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Founders

Elder Millennial (With A Kick) icbk.me/zachharris.eth

brypto

Excited to announce the first draft of the @nosh whitepaper. 

Thanks to Matheus V.X. Ferreira, @skominers, Axel Cortes, Kiran Karra, and @protocollabs CryptoEconLab for these ideas.

A longer post describing the network's properties in the coming weeks 👀

 https://palette-labs-inc.github.io/

This is what this upcoming cycle is going to be about

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

/opacity
/eulerlagrange

Opacity

People be sleeping on @perhats and disintermediated markets

Building the last mile delivery DePIN @nosh

We should Jam! We’re working on verifiable marketplace infra.

We should Jam! We’re working on verifiable marketplace infra.

https://palette-labs-inc.github.io/

vibes and status at /opacity --
host of vibe check podcast 
▶️ https://pods.media/vibe-check
❄️ icebreaker.xyz/dawufi
👀 seemore.tv/free/fc/dawufi

We just launched our dev platform and announced our fundraise. The culmination of years of obsession, hard work, and a lot of shit posting on farcaster.

The die has been cast, only the beginning of a long journey fixing the internet.

https://x.com/OpacityNetwork/status/1846239543403688030

Our seed round is co-lead by @archetype  and Breyer capital, with participation from @a16zcrypto CSX and others.

Special thanks to @osprey  @androidsixteen.eth for being such great angels.

And to @ncitron.eth and @eddy for putting up with my relentless DMs!

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

We back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet. 
a16zcrypto.com/

Checking the chains @witness - icebreaker.xyz/osprey.fc

early stage crypto fund accelerating the decentralized future · /archetype

variant

/allifans | building for startups @vercel

Los Fomos

If this gets 200 likes I’ll show a pic of me from high school on Friday.

(It wasn’t a good look)

Music

Love Ulrich Schnauss. Nice find Dr. Tongue Scraper.

No Channel Channel.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4IECI8UbgXYqLQuVpgxN0u?si=J6UQFErXRf-Ge4YLFxjCzw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8P0XE8hLrro0

consumer crypto

"It’s not that first we build all the infrastructure, and once we have the infrastructure we need, we begin to build apps. It’s exactly the opposite." - @nickgrossman.eth in 2018.

Partner @USV. Student of cities and the internet. https://nickgrossman.xyz

"It’s not that first we build all the infrastructure, and once we have the infrastructure we need, we begin to build apps. It’s exactly the opposite." - @nickgrossman.eth in 2018.

https://www.usv.com/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/

Memes

@eulerlagrange.eth and I disrupting incumbent marketplaces.

@eulerlagrange.eth and I disrupting incumbent marketplaces. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc

Design

Rated 💯 by multiple networks. Fluent in /unglish. Unbothered by /whatday of the week it is.

Allegedly a designer.

In the end, I think what makes a successful company is how excited a founder is to work on a problem.