Speaker 2
Great. So metaweave is I think from what I recall the beginning where you all created a social network built on top of Rweave, fully decentralized. And now you've built out more tools to provide not only for developers, also for individuals, which we'll get into later on in the conversation. So thank you for that explanation. Now you're the entry or the beginning or the genesis of metaweave. I'm curious to learn kind of why metaweave and how did this all start. So Chromaticat, do you mind sharing a little bit about your entry into the Rweave ecosystem and how metaweave came to
Speaker 1
be? Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's an interesting story. So I used to develop some stuff online. We're both with Vaku, some sort of like technologies, really interesting in the computer science in general. And I was seeing like this new thing on the internet with Gitcoin and this goal to make possible grants for open source and these kind of things. And I wanted to be part of it. And so by browsing Gitcoin, I saw our Rweave grants. I participated like one year before metaweave to the Simple App grant. And it felt very good because it's a good entry where you learn how to make a program, to show it on GitHub, on the open source, and you get a little reward and it's feeling good. Then like one year later, I came back to Rweave and I saw, wow, things are getting bigger and there is more stuff there. Among the stuff, for example, there were so RConnect that was kind of new. I think it was released only a few months before I started metaweave. And this kind of thing just attracted me and then I found it quite easy to use. It's not maybe that easy to find resources. It's a little bit not really organized, I would say, but the libraries and all the tools that are in the Rweave ecosystem already are from like, there is good quality. So I stepped in with this project because there were the hackathon open web foundry. And yeah, I decided, why not using these possibilities, these capabilities of Rweave that I can just put data on chain and this data could be just what people say. At the time, like, this is, I would say this is at the time when most of the people started to realize that the traditional social network had some biases. So this came just like an idea, like this participate with hackathon. And so then I got a lot of support from Rweave. I made a lot of different, really smart people, engineers, but also got in touch with people that has more broadly knowledge in general. So you start to meet investors, people that are interesting in what you're doing. And from there, it's some sort of snowball effect. I realized, wow, this is serious. And I was living at my friend's faculty time. He was working full time for a big company that is doing, he's doing network engineering. I'm not sure, but sorry if I don't say the role well, but maybe if I could tell what was the impressive engineering at the time where we participated to the Pen Web Fund before. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So then we took this decision later on with faculty to say, oh, this looked very interesting. There is attraction for what we are doing. There is a way, wow, basically I became a founder and I was like, well, I cannot do this alone. This is so much things to think about. And Faku said, yeah, let's do it. Then, yeah, this is how everything started, let's say.