I contributed to Descent1, an open-source protocol for issuing dollar-backed currency notes for frontier market fiat currencies. Ozi was a decentralized oracle for Descent, responsible for feeding real-world currency conversion rates to the protocol so it could maintain a 1:1 peg to frontier market fiat values.
The broader thesis was that open digital financial services can be catalysts for economic independence: the freedom for individuals to earn, own, and control their money outside fragile local systems.
This project pulled me deeper into questions about trust, financial infrastructure, and the difficulty of connecting messy real-world data to programmable systems. The technical problem was interesting, but the more important question was social: what does it take for people to trust new financial rails?