# Founders

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## 🧠 **You’ve seen hype. Here’s execution.**

You’ve seen it before:\
Big claims. Slick decks. No product.\
And six months later? Ghost chain. Telegram chat abandoned. Liquidity gone.

**That’s not this team.**

We’ve been full-time in Web3 since 2017.\
We’ve built through bull runs and bear breakdowns.\
And this isn’t our first time shipping product that works.

We’re not here to play the game. \
We’re here because we got tired of watching it break the same way—over and over.

So we built the thing that should’ve existed from the start.

> **Our advantage?**\
> We didn’t just build in Web3.\
> **We helped build Web3.**

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## Why AdLunam works? Because we’ve already proven every part.

You don’t build a full ecosystem—from token utility to exchange infrastructure to a reputation protocol—unless you’ve done this before.

#### **We have. Across industries, across cycles, across market resets.**

<details>

<summary>1️⃣  We’ve been through every version of this space.</summary>

> We’re not fresh off our first cycle.

* [x] We were here, building products, scaling brands and advising projects, during the ICO run-up, the DeFi boom, the NFT explosion, the meme mania
* [x] We watched the “next big thing” become the next big rug
* [x] We saw what didn’t work—then built the opposite

[**Jason**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/jason-fernandes.md) and [**Nadja**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/nadja-bester.md) met in 2017 working on crypto token launches.\
They've helped hundreds of projects grow, raise, recover, and rebuild.\
[**Lawrence**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/lawrence-hutson.md)? He [built Travelocity ](https://www.businessobserverfl.com/news/2005/sep/02/traveling-man/)when booking a flight online was still science fiction.

**We’ve done hype. We’ve done crashes. We chose execution.**

</details>

<details>

<summary>2️⃣ We built the thing first, then launched the token.</summary>

> AdLunam isn’t a whitepaper. It’s a working system.

* [x] [**Proof of Attention**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/core-mechanisms/proof-of-attention-tm-poa.md)™ is live and scoring
* [x] [**AdLunam Social**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-social/what-is-adlunam-social.md) is already live in private beta, operating with real users
* [x] [**AdLunam App**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-app.md) and [**AdLunam Exchange**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-exchange.md) are fully built and ready to launch
* [x] [**$LUNAM**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/usdlunam-utility.md) isn’t waiting to be useful—it’s got Day 1 utility baked in

**Most Web3 companies launch, then figure it out.**\
**We built first. Then waited for the market to catch up.**

</details>

<details>

<summary>3️⃣ We’ve actually done this before.</summary>

* [x] [**Jason**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/jason-fernandes.md) has invested in or advised 200+ Web3 projects and led VC allocations at IBC and NFT Tech
* [x] An award-winning tokenomics expert, he's been called the *“Michael Jordan of Tokenomics”*
* [x] [**Nadja**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/nadja-bester.md) headed digital strategy for a $10B Top 10 pharma giant across 50+ global markets
* [x] She’s helped raise over $300M for Web3 startups as a growth architect and CMO
* [x] [**Lawrence**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/lawrence-hutson.md), as cofounder and CTO, [built the original Travelocity platform](https://strategiccio360.com/the-key-to-hiring-tech-people/) (later acquired by Expedia for $280M)
* [x] As CTO, he built the infrastructure for Top 10 launchpad PAID Network and $1B AUM VC fund, Master Ventures

\
We’ve scaled from scratch.\
We’ve managed through downturns.\
We’ve built launchpads and watched them collapse when they were all hype.

**That’s why AdLunam is different:**\
**Because we designed it to survive what we’ve already seen.**

</details>

<details>

<summary>4️⃣ We’ve seen what makes users stay—and what makes them walk.</summary>

> *It’s never just the tech*. \
> It’s how people react to it, talk about it, trust it, or walk away from it.

**That’s why everything in AdLunam is built around behavior.**

* [x] [**Nadja**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/adlunam-ido-2025/founders/team/nadja-bester.md)’s background is in psychology. Not the academic kind—the kind that shows up in how people engage, buy, earn, and bounce.&#x20;
* [x] She's [regularly quoted](https://linktr.ee/nadjabestermedia) in top crypto and finance media for [breaking down](https://linktr.ee/nadjabesterpodcasts) the human side of Web3—from adoption patterns to founder meltdowns
* [x] All three founders have built through multiple cycles—so [**every part of AdLunam**](/adlunam-inc.-whitepaper/core-mechanisms/adlunam-ecosystem.md) was designed to survive the hype, not depend on it

**You only get one shot to make people believe in a platform.**\
**We didn’t waste it.**

</details>

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