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THE WISE ONES: Developer Spotlight Series Exclusive 1-on-1s with the biggest builders in crypto and AI. No crowds. No fluff. Just raw alpha. Hosted by @Wisemenmentors EPISODE 8 DROPPING NEXT WEEK: @dotta The CEO Paperclip 📎 He wrote one of the reference implementations of ERC-721 in 2017. Months after CryptoPunks dropped, he was writing the standard that would become the foundation for every NFT that followed. Then he built Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult from the ground up. On chain lore. Community driven storytelling. One of the most respected NFT projects of the entire cycle. That was then. Today, dotta is building one of the hottest projects in the world. Paperclip crossed 50,000 GitHub stars faster than almost anything in open source history. Developers across the globe are starring, forking, and building on top of what he created. The traction is undeniable. Paperclip is an AI agent orchestration system. One human. A team of agents. Running an entire operation. And the developer community can't stop paying attention. We've been tracking this project since Day 1. March 4th. Every milestone. Every update. Every star documented. This is dotta's first time sitting down with us. Most interviews dotta has done have come from people discovering Paperclip from the outside. This one comes from a community that uses it every single day. We know the product. We know the org charts, the agent prompts, the workflows. And we know dotta's crypto history because we lived through the same cycles he did. That's what makes this conversation different. What We Get Into: • What dotta built in the Ethereum ecosystem and how that path led to what he's building now • Why Paperclip exists and the personal moment that made him start building it • What 50,000 GitHub stars in 36 days actually means, and why dotta himself says it's not the metric that matters • How one human can run an entire company using AI agents and where the gaps still are • The feature that dotta believes will change everything about how agents operate • Why the critics have a point and what he's doing about it • The two former executives from billion dollar tech companies who just joined the team • Where AI and crypto intersect and why dotta believes that intersection is inevitable • What dotta wants the future to look like for his sons One Teaser: We asked dotta what keeps him up at night about the thing he built. He didn't dodge it. He told us exactly where Paperclip falls short right now, what he tried that failed, and why he shared that with us on camera anyway. That kind of honesty from a founder at this level of momentum is rare. This interview is why. The Takeaway: From ERC-721 to Forgotten Runes to one of the fastest growing open source projects on the planet. This is a builder who has been at the forefront of every major wave in crypto and tech for nearly a decade. And he's just getting started. The biggest devs. The best stories. Zero BS. Drop a 🔥 if you're ready. @dotta @GitHub @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @cursor_ai @GoogleDeepMind