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I surf waves. Occasionally both at the same time. Right now I'm building onchain infrastructure — moving money through <a href="https://shaka.deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>shaka</a>, and the identity layer names run on. 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It needs two things to hold: <em data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>value that moves</em>, and <em data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>names that prove who's behind them</em>.</h2><p class="thesis-p" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Everything I build sits on that idea. Money should settle between parties without a middleman holding it hostage. And a name — the thing you're known by — should be owned by you, answer only to you, and be impossible to fake. Get those two right and the rest of the onchain world has something solid to stand on.</p></div></section><!-- ============ SURF HINGE ============ --><section class="hinge" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><div class="wrap" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><p class="hinge-line" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>I read waves long before I read chains. <span data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Both reward whoever sees the set coming.</span></p></div></section><!-- ============ PILLARS ============ --><section class="pillars" id="work-teaser" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><div class="wrap" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><div class="pillars-grid" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><a href="/work/" class="pillar" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><span class="pillar-n" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>01</span><h3 data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Value that moves</h3><p data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>One payment in, every party paid at once — settled onchain, instant, irrevocable. No intermediary sitting on the funds.</p><span class="pillar-go" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>see how <span class="arrow" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>→</span></span></a><a href="/work/" class="pillar" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><span class="pillar-n" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>02</span><h3 data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>The identity layer</h3><p data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>A name that carries a live onchain identity — verifiable by anyone, forgeable by no one. For agents, and for humans.</p><span class="pillar-go" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>see how <span class="arrow" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>→</span></span></a><a href="/work/" class="pillar" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><span class="pillar-n" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>03</span><h3 data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Sovereign namespaces</h3><p data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Whole namespaces minted onchain and held as infrastructure — for a State, for a scene. Permanent, resolving, never rented.</p><span class="pillar-go" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>see how <span class="arrow" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>→</span></span></a></div></div></section><!-- ============ BRIDGE TO WORK ============ --><section class="bridge" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><div class="wrap" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><a href="/work/" class="bridge-card" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><div class="bridge-copy" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme><span class="bridge-eyebrow" data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>the full path</span><h3 data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>The whole path — <em data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>the money, and the names</em>.</h3><p data-astro-cid-lcdefpme>Two decades in digital, now building onchain: a payment router that moves value, and a sovereign namespace a State can own. 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