Technical Co-Founder

Location: Remote / Flexible
Commitment: Co-Founder / Nonprofit - Start off part or full time

About the Alignment Economy
The dollar buys less every year. AI is coming for your job. Your mom's contribution isn't valued economically. The left wants to redistribute. The right wants to deregulate. Both are missing the point: the measuring stick is broken.
The Alignment Economy is a blockchain protocol that replaces fiat currency with a system where the base unit of exchange is human attention. Every person generates 1,440 points per day (one per minute). The system makes previously invisible value visible, so that contributions like caregiving, mentoring, and community building are tracked and compensated alongside traditional labor.
This isn't a whitepaper concept. We have a finalized protocol design, a published white paper, presentation materials, and an active outreach pipeline. What we need now is someone who can build it.

What Makes This Different
Most blockchain projects inherit two fatal flaws: the first-mover advantage paradox (early adopters hold disproportionate value, discouraging new adoption) and the deflation paradox (rising prices incentivize hoarding over spending). A currency nobody spends is not a currency. AE is designed from the ground up to solve both.
This is also not a startup chasing a liquidity event. AE is a nonprofit. The goal is to build infrastructure that works for people, not to extract value from them.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll be the first technical builder, turning a detailed protocol spec into working code. That means:

Designing and building the wallet, transaction layer, and miner network for an attention-based currency with four distinct point types and daily rebasing mechanics
Implementing proof-of-human verification (a percent-human score that acts as a purchasing power multiplier) and a two-tier miner architecture funded by a hardcoded 0.5% transaction fee
Building the decentralized court system (11-miner juries, bounty enforcement)
Making the user experience as seamless as a credit card, because adoption depends on usability, not just cryptographic elegance
Exploring how AI integrates into verification, attention tracking, and governance as the protocol matures
Shaping technical strategy as a co-founder, not just writing code someone else specced out

You'd Be a Great Fit If

You've built on blockchain before (Ethereum, Solana, Hyperledger, or similar) and you're frustrated by what's out there
You understand tokenomics, decentralized finance, or incentive design
You can translate a detailed protocol spec into working infrastructure, and you have the judgment to push back where the spec needs it
You're comfortable with early-stage ambiguity (this is pre-funding, building alongside the founder, not joining a team)
You want to build a better blockchain, not just another one
Bonus: experience with AI, data science, or behavioral economics
Bonus: you've explored ideas from Daniel Schmachtenberger, Tristan Harris, or Tim Urban's The Story of Us

What Exists Today

A complete white paper with the full protocol design
Presentation deck and outreach infrastructure
Published narrative ("The Bridge") and brand materials
A funding pipeline targeting grants (Ethereum Foundation, Economic Security Project, Gitcoin)
A founder who has spent years on the problem and is ready to go full-time

What Doesn't Exist Yet

The working code (wallet, app, miner view)
A technical co-founder

That's the job.

Compensation
AE is a nonprofit. Initial compensation is grant-funded as funding is secured (target ~$250K/year). You'd have co-founder-level ownership of technical direction and meaningful say over the project's future. This is for someone motivated by the work, not a payout.
Next Steps
If you want to build a blockchain that actually works as a currency, reach out with:

A few lines about why this interests you
A brief summary of your technical background
Any initial reactions to the protocol (the white paper is at alignmenteconomy.org)

Let's build it.