Dave Hendricks

@NateGeraci Asset management is the actual killer use case

Tokenization will be as disruptive to asset management as ETFs were to mutual funds… Will basically be adapt or die a slow death.

@malekanoms Very well done here

@Timccopeland Nosferatu Cafe

imagine waking up in a coma and being trapped in this room

@andyyy I know! But written differently with context it actually would be a bad-ass prompt

@andyyy ‘Institutional’ is pretty broad, like as broad as ‘investable’ ‘companies’ in ‘Digital Assets’! Need to re engineer that prompt, stat!

If you had to tell a new institutional investor the most investable companies in the digital assets space, what would you answer?

@andyyy Sorry we didn’t meet when you were there

My biggest takeaway from DC Blockchain Summit is simple: If an asset can be tokenized, it will be tokenized.

@MattPrusak It’s fun stuff. I’ve got all branches tracked back and the furthest one is 32 generations, and counting. Much easier for anglos than middle eastern, Eastern European, or African largely thanks to the Mormons and things like the Domesday Book…

Your grandparents had grandparents. They had grandparents. Somewhere back there, someone got on a boat, or didn't. Someone changed their name, or had it changed for them. Someone is buried in a cemetery you've never heard of in a country you've never been to. Most families lose track after two generations. I used AI to push mine back nine. One session with @karpathy's autoresearch pattern: over 100 organized research files. It found a 1940 Norwegian emigrant history with my ancestors in it. Resolved a maiden name question that confused my family for 70 years. Identified relatives no one alive knew existed. The method is simple: set a goal, measure progress, verify against real records, repeat. The AI searches public archives, cross-references birth certificates against cemetery records against church books, and logs everything it finds (and everything it doesn't). Open sourced the whole toolkit. Prompts that do the research for you, archive guides for 20+ countries, starter templates, even a framework for making sense of DNA results. If you have a box of old photos and unanswered questions, this is where to start. github.com/mattprusak/aut…

@LoewyLawFirm It will end up being named Casar Garza street, same rhyme scheme but they’ll pay a design firm $1m for it

How about we call it 1st Street ? We don’t need to rename it to honor someone the majority of the city doesn’t even know. Council should focus on real things.

Infra doesn’t reprice itself dynamically based on network traffic, it’s a fixed capital expense. Before you say ‘but roads’, the capex expended is based on bonds or widely borne subsidies Railway infra persists for decades long after trains stop rolling on them. THAT is infra. If you want to travel faster (queueing rights) you pay a fee, but that has nothing to do with the fixed price of the road or rail, which exist whether one or a million use them. A road that isn’t traveled or has no tolls is still a road or track L1s with no wallets or fees prove my point Doesn’t mean I don’t think protocols aren’t awesome - I just see them as naturally ephemeral, and subject to instant decay SMTP and TCP is infra. DLT is not infra. It’s just a bunch of accounting ledgers that share namespace. The second they are no longer used, they disappear. Actual Infra doesn’t

@davehendricks @lex_node It is not?

Alex makes an interesting argument here, that the ETH bulls will eat up. If every private company wants to build their own settlement layer (L1 or L2), why would any of them want to build atop a separate firm & support a direct competitor? Its makes no sense. So, they likely won't. What they *may* do is, instead, choose to build on Ethereum, Solana, or a different "neutral" chain with no direct involvement in the validator set or in the leadership from a competitive bank. However, Canton actually is proving this mental model wrong right now. They have a set of large banks and multinational financial institutions collaborating as 'Super Validators' on their chain. We will see how this plays out as the likes of NYSE, S&P500, NASDAQ and others move towards deploying institutional-grade architecture onchain.

@chrisfralic We can only hope that at least a domain name broker and owner made some money from Meta

I went into Horizon Worlds once and never found a reason to go back. I’ve had every headset since the DK2 and like and use my Quest and Vision Pro weekly. But I could never wrap my head around the massive $$’s they poured in and changing the name of the company to Meta.

“What comes after ETFs?” “Everything.” – @tZERO CEO @Alan_Konevsky, speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit today. The next phase of on-chain capital markets is already underway.

@AveryChing I’m running a pretty heavily gapped closed claw! Paranoid claw. That’s why I’m interested in local models to make it even more local than it already is!

@davehendricks Please be safer than default open claw :)

Qwen3.5-27B-4bit on my MacBook Pro runs hot, roasts my GPU, and is too freaking slow, but it's just so empowering to get private inference that actively engages in any topic of discussion. Private inference on open source models is where VC should focus more capital.

@cryptopunk7213 Windows Phone at this point

Anthropic launching an openclaw competitor :) 'Dispatch' lets you text claude to do work for you while you're away, claude spins up agents to do it all. - just instruct agents to complete a task and come home to finished work - also launched persistent memory so claude keeps context across multiple tasks this turns your phone into a personal ai computer very cool

I have tested them. Personally and Internally/Corporately. Less handholding means less security and sovereignty. More harder = more learning and more power and personalization. Like every other service, once you get hooked the price will go up and then you will sign a EULA and your lock-in will be complete and you will be screwed. Don’t be the product. Be the producer.

@samoweb3 @davehendricks @DrewAustin @openclaw Fair take. Testing both is the right move. I just found that perplexity computer just needed less handholding than my claude/openclaw setup.

I think I need to expand beyond @openclaw and I’m open to suggestions. What I am trying to overcome: - Frequent timeouts - better memory handling - be able to have one brain across different instances of engagement whether it’s in cc, telegram, different telegram group chats, slack. - better model selection - actually following the rules and instructions it sets up for itself - not lying - it tell me it solved a problem, then the problem comes up and it says I prob shouldn’t have told you I solved it because I didn’t - better project management across different projects

@AveryChing @SenGillibrand This session should be called ‘the Duck and the Scorpion’, and I’m looking forward to it.

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@DrewAustin The first person to hold an office that never existed before make it make sense

Thank god he’s taking care of important things 🤦‍♂️

@bhalligan Wolf is a beast. Band that reinvented marketing, guitar of the architect to another marketing innovator

Not so humble brag coming. I bought Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf” guitar 9 years ago for $1.9mil. Its sister “Tiger” guitar just sold for $11.5mil. Low supply & high demand is timeless.