nimimo is designed and built by Chris Zemmel (@chris), solo developer.
Architecture, implementation, security model, brand, and content are the work of a single person. The four-axis separation (architecture/four-axes.md), the state-space analysis (architecture/sixteen-states.md), the formal access primitive paper (architecture/access-primitive.md), the regulatory posture (architecture/regulatory-posture.md), and the ethical position (architecture/ethics.md) were authored by Chris Zemmel.
The product is free and has no token. It currently operates bootstrapped, with no outside investors. Investment, partnership, or acquisition that helps bring nimimo to more people without compromising the four-axis architecture is open for conversation. The alignment bar that any future capital must meet is documented in architecture/ethics.md, which should be read alongside this page. The architecture and the person are not separable, and neither is closed to scaling.
Timeline
- 2025-12-16. The first nimimo whitepaper was authored and shared with @strope on Telegram the same day. The document already specified non-custodial-by-default key management, identity as a layer separate from custody and recovery, a three-layer system (Identity Layer / Client Execution Layer / Settlement Layer) that the current four-axis framework refines, and an explicit non-goals list including "not an exchange, not a DeFi platform, not a universal abstraction layer".
- 2026-03-22.
nimimo.comdomain registered. - March 2026. The
@nimimoHQidentity on X was registered. - 2026-04-07. v1.0.0 shipped (see
AUDIT.mdfor the launch readiness assessment).
The 16-week gap between the first whitepaper and the public launch is the entire build window. The architecture was designed before the domain existed; the implementation followed the specification, not the other way around.
Note that both @chris and @strope above are real nimimo handles. Referencing people by their nimimo profile is the entire point of the product: a name you can paste, a name you can be paid to, a name that resolves to addresses on every supported chain without anyone having to ask which one.