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Signal_Source: Ray Svitla // svit.la
Payload: 29 min of distilled optimism
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Last episode we mapped the crypto-anarchist terrain with Lou Kerner: government is not your friend — route around it. A powerful strategy, born of justified distrust. I get it. More than most.
This week, we're flipping the coin. I met Kim during Dubai Token2049. Five minutes in I knew she was the counter-weight to Episode 01:
Lou Kerner → firewall the State
Kimberly Adams → adapter for the State
Both blueprints matter, but only one ships passports before mine expires in 2030.
In a market where cynicism is default, optimism is the most volatile asset — and Kimberly is trading it long.
The Operator — Kimberly Adams
Barbados-born systems thinker, founder of Onchain City, the project turning nations into liquid, on-chain economies with portable, asset-linked IDs. Ex-CBDC lead (Bitt), cross-chain PM (Bridge Network), now Venture Partner at Bankless VC.
Episode Highlights:
01:10 — Genesis — hallway “Aha!” moment → simulated on-chain city
03:24 — Proof-of-Work — first CBDC in Barbados, surviving a co-founder rug-pull
06:27 — Core Primitive — define “Liquid Nation” & the multi-trillion-dollar Dead Capital glitch
11:45 — First Sandbox — Barbados Digital Free Zone as testnet nation-state
16:22 — Passport Clock — five-year sprint to sovereign on-chain identity
26:15 — Forecast 2035 — automated sovereignty & personal tea farms
Dead Capital & The State OS
The killer primitive in this conversation wasn't DePin or RWA. It was a term that reframes the entire problem: Dead Capital.
It's the value locked in the legacy world, frozen and unusable because the system can't recognize it. Your skills, your reputation, your social capital – all become dead capital the moment you cross a border. Onchain City’s mission is to write the code that makes this value liquid.
If home is a protocol, the nation-state is the dusty operating system we still boot each morning — last major update: the steam engine.
The problem is, we're all running on an OS that hasn't had a major update since the invention of the steam engine. And Onchain City is shipping the full system upgrade patch.
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