Hey everyone, going to post a bit about myself since I'm starting to take Farcaster seriously. I'm one of the cofounders and am the CTO of Superposition, a layer 3 Arbitrum Orbit chain that pays you for interacting with it and its native dapps. These native apps include a prediction market, 9lives (https://9lives.so), and a AMM, Longtail (https://long.so - though this runs in a reduced form at present). We're going to be releasing a DEX in the future titled Longtail Pro that works with smart accounts and functions like a sort of cross-chain liquidity hub.

I've been in web3 for some time, with my first exposure being around the mid 2010s after reading the Bitcoin whitepaper and doing some small scale Bitcoin mining with a few guys. I got into things more seriously around 2017, and my good friends and associates Erik, Ivan, Yoel, and my co-founder Shahmeer and I became acquainted roughly around that time. I studied and dropped out of corporate finance, but prior to that I was working as a programmer and tech lead, building around local needs I perceived at the time and with local startups.

I have a number of programming and entrepreneurial interests that mostly revolve around web3. I'm maintaining and writing a newsletter, Stylus Saturdays (https://stylus-saturdays.com), where I'm developing tooling in the Arbitrum space. The newest post will be about using Stylus in RISC-V. I'm also writing an introduction to using Rust for smart contracts, https://rust-for-smart-contracts.com. I'm developing a one-click Orderbook as part of a grant the Arbitrum DAO have given me, which you can sign up interest for at https://orderbookkit.xyz.

I want to build inclusive and antifragile systems, and I believe in the potential of web3 to facilitate that mission. One of my earlier projects, Fluidity Money (https://fluidity.money) was an experiment with how far we could push emergent behaviour if we created a value neutral technology that rewarded people for creating utility on-chain, without regard for the wealthiest or the poorest. We designed a no-loss lottery technology that rewarded people for every transaction they made using a randomness system. The goal was that people from poorer parts of the world could use our technology and make an insignificant amount in the western world ($3 sometimes) without changing their habits by simply using our platform for payment. Looking back, we didn't accomplish the social goals of the mission, but we learned a lot. We learned the lessons and studied the painpoints we experienced, and that led us to Superposition. Anyway, please follow me!

My native city of Adelaide, which I care for deeply (even as I live as a nomad today) is suffering from success in a sense. An ideal system is like a phase transaction, constantly teetering over the edge of becoming a fully chaotic environment, but never crossing over completely. This system must be constantly refitting and restructuring to tolerate its environment, or else it's at danger of regressing and become a structure that benefits the established beneficiaries, not entrepreneurs that must always reinvent it to ensure its survival. Trying to make something of myself without depending on the traditional employment route, I became increasingly frustrated with the self-serving and uncreative attitude of the established entrepreneur class in my city, which led me to web3.

I'm in web3 because of my interest in emergent complexity. Emergently complex systems are complicated systems that emerge from simple parts interacting with each other. Emergent systems can include the emergence of currency from barter, credit, the sexual market, and more. In my view, web3 is the ideal medium to build these structures with, due to the natural transaction atomicity in the programming environment of smart contracts. It's easy to build experiences that stack on each other in a way that simply isn't feasible in web2. The study of these systems is known as complexity theory. Emergent complex systems in practice for us are systems that are "antifragile", they are sufficiently decentralised enough that they withstand shocks that erupt in their environment. To us, this means a more stable financial system, and a more dynamic social framework.