Jason Rodrigues

projects end. friendships end. but you know what doesn’t end? this mf devcon hallway

went to Oxford for a formal dinner it was this pretentious 4 course high society meal and there it was… dubai chocolate was on the dessert menu mind blown 🤯

The journey is full of ups and downs. Find your tribe that makes it all worth it.

Go pond

Building this point out a bit more... Crypto’s history is full of ambitious attempts to “rebuild Web2 on Web3”. A decentralized Twitter, a blockchain Airbnb, a P2P Uber. The pitch decks are slick. The intention is good. But in most cases, the result is underwhelming. Why? Because using a blockchain shouldn’t be the feature. It should be the foundation. The simple truth is this: if crypto doesn’t fundamentally improve the user experience or unlock a new use case, there’s no reason to rebuild an existing Web2 product onchain. Why? Because most Web2 products already have: Fast UX Trusted infrastructure Enormous network effects Clear, centralized paths to dispute resolution When you take that same product and put it on a blockchain, you often trade all of that for Higher latency Worse UX Poorer performance Governance ambiguity And no new user benefit Decentralization is not a value proposition on its own, it’s a tradeoff. And users only accept tradeoffs when they get something better in return. Instead of asking, “Can we build X onchain?”, We should be asking: “What products are fundamentally better when they’re built on crypto rails?”. Some examples where the answer is yes: Stablecoin payments → open, borderless, censorship-resistant financial rails Prediction markets → censorship-resistant access to truth-seeking financial primitives Tokenized social graphs → transferable reputation and programmable incentives across platforms Each of these use cases works because they leverage the unique properties of blockchains: Trustlessness, Permissionlessness, Composability, Programmability, Global accessibility. These are not nice-to-haves. They’re requirements for the product to even exist in its best form. Forget Recreating. Start Inventing. I spent nearly a decade working in traditional financial markets, where efficiency, speed, and user trust are built into the system by design. If there’s one thing that experience taught me, it’s this: you don’t move value onto a slower, clunkier, more complex system unless there’s a very good reason. The only reason to build on crypto rails is if they unlock something new. Not just because they’re novel, but because they offer properties that the old system simply can’t. That’s the bar. And it’s the one we should be holding ourselves to in this space.

@0xDeltaHedged Yeah, understated how important this is and how much you can improve applications and models underneath

I’m excited about AI for system observability. Production deployment, reliability, logs, debugging…etc being made available to AI agents could take us from vibe coding MVPs -> vibe deploying production apps. Will likely take time to get right though. Vibe companies

@hypertris @elfa_ai Signs you’re building a good product

as a builder, nothing is more rewarding than seeing comments like this so much more thats coming up soon, i hope we do you proud with future builds @elfa_ai

@linear crossed a billion dollar val tasteful, opinionated software always has room to win congrats to @karrisaarinen and the team

@hypertris @elfa_ai thanks, friend

@JasonRogues @elfa_ai welcome to the gang jason

Spoke to @hypertris today and man, I'm bullish about @elfa_ai 🙌

@joeljohn @letsharbour

Operators in Dubai - do you have recommendations for a firm that can manage invoicing, accounting and payroll combined across entities. Preferably one based in Dubai with an understanding of token assets. Looking for vendor recommendations.

@DeGatchi Bellman equations incoming

only 34 pages deep, at the derivation of updating action-reward estimates and im maxed out on confidence of learning RL by EOY. Sutton & Barto are single handedly changing my life

@Might_Natty Feel better ❤️‍🩹

getting a blood clot and skull fracture from getting hit on the ice rink really does put a lot into perspective.. nothing really matters when you can’t even remember how you ended up in ICU 💀 #Respectfully ps can’t look at screens so brb soon🤷🏽‍♀️

@TonyCatoff @peakbengaluru @bad_chain @CatoffGaming @shipyard_ @SuperteamIN @solana Tony, you are a legend

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software is solved.

hiring anti portfolio

@inkparadox @formacity @beondeck grateful, fam

@JasonRogues @formacity @beondeck 🦾🦾🦾

the @formacity fellowship is high signal. our cohort is filled with kind, smart and helpful people. the content is also banger. last time I did something like this with @beondeck, i made friends for life. couldn't be more excited

@arlery eid mubarak!

Eid Mubarak everyone 💝💝💝May our duas be accepted and may this year bring blessings and blessings 💝

@0xakki_qiro @formacity @beondeck legend, thanks for all of your inputs

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