Recruiting

Build the trust layer for AI agents

VDM Nexus is open-standard infrastructure for signed AI inference — receipts an auditor can verify, settled on Solana and Base. Three weeks old, solo founder, pre-token, pre-revenue. I'm recruiting the first one or two collaborators. No salary yet — real equity and meaningful token allocation if this works.

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What's shipped

Real surface area, already in production.

  • Open spec for signed AI inference receipts (SIR v2)
  • Multi-chain x402 rail — Solana and Base — live in production
  • Four SDKs on npm — MIT licensed
  • Live receipt verifier at verify.vdmnexus.com
  • Public points leaderboard at /points
The honest deal

What you'd get. What I can't offer yet.

What you'd get

  • Meaningful $NEXUS allocation, carved from the contributor pool
  • Equity — 4-year vest, 1-year cliff
  • Public credit — your name on what we ship
  • Decision autonomy on the work you own
  • Seat at the table on a three-week-old project

What I can't offer yet

  • Salary — not until first revenue
  • Stability — this might not work
  • An audited codebase — bootstrapped, no paid audit yet
  • A playbook — we are figuring it out as we go
Who I'm looking for

A short list. Self-select hard.

01

You would build in this space whether anyone paid you or not

02

Crypto-native and AI-native — not just one

03

High agency — you ship without supervision

04

Strong opinions about agent infrastructure, weakly held

How it works

Five steps. Optimised against wasting your time.

Step 1

Fill the application

Short application form — what you have built, what pulls you to this space.

Open form
Step 2

Culture survey

Ten questions, ~10 minutes. How you work, how you decide, what you walk away from. Link arrives with the application response.

Step 3

Paid-in-future trial

One-week trial on a real task. Paid retroactively from first revenue or token unlock, whichever lands first.

Step 4

Contributor agreement

Written agreement covering equity, token allocation, vest, and IP. Template shared after the trial week.

Step 5

Welcome aboard

You get a key, a Linear seat, and a backlog with your name on it.

Apply

The application form.

Ten short answers, ~10–15 minutes for a thoughtful response. If the embed doesn't load, open it in Tally directly.

Ready?

Start the application.

The application comes first; the culture survey follows.

Start the application