Tengji Zhang

When to read: morning, evening, eating, walking.

“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%.”

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

NEAR is San Francisco — built for web3 techies who believe sharding is the only way forward towards scalability in the long-term.

Endorsement: connect the off-chain and on-chain data in a verified way to present one's professional identity

Future of Smart Contract Platforms Gün (Avalanche):  A one-size-fits-all blockchain will get  dominated by whoever can pay the  highest fees (the DeFi folks)  They will crowd out everyone else

Aggregators: Aggregating an individual's on-chain activities spread across multiple wallets and chains.