Timothy M Lee

3x Founder | AI + Tokenization | ex-CDO@Visa | ex-EthSign (3x Sequoia) | FoodTrail | UC Berkeley

[Joinable Labs @joinableai]

🚀 Joinable AI at GDC: A Night of Innovation & Connections

🧵 1/7: What an unforgettable evening at GDC!

We were honored to co-host a networking event with @TessVentures x @GAIALabs_xyz & @NixonPeabodyLLP , bringing together industry leaders in AI, gaming, and Web3.

Here’s what went down 👇

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

We are at the dawn of Web4: AI agents being given “agency” – the right & ability to execute actions autonomously – to do what humans used to do

#ReadWriteOwnDo #fintech2040playbook #QUADRILLION Web1 Read. Web2 Write. Web3 Own. Web4 Do

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

Here's the seminal cornerstone of the Web3 attestation framework needed to seed a global tokenization market.

[Xin @realyanxin]

It’s been 14 months since I started selling Sign Protocol, and I’ve finally found a pitch that easily resonates with ppl:

The problem is we lack universal verifiability for credentials. Think about it:

Can your ID be verified across countries or by institutions like banks and CEXs?
Can you easily prove ownership of assets or verify your graduation certificate?

What if we could solve this? Imagine:

Passing eKYC seamlessly to access financial services, obtain visas, or secure jobs, no trust issues.
Tokenizing your assets and using real-world credit onchain.

Blockchain has already shown us how global currencies can work. Now, we’re expanding it to all credentials, this is how the future looks like.

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

@AgoraGBC @tesshau1 @ciaobelindazhou @ForestBai1 @jacobkxyz @jacobkxyz investing deep in AI value chain, which he sees as:
1. Marketplaces (e.g. GPU)
2. Model training (cleaning up, labeling)
3. Data inference (blockchain is great for provenance)
4. Front End

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

@AgoraGBC @tesshau1 @ciaobelindazhou @ForestBai1 @jacobkxyz @ciaobelindazhou 》founders with the right background – keen on AI agents in daily life

@ForestBai1 》unique ideas with big potential – keen on AI payments

@tesshau1 》passionate domain expertise founders , esp focused platforms - pmts, amortize, verification layers; DePIN
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[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

@larry0x Singapore is the only place where the 2 crypto superpowers (US+China) converge. Asia Pacific converges here. Rest of world is spread out. Every major crypto player <20 min of me. Spent most of my life in the SF Bay/NYC and 10 yr in Sg. As a crypto founder, Sg wins hands down.

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

Don't let the differences in the small things separate you from the big things that bind you.
- Ray Dalio

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

Activity without direction and purpose is meaningless

[Karen Teoh - 🇸🇬 @cryptoecongames]

@jde5011 Coming to Singapore anytime soon? @timlee_eth is down an asset tokenisation rabbit hole.

[Karen Teoh - 🇸🇬 @cryptoecongames]

@ethsixfive co-organised. Couldn't have been done without the infra setup by my amazing co-orgs @timlee_eth @ksaitor @fureifurei @luminoir @_TomHoward @realyanxin

We're not for profit - so tip jar is here: ethsixfive.eth - see you guys!

[ETH65 🇸🇬 @ethsixfive]

🌩️ Want to learn how to set up #cloudnodes & #RPCnodes? Wanna know when or why they should be chosen over a standard home node? Join our meetup next week! https://t.co/1IpYFtZWxv

#eth #web3 #GoogleDevSpace #decentralisation #ETH65 #Searce #Chainstack #Stakesaurus #EBuildersLab

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

"I'm not predicting anything. I'm just telling you how the world works."

-Jim Rogers

5/5

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

"No currency has been the dominant currency for more than 100-150 years. Nothing has lasted forever. It's always been changing...
- Jim Rogers

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[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

"I don’t think it's a good time to be a young American. I don't have to pay for this. I'm an old American. US teenagers now will face a lot of problems just like young British children eventually did...
-Jim Rogers

4/5

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

Cool to see MAS focus on tokenization.

But disappointing that all the external contributors are banks.

It's like they only invited the post offices to design email.

[Tech in Asia @techinasia]

Generative AI and the promise it holds for Southeast Asia was a key topic at the IMDA ATxSummit. This year’s event, which explored the tech as well as everything else from augmented reality to Web3, is over, but keep an eye out for the 2024 edition: #ad

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The U.S. is squandering an early lead, in part because SBF embarrassed some politicians and regulators who now want to look tough on crypto. Pretty much everyone else has moved on though, and FTX is not really discussed in UK, UAE, etc.

The way to solve it is just get sensible regs in place so consumers are protected and these issues will stop happening.

[Timothy M Lee @timothy_m_lee]

"These NFTs are not just virtual stickers. It's a full play-to-earn game. These stickers can be exported from the game and traded on the LINE NFT marketplace. Transactions are cheap; no gas" - Keisuke Hata, @SquareEnix