Attention Privy builders!!
You can now empower AI agents to manage your users' wallets via our new agent auth functionality
Perfect for portfolio management automation and facilitating commerce outside of your product's front end
@drosmitiku COOKED with this one!!
Dialectic Ep. 48: Henri Stern
Modern technologists--especially in crypto--are often deeply principled or impressively pragmatic.
@sternhenri is both.
I talked to Henri about digital privacy, the moral weight of building technology, the painful reality of realizing the market doesn't want what you're selling, and crypto's 'boring' era.
Henri is co-founder and CEO of @privy_io, which @stripe acquired last year. Privy focuses on enabling developers to let their users hold crypto, and Henri works across a number of Stripe's efforts to bring more of the financial world onchain (in large part thanks to stablecoins).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening Highlights
1:40 - Intro to Henri
4:51 - Start: Technical Decisions are Moral Decisions
15:41 - Ambition, Startups, and Crypto
23:39 - Why Digital Privacy Matters: Self-Determination, Security, and Identity
41:52 - Embedded Wallets, the Pivot, and Privy's Core Bet
55:18 - Reinventing Around Stablecoins Without Abandoning Crypto-Natives
1:06:42 - Joining Stripe, Privy Today, and What Stripe Is Becoming
1:22:54 - Crypto's Future, Power Laws, Optimism and Pessimism
1:38:14 - Closing: Asta, Stripe's Leaders, Being French, and Never Compromising
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MetaDAO's ownership coins solve a fundamental issue of traditional tokens: the value of the DAO is dislocated from the value of the token.
Offchain, equity-bearing legal wrappers capture value and give investors protection as every company does. The tokens are merely speculative accessories used to settle select governance outcomes.
Through a novel legal structure granting tokenholders enforceable control over the DAO's assets and strategic direction, ownership coins collapse this bifurcation and push DAO value and token value to converge.
principles first community what brought me to the eth ecosystem and what will keep me here. @pcaversaccio thank you for articulating and championing this manifesto to remind us all.
We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, act on principles. We fucking care about privacy. We fucking care about security. We fucking care about censorship resistance. And we will always fucking defend these core principles. I wrote the Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto because this shit matters. If you're butthurt, go touch some grass and get a reality check. We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, stand united in our pursuit of a more private, secure, and censorship-resistant future. Like it or not.
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