Daniel Barabander
@dbarabander
GC and Investment Partner @variantfund ex software engineer/@ycombinator founder, attorney @Cravath tweets are not legal advice | I am not your lawyer
Went deep with @jchervinsky on @CryptoAmerica_; discussed the evolving regulatory story, implications/opportunities for crypto founders in the US, unpacking tokens vs. equity, progressive decentralization in 2025, what's next for DeFi, etc 👇
🚨NEW: In our latest episode, we chat with @variantfund Founder and Managing Partner @jessewldn and Chief Legal Officer @jchervinsky. In keeping with the theme of Crypto Week, we discuss how crypto regulations have evolved over the past few years and explore the opportunities…
🫡 @honchodotdev MCP! The fastest way to give Claude personal memory. Every time you message Claude, Honcho does reasoning to learn about you. When Claude needs more personal context, it asks Honcho to engineer the most useful context from what its learned. Here's…
Have been seeing a lot of takes lately that Crypto x AI is dead. I heard the same thing about DeFi a few years ago. And Solana in 2022. The hype is gone, but the good builders aren't and they are quietly making HUGE progress. Best time to start paying attention.
Tokens go in and out of vogue every market cycle. In a bear, tokens are seen as a category error. In a bull, tokens are popular again, usually with a new flavor. I see some progress in the fact that outside of L1s and the non-BTC boomer-coin complex, this cycle's most…
The True Markets Mission ⚖️ A Letter from Vishal Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO
🚨 NEW SERIES 🚨 Plastic Labs Builder Streams Every stream we'll build a new AI app live, showcasing how Honcho powers different types of personalized experiences Starting tomorrow 3pm EST: The "Hello World" of Honcho: building a straightforward chatbot with effortless user…
mission: give the highest alpha ai memory talk tech has ever seen come through! (on the *29th)
AI engineering meet → July 25th, NYC ft. Vince Trost (CEO, @plastic_labs) on building identity infra for agentic systems for engineers, researchers, builders, everyone. RSVP → bit.ly/tl-ai-meet
there's no other way to put it. @PluralisHQ just keeps tackling the biggest barriers to decentralized AI training. this week, they're presenting a major research breakthrough at ICML -- I'll try my best to make it digestible. but first, let's start w some background. the…
Pluralis has a main tack paper at ICML this week and the team is in Vancouver running several events. The best will be the Open Source Mixer we're running with @gensynai and @akashnet_ Thursday night. For anyone interested in decentralised training it should be a great evening.…
We also made a @3blue1brown style video explaining the paper at a high level.
Pluralis has a main tack paper at ICML this week and the team is in Vancouver running several events. The best will be the Open Source Mixer we're running with @gensynai and @akashnet_ Thursday night. For anyone interested in decentralised training it should be a great evening.…
If you're vibe coding, building agents or any other app and want to manage user state/get personalization with an API that lets you query that state WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE you need to check out @honchodotdev
I see @plastic_labs added a 'vibe-coding' primer to the @honchodotdev docs 👀 If you're building agentic AI systems I highly recommend taking a dive into this... docs.honcho.dev/v2/documentati…
"If you're going to trust something to act autonomously on your behalf, it needs a really high fidelity representation of you, your intent, your desire, your preferences" @courtlandleer of @plastic_labs on trust of autonomous agents
Money transmission remains the most existential issue. If software devs can be CRIMINALLY liable even with NO CONTROL over funds there is no limiting principle. We're fortunate for @fund_defi and these other great orgs taking on this fight. We need to get this right.
1/ NEW: Last night, DEF, @paradigm, @btcpolicyorg, @BlockchainAssn, @crypto_council, @DigitalChamber, @SolanaInstitute, & @UniswapFND, filed an amicus brief in @LewellenMichael’s case against the DOJ in support of Lewellen’s opposition to the DOJ’s motion to dismiss. Let’s dive…
Great article on how to think about protocol “control” - founders should read!
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Coming back to twitter just to amplify this article from the thoughtful @dbarabander on a *very important* topic for crypto founders.
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Every founder needs to start “toggling” their access-control as regulations become more clear. Control is a spectrum and you have the power to move some away or close depending on your risk appetite and goals. Great article by Daniel!
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We're launching our new website hyperbolic.ai with our new branding and additions to our cloud platform: On-Demand and Reserved GPUs, our latest approach to compute infrastructure that delivers: > 99.5% uptime for workloads > 70% cost savings compared to legacy cloud…
1/ For years, a hostile SEC forced crypto founders into a broken model: drive all value into equity, not tokens. The result? Incentive misalignment, ineffective governance, and more legal risk. In this post, @jessewldn and I explain why that model failed and how to fix it.