passionate about crypto, programming, yoga, buddhism
enjoy economics, drawing, textiles, 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. loved lunchables and sour patch kids. was trained by my dad to read financial statements when i was like 10, and also how to calculate mortgages by my mom. got into crypto and yoga around same time 15 years ago. started the first ico consultancy - cryptodex, which has been my independent consulting company for almost a decade. studied and practiced yoga while speaking about token economics at conferences around the world (barefoot). became interested community currencies and thinking a lot 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. started my first company, native, to give everyone with a facebook group a community currency and dao. learned so much. way too early and naive. moved to europe, started making clothes, collecting art, spending few months a year in nepal continuing tibetan buddhist (vajrayana) and yoga studies. now building something new. out of necessity also working on a coding interface to build better, faster. didnt like any of the ones out there. open source. repo here. reach out if you want to contribute and optimize operating agent armies (in a token efficient manner).
projects worked on or built (in order)
synereo - community management
singulardtv - ran marketing ico
tokencard - ran ico campaign
propy - ico marketing
bancor - ran marketing for ico
native - first attempt to build a coordinated network of daos, each with their own community currencies, built on ethereum in 2017. still believe in the vision!
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 series about money and what comes after this current form
recs
links
telegram - @jakev
twitter - @jakevartanian (dont post)