i like crypto, programming, yoga, buddhism, art, textiles. got into crypto and yoga around 15 years ago.
worked as community manager for some early crypto companies. then led ico launch campaigns and designed token models through my company cryptodex.
studied and practiced yoga while speaking about token economics at conferences around the world. became interested community currencies and thinking a lot about how to design better economic systems. here is a wall street journal article from 2017 of me talking about how tokenization will reinvent all financial markets started my first company, native, to give everyone with a facebook group a community currency and dao. way too early. moved to europe, started making clothes, collecting art, and spending few months a year in nepal continuing tibetan buddhism and yoga studies. now im building a agentic programming interface and harness for my workflow called TATASTU to build better, faster (stronger) and launch projects run mostly by agents.
im interested in ideas that help people make money doing the things they love rather than the things they feel like they have to do.
relevant topics for me now: - x402 - curated lists - overlap of spirituality and business - training attention in age of cognitive overload - giving ai access to underserved populations - community currencies and local economies - local farmers markets and small business owners who make incredible products
some projects
synereo - early attention economy token 2015 - community management
singulardtv - decentralized media platform on blockchain 2016 - community and ran marketing
tokencard - earliest proposed visa to spend your crypto - ran ico campaign
propy - buy and sell real estate with blockchain - ico campaign
bancor - pre uniswap amm with community currency layer - ico campaign
native - coordinated network of daos, each with their own community currencies, built on ethereum in 2018
merkledrop - easy way to distribute tokens to a lot of people at once
lock - app on ethereum that lets you lock eth and erc20 tokens to protect yourself from selling!
mediate - escrow anything app on ethereum
writing and projects
After Moneya series about money and what comes after this current form
CyberWeb afternoon art project written in threejs. get enlightened. click to turn on volume.
recs
links
telegram - @jakev
twitter - @jakevartanian