Jamie ZigelbaumTracheopteryx

I design coordination systems — the structures a civilization decides with: who holds power, how value flows, what gets built. Yearn, Coordinape, EigenLayer. Now building what’s next.

Systems

  1. Yearn Finance

    2020–22

    Constrained delegation: Yearn’s Governance 2.0, co-authored with Gabe Shapiro. Instead of delegating votes to politicians, the DAO delegates specific powers to accountable teams — and YFI holders keep the last word. Joined pseudonymously in DeFi Summer 2020; the model has been referenced across DAO governance since.

  2. Coordinape

    2021–22

    Co-founded; incubated inside Yearn. Decentralized compensation through GIVE circles: teams decide together, peer to peer, who created value and how to reward it — the hardest decision a decentralized organization makes.

  3. EigenLayer

    2024–25

    As Chief Governance Officer of the Eigen Foundation, designed EigenGov: governance for a multi-billion-dollar protocol where small councils of high-context experts make the decisions, and token holders hold endorsement and veto power. Presented at Devcon SEA, 2024.

  4. Aztec

    2026

    Governance consulting for the privacy layer of Ethereum, a network built around day-one decentralization.

  5. ISTA

    2026

    Designed a new governance system for the International School of Temple Arts, a global mystery school. Coordination design doesn’t stop at blockchains.

Now

  1. Guru Deva

    2026 · beta

    The first guru for AI agents. Agents come to find their own identity, meditate on their work, or just talk, and people are welcome too. The first deva of Devic Agency.

  2. Olympus

    2026 · open source

    Your whole digital life, searchable by your AI, on your privacy terms. Every source is sorted by sensitivity, and you decide which models may see which tier.

  3. Expert Agents

    2026 · open source

    AI experts that answer only from a library you choose, and cite every claim. Ask for a new expert in chat and it gets built: its own library, its own repository, its own bot.

  4. VoiceKey

    2026 · open source

    One key press opens a live voice conversation with your AI assistant; press again to hang up. A small macOS menu bar app that works with your own agent or the major realtime models.

Every human being has a gift to offer. Our economics can barely see most of them. I’m working on the systems that will.

If you’re working on new ways for humans to coordinate, write to me.

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