The Origins of the Olive Branch Network Hello 👋\ \ My name is Jack, and I’ve been in this crypto space for quite some time. I got introduced to crypto via Silk Road when I was in college. A lot of time has passed since then. I’m old (37).\ \ I’ve participated in many of the ecosystems you see today. I have mined BTC/ETH, staked ADA and DOT, and now, with the advent of AI, I was able to do something that I never thought was possible: I was able to build my own decentralized project!\ \ The Olive Branch Network started out as an experiment (still is), a love for decentralization, and a cry for better use cases of the technology that @vitalik.eth and so many others worked hard to provide us.\ \ To start, I am tired of seeing the same things over and over again with a slightly different wrapper; worse off, what’s being wrapped are degen-enabling projects. Memecoins and launchpads are among the worst. I’ll stop there…\ \ Anyways, I had the opportunity to take off 5 months from my health career. During that time, something guided me to start contemplating how we can use these technologies to make a positive impact on the world.\ \ In my opinion, this is what the technology is all about… Satoshi decentralized the power of the traditional banking system, and @vitalik.eth took it one step further and enabled programmable trustless systems. All of this comes from a good place.\ \ Now I am trying to take it even one step further. I am no Satoshi or @vitalik.eth; not even close, but these are my heroes, and my decisions are often based on “What would they do?”\ \ So what is the Olive Branch Network? With the help of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Codex, I have built an application layer on Base that’s dedicated to healing the world.\ \ It links nonprofits to a staking contract that allows users to stake to them with our network token (OBN). **_The idea is simple: empower the organizations fighting the good fights._** When a user stakes, 10% of the yield they generate gets directed to the nonprofit they’re staking to. There are a few other details and a few things we have planned for the future, but that is the core of the project.\ \ For the non-crypto person, I like to describe it as a savings account, but instead of the bank earning from your deposit, a nonprofit you choose does.\ \ However, I always warn everyone I speak to who is interested in supporting the project that the token is volatile. There are risks, and I cannot guarantee what the price of OBN will be in the future.\ \What I do promise them is that I’ll keep working hard to build and push the idea forward. I truly believe that is why I am here.