The Origins of the Olive Branch Network

By 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.

@base.base.eth builder - Jack Nguyen (@jacknguyen on your favorite Hypersnap client)