Mattie Fairchild
@Scav
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High agency cyberpunk. Queen of Wands. Head of Founder DevRel @0xPolygon
Joined November 2008
When I joined Polygon, one of the first things I wrote was this document. It's incredibly important to me, because it's about what's important to me. I share it with every new member who joins my team. A User's Guide to Working with Mattie
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The Epic/Fortnite conspiracy theories are silly. Name one time an accomplished developer made one of the most important games of all time, used it to build their digital store, then stopped making sequels because there is more money to be made running the store and selling hats.
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Optimism is sponsoring $25K in bounties for @EthereumDenver hackathoners! Come build stuff. The bounties: Use Optimism's identity primitive to create an attestation tool, app, or visualization. Full details: Getting started kit:
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Dating in San Francisco is wild because people are generally cool when you tell them you’re trans but when you say you work in crypto, they act like you just placed a jar with a tiny preserved hand on the table.
went to music practice, guy asked what i do. “i work in crypto”.“….oh…”.
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Really excited to share that I'm joining @0xPolygon as Head of Founders Community! The team's combining community, devrel, and grant operations to grow a thriving community of builders that includes dapp devs on @AggLayer, entrepreneurs spinning up new businesses, and established.
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@petergyang “Here are a bunch of ingredients in my fridge. What are some recipe ideas?”. I do this 2-3x per week and I love it. Lots of useful modifier and followup options. Often good, though some disasters. I now just buy whatever groceries look good and figure it out later.
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I’ve worked at six tech companies in my career. There are, right now, more women in leadership positions at Optimism than there were in all the previous five *combined*. And it’s amazing.
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I am SO excited to share that I've joined @OPLabsPBC as Head of Developer Relations to grow the developer community for @OptimismFND.
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Got off the plane in Denver and a hipster-type dude handed me this very tiny little guy, and somehow he *wasn’t* here for the crypto conference
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We are HIRING. If any of the phrases “build the beating heart of DeFi”, “seeing yields everywhere at the same time”, and “shitpost with purpose” resonate with you, I want to chat. If they ALL resonate, I *really* want to chat. DMs open.
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I’m really frustrated by the mentality of “you did not support me, therefore my app/token/product failed.” Even more so by “you did not support me, therefore you don’t support anyone.”. Protocols should work like hell to put founders in the best position to be successful. But the.
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Have I mentioned it’s my birthday? Because it’s my birthday, and getting to do this with @shefiorg and the panelists and the audience and @0xPolygon is so incredibly what I wanted
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility. This thread has always been a happy one for me. I love today. But this year is also different: it’s much scarier. It’s the first I’ve seriously thought about “stealth”. Not for transition reasons, but for safety. I often say I want my transness
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Today is Trans Day of Visibility. I often strive for ‘trans’ to be the fourth most interesting thing about me. I don’t lead with it, but it’s there, and it’s one of the best things I’ve done. #TDOV is a day for sharing that, so here is a first for me: a transition timeline.
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We talked a little grants. They’re all in one place 👇 go have fun (or be really serious, which can also work)
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️. Something I’ve heard from a lot of friends this year, including some who’ve known me for decades, is they feel they’re meeting me for the first time. They always smile when they say it, and so do I.
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Finally bought Girl Scout cookies irl with crypto at ETHDenver! All it took was:. - Scan QR code to open Coinbase wallet.- Realize I don’t have base usdc.- Get event wifi working because loading multiple pages on cellular was getting rough.- Get usdc purchase rejected by Apple.
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Oh hey, it's an "in personal news" post 🙂 last week was my last at @OPLabsPBC, and I'm feeling thankful, wistful, excited, thoughtful, and proud. And, of course, *wildly* optimistic. While I'd jumped head-first into web3 with my previous gigs, it was at OP Labs that I found my
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Dear men, what’s preventing your crypto conference from looking like this?
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Not a lot of people know this but Palace of Fine Arts is actually an exact model of where the Ancient Greeks launched their first memecoins
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The @BoysClubWorld podcast episode on rage bait taught me that pissing half of us off is the point. They won't pull the ad because this response is what they wanted. What I didn't expect, though, was how good it feels to see crypto twitter isn't as desolate on trans issues as.
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REALLY excited to share that I've joined Manticore Games as their Head of Developer Relations. @fdescamps and their team run possibly the best demo I've ever seen. Devs, modders, content creators, get at me, because this is going to be fun :).
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I come from a family of crisis consultants. My Dad was who you call when you were summoned before 60 Minutes. My mom was who you call when a serial killer dumps bodies behind your frozen yogurt chain. I learned a career at the dinner table absorbing their stories. Here are the.
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I’m occasionally asked the best ways to use Discord, and more and more the answer is “don’t”.
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It’s #TransDayOfVisibility and so here is my favorite pic from the past year. Even *having* a favorite pic feels unusual, but I love being out, visible, and a bit more seen each day. It’s a great feeling, and I hope everyone who wants it can experience it.
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YouTube wants to figure out how to be Twitch before Twitch figures out how to be Discord before Discord figures out how to be Steam before Steam figures out how to be everything.
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April Fools Day is broken. The jokes suck. The spirit is empty. But we can fix it:. April Fools Day should be a costume holiday. A spring equinox celebration of tricksters and rebirth. Halloween’s vernal fraternal twin. One is All Hallows Eve. The other is All Fools Day.
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There’s already a 40+ in crypto group chat we call it email.
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If there are two or more @BoysClubWorld members at one event they WILL find one another every time
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If anyone wants to talk about working with @0xPolygon and how to build with OP Stack, I know a thing or two 🙂.
Big Announcement!. Agglayer CDK goes Multistack!. Today we’re adding OP Stack to CDK, a new way to build aggregated chains with native Agglayer interop. When we first launched CDK, it was built with the understanding that developers needed freedom to choose the tools that fit
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2.7M POL for memecoins? In this economy?.
Gitcoin is unleashing the ultimate AI memecoin battle royale for the PCGP ⚔️. The stakes are high and 2.7M POL will be distributed to teams innovating with AI memecoins. Four weeks. Enter the arena:
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Redacted would be a beautiful name for a baby girl.
POL Value Accrual #2. Introducing the Agglayer Breakout Program–built to incubate aggregated chains, bootstrapping network effects on Agglayer while driving value to POL stakers via airdrops 🪂. The first cohort:.• @PrivadoID .• @0xPolygonMiden .• [redacted]
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On my way to Devcon! Haven’t been to a Devcon proper yet, but I was at Devconnect last year. My understanding is they’re similar, just one has hundreds of adorable cats spread all over the city and I’m assuming the other centralizes the cats in one place.
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Got to explain the Superchain architecture at @a16zcrypto’s crypto startup school with a very technical diagram
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Yooooo @vex_0x parachuting into Lisbon and taking a top ten prize at @ETHGlobal . Optimism projects made up a third of all finalists, too 😁 epic weekend, more wrapup soon
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The Polygon community is rapidly evolving but will always stay true to its roots of pushing technology to the edges of human coordination 🫡.
Our Polygon community group (Polygoons) will no longer be associated with gooning. 💦. We are the AggFam. The Guardians of the AggLayer. 🧵1/7
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ETHDenver peeps, I’ll be at the @OptimismFND @OPLabsPBC booth today until 12:30 MST. Come say hi!. Head down rainbow road until you see a wall of plants and flowers spelling OP (seriously ✨)
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It's been an emotional day to cap quite a year! Really honored for this and feeling thankful for my team, the @CoreGames creator community, @CMX, and to @DavidSpinks for the kind words. Calling it - 2022 is going to be an excellent year :).
We are thrilled to share that our Head of Creator Relations, Mattie Fairchild, has been awarded "Community Professional of the Year - Gaming Community" in the @CMX 2022 Community Industry Awards!. Congratulations @Scav!
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I am learning SO MUCH about our team by what they do on the Minecraft server. @silkychicken: Turned spawn into a well-designed wonderland inhabited by every animal.@Llama_Juice: created a people farm that mass produces people.@renony: built a death pyramid.@SmashGizmo:
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Boys Club x Polygon has been my dream ship 💖.
Last but not least shout out to @provenauthority and @Scav, two Boys Club OGs who are also in the Polygon ecosystem. Without them Boys Club would not be what it is today and wlySM too.
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I think my slide that reads “WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES?” is staying in.
Tomorrow, we kick off with @Scav discussing why we even do this thing: hackathons. Hackathons are special and speak to the builder/creator side of everyone. We're excited to welcome such a distinguished builder as Mattie to the summit stage!
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I'll be on this! Or my doppleagent will. Either way, come hang and talk AI grant funding.
🎙️ The Rise of AI Agents. We're talking AI x builders x infra x grant tracks with @gitcoin, @ai16zdao, and @crossmint. Tomorrow, 10:00am et.
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Some priorities post-Denver:. - Launch several kickass hackathons.- Publish a few dozen Big Ideas for devs to hack.- Scale the OPLabs devrel team.- Establish April Fools as a spring equinox costume partying holiday because Halloween alone is not enough.
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.@Smokey_titan is an absolute beast. Thanks to him, Founders working with Polygon’s community team get a) community growth help b) meme help and c) tips to be healthier, happier, and after all that, wiser.
Shout out to @Smokey_titan at Polygon. He was one of the first people I ever heard say memecoins would onboard the next billion users to blockchain. Boy was he right. heck I just got re-onboarded to the Cardano ecosystem via $CHAD. Also, found love with community again via
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A quick technical explainer for blobs: These are called “sidecars” which means instead of being in the block they contain 1.5oz cognac, 3/4oz orange liqueur, 3/4oz lemon juice, and 128kB of data.
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I didn’t expect that I would desperately want hardware wallet that combines the design aesthetic of a credit card and a condom, but here we are.
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Not a lot of people know this, but a big reason Texas fosters a culture of independence is it’s actually written into the Texas constitution that POL can succeed at any time.
While ETH is not made in America, I’m glad that my parents were living in the great State of Texas when my mother gave birth to me so that POL can again rise up alongside ETH in the face of it American born alternatives.
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The more founders I talk to, the more I believe being on just one chain - with no plan to expand - is a red flag, in the same way that basing 100% of your user acquisition on Facebook is a flag. It might be working, but if the winds change, you’re vulnerable.
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Today, I am astoundingly happy. It’s been hard, euphoric, disorienting, exciting, confusing, and yet right every step of the journey. I have the good fortune to live in a place, a community, an industry, and a year where the world enthusiastically welcomes me into it as Mattie -
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A #NationalComingOutDay reminder that you probably have a trans friend, you just might not know who yet. They might not know either! But when they do come out, and you embrace this person they always wanted to be, it will quickly become like they always were. And it will be great
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I admit, I was surprised with the early chats. Polygon's been through a LOT of change, and I'm as Superchain-pilled as ever. But with every person I talked to, every stage of the interview, and every deep dive, it felt like a giant simmering vat of potential energy ready to go.
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We’ve been quietly reworking the Polygon founder experience and it might be time to be less quiet about it. - “No ghosting” policy. If you apply for a grant, @degenrsc will make sure you get feedback no matter what the outcome. - Join @bitfalls dev dogfooding program and.
Absolute gamechanger in web3. @0xPolygon once again reaffirming itself as the platform to build on, with absolutely priceless levels of support. Nowhere else can a builder get real users of varying technical skill who provide real over the shoulder feedback.
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Woke up to the news that we’ve depegged from Daylight Savings Time by a whole hour.
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Come build REALLY COOL STUFF with me and @optimismFND in Lisbon!. - $20K in bounties.- Hack identity, and heck, just hack the whole OP Stack.- Freshly brewed @kelvinfichter workshop and hot takes.- It's Portugal, come hang with us in PORTUGAL, it'll be rad.
bd (bom dia). Optimism is headed to lovely Lisboa from May 11-14 for @ETHGlobal Lisbon. We're putting up $20k in hackathon prizes, so come hack on the OP Stack & enjoy some pastel de nata. Full details, including who'll be there & hackathon prize list at
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FRIENDS, my team is hiring for three roles. Come help the most badass people you’ve ever met build the coolest shit you’ve ever seen. Lead Solutions Architect: Tech writer: Manager, Developer Support:
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Interop dream panel starting now with @0xPolygon @OPLabsPBC @zksync @SuccinctLabs @OffchainLabs and @l2beat
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We want Polygon to be the best Founder Experience across crypto, which means providing resources, and also -- importantly -- getting feedback!. Memecoin and AI builders, share your thoughts with Gitcoin below on what you'd like to see in Round 4 👇.
We’re evolving the @0xPolygon Sentient Memecoin Royale - and we want your input before Round 4 kicks off!. What we’re trying to achieve:. 🔹 Activate new founders building on Polygon.🔹Create community engagement.🔹Reinvigorate the memecoin economy. What metrics should we track
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🎶the boys are back in town 🎶. (The town is Istanbul and the boys are @BoysClubWorld). Many ❤️s and thanks to @gulbuke_ and Luki for making it happen!
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If you're looking for a long weekend hack to rabbit hole on, we've curated *literally one hundred* ideas, specs, and RFPs for projects that are wanted/needed/yearned for by the Optimism Collective!. And if you're already working on one, get in touch 😎.
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Thanks to @annieYke for the photo and @ETHGlobal for the mic 😁. If you’re hacking in Lisbon - find me or @kelvinfichter in person for some testnet eth 🤔
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Polygon community group chat is talking about having a 70s-style "private keys party" and I fear what we've wrought.
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Reporting for duty 🫡.
could not be happier to welcome these legends to the marketing/community team at @0xPolygon . @Scav - dir of founders community.@GianTheRios - growth marketing manager.@FmrSmrt - dir of protocol & research community. It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
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Dating in San Francisco means starting the date learning he works in VC and biotech, and over the course of the date realizing he’s bootstrapping his startup by creating a clone army of attack dogs for the US government.
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Crypto's cultural moment just dropped and holy hell it's incredible to see it LIVE. It's a physical zine, digital mag, new ad formats, free NFT, community spotlight, decentralized distro. Literally a year+ of planning, creativity, and execution by @BoysClubCrypto . LFG.
You've never met a Zine like this before. Mint it to capture the moment. ILY @opensea, @ledger, @LensProtocol & @CeloOrg for helping make this happen.
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Come work on my team!. - Define and lead marketing for an all-in-one metaverse platform.- Work with huge NFT communities like @MekaVerse, @0n1Force, and many not-yet-announced .- See in advance (and bring about) what everyone's going to be doing in a year.
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Finally settled at home after a remarkable @EFDevcon. Couldn’t have asked for a more amazing way to get introduced to the @0xPolygon team than to see each of them absolutely crushing. - @shovelandstone and events team maestro conducting a two-day, four-floor summit that felt.
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Working on a theory that rage bait is the memecoins of marketing.
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Ready for hacking in Lisbon! Find me at the Optimism booth or while I’m roaming around. I’ll also be jumping on main stage tonight for v important bounty information 😎
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Lots of complex feelings about this, but above all, I'm tremendously happy that you can play Icons again :) a lot of folks worked hard to make it happen, and I'll forever be thankful. See y'all in lobby tonight.
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My rule of thumb when you’re getting startup advice is when anyone tells you “the only that matters is XYZ” (product, or marketing, or distribution), they’re usually just telling you what they messed up most recently.
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