Sonia Singla

Welcome to Shinzo team, excited to build together 🤝

How to master any skill fast: - stop studying - outline a project - start building it - hit a roadblock - figure out how to overcome it - repeat 4 and 5 for the rest of your life Most people don't get past 1, the rest spiral into complacency after 4.

Running a Shinzo indexer isn't a second job. The indexer client is a Go process that connects to your existing node's RPC. One Docker command and your node is indexing. Same hardware. Same uptime. Additional SHNZ rewards. One-step setup → docs.shinzo.network/indexer/quicks…

"Trust but verify" is the core promise of blockchain. But when data flows through centralized indexers, there's nothing to verify. You're trusting the provider's accuracy, uptime and goodwill - not the chain. Real decentralization requires the data layer to match the execution layer. We're not there yet on any chain.

Communities only matter when they’re full of people who love your product. Everything else? Just noise. Crypto has spent years optimizing for “nice ser, bullish 🔥” airdrop hunters and almost none optimizing for real users.

something I’m learning: not every problem needs to be quietly “handled”

@dee_centralized amazing job! What tools do you use to manage/track everything? I am curious

A few weeks ago, I got kind of a weird message from a girl I know... 🤔 And let me just say, she didn't mean it in a bad way to minimize my work, she was genuinely just curious. It went like this: "Hey D, I'm trying to understand what your job is because I like what I see and I want to take inspo. You just go to events and shoot videos, right?" Right??? 🫠 I wish. I started my work at @WalletConnect as the Community Lead. Then, a few months later after some internal upgrades, I was moved to Content Manager. As a Content Manager, my job was to write scripts, record videos, edit, and ship. On top of that, I worked booths and events for WalletConnect. So at that point, her idea of my work was pretty much correct. But then, toward the end of January, I got promoted to Social Lead. And here's what I do now: * All of X: I come up with most of the ideas, write copy, threads, request visuals, schedule, post, and engage with followers and comments + retweet partner content * All of LinkedIn: same as above, so yes, anything you see on there, I posted it and it was me who commented 👏 or ❤️ on your comment * Most of our video content: again, write scripts, film, and edit. Luckily, a colleague has stepped in to help with this * Social campaign execution: I coordinate with our Partner Marketing Lead to make sure there's social attention around all of our partner announcements and co-marketing efforts * Events: I MC WalletCon and help run out booths * Podcasting: I interview guests, record, edit, publish, and ship The Payments Pulse (the most tiring part of that is making sure every single caption is ok and doesn't have typos... Imagine how many captions there are in a 25-min long episode) * Clipping (IYKYK), if you don't know - I break down each long video into 60 second segments and even though I use AI, it still requires a lot of manual work to smooth around the edges + write the copy Let's see what else... * I run our paid social campaigns and analyze data * Plus, I come up with the entire social strategy for as long as 6 months in advance (as is the case with repackaging our WalletCon content) * And at events, I scout, hire, and manage all content produced by creators on the ground (including giving them guidelines, feedback before posting, amplification, and getting them paid) So yeah, I'm probably forgetting something but that's the gist of it. The role of the Social Lead in tech companies (especially crypto) has evolved a lot. We take charge of the full-stack process, from idea to a live post you can read, like, and comment on. I'm lucky to have such a great team where my manager would notice I'm stressed and tell me to take a couple hours off and offer to help me out, for example. I also thrive in dynamic environments (because ADHD). In case anyone else was curious, this is what I do. :) AMA

Proud to be building this with the Shinzo team ❤️ @SHIknowz @shinzonetwork

@soorajchandran_ 🫡

Taking remote work literally.

@tessak22 Love this, lessgo 🤍

I have found my dream job. Scrappy founding team backed by a bigger company that cares about privacy and transparency. I'm already building out a custom CRM, researching our positioning, planning customer interviews, and considering early marketing spend. 🔥

@SHIknowz Well put. The chain removed trust at the base layer, but the ecosystem rebuilt it in more subtle ways 🥲

Crypto rebuilt middlemen exactly where it swore it would destroy them. Not at consensus. Right above consensus. Shinzo brings forward the uncomfortable truth: the chain is decentralized, everything you see isn’t.

@ethStaker @jwmeyer @EthCC 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Ethstaker's @jwmeyer shares takeaways from EthCC[9] from @EthCC, and a summary of the talks at the Staking Track stage with video links are within. Thanks to all who came and contributed to the Staking Track talks in Cannes!

back from from @EthCC 2026! here's some of my takeaways - Ethereum in-protocol staking as a product has been very well built, supported, and marketed all while instilling a real sense of purpose and community. What other parts of the ecosystem can learn and benefit from this kind of approach? - There's lots of quality research, upgrades, and projects happening on Ethereum that embody the principles of censorship resistance, open source software, privacy, and security. Those should be supported and I think emphasizing those principles is good. - EthCC is a really well run conference. @bettina_boon @jdetychey The "in-side event" format at the Palais was a strong hybrid format for the @ethStaker Staking Track stage, the AV teams were great, and it all worked. Highly recommend this for any organizers or conferences considering a side-event presence that would like to also be at the main venue. - So many good talks at the Ethstaker Staking Track stage. Check out the whole program's recordings (see the tweets following this one). The Staking Strawmap from @drakefjustin packed the room and covered what stakers specifically can expect in a Lean Ethereum world (stakemap.org). Lots to digest there and from all the talks in the lineup. - A healthy mix of side events to complement the main venue but not too overwhelming and Cannes is a great walkable town for this kind of setup. The @blockspaceforum was particularly good. - People should make their voices heard when those mechanisms are offered and it was great to have several present. From the Issuance Forum to the still-live Ethstaker Staking Survey (extra tweet on this below) ... make your voice heard when given the opportunity. - Cannes is indeed awesome. The sense of community and hospitality in the French Riviera renewed my sense for what "community" can mean in a building ecosystem and how it interacts with mutual respect in the world. - These events build on and talk to each other in useful ways. Multiple times people mentioned the Staking Gathering and EthProofs in Buenos Aires and the evolving state of conversations and development since then. Which makes me excited for @EFDevcon later this year, excited to bring learnings and continue the work in Mumbai. - Lastly, the @PlasticOdyssey was really cool, thank you for showing me and the other opening night winners around the vessel and the good work you're doing to improve and empower communities. Your storytelling ability as a nonprofit about a technical mission-driven community effort also hit home for me!

why are validators treated like backend labor while centralized indexers own the customer relationship?

@robin_faraj if you found the answer let me know 😆

What’s the best country in EU to live in? Germanys bureaucracy and politics are concerning But what’s the alternative?

If you’re a validator reading this and it resonates, apply here: shinzo.network/chains

Read this if you care or don’t. medium.com/shiknowz/the-d…