Tengji Zhang

Towards the end of my tour at Cabin, Jonathan leaves me with two sayings that Cabin’s core contributors (like him and Rafa) are trying to distribute among the community: “The DAO provides” and “Manifest your role.” He also leaves me with a sticker of their logo.

“If you look at a typical company, the founders and investors own 80-90%,” he goes on. “All of the employees own the other 10-20%. It doesn't make sense. It's not who is producing most of the value. We wanted to flip that model on its head. With the DAO, the community controls 80% of the tokens; the founders and strategic partners control 20%.”

Stable coin can have advantage over fiat money in the long term, especially in use cases like international transfer.

Areas of on-chain identity landscape: Ownership, Aggregators, Governance Participation, Bounties, Data Rails, Proof of Humanity, Endorsement, Profiles

Gives a brilliant and very cynical description of the Ponzi nature of yield farming in DeFi. Shed some light on how it is no so different from startups nowadays that keeps raising more money despite net negative return, as long as they have a grand narrative with a big promised profit at the end.