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We Were Never His Community. We Were His Fundraise. | Full Long Story Let's start with something most people get wrong. @armaniferrante didn't build Mad Lads alone. @tristan co-founded Coral with him, co-founded Backpack with him, and was the person who spent over a year curating the community before the mint even happened. The allowlist process, the culture, the "WAO — We Are One" identity — that was Tristan's work. Him and @monkdoesnt. They made Mad Lads a name that commanded genuine respect across the entire Solana ecosystem. There's something worth noting. FTX collapsed in November 2022. The Mad Lads mint happened in April 2023, months later, as Solana was still trying to find its footing. Looking back, that mint wasn't just a community launch. It was a lifeline. A way to rebuild and fund the exchange Armani actually wanted to build all along. We were the funding round. We just didn't know it at the time. After Tristan and Monkey left, everything that came after is Armani's legacy alone. The community started hollowing out slowly. The Mad Lads Twitter went quiet. Discord went cold. New Backpack employees had zero respect for Lads holders, some distanced themselves publicly, some talked openly about not caring. But Armani kept saying the right things. Community matters. Loyalty matters. So we stayed. Then the Backpack Exchange announcement dropped and we lost our minds, in the best way. We bought more Lads immediately. At that point Mad Lads was genuinely bigger than Backpack as a brand. The name carried more weight, more trust, more recognition. We thought: this is it. We are the face of something that could become the next Binance. Our patience is about to pay off. Then came the Seasons. Trading points, volume based rewards, the promise of a $BP airdrop. Mad Lads holders are not traders, we never were. We are believers, holders, community people. But we didn't want to be left behind. So we tried. We generated volume. Lost real money. And told ourselves: it's fine, TGE is coming, he won't forget us. Season 2. Season 3. Still no utility for Lads. Still no mention of Lads. The only thing we ever received was a fee reduction on the exchange, a benefit built for traders, given to a community of people who aren't traders. By that point, I don't think they thought about us much at all. The signals were everywhere. Mad Lads Twitter stopped posting. Armani became active on Backpack Discord and went silent on Lads Discord. His language shifted from "our community" to "Mad Lads are not our product." When KOLs posted hit pieces on Backpack, who was in the replies defending him every single time? Lads holders. Always. Someone slid into my DMs, an ex-Backpack employee. Said simply: "Lads will not get an airdrop." I dismissed it. We all did. We thought Armani was filtering out farmers. The real ones would be taken care of. He values loyalty, right? We chose to believe that. When people close to the team started posting about "all the airdrops Lads already received," we read between the lines. The message underneath was obvious: you already ate, stop asking. But we held on. When Armani posted "NFTs might be dead but Lads are just getting started" we took it as confirmation. He still sees us. He didn't. Then the snapshot. The tokenomics. The number that made the whole community go silent. One percent. Not for bots. Not for farmers. For the people who had been there from the beginning. Who defended him publicly. Who absorbed trading losses to generate volume for his exchange. One percent for the backbone. The response when the community asked why? Simple. Cold. You already ate. Then came yesterday, one day after the TGE. As community managers have now confirmed, newly traded Mad Lads will no longer receive VIP status on Backpack. If you held before, you are grandfathered in. But anyone buying today gets nothing. No utility. No benefit. No connection to the exchange we spent years supporting. He waited until after the airdrop to quietly close the door. No announcement. No explanation. Just policy. That is not an oversight. That is housekeeping. The community served its purpose, the token launched, and the last remaining thread was cut the very next day. Here is what I believe now. Armani got lucky. He got lucky that Tristan was brilliant at building community culture from the ground up. He inherited loyalty that most founders spend years trying to manufacture. And instead of stewarding it, he extracted it. Quietly, gradually, until there was nothing left to take. Mad Lads was never the goal. Backpack was always the goal. Mad Lads was the vehicle that got him there. Once it served its purpose, it got parked. And the tragic part? It didn't even work. The TGE underperformed. The trader community is fractured. Chinese holders are rising up over witch-hunt accusations. He distanced himself from the community that loved him unconditionally and couldn't hold the one he replaced us with. Mad Lads gave Armani everything. Capital, credibility, cover, and community. We were there when nobody else was. We made Backpack look legitimate before Backpack had earned that on its own. WAO. We Are One. We meant it. He never did.

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THIS WEEK ON SOLANA: For a deeper dive into this week’s @solana updates, check out the full article. Link at the bottom of the thread. SOLANA SPOTLIGHT: - @KASTxyz, a stablecoin-powered payments platform, raised $80 million in a Series A round led by @QEDInvestors and @leftlanecap. - @SolanaFloor, one of the OG Solana news media platforms, relaunched after acquisition by @jito_sol. - @JupiterExchange launched Jupiter Offerbook, a peer-to-peer lending protocol on @solana, enabling loans for every assets with customizable terms. - @anza_xyz’s SIMD-0266 proposal was approved, introducing p-tokens, a computationally efficient token model designed to make Solana transactions up to 19× faster. - @YumiFinance, a fully on-chain BNPL platform, raised a pre-seed round to rebuild credit infrastructure using stablecoin rails. - @cngn_co, the company behind the Nigerian on-chain Naira $cNGN, expanded to @solana. AUDITS | INTEGRATIONS | MILESTONES: - @omnipair integrated with Jupiter’s routing engine, enabling trades and swaps to be routed through its AMM for optimized execution. - @onrefinance surpassed $130 million in assets under management, adding $30 million over the past 25 days. - @Titan_Exchange integrated @vanishTrade to enable private swaps directly from the Titan interface, allowing users to trade anonymously on @solana via a shielded wallet. - @jup_lend surpassed $800 million in Earn deposits, marking a new all-time high. SOLANA INSTITUTIONAL: - @Aon_plc, one of the world’s largest insurance brokers operating in 120+ countries, settled insurance premium for its client, @Paxos, using $PYUSD on @solana. - @Mastercard selected @solana as one of more than 85 members in its Crypto Partner Program. - @balance_canada, one of Canada’s largest digital asset custodians, selected @solstrategies' Orange Validator as the Solana staking provider for its custody clients. - @circle minted $2.5 billion on Solana over the last 7 days. OTHERS: - @doublezero introduced DoubleZero Edge, a platform delivering real-time market data to traders and market participants using multicast technology. - @LanternStake introduced Wick, a yield swap protocol that allows SOL stakers to receive their staking rewards in tokens other than SOL. - @useKled, a Solana-based data marketplace that rewards users for contributing data to AI training, raised $5.5 million Seed round. - @_gammafi launched Gamma v2, an autonomous economic agent designed to automatically reallocate user funds across Solana DeFi protocols to optimize yield. - @triadmarkets integrated @dflow into its Hybrid Markets, bringing deeper external liquidity to the platform. - @Sunrise_DeFi listed AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche blockchain, on @solana. - @Pumpfun surpassed $1 billion in lifetime revenue.

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Updates on Solana airdrops 🪂 🔸 @Titan_Exchange introduced private swaps powered by @vanishTrade. Trades aren't publicly connected to your main wallet history. Do at least one private swap to get the Privacy Badge. 🔸 @hylo_so will soon reveal V2 with improvements for volatility decay and support for more xAssets (like xBTC). 🔸 @xplaceapp finally opened its own Discord server. As always I recommend to join it as it might give you perks for the upcoming potential airdrop and it makes it easier for you to follow announcements by the team. 🔸If you have SOL idling in your wallet, the @piggybank_fi jitoSOL Vault could be a good place for it over the coming weeks. With additional JTO incentives, you can earn ~15% APY on your jitoSOL right now and earn 2x Oink points. 🔸 @SandwatchAI is starting Season 2 soon and to be let in right from the start, you need to register your mail address on their site.

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A bit late but I just got my new Privacy badge on Titan If you haven’t earned it yet, here’s how: – Go to @Titan_Exchange – Click on Private – Enable the Vanish wallet to make a private swap – Send some $SOL to the wallet and make a swap How many badges have you collected so far?

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