Anthony D'Onofrio ("Texture")
Ethereum's first "community guy"
Texture was the first "community guy", reading the White Paper as one of the very people outside of the initial set of recipients and having his mind blown:
"I actually had envisioned everything in the paper before. I was more blown away by the fact that I found it and Vitalik a week after having the vision" - Texture on Twitter, 29th August 2025
In mid-December 1013, Texture and Vitalik did a live-streamed "Salon Talk" to DCTRL, in Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦
"Texture (Anthony d'Onofrio) is spearheading community development for Ethereum in North America, he has written many works on Decentralized governance & community incubators."
Texture gave two separate "OG" interviews in 2022:
In January of 2025, with dissatisfaction brewing around the Ethereum Foundation, Texture wrote an opinion piece in Coindesk signed off "With Love, Texture":
Love is a common theme for Texture, whose Medium account is:
He used to stand on street corners giving out "free hugs" from what I remember. I'll have to ask him about that!
He posted this in 2018 on the fourth anniversary of the Miami beach house photo:
And, further down the thread he said this, with my own efforts at Maple Syrup diplomacy in full flood at that point:
And, a little later in the month in response to my epic "Calling for an End to Tribalism in Ethereum":
I stuck that epic rant into blog form a few days later:
And that turned into my opening keynote at the very first ETHCC in Paris a week and a half later:
Which I opened with the epic "Ethereum - Your Turn" with voiceover by the aforementioned Charles Hoskinson:
References
There are references to Texture in the following articles: