Manifesto

Introduction: People are begging to become cows

Since the beginning of time various religious concepts and technological advancements have been summoned to take the survival burden from an individual. The more we move forward - the less dependence an individual has on its own actions to guarantee its own survival. Starting with religions as the way to offload decision-making responsibility (by creating a basic set of rules dictated by a higher being) and ending with metaphysics-justified engineering efforts to lower bounds of survival means accessibility.

Engineering efforts lead to the creation of two spheres to current existence, the digital and “real world”. The ultimate way to guarantee the unconditional survival is to offload this responsibility to results of these engineering effort - make the existence purely digital.

Unfortunately, even in the current internet, the digital is merely a wrapper around the “real world.” We see this in fundamental limitations or fintech, which lives on socially codified rails.

Cryptocurrencies are the first technology that allows purely digital existence for societies. The most powerful uses of protocols are coordination mechanisms, treating capital as a pure social construct and infinite. We believe that in the limit, cryptocurrencies (at the societal level) and other technologies like social, BCI, etc. (at the personal level) will play a central part in the Convergence.

Practically, this partnership is a limited effort. 2 people can only contribute so much to the larger vision. A more clear heuristic is to maximize the influence towards accelerating this vision, rather than trying to entirely own this transition e2e.

This means the best approach is to start a hands-on venture builder. This concept will be designed as a multi-project entity from the start. However, there should be emphasis on focus and strategic decision making around how to expand scope at every juncture.

The core guiding principles should be highly talented, dense, non-corporate, scrappy, and small. Each project grows from the early seeds. The tree is only as healthy as the seed.

Strategically, to have the best shot at this and achieve the end-goal vision, we need to create a state storage with a pool of liquidity as large as possible that allows for medium-term and long-term distribution of our products, people, and ideals. Such a state storage needs to be credibly neutral and if we believe that cryptocurrency markets and ecosystems are cults of adoption of such credibly neutral state storages, from a global perspective, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana are the largest cults in descending order. Of these options, Bitcoin is vastly the most underserved with the largest greenfield for new players to have massive impact. Ethereum in its turn has the most dynamic liquidity and the largest ecosystem of developers along with the largest demand for blockspace to be satisfied.

This means the strategy to pursue to achieve all the goals mentioned before is to:

1. Bitcoin Staking.

Accumulate the liquidity scattered across Bitcoin for people to be able to sustain themselves through applications being capable to be secured or/and having this liquidity pool available for operations on a zkRollup through either (i) native yield mechanism or (ii) preferred LRT deposit structure.

2. Bitcoin zkRollup.

   In the phrasing of this grander vision, to focus on building with Bitcoin will provide the largest starting advantage in influence and distribution for all future ventures + projects. A Bitcoin L2 not only has the opportunity for product-level technical innovation, but if successful, will provide a platform to allow the insemination of ideals and direction that otherwise are lost in other ecosystem winners (i.e. Arbitrum).

   Also, considering the fact that a Bitcoin ecosystem, developer mindset, etc. are a complete open canvas waiting to be enabled by the persuasive minds amongst its product winners. This also means that Bitcoin’s dormant liquidity, if woken up, can become a pool large enough for people to sustain themselves within itself.

3. Ethereum Programmable Data Availability.

   Another decent source of liquidity could be Ethereum’s ecosystem which is now fragmented and should be reunited. The best approach to achieve this is a combination of a scalable zkRollup (aka =nil;) to prevent further fragmentation and a Programmable Data Availability solution (aka programmable based shared sequencer for Ethereum) to unify already fragmented pieces back via sequencing/building all the transactions/blocks of Ethereum and its rollups via the same high-performant protocol, which would also be secured by Ethereum validators and their stakes as well.

Both solutions seem to be viable, but, though, Bitcoin presents itself as a greener field these days, no matter it is largely undeveloped. This means the sequence of projects to implement would look as follows:

1. Bitcoin Restaking: (Bitcoin Staking)
2. Bitcoin zkRollup (Bitcoin zkRollup)
3. (Optional) Hashrate market secured by a Bitcoin Staking
4. (Optional) Bitcoin finality gadget
5. (Optional) Programmable DA [insert a link in here]