Some said:
“If this was a centralized platform, this wouldn’t have happened.”
They’re not wrong.
Centralized systems are clean. Safe. Controlled.
But they also decide who gets to launch, who gets exposure, who gets to win.
You trade autonomy for protection.
At Virtuals, we chose the harder path:
→ Permissionless, not pre-approved
→ Transparent, not curated
→ Community-coordinated, not VC-gated
And yes, it comes with messiness — and sometimes, mistakes.
But it also comes with something far more powerful:
A future where opportunity isn’t decided in backrooms, but onchain, in public, by you.
We won’t always get it right.
But we’ll always keep building toward a system where no one needs to ask for permission to innovate — or to belong.