Arthur Meng | Hemera 🌞
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Arthur Meng | Hemera 🌞
@ArthurCMeng
Founder & CAA (Chief Agent Architect) @HemeraProtocol Failed-to-dropout PhD @Stanford Published in @nature Built & sold #AI to WeChat, Pinterest







.@SECPaulSAtkins gave remarks at @A1Policy today on Project Crypto, an SEC Commission-wide initiative to modernize the securities rules and regulations to enable America’s financial markets to move on-chain. sec.gov/newsroom/speec…




For The Foundry this week there are: - 79 builders - from 44 projects - from 30 cities around the world Working together at The Studio in NYC 🌐




The future can be bright, if we put aside short term games and build things that are lasting. That's what I'm here to do, and I respect anyone with the same mindset. Building any startup is really hard. It is tough to get funding. It is tough to attract users. It is tough to hire great teammates. It is tough on the psyche to feel like others are achieving success by launching random memecoins or constantly pivoting to chase narratives. There are a million things to do and on top of that you have to be incredibly creative and permanently online. I have so much empathy for early-stage founders, who are going through a lot and who realize that it's a long road ahead. I am aware of the immense privilege that Monad has. We were lucky. We benefited from great timing, great prior experiences, great early hires, and a lot of things that are just pure luck. Maybe someday we'll get a string of bad luck to even things out. But what we won't do is become complacent. Monad will not be successful if all we do is take existing mindshare. We just won't. Our team's mission is to GROW CRYPTO. That's all that matters. I have challenged our team to think back to the early days of Ethereum when it was not at all obvious that anyone would build a decentralized app at all. Before MetaMask. Before Uniswap. Before DeFi Summer. Before 200B of stablecoin marketcap. Before mainstream recognition. In the early days, all that the Ethereum community had was extreme grit and a dream of a better way of transacting. The remedy then and now is the same. Recruit talented developers from web2 and inspire them to build for a different kind of future. Evangelize decentralized tech. Build awesome products and demos. Sprint to improve the DevEx rapidly. Organize initiatives that grow the community and help people learn from each other. And challenge everyone to level up. We should not be satisfied with how things are, and we should set out to change the course of the future.





