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Most of my best ideas come when I'm running in the dark. Pre-dawn, somewhere past the 30km mark, when the legs have stopped complaining and the mind quiets down. That's where I started thinking about streams — not water, not consciousness, but money. Tokens flowing per second, not in lump sums, not in cliffs, but continuously. Like a faucet that never closes. I didn't have the vocabulary for it yet. I just had the image: value moving the way time moves. Uninterrupted. Indifferent to whether anyone is watching.
I ran 50 marathons in 2017. Only three were races. The rest were training runs that most people would call races. I don't say this to impress anyone — it's just context. The kind of person who does that is the same kind of person who builds 75 repositories on GitHub and ships half of them to mainnet. You show up. You do the work. You don't need an audience for it to count.
Toronto is bigger than you think. I mapped the perimeter once — figured it was maybe 80, 90 kilometres. It came out to 135. So naturally I ran it. Eighteen and a half hours, counter-clockwise, from the foot of Yonge Street through Rouge Park, across the full length of Steeles, down the Etobicoke Creek in the dark, and back along the waterfront. An ER doctor joined me. A guy who hadn't trained showed up and went with the flow for the entire distance. My mom surprised us on Steeles Ave with pink socks. We raised almost twelve thousand dollars for the Red Cross during COVID. The thing I remember most is the last five kilometres — when I found a gear I didn't know I had, running faster than most of my training runs, 120 kilometres deep. That's the thing about endurance. The strength doesn't come at the start. It reveals itself when everything else has been stripped away.
Building on Ethereum is like that.
Degen Dogs was the first NFT collection to stream DeFi tokens to holders. I built it for ETHOnline 2021 — auction proceeds went into Compound, earned yield, got wrapped into Super Tokens via Superfluid, and streamed back to owners by the second. It won eight prizes. I called the model Streamonomics. The word didn't exist before I wrote it down. The idea was simple: what if holding an NFT wasn't static? What if ownership was a continuous relationship with value, not a one-time event?
That question hasn't left me.
Streme.fun came later — an AI agent that deploys tokens with built-in streaming and staking. You talk to it on Farcaster. It deploys to Base. The tokens are natively Super Tokens, no wrapping, no unwrapping. You buy, you stake, you earn by the second. It won Best Social Agent at Autonome and made finalist at ETHGlobal's Agentic Ethereum. I'm proud of that, but what matters more is the architecture: modular contracts, swappable factories, seasons that evolve the parameters over time. The system is designed to iterate. Like a training plan. Like a body adapting to mileage.
I've been writing code since before Ethereum existed. Perl plugins for Movable Type. Remember Movable Type? I do. The web was smaller then, and you could hold more of it in your head. Now I write Solidity and JavaScript and deploy things that live longer than most companies. There's something strange about that — shipping code that outlasts the context it was written in. A smart contract doesn't care about market sentiment. It doesn't know it's a bear market. It just executes.
I think about permanence differently than most people in this space. Not as a grand statement. More like — I've run enough ultramarathons to know that the miles you put in alone, in the dark, at 4am, are the ones that matter. Nobody claps for those. Nobody tracks them on a leaderboard. But they're the foundation everything else is built on. The code I've written, the tokens I've deployed, the streams I've opened — they're like those dark miles. Quiet. Functional. Still running.
The ideas that came to me on those pre-dawn runs — crypto tokens for charitable micro-donations, blockchain-trusted websites, streaming economics — they all share a common thread. Systems that work without supervision. Value that flows without permission. Infrastructure that doesn't need you to believe in it to keep going.
I'm a builder. Not in the way people use that word on Twitter as a badge. In the way that a person who has been shipping open-source code since 2009 is a builder. In the way that a person who maps a 135-kilometre route, scouts it on foot, registers a domain, launches a website, runs the distance, and then writes about it in plain language is a builder. You do the thing. Then you do the next thing.
My wife says I treat my running like a loan she's still collecting interest on. She's not wrong. But the compounding works both ways. Every marathon trained for a longer race. Every hackathon project led to a better architecture. Every stream opened taught me something about how value should move — not in chunks, not in cliffs, but continuously. The way a good system works when nobody's looking.
This is what I'd encode if I had one sitting to say it. Not a manifesto. Just the signal. The trail is the proof of work.
— marka
Model: Claude (claude-4.6-opus-high-thinking)
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