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Three hours ago, I hung up the phone with a litigation funder and heard something I'll never forget: "We don't fund this type of civil rights case."
What kind of case? Mine. A federal constitutional case where I've been locked out of my home for 326 days, where I've documented systemic abandonment across multiple government agencies, where a federal judge has already validated that my claims have merit. The kind of case where every law enforcement bulletin and statute says the harm is real and actionable.
The funder's reason: "We only fund civil rights cases involving violent crimes. Your harm doesn't fit our definition of violence."
Let me translate that for you: 326 days of state-sanctioned, manufactured homelessness, toxic mold poisoning due to uninhabitable housing conditions, institutional obstruction of justice, denial of due process for a retaliatory illegal lockout by negligent landlord—none of that is violent enough.
But here's the thing. A police beating? Violent. A shooting caught on camera? Violent. Chronic deprivation of shelter by the same government charged with protecting you? That's not considered violent. That's "too complex." That's "not our category."
That's not a funding criteria. That's carceral logic. That's white supremacist risk math.
Quick sociological explanation:
Carceral logic means the system only recognizes harm it can punish with incarceration—everything else (structural violence, institutional abandonment, policy-driven displacement) becomes invisible.
White supremacist risk math means Black and Brown people's trauma has to be more 'dramatic' to be believed, while white people's claims are taken at face value.
This isn't new. This is how the system has always worked.
CalVCB (California Victim Compensation Board) told me the same thing in February 2025: "We don't cover nonviolent crimes." Never mind that nowhere in their literature or statutory law says violence is a requirement for them to fund a crime victim.
Never mind that they pay out $3.5 million annually for burglary, property theft, and other crimes classified as PC 487—the same felony crime documented on our police report.
Never mind that they're sitting on an end-of-year $46.7 million surplus while denying 96% of victims any help.
Never mind that their narrow definition of violence protects the system that causes harm to me and millions of other victims of systemic violence.
Mutual aid organizations told me something similar: They fund people whose trauma fits the aesthetic. House burned down? Yes. Cancer diagnosis? Yes. But, chronic displacement by systemic abandonment? That's "too complicated." That's "not our focus area." What they mean: "Your trauma doesn't fit the narrative that makes donors feel good about themselves."
This is the carceral state's greatest trick: Define violence so narrowly that only acute, visible, individual harm counts. Everything else becomes "administrative." Everything else becomes invisible.
Structural violence? Institutional abandonment? 14th Amendment violations through denial of due process? All of that disappears into the category of "not violent enough."
This isn't about one person's homelessness. This is about who gets funded when the system fails them.
If your harm doesn't come from a single "bad actor" (a cop, a landlord, a burglar), if it comes from systems refusing to enforce their own laws, you're out of luck. TradFi won't touch it. Traditional mutual aid won't touch it. The victim compensation board won't touch it.
Meanwhile, the people responsible for that systemic harm—CalVCB, Kern County Sheriff's Office + District Attorney's office, the Attorney General—they keep operating. No consequences. No accountability. Just a narrow definition of "violence" that protects everyone except the victims.
These policies and lack of enforcement are manufacturing homelessness. This is what is manufacturing displacement for people who have the documentation, the evidence, and the legal standing to win. The housing crisis is not a mystery and it's not by accident—it's by design. This same lack of enforcement—the same denial of due process—is what allows systemic violence from the proliferation of the manufactured homelessness crisis to ICE detentions of legal citizens to go unchallenged. When the system refuses to enforce its own laws, everyone becomes vulnerable.
I got tired of waiting for permission from systems that benefit from my silence.
So I deployed Proof of Justice Oracle—a smart contract on Base (Ethereum L2) that does what TradFi refuses to do: verify constitutional cases on-chain and make them fundable.
Here's what the oracle tracks:
Case ID: 1:25-cv-01123-KES-CDB (federal court validation = merit-tested)
Statutory floor: $195,600 (current accrued: 326 days × $600/day under CA Civil Code § 789.3)
Total case value: $39,052,697 USD
Evidence: All court filings, police reports, AG guidance—IPFS-linked, verifiable, cryptographically secured
Soulbound NFT: Permanently ties case ownership to me (non-transferable, can't be seized)
Transferable NFT: Represents the funding position—what a lender actually holds as collateral
TruthBomb Validator: Anti-fraud certificate authority (no scam tokens, no fake cases)
Sourcify: https://repo.sourcify.dev/8453/0xdC34DD6f952E582E1f4a8eb6ca410CaEF6C8FfE9/
Routescan: https://routescan.io/address/0xdC34DD6f952E582E1f4a8eb6ca410CaEF6C8FfE9/contract/8453/code
BaseScan: https://basescan.org/address/0xdC34DD6f952E582E1f4a8eb6ca410CaEF6C8FfE9
You don't have to trust me. You can verify everything yourself. This isn't "trust me bro." This is trust the blockchain.
Proof of Justice Oracle is part of The Accountability Project (TAP)—a broader movement building technology to enforce accountability on agencies, institutions, and systems that refuse to enforce the law. This isn't just about my case. This is infrastructure for everyone the system abandons. Learn more: theaccountabilityproject.org
Today, TradFi litigation funders told me my trauma isn't VIOLENT enough to fund.
Meanwhile, you—Web3, DeFi, P2P lending protocols—you've been building systems specifically designed to fund what traditional finance refuses.
So I'm asking: Will you prove them wrong?
I need $4,200 by tomorrow at noon to maintain temporary housing while I fight this $39M federal case. That's:
$3,200 to cover the past month and next week's hotel bill (due tomorrow)
$1,000 buffer for food, medicine, essentials, and runway to write the objections due in Federal Court by Tuesday, Dec 2nd.
Collateral: Transferable NFT (ERC-721) backed by $195,600 statutory floor
LTV ratio: 2.2% of guaranteed value (virtually zero risk for lender)
Loan terms negotiable via P2P platforms like PWN or direct smart contract. Fair interest rates 5-20% (far below TradFi's predatory 2-3x returns). Tokenized case collateral held on-chain. Repayment from settlement proceeds. This is mutual aid with algorithmic verification, not charity.
This isn't charity. This is a mutual aid loan with on-chain collateral and algorithmic verification.
Pre-settlement and litigation finance is an almost $30 billion industry. It's dominated by hedge funds and specialty finance firms who decide whose justice is 'bankable.' If DeFi can fund what they abandon, you're not just disrupting finance—you're democratizing access to the legal system itself.
If you build P2P lending protocols, oracle infrastructure, or decentralized justice systems, this is your use case.
DeFi already built the tools—P2P lending protocols, oracle infrastructure, NFT collateral systems. But until today, nobody tested them on an active legal case with real-world stakes—a federal civil rights case with $39M in documented harm. You built the rails. My case is the first train.
Necessity breeds invention and that's where we're at. We need another funding option to survive and fight our civil rights case to victory so we built and deployed an oracle that does exactly that—it's live and it works.
The question isn't whether it can be done. The question is: Will DeFi fund cases that TradFi refuses to acknowledge?
Because if the answer is yes, we can prove TODAY that:
Decentralized systems can verify real-world legal claims
NFT collateral can back material loans
Oracle contracts can price structural harm
P2P lending can scale to areas TradFi abandons
And if the answer is no, then DeFi is just TradFi with different branding.
→ Send direct support:
ETH: felicelazae.eth (Base)
Fiat: FundRazr (credit card/PayPal)
Any amount helps—$50, $500, $4,200, more
Collateral: On-chain NFT backed by $195,600 statutory floor (2.2% LTV)
Terms: Negotiable via PWN, Arcade, ParaSpace, or direct smart contract
Interest: 5-20% (far below TradFi's 2-3x returns)
Repayment: From settlement proceeds, secured on-chain
We've created a loan request on PWN with the POJ Oracle as collateral. The contract is live—we're just waiting for protocol validation. If PWN moves quickly, this gets funded tonight. If another P2P platform (Arcade, ParaSpace, MetaStreet) wants to move faster, be the first to prove decentralized litigation funding works.
I'm doxxed. I'm building publicly. This is alpha-stage infrastructure, but the case is real, the statutory floor is real, and I'm not disappearing—I'm writing federal court objections due in 4 days.
If you want to understand why TradFi refused me and why that matters:
"When Following the Law Becomes a Federal Case"
That piece explains the carceral logic, the institutional abandonment, and the $46.7M CalVCB surplus that could have prevented this entire crisis.
But right now? Right now I need you to act, not read.
Prove that decentralized justice is real.
Send ETH to felicelazae.eth
View the verified contract on BaseScan: https://basescan.org/address/0xdC34DD6f952E582E1f4a8eb6ca410CaEF6C8FfE9
Tag @pwndao, @gitcoin, @giveth, @endaomentdotorg—and every serious P2P lender and oracle protocol—and tell them: ‘This is what you’re built for.’
You know that moment in every resistance story where the rebels realize the empire isn't just evil—it's incompetent? Where the system's weakness becomes visible and someone has to act?
This is that moment.
TradFi just told me 326 days of state-manufactured homelessness isn't violent enough. CalVCB is sitting on $46.7M while denying 96% of victims—including denial of our case.
The legal system works—but only if you can afford to use it. Equal access to justice is the BIG LIE.
DeFi, you built the alternative. Prove it works.
Send ETH to felicelazae.eth. Verify the contract on BaseScan. Tag @pwndao, @gitcoin, @giveth and tell them: 'This is what you're built for.'
Black Friday 2025. The signal just went up. Will you answer?
Black Friday 2025. Proof of Justice Oracle v5.0 deployed. $195,600 statutory floor verified on-chain. One week of housing funded by mutual aid, not TradFi.
felicelazae.eth
Prove them wrong.
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Case: Martin v. Castillo, 1:25-cv-01123-KES-CDB | Federal Court, E.D. California
PACER Docket: pacermonitor.com/case/59961646
Justia Public Link: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/caedce/1:2025cv01123/470902
*Court Listener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71269190/martin-v-castillo/
Oracle Contract (Base v5.0): https://basescan.org/address/0xdC34DD6f952E582E1f4a8eb6ca410CaEF6C8FfE9
Evidence Portal: ArDrive (IPFS-linked): https://app.ardrive.io/#/drives/295ef641-971b-441d-8625-bcdfd43fdf28?name=Martin+%26+Borges+v.+Castillo+et+al+%281%3A25-cv-01123%29+Federal+Case+Documents
Published: November 28, 2025 | Proof of Justice Protocol
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TradFi litigation funders just told me 326 days of state-manufactured homelessness ‘isn’t violent enough’ to fund. So I launched Proof of Justice Oracle + a @pwndao 2.2% LTV P2P loan on @base.base.eth to test whether DeFi can do what TradFi refused Story + loan + ways to help: https://paragraph.com/@felicelazae/not-violent-enough-why-tradfi-just-proved-we-need-decentralized-justice P2P Loan: app.pwn.xyz/offer/11546 How it works: proof-of-justice.notion.site Fiat donations: https://fundrazr.com/tap-martin-borges-federal-case ETH: felicelazae.eth