About
A small office with a narrow job.
Vidimus exists because nobody sits between a high-profile person and the market and publishes, in one place, what was true when trading opened. We are not a launchpad, an exchange, a fund, or a promoter. We do not hold tokens, take allocations, or post about price.
The name is chancery Latin. A vidimus was a certified copy: the clerk had seen the original and attested that this was it. The card is a vidimus of the person and the supply.
People
Doxxed, boring, specific.
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Aaron Shames
Principal · Verification, structure, deployment
Six years full-time in crypto, all of it as the person writing and shipping the contracts. Founder and primary developer of Topaz, a ve(3,3) decentralized exchange on BNB Chain and four further networks, which passed $1.5 billion in trading volume within three months of launch.
Before that, founder of Bomb Money and the PegHub ecosystem (2021–23): the first Tomb Finance fork on BSC, run with a doxxed team through the 2022 cycle. The algorithmic-peg model did not survive the bear market — like every Tomb fork — and that is where the view behind Vidimus comes from. Publish locks, not promises.
Before crypto: telecom, then founder of a VoIP company.
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Counsel of record
To follow · Engagement letters, card language, jurisdiction
Every card and every engagement letter is reviewed by counsel before publication. Their name will appear here once the engagement letter template exists.
Independence
What we are not attached to.
A separate company. The principal also founded Topaz, a decentralized exchange. Vidimus is a separate company with separate counsel; it does not use Topaz’s liquidity, wallets, or accounts for any client, and no third-party mark appears on a card.
No allocation, ever. Our fee is cash, paid by the talent, their management, a label, or a sponsor, and disclosed on the card. We hold zero tokens in any launch we attest.
No public intake. There is no form to submit a token. Engagements begin through management or counsel, and end at the first request for an exception to the Standard.