Like many of you, I have never pitched a vision and product to investors before. Most of my experience to date was watching the show Shark Tank. As you can imagine, in reality, raising capital is nothing like this.

The CIP will map of how we think our community fits in this decentralized, web3 world and where we want to go...at least for the next year or so.

This New Year's Eve was different because I spent most of the evening like many evenings of the past 6 months — strategizing about ArDrive, learning from mistakes and plotting what we will accomplish in 2021. For the first time, I wasn’t thinking about personal or family goals, but community goals.

The crypto world has shown me so many tokens, dapps, mining schemes and impossible claims. But there was one particular protocol that I was drawn to as soon as I heard about it and started to use it.