The evolution of TON's degradation
Many newcomers may not know the story behind the emergence of the TON Foundation's love of memes. But I'll tell you.
We olds, even before there was a contract standard for tokens, came up with $BOLT. It was an experiment with tokens to try them out and just mess around. The contract was as crooked as possible, but it worked - and it still does (it is even given as an example in the TON documentation). It was the first and only meme token from the community at the time. All 200 people in the ecosystem competed for it.
Then came $ARBUZ. With the DFC Fund's resources and tools, we demonstrated how you can rock a coin even in a swamp like TON when you have the resources. $ARBUZ created and united a strong and active community around it and became an example of a real meme token.
However, when we approached the TON Foundation with the idea of supporting a meme trend, we were looked at like crazy. "What memes? We've got DeFi, scalability, transaction speeds and all that." - TON Foundation employees said. We even offered to burn everything that was redeemed at the time for activations and leave only what was in the hands of users. But we were turned down again and again.
A year went by. Now the main narrative of the entire TON ecosystem is memes. Durov, we fucked it all up.
When we tried to make TON famous, we weren't allowed to do it. Now we're trying to ride a dead donkey with a carrot in front of our nose.
BOLT and ARBUZ faded into the shadows, losing attention, and mempads took their place. Users had fun losing money while the TON Foundation rejoiced in the metrics and the mempads made money.
Eventually, users got tired of losing money and stopped creating and buying memes. Then mempads started sharing their earnings with meme creators, and TON Foundation launched the TON Memelandia rewards program.
However, after playing around a bit, users realized that it was the same eggs, only in profile. They had a fight with TON Foundation over another scam, gave up and left TON.
But the exchanges and mempads don't want to lose profits. They keep coming up with stocks with unattainable rewards like Lamborghini, lower trading commissions and so on.
It seems that soon they will start paying users to go create and trade memes. By the way, Open League is already doing something similar - only within DeFi. But something and it doesn't work, TVL ecosystem is decreasing day by day.
This post is about how you don't have to miss opportunities. When everything is brought to you on a platter, you don't take it. And then you try to do the same thing again, but you fail. The Penguins are giving away more on Solana than TON has given away in the history of the open league. Think.
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$KINGY: DEX DeDust.io, STON.fi, Swap.Coffee and xRocket.
Many newcomers may not know the story behind the emergence of the TON Foundation's love of memes. But I'll tell you.
We olds, even before there was a contract standard for tokens, came up with $BOLT. It was an experiment with tokens to try them out and just mess around. The contract was as crooked as possible, but it worked - and it still does (it is even given as an example in the TON documentation). It was the first and only meme token from the community at the time. All 200 people in the ecosystem competed for it.
Then came $ARBUZ. With the DFC Fund's resources and tools, we demonstrated how you can rock a coin even in a swamp like TON when you have the resources. $ARBUZ created and united a strong and active community around it and became an example of a real meme token.
However, when we approached the TON Foundation with the idea of supporting a meme trend, we were looked at like crazy. "What memes? We've got DeFi, scalability, transaction speeds and all that." - TON Foundation employees said. We even offered to burn everything that was redeemed at the time for activations and leave only what was in the hands of users. But we were turned down again and again.
A year went by. Now the main narrative of the entire TON ecosystem is memes. Durov, we fucked it all up.
When we tried to make TON famous, we weren't allowed to do it. Now we're trying to ride a dead donkey with a carrot in front of our nose.
BOLT and ARBUZ faded into the shadows, losing attention, and mempads took their place. Users had fun losing money while the TON Foundation rejoiced in the metrics and the mempads made money.
Eventually, users got tired of losing money and stopped creating and buying memes. Then mempads started sharing their earnings with meme creators, and TON Foundation launched the TON Memelandia rewards program.
However, after playing around a bit, users realized that it was the same eggs, only in profile. They had a fight with TON Foundation over another scam, gave up and left TON.
But the exchanges and mempads don't want to lose profits. They keep coming up with stocks with unattainable rewards like Lamborghini, lower trading commissions and so on.
It seems that soon they will start paying users to go create and trade memes. By the way, Open League is already doing something similar - only within DeFi. But something and it doesn't work, TVL ecosystem is decreasing day by day.
This post is about how you don't have to miss opportunities. When everything is brought to you on a platter, you don't take it. And then you try to do the same thing again, but you fail. The Penguins are giving away more on Solana than TON has given away in the history of the open league. Think.
@investkingyru | @investkingyru_en | twitter | CMC | Private, Elite
$KINGY: DEX DeDust.io, STON.fi, Swap.Coffee and xRocket.