Who am I?
Hey, I'm Jangle (Jonathan Angle).
Currently, I'm at Balaji's first Network State node, the Network School , exploring how cloud communities can come together in the physical world for collective action.
I was nerd sniped by DeFi the day I learned that turing complete code could be published to a blockchain network with decentralized consensus.
Since then I've launched and exited my own DeFi consultancy and served as an Analyst for Truffle Ventures where my main job was communicating deal flow to members of the syndicate and assisting them with implementing DeFi strategies.
Need help with your project? I can assist with DevRel, Customer Success Engineering, and DeFi Research. Links to my email, telegram, and other socials are above.
Things I Believe
- I believe in freedom, property rights, and permissionless human coordination.
- Money should not be controlled by nation states. It should either be issued privately or by decentralized, credibly neutral, public networks.
- Crypto is the most important freedom preserving technology to work on this century.
- Internet capital markets will force massive currency competition by dismantling capital controls and introducing alternatives with non-discretionary monetary policy.
- The proliferation of dollar stablecoins on public blockchains will cause many fiat currencies to collapse into the dollar. That's great for the dollar and the world, but ultimately, nothing stops the US fiscal trainwreck.
- I gave my life to Christ at the age of 25, I believe God has a job for all of us, and to love God is to embrace His will and abhor evil.
For Fun!
My favorite thing to do (other than yap about DeFi) is snowboarding. My main hobby is weightlifting. I also enjoy Muay Thai.
I used to love video games.
Like many in the onchain economy, when I was young I played a lot of World of Warcraft. My brother would let me play on his account when I was around 8 years old. So began my journey into internet capital markets.
I was fascinated by the auction house, why raw materials would fluctuate in price, and the exchange rate between USD and gold on different realms. At age 15 I'd go on to be the Guild Master of a PvP guild that would rank top 15 in our NA East battlegroup.
I discovered Minecraft around the beta launch sometime in 2010.
Minecraft sparked my interest in computer networking. Back then it was a challenge to play with your friends if you weren't on the same LAN. So I learned the basics of port forwarding, server hosting, and eventually "cloud" hosting (at the time just some other dude's computer) so my friends could all play together (without me having to leave ports open to my LAN).
By 2012 my little faction PvP server had hundreds of MAUs and generated over $1,000 USD profit. Enough runway for Steam games and monthly WoW sub. Great success!
If you've read this far, thanks for your valuable time! Shoot me an email, telegram message, or DM on X if we share interests or you think I can be helpful towards what you are building.