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About

Pseudonymous programmer contributing to MetaDAO. Previously a core contributor to Ethereum DeFi and software engineer in web2.

I was scarred by my experiences working for DAOs and big companies. Too much politics, not enough shit getting done. In 2022, I started searching for a better way.

The result of this is MetaDAO. MetaDAO is civilization's first futarchy, which means that markets make its key decisions. If you don't know what that means, you can learn more from our docs.

Writing

02/20/23: Solana Internals, Part 1

how Solana stores state

03/13/23: From Corporations to Nations: How the Meta-DAO is Going to Change Everything (Part 1)

what makes for a healthy institution anyway

04/06/23: Solana Internals, Part 2

why we need Proof-of-History (PoH)

04/13/23: From Corporations to Nations: How the Meta-DAO is Going to Change Everything (Part 2)

what existing institutions do to be semi-healthy

05/04/23: From Corporations to Nations: How the Meta-DAO is Going to Change Everything (Part 3)

how the meta-DAO will work

07/11/23: WTF is a public good?

ah public goods, so simple yet so poorly-understood

07/12/23: Why crypto tribalism is gud

why all that shit-slinging you do on CT is actually good for the health of the ecosystem

07/14/23: A better oracle design?

in which I come up with a cool idea for preventing collusion

07/19/23: Yet Another Limit Order Book

in which I nerdsnipe myself and roll my own CLOB

09/02/23: Why the number of full nodes doesn't affect decentralization

that's right, your thousands in AWS charges have all been for naught

09/30/23: Why I'm working on the Meta-DAO

some personal reflections

10/12/23: Why and How DeFi Gets to Mass Adoption

that thing you got excited about in the bull market is actually still exciting

10/18/23: The Human Alignment Problem

a new name for some old ways of thinking

12/31/23: Technology and institutions

the engines of prosperity

Other stuff (respect me plz)

solana-timelock

a Solana timelock program

sRFC 14: Rethinking SPL Token

tried unsuccesfully to get Solana off the terrible Token-2022 path

openbook-v2

open-source contributor

anchor-test

optimized GitHub action for Anchor tests that runs in ~1 min