I am 18 and I have been building an L1 blockchain from scratch in Rust since December 2025. 104,000 lines of code, 1,824 tests, solo founder. The project is called NOVAI and it is open source.
This post is not about the code. It is about why I think this needs to exist.
The Netflix thesis
Netflix did not beat Blockbuster because it had better movies. It beat Blockbuster because it was built around the internet. Blockbuster tried to bolt the internet onto a business that was built around physical stores. It did not work. The company that was built around the new technology won.
I think this pattern applies to every industry. The biggest companies of the next decade will either be AI-native from day one or they will be rebuilt around AI at the core. Companies that just slap AI onto existing products will lose to companies that were designed around it.
