Doki Labs 😈

my crypto lore > be me > orphaned & adopted at 2 > sent to boarding school at 11 > favorite professor shares @lessig's “code is law” > end up cypherpunk pilled > study entrepreneurship at nyu > meet some OG bitcoiners & @consensys folks > mint ETH > "wow i have some money" > spend too much of it > regret™ > massive earthquake hits Nepal > realize you can just do things > move to the Himalayas to volunteer > 180º my life & mindset > wutnow.jpg > go to grad school > found first startup > "let's see what crypto is up to" > dust off ledger > 2018 ICO boom > degen on easy mode for a bit > exit startup > start working at @avax > meet @kaitrias at conference > pill him on leaving microsoft for crypto > we build @dokisofficial in stealth > meet @zen_llama on snowboard trip in japan > have some based convos > meet @nickpreszler > join him at @nodekitorg > have idea for permissionless prediction platform > get friends together > @meleemarkets is born > launch private alpha prototype > people think it's just a prediction market on a bonding curve > actually building the most novel primitive since uniswap > v1 coming soon > job's not finished what's your story?

Before @meleemarkets, we studied virality by quietly bootstrapping @dokisofficial. 55 million+ views, 215K followers, ~4 million likes. All without a single NFT or token (yet). I don't talk too much about @dokisofficial, but we absolutely have big plans for it. First, we'll take cues from @madlads and connect it to a revolutionary crypto native consumer app in @meleemarkets. Second, we'll use the @pudgypenguins formula to build the world's next viral IP and a Unicorn crypto asset. Put all this together and you get a massive distribution channel flowing into a highly profitable consumer product, educating a cracked team building the next evolution of social media. TL;DR: we are quietly built the foundations of a consumer crypto behemoth.

These guys come up to you at KBW and start telling you about Viral Markets. Wyd?

in trenches veritas - in the trenches, there is truth. that's my unofficial slogan for @meleemarkets. here's why. culture is an amorphous life form. it constantly shifts, edits and updates. for years we relied on centralized sources to distribute information. first, it was priests and bibles. then came the printing press. in 20th century, it was news anchors and broadcast networks. then came the internet. twitter showed that by decentralizing the social graph, we increase the velocity of information. prediction markets showed that when you financialize sentiment, you discover truth. so what happens when you combine the two? that's what we're about to find out with melee as we put the power of prediction markets in the people's hands. instead of waiting for a platform like polymarket and kalshi to gatekeep and select the most interesting markets, we let the trenches decide. creators, thoughtleaders, citizen journalists - these people are the new media. on melee we empower them with technology and reward them as core pillars of this new information economy. Kalshi and Polymarket will always be limited by what they choose to list. we don’t choose. we let the market speak. and in the trenches, truth emerges.