Daniel Shapiro
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Daniel Shapiro
@_dshap
Efficient frontier mentality // AI Ops Engineer @Blockworks // views my own









"From a metrics perspective, Q1 2026 demonstrated strong growth across network infrastructure and institutional channels..." - Total protocol revenue reached $2.33M - BAM validators grew from 233 to 363 (+56%) - SOL delegated to BAM validators doubled from 59.2M to 119.3M SOL, pushing Jito's share of total network stake from 14% to 28% - 21Shares launched the Jito Staked SOL ETP (JSOL) Jito is the market layer of Solana. Just Use Blockworks IR.






1/ Blockworks has raised a Series A extension at a $192M valuation. This allows us to double down on our mission to build trust in onchain markets. Thank you to all of our customers, we couldn’t have done this without you.



Learning how to use coding agents effectively is the most interesting engineering problem in the world right now. The solution @alex_frantic came up with for our team is Symphony. I think Symphony has a few really interesting ideas embedded in it: 1. The approach itself. Giving coding agents access to task tracking and changing their goal to "convince a human to merge this code" is the clear next phase of software engineering. 2. Software as a spec. Instead of code, Symphony is first a spec.md that you can materialize into any programming language you want by passing it to your coding agent of choice. This is an early demonstration of a new way I expect open-source software to be developed and shared in the future. 3. Lowering the cost of code. When reliably kicking off a feature or bug fix is something you can do from your phone in a few seconds, it radically changes your relationship with product prioritization and exploration. Read the whole blog post below and let me know what you think.














