Andrea Rodriguez

World’s tiniest developer coming soon! Instead of being at ETHDenver, Ill be preparing for my first born and will be offline over the next few months. Ive left all my ideas and plans with the team looking to improve ecosystem communications and grow Mina’s brand awareness. The team is full steam ahead–having hard conversations, and working day in out. Now is the time to lean in, participate, and cheer the @MinaProtocol community on!

@LindsayCasale would also add that you showed respect for specialty skillsets and tried to let those people experiment their ideas versus micromanaging!

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

@kalashnikovapv love this series!!

@evanashapiro Huge progress! Especially doubling usership with only a closed-community program.

With our last two testnets, we reached a working proof of concept of a community-run network, operated directly from users’ phones and other devices. The last few weeks, we've been building out a more complete feature-set on top of the network's strong user sovereignty. Today, we launched a beta with our community for that new, more complete network architecture. Here are the new components we are most excited about: 1. Now 120+ participants (doubled from ~60 in the last network) 2. High performance; aiming for 10+ tps, with 5-15s latency 3. Initial testing of zk-proof of personhood 4. Support for dapps – we will be testing several dapps on the new testnet, including an opinion market dapp, leveraging proof of personhood. 5. Support for making dapps easily instantiable by AI agents, and then [WIP] iterable by agents directly from user feedback. We’ll be testing all of these over the coming weeks. Once working well, we'll have a solid foundation for a self-sovereign network, where groups of people can collectively build and iterate on the software they use, backed by proof of personhood.

@CryptoWendyO we exceed expectations

Apparently, there are REAL women in Web3 and crypto, and they are all super pretty, smart, and wildly successful.

@PKUBlockchain Very nice! Where can I reach out about hosting an AMA with you all?

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@emilylai Excited to see what's next for you!

@emilylai Congrats on an epic run, Emily! You made a huge impact beyond Hype too — through real, proven results, you helped an industry that once “didn’t like being marketed to” develop a much deeper respect for marketing as a function. <3

Life update! After 4.5 years, I'm moving from CMO to a strategic advisory role at Hype. I've had a front row seat to 212+ crypto companies here and the space is now at a crossroads I want to be closer to. Institutional “adoption” is lending credibility, defi primitives have proven pmf, and AI is reshaping how we live and work. It’s been exciting to explore what this all means I'm proud to have seen Hype grow since joining in 2021: - Team size doubled - 4 awards won by our creative and campaign teams - 13 service lines built and running - 71% revenue CAGR across multiple market cycles - Watched talented people grow into heads of departments, VPs, and senior leaders <3 This will be an epic year for the company and clients. There's no better crypto go-to-market partner than Hype. Growth marketing and distribution is one of the most in-demand needs right now, and the team is fully primed for it. More to come soon on what the AI team has been building As an advisor, I’ll still be contributing to launches and strategic calls. Beyond that, I’m taking space to think, learn, and go deeper on how to best build towards the future I want to live in

@LindsayCasale Spoken by the best!

@milkkarten I wonder if it was intentional? The 3 images in the 2nd row of their grid stick out like a sore thumb. I can only hope it was on purpose with a creative meaning behind it. I guess we will find out on the 27th after their Primavera show.

what does it signal to consumers when luxury brands with big budgets are using ai-generated imagery in campaigns?

@atlantisnat Seems like you're doing something right if you aren't experiencing it :) But it seems to correlate to people working on a project with a token.

Since 2020 in crypto, I’ve gotten: • more comments about my appearance from community calls than I ever did posting personal videos on TikTok • death threats • messages wishing my child wouldn’t eat • endless scam links You get jaded… but also paranoid. And I rarely say I work in crypto outside of X because it gets personal fast. That said — most people I meet from crypto IRL are some of the smartest, funniest, kindest people I know. It's the online culture that is sooooOOOOooo toxic.

@seeksahib Ugh sorry to hear that you are going through the same. Unfortunately most of my IRL connections aren't loud online. If they were, things would be a lot different.

@iam_andrearod The contrast between online chaos and real-life builders is wild... same experience here.

If you post on social media, this is for you.

@arlery thanks. sadly, i think it's a very normal experience for those who work in crypto and decide to post about it.

@iam_andrearod that sucks and i’m sorry you’ve had to experience that :(

@clairekart Congrats, Claire! It's privacy SZN!

Within a year, every smart contract worth deploying will be private. They will be deployed on Aztec. Aztec was built for this moment and it was designed with resilience and longevity in mind.

@garethtdavies You’ll always be one of the greats in the Mina community. This is incredibly sad to hear, and I truly hope things with Mina turn around so it doesn’t lose more people like you. That said, I’m excited to see what’s next for you—any ecosystem would be lucky to have you.

I’ve decided to fully step away from the Mina ecosystem and wind down all Mina-related services I’ve been running, including the explorer and staking operations (details below). Mina’s vision was genuinely ambitious and ahead of its time, but in practice, execution has consistently lagged behind that ambition. It’s time for me to focus my time and energy on other emerging protocols. What this means: * The explorer will be redirected to existing block explorers and will no longer be available. * The staking pool will continue operating as-is until the end of epoch 43 (~5 weeks). At that point, validator keys will be handed over to Naamah Staking @NaamahDaemon, a long-standing community contributor with deep technical expertise who will take over operation of the pool. - If you do nothing, your stake will continue seamlessly with Naamah from epoch 44 onward. - If you wish to redelegate elsewhere, please do so before the end of epoch 42 (approximately 3 weeks). * All remaining data and tooling will be removed before the start of epoch 44 (21st March), so please ensure you’ve retrieved anything you need before then. Thanks to everyone who supported the validator and services over the many years!

@BokLee44361 @minacryptocom @zkLawyer_ @deepthiskumar8 @MinaProtocol Im simply responding to "challenging to communicate these so that non tech people" and the discussion about good teachers.

@iam_andrearod @minacryptocom @zkLawyer_ @deepthiskumar8 @MinaProtocol Marketing? Do you think I'm talking about marketing? I mean work more professionally.

So great to talk to @zkLawyer_ and @deepthiskumar8 yesterday. They have an exciting vision for @MinaProtocol All good things are difficult to do!! let's give them a chance to put their mark down.

@minacryptocom @BokLee44361 @zkLawyer_ @deepthiskumar8 @MinaProtocol for the record, i dont agree this is a marketing problem. mina is so unique that people cant agree what to do with it which affects product/eng decisons, timlimes, dev retention, partnerships, marketing, etc.

@BokLee44361 @iam_andrearod @zkLawyer_ @deepthiskumar8 @MinaProtocol That's really not true. I think the issue is that the technical advancements that are being made are really cutting edge but it's challenging to communicate these so that non tech people can quantify the benefits to them.

@fintechfrank we made the right person famous

Brian Armstrong dubbed as “Enemy #1 on Wall Street” in this weekend’s WSJ