About

For twenty-five years I have pursued one idea: the Internet of Economics. Not the digitisation of the existing economy - moving the same rent-extracting tollbooths online and calling it progress - but its digitalisation: the transition to a world where value moves as freely as information does, where participation in the global economy is a birthright and not a privilege granted by whoever controls the rails. That would force a reckoning with a corporatist system built on extracting rent from control. It has resisted accordingly.

The means I first envisioned was a consortium of regulated operators, acting in mutual self-interest, constrained by law. A decade inside the system showed me what their actual interest was: extracting rent from control, enabled by a regulatory and legislative process that served the same interests it was supposed to constrain. Bitcoin's emergence showed me that trustlessness was architecturally possible - and that its execution pointed the way to something Bitcoin itself could not achieve. The idea of regulated operators acting in mutual self-interest was not wrong because the operators were bad people. It was wrong because the architecture required trusting them not to be. That dependency had to go. A system in which trust is not required as a foundation - only as a choice that disciplines the governed systems built upon it - was now within reach.

The Work

The Gajumaru is that answer. The world's first governance-free economic resource layer, and the foundation on which the Internet of Economics is now being built.

At its foundation sits Groot: a proof-of-work chain with no governance, no operators, and no one who can say no. The resource layer - the high seas of the global economy, where any party, in any jurisdiction, with no common legal framework and no mutual trust, can transact with mathematical certainty. Operational since October 2024.

Built on Groot are Associate Chains: sovereign, governed infrastructures - national payment rails, banking consortia, trade finance networks, digital currency systems - each operating under its own rules, each connected to Groot and to every other Associate Chain without bridges, without bilateral agreements, without intermediaries. The Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network, majority-owned by Telecom Liechtenstein, is the first sovereign deployment.

Groot disciplines Associate Chains: operators who extract too much lose users to the trustless alternative. Associate Chains discipline Groot: when governed infrastructure is fair, the cost of pure trustlessness makes itself felt. Neither can succeed in excess while the other exists as a genuine alternative. Trust enables efficiency. Trustlessness enables freedom. The exit option does not need to be efficient. It needs to exist.

The currency of the system is the Gaju - a mined coin, not a token. Fixed supply: one trillion, minted over 87.5 years on a Fibonacci curve. No issuer. No foundation. No one who can print more. Standard transactions settle in three to six seconds at a cost measured in fractions of a centime. Main Net: 26 April 2026.

This is what the Internet of Economics requires at its base - and what blockchain was always supposed to be. The decade of projects that preceded it produced chances: speculative positions in systems controlled by the people who said they were not controlling them. Tokens, not money. Foundations, not decentralisation. Promises of trustlessness from entities you had to trust completely. The Gajumaru produces none of that. It produces the Gaju: fixed in supply, issued by proof-of-work alone, settled in seconds, owned by no one. Real money. An actual blockchain that actually works - and the base on which the Internet of Economics can now be built.

The Argument

The corporatist system that resisted the Internet of Economics has a cost. It is not paid by those extracting the rent. It is paid by everyone else. Every day. In ways most people feel but cannot name.

Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. They raised children, took holidays, and retired with a pension that meant something. They did this not because they were exceptional. They did it because the system was not designed to prevent them.

The generation that followed works harder, earns more in nominal terms, and cannot afford a deposit on a flat half the size. Their children will do worse still, unless something changes. Not because they lack ambition or discipline. Because the architecture of the system has been quietly, deliberately, and continuously redirected against them.

Currency debasement is not a side effect of modern monetary policy. It is its purpose. The silent expansion of money supply transfers stored labour - your savings, your pension, the value of your work - to the holders of assets, who did not earn the transfer and did not ask permission to take it. Dependency on institutional support is not a failure of governance. It is its design. A population that cannot survive without the state cannot challenge the state. The two facts are not unrelated.

You were not meant to notice. Most people do not. They blame themselves.

The Internet of Economics is not a protest against this. It is the architecture that makes it impossible.

The Why

I cannot stop seeing what world we are handing forward if we fail. That is the honest answer. Not ambition. Not ego. I looked at the direction of travel and could not live with doing nothing. To stop would have been to consign my children and theirs to a fight I had already seen coming and chosen not to finish.

Three professions refused. Twenty-five years of this. The last four without my family beside me. Time I can never get back. A cost paid not just by me. I pray they forgive all that I have failed to do as a father, and come to understand what I had to do as a father.

Nobody is safe unless all of us have hope, and the means to fulfil it through our own endeavours. Desperation and anger, sustained long enough, become all-consuming. The French Revolution was not an aberration. It was what happens when a system suppresses and abuses people until they have nothing left to lose. The gilded path offers no refuge from that. The walls are never high enough. The arithmetic does not care who you are.

This is not being built for the people who already have everything. It is being built for the people who come from where I come from - and for their children, and for yours.

You cannot buy your way out of a collapsing society. The Tokyo millionaire exists only because Tokyo functions. The Zurich bikes stay unchained because Zurich works. Destroy the fabric, and no amount of money protects you. We either solve for all our families together, or we all fail together. That is not idealism. That is arithmetic.

Father of five. Husband of one. Zug, Switzerland.