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🦉 who: @SpruceID (Founder & CEO: Wayne Chang)

✌️ why: protect individual privacy

🛠 how: let people control their data across the web, giving them power over where it is stored and who can access it

🎁 what: tools that make it easy for websites to create, integrate, and verify data governed by transparent code on blockchains

⏳ since: 2020

🤝 with: @ycombinator

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✌️ why: protect the world’s freedom

🛠 how: get more people using Ethereum, the world’s second most valuable blockchain (as of writing)

🎁 what: zkSync - math that securely consolidates, compresses, and records data to Ethereum, bringing down the cost of using the network

⏳ since: 2018

🤝 with: @a16z

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✌️ why: improve the internet,

⚙️ how: a marketplace for storing computer files that exists outside the control of governments and big tech companies,

🛠 what: a file storage system (called IPFS) that makes computer files publicly accessible and a cryptocurrency (called Filecoin) that people pay to store their files on another person’s computer,

⏳ since: 2014,

🤝 with: @ycombinator,

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who: @ElectricCoinCo (Co-Founder & CEO: @zooko),

why: grow economic freedom,

how: allow people to exchange money privately, free from corporate bank surveillance and risk of government censorship,

what: a privacy-preserving payments network for 21 million digital coins (called zCash) accessible to anyone on Earth,

since: 2015,

with: @inflectionxyz,

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who: @DuneAnalytics (Co-Founder & CEO: @hagaetc),

why: make blockchains easier to understand,

how: transform the raw public data that blockchains generate into structured, human-readable tables,

what: tools that data analysts can use to visualize blockchain activity, and tools for sharing these charts/graphs on the internet,

since: 2018,

with: @multicoincap,

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who: @MosDotCom (Founder & CEO: @Mira404),

why: help Gen Z pay for college,

how: connecting students with banking services, money-making opportunities, and personal financial advice,

what: a mobile app with checking accounts, micro-loans, scholarships, part-time jobs, cash-back deals, and online financial advisors,

since: 2017,

with: @sequoia,

jobs: click here

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who: @Dyno_Tx (Co-Founder & CEO: @ekelsic),

why: stop genetic diseases,

how: an artificial intelligence that guides scientific experimentation by predicting the therapeutic success of gene therapies,

what: gene vectors - sequences of DNA that doctors attach to a virus to infect your cells and fix a malfunctioning gene,

since: 2018,

with: @a16z,

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who: @Replit (Founder: @Amasad)

why: bring the next 1 billion software developers online

how: make it easy to write, run, and share code written in any programming language

what: a collaborative workstation for software developers built directly into web browsers

since: 2016

with: @a16z

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handle: @MakerDAO

why: offer economic freedom and opportunity to anyone, anywhere

creating: a decentralized, collateral-backed cryptocurrency, algorithmically-pegged to the US dollar

how: the Maker Protocol, autonomous code on Ethereum that issues $1 tokens in exchange for assets that are held as collateral

what: $DAI, the token soft-pegged to the US dollar, $MKR, the token that governs upgrades to the Maker Protocol, and Dai.js, the software library built to simplify adoption

who: @RuneKek + $MKR token holders

since: 2014

with: @a16z

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