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Consulting/Advisory @ Birch Hill // Arbitrum DeFi Ecosystem | Growth Prev @ gauntlet // boost // messari

Joined July 2019
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1/ Over the past eight months, @Balancer has quietly experienced one of the most contentious (and instructive) governance sagas this year.
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Birch Hill has raised a $4M seed round led by @multicoin, with participation from @paraficapital, @castleIslandvc and @nascent. We’re building the regulated path for credit onchain, connecting U.S. credit to onchain capital.
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Extremely excited to bring American real estate collateral onchain to @Morpho
The Birch Hill Groma Ecosystem Vault is live on @base, powered by @morpho. Open access to USDC lending backed by @gromacorp's Boston and Providence apartment buildings, with NAV published onchain by @ChronicleLabs Proof of Asset. Restrictions may apply.
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$USDG from @Paxos is now live on Arbitrum. Joining the Global Dollar Network brings Arbitrum closer to GDN members like @RobinhoodApp, @krakenfx, @OKX and more. We'll grow $USDG as a core asset on Arbitrum One through partner incentives and protocol-level integrations. 🧵
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Claude's writing style
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Things I never want to do again: - Connect wallet - Lock, stake, deposit, claim - Need more than a link to onboard frens Give me tokens that abstract the product.
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Thank you to @HesterPeirce and the @SECGov Crypto Task Force for taking the time to meet with us yesterday to learn about @BirchHill_io’s vault platform, our compliance & onboarding architecture, and how we are thinking about registration.
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Agreed.
The requirements for true DeFi infrastructure are simple but very (very) hard to implement at scale: a) be permissionless: anyone can build b) be immutable: anyone can own Without these, you are most likely just building an onchain brokerage platform.
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Denver is an indefensible location
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My estimation of value in internet tokens is not now, and has not been for some time, in sync with the markets.
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The deal was the top section of a pair of unisocks in exchange for something cool of his choice in the future Today he followed through with this custom @Uniswap x @MorphoLabs jacket 🔥
Just made a good deal with Hayden
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Fastest growing Yield Bearing Vault in the past 7d? @gauntlet_xyz's gtUSDa, with supply up +145.1% in the past week.
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I literally think about California’s geography permanently. You don’t know how privileged you are. It’s a perfect Olympia with a giant bay, a massive agricultural valley, diverse climates, southern niches for cities, a Mediterranean climate, and a wine region. Absolutely goated.
Sometimes you gotta rotate it
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5️⃣ @gauntlet_xyz 🏢 Organization: DeFi quantitative research firm, represented by Ryan Wegner (Head of Security) 🛠️ Background: Treasury and risk management, mechanism design specialist, active delegate in ArbitrumDAO, serves on Security Councils for Arbitrum, Scroll and Polygon 📝 Key focus: Data-driven risk assessment, vulnerability analysis, proactive threat identification, incident response
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sick lineup tbh
The wait is over. The September 2025 Security Council election results are here! Meet your 6 newly elected members 👇 tally.xyz/gov/arbitrum/counc…
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A few hard to accept truths that I think the market can handle after the past couple years of performance: 1. Prices aren't cheap. The tokens down 80% aren't cheap. The things underperforming deserve to do so. 2. 80%+ people in this space are incompetent relative to their seniority in any other industry, and will be weeded out over time 3. Poor aggregate fund performance is a function of 1. a bad investable universe (tokens from 2018-2024) 2. bad fund managers We need to accept that our industry isn't taken seriously because it historically hasn't deserved to be. I'm optimistic about the future only because I think the excesses that needed to be shed after 2021 are only now finally starting to occur. This is short-term painful and still may lead to most market participants' deaths that are still alive and kicking, but it's very likely necessary for "crypto" to succeed.
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Apparently VCs are crashing out philosophical rants this Halloween. Can’t think of anything less scary.
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Or interesting.
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Join @Optimism, @MorphoLabs, and @gauntlet_xyz for a live discussion on the future of DeFi — and what it means on OP Mainnet. We’ll unpack: 🏛️ Gauntlet’s USDC Prime Vault on Morpho — now live on OP Mainnet 🌐 OP Mainnet as neutral blockspace for enterprise-grade DeFi yield. Set a reminder ↓ xitter.gq/i/spaces/1kvJpMq…
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My fishing guide accepting payments in cash or cryptocurrency. We are so back.
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New Morphobeat Vault 🦋 @gauntlet_xyz USDC vault has been deployed. Borrow, lend, earn. Live now: app.hyperbeat.org/morphobeat…
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