passionate about yoga, buddhism, crypto, programming, textiles
enjoy economics, blockchains, drawing, traveling, cooking, psychoanalysis, art, movies, reading, tattoos, being barefoot, Hanuman, listening to/making music, sitting on the floor, manga, massage
grew up in rural usa. didnt go to college (lasted 3 days). got into crypto and yoga around the same time about 15 years ago. that was my education. traveled around asia. started the first ico consultancy - cryptodex, which has been my independant consulting company for almost a decade. became yoga teacher and was speaking about token economics at conferences around world. got interested community currencies and thinking deeply about how to design better economic systems. here is a wall street journal quote from 2017 of me talking about how tokenization will reinvent all financial markets - looks like i was right! started my first company native where i wanted give everyone with a facebook group a community currency and dao. it was my baby. i learned so much. but i had to shut it down as it was just way too early and i was naive. moved to europe and started spending few months per year in nepal to continue tibetan buddhist (vajrayana) and yoga studies. im grateful for my life today. blessed to have incredible mentors and lived some fucking crazy, spectacular and sometimes painful experiences
now im working on betme and am super fucking excited. we are going to crush it. more details soon. (and out of necessity im building an ai agentic workflow tool bc i didnt like any of the ones out there, but just to help build betme better)
projects worked on or built (in order)
synereo - community management
singulardtv - ran marketing ico
tokencard - ran ico
bancor - ran marketing for ico
native - my first attempt to build a coordinated network of daos, each with their own community currencies, built on ethereum in 2017
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
After Moneya little series about money and what comes after this current form
recs
links
telegram - @jakev
twitter - @jakevartanian (dont post)