co-founder @useboardwalk | crypto class of 2017; building since 2021 | advised (2) CBV backed protocols | prev: board-certified & licensed healthcare (M.S.)
Joined July 2023
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meowphasaurus retweeted
exceptional founders are the scarce input....this never changes and never will.
crypto native VCs who underwrote "next gen" operators who shipped through the last cycles already own the prior relationships with that specific high IQ and risk focused talent pool.
when those same people reallocate their time toward higher expected value problems such as AI agents that need settlement and coordination layers, robotics that need novel capital formation or verifiable data, space systems that need software and autonomous coordination....the first call still goes to the investors who already backed them to take risks within uncertain industries and sectors...and better still, watched them execute under constraints most outsiders never faced with new regs and continuous complications.
some VCs talk shit, "bro, you left chasing the next big thing"
"no mfer, It is continuity of the talent graph"
you take the same technical team that came up through crypto...you do not spin up a separate unit.
crypto was built for elite founders and operators who could raise, build, and iterate while the regulatory and market environment was hostile asf.
filter that and it produces higher rates of agency, technical depth in distributed systems, and comfort with capital formation under uncertainty.
those traits transfer cleanly onto robotics coordination problems, agentic systems that need economic rails, and hard tech domains where traditional capital is slower or more process bound.
the gimps calling this “trend chasing” are the ones who never held the relationships in the first place.
if your only exposure to elite talent was secondary or narrativedriven, of course the move looks opportunistic.
If you already underwrote the operators, following them into the next surface is just not abandoning the scarce resource. the big fucking invariant is the elite founder.
all next gen, 1% founders were involved in crypto in some shape or form. they saw opportunity, risk, carnage and wanted a big slice. Those same folk have the same mindset with all new age tech....follow them
meowphasaurus retweeted
This deserves far more attention than it has received in the last two hours! Incredible effort! cc @jessepollak
Coinbase has really put in the work to block accounts when they should be and NOT block when they shouldn’t be, a huge turn around from prior years.
💪
meowphasaurus retweeted
I don’t think he was annointed, I think he earned it.
I wasn’t here then but CB wasn’t super crypto-native a few years ago and Jesse is a stud engineer and leader. He was an early believer in the Ethereum vision for a better financial system build on permissionless, decentralized rails, which BA believes too.
I think jesse and Brian wanted to build products onchain and grow defi to enable better financial products that we could offer CB users. Maybe even move the whole business onchain. Ethereum was slow and expensive, Solana was FTX’s playground, and L2s had the most promising path to both scalability and decentralization. This is all just a guess, tbc.
Brian said go, Jesse put together a team and launched Base. A year later he’d built a cult and a $100M rev business, all without a token.
He built that because it was a vision he believed in and committed everything to. He became a rockstar and CB’s onchain messiah. He built it, he gets the title.
And now we have Cobie too and he’s fxcking sick.
meowphasaurus retweeted
You can get 95% of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other. One former Navy SEAL friend texted me a principle used in their training: “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
meowphasaurus retweeted
@GuardianAudits sets the standard for what onchain security should look like, and we’re excited to be one of their grant program recipients to further secure Boardwalk.
meowphasaurus retweeted
Never bet against the people who choose to build durable and think long term.
A wise llama once said, “I’d rather be right than make money.”
The market may focus on short term outcomes, max extraction and pure hype.
You don’t have to. You shouldn’t.
99% will lose in that arena because it’s not a level playing field. Sophisticated traders have advantages you’re not even aware of.
We’re building better markets. More transparency and a level playing field.
It won’t happen overnight, but we’re further along than anyone else. Join us is our mission. 🫡
meowphasaurus retweeted
Give the long tail of builders better rails and a fairer way to earn. Rooting for this kind of infrastructure 🔥
Millions of builders around the world need issuance rails others can quickly and easily trust.
Boardwalk standardizes issuance, protecting all market participants at the token and economy level.
Our target issuers aren’t rich ex-Silicon Valley with corporate backing.
They are people from around the world who want to express their commitment to fair, transparent issuance. People with great ideas who don’t have the social or financial network and must bootstrap.
Boardwalk gives them an advantage by programmatically committing to the Boardwalk Standard with out-of-the-box economy formation.
For Backers, Boardwalk offers a place to find and connect with builders they’d otherwise never find, saving enormous time and expense on due diligence knowing Boardwalk markets are programmatically far safer and transparent to invest in the next generation of builders.
Boardwalk is connecting networks on both sides of the world in a relaxing environment where everyone knows the rules before they participate.
meowphasaurus retweeted
As much as I use/have used other launchpads, and really appreciate the heart of some for the culture and distribution, at the end of the day @useboardwalk is built different. And I think this will be obvious as the market 1) matures and 2) wakes up.
meowphasaurus retweeted
Trading for $BADDIE by @GmBaddies on @robinhoodcrypto is open!
🔒 LP locked permanently
🗓 7-day claim cliff
⏳ Anti-sniper fee window
Link: app.useboardwalk.com/discove…
Boardwalk is permissionless. Posts are not endorsements. 🐳
meowphasaurus retweeted
It doesn't have to be like this.
We don't need to lead so many to slaughter.
Foster culture around providing LP and longer time frames.
A blunted call option that produces fees as a function of time > playing the numbers at a roulette table.
meowphasaurus retweeted
$BADDIE, the Original Crypto Baddie is launching on @RobinhoodCrypto via @useboardwalk’s Express Launcher 🐳
The public auction is open for 24 hours and graduates after 2.5 ETH 💋
Official info below 👇
meowphasaurus retweeted
If you have a token and issue or adopt another token and don’t migrate or airdrop your original token holders, you’re cooked.
meowphasaurus retweeted
If you’re considering building a community, would highly recommend checking out @useboardwalk
meowphasaurus retweeted
To the univ2 pools because they are so much better than concentrated liquidity for non-bluechip assets because of the sophisticated trading strategies concentrated liquidity enables creating unfair playing fields for retail.
To the embedded immutable fee direction inside the token to multiple recipients akin to hooks but far safer
to the battle tested v2 contracts and infra
to the fully audited by Sherlock
to the LP vault participation with multiplier points for time-weighted fee distribution from both swap and token fees 0.40% net
to the economic fee protection for all recipients by moving the fee into the token rather than increasing the swap pool fee which enables opportunistic LPs to route around capturing that fee from the creator, issuer or whoever the recipient should have been
can’t happen on Boardwalk, the token fee stays in and the token economy becomes more durable
Boardwalk solved a ton of problems that make markets today untrustworthy and extractive but it can’t solve all risks. Read the docs or checkout the homepage: UseBoardwalk.com/docs
meowphasaurus retweeted
Liquidity > Market Cap
On a f’n memecoin…
@useboardwalk is just built different
LP rewards live btw…. first mover APR is nasty 🔥💩