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Dan Wu
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Building Ⓜ️
Chicago, ILlinktr.ee/itsdanwuJoined February 2011

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Our inability to rewire humanity’s collective understanding of ownership, labor, and coordination is the biggest threat to web3, not suboptimized tokenomics.
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Balancer Labs paid 50 ETH on the spot for finding a $3.2M bug in their old (pre ve-tokenomics) contracts. The bug allowed any LP to drain stored LP rewards These contracts had been audited by four top auditing firms before Sounds like a good business decision to me
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My write-up on a vulnerability in Balancer's MerkleOrchard contract which allows any LP to fully drain the distributor resulting in a theft of unclaimed yield for all other LPs mirror.xyz/0x2719F6Dfb850
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Building the right thing is > a fancy thing Building something is > nothing (I guess) The “build it and they will come” fallacy is real though
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The “always be shipping” tech bros understand very little about user research, go-to-market, sales, marketing, distribution, and brand development… If these technologist-obsessed builders spent less-time in a vacuum & studied the above I’d bet they’d see 100x results
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Good article, horrible title Author choosing to use “Chinese Bio-weapon” in the title perpetuates the incorrect affiliation b/w the CCP & people of Chinese ethnicity, reinforcing rising anti-Asian sentiment He even correctly refers to Xi & CCP numerous times in his article 🤦🏻‍♂️
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TikTok may have evolved into a Chinese bio-weapon to accelerate the West’s cognitive decline. My new long-read. gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-b
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One small kitchen fire later, the Wu family made my absolute favorite Chinese dessert - sesame balls with red bean paste Happy Lunar New Year from our family to yours! Wishing you all prosperity, happiness and health this year 🧧 🐇
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At this point in my career, I’m more interested in seeing how my personal interests can inspire my professional work in new ways E.g - cinematography inspiring marketing: -slow zoom to build intensity -long focal lengths to create intimacy -shadows to portray complexity
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The bear market has left DAOs with few options to navigate financial headwinds, ordered from preferred to least preferred option: - Increase protocol fees - Reduce costs - Take on debt via native tokens - Sell native tokens - Start making TikToks Choose wisely people
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Getaway weekend w my wife in Minneapolis and was pleased to discover an NFT gallery at our hotel, focused on bridging the digital + physical worlds Found out it’s run by , a local group encouraging part-time creatives to explore and leverage NFTs and blockchain
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Part of my 2023 self work is leaving all of those Discord servers I shouldn't have joined in the first place
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Jk it’s not
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simple, conclusive, and undeniable proof: more teams are organizing on-chain than ever before despite the major crypto hacks, contagion, and bankruptcies of 2022 • on-chain @DuneAnalytics data can't lie • the number of @safe transactions is growing this is incredibly bullish
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What I admire most about and is they are doing shit bc they can Not bc they want to use web3 tech, build ownership models, etc. That can come later Follow your passion. That’s how you find creative nirvana Thanks for facilitating this one!
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New pod episode w/ @ldf_gm + @reka_eth just dropped ❤️‍🔥 + CHAOS + Co-creation in web3 + How structure scales collaboration Oh and also answering the question ‒ is Elon M*sk a creator?? othersidepod.xyz/episode/57
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Ahh I'm investigatingg Balancer should be counting their lucky stars that they recently added these emergency permissions for pools to their emergency multi-sig a couple of weeks ago Forum post: forum.balancer.fi/t/bip-139-upda Etherscan txn granting said roles: etherscan.io/tx/0x373e5f207
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Some ish is popping off with Balancer. Around ~$6.4M in TVL in these pools at risk due to an undisclosed issue that cannot be resolved by the DAO's emergency 4/7 multi-sig. twitter.com/Balancer/statu…
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Some ish is popping off with Balancer. Around ~$6.4M in TVL in these pools at risk due to an undisclosed issue that cannot be resolved by the DAO's emergency 4/7 multi-sig.
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IMPORTANT: Because of a related issue, LPs of the following pools should remove their liquidity ASAP as the issue cannot be mitigated by the emergency DAO. twitter.com/Balancer/statu…
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This is more embarrassing than DAO participation rates
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy fails to secure the votes needed to become speaker of the House after a third round of voting
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Fortunately I think we can have our cake and eat it too We can use these technologies AND adopt proven real world practices that foster more honest explorations and expressions of our true selves Hoping we all can find that right mix in 2023!
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There are many solutions today to finding your sense of self and connection - and they don’t involve bits or bytes “Immutable” “Cryptographic” “Decentralized” These are probably the last words I’d Google if I wanted to get started on a path of self-work Just saying!
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Web3 social narratives focus on “owning your data” & privacy - which are great pieces of modern identity & social interaction But what many of us also want are social constructs that encourage identity resolution - being comfortable w/ who you are & letting go of your old self
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The one thing being a parent has taught me is the power of tradition Not because of the rituals themselves, but the outcome - lifelong memories and nostalgia That’s why the holidays are so special Merry Xmas and happy holidays from the Wu family! 🎄🕎🙏🏻
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Public tweet views are a sign that Twitter is moving on from its humble beginning as THE place on the internet connection, conversation, and resonance. It’s scale, views, clicks, likes, ads, and everything nice now. Another wheel for us hamsters to run on.
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