Nominate an overachiever to be one of the 100 global founders of Xelons
Xelons are those who believe we can change the future to live in a world where thousands of Elons exist — and here Elons become a job, a function of a super unique outlier who would get the help of this network that is continually made of over-achievers. The founding hundred receive a physical ring carrying their cryptographic identity — and the power to nominate who comes next, along with many collaborative advantages that come with finding, enabling and amplifying the next 1000 Elons.
Nominations can only be made with the permission of the nominated and are reviewed by a random community member.
“Those things can’t be made, but can be discovered, enabled and amplified.”
The Xelons premise
The founding cohort is the seed of the entire graph. Every future Xelon is discovered through someone in it. A hundred is small enough to verify by hand and large enough to reach everywhere worth reaching.
One ring. Three tags. Zero servers holding your identity.
The HyperRing is a silicone band with three ISO 14443-3A NFC tags embedded in it. Each tag is a small, writable slab of memory. What goes on it is yours: your public key, and the signed endorsements of founders who vouched for you.
How a Xelon is discovered.
Four phases. You shape the ones ahead.
The nomination form asks how you would evolve this network. That is not a formality — the roadmap past Phase 2 is genuinely unset, and the founding hundred are the ones who set it.
Know someone who belongs here?
Name someone who should be in the room, and tell us how you would build this. Every nomination is read by a person, and everyone nominated hears back.
Nominate one of the 100.
Nominate someone else, or put your own name forward. The only parts that take real thought are the two written answers — and those are the ones that decide it.
Nominations can only be made with the permission of the nominated and are reviewed by a random community member.
The ring app
Everything here runs in your browser. Keys are generated by the Web Crypto API and stored on this device; signatures are real and independently verifiable.
Writing to a physical tag uses Web NFC, which today exists only in Chrome on Android. On iPhone the cryptography works identically but the tap does not. Until then the app detects your platform and drops into a clearly-labelled simulation mode instead of failing silently.
Privacy & data
Short version: we keep what you sent us, we use it only to decide and ship the founding cohort, and we delete it the moment you ask.
This page describes current practice for the v0.1 founding-cohort intake. It is not a substitute for a lawyer-reviewed privacy policy, which should be in place before the site takes nominations at scale.