In early August 2026 I posted a burst of X updates (1‑4 Aug) that map a founder‑centric playbook: public shipping on DeltaV as the path to “monad”, Nitro Demo Day as the primary fundraising funnel, KOL‑first product validation, separate hiring tracks, and a strong stance that shipping never compromises security.
I said: “good idea. but the road to monad is just shipping publicly on DeltaV”.
Each Nitro team is talking to like a dozen investors.
We have tested these founders for 3 months.
Tech is easy. dont code too much before signing up one KOL to use it.
Shipping doesn't mean compromising on anything, including security.
The best chance to raise in the industry is a Nitro Demo Day.
Go for great. Your job right now is to build a seamless web of deserved trust with really high quality people and talk to nobody else.
Your ability to create the reality you want is directly determined by your willingness to experience it’s opposite.
Decisions: I chose public shipping as the primary path to monad, prioritized signing a single KOL before heavy engineering, used Nitro Demo Day as the main fundraising funnel, and split hiring into a “kickass startups person” for VC networking and an “engineer‑only” track that never writes a line of code.