Arkham Intelligence, Reserve, and the Leverage Research 'cult'
Arkham Intelligence has been thrust into the limelight thanks to its new ‘dox-to-earn’ program, which has also invited increased scrutiny of its founder, Miguel Morel. Before Morel founded Arkham, he co-founded Reserve alongside Nevin Freeman. Reserve is another cryptocurrency company focused on over-collateralized stablecoins. However, Freeman and Morel also have a history that predates Reserve, involving a strange group of Silicon Valley thinkers. This group hoped it had chanced into revolutionary new psychological tools that would enable it to correct serious mental health issues and enable people to become more effective. Freeman met self-proclaimed philosopher and research program designer Geoff Anders during a time when he was looking for a new purpose in life. He’d shifted his focus from climate change to other things he believed posed an existential risk , such as Artificial General Intelligence. In the early 2010s, Anders formed Leverage Research to focu...