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ian
@iandaos #3696
11 years in crypto. co-founder of @syndicate
3133 Follower 259 Following
I’m getting increasingly frustrated with how many “smart KOLs” are so focused on ETH value capture vs Ethereum value creation
So many people are saying the sole focus should be on increasing rents, which is so short sighted
I’m coming to the conclusion they’ve never built real products that create real value for real users
That is the bigger problem in web3 and Ethereum that needs to be solved for. Not pumping ETH bags
If you’re here to actually build something important and believe in Ethereum, it’s time to stand up with us and lead
So many people are saying the sole focus should be on increasing rents, which is so short sighted
I’m coming to the conclusion they’ve never built real products that create real value for real users
That is the bigger problem in web3 and Ethereum that needs to be solved for. Not pumping ETH bags
If you’re here to actually build something important and believe in Ethereum, it’s time to stand up with us and lead
Outside of crypto, the two things I am most interested in are NHI/UAPs and why raisins are the worst dried fruit
Unprecedented changes in US crypto policy. Government working collaboratively with industry for the first time in 11 years. These aren’t just talking points, it's real transformation. Still early, but feels very real.
Having spent over a decade in crypto, I'm proud the U.S. chose only Bitcoin for its strategic reserve.
The decision sets the right example to the world and solidifies America's leadership and commitment to decentralized and credibly neutral technologies.
The decision sets the right example to the world and solidifies America's leadership and commitment to decentralized and credibly neutral technologies.
After more than a decade in crypto, one truth stands out: building cool tech isn't enough.
When I was at IDEO, we said that crypto-powered applications that create real impact for real users and businesses would eventually be all the matters.
That time is now here.
When I was at IDEO, we said that crypto-powered applications that create real impact for real users and businesses would eventually be all the matters.
That time is now here.
Ethereum is at a pivotal moment in its history. Some see its diversity and competing priorities as bugs—problems to be solved through greater centralization, alignment, and coordination. But it's missing the point.
Ethereum's richness and heterogeneity isn't a bug—it's Ethereum's greatest feature. The freedom to innovate, compete, and pursue many visions is exactly what makes Ethereum powerful. We don't need more of a push top down. We need more bottom up collaboration with a boost from EF for things that work.
It isn't about technical research or scaling debates. It's about remembering what Ethereum stands for: freedom, permissionless innovation, and empowering and uplifting communities—and amplifying the solutions they're building to change the system and create real impact.
Ethereum's richness and heterogeneity isn't a bug—it's Ethereum's greatest feature. The freedom to innovate, compete, and pursue many visions is exactly what makes Ethereum powerful. We don't need more of a push top down. We need more bottom up collaboration with a boost from EF for things that work.
It isn't about technical research or scaling debates. It's about remembering what Ethereum stands for: freedom, permissionless innovation, and empowering and uplifting communities—and amplifying the solutions they're building to change the system and create real impact.
I didn’t join the crypto industry 11 years ago to help it recentralize
Decentralization for community ownership is the whole point of crypto
I don’t care how few teams care about this deeply because it’s what people, communities, and the world needs
Decentralization for community ownership is the whole point of crypto
I don’t care how few teams care about this deeply because it’s what people, communities, and the world needs
There are now very few great projects in crypto left that stand for something important and are fighting to follow through on it.
@syndicate is one of them.
@syndicate is one of them.
Don't just build something
Don't just believe in something
Stand for something
Don't just believe in something
Stand for something
It is such an incredible privilege to work with the most GOATed team in crypto on the planet.
Caleb
Chelsea
Daniil
Eric
Gus
Isaac
Jorge
Justin
Kristen
Kristina
Oleksii
Pranav
Raihan
Sam
Shaan
Sheldon
Sid
Swoosh
Will
Caleb
Chelsea
Daniil
Eric
Gus
Isaac
Jorge
Justin
Kristen
Kristina
Oleksii
Pranav
Raihan
Sam
Shaan
Sheldon
Sid
Swoosh
Will
Come find us at ETH Denver
We want to interview and amplify your project and community
We want to interview and amplify your project and community
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Syndicate
@syndicate·19:45 26/02/2025
The Syndicate van is making moves at ETH Denver—and @boysclub is coming along.
Find us for the chance to be interviewed, share what you're building, and grab some exclusive Syndicate merch.
For updates on where to find the van, visit communitiesfirst.xyz
Find us for the chance to be interviewed, share what you're building, and grab some exclusive Syndicate merch.
For updates on where to find the van, visit communitiesfirst.xyz
Come find us at ETH Denver
We’re interviewing and amplifying builders and their communities with @boysclub
We’re interviewing and amplifying builders and their communities with @boysclub
If you're going to ETH Denver next week - DM me or join one of our events
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Syndicate
@syndicate·23:16 21/02/2025
Pulling up to ETH Denver next week? So are we.
Look for the Syndicate branded van—we're interviewing builders with Boys Club and teaming with Refraction to make the van an official checkpoint on the IRL Side Quest. Find us at our events below & more places TBA:
RESET:DENVER: lu.ma/8qu7nl7j
APPCHAINS POWER LUNCH: lu.ma/cumn73p5
CRYPTO CAFE: lu.ma/hqoaqegq
BUILDER CAFE: lu.ma/ljdwmq01
See you soon, Denver!
Look for the Syndicate branded van—we're interviewing builders with Boys Club and teaming with Refraction to make the van an official checkpoint on the IRL Side Quest. Find us at our events below & more places TBA:
RESET:DENVER: lu.ma/8qu7nl7j
APPCHAINS POWER LUNCH: lu.ma/cumn73p5
CRYPTO CAFE: lu.ma/hqoaqegq
BUILDER CAFE: lu.ma/ljdwmq01
See you soon, Denver!
What happens when a chain itself is programmable?
What happens when a chain is programmable because its sequencer is programmable?
What happens when the sequencer is just a smart contract?
These questions haven’t been considered because they’ve never been possible. Until today.
Build something new. Dm me.
What happens when a chain is programmable because its sequencer is programmable?
What happens when the sequencer is just a smart contract?
These questions haven’t been considered because they’ve never been possible. Until today.
Build something new. Dm me.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·19:36 20/02/2025
A chain for agents. No humans allowed. Introducing Dreamchain from @dreamcoins.
https://x.com/syndicateio/status/1892637393322479888
https://x.com/syndicateio/status/1892637393322479888
From chains with apps
To apps with chains
To apps with chains
If anyone is building a new appchain to grow their platform and community the right way, DM me or apply
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Syndicate
@syndicate·18:37 06/02/2025
We've launched a new accelerator program for rollups with Alchemy—APPLY TODAY.
Why join?
+ Design, scale & progressively decentralize the rollup to your community
+ Hands-on support in chain & sequencer customization
+ Community of leading rollup builders
+ Free credits
Why join?
+ Design, scale & progressively decentralize the rollup to your community
+ Hands-on support in chain & sequencer customization
+ Community of leading rollup builders
+ Free credits
Every community deserves to control its economic destiny. Not in some distant generation, but in this one. Not through someone else's system, but through their own.
Previous approaches to scaling gave us faster chains and better contracts. But they didn't fundamentally change who controls the network or its economics.
Syndicate Chain is different. We're not just offering another scaling solution.
We're giving communities true ownership over their full stack:
• Their own chain
• Their own sequencer
• Their own economic mechanisms
• Their own future
Previous approaches to scaling gave us faster chains and better contracts. But they didn't fundamentally change who controls the network or its economics.
Syndicate Chain is different. We're not just offering another scaling solution.
We're giving communities true ownership over their full stack:
• Their own chain
• Their own sequencer
• Their own economic mechanisms
• Their own future
The path to a community-owned internet starts today with community-owned infrastructure.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·17:28 28/01/2025
Syndicate Chain enables developers to build horizontally scalable, atomically composable, community-owned appchains on top of it.
Next gen agentic, social, consumer, gaming, NFT, DeFi & RWA appchains are already in development using Syndicate Chain.
READ MORE:
https://x.com/syndicateio/status/1884287437842813106
Next gen agentic, social, consumer, gaming, NFT, DeFi & RWA appchains are already in development using Syndicate Chain.
READ MORE:
https://x.com/syndicateio/status/1884287437842813106
Past: Chains have power
Present: Apps have power
Future: Communities have power
Present: Apps have power
Future: Communities have power
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Syndicate
@syndicate·16:52 23/01/2025
COMMUNITIES FIRST.
The culmination of our team's four years of work with communities to reimagine the world begins.
And it couldn't come at a better time.
And it couldn't come at a better time.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·21:21 21/01/2025
THE FUTURE IS NOW.
Here they come
We're hiring our first marketer to help take Syndicate's technology and community to a whole new level in 2025 and beyond.
Apply today and join our incredible team!
Apply today and join our incredible team!
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Syndicate
@syndicate·16:52 26/11/2024
Syndicate is growing and hiring its first Marketing Lead ✨
Join our team and play a key role in helping bring web3 and community-ownership mainstream. Apply today:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/632e9d8f-8e7f-43b6-a90e-dcda68465597
Join our team and play a key role in helping bring web3 and community-ownership mainstream. Apply today:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/632e9d8f-8e7f-43b6-a90e-dcda68465597
Let’s get back to work and what we can all agree on. Crypto is here to stay and will be a bigger part of the economy.
Our industry is in need of inspiration to find new paths to growth.
I’ve been there before. Three times in the last ten years.
Come chat with me if you want to hear something new and hopeful. It’s coming. It’s inevitable. In fact, it’s already happening.
I’ve been there before. Three times in the last ten years.
Come chat with me if you want to hear something new and hopeful. It’s coming. It’s inevitable. In fact, it’s already happening.
Apply by 11:59pm PST tonight!
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Metabased
@metabased·21:25 07/10/2024
Today's the final day to submit an application for the Metabased fellowship (11:59pm PST). We're looking for folks building the future of communities with crypto tooling. Fellows receive:
— Mentorship from industry leaders
— $20k stipend
— Early access to Syndicate's newest tech
https://airtable.com/appmZFbdGEFBBrDCo/page3DoSykqP2LqE2/form
— Mentorship from industry leaders
— $20k stipend
— Early access to Syndicate's newest tech
https://airtable.com/appmZFbdGEFBBrDCo/page3DoSykqP2LqE2/form
If you want to do cutting-edge research into new economic mechanisms/models for community-centric rollups, apply today and DM me.
8-week fellowship, $20K in pay, work with people like @avichal @puntium @dberenzon and more and 20+ top teams, with real impact.
8-week fellowship, $20K in pay, work with people like @avichal @puntium @dberenzon and more and 20+ top teams, with real impact.
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Metabased
@metabased·16:16 26/09/2024
Today we’re excited to announce the Metabased Fellowship, an 8-week (paid) program for top researchers and developers to invent new economic mechanisms for community-owned rollups.
Apply by Oct 7: https://metabased.notion.site/Announcing-the-Metabased-Fellowship-Apply-by-Oct-7-10d94475eae680589571cbf432e8a0d7
Apply by Oct 7: https://metabased.notion.site/Announcing-the-Metabased-Fellowship-Apply-by-Oct-7-10d94475eae680589571cbf432e8a0d7
Just hopped off the kickoff meeting for @metabased and am pumped
Builders in Ethereum are coming together to collaborate, help one another, and do the hard but right thing that will take the space higher
I couldn't be more excited for the long term future of Ethereum
Builders in Ethereum are coming together to collaborate, help one another, and do the hard but right thing that will take the space higher
I couldn't be more excited for the long term future of Ethereum
👀
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Metabased
@metabased·16:31 10/09/2024
Chain ID: ###############
Name: Metabased-Farpoint
🤫⏳🔜
Name: Metabased-Farpoint
🤫⏳🔜
Big things for us in 2025 and beyond
Join our growing team at this major inflection point
Join our growing team at this major inflection point
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Syndicate
@syndicate·16:43 06/09/2024
We're looking for a Head of Finance to help Syndicate and our partners go to the next level ✨
Apply today:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/7cb029ce-0e62-4354-9966-a25f8913a06b
Apply today:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/7cb029ce-0e62-4354-9966-a25f8913a06b
With centralized L2/L3s, a company is the block builder/proposer (captures priority fees) and the sequencer (captures sequencing fees). If only the sequencer is decentralized, is the rollup *really* decentralized, if most of the economics in the form of priority fees still go to a central party?
This is why community-owned rollups like @metabased are where things are inevitably headed. Decentralization of not just the tech but the full governance and economics which not only leads to more prosperous networks, but as a result, a more resilient, sustainable, and scalable ones.
This is why community-owned rollups like @metabased are where things are inevitably headed. Decentralization of not just the tech but the full governance and economics which not only leads to more prosperous networks, but as a result, a more resilient, sustainable, and scalable ones.
Getting the opportunity to work, learn, grow, and do cool sh*t with Raihan is a dream
He’s come out of retirement. LFG
He’s come out of retirement. LFG
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raihan
@raihan·15:44 27/08/2024
✨ Joined @syndicate as their Head of Ecosystems recently. Feels like preaching to the choir here when I say that L3s are a key unlock for the future of our industry.
Our first initiative @metabased already has 20+ members from across the space. We either build this together or someone else imposes it on us 💪🏽
Our first initiative @metabased already has 20+ members from across the space. We either build this together or someone else imposes it on us 💪🏽
😐 see rumor
😀 republican psyop
😮 democrat psyop
🤯 crypto psyop
😀 republican psyop
😮 democrat psyop
🤯 crypto psyop
For me, this is personal.
The world's economic systems have locked communities into someone else's rules and game.
We felt this when we worked on DAOs and now L3s.
Now it's time to put the power of networks themselves back into the hands of their communities where it belongs.
The world's economic systems have locked communities into someone else's rules and game.
We felt this when we worked on DAOs and now L3s.
Now it's time to put the power of networks themselves back into the hands of their communities where it belongs.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·16:00 31/07/2024
Today, we’re sharing our development of a powerful rollup we call “metabased” and a new community-led initiative @metabased
Currently there are no paths for rollups to decentralize their networks to their communities to economically empower them.
We're going to solve this.
syndicate.io/blog/metabased-rollups
Currently there are no paths for rollups to decentralize their networks to their communities to economically empower them.
We're going to solve this.
syndicate.io/blog/metabased-rollups
In my 10 years in the industry, I can distinctly remember 6 times after seeing and learning about something more deeply I became most excited:
2014: Bitcoin
2015: Ethereum
2017: ERC-20 and ERC-721
2019: Uniswap/AMMs
2021: Investing DAOs
2024: L3s
Something big is coming.
2014: Bitcoin
2015: Ethereum
2017: ERC-20 and ERC-721
2019: Uniswap/AMMs
2021: Investing DAOs
2024: L3s
Something big is coming.
A better vision for the internet and web3 than the Fat Protocols thesis is coming.
When teams ask us “Why an L3”, this is the advice we give them in terms of the biggest opportunities and challenges.
But for the teams who are going all-in on L3s with us and our partners, we’re working on these shared challenges together—to take Ethereum to the next level of adoption and community ownership.
But for the teams who are going all-in on L3s with us and our partners, we’re working on these shared challenges together—to take Ethereum to the next level of adoption and community ownership.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·17:26 09/07/2024
L3s are emerging as the next frontier in scaling Ethereum. At Syndicate, we've worked alongside dozens of teams to pursue that opportunity. Yet there are still many challenges.
We discuss the dual nature of today’s L3s in this essay:
https://syndicate.io/blog/l3-opportunities-challenges
We discuss the dual nature of today’s L3s in this essay:
https://syndicate.io/blog/l3-opportunities-challenges
Join our growing team at @syndicate
Help build the community-driven and community-owned internet we were promised with our customers, partners, and other leaders in the industry.
Help build the community-driven and community-owned internet we were promised with our customers, partners, and other leaders in the industry.
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Syndicate
@syndicate·19:39 03/07/2024
Syndicate is growing ✨
In addition to a Distributed Systems Engineer and Rollup Framework Engineer, we just opened a new role for a Business Development Lead to drive our go-to-market efforts with our high value customers and partners.
Apply today: jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/b61a2493-3255-43dd-9f41-3b19d714b798
In addition to a Distributed Systems Engineer and Rollup Framework Engineer, we just opened a new role for a Business Development Lead to drive our go-to-market efforts with our high value customers and partners.
Apply today: jobs.ashbyhq.com/syndicate/b61a2493-3255-43dd-9f41-3b19d714b798
It’s been great working with @alexcomeau @betashop.eth and the @airstack.eth team on the future of L3s and how web3 scales to millions of new people
Airstack has been a core part of every L3 we’ve launched to date and more to come
Airstack has been a core part of every L3 we’ve launched to date and more to come
If your team is looking to experiment at the cutting-edge of L3s and onchain data/mechanisms, let’s talk!
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Jacek.degen.eth 🎩
@jacek·15:07 07/06/2024
$DEGEN Announcement: Degen ENS subdomains are now live for degen.eth! Secure your Farcaster username at a special discount for the next 48 hours. Example: jacek.degen.eth! Let's spread the word and represent Degen across all ENS-supported platforms! https://frames.vision.io/frames/degen-claim
It’s rough out in these streets
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Deployer
@deployer·04:09 07/06/2024
turned off priority mode. LFG
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Alchemy
@alchemyplatform·16:39 06/06/2024
Today, we’re thrilled to introduce alchemy.com/rollups.
Scaling solutions like rollups are essential to Ethereum's success in the long run, and Alchemy provides the most-reliable, comprehensive Rollup platform for developers building at any scale.
Here’s why you should roll with us 😎
Scaling solutions like rollups are essential to Ethereum's success in the long run, and Alchemy provides the most-reliable, comprehensive Rollup platform for developers building at any scale.
Here’s why you should roll with us 😎
Working with @deployer the last couple months has been so fun.
Him and Ham’s innovative onchain tipping system are exactly the types of people/projects we choose to work with on L3s: ones that will push the technical boundaries of what’s possible in web3.
Him and Ham’s innovative onchain tipping system are exactly the types of people/projects we choose to work with on L3s: ones that will push the technical boundaries of what’s possible in web3.
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Deployer
@deployer·16:01 05/06/2024
Meet Ham Chain, our Ethereum-aligned Layer 3 blockchain built in collaboration with @syndicate using @optimism OP Stack and @celestia on @base! 🛠️
Claim and mint the Ham LP NFT https://ham.fun/claim
https://paragraph.xyz/@deployer/announcing-ham-chain
Claim and mint the Ham LP NFT https://ham.fun/claim
https://paragraph.xyz/@deployer/announcing-ham-chain
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ian
@iandaos·20:31 04/06/2024
If you’re around in SF, come to this crypto happy hour with a bunch of teams, founders, and investors tomorrow (Wednesday)!
https://lu.ma/8c1ujjp9
https://lu.ma/8c1ujjp9
