William Entriken
Building product, developer communities and publishing zero-day research.
Lead author of ERC-721, the document that started NFTs as we know them.
Building product, developer communities and publishing zero-day research.
Lead author of ERC-721, the document that started NFTs as we know them.
The critical step for attracting and exciting developers in your community is helping them compile the code. Here's the simple test: If an end user is slightly interested, but not religious, about your project could they contribute something useful within 7 minutes?
If so, great! Your project is growing!
Case study: In the Ethereum community, we:
And now today, NFTs are the primary onramp for new developers to blockchain. And it is the only legal use case in China.
My work was sponsored in part by Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft/GitHub.
The seven-minute test is easy to say and hard to pass.
Like any great party, you need a great theme. Don't pick the theme "a bunch of college kids showing up to learn about your product and do your work without pay," that's so 2010's! Instead, try "career development," "apprenticeship," "serene getaway" and nothing wrong with "performative," "experimental," or "turnt."
I build communities for technology events and products. This includes hackathons like the TRON DAO Hackatron and exciting, interactive workshops to explain what is NFT/blockchain.
Usually these events are public, see some past appearances.
Here is a paid promotional video I did for TRON vs. Ethereum.
(With permission)
EY, Arianee, Airbus A³, TRON DAO, Light.art, Origins NFT, Lucid Sight (MLB Champions), Dream Syndicate (Rawlings NFT), a checkout processor in the sports/events industry, TreasureDAO, Nebula Revelation, Aleph Crypto Fund, a hedge fund, expert witness for investor lawsuit BananaConf, NFT.nyc, Fog Works, Namefi.io, Kred, EPIK Prime, DLT.education, GenoBank.io, ---, SOMOS Bustamante Labs,
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I work with promising projects to launch their creator community. See my advisory services.
Learn about emerging tech, public policy and entrepreneurship at my workshops and speeches.
This work was sponsored in part by Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft.
Here are some products I brought from idea to market. Includes commercial successes and failures.
Foggie is a backup device that comes in pairs. All your files, always backed up, to two places.
physical device
19 Questions is a machine learning game that asks you questions about the world.
open source bayesian statistics
Nineteen Eighty-Five is a modern printing of the classic George Orwell book. Orwell’s protagonist battles with his own incriminating #searchhistory, the prying eye of the Social Justice Warriors watching him through his smart device…
open source Amazon KDP
SEPTA OTP is my recommended changes to Philadelphia rail schedules which the transit authority has incorporated. It also documents late trains, which you can use to excuse work lateness.
Who's the Impostor (谁是卧底) is a party word game for 3–12 players. Ranked in top 100 charts for MX, CN, RU.
Light.art NFT drop is a series of NFTs published by high-profile professional photographers. Sold out for 100 Ether in hours.
Echo lets you hear yourself and native speakers to improve pronunciation. This helps with language practice, speech pathology and accent reduction.
23andMe privacy kit by GenoBank anonymizes your DNA collection using physical shuffling and end-to-end encryption.
Formant Analyzer helped my wife improve vowel pronunciation (born in China living in USA) and is useful for speech pathologists.
Su Squares is the first NFT using the ERC-721 standard. This ushered in an era of new applications and enormous media coverage.
Scribe Academy is one of several online training program launched through Pacific Medical Training and accredited through American Medical Association.
Anasquare is a word puzzle published nationally in GAMES magazine.
System Bus Radio implements an AM radio on computers and phones that do not have radio transmitting hardware. Unclassified implementation of TEMPEST data exfiltration.
Math
Active projects you can join
Photography
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Contributions / big projects
👀 Crypto projects lose all their money immediately when they get hacked. Don't get hacked. See my white paper review & code review services.
Code reviews / smart contract audits
Some typical design and code review work I have done includes:
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White paper review and business planning
Including technical and business review. Weekly cadence with CEO and CTO working on execution. See achieved outcomes on my advisory page.
Open source every week. For yourself, for your career, and for fun!
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Best marathon time: 9h : 13m
Birthday: 1985-07-01
My art collaborations, 2018–2021
Pixels:
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Art (all 1 of 1):
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