Prospective fund manager — and the Hedera conversation
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In discussion with Jonathan Hare regarding the Consilient Meta Fund and the launch strategy. The May 2026 sessions in the archive are where the Hedera anchor thesis was worked out in conversation.
The June 2026 reintroduction is now on the record in full (S-074, S-075, published at Hare's direction with contact details redacted): Singer's note to James Kaplan — including the line that if this turns out to be a big deal, he didn't want to be the one who knew and didn't flag it — Kaplan's immediate yes, and the ninety-minute birthday meeting of June 15th. The 2024 thread carries Hare's contemporaneous disclosure that Singer, a Stanford GSB friend who had tracked the work for years and had Paul Arnold meet the NEA backers, had become a personal investor in WebShield. Hare states he gave Singer notice of this publication; Singer's own account, as ever, would be carried on identical terms.
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The argument as put to him: Hedera has the token platform needed for financing, for the Privacy Network Exchange and for the derivatives; its council members and strategic partners run live deployments that can be repurposed dual-use; and it is open source, so nothing requires board approval to begin.
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