Nathaniel

Onboarding the world to Web3 @dynamic_xyz (acq. Fireblocks )| prev: Co-founder & CEO @ Greenwood (Polychain)

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

In NYC next week.

Thursday night: Fireblocks rooftop happy hour with Aleo. Come hang.

If you can't make it on Thursday, I have open calendar time while I’m in town.

DM me and we’ll grab 30 mins.

https://t.co/01VEPSE02O

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

nyc I’m in u

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

@joannatran_ Bro literally says still calibrating.

Appreciate you looking out tho

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Weekend project got a little out of hand

working on an iphone app called NORMAL (nathaniel's optimization, recovery, metrics, activity & longevity). it talks to my whoop strap directly

now plugging Dynamic in so I can put stablecoins behind personal goals.

(Still calibrating, so some metrics have not loaded)

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

I see OG anons at fintech events and we chat about $500+ deployment costs

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

I feel kinda washed. I used to sling smart contracts written in Vyper with my boi @BranMcF

Now I sell blockchain infra to the financial institutions I swore to overthrow

(iibh Brandon wrote them all)

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Fireblocks Flow just unlocked TRON for businesses.
In case you were wondering what Dynamic’s been up to 👀

https://t.co/cx5BhK0K1z

[TRON DAO @trondao]

TRON is now live on @FireblocksHQ Flow.

Businesses can accept stablecoin payments and deposits from TRON wallets through Fireblocks infrastructure, expanding access to onchain payment rails. 🔻

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Headed back to nyc next week woohooooo

If you’re around, may I meet you?

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Looks like cannabis dispensaries are accepting crypto payments. Who are the offramps willing to work with cannabis?

I don't think @Stablecoin would do this, right?

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

ty Joanna!

[Joanna Tran @joannatran_]

23 days since launch and our sales team be closing 👏👏👏

shoutout to @trynathaniel 🫶

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Must watch

[Derek Hsue @derekhsue]

I had a wonderful chat with Michael, the founder of @FireblocksHQ.

We talked about the early history of Fireblocks, scaling through DeFi summer, Unit 8200, how to successfully build a B2B crypto product, and much more. Hope folks enjoy!

(0:00) Intro
(0:34) Altitude
(1:31) Growing up in Israel, learning programming, and starting internet businesses
(7:49) Unit 8200 and the mindset it teaches
(16:05) First startup, mentorship, and early lessons
(20:20) Where the inspiration for Fireblocks came from
(28:18) Finding product-market fit with Fireblocks
(37:11) Enterprise-first vs bottom-up GTM strategy
(42:53) Catching the DeFi wave
(51:24) Surviving Terra, 3AC, and FTX
(1:08:44) How Fireblocks is evolving

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Hey @bryan_johnson, your AI told me to ask you what facial sunscreen you use?

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

@joannatran_ 📈

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

@aixarizzo I think we’re also assuming it was a mistake

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Friends and family saw the Coinbase Super Bowl commercial just now.

They’ve decided to buy their first Bitcoin on Kraken.

[Derek Hsue @derekhsue]

Launching a new podcast today! Filmed at our NYC office, each episode of @Archive_Pod focuses on a founder or operator who has built an important crypto business/protocol.

The first episode is with @keoneHD, founder of @monad.

We dive into Keone’s upbringing, the early days of Monad and the journey to raising the seed round. Plus, we talk about recruiting + scaling the team, and the philosophies they used to launch and grow the network.

Here's what we discussed:

0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Altitude
1:32 - Monad's Launch
4:25 - Keone’s early life and interests
16:52 - Where Keone’s work ethic came from
19:52 - Working at Jump and how the culture passed on to Monad
24:26 - Starting Monad
30:05 - Raising the seed round for Monad
32:29 - Growing the Monad community and open-sourcing code
36:35 - How Keone hired for the early team
44:07 - The future of Category Labs
51:26 - Which metrics is Monad focusing on
1:00:24 - Building a base of loyal and passionate users
1:07:45 - The personality of an L1 founder
1:13:46 - Founders that Keone looks up to
1:18:34 - Day in the life of Keone
1:23:57 - The endgame vision for Monad

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

@joannatran_ @dynamic_xyz @mpearl_19 listen, man cooks

[Nathaniel @trynathaniel]

Dynamic powers crypto tech that matters to real people.

hmu if you’re building something that matters

Cool story 👇🏽

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

I met Zoe at @JoinEdgeCity and we traveled together for a few weeks afterwards, she earns USDC from her work but hasn’t had the ability to spend it due to limited banking infrastructure in her home country, Aruba. It was so fun to go shopping together and watch her spend her USDC at small Argentine boutiques via @joinpeanut and set up her first USDC enabled debit card via @OfframpXYZ.

There is a lot of noise in crypto but at its core it’s about financial sovereignty and independence for everyone in the world.