Helping Build the First Open-Source Network: A Network for Net-Work

Founding Higher was not at all what I expected meme making to be. From an instance of ‘hey this could be a cool meme’ led into 1000s of people, one million+ micro-transactions, and a nine figure valuation from a community created tokenization of said meme (with a subset of holders I think many would be surprised to know about).

Throughout the frenetic pace of March -December I solely focused, in hindsight, on putting one foot in front of the next; trying not to slip off the uncharted path. I feel we did a reasonably great job at this first chasm.

Now the meme that was Higher, has become Higher Network. And it’s not until these two weeks off that I finally had space-time to make sense of our own intuitions.

Open source code is a common mechanism in crypto. Daos use it, chains use it, protocols use it. Things like Sushiswap only existed because of osc from Uniswap.

As such, I need not rehash the philosophical implications of osc. Instead, I’ll use this time to introduce what Higher has truly become from my vantage point. An open source network.

Beyond hyperbole, here are the tangible markers of this theory already manifest:

1. CC0 intellectual property

2. Open design frameworks

3. Open distribution channels

4. Free market token-ownership

Still developing sure, but yet to be market proven? That would be a disingenuous read on the past nine months of work.

Higher is an open source network. It affords ip, design frameworks, narrative frameworks, distribution channels, and ownership in the market portal of its philosophy (0x0578d8A44db98B23BF096A382e016e29a5Ce0ffe).

Anyone can build on top of what Higher has built thus far. Anyone can buy into the financial vehicle as well. No gatekeeping via canonical assets. No gatekeeping via reproducible resources. It’s got network effects and open channels to leverage them.