Disruption Joe

Joe is the Head of Decentralization at Thrive Protocol, where Joe focuses on fostering collaboration within the blockchain ecosystem.

Joe's expertise spans strategy, operations management, growth strategies, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

At Thrive Protocol, Joe delivered over 5 million ARB in grants to more than 400 grantees, significantly attracting new smart contract deployments and protocols to Arbitrum. Joe also provided initial funding for key initiatives like STIP, STEP, and ADPC, alongside community-building programs such as GovMonth and SheFi sponsorship.

Previously, Joe was the Founder of Plurality Labs and served at Gitcoin as the Fraud Detection & Defense Workstream Lead, protecting quadratic funding from fraud, and as a Senior Business Operations Manager focusing on growth marketing. Joe also founded the Chicago Blockchain Project and Voice of Blockchain, contributing to the development of the blockchain community in Chicago.

Currently, Joe is dedicated to accelerating the shift from a competitive to a collaborative economic paradigm, leveraging the promise of blockchain for a future guided by "rules without rulers."

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