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. no college (lasted 3 days). got into crypto and yoga around the same time about 15 years ago. traveled around asia. started the first ico consultancy - cryptodex, which has been my independent consulting company for almost a decade. became yoga teacher and spoke about token economics at conferences around the world. got 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. had to shut it down as it was just way too early and i was naive. moved to europe, started making clothes, collecting art spending few months per year in nepal continuing tibetan buddhist (vajrayana) and yoga studies. i am blessed to have incredible mentors, fantastic taste and lived some fucking crazy, spectacular and sometimes painful experiences.
now im working on betme. and out of necessity im building an ai agentic workflow tool to help build betme better bc i didnt like any of the ones out there.
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. 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 little series about money and what comes after this current form
recs
links
telegram - @jakev
twitter - @jakevartanian (dont post)