The RandomDAO project developed by a 12-year-old elementary school student has swept the currency circle inexplicably.

This project was initially only used as an attempt in the learning process, and it was a phased result of his personal learning of smart contract programming. Its function is also quite simple, each wallet address can receive RND token airdrop. At present, this project has been rising rapidly for several days.

On March 10th, Huang Zheng announced on Twitter that the application for the RND airdrop has ended and the claim has been completed. As of today, the total market value of RND is about 32 million US dollars.

"6 years of experience" legendary primary school student

This young developer has not stopped at development, and has even become a teacher. Not long ago, a set of smart contract teaching videos circulated on the Internet. The author of the video is Huang Zheng, the founder of The RandomDAO, which is currently on fire. He is a 12-year-old smart contract developer who is currently in the sixth grade of primary school and claims to have been learning programming for six years.

At present, this tutorial is still being updated continuously, and it has been updated to the ninth chapter. What is even more shocking is that this back wave developer even produced a Chinese-English bilingual version and recorded two tutorials in different languages.

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(“I’ve been programming for 6 years”)

As a result of Huang Zheng himself, he finally deployed a project called The RandomDao, which is the origin of the RND project that has been very popular in recent days.

It is rumored that Huang Zheng's father is the founder of a trading platform. Although there is no way to verify this rumor, judging from its development direction, it is reasonable for people to speculate on smart contracts at such a young age. At the moment when chicken baby parents are becoming more and more common, learning children's programming, mathematical thinking, and natural phonics can no longer compete with their peers in a differentiated manner. Blockchain development has become an alternative, unpopular but interesting choice.

When many encrypted developers transformed from the traditional Internet, a 12-year-old "native" developer naturally aroused the infinite imagination of the market, and even aroused people's amazement: the rejuvenation of the encrypted world is more intense than we imagined.

In the encrypted world, the rise of the power of "Houlang" is not inconceivable. The vigorous growth of Houlang is the norm in the encrypted field.

12-year-old crypto KOL who "entered crypto for 5 years"

"I'm only 12 years old, but I know a lot about encryption."

This is the netizen Bitcoinboyizzy introducing himself on Twitter, and according to his own description, he is only 12 years old this year. For investors who have been baptized by the market for a long time, this may be a bit unbelievable. In fact, the late waves are indeed striding into this field at a speed beyond our imagination.

Not long ago, Bitcoinboyizzy launched a space discussion on Twitter, and the topic of this discussion was equally shocking-"Talk about cryptocurrency with 12, 15, 19-year-old children". The most striking thing in this space is that the initiators of the discussion and the main guests are teenagers.

Twitter user "CryptoCoinKid" is also one of the guests participating in this discussion. "CryptoCoinKid" whose real name is Kamea Lafontaine. Like Bitcoinboyizzy, he's also young—just 12 years old. Even more exaggerated, Kamea's Twitter introduction stated that he had entered the encryption field as early as 2017. If this resume is true, it may have surpassed most adult investors in the market.

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(The young blogger is introducing to the audience what DeFi is)

The teenagers in the encryption world are exploring the encryption field more and more deeply. For them, traditional financial and capital markets may be too far away, but dApps and tokens are within reach. Although these back-wave creators and back-wave developers are still a little immature, "no permission" and "decentralization" are profoundly changing the cognition of a generation.

In the traditional Internet world, 985 and 211 are already the starting point for entering a big factory and becoming a developer. It is almost impossible to participate in the core development of a product without several years of rich experience. A glamorous resume and background become the barrier to entry into the world of developers. The increasingly "involved" Internet workplace makes "becoming a developer" even more difficult than "development" itself.

An encryption team with an "average age of less than 20 years old"

In the encrypted world, permissionless and decentralized development methods have made young teams the norm in the industry. A well-known first-line venture capitalist even recruited a high school student.

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(Image source: Paradigm)

And the younger age of the entire team is not unprecedented.

Earlier this year, a random photo quickly circulated in the community. The picture shows several teenagers playing games in a room, as natural as most boys' parties. To people's surprise, the scene shown in the picture is actually taken by Rari Capital's office. Rari Capital is a long-tail asset lending DeFi product. The biggest difference from other DeFi projects is probably the age of the founding team.

In the office of Rari Capital, the average age of the team is less than 20 years old, and the youngest Ben Mayer is only 14 years old.

Rari Capital was founded by Jai Bhavnani, 18, Jack Lipstone, 19, and David Lucid, 19.

Although their age is far from that of most investors, their professional experience is not as immature as their age. The two founders, Jack and Jai, had jointly developed a DeFi wallet application called Ambo when they were classmates in high school, and then the project was sold to MyCrypto.

Subsequently, Jack and Jai invited David Lucid to join and co-founded Rari Capital. David Lucid, who is only 19 years old, is also not a newcomer to encryption. Lucid once founded a DEX platform. After the project became fuller, they successively hired 14-year-old Ben Mayer, 17-year-old Justin Yu and 19-year-old Richter Brzeski.

At present, the market value of Rari governance token RGT is about 160 million US dollars. If calculated based on the highest price in history, the market value once exceeded 500 million US dollars.

In 2011, the newly born "Bitcoin Weekly" magazine was suffering from a lack of content sources. A 17-year-old boy worked as a writer for this magazine in order to earn 5 BTC per article (which was only worth tens of dollars at the time), and tirelessly introduced and promoted the young Cryptocurrency to the world.

This young Russian teenager is named Vitalik Buterin. A few years later, the Chinese Internet gave him a more familiar nickname—V God.

There is no need to repeat the story of V God and Ethereum. Crypto, which is younger than Bitcoin, has been ranked second in market value all year round. The first practical application of smart contracts on the chain has made Ethereum the well-deserved king of public chains. This pioneering work has also profoundly changed the narrative and history of Crypto.

Let's go back to the original point of the story: Is it the magazine that inspired countless people? No, this is not the beginning.

In 1998, 4-year-old Buterin received a computer as a gift from his father, which became his enlightenment. Buterin became obsessed with programming, and he started his programming at the age of 4. At the age of 12, he could write simple games in C++ for himself to play. At the age of 18, he won the bronze medal of the Olympia information award.

At the age of 17, V god and Bitcoin met, and at this time, 5 years have passed since he first wrote a C++ program.

At the end of 2013, Vitalik Buterin, who had known Bitcoin for two years, released the first white paper of Ethereum, and he was only 19 years old at this time. There is no need to repeat the story after that, it has become well known in the industry.

A 4-year-old who is exposed to computers is still thousands of miles away from designing Ethereum. But what we do know is that none of it might have started for Buterin without the computer he received at age 4.

Since Web3 is young, why can't the builders of Web3 be equally young?