Congrats ted (on farcaster) and Dan Romero on FarCon. The future is onchain thanks to the Farcaster community ✨

Please follow Agora 🫡

'Agora provides an end-to-end governance protocol for decentralized communities, including tools such as gas voting and proposing, security councils, proposal sponsorship, API, snapshot integration, transaction simulation and discourse implementation. According to the firm's…

'Agora believes that token-backed voting and collective governance are the internet’s best way of moving the internet “out of walled gardens”—transitioning the internet from private enterprises to common protocols.'

fortune.com/crypto/2024/05…

To support our long term ambition in building open-source governance tooling to push the space forward, we're excited to announce that we've raised $5M in new funding lead by Haun Ventures

Read how we're thinking about governance here: agora.xyz/blogs/introduc…

I’m proud to announce Haun Ventures has led the $5M Seed round for Agora, with participation from SEED 🌱 CLUB, Coinbase Ventures 🛡️, Sina Habibian - sinahab.eth, Balaji,
Credibly Neutral, Packy McCormick, timbeiko.eth, Dan Romero, Eva Beylin, Will Price, liam.eth, Hasu⚡️🤖, and more.

Agora is a full stack protocol governance solution—including frontend application, smart contract platform, and native treasury—already used today by leading protocols such as Optimism, Uniswap Foundation, ensdao.eth, and Lyra 🧙🧙🧙🧙.

Thank you Diogo Mónica for organizing an amazing dinner last night!

Actual conversations instead of drone shows :)

Building a protocol requires bootstrapping a 2 sided marketplace with devs and apps on the supply side and users on the demand side

Competition on supply side has gotten intense. More protocols are building their own products first. Im excited about this

unconfirmed.blog/product-led-pr…

Exciting news: Our next BFD event returns to SF on May 14! 🌁
The lineup so far: Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, Haun Ventures’ Kathryn Haun, ex-49ers star/PE investor Steve Young, Google Health CHO Karen DeSalvo, Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone.

Request an invite 👉 trib.al/oFCBA15

Let's talk a little about how Sovereign SDK enables developers to write any Rust code, including any VM, as their rollup's State Transition logic.

The short answer is that, unlike most other zk-rollup focused teams, we do NOT build specific circuits for our rollup's specific VM…

Bem vindo Diogo Mónica 🎉

'We believe there are three fundamental properties, which must be publicly and cryptographically verifiable, in order for a file to possess the requirements for digital ownership.'

WITNESS

witness.co/blog/what-the-…

Yesterday we hosted a reception event with Stand With Crypto🛡️ after the Coinbase 🛡️ Update the System event in D.C. A packed house! Happy to play our part helping leaders understand why voters care about this issue.

Congrats Diogo Mónica ! You and Nathan McCauley have built a great company, and I’m excited to see you go to work on the investment side.

If they do the DC Circuit court will still be standing by as they did with BTC ETF ruling. And if memory serves they were pretty darn clear: arbitrary and capricious. Legal speak for very bad.