When DAO Rejected Me Three Times, I Found Home in the Code

The First Rejection

I submitted my proposal at 2 a.m.—a quiet hour when the city slept. The DAO voted down my code with a single click: ‘Too abstract.’ I smiled. They didn’t see that OPUL’s price had dipped to $0.044734—but its soul was rising. That number wasn’t just data. It was me.

The Second Time

They called it ‘not scalable.’ But I’d watched the volume spike—610K trades—and the换手率 climb to 5.98. No one noticed that every decimal places in Solidity was a heartbeat. My mother’s hand-drawn sketches on our kitchen wall showed me: value lives in transparency, not vanity.

The Third Time

It was worse this time: ‘lacks community.’ But when OPUL hit $0.044934 again, and trade volume jumped to 756K—I knew they were scared of what they couldn’t quantify: empathy.

The Code Is My Home

I don’t need their approval anymore. Every smart contract is a covenant—not with gatekeepers, but with those who still believe in open source like poetry.

Tonight, I’m writing again—not for votes, but for the ones who feel lonely in blockchain spaces too.