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I was 19 and almost broke.
One more bad month and I probably would have ended up on the street.
I had a few hundred dollars left. No safety net. No plan B.
Around that time I discovered crypto.
Cardano had just launched its network and ADA started trading publicly in September 2017.
What caught me wasn’t the hype.
It was the idea that people were building entire financial systems from code.
I was already deep into programming and had been looking at smart contracts for a while. Crypto felt like the natural evolution of everything I cared about: systems, incentives, and open financial infrastructure.
So I made a decision.
I put my last money into ADA.
Not because I thought it would make me rich. I just believed this space was going to change the world and I wanted to be part of it.
That decision bought me time.
And time changed everything.
I went deeper into DeFi. Obsessively.
I studied how capital moves across chains. Liquidity pools, arbitrage paths, yield strategies, bridge mechanics. Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, BSC, Solana.
But one thing always frustrated me.
Everything was fragmented.
Every chain had opportunity. But moving between them was painful. Bridges were fragile. Liquidity was scattered. Execution was slow.
If you were actively trading across chains you felt it every day.
So I started thinking like a builder instead of just a smart contract dev that trades.
If the future of finance is multi chain, the infrastructure has to be multi chain from the beginning.
Not patched together.
Not dependent on fragile bridges.
That idea became Peridot.
@peridotprotocol is built as a cross chain liquidity and execution layer designed to make DeFi actually work across ecosystems.
The vision is simple.
Make DeFi as easy to use as Robinhood.
But keep the openness, transparency and power that crypto was built for.
Crypto gave me a second chance when I needed it most.
@peridotprotocol is what I’m building with it.
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