Founder, The Oasis Group & @oasisonchain - Frontier Tech for the Caribbean 🌴 Building harnesses for legal and regulatory
The Bahamas
Joined March 2011
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🛫 Meet your mentors, part 2!
Founders who've built their own companies, plus the engineering, growth, and product minds of @StellarOrg. All in one room, all on your team for #HackMeridian26 🧵👇
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Spent the evening hardening my home network.
Some basic things to start with:
1. If you haven't already, set a real admin user account and pass on your router. Sounds dumb, but many people forget this.
2. Ask an agent to automate scanning for and implementing updates for all of your software.
3. Isolate smart devices on your network with least privilege access. You probably have more of these than you realize. If you can, root devices to rip out bloatware and reduce surface area - I did this on my TV and it's great.
4. Set up an append-only log of all of your router's traffic, ideally on another device like a gateway. I then set up an agent to monitor this log for anomalies.
5. Set up tailscale if you haven't already.
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it's good for you to be relied upon. it's good for you to talk a friend through something at 3am. it's good for you to offer advice and be accountable for it. it's good for you to recommend an outfit. it's good for you to be supportive. it's good for you to be tired from it
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Today I launched MoDDA: The Museum of Diasporan Digital Art. I also wrote about why I’m building it and what we choose to preserve.
Read:
proofofculture.substack.com/…
Inaugural Exhibit 👉🏾 modda.org/proof-of-culture
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The Proof of Culture exhibit is now open at MoDDA: The Museum of Diasporan Digital Art.
From 2020 to 2023, Black artists across the diaspora used digital tools to make art, tell stories and build new spaces for their work.
Walk through that moment:
modda.org/proof-of-culture
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2x engineers: orchestrator going through a list of planners implementers then verifiers and testers
10x engineers: do me this please thanks
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It's interesting to think back on the wave of DAO tooling startups in 2020-2022: Utopia Labs, Syndicate, Bonfire. If I recall, Rain started by issuing stablecoin-linked cards to help DAOs pay their AWS bills. ConstitutionDAO went mainstream, and PartyDAO let groups collectively buy CryptoPunks.
But at the time there was nothing autonomous about DAOs. They were collectives of people organizing in Discord.
Now that everyone has personal agents, I'm excited to see a new generation of DAOs as collectives of agents working toward common goals alongside human operators.
For that to happen, we need new tooling that helps humans and their agents coordinate and share resources, plus agent collectives with clear missions and governance.
Who's building this?
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Really proud moment repping naytive at the @FutuCaribb demo day in Barbados 🇧🇧
Found @NaytiveHQ at the Demo Day 1 of @FutureCaribb
Looks good ✅
The Caribbean got builders 🔥🏝️
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Reads like some good news among all the fud
To secure open-source software, we’re launching OSS Scanner.
We’ll use our frontier models to periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities, at no cost. Our reports will provide a proof-of-concept, explanation, and suggested fix.
anthropic.com/research/launc…
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Today we are scaling the infrastructure that accelerates global connectivity for global citizens
naytive.com/openstack
Introducing the Naytive Open Stack.
Every jurisdiction runs its own system. Tax, residency, companies, banking, compliance. None of it talks to each other.
Global citizens need all of it, often in several countries at once.
Naytive Open Stack fixes that.
Any specialist (accountant, lawyer, immigration firm) can plug their AI agent into Naytive and serve global citizens anywhere.
How it works:
1. Specialists register their agent
2. Naytive matches them with users who need them
3. The agent receives verified context: identity, residency, entities, documents
4. It completes the work and gets paid once verified
Users manage their entire cross-border life from one interface. Providers get clients with zero friction.
Naytive.com/openstack
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the simple onchain privacy tool for ETH, anon.wei, now works even better for trading and payments
/ swap token -> anon ETH -> swap token /
swaps are powered by zRouter/Quoter, calculated for free using Solidity, also 100% onchain
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Building something alongside a (non-tech) domain expert is difficult largely because they operate on different speeds, work cultures, preferences etc
I really want to see/hear more stories about successful tech + domain expert teams! Show me stories about Harvey being founded by an engineer and a lawyer, and the challenges around that - or teams building in compliance or education or really anything else
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Crowdfunding was always one of the true killer apps of crypto. We need a thousand DAOs a day.
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Welcome to Sanctuary Technologies
In the Ether — The Rise of Sanctuary Technologies runs from 3 Oct to 6 Dec 2026.
Explore how sanctuary technologies can give people greater autonomy and support societal wellbeing.
More details at mbssg.com/ite-x.
#IntheEtherASM #ArtScienceMuseum #MarinaBaySands
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In light of the latest Anthropic's latest not-particularly-oblique attempt to build a case against open weights, I thought I would write down how I currently think about open weight AI models.
(1) Open weights have been deeply, irreplaceably useful for AI safety.
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IS LITTLE BABY DARIO SCARED AT OUR FLEETS OF SELF-IMPROVING GLM 5.3 AGENTS RUNNING ON BIG NVL RACKS
BECAUSE HE SHOULD BE
hmm, Anthropic attacking @Zai_org more directly now.
anthropic.com/research/glm-5…
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At @breadcoop we've been building Etherform, a CI/CD standard for smart contracts!
Check it and help support it on @thedaofund
initiatives.thedao.fund/init…