Why I Rejected $100k VC Seed Offers at 16 to Build a Zero-Dependency Rust Layer-1
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Modern Software Is Broken. Every modern blockchain, framework, and distributed system today is a ticking time bomb built on a tower of 5,000+ unverified third-party dependencies. One compromised crate, one broken supply chain, and billions of dollars evaporate. While everyone else was building wrappers around bloated frameworks, I made a radical decision. As a 16-year-old systems developer, I spent the last few months engineering Wortex Mainnet (wortex-eta.app)—a zero-dependency,