Fundraising Status

Long story short, I never even got into so-called “fundraising mode” at all. The investment inquiry emails are just sitting there in my inbox and I didn’t even get to open them.

I apologize for this. I had reasons. Partly because I got sucked into a crazy amount of unexpected work thanks to the recent cambrian explosion of Bitcoin SV developers and applications. But also partly because of other subtle reasons.

That said, I am writing this post precisely to share that I am finally going to actively start fundraising, starting this week.

But first let me share what I have been up to over the last two months.

Instead of fundraising, I completely went all in with releasing one infrastructure after another. The momentum was great and I just ran with it. These things may look like they’re all over the place, but there’s an overarching theme. I will discuss briefly.

APIs and Services

Over the last 2 months, I have released:

BOB : A new Planaria node which turns Bitcoin OP_RETURN script into a computation ready format, as well as solving the OP_0 OP_RETURN transition problem for 2020 Genesis update. This was an important and urgent problem since many developers didn’t have an immediate way to easily transition to the new format with the existing Planaria endpoints.

A new Planaria node which turns Bitcoin OP_RETURN script into a computation ready format, as well as solving the OP_0 OP_RETURN transition problem for 2020 Genesis update. This was an important and urgent problem since many developers didn’t have an immediate way to easily transition to the new format with the existing Planaria endpoints. MOM : A new Metanet Planaria API node powered by BOB. For the same reason as BOB, it was important to solve the OP_0 OP_RETURN problem.

A new Metanet Planaria API node powered by BOB. For the same reason as BOB, it was important to solve the OP_0 OP_RETURN problem. Bitbus Grid: A new, yet-to-be-released backend system which makes it possible to run any Planaria node as a Bitbus host. This generic system internally powers all Bitbus endpoints today, with more support coming soon.

A new, yet-to-be-released backend system which makes it possible to run any Planaria node as a Bitbus host. This generic system internally powers all Bitbus endpoints today, with more support coming soon. Bitbus Grid support for Neon Planaria

Bitbus Grid support for Eventchain

If you look closely, all of these are in natural progression. In a sense I was almost forced to develop all of this in this sequence. I had to build BOB to deal with the OP_0 OP_RETURN transition which many developers just started implementing and didn’t have an easy way to deal with. Then I had to apply it to the existing Metanet API so as to provide an immediately easy way to deal with Metanet. This became MOM. And in the process I ended up turning Bitbus backend into a generic system, creating the internal “Bitbus grid”. Now bitbus can run on ANY Planaria backend. Then of course, I added this to Eventchain.