Opening Problem Statement

Blockchain isn't a business model — it’s infrastructure. But today, that infrastructure is sequestered behind technical know-how, fragmented tools, and a user experience that only developers can navigate. As societies technical literacy rate decreases, the gap between blockchain's potential and what most people can access grows wider.

Our platform removes that complexity, making powerful onchain capabilities simple, practical, and accessible.

Authenticity Amplifies Signal, Trust, & Adoption

The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) measures the frequency of positive and negative affect. SPANE Research, discovers the most powerful human emotion is not love, but detected authenticity is 4000x more powerful than love.

The language describing blockchain tools are created by developers in isolated bubbles, then borrowed by marketers, who are looking to create a profitable business, but these lowering literacy rates turn this new technology and it's opportunities into vulnerability.

We created a Brand + LMS System that integrates the ideologies of worldwide learning, with concepts such as interconnectivity in a familiar and safe way. The complexity of blockchain tools no longer alienate everyday users. Because we provide our custom guided-learning material tailored to a lowering level of non-technical backgrounds.

As of right now, learning to navigate Web3 resembles a game of "whisper down the lane." Where the language starts with developers, then marketing agencies and companies servicing the lower-waged workers with information that they want them to adopt.

Sounds typical. But the thing is, Blockchain & Smart Contracts were designed against the archaic model of top-down businesses. In fact, all early holders of Bitcoin had an ethos of "Decentralization". This meant businesses could quit the single owner model, because not only was the money digital, but so were the rules in the contracts it passed through.

But this still doesn't solve the problem of it still being too complicated.

“The key to success with AI is not just having the right data, but also asking the right questions.” – Ginni Rometty.

Blockchain is growing, and despite the lack of literacy, both companies and people are hungry for alternatives to full corporate control. People are eager to support a brand with their best interest in mind, along with a unified vision and aesthetic that resonates with those seeking authenticity in an increasingly digital world.

However, Blockchain is only 10 years old, and is still in it's childhood. We're early in the technological timeline. But accelerating towards advancement and infrastructure.

We kept education powerful but approachable. By focusing on iterative prototypes — new types of AI design using a 6th grade literacy level, fine-tuning to make Web3 actions feel gamified. While introducing random events using tooltips to help teach gradually.

Goals Acomplished:
- Create Collaborative Flywheels For Small Communities & Treasuries.
- Non-Replicable Modular LMS System.
- Prompt Catalog + Autodidact-Friendly Compute.

TECHSTACK:

• RAG Model Architecture. (DAEMON/ANGEL)

• Pedagogical AI Data Contextualized For Output.

• Wagmi, Next.js, AgentKit, BaseNames, Privy.

• Original DeFi Framework.

Mental Wealth Academy's goal is aiding the human spirit towards the future in what we believe to be the next generation of information, learning, & education.

Many of the competing brands in our target audience had the grit required to make a splash, first mover's advantage. Their insider knowledge, financial capital, and the hype of FOMO, allowed them to create new primitives, but it came too fast, and a shaky foundation creates unfavorable business models.

• Limited User Insights: Early brands lack long-term data on user behavior and needs.

• Stalled Innovation: Relied on competition hawking existing ideas (vampire attacks).

• Talent Shortage: A lack of skilled labor limited creativity and growth potential.

• Oversaturation: Marketing riddled with misnomers stem from low tech literacy.

A digital catalog of course PDFs and learning resources stored on-chain, ensuring materials remain accessible, portable, and censorship-resistant. Students can borrow or unlock content without predatory subscription models or inflated bookstore pricing — reducing semester costs while maintaining academic integrity.

Our primary goal here was to create a fluid onchain library that plugs excitement into the digital world. Users want meaningful events, alternatives to pricey e-courses.

Value
• Lower cost of learning
• Permanent access to purchased materials
• Transparent ownership and usage rights

As AI grows, users also want to visualize prompt results before they are generated, and be rewarded for their help towards the brand.

The only way to see what a prompt yields is to generate it — creating guesswork, wasted credits, and unpredictable outputs. We designed a visualization layer that lets users preview the shape, direction, and likely outcome of prompts before they run them.

Value
• Learn prompting faster through visual feedback
• Reduce wasted generations and errors
• Build confidence before interacting with advanced AI tools

This turns prompting from a blind experiment into an intuitive learning skill.

Students join live, teacher-led sessions hosted on-chain, where participation earns reputation and governance influence. Sessions range from academic upskilling to wellness-focused community spaces — blending education with belonging.

Value
• Peer accountability and real human interaction
• Reputation tied to contribution, not wealth
• Earn governance rights through active learning

This is also where our parasocial research applies: students learn best when they feel emotionally connected to a community. Our design leverages authentic interaction — not artificial hype — to increase engagement, retention, becoming a bridge to wellness.

Scientific Finding on Parasocial Interactions & Relationships (PSI/PSR)

The investigation reveals that through such social media platforms, PSI/PSR influence consumers cognitively, affectively and behaviorally. In terms of cognition, the data suggest that PSI/PSR can influence opinion, interests, attention allocation and construction of relations, specifically through the availability of in-depth knowledge about the social media persona. Additionally, the research findings indicate that affect-laden messages from persona can alter emotion and mood, induce empathetic reactions and trigger inspiration, especially in relation to the shared interest of the online community of the social media account. Behaviorally, the findings suggest that personas’ messages can direct and inspire both online and offline actions through endorsed behavioral parasocial interactions. (Yuksel and Labrecque 305).

Other EdTech and Web3 brands launched fast — without deep user insights or a sustainable foundation. We’re not chasing hype; we’re building usable infrastructure for modern learners:

• A library that saves students money
• AI tools that build capability, not confusion
• Community-first classrooms that foster a sense of belonging

Mental Wealth Academy transforms blockchain from a barrier into a benefit — a new layer of education that protects both mental wealth and financial wellbeing.

The DAO bridges teamwork through a vibrant voting experience that increases brand-trust with every interaction. To ensure the community stays vibrant, and thriving, discussions centered around wellness, school, skill-building, and other things to further invest in the human potential of each member.

As we accelerate, barriers to infrastructure diminish, making it easier to build a global onchain economy. In this dynamic landscape, high-quality brands stand out as they distinguish themselves from the competition at an increasingly rapid pace.

The Academy Experiment’s timeline visualizer tracks collective progress as the DAO scales and adapts. Our onboarding framework reinforces a governance model where influence is earned through contribution — not bought.

Breaking funding into 3 phases with clear allocations:

1. Initial Development:

   • Smart contract auditing & deployment.

   • DAO setup and initial library catalog.

   • Marketing for campus outreach.

   • Estimated Cost: $50,000–$70,000.

2. Growth & Expansion:

   • Licensing agreements for broader digital book offerings.

   • Diversifying resources (e.g., audiobooks, tutorials, niche academic materials).

   • Onboarding more educators and hosts for events.

   • Technical upgrades for scalability.

   • Paid membership tier.

   • Estimated Cost: $50,000-70,000.

3. Scaling to Multiple Campuses:

   • Larger-scale marketing efforts.

   • Full-fledged app integration.

   • Event partnerships and premium content offerings.

   • Student led events and grassroots awareness.

   • Estimated Cost: $200,000–$250,000.

Total Funding Ask: ~$50,000–$70,000.

Mental Wealth Academy is more than a library.

It’s a movement to redefine how education and technology intersect, to empower more students and potential academics with equitable access to a long-term brand fostering creativity and community.

Becoming Revenue Sustained: Special Live-Events

Mental Wealth Academy's short-term goal: to provide college students access to a hub, in which they can use blockchain technology to drastically lower the cost of learning.

Rewards and blockchain can foster fruitful discussions, while offering members access to premium events, via partnerships of Mental Wealth Academy.

Digital Assets such as keys & voting booth allows robust use of collaboration tools to provide members with continual value and utility throughout the semester.

During off-seasons more events can be added, with our modular design even non-profit events, games and rewards with Academy profit through a tax percentage on Academy assets + sales from physicals.

Secret Mental Wealth Academy Plan (Shh don't tell)

Background: My day job is enhancing digital UX experiences for businesses & startups with 15+ years in design, psychology, and product, for a company called Metawave Studio. On the side I am DAO contributor of Mental Wealth Academy and help proliferate advanced Ethereum use cases with Larry and the rest of the team.

https://mentalwealthacademy.net

Yuksel, Muzaffer, and Lauren I. Labrecque. "‘Digital Buddies’: Parasocial Interactions in Social Media." Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, vol. 10, no. 4, 2016, pp. 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/JRIM-03-2016-0023.

• Open source: https://github.com/jhinnbay/MentalWealthAcademy

• Articles: https://mentalwealthacademy.net/

• Deployed Library DApp [WIP]: https://mental-wealth-academy.vercel.app/library