founders-club

gTako everyone! Welcome you all to this special /founders-club mingling session with our featured founder of the week, Felipe Macedo @macedo , co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Talent Protocol.

Our mission at Founders Club is to create meaningful connections between visionary founders and connect promising founders with early high-quality adopters.

Felipe is leading the charge at Talent Protocol, a groundbreaking platform that's bringing professional reputation on-chain, revolutionizing how Web3 builders and developers showcase their verifiable skills and contributions. His extensive background in digital branding, working with global brands like Nike and L'Oréal, combined with his passion for empowering talent in the decentralized world, makes him a truly inspiring member of our community. 

I'm especially excited to learn more about their Builder Rewards program, which distributes weekly ETH to impactful builders on Base, and how their approach to reputation could change how we all discover and collabo...

Thanks for having me, Julie!

The intro covered quite a bit, but here's the side most people don't see: I'm a deeply curious optimist who's constantly experimenting with new things. 

Beyond work, I'm obsessed with learning through immersion - whether it's picking up Muay Thai, DJing at underground parties, or shooting street photography in new cities. These creative outlets actually inform my product thinking.

I also have a somewhat contradictory personality - I love being on stage and public speaking, but I'm an introvert who needs lots of alone time to recharge. This balance between visibility and reflection helps me navigate the rollercoaster of startup life.

What really drives me is making the internet more fair - helping talented people stand out regardless of where they're from or who they know.

building @talent to help builders stand out 
| caretaker at /build

@macedo 请问TalentProtocol 未来是否会考虑根据现有用户的分数来与其它项目合作成为提供KYC验证的第三方？或者是提供人性证明的分数，然后帮助合作方筛选真实的用户。


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This is an excellent question about our future direction!

We're already moving in this direction with our Human Checkmark - a protocol primitive that aggregates verified proof-of-humanity data from trusted sources like Binance, Coinbase, Galxe Passport, human tech, and World ID.

Rather than building our own KYC solution, we're taking a more composable approach by:

Aggregating existing verified identity sources into a simple signal
Making this verification accessible to any app through our API
Combining this with our Builder Score to create a more complete reputation picture

Several projects are already using this to filter for real humans while preserving privacy. Unlike traditional KYC that shares personal details, our approach only confirms "this is a verified human" without exposing sensitive information.
As we grow, we'll continue expanding both our verification sources and integration partners, making human verification a standard building block for the ecosystem.