Ryan Shea
Co-Founder at Stacks
Ryan Shea is the Co-founder of Stacks and Voterbase. He is an investor in crypto, biotech, and deep tech.
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RT @Stacks: The Stacks community has approved SIP-044 (Clarity 6) and SIP-045 (Bitcoin Staking), with over 99.99% of votes in favor of both…
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/
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
Advanced substrate quality is becoming the constraint on CoWoS yield. As AI packages grow larger and integrate more HBM stacks, dimensional accuracy and warpage control become increasingly important. Small deviations can materially reduce packaging yield. Kinsus is one of TSMC’s important advanced