Building things at ScopeLift
Joined June 2017
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Alexander Keating retweeted
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Alexander Keating retweeted
For the first time in years, I'm a free agent
Now I'm looking for what's next. These are the problems I'm most drawn to:
→ Enabling both humans and AIs to coordinate across trust boundaries
→ Ensuring humans can trust the AI agents they rely on (alignment)
→ Getting DAOs to actually work (yes really!)
→ Creating the new societal institutions our era needs
→ Making Ethereum the credibly neutral foundation the world actually runs on
What I bring:
⋅Protocol & systems engineering
⋅Mechanism design
⋅Agentic engineering
⋅First-principles thinking
⋅Product sense & tech/business strategy
⋅Forward-deployed engineering
I'm open to the right role — full-time, advisory, or fractional, at a funded startup or a larger org.
If you're working on any of this, or something else you think I'd be into, I'd love to talk. My DMs are open.
(Referrals and signal-boosts welcome 🙏)
Alexander Keating retweeted
A long overdue update on @ScopeLift's work on Umbra and stealth addresses more broadly.
Alexander Keating retweeted
We are excited to welcome @huvoliveira to the crew as Partnerships Lead. ScopeLift has long been lucky to work with incredible teams. Hugo's job will be to make sure that continues and expands, even while the rest of us have our heads in our code editors 😉 Welcome @huvoliveira!
Alexander Keating retweeted
Taking a break from my self imposed social media fast to share this: @ScopeLift has no association with the "Umbra Privacy" Solana airdrop, & no knowledge of its legitimacy (or lack their of). The naming collision is at best very unfortunate, & at worst intentionally misleading.
This project has no association with @UmbraCash, and we were unaware of it until seeing it on X. We cannot speak regarding its legitimacy. It is unknown to us if the naming collision was intentional and meant to mislead. We advise EXTREME CAUTION and skepticism as a result.
Alexander Keating retweeted
.@ScopeLift is looking for someone to help with our efforts in biz dev, sales and marketing. We're a team of top tier engineers. We've built contracts that custody or control billions of dollars. We've got engineering down to a science, and we write code for some of the biggest projects in the industry. But we want to do more.
We don't exactly know what we need, which is exactly why we need the help. So I'm open to hearing all kinds of proposals. From seasoned sales professionals, to someone young in their career who wants to scrap and hustle, anyone is invited to reach out. I want to hear from you.
I can tell you what we're *not* looking for: the used care salesman vibe. We're really good at what we do. We don't need high pressure tactics and deceptive sales tricks. Our customers love our work. We just need help finding more customers.
We're a technical team, so we'd prefer to work with someone who can speak competently on the technical side. You don't have to be an engineer yourself, but some measure of savviness is strongly preferred.
I can't promise a big base salary and cushy benefits. I can promise that if you help ScopeLift succeed, you'll succeed too. If you create value, you'll capture a big share of that value. We're looking for a win-win.
You'll have wide latitude to work as you please and have ownership over our BD efforts. We're flexible and open to all kinds of approaches. We're a small, fast, execution oriented team. You'll work directly with me. If this sounds remotely appealing to you, hit me up.
Alexander Keating retweeted
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Alexander Keating retweeted
When you've lost @GeorgeSelgin, whose work helped inspire Satoshi's paper, and @nic_carter on strategic crypto reserve (SCR), you probably lost the script on this idea. Here George explains that like the Ft Knox gold, the SCR will serve no use and be costly. (1/5) @elonmusk
Alexander Keating retweeted
Congrats to @ScopeLift Lead Engineer @wildmolasses for getting elected to a second season on the @Optimism Developer Advisory Board. Proud to see him and other ScopeLifters pushing for engineering excellence throughout the ecosystem 🫡
Alexander Keating retweeted
We’re entering a new phase of protocol governance where token utility is not only possible, but necessary.
Where protocols return value to token holders in exchange for the work of governance.
Welcome to The Governance Staking Era.
Read more ⬎
tally.mirror.xyz/Shi_4h9Vlg3…
Alexander Keating retweeted
Very excited and humbled that @ScopeLift is a part of this effort to accelerate innovation and standardization of the DAO governance stack.
My prediction is that, with a changing regulatory landscape, we'll see DAOs make a ton of progress in the next few years. Onward!
📣New Working Group for the @OpenZeppelin Governor framework in collaboration with @Tallyxyz, @AgoraGovernance, and @ScopeLift!
Together, we’re enhancing modularity, innovating features, and building a unified roadmap for DAO governance. Read about this➡️hubs.li/Q02XgtYZ0
Alexander Keating retweeted
Does anyone want to work at @ScopeLift writing smart contracts?
Alexander Keating retweeted
🧑🍳 We're cooking something important to the future of DAOs with the team from @tallyxyz.
🚀There's lots of work left to do, but we're excited to start talking about it.
🧐 Go read @DennisonBertram's post to learn more!
🧑💻 Back to building for us!
Today, we're announcing the next step forward in onchain governance: The Tally Protocol.
The Tally Protocol fully actualizes the value of the systems that token holders own and participate in.
The Tally Protocol unlocks the economic potential of governance tokens by providing a liquidity layer for governance staking and restaking, while optimizing the distribution of voting power to drive economic security back to blockchain protocols.
The Tally Protocol
✤ Creates a smart contract layer that allows DAO token holders to mint Tally Liquid Staked Tokens (tLSTs), which make it easy to earn rewards while maintaining voting power and unlocking additional yield opportunities elsewhere.
✤ Enables governance restaking. Users can stake their governance tokens with Tally and receive a tLST in return that can be deposited in restaking systems. The voting power associated with the governance token remains active.
✤ Increases DAO security. Even the largest DAOs today are at risk of attacks due to low participation in governance. The Tally Protocol reactivates voting power held dormant in DeFi smart contracts and centralized exchanges by returning undelegated voting power to the DAO for redistribution. Undelegated tokens staked in the Tally Protocol are also returned to the DAO for redistribution. This way, DAOs can maintain control over their own security while enhancing token utility.
✤ Incentivizes effective governance. The Tally Protocol ensures token holders no longer have to choose between governance and financial utility. By requiring token holders to delegate to an active participant to earn staking rewards, voting power remains with active DAO voters, enhancing security against malicious attacks and preventing passive governance.
✤ Sustainably incentives DAO delegates. The Tally Protocol creates a fair and transparent mechanism for rewarding active delegates. The modularity of the protocol allows DAOs to experiment with new mechanisms and designs for compensation.
Tally is leveraging its deep expertise, experience, and partnerships to bring the liquidity and security layer to DAOs everywhere. The Tally Protocol is permissionless and open source, and we’ll deliver it to everyone all at once via the Tally platform.
We started @tallyxyz 4 years ago with a mission: to scale human coordination by enabling credibly neutral governance. Today, over $30B is managed by DAOs on Tally and over $661M has been transferred on Tally by the category leaders of crypto.
We’ve partnered with @ScopeLift, the leading governance smart contract development team, to bring the Tally Protocol to life. ScopeLift developed Unistaker and Flexible Voting, foundations upon which the Tally Protocol is built.
Together, we’re going to take DAOs to the next level.
Welcome to the future of decentralization.
Alexander Keating retweeted
1/ Today, we're excited to share some preliminary details about Umbra v2, the next version of Umbra, that aims to be more interoperable, modular, and flexible enough to support more than just payments.
👇 A quick thread, with a link to a more extensive blog post at the end.
