees ✨
Win a polaroid camera today from
@creds_xyz
To be eligible...
1. Come to the
@cheqd_io
booth
2. Claim your Cred by scanning QR code
3. Tweet the text below to prove you’ve claimed your attendee Cred.
⬇️ ⬇️
4/ Be focused
You can't do everything simultaneously; if you try to, nothing is achieved or enjoyed to its fullest.
Be clear about what you want, and have priorities. Later in life, your priorities are more challenging to flex.
We’re excited to be at
#IdentityWeek
@IdentityWeek_ID
sharing how we
@cheqd_io
are creating the network for creating digital credential business
Come see us at S34 - right outside the Keynote stage
Highlights from
@Convergence_Ai
panel on cutting-edge zkML insights
Tl;dr - ZKml accelerates shift towards decentralised AI, which will give optionality for AI builders plus offer cheaper services compared to the AI hardware giants…
…but convincing web2 builders of the value…
1/ Be a risk-taker
Your 20s are a rare time when the outcomes of your decisions have a lesser impact than when you have more commitments, people to feed and pressure...
And remember, it’s not a risk unless you can lose the fight.
Highlights from my first
@IRONMANtri
event for the Majorca-Alcúdia Ironman 70.3…
Incredible experience racing against nearly 3000 people from 62 countries 🌍
Excited to get back to the
@cheqd_io
team 🧡 and finalise prep for the kick-off of the
@Creds_xyz
private beta 🚧🪪
Seems we're in good company...
@cheqd_io
x
@INATBA_org
With blockchain + decentralized identity we can ensure the proliferation of AI is done in a way gives weight to decentralisation, ensures the best quality data is used to train models, offering efficiency gains + higher…
A quick and dirty demo in April 2023 built to illustrate what developers can do with the
@cheqd_io
network turned into a fully-fledged product with networks like
@elys_network
onboarding for their launch...
This is why I love product… solving problems, using new tech, with a…
Insane evening this week seeing
@HansZimmer
for the first time for an early 30th celebration with my family.
I've been obsessed since I was 14 and first heard of him thanks to Inception.
Since then, I've listened through exam periods, commutes and continue to in deep-focus…
There’s a strong demand for privacy, and yet Tor growth has stalled as they lack an anti-fragile funding model
@nymproject
offers solutions to create an incentive model for privacy… better business models for much needed solutions clearly becoming a trend…
I'm loving seeing the list of "Creators" on
@Creds_xyz
grow... (creators = projects issuing creds to their communities 🪪👉)
With
@NebularBuilders
and
@OVioHQ
both having issued Creds to their communities, its so exciting to see our ideas come to life - check out a few of my…
Super excited about this upgrade and the inclusion of the excellent
@nymlab
work to bring
@cheqd_io
to the Interchain (and beyond)!
On-chain zero-knowledge proofs for off-chain W3C verifiable credentials are a first, and this is just the start.
In case you haven't seen, I'm a…
😍We're thrilled to announce the collaboration with
@NYMLAB
to bring
#DID
functionality across
#IBC
!
This initiative unlocks the potential of DID across the Interchain⚛️, paving for use cases like
#vAI
, Interchain KYC, and
@Creds_xyz
-gated governance.
After recent conversations about purpose and the growing pressure to work 'with meaning' I've written my thoughts on the value in pursuing passions, talents and committing to Focused
#LifelongLearning
@gibbulloch
thanks for the inspiring prompts
Have loved jamming with
@simonmolitor
and the
@digitalsocialid
team on how we can incorporate their reputation score into Creds...
Credit ratings and reputation scores have been something we've been interested in for some time
@cheqd_io
and there's growing interest in how web 3…
🎉We’re excited to announce a new partnership with
@digitalsocialid
to bring 🔢on-chain reputation scores to
@Creds_xyz
.
For businesses, DSID acts as a rating agency of blockchain accounts based on on-chain activities & off-chain integrations.
📗Learn:
#ZeroKnowledge
allows the web2 world to interact with
#Web3
in a way that draws in customers and use cases in ways that most Web3 projects do not
Constantly craving hearing anyone talk about real customers and use cases from outside of crypto / web3
This slide from…
Well said
@RyanSAdams
.. this has got to change...
Ultimately, this privacy invasion comes down to the commercial models architected through the Web 2 era.
The giants quietly built identity on the web's application layer, with 99% of people not realising it, or not having the…
AML/KYC is so broken.
The banking system launders $5 trillion a year, that's 5% of GDP, criminals have a 99% success rate laundering money through the banks.
In exchange for this colossal failure of a policy the entire world is required to give up all economic privacy while…
I strongly believe that the "interchain" will be the dominant narrative across Web 3/crypto over the coming years...
Where the internet connected disparate computer networks to facilitate exchange of information globally, the interchain is connecting blockchain networks,…
🚀We're pleased to share that we are partnering with
@cheqd_io
to revolutionize data management and trust infrastructure. 🤝
Through this collaboration, developers on the Andromeda platform gain access to Trusted Data Markets, empowering them to build more secure and…
🔥cheqd Needs You!🔥
🎉We made it to
#StartinBlock
Top 100 at Paris Blockchain Week. What an achievement!
➡️Repost this to boost our chance to get into the Top 10 & pitch on April 11th at
@ParisBlockWeek
✅Like ✅RT
@leap_cosmos
are going all in on the Interchain
250k installs with native support for 50+ chains supported, a brilliant mobile experience, push notifications, an in app Dapp experience…
But there’s a LOT more to come
Very strong speech by
@asanjeevrao
on the roadmap for 🐸…
Want to keep in the know on all things
#DigitalIdentity
#SSI
&
#Identity
across
#Web3
?
Not sure of who to follow?
'cheq' out the
@cheqd_io
Partner Ecosystem list below and follow to receive all updates directly into your newsfeed👇
14/ Be stubborn with what and who you want.
Don’t settle too soon.
Chances are you're going to live well into your hundreds.
Settling in your 20s is a sure way to live a life of regret... don't settle for a person, a career or a lifestyle because it is easy...
Lips 👄 cracking from the cold winds in Denver?
We got you 👇
Come find me for a
@cheqd_io
or
@Creds_xyz
chapstick
Pouch full and headed to the main
#ETHDenver2024
event now
Excited to announce our partnership with
@cheqd_io
!
cheqd is a blockchain built for Infrastructure for Trusted Data markets.
We're teaming up with cheqd through
@Creds_xyz
to empower our community to establish their own Web3 reputation and gain the recognition they deserve! 🫡
7/ Be useful
Forget titles and find your way to be useful. Being useful is what pays.
Too often, people get caught up in the label of a new title, forgetting what's important are the results.
And don't let a company title shape your identity; that's their title, not yours.
Always great seeing the
@leap_cosmos
team
Excited to see their new sign in feature being launched
@CosmoverseHQ
plus the great work on their
@MetaMask
snap
Looking forward to adding these new sign-in options to
@Creds_xyz
Definitely a trend appearing on streamlining the…
Always fun jamming with a friend, mentor and boss (literally and metaphorically)
@ankurb
We’ve come on a long way since our first chats about blockchain, identity and “trustnology” in 2018
Cheers to many many more 🤝
Thanks
@binance
Live,
@CryptoAttackDao
🌶️Still ongoing - AMA on
@Binance
Live
Tune in to catch our CTO
@ankurb
and Senior Product Manager
@rosspower
in the AMA hosted by Tim Cloud of
@CryptoAttackDao
. Unlock Data Sovereignty🎢
👀Join here:
I've written an article reflecting on 1 year in consulting as a graduate and some of the things I've learned about myself, business and how to manage a career that allows you to fulfill your passions.
I'd love your thoughts...
8/ Be a constant learner
20s are for learning; 30s for earning
Focusing only on your paycheck will limit your value later in life.
Yes, earn whilst you learn, but the greatest benefits will come when you learn because you choose to... and make you more useful long-term.
Making my way through the brilliant
@OVioHQ
podcast library, this morning
@jamie247
chatting
#SSI
and what we’re doing
@cheqd_io
with our very own
@fraser_again
Anyone looking to understand DIDs, VCs and creating a more portable, user-centric future of identity - cheq this out
12/ Be open to a crisis...embrace it and get lost
A crisis in your 20s is the best thing to happen to you.
Avoiding one by burying your head in the sand or medicating it leads to a bigger one further down the road...
Pick your crisis before it picks you.
Storj helping
@Creds_xyz
building decentralized reputation. Portable, Private, and Secured with
@storj
distributed storage.
@Creds_xyz
is an identity wallet for users to collect digital credentials that prove who they are and what they want to be know for.
Thanks for being a…
Following the tweet below I had a great question from a community member (
@OG_UltraQuamf
) re
@cheqd_io
+
@Creds_xyz
"With Creds, what points of interaction with these creators create usage of the $CHEQ token. And is there any on-chain proofs of this utility?"
👇 Response 👇
1/
I'm loving seeing the list of "Creators" on
@Creds_xyz
grow... (creators = projects issuing creds to their communities 🪪👉)
With
@NebularBuilders
and
@OVioHQ
both having issued Creds to their communities, its so exciting to see our ideas come to life - check out a few of my…
We’re chasing down
@Polkadot
- no 2 by end of 2023 easy
Where the building happens during the bear is where you want to be for the bull
Proudly building identity & reputation tech for
@cosmos
and beyond with
@cheqd_io
+
@Creds_xyz
Maybe final point on how far off the
@CoinDesk
article on Cosmos has been.
#3
in monthly active developers and only top ecosystem that didn't lose developers in the last year. Data from
@ElectricCapital
9/ Be open to letting people come and go.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.
Work hard for those who really matter, and be at peace letting others go.