Data privacy on the web. Keeper of the fabric @privy.

Fmr Protocol Labs consensus work. Before that YC S14 🇫🇷🌐🍊

https://privy.io/blog/our-values

Thanks for pushing @androidsixteen.eth -- they are

Drive impact by usage.
Commit to the experiment.
Focus.
Be an owner.

"You should build this feature"
"You should make this small quality of life improvement"
"You raised a bunch of money why can't you also X"

Focus. 

Not claiming to be world-class at it. Varun is much better at focus than I am—I get distracted by shiny new things all the time. 

But ultimately you only have a fixed number of "shots on goal" before you lose momentum (and in other cases, funding). 

Have to constantly be asking yourself is this the highest priority thing we can work on? And if everything is high priority, then you're not focused.

Good clip below on what world-class looks like here (note that Jony doesn't think he is good at it).

We have 4 core values at Privy -- "Focus" is one of them, it's always the hardest to live by!

Before crypto, I had so many cool, stupid side projects that never shipped because they couldn't pay for themselves. Weekend over by the time you set up Stripe and configure all your billing alerts. Live in fear of fraud, chargebacks, and an unexpected infra bill.

After crypto, I had so many cool, stupid side projects that never shipped because they had no distribution. Write the contracts, test the contracts, build the frontend, write the tweet and pray you get 10 likes. Live in fear of a smart contract bug, die because nobody clicks through to your website or knows how to use a wallet.

But you? You can have it all.

“but jonny, installing a wallet and connecting it to an app is a non-starter for consumers!”

cope. all consumer products are pleasure-pain tradeoffs. add pleasure to offset pain

Many thoughts on the core issue here. 

But the pleasure-pain spectrum is a deep insight. Why speculation has such strong PMF.

Many thoughts on the core issue here. 

But the pleasure-pain spectrum is a deep insight. Why speculation has such strong PMF. 

https://privy.io/blog/the-carrot-and-the-stick

privy

1/ Securing Privy wallets with transaction scanning

Privy has partnered with Blockaid to bring extra security to our embedded wallets—flagging suspicious txn before users sign.

With this, users can leverage Privy global wallets with confidence. Let’s dive in!

Spinning up a new project channel at Privy HQ means a Monday @segall ritual

Crypto: The Game

Undercover ops. Spreadsheet drama. Emoji puzzles in piss-scented alleys.

Incredible write-up from WIRED on going undercover for CTG S3 that reads like a spy thriller.

If you've ever wanted to know what it feels like to play Crypto: The Game, read this: https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-the-game-undercover/

This is so so so so so cool. 

So not Privy related at all but super proud we got to build a tiny sliver of what helped Dylan and the team focus on crafting a unique, incredible experience (Cult? Movement?) on the web. 😍😍😍

My feed:

- we have built superintelligence with access to the world’s knowledge rails. 
- can you turn all my family photos into Ghibli content?

On the whole, i feel good about humanity’s prospects today.

fc-updates

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Who should use this feature? 

1. You have a Warpcast Wallet, but are not able to use it due to geo restriction.

2. You are a developer, and know how recovery phrases work, and want to test something in your own client. 

3. You are an advanced user, and want to import your Farcaster wallet into another app.

In all cases - if you make a mistake and store it insecurely or get tricked into inputting it into the wrong app, you will lose your account and your funds! 

We do not recommend using this feature unless you absolutely have to.

Release + user manual -- underrated major release practice.

Learning from @v !

GN! Ready to AMA -- happy to chat anything @privy, building better UX for distributed systems and lessons on crypto product building, key cryptography, or why @dwr.eth's rosé swilling memes are so distatesful for the French. AMA

OMG you're a real one... anybody that references that scene... extra h/t to you for your work with privy and for this salient argument, good sir 🫡

If you want to feel something tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ucBVz_IFGk

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Always happy except for when I have dry eyes | @maysquarepants on X |  prev. @lunchbreak

Nice, thank you, can't wait 🫡 

A follow-up only if time permits since I just noticed your X banner lol: Why is For a Few Dollars More better than The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? 

Fun fact - just found out *apparently the latter is Tarantino's all time fav

france

Still no one asks me about @dwr.eth 's numerous missteps with the French :(

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Founders

Reminder to get your questions ready for the Builder AMA with @henri tomorrow!

The easiest way to bring all your users onchain, regardless of whether they already have wallets | Customer love at privy.io/love

Lets go! The leadership team at Privy is genuinely one of the best I have ever encountered. Bullish on this.

Our CTO is incredible at managing technical challenges and teams to push stuff out at the rate we do, she also has an incredible depth in everything! 

Our CEO is likely one of the nicest people you will meet in crypto and does multi-weekly updates about where they see the future of the space with such nuance that I am regularly blown away.

The team at privy is genuinely top tier all round and I'm glad I joined, I've been pushed hard and get challenged by the work, I can feel my brain working out!

🤩 we are hiring! https://www.privy.io/careers

Outstanding 👏💜🔐🙌

Probably shared this with you  already, the first time I used privy it felt magical like the first time I used an iPhone. 

Keep going🔥🚀

1/ Announcing our latest round of funding led by Ribbit Capital.

Thank you to our users and our customers for enabling us to bring crypto rails to everyone, everywhere.

We’re excited to keep building with you.

Our next builder AMA series on Farcaster will be @henri the cofounder of Privy on Thu 7:30pm ET. Get your questions ready!

First AMA! Come one, come all! I'm excited to chat :)