Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth

Handyman. Co-founder @icebreaker_xyz. Ex @coinbase, @google, startups. ❤️ Art + AI + crypto + privacy + history. Find me on farcaster

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Multiple breakthroughs in cryptography, privacy, machine learning, and automation are converging- enabling myriad applications. Soon technology is going to feel like magic again.

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

It's been fascinating to see how many unnecessary services our SaaS is connecting to after installing @littlesnitch

This one (along with 10+ other ad trackers) is coming from Figma via an embedded sign-in flow in Linear

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Some of the best ideas need to be retried over and over until someone cracks the formula

[Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg]

Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: https://t.co/zhjIYSCigC

Our goal is to create the following:

- A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with.

- Cosign graph: Who shaped your career? Who were you actually in the trenches with? Who would work with you again? Who thinks you’re someone to watch?

- Durable reputation: Great endorsements happen every day on X and disappear into the feed. Cosign attaches those signals permanently to people and companies.

- Discovery: Who are the best fintech angels? Which AI companies should I watch? Who are the best designers?

- Intent network: Privately signal “I’d invest in them,” “I’d hire them,” “I’d work with them,” or eventually even “I’d acquire this company.” Match people when interest exists on both sides.

Imagine if Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and OG AngelList had a baby. Though Cosign is a community, not a business.

In order to join, you need to be cosigned. Or you can apply directly.

David Booth and I started this idea 7 years ago but didn’t have the firepower to make it work. Now we do.

No one has really touched LinkedIn in 20 years. Excited to take a swing.

https://t.co/zhjIYSCigC

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

“proprietary data will always need to get into the context window for the model to be useful”

🎯

[Aaron Levie @levie]

There’s no amount of intelligence that can get packed into AI models that replaces the need for context. For any sufficiently general purpose AI, you will always have to guide it in the direction you want as it has an infinite range of directions it can go in.

As long as the same model is used by a lawyer, an engineer, a financial analyst, or a healthcare professional, and as long as you’re trying to do anything uniquely differentiated or specific, then instructions, domain context, and proprietary data will always need to get into the context window for the model to be useful.

This is partly why AI automation doesn’t come for free, and why there’s still a wide spectrum of who’s getting the largest gains from AI and who’s not. You have to put in real work, and you get real value on the other end.

This is one of the advantages that applied AI will also have in the market. Any layer of abstraction above just the raw intelligence that can meaningfully get you off to the races faster will likely continue to be valuable.

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@charliekerr @nazzari @worldnetwork @icebreaker_xyz happy to connect. I'm https://t.co/xKOk4mCPYe

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@pmitu @patxol @icebreaker_xyz ~230m indexed relationships and counting

- product helps talent teams recruit 8x faster for 1/10th the price of a $1k/mo LinkedIn recruiter seat

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

🎯

[iandutra @its_iLan]

https://t.co/Jv0fUb5tFx

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

is https://t.co/97UdGz1EaE and the primary x402 facilitator down?

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

https://t.co/WCHg6YTxQo

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

open sourced my luma attendee downloader after speaking with multiple gtm leads at ETHDenver who said "this is insane"

it's your data. you should be able to use it how you want.

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Customer used our tool to find 100+ high quality candidates in minutes today.

All referrals from their existing network.

If you’re aggressively hiring in web3 or AI, you should be *starting* with your most valuable resource: your team’s existing networks.

DM if you need help

[Icebreaker @icebreaker_xyz]

Want to build credibility without paying $10,000 annually?

Verify handles, colleagues, employment and use your verifications on any platform (not just this one!)

Free and unlimited forever on Icebreaker.

Trust is earned, not bought.

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@dpotsdobeck appreciate you!

Building useful practical applications on top of crypto is a lonely endeavor. (becoming less so, thankfully)

Thanks for being a great thought partner & supporter

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@ajbanon @jennasis @icebreaker_xyz Sent you a connection request to your farcaster profile, AJ.

Really like what you've built at Serotonin & happy to connect

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Introducing a new concept that we’ve been building over the last year:

The Hypernetwork

One social graph to rule them all.

https://t.co/VBjgvq66oR

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@localghost Users have always been the training data end game

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

@rishidean @lennysan @AndrewYNg Proposing a 1:0.5 PM:Eng ratio has always just been a polite way of declining funding

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

People trying all kinds of hacks with cold outreach

One pattern I’m seeing is trying to bootstrap social proof by referencing someone I know, even though the sender doesn’t.

There’s a line between scrappiness and outright deception. This one crosses it.

Your reputation will eventually catch up to you

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Got this text today from someone in tradfi

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

Very psyched to see zero knowledge implementations start to roll out on top of EAS

[EAS (Ethereum Attestation Service) @eas_eth]

New modular zk toolkit! ⚡
Use it to generate zkps from offchain attestations.

The flow:
- Sign/use offchain attestation
- Generate proofs with SP1
- Verify with WASM
- Attest verification result onchain (optional)

Special thanks to @shivansheth & @whoisgautxm (zkAttestify) for contributing this and to @SuccinctLabs for support!

[Dan 🛡️ web3pm.eth @web3pm]

To productize, most teams try ownership or economics when they really should be focused on utility

ownership is flawed because people say they care but then continue doing things like using X

economics is flawed because the value of your data is actually low (and most tokenomics don't work for consumer)

utility is the only way, but this focus is like cryptonite for most crypto teams