MOMENT White Paper

Creating Moment is a tentative answer to the question of meaning. I'm a passionate rock climber, a trained economist, a hacker, and an architecture lover. I am a firm supporter of Vitalik and his vision, a lover of Feynman and Louis Kahn, and my climbing hero is the late Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc.

In the first part of my life, I went through institutionalized training in school and office, worked for governments and corporations — and those experiences turned me into a firm individualist, a rebel against authoritarianism and monopolies. I want to build something that carries the spirit of individualism, heroism, and love: something healthy that cannot be controlled by any entities except for ourselves.

The idea for this project was born during a climbing trip with my mom. I hadn't seen her for a year since she moved to a remote village, and we decided to head to a nearby snow mountain together because she wasn't comfortable driving those roads alone. At one point during the journey, we were catching our breath in a small spot at the base of the mountain, and I watched her just sitting there, reading.

In that single heartbeat, I knew I wanted to capture that moment — the simple presence of a mother and a son — and store it in a way that could last long after we are gone. A tiny, insignificant speck of a fleeting memory in the immensity of the universe, proving we ever existed.

They say you should create something simply because you want it to exist. And that's it.