Abram Dawson

Buiding @0xsplits - permissionless financial infra for builders:

[Abram Dawson @abram]

The right crypto wallet setup is not obvious. Here’s what I use for my family: accounts split by purpose, 2-of-5 email recovery, and no key-man risk. https://t.co/on5NO8GZZP

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@apex_ether @Veildotcash have enjoyed building alongside you!

[Splits @0xSplits]

We've made a lot of improvements to the CLI for Splits!

Here's an article for agents, a TLDR for humans: Add an AI agent to your Splits multisig as a team member. One CLI runs many workspaces, and your agent asks you for the money it needs. https://t.co/EnJyAgrvAX

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@NirZicherman immediate install!

appreciate the openness here, helpful for us all to read about the challenges not just the wins...thank you

[Nir Zicherman @NirZicherman]

We’ve pivoted Oboe. The first version, which we spent the past two years building, didn’t work. No excuses. Here’s the full story, culminating in what comes next: an all-new Oboe, available today.

We launched Oboe with a mission to make humanity smarter. That mission is core to who we are, and it hasn’t changed. The first way we thought to achieve it was by leveraging frontier models to offer everyone personalized tutoring.

But through many iterations over the past two years, it became clear that we built the wrong product. First, we’d made strategic decisions that left us undifferentiated in the age of LLMs. Second, by focusing on utility above all else, there was little organic incentive for people to return to the platform. And most importantly, no matter how great our product was, not many people were motivated to actively learn every day.

Despite our best efforts to serve everyone on the planet, we landed on a small, loyal user base that loved a product which wasn’t growing fast enough.

So we took a step back: How else could we serve everyone on the planet and still achieve our mission?

We decided instead to focus on a motivation everyone has: to have fun. Every day, billions of people entertain themselves on their mobile devices, filling countless minutes with mindless scrolling and brainrot that doesn’t make us smarter. In many cases, it actually makes us stupider.

What if we could replace scrolling that makes us stupider with scrolling that is both fun and makes us smarter? That’s the new Oboe.

It’s a fully personalized feed of dynamically generated, interactive, anti-brainrot challenges. Every scroll is designed specifically for you, to help you get smarter in a few minutes every single day.

We’ve been blown away by usage from our thousands of beta users. The differences in engagement and retention between this and the original version are stark. The product is working. It’s already clear that this new direction taps into a universal need that none of our previous iterations did.

For all of those people out there like me who feel like doomscrolling wastes their precious time, who enjoy feeling fulfilled, and who wish there was a better alternative: this one’s for you.

We can’t wait to see what you think.

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@henrylmcnamara Today is not that day

[will minshew @wminshew]

crypto is still in its "public enemy" bank heist era, but that understates the challenge due to its non-jurisdictional nature (~maritime law)

the question is whether this is endemic or just adolescent growing pains

I strongly believe the latter, but we have a lot of hard security work ahead before the world can benefit fully from the promised global property rights

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@alyssaleann based on how he’s looking at it I’d guess no. but my brother and sister in law were in this exact position and both baby and deck are doing swimmingly :)

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@kyle Yeah, this reminded me to cancel my subscription

[Abram Dawson @abram]

as more assets are tokenized, i suspect ~this has mileage to run.

create whatever "policy engine" engine you want on top of open source infra you—and only you—control.

decrease the attackable surface area

https://t.co/9j4q0cRXuj

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@blakeir why?

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@tbtstl i was surprised when i started reading the docs, since the marketing page is oriented to devs and the docs page (at least the intro page, where i landed) is oriented to consumers..tripped me up. looks interesting!

[davidlee @davidlee]

1/ I'm hiring an investor at Samsung Next, based in the Bay Area. No investing experience preferred. You'd work for me.

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@wminshew everyone wants to avoid counter party risk but nobody wants to self-custody

:everybody wanna be a body builder:

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@jessepollak @brian_armstrong what's an example? trying to get a sense for the size of a pr from a non-machine-room-person and what sorts of verifications your system must have...relevant for us right now

[Splits @0xSplits]

New Pro and Premium tiers that teams unlock by keeping funds in Splits Earn.

Plus: Add an agent to any workspace as a full team member with its own keys and signing identity. https://t.co/lTfwLUAozU

[Abram Dawson @abram]

> Coming up with ideas was never the hard part. The hard part is how fast reality answers them.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Cliff Sosin on the limits of intelligence:

"Superintelligence arrived. You probably didn't notice, because it turned out to be kind of incremental.

I think we overrated intelligence, or misread what it is.

We hold a thin scatter of facts about the world, and intelligence or reasoning is whatever fills the space between them.

Where the space between the facts behaves well, this is close to godlike. Most of what matters doesn't behave like that.

The universe is mostly the emergent behavior of complex systems. Stir cream into coffee. Watch a storm build out of nothing but atmospheric temperature differences and water vapor.

You have to run the thing.

The takeoff story assumed the limit was thinking. It isn't. The limit is contact with reality.

A smarter reasoner fills the gaps between known facts in simple areas faster and better, but it doesn’t produce new facts.

An AI will hand you a genuinely clever design for a jet turbine blade. It might be far more likely to work than anything your engineers came up with.

It'll still probably fail, because that’s the base rate at the edge of what anyone knows. The only way to find out is to build the blade and try to break it.

That's the real limit on learning, and it doesn't care how smart you are. Coming up with ideas was never the hard part. The hard part is how fast reality answers them.

Most problems can't be worked out at a desk by thinking. Those stay bound by how fast we can build the thing and see if it holds, and that clock barely moves."

From his essay "Maybe Intelligence Ain't All That." He walks through it here.

[Abram Dawson @abram]

@tbtstl @taylor_ @tempo @privy_io whoa this is sick!

[Abram Dawson @abram]

incredibly cool to see how the pieces are fitting together!

[Stripe Crypto @StripeCrypto]

Stripe Crypto brings together everything needed to enable agentic commerce.

From stablecoins on @tempo to secure non-custodial wallets powered by @privy_io, here's what's powering Link balance for AI agents, starting with @instinct. https://t.co/yn07R9uE1F

[Abram Dawson @abram]

alex finding his life's work is a gift to us all

[Alex MacCaw @maccaw]

For the past year I’ve been heads down, iterating with a small team, building what I believe will be my life’s work.

https://t.co/0xeLqiJVBF

[Abram Dawson @abram]

our business model is simple:

the more you store in @0xSplits, the more value you receive.

we feel this best aligns our incentives - you trust us with more, and we earn that trust by delivering greater value in return. 🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[Splits @0xSplits]

Today we're launching Splits Pro and Premium tiers, and most customers will get them without paying a subscription. https://t.co/MIU4KYXDEn