Blockdaemon is a leading institutional gateway connecting financial institutions to blockchains and the Web3 ecosystem, with 70% of the top 500 companies in crypto as customers.

Blockdaemon now manages 250,000 nodes, demonstrating the importance of holding onto ideas that others deem bad.

We shifted our mindset from distrust to trust, verifying the integrity of transactions rather than assuming everyone is bad.

Blockchains solve not just technical problems but also political ones by enabling parties that don't fully trust each other to agree on transactions in a neutral manner.

The resilient part of being a founder is to continue working on a problem while others tell you it’s not worth solving, and I had to put everything I have into Blockdaemon without a clear promise of a better market environment, just to make it last as long as possible.

I wanted to build an organization that could facilitate projects like Filecoin, which could be seen as a way to build collaboratively rather than in isolation.

Incorporating human oversight builds trust, especially when agents perform explicit actions like sending payments or approvals.

I saw a gap in the market for tools to run Ethereum nodes efficiently, which would enable institutions to engage with blockchain technology.

The breakthrough for Discord's growth came from inviting users to provide feedback rather than just promoting the app, which helped build a community.