Jack DishmanFounder · Engineer · Craftsman
What is good,I'm Jack Dishman
I built Clanker, a bootstrapped token launchpad that did $8.4B+ in trading volume and was acquired by Farcaster in under a year. Today I'm Partner & CTO at LienFi, an onchain marketplace for tax liens and tax deeds.
Open to new engagements — Advisory, contract builds, partnerships, and collaborations in AI, agentic workflows, and blockchain. Email me about what you're building.
01Built & building
Selected work
The launchpad Farcaster acquired, the company I help run now, and two side projects on the water.
Past Work · 2024–2025
Clanker
100% bootstrapped—zero VC funding, zero equity sold. Acquired by Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster) in under one year of operation.
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LienFi
Lead technology for an onchain tax lien and tax deed marketplace. Use AI to streamline the underlying alternative investment funds’ workflows, automate repetitive operations, and turn fragmented information into actionable insights.
lienfi.com ↗Side project
Captain's Yacht Club
On-chain boat registry and harbor explorer built with Next.js and Solidity on Base network.
captainsyacht.club ↗Side project
YachtLog
Helping my cousin, a chief engineer, build a yacht operations platform that brings logbooks, machinery maintenance, crew worklists, inventory, and vessel documents into one place.
yachtlog.tech ↗02Essays & field notes
Writing
Thoughts on engineering, startups, life lessons, and rebuilding a family cabin in Maine. Subscribe to get new posts, and unlock subscriber-only writing.
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The flip of a coin
off the cuff take on the downsides of tokens in the attention economy
Building Agents That Scale
Hard-won lessons on event-driven agent architecture: how to design agents that are cheap to run, resilient under load, and easy to extend.
The Payment Layer for Autonomous Agents
Exploring the infrastructure that enables AI agents to transact autonomously -from Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol to crypto-native payment rails.
03Talks & conversations
Speaking
Conversations and talks on building, decentralized social, and token infrastructure.
Seed Club on 11AM
11AM Show
Permissionless
Uniswap House, NYC
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Blogchain
Nearcon · Lisbon, Portugal
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04Collected words
Press
Coverage of the work, written by people who aren't me.
05Experience & exploration
Experience
7+ years building scalable web applications for startups and Fortune 500 companies.
- Present
Partner & CTO
LienFi
Lead technology for an onchain tax lien and tax deed marketplace. Use AI to streamline the underlying alternative investment funds’ workflows, automate repetitive operations, and turn fragmented information into actionable insights.
- October 2025 - May 2026
Software Engineer
Farcaster
Built decentralized social infrastructure at Merkle Manufactory following the Clanker acquisition.
- November 2024 - October 2025
Founder & Engineer
Clanker
Built the top token launchpad on Ethereum-compatible networks without any investors. Acquired and hired by Merkle Manufactory.
Software Engineer
Tokensoft
Extended Solidity token distribution contracts, deployed subgraphs, and optimized AWS infrastructure.
Senior Software Engineer
Authentic Wallet
Built AI chatbot for Sears servicing 4M+ homes, and NFT certificate infrastructure for retail brands.
Lead Frontend Engineer
Capsule Social
Architected decentralized social media platform using Vue.js, IPFS, and NEAR Protocol.
Associate SDE
Publicis Sapient
Developed enterprise Vue.js/React applications for Fortune 500 clients including Altria.
06Foundations
Education
A strong foundation in computer science and mathematics.
Santa Clara University
Bachelor's of Science
Computer Science & Mathematics