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👋 Hi Farcaster! I’d love to introduce myself and share about the protocol I’m building. I have led products at Uniswap and bought bitcoin back in 2015. I’m a software engineer, product manager, and dad who lives in San Francisco... 🧵
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When I started working at Uniswap, I appreciated how the protocol was successful because it brought together fragmented token order books I also loved how Uniswap is public infrastructure that is financially valuable. So I thought to myself, what other fragmented pools of assets could work well for a protocol?
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At the time, I couldn’t figure it out. I then spent a year hacking on protocols at night I took the night shift when sleep training my newborn daughter. She woke up every 45 minutes so instead of trying to fall back asleep, I built side projects
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A year later, I left Uniswap because I was so excited to build a protocol startup and I also wanted to get sleep. I was inspired by @jacob's article on hyperstructures: https://jacob.energy/hyperstructures.html I tested ideas around ad networks, identity, privacy, and payments but didn’t find product market fit
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lmao, this is not what i did when sleep training. mad props
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