I was twelve when I got my first laptop. It would start overheating after a few hours. I remember vividly how it would burn my legs after a while as I placed it on my lap, forcing me to take a break.
With that melting laptop, I'd play World of Warcraft, which ended up paying for lunch. It didn't take long to realize the internet wasn't just a place to consume things. It was a place to create.
Supply and Demand
My first real business at 13 was selling premium digital currency from an MMO game at a 2x markup, which you could only buy with a credit card. Which parent would let their kid spend $10 on some pixels on the screen with their card? Most would never let their kids do so, neither mine, so I became the middleman to pay for my own supply and provide my friends a service.
At some point, I had employees paid in such currency and a referral system that would reach other schools and playgrounds.
I learned supply and demand.
Precision
I joined the Spanish Air Force as a paratrooper. Later I flew commercial as an airline pilot. Two careers built on the same principle: execute precisely or people get hurt. No margin for error. No second chances at altitude.
While serving, I built mining rigs when Bitcoin still needed explaining at dinner. I still wasn't able to convince my close ones to get any. Spent most of my free time reading fantasy and sci-fi. Over 1,000 books.
The Coordination Layer
Moved through fintech, DAOs, NFTs, crypto communities. Not just to make a living, but trying to understand what was structurally real underneath. What I found was a new coordination layer: borderless and permissionless.
Built, succeeded, and failed at countless ventures. Traveled the world and obsessed over my personal and business growth.
Onchain
2020 changed the trajectory. Trading communities and lockdown nights turned a side interest into a full commitment. I went onchain and never came back.
I was elected to the executive board of a stakeholder-governed Ethereum protocol. Eight-figure treasury. We scaled to $200M+ in total value locked and generated $20M in revenue in under a year. I ran thesis and allocation on an $800K position that returned $7M through to liquidation.
I co-founded a fintech venture. We hit 550+ paying customers in 90 days on a $5k marketing budget. Then I joined the Onchain Foundation research and brand arm, formerly Lisk Foundation, one of the largest ICOs in blockchain history (14,000 BTC raised, $1B+ peak market cap). Built its growth engine from zero.
Represented the foundation globally at Token2049 Singapore, Token2049 Dubai, Paris Blockchain Week, Barcelona Blockchain Week, and NFT Paris. Delivered the keynote at NFT NYC and featured panels at NFT Miami.
The Tools Changed
I consulted an AI business for the first time in 2023. A year later I built my first AI agent. Tried to automate my social media, failed. The output was terrible.
Blinked, and now we're here.
The gap between an idea and something that actually works has never been smaller.
We're living through a structural shift. No matter how fast you move, the frontier moves faster. We're accelerating toward something we can't yet fathom.
Dantian
At EthCC[9] in Cannes I entered my first hackathon. Six hours, solo, blank page to working product. I ended up a finalist and brought home a cash prize. The same day, I founded Dantian.
Dantian is an AI research company engineering the future of human and synthetic integration. Not replacing humans with AI. Not bolting chatbots onto workflows. Engineering the interface layer where human judgment and machine capability compound each other.
Blockchain gave me the values. AI gives me the tools. Dantian is where both meet.
Still building. — J.