The story, in writing
The system is extracting the people who power it
The wholesale market is the invisible engine of the global economy. Every product on every shelf passed through this system. And this system is extraordinarily inefficient, expensive, and extractive.
The GRAJ Whitepaper — The Broken SystemInfrastructure should not take a cut of your life
Nobody charges you 45% to send an email. TCP/IP moves all internet traffic and does not have shareholders demanding quarterly growth. SMTP runs email and takes nothing. HTTP delivers every web page on earth and charges nobody a percentage.
The GRAJ Whitepaper — Protocol vs. PlatformA protocol answers to the people on it
A protocol is different. The rules are encoded. Changes require supermajority vote. The interests of participants are the interests of the protocol. You cannot be extracted by infrastructure you own.
The GRAJ Whitepaper — Protocol vs. Platform