Manny

I've been in software and educated in software for a long time.

Some, I guess, a notable name that everyone would resonate with is I was ex-BlackBerrys.

If you ever used a BlackBerry phone, that's where...

I was a developer for Blackberry.

And then all good things in software come out of curiosity.

Early in my days, I saw this thing called Bitcoin.

It seemed very interesting.

So, I mean, one thing that all software people like to do is also play with hardware.

So the interesting part is that you could go and like set up a miner, play with this thing.

And I was like, cool, I got this Bitcoin thing.

It was very interesting.

And I just, one thing led to the other, Ethereum, and it got back to my software and you can like develop, you can develop smart contracts and the NFT craze is all there.

And it just made me very excited about DeFi.

And then just keep diving deeper and deeper into DeFi.

I started exploring this marvelous thing called DAOs, hate them or love them, they exist.

And I served on a pretty notable one called Developer DAO, still serve it, serve there as a steward.

I still think Web3 can use more developers and we can like get to our mission of like basically getting more and more people into Web3.

And then from there, I joined Risk Labs, which is, it runs UMA and Across.

So UMA does Polymarket.

It's their, it's their Oracle that resolves Polymarket.