orchestrating magics in my aivory tower, project to be revealed soon founded @sismo_eth zk in 2021, @variabl_io defi in 20162015
Paris, France
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- Followers 3,996
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My man supporting me thousands of miles away :)
Just arrived in Denver, DMs open for anything related to
@Sismo_eth
ZK proofs
SIWE
Web3 social
DID, Verifiable credentials
Soulbound / NTNFTs
NFT gated services
Parties
Let’s meet 💜
Not in @EthereumDenver due to a broken heel😢
But if you encounter @HCharlanes, all of a sudden you get:
• your mind blown by @Sismo_eth mastermind
• to lower my FOMO
• free Zikies💜
• the story behind my cracked heel
• to auction my xRay as NFT (forgive me for this one CT)
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Today, Sismo returned funds to its investors.
We shipped fast, solved hard problems and built a great community. Yet, our pace was unsustainable, we sprinted a marathon.
I'm proud of the battle we fought and the way we did it, with full engagement and passion.
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Yesterday was my last day at @AaveAave
I have never been more grateful to a team, pure gems inside it and a truly great leadership- ambitious and kind!
Aave fam helped me recover my original vibes and I want to give another try at launching a web3 project :)
<3
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My devcon talk: @Sismo_eth long term vision, Self-Sovereign Identities and ZK Badges
Talk: piped.video/watch?v=6vCb6XwG…
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation…
🎭
Talk summary 🧵
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Wow, sending a transaction from @Uniswap wallet feels like the future!
ENS name resolution feature is 💯 - easy, fast, obvious 🥰
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ZK is bigger than blockchains
ZK provers: Pushing data from private systems
ZK verifiers: Receiving data from external systems
Servers + ZK verifiers: Trusted cross system interactions
Blockchain + ZK verifiers: Trustless cross system interactions
All with Privacy & consent
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5/ Next for me
I've learned so much and have lots of things to catch up on. After a break, I'll be back building, that I'm sure.
Thanks to everyone that helped us along the way 🙏
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zkConnect @ ETHTokyo: The best SSO. Period.
App can request:
- account ownership (twitter/ github/ EVM)
- data ownership (NFT ownership, follow vitalik)
- message signature (ERC712)
I reveal with one proof:
- twitter handle
- noun NFT zk ownership
- SIWE sig with dhadrien.eth
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Web3 social crash course 👇
@LensProtocol - protocol-first: interoperability, community first. graph on-chain
@farcaster_xyz - product-first: tech-optimized, "sufficiently decentralized" graph on custom nodes
@OrbisClub - did-first: DID, VCs, graph on IPFS via ceramic
🔥
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4/ Next for Sismo
We have open-sourced the parts that were not already. We will maintain basic infra for some months.
I'd happily support teams/individuals that would want to turn our work into a public good. Feel free to dm.
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I just applied as a delegate for the ENS DAO.
I am a big advocate of @ensdomains.
We developed an ENS centric DAO framework for @sismo_eth which will issue ZK attestations, also on ENS profiles.
Why you should trust me with your voting power next Monday?
👇
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What’s my drive to intensely build?
I want devs to feel with Sismo what I felt when I first discovered Ethereum in 2015.
We’re on a mission to change how it feels to dev apps. We will unlock the power of sovereign data with privacy and it’ll get crazy.
🔥
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State of @Sismo_eth, two weeks after the upgrade:
- 122 badges created (+82%) 🤯
- 43.5k unique holders (+77%)
- 90.7k ZK Badges minted (+112%)
- $1,7k protocol revenue from badge creators (+∞)
Oh, and we shipped @zkdrop_io
Just the beginning 🔥
What’s better than a revamp to start the year?
✅ Main protocol becomes permissionless
✅ Multichain (👋 @gnosischain)
✅ New Badge deployment process
✅ Overhaul of factory.sismo.io
✅ Curation process update
✅ Sismo app v2
Unpacking this big release 🧵
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ZK Proof of NFT ownership is on top of our list.
Will give access to private airdrops, merch drops, chats, voting and more!
Sismo ZK attestations will be easy tu use by onchain and offchain apps with low integration cost.
new idea: use zk-proofs to allow NFT owners to claim merch by proving that they own an NFT of a collection without having to doxx their wallet
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1/ The team
You've met them at events, they are remarkable individuals with a growth mindset, a care for details, and a sense of team play.
They will keep having impact whatever they do. Thankful for their hard work and trust 💜
👉 DM for contacts and resumes
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I'm so excited about Sismo roadmap - ZKP as a service:
- Builders: Sismo App Store to create zkApps from templates, no need to code
- Users: Create & share ZKP (like NFT ownership) with simple link
- Devs: tutorials and case studies showcasing how to build powerful apps
🔥
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.@leo21_eth doing an all nighter to support @ETHGlobal Tokyo devs is 💜
幸運を to all hackers for these last few hours!
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On friend dot tech, users are forced to create a fresh new wallet. It's a feature, not a bug!
The bug is that it is empty.
Future will entirely abstract away addresses:
- One address per app
- Privately funded via ZKPs
- Reputation imported via ZKPs
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Code version is even more exciting 😍
- Sybil resistant @LensProtocol post relayer
- ERC-4337 paymaster
- ZK-gated by @worldnetwork or @Sismo_eth
Built by @mazuryxyz, @wojtekwtf, @Matteo_Mer 💜
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2/ The investors
We raised $10.5m (returned 51%) from 130 investors, likely one of the best builder rounds ever.
They helped me with sound advice, never short-term oriented.
So grateful for their support to the very end when they had nothing to gain. Tells a lot.
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First time that I feel like Sismo is starting to deliver on its promise. Sismo Connect is now live and is beginning to be understood.
Up to us to make it the most powerful and delightful tool for all devs to fully leverage reputation and identity in their apps!
What a weekend in Paris! 🇫🇷
965 hackers from 67 countries joined the biggest European @EthGlobal hackathon ever.
🎭 36 teams hacked on Sismo
😎 4/13 finalists used advanced features of Sismo Connect
👏 8 bounty winners
Take a look at our winners 👇
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Wow the quality of hacks has 10xed, Sismo not just used as a privacy layer but as a powerful data aggregation tool!
30 hacks:
Tinder UX using financial and social data
Undercollaterized loans
Social connections
Chats for DAO participants
Bringing reputation onchain
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3/ My cofounders
What fuelled my energy was spending time with @leo21_eth and @CharlsCharls_.
Greatest work ethics I've ever encountered. Some of the most brilliant yet humble people you'll meet.
They made my adventure beautiful.
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Nobody is ready for what we are about to drop for the Spring season of hackathons and integrations
Expect Sismo devX to at least 100x
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Been building like crazy these past two months, no release, no tweet
Yet, never seen that much activity on sismo app and factory
Can’t wait to unveil what the team has been building
January is going to be 🔥🔥
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What is Sismo in a tweet?
Wallet Connect: apps request signatures (messages and transactions) from user's wallet and they verify them on/offchain
Sismo Connect: apps request ZK proofs from user's Data Vaults and verify them on/offchain
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I love Polygon's definition of first 🙃
First ZK Badge was minted in July 22, 120k+ ZK Badges minted as of today!
Still, Sismo + PolygonId = 💜
Sismo is better at cryptonative use cases, polygonId works well with centralized infrastructures. Lots of cool opportunities ahead!
Today, we’re proud to announce the release of the open-source, Polygon ID Identity Infrastructure! 🎉
This is the first decentralized identity platform using zero-knowledge (ZK) to issue credentials on-chain, making it secure and privacy-preserving to power identity on web3.
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I no longer work for @ConsenSys or @VariabL_io. Will properly write about this soon.
Back to research and experimentation mode for the next few months🤓🤓
Can’t wait to learn more about Zk proofs, ID and privacy tech and their use cases not necessarily around Blockchains.
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We are building a tool kit so that any function onchain or offchain can verify ZK proofs of user identity
All protocols are starting to add modular hook functions
Who will connect the dots first?
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Why you should join @Sismo_eth: It is built to be the bridge between the three most exciting communities:
- ZKP
- Web3 social
- DID
We are all in, for the long term.
Data will be yours to own AND to use, with consent.
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What existing KYC solutions issue VCs/SBTs/Registry for their verified users?
KYC solutions + Sismo = 🔥
Users pay once to be KYC'd, then using Sismo, they bring their KYC to any app, with privacy
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The onchain summer needs zk, almost ready!
Back from a big break, ready to grind!
need to
- deploy Sismo on @BuildOnBasse, onchain summer need private data aggregation
- get excited for @withBackdrop 100 builders
- get a @friendtech code
- get a @gnosispay card
what else did I miss?
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last bull run started with sound stablecoins for DeFi
next one will start with sound sybil resistance for web3 social
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Just read this to understand Sismo and zkConnect - our easy-to-use, cryptonative SSO.
We enable a new wave of apps that can easily leverage any personal data in a trust-minimized and privacy preserving way.
zkConnect >>> Sign in with Google
zkConnect >>> Sign in with Ethereum
Here my hack for .@__zkhack__
Welcome zkSafe 🎭🟩
Account abstraction made easy with .@safe and @Sismo_eth
Control your Gnosis Safe with web2 credentials via Sismo zkConnect SSO and extend its capabilities with the power of ZKP (e.g. social recovery, cross-chain exec)
A 🧵
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2023 will see the first @Sismo_eth zkDrop
As easy as one ZK Proof proving:
- Sybil resistance (@worldnetwork @proofofhumanity @synaps_id KYCs)
- Aggregated contributions from multiple accounts, does not matter whether you used one, two or ten accounts
No link between accounts
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Happy to introduce StabL and its mission: Derivative markets and stable tokens on Ethereum: medium.com/stabl-blog/stabl-…
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Not having @EthCC tickets is no excuse, you already know you will regret not booking a flight!
@SismoMasquerade, @La_Degen, @letsraave and [redacted]
@EthCC side events, meeting old and new frens
Builder vibes since 2017
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Reminiscent of pre DeFi summer vibes. Hackers started to connect powerful protocols.
Enjoy the last few months to invest in long term infra and cleanup, soon everything will get busy.
Sismo will be there 🫡
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VCs passing on mission-driven cryptonatives teams building infra during the bull because "how do you get to mainstream in 9 months?" when they were told its delusional are now realizing they mostly funded quitters, think its a global trend and that "Building in the bear is BS" 🤨
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Big Announce for StabL: We demo VariabL, the First Exchange for Onchain Derivatives & open Registr. for the Alpha!! medium.com/stabl-blog/announ…
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Sismo-gated Group Chats with XMTP:
Gate a chat with any data, join with any wallet.
eg
- Chats for delegates: prove you're a delegate from a public wallet, join as anon
- Chat for whales: prove you're a whale from private wallets, join with public ENS wallet
Web3 legos 🔥
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First app using Sismo to do Sign-in With Ethereum! 🔥
Before Sismo
- Request sig from dhadrien.eth
- Verify sig in backend
With Sismo
- Request zkp of dhadrien.eth ownerhsip (+ NFT ownership from private wallet if you will)
- verify zkp
Try it now: mecenate.vercel.app/
🚀 First beta of brand new Mecenate with #zkproof live on #ethereum #sepolia mecenate.vercel.app/ all feedback are welcome 🙏 @Sismo_eth @withBackdrop #100Builders. 🔨🏗️ @buidlguidl
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The leap (truffle + web3.js) => (hardhat + ethers) was 10x
Then again (hardhat + ethers) => (foundry + wagmi/viem)
Your tools say so much about you
I'd rather hire a smart contract devs with 6 months of xp mastering latest tools over an OG stuck in comfort zone
DMs open 👀
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Back from a big break, ready to grind!
need to
- deploy Sismo on @BuildOnBasse, onchain summer need private data aggregation
- get excited for @withBackdrop 100 builders
- get a @friendtech code
- get a @gnosispay card
what else did I miss?
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We just shipped our original vision 🎭💎
Today, we are proud to soft launch zkConnect - the sovereign SSO 💎🎭
zkConnect = anon auth + selective data disclosure
Resources:
🕹️ Demo: demo.zksub.io
📕 Docs: docs.sismo.io
⚔️ Builders page: build.sismo.io
Beta release 🧵
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90% of rap listeners don't listen to the lyrics but get the vibe and understand the rapper intent.
Add a vibe to everything that you do, that's the real TLDR;
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Feeling compassionate for people that use apps that don't respect their privacy. The dark forest is tough and unpalpable.
Builders that really care about their users will integrate ZKPs to manage user identities, that's the way.
Stop asking users wallets. Be responsible.
Announcing The World’s First On-Chain Intelligence Exchange
Buy and sell information on the owner of any blockchain wallet address—anonymously, via smart contract.
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If you’re an entrepreneur meeting a more experienced peer, just be vulnerable and share your past and current struggles. It’s like a password and it gives you access to one of the best perks of the job: brotherhood.
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Sovereign accounts 💜
Step 1: own your profiles(s) @LensProtocol / @ensdomains
Step 2: import data privately to your profile(s) via ZK badges from @poapxyz @proofofhumanity @gitcoin, @SnapshotLabs
Step 3: leverage your data, granularly, anywhere, with ZK badges again!
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Pretty proud to have swags that are enjoyable by our amazing women builders! 🫶
Pierced men can also adopt mini Zikies though, hit me up!
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382k Sismo Data Vaults created
✅ @proofofhumanity Data group live
✅ @gitcoinpassport Data group live
🔜 @synaps_id Data group in dev
🔜 @worldnetwork Data group in research
The sybil proof future is almost here: apps will use Sismo Connect to request proofs of personhoods
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You can build an app today that is gated to
- @gitcoinpassport holders with score > X from
- owners of a specific NFT
Gitcoin passport could also use Sismo Connect directly to check NFT ownerships privately
We need to build more awareness and inspire devs 💪
As a @gitcoinpassport user, I would like a way to validate my ownership of assets in another wallet to produce an attestation or stamp without doxing the wallet holding the assets.
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April 2015, just arrived in NYC for an internship.
Posted on Reddit « Any folks in NY are interested in Ethereum? »
Joe invited me to their 15 desk coworking space on Jefferson St.
Started a night internship with mentors like @simondlr or @AFDudley0 before frontier released
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The new hard challenge in crypto:
Race to reach mainstream (really soon addressable) without losing resiliency.
Addressable market used to care about decentralization. No longer. Still need it when you need it, else you are irrelevant.
TL;DR:
1. Move the one thing that everybody uses to understand what happens onchain, the contract log data, off-chain
2. To a closed source indexer
3. Centrally hosted and queried via a (for now) free API
4. Company raises $9M
Doesn't take a genius to see where this is going.
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Now that @emilianobonassi and @MerlinEgalite doxxed us, should we create a zk swag store?
Prove you used tornado cash, get your limited edition painting
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This ZK Developer & Contributor ZK Badge by @2140sat for github contributors of @Starknet @the_matter_labs @MinaProtocol @aztecnetwork @EspressoSys @SuccinctLabs and many other ZK teams is 🔥
Mint yours 👉 app.sismo.io/zk-developer-co…
pic from our factory: factory.sismo.io/explorer/80…
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To projects token gating their service via SIWE thinking that its ok because users don't care about privacy:
- They don't care, but you should. Wallets are no emails. GDPR?
- Sismo in Q2: Verify (on-chain or off-chain) token ownership ZK Proofs without getting wallet addresses
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Back from my summer break, ready to fight for decentralization and privacy 💪
We got our booster on why decentralization matters.
In a world where censorship is easy and incumbents are self-righteous, we need privacy to defend our right to experiment and propose alternatives.
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This but 95% of the time you won’t need to sign from your social account, you will just zk-prove you are human and reveal some granular data such as 18+ or dao participant
All use cases can be done with Sismo Connect, the communication layer between users and apps (soon p2p too)
Public decentralized ledger will allow ppl to build onchain persona and sign content that will inspire even more confidence than GPG (not on crypto part but on social consensus it's u signing)
In the AI era of anyone being effortlessly able to impersonate anyone it'll be crucial
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Bundling your wallets publicly is not aggregating your social capital. It's called doxxing.
Would you publicly link your twitter and bank accounts?
With @Sismo_eth you aggregate your data privately and selectively disclose any subset to apps
True, unrestrained data ownership
If Zapper allowed you to publicly bundle your wallets together into one identity, would you do it?
Would be like a aggregate social profile, and be your default account page on Zapper. You also explore other public bundles as well.
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I met so many friends @kartojal @damarnez @sakulstra @SirSoth91 @abertog @irene_fucile
@Zer0dots @isakivlighan, @miguelmtzinf, @chainyoda Andrey, Pol et al
without forgetting mon bon vieux @marczeller :)
🍻 Cheers to you Aave fam!
Will 👀 your future crazy ideas come to life
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Don’t worry with Sismo you’ll have only one account provider - yourself.
You’ll aggregate your identity in your sovereign Data Vault and use ZK to bring data to apps.
You’ll finally have full custody over your data and ability to use it.
Please don't tell me this is the new reality for all apps 🤦♂️
Should I implement it in my project? 😀
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Love this product, in my 2023 personal goals to make a DeForm x Sismo Connect integration.
Want to keep on improving Sismo Connect until it provides at once better UX, aggregation and privacy to @deformapp 🤝
how to set up a web3 form 🫠
1. gate on a token or nft
2. ask your questions
3. say "DeForm" 3 times fast
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Another big, total release by the team.
So lucky to work with them all.
🎭💜
Bye, zkConnect! Welcome to Sismo Connect, the most powerful SSO 💎
Apps can now request anything from users' Data Vaults:
- Accounts (wallet, Twitter, GitHub, etc)
- Granular private data
Sign in with your ENS. Reveal your Twitter. Prove NFT ownership privately. At once!
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Taste of the future - A private, web3 group chat!
- Data from user-owned graph: Gated to @LensProtocol followers
- Privacy from user-generated ZK Badges: @Sismo_eth
- Platform using user-owned accounts: @SPKZ_io, Decentralized discord using SIWE and NFTs as access control.
🔥
More than 4,000 of our @LensProtocol followers generated their ZK Badge!
We opened a badge-gated room on @SPKZ_io, a crypto-native alternative to discord.
Join as an anon and speak freely, your ZK Badge does not leak the lens profile used as source :)
spkz.io/app/lounges/146
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@StaniKulechov and @JordanLzG are in another league when it comes to hustle, be creative and lead.
They both gave me very personal proofs of generosity.
I can't thank @The3D_ and Ernesto enough for their mentoring, they allowed me to grow via example.
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Note to job applicants: just don't use gpt. You're eliminating your vibe, your most valuable asset.
Hiring in a startup is about resonance in culture and values. Think like an artist. Leverage your imperfections and weirdness.
Be yourself 💜
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Sign in with Ethereum is growing so fast!
Used to have dhadrien.eth on my ledger, was great, doing 1 tx per week max. Was merely a vanity address.
Now every day I connect to apps with ENS, @mazurylabs @gmdotxyz @withBackdrop @SnapshotLabs @guildxyz.
Becoming my main login
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Second day in our new offices, already hosting a great crowd 🥰
What a workshop with @Sismo_eth ☺️
Sismo allows you to create badges and attestations for your users while keeping their privacy (👋ZK attestations)
It’s a big game changer for the ecosystem and you’ll hear about them everywhere in few months ✌️
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Sismo is building the infrastructure to do exactly this 💪
Part of what could be interesting about the @farcaster_xyz or @LensProtocol ETH-based models: you could make votes filtered by presence of on-chain assets or proof of humanity or a specific poap. And use zk tech to make votes both private and verifiable.
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One good way is to leverage ownership of data + selective disclosure via ZKPs.
Build apps that finally dare to do cross social graph experiences, safely.
Connect things you could not without privacy.
Use social, financial and professional graphs into dating apps for instance.
I want more crypto projects that try to disrupt popular web2 apps using crypto superpowers to discover new use cases rather than building marginal improvements on the few existing use cases (AMMs, lending, etc)
Vampire attack web2, not uniswap for the 5000th time
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After a trip in Berlin, you share:
- cute pictures to your mum
- drunk stories to your friends
- cool crypto spots to your coworkers
Imagine being forced to share all or nothing. That's current web3.
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I donated to @PoolyNFT, from my private account
I cannot yet prove this without doxing myself
I will soon have the ZK Badge on dhadrien.eth, attesting for my donation.
@TrustlessState, wdyt, should ZK Badge holders be framed too?
VCs are great, Badges/NFT too! 💜
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I'm prepping for @ETHGlobal's Ethonline hackathon after a year outside of Ethereum ecosystem :)
Trying to catch up with everything!
Will explore a stoploss protocol: paying someone to stop your loss (IL, Long/shorts)
(@nanexcool close to your idea of an alarm clock).
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Did the onboarding of @converseapp_ and it’s so good!
Lucky to have such a good product team working on web3 messenger @polmaire 👏
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Wow, @airstack_xyz onboarding is inspiring 🔥
- sign up with embedded wallet (@privy_io), easy to connect with actual wallet
- add my tg handle for support
- can start right away creating my first query
- 15 min later, got a 1o1 message from @YSoenggoro
360 love for devs 🎯
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Fwiw I think that 90% of critiques of @worldcoin come out of unconscious images we’ve been infused with through dystopians films, series and books.
Not saying I’m an advocate but I reserve my judgement and I’ll try to have an opinion be based on reason not out of emotions.
High level thinking :
Opportunity:
When things are judged mainly based on unconscious bias there’s an opportunity that it might be proven wrong. E.g nuclear power.
Risk:
I find the leadership being far from the actual advocates is scary. Seen in Consensys that this is very dangerous as the most public voices could be unaware of leadership master plan.
Note: this is purely intuition and I’m not one to judge as of my current knowledge
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Apparently, hacking on Sismo increases by threefold your chances of winning a hackathon 👀
Fantastic hacks in Lisbon at @ETHGlobal 🎭 👏
It was humbling to see many advanced projects using Sismo Connect for data aggregation and selective disclosure 💜
🤯 3/10 finalists integrated Sismo Connect
🎭 13/183 projects hacked on Sismo
Bounties and demos 👇
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This is a more likely future than SBTs imo :)
Just bring your ZK Proof anywhere you need to selectively disclose things about your identity - onchain, offchain, p2p.
Might be brewing something to make it easy for anyone to prove simple things like NFT ownership to others 👀
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