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title: "ConsenSys — Strategy & Operations"
role: "Strategy & Operations"
startDate: 2017
endDate: 2018
url: https://dazuck.com/work/consensys
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# ConsenSys — Strategy & Operations

The pivot chapter. Danny stopped trying to solve coordination at the application layer (ed-tech) and started trying to change the substrate underneath. Every subsequent role is at the substrate layer.

The visible reframe ("political, not technical") is the public version. The deeper move is architectural: identity is political infrastructure, not technical.

The "speculation dressed up as revolution" line is the opening of [Joining ConsenSys and Decentra-mania](/writing/joining-consensys-and-decentra-mania), where the full thinking lives.

Companion essays:
- [Identity as Information](/writing/identity-as-information)
- [Demystifying Digital Identity](/writing/demystifying-digital-identity)
- [Identity Theft](/writing/identity-theft)

_ConsenSys → 3Box: A year inside ConsenSys gave me the conviction to bet the rest of my career on identity. It needed its own company._

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