Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin previously served as Vice President of Product at Ondo Finance and as CEO and Co-Founder of Strangelove. Jack has been working within the Cosmos ecosystem since , first rising to become Director of Product at Tendermint—the company that built the consensus protocol enabling inter- blockchain communication for Cosmos—and later serving as Vice President of Product at Akash Network. Having joined Blockstack's engineering team in , Jack has been developing blockchain projects since then. He holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Washington and Lee University.
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The traditional "nation" is evolving. Tech platforms are absorbing state-level functions like defense, id, & infrastructure. Autonomous digital entities are gaining economic agency. Global power is shifting from physical geography to tech stacks. Lock up rare digital assets.
Worldpay, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, Deutsche Telekom, and Google Cloud all run production DVNs on LayerZero today. Together their core businesses represent more than $10 trillion in annual financial activity and each one now offers its name as a verifier in the security stacks of stab
Restricting Chinese open models doesn't hurt China, it hurts the US startups that rebuilt their stacks on Kimi and DeepSeek because the price was unbeatable. Those teams won't go back to closed APIs, and the nearest open alternative left is Thinking Machines and Inkling. https://x.com/axios/status/
Phase 1 of the $100K Trust Wallet x @OndoFinance competition ends tomorrow at 10am UTC and Phase 2 will begin immediately. Reminder: in Phase 2, top 1,000 holders of eligible Ondo assets will win $15 each. 0% swap fees on Ondo RWAs, right from your self-custodial Trust Wallet. Learn more: trustwa
jensen’s right that the valve framing is dead. china isn’t waiting on H100s. we now have two intelligence stacks with different binding constraints. ban nvidia and you accelerate huawei demand, even though you don’t erase the need for domestic HBM, power, packaging, talent, and apps to clear on th
RT @Stacks: Bitcoin Staking on Stacks, explained: https://t.co/hztmJV3lPm
Proof-of-Useful-Work forced us to invent a quantization format that did not exist. Pearl Protocol adds noise to both the weights and activations before matrix multiplication. That creates a constraint ordinary inference stacks do not have - the model values and the noise must fit together inside IN
Being on X will lead you to believe everyone uses the latest AI models and tech stacks. There’s still massive edge in being proficient with these tools that can change your life, work and business. Edge eventually flattens overtime. Take advantage of it.
5-10K new non zero wallets per week is becoming the norm on Stacks. https://t.co/yjR1zw0Gn8
1/ 🚀 Tokenized stock volume nearly doubled to $459M this week Trust Wallet and Binance Wallet both launched trading competitions on Ondo's tokenized securities, and the volume followed. On-chain volume hit $458.6M (+57% WoW) while active traders actually fell to 20,295 (-11%). By issuer this we