Moon

If you want to understand how and why we build so relentlessly, these two pieces were pretty formative: a16z.com/every-company-will-… jpmorgan.com/insights/paymen… Coupled with our own experience onboarding engineers from fintech, it seems obvious to us that Web3-based solutions will slowly 'eat the world' - and we're all hungry. Our vision has always been massive in scope, but one of our biggest weaknesses early on was taking a "build it and they will come" approach. This was mostly because it worked for a while! Our understanding of how & why capital moves around had a lot of gaps, and we were too busy writing code to worry about things like marketing or business development. Being revenue-funded let these weaknesses persist until mid-2022, when they were too glaring to miss! The result of our heads-down approach was a lackluster book of business, but allowed us to establish of one of the strongest engineering firms in the industry. Over the past 3 years, our team has built a huge wealth of proprietary systems and infrastructure, with over 200 repositories of proprietary inter-operable tech. Our approach allows ultimate composability, from the client to the smart contracts. One thing you may have noticed is that we're starting to accelerate. Every new piece of technology we develop in-house allows us to configure new protocols quickly and securely. Due to our modular methodology each new development applies to every other protocol or application as well! The result is shared security, shared upgrade paths, and far more efficient expenditure at the top level. Every new project is a new team dedicated to growing the strength and density of our tech stack. An important emphasis we made in 2023 was that we don't want to be a dev shop. We've helped many teams with security, we helped build Radiant V2, and we advise a lot of builders and teams across the space, but we've never forgotten our primary mission: eating the world. This emphasis is starting to reflect in the $OATH ecosystem as it evolves into something that looks more like infrastructure than an application. Through minimal inflation and maximum reward via franchised projects like @AureliusFi, our team is treading a sustainable path forged by demand as opposed to over-incentivization. Beyond this, our cloud services project @usemoonai is moving swiftly ahead of industry standards, with more than 12 teams using it in their games, consumer applications, and bots before we've even formally hit the market. This year, whether you know or care about Moon, you'll probably be using it as we grow our network of tech into the largest and densest of any company in web3. So what the hell is the point? Weaknesses our team had early on helped to inform and develop many of our greatest strengths. We took a very uncommon path and now find ourselves in a unique position to achieve our goal of eating the world. In the meantime, we're going to keep getting better, compound our wins, and find new ways to make our users happy. It isn't easy to build in the public but we wouldn't have it any other way. Web3 is inevitable and we'll be here for it.