Hi! My name is Mei Higashi and I run @0xMaisy on Instagram.
If you ever have topic or content requests, I’d love to hear more here!
My email for collaborations and sponsored media is im@gpu.rich.
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I’m a narrative architect, currently building Renalta. We are stewarding the next century of American banking + wealth building ෆ*₊
There are three things I prioritize in my work and content surrounding fintech:
Am I providing educational, informational, unbiased, and accurate information? (Oops, the journalist in me)
Am I dedicating as much of my time as humanly possible to building, and constantly improving, a product I wholeheartedly recommend to others?
Am I properly arranging my life, time, and intentions to give Renalta and our users the best chance at both success and safety? Am I thinking in centuries - or can I expand my perception of time to better serve humanity at any point?
Why DeFi (decentralized finance)?
Legacy financial systems remain arbitrary hierarchies built on layers of delegated trust and engineered fragility. Centralized institutions, having secured comfortable positions and reliable profit streams within the existing, systematically trained order, naturally hesitate to disrupt arrangements that have served them so well. It’s a stable Nash equilibrium where few have incentive to unilaterally abandon. DeFi’s ascent may not have to be a dramatic destruction of the old World, sure — but we'‘ve already forfeited if we remain complacent without attempting reclamation. Why surrender any more ground, Player 001?
DeFi is a journey into the West. Though it faces relentless daily stress-testing, it demonstrates the enduring power of self/non custody, permissionless and borderless access, and radical transparency. We will outpace and outperform the old regime not by destroying it, but by building a more efficient, resilient system in parallel to one grounded in true individual sovereignty.
My team and I have met at an extremely fateful moment in history, and we commit ourselves to doing everything we can to propel our product and service to the humans that need it - there is no doubt about it. The world is changing, humanity needs better banking, and it’s time to win. Every day is a new serendipitous experience around here.
This is the new story.
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For your context, I have been engineering various characters in the creator economy & on a broader media evangelism mission for consumer technology, defi, and finance brands for about 11 years. Here’s a peek into my worldview:
I dropped out of 3rd grade to homeschool in El Segundo, California. Best decision of my life. I had a meeting with my parents and learned how to make a SWOT chart while evaluating the future impact of this choice.
I once thought I’d be a surgeon or a hematologist. I briefly researched nanotech applications in oncology at UCLA Business of Science Center.
I loved shadowing product/graphic design courses at Art Center College of Design, wherein a lot of my branding inspiration comes from ctech in the 2000s, archaic programming references, and network communication.
I built my first “startup” in 2017, which was a software tool for developing prosthetics for military amputees.
Though I had never planned to go to university, I applied to a single college and was lucky to have attended USC’s Iovine and Young Academy.
My first exposure to crypto-world was via phygital products and NFTs. I kicked off with in tradfi assets since high school, and continued to trade options, futures, and crypto.
In a split reality, I instead followed my previous passions towards: acting/writing, physics + mathematics research, deep sea explorations, professional archery and horseback riding, haute couture and textile design, a consumer beauty brand, or… hmm. Endless mystery lore.
As always, lots of light. I wish you abundance, clarity, grounding, faith, and all goodness this Earth shares with us as humans!
Love, Mei
