Hello, everyone!
I'm Felipe, and I want to share a bit of my journey with you. A couple of years ago, before I set out to build Atto, I was a strong believer in what cryptocurrency originally aimed to achieve—fast, decentralized, accessible digital cash for everyone, without the need for intermediaries. But somewhere along the way, it felt like much of the crypto community lost sight of that vision. Instead of "let's make digital cash work," the conversation shifted to "what's the next moonshot?" That's when I thought, "How hard could it be to create a cryptocurrency that just works for payments?"
Spoiler alert: It's really hard. What started as a fun little project to tinker with in my free time quickly evolved into something much bigger—something that I thought could be finished in a year but has kept me on my toes for much longer. The process of creating a new cryptocurrency is like peeling an endless onion—every time you think you've figured it out, there's another layer waiting for you. A lot of things needed to come together to make this work: the code, the security, the ecosystem, and the community. It turned out to be more challenging than I'd ever imagined.
