David's work has touched crypto for over a decade, and his passion is working at the ecosystem level to engineer systemic change. In the blockchain industry he's worn a number of hats, including on the founder/CEO side, corporate, philanthropic/public goods funding, event production (conferences, developer residencies and hackathons), a sprinkle of VC, and ecosystem incubation. He is a 4x founder and helped scale another company to 8 digits revenue, in addition to advising three growth-stage companies.

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His work has centered around fundraising, movement-building, and leveraging blockchain technology for socioeconomic transformation. In 2013 he discovered the first real world use case for blockchain technology as applied to his startup at the time - nearly instantaneous, nearly-free, fully permissionless p2p cross border payments anywhere in the world - “email for money”. The first time he deployed a blockchain-based asset or token was on Bitcoin’s Colored Coins Protocol in 2015. David has also worked in the humanitarian and non-profit sectors, led the production of conferences and festivals in over 10 countries, and has spoken publicly in 25 countries.