Successfully applied to the @arbitrum Mentorship Program. World is Flat is already live on Robinhood Chain, with real users, a growing builder ecosystem and our first $10,000 hackathon underway. The next chapter is about turning that early traction into a much larger application and distribution ecosystem. We are ready to scale.

Robinhood Chain is early. Somewhere in the World Is Flat Hackathon is a Robinhood Chain project that'll be big a year from now. Only one of them takes the $10,000.

16 builders have already applied to the World Is Flat Hackathon. 16 teams who looked at Robinhood Chain and saw what we see: a chain built for real assets, open to memes, backed by a brand millions already trust. One of them will take home $10,000. There's still time to make it.

In 2005, Thomas L. Friedman wrote The World Is Flat: the idea that technology was leveling the playing field, so anyone, anywhere could compete. Even Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz weighed in on it in The New York Times. Twenty years later, the internet and crypto are proving him right. That's the world we build for.

World Is Flat - on a mission to make finance, ownership, opportunity and participation more permissionless, decentralized and globally accessible - less defined by geography, gatekeepers or circumstance. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Crypto has spent years optimizing for extraction. That naturally encourages short-term thinking, misaligned incentives and products designed to capture value before they create enough of it - then repeat the same playbook again. And then everyone asks why we no longer see truly exceptional projects - the kind that attract users, generate meaningful revenue and grow into something much larger than a token. Maybe the problem is deeper. There is little value in blaming the platforms that already exist if builders continue operating within the same rules, incentives and boundaries. Existing platforms were built around their own models. If we want fundamentally different outcomes, we have to be willing to design fundamentally different systems. From first principles, with new mechanics, better incentives and an economy built around value creation rather than extraction. That is what we intend to build with WIF - an environment where developers can create useful tools, games and experiences without having to recreate the entire economic layer from scratch every time. A self-sustaining system where builders create, users participate, and the value generated by the ecosystem can flow back to both. Builders should have reasons to keep building. Users should have reasons to keep participating. And growth should strengthen the system itself rather than simply extract from it. That is where we believe the next generation of meaningful crypto products can come from. Our vision for WIF goes far beyond the borders of the crypto bubble as it exists today - beyond the categories, mechanics and assumptions the industry has taught itself to think inside. There is little value in endlessly debating that vision. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. So we would rather build, execute, and let people understand the vision when they can finally see it working. Think beyond the borders. Then build beyond them. If you’re building with the same mindset, stay close. Think green. Build on Robinhood Chain.