Muslim | Building @animebento
Dallas, TX
Joined November 2011
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Last week I wrapped up my time at Movement as Head of DevRel/AI after submitting my resignation.
Wild 2.5 years, but I couldn't imagine doing it with any other team
That said I am on the hunt for a new role! Looking at Devrel, Prod Eng, FDE roles
More below on my work 👇
Dude WHAT
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
rahat retweeted
In the history of house niggarism as a discipline, there’s no bigger house nigga for the EF than how Binji tries to be. Jeez. You can always rely on him to show up with biggest cope designed to keep the rest of niggas in line. We’re in the “infinite plantation” we know who our overlords are. Please don’t gaslight us, Binji.
Quick ideas that maybe useful:
> find power users
> focus groups with power users and all devs/researchers
> post findings frequently and allow for public criticism, for better or worse, @X is likely the best place to do it, and also make an effort to TRANSLATE this shit, legit can run a prompt to create analogies to help people understand concepts, LLMs are made to pattern match like this and we should leverage that to summarize it so users actually know what the fuck people are talking about
> adventurous: protocol level hackathons with prizes that allow anyone to enter, I literally say @aerugoettinea chadding it up on a @yukonresearch contest with Astra support the other day lol, a hackathon could bring new interest in general, decentralization is only as powerful as the next generation that inherit it and wishes to maintain it so it’s good to open the doors for that generation
> more casual social hangouts imo, antagonism is mostly eroded by shared understanding, there’s a human layer here that may help
anyway, I don’t know shit, not a protocol guy, I’m not even a dev really, but I do tend to believe, however foolishly it may be, that we cab bridge things and get a stronger protocol by literally communicating in and outside of our circles.
Got Two 30th Anniversary ETBS and a Prismatic Evolutions. Might do a live stream rip session next week 👀
Does anyone still leetcode?
Have been enjoying the design system focus in these interviews so far
In Sha Allah news soon 🤲
Vifi is doing incredible work in bringing FX onchain
Live on Base Sepolia and Arc testnet
You can move a billion dollars onchain in seconds. You still can't move a million dollars into naira, pesos or shillings the same way.
ViFi is onchain FX built on Uniswap v4 hooks. Our testnet is live today on Base Sepolia and Arc Testnet.
Try it: app.vifilabs.xyz
You run into this pretty fast when you are building for consumers.
We had this happen when we launched Bento Anime at Anime NYC but when we actually did the demo and explained some stuff most people ended up liking it.
People are going to crave that human touch all the time
rahat retweeted
A note to those building on chain in 2026:
vibe coding + high code velocity + bull market pace + rapid TVL growth = bugs galore
we see many teams building skyscrapers on sand with a "fix it later" mentality
initially this works and they think they are geniuses
... but eventually
someone will find the big, protocol wrecking, critical bug
capital flight and brand destruction happens overnight
entire savings lost, lives ruined financially, lawsuits filed, death threats received
i've seen it happen time and time again and it will happen to YOU if this is your approach to building on the blockchain
riptide's recommendations:
1) find a balance between securing the code and shipping fast. the security strategy should not be to push critical fixes like OTA updates for an XBOX game when any significant TVL is at risk.
2) invest in top tier human security talent. AI + expert SRs are a force multiplier. get a team that builds with a security first mindset from day 1.
3) properly incentivize responsible disclosure and treat your whitehats like kings. they are your last defense and will go out of their way to ensure your success if treated well
remember that you may only get one shot at building a successful project that makes you millions of dollars ...
best of luck anon
Updated the portfolio a bit and found some content/demos/workshops I liked from over the years. Nice little memory lane trip
Might need to rebuild my livekit demo with this and see who's better at routing customer calls
