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 community 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.
These photos show successful completion of my workshop where people (even with zero programming experience) created and deployed a smart contract.
(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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1 hr/week
Public X Space call
Do open source every week with me on the Community Service Hour live call and podcast.
2+ hrs/week
Private call advisory
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.
USDA proposing immutable ledger technology for agricultural product source verification (with my client CattleProof). This is a USDA Process Verified Program to verify the source of agricultural products and the first to use distributed ledger technology.
This work was sponsored in part by Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft.
My work is building growth products to realize the future of commerce. I create liftoff by building industries as a whole, with a focus on developer relations and harmony with regulators.
I have extensive experience in product design, developer tooling, best practices and idealism which I've used in launching new products.
Here are products I launched as a founder or part of a founding team.
Foggie by Fog Works, Inc. is a backup device that comes in pairs. All your files, always backed up, to two places.
Thousands sold & online, space is rented as blockchain tokens. I contributed strategic advisory, product design, marketing, road shows.
physical device blockchain enabled
EY Nightfall is an enterprise supply chain tracking protocol. This product is foundational in building the EY global blockchain team.
Early enterprise pilots and ongoing use cases. I contributed since before product launch with technical review, customer workshops, road show, and regulatory liaise.
physical device NFT enabled
Arianee is a product authenticity and customer engagement company.
Integrated into Breitling, Richemont, Lacoste and Moncler. I contributed to the whitepaper and business launch planning, technical review, and roadshow.
physical device NFT enabled
GenoBank.io is your DNA, anonymized with NFTs.
Secured government mandate to require its product for all passengers arriving to country. I contributed product development, software lead, marketing, development documentation, solutions architecting, retail packaging, laboratory integrations.
physical product NFT enabled
Modern Training Solutions creates world-class learning experiences and systems for students.
We have been the exclusive government provider for CPR training in Pennsylvania child care facilities. I am the founding owner, responsible for growing the team to 20 workers, securing government and commercial sales, and leading product development.
open source
Ethereum is the founding smart contract platform.
I started developer relations at Ethereum with the current community-run standards process. I also contributed the NFT specification ERC-721 and secured favorable government treatment for this trillion dollar asset class on each continent through extensive legwork. Zero to trillion.
open source
Solopreneurship projects are individual iOS apps, books, AI platforms and more I founded.
open source
The LISA is a 2035 planned NASA/ESA measurement constellation to find celestial bodies 10× farther than any other instrument.
The laser and photodetector setup are sensitive enough measure the Earth–Moon distance to subatomic levels. I contributed the technical and business proposals which won NASA funding and achieved NASA design win for the photodectors in this mission.
tested in space
Su Squares is the first ERC-721 NFT. The demonstration for a new trillion dollar asset class.
3,000 minted. I founded the project, contributing and open sourcing all code.
open source blockchain enabled
Light.art is a curated art collection with the best digital artists.
4 Successful series launches. I joined the founding team and contributed development lead and management advisory.
open source blockchain enabled
Open source templates are a collection of best practices and starting points for developers.
Achieved design integrations in 1,000+ iOS apps. 50,000+ GitHub starstop 1%. I founded the project for templates in Swift, GitHub Pages, Moodle templates and iOS and 100+ other open source projects.
open source blockchain enabled
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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!
My sizes
Best marathon time: 9h : 13m
Birthday: 1985-07-01
My art collaborations, 2018–2021
Pixels:
3,000+ minted
Art (all 1 of 1):
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Sold 15 ETH
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