Takeshi Ohishi is a product builder and co-founder of Tané, a crypto-focused investment research firm operating across research, validator operations, and DAO governance. Takeshi's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #37,093 (top 10%) among 493,607 tracked accounts.
Takeshi co-founded Tané, which raised about $8 million from DEEPCORE, X Tech Ventures, DeNA, B Dash Ventures, and private investors in January 2023. The firm runs validator nodes including for dYdX, and acts as a delegate in DAOs including dYdX and Optimism. In May 2024, Andreessen Horowitz delegated 1 million OP tokens to Tané for participation in Optimism governance.
Takeshi represents Tané as a delegate in the Uniswap DAO, collaborating on proposals including Treasury Delegation Round 2, and is affiliated with the Arbitrum DAO. His governance work has included reviewing Optimism grant proposals, contributing to Lido governance proposals, and serving as the main operational lead for Tané's participation in the Optimism Anticapture Commission. In February 2024, he co-authored a draft Arbitrum proposal to establish an Orbit Advocate role.
Takeshi previously worked at SmartNews as a senior product manager, and formerly at Twitter and DeNA as a backend and iOS software engineer. Takeshi's account has published 17,900 posts and has been mentioned by 3 accounts across 3 total mentions.
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