David is a co-founder and CEO who co-founded Permian Labs and USD.AI, a GPU-backed on-chain credit and synthetic-dollar protocol. David's Twitter Score is 312 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #997 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
David co-founded Permian Labs, the developer behind USD.AI, which launched publicly on Arbitrum on August 21, 2025, with over $50 million in deposits accumulated during private beta and a grant from the Arbitrum Foundation. The project raised a $13 million Series A round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Dragonfly, Big Brain Holdings, CMT Digital, Hermeneutic Investments, FWL Capital, and Flowdesk, alongside a separate investment from Coinbase Ventures in October 2025. PayPal and Permian Labs also announced a partnership to back USD.AI with PayPal USD (PYUSD), introducing a customer incentive program offering 4.5% on up to $1 billion in deposits.
David is affiliated with the USD.AI Foundation, announced on January 27, 2026 as the off-chain steward of the USD.AI DAO, with $CHIP serving as the governance token. David's account has published 8,537 posts and has 15,394 followers as of August 2026. David has been mentioned by 60 accounts a total of 112 times.
David's portfolio includes MetaLend, Agent Exchange, Metaverse HQ, Stably, Holograph, nftperp.xyz, Endless Clouds and Pine Protocol.
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