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Some ppl think that Azuki isn't doing enough "web3" I think there’s a common misconception on what we're actually building. Azuki was built on the idea that the collectible characters belong to the holders. The NFTs are the 1st edition collectibles of this universe, the original characters of the Azuki IP. We care deeply about the art. It's why Azuki has consistently had sales well above floor for rare traits and aesthetics. Collectors are paying for what makes a specific character special. Today we're building the TCG to take those characters mainstream, followed by the official manga to turn the characters you own into a story millions will fall in love with. These characters started as PFPs. Today they’re used in trading cards played in tournaments. Soon they'll be in manga panels that people read on the train. They'll be loved by fans who've never owned an NFT. That IS web3. We're just doing it our way. The expectation is often that web3 means tokens are at the center of every product, fully onchain mechanics, experimentation at every layer, etc. That's a good fit for some projects. It's not what Azuki is. When we decided to build a TCG, there were holders adamant it should be digital and run on tokens. Despite gaming tokens mooning at the time, we chose otherwise. We knew that the facts were that 1. TCG players hate crypto. and 2. we have a goated team that has the ability to make a physical game that can compete with the best card games on the market. The right move was to build something players actually want and let the IP carry it. I'm glad that we stayed disciplined and made that call. That decision was specific to us given our team, our strengths, our constraints. Every team should lean into theirs. There is no single right way to do this. Going back to constraints for a sec bc it often gets overlooked... If your target audience hates crypto, why tf would you shove it in their face? Really think about that for a sec I've been very clear about what Azuki is and isn't. Read my pinned article. The NFTs are collectible characters and the original IP of the Azuki universe. The team is building a TCG and a manga from that IP. We work closely with the holders who've internalized this path, and that has been one of the most rewarding stretches of the journey. This path allows us to grow and proliferate the characters owned by holders with products that appeal to a mainstream audience. Some will disagree. I respect it. It doesn't change my mind. Azuki isn't built for everyone. It's built for the people who get it. If that's you, come join us. Azuki

This was probably the worst way to lose $150,000 ever In July 2022, an NFT whale called Franklin, the seventh largest Bored Ape holder at the time, registered an Ethereum Name Service domain called "stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth" It was meant to be a meta joke about people creating useless ENS names just to bait a Twitter bot into tweeting fake high bids on them To pull the joke off, he placed a 100 ETH bid on his own domain from a second wallet, which was worth around $150,000 at the time and the bot ended up tweeting it Then a guy called 8892 placed a real bid of 1.89 ETH (~$2,800) on the domain Franklin accepted, went to Twitter to post "the most surprising 1.891 ETH I have ever made" and then completely forgot one detail His own 100 ETH bid was still active Fifteen minutes later, 8892 accepted that 100 ETH offer, instantly selling the domain back to Franklin for $150,000 and walking away with a clean 97.5 ETH profit Franklin tried sending the 1.89 ETH back as a goodwill gesture hoping the buyer would reverse it 8892 just tweeted "I ripped this guy off for 100 ETH and he just sent me another 1.9?" Franklin posted "Oh no, I lost 100 ETH. This will be the joke and bag fumble of the century. I deserve all of the jokes and criticism." A guy who owned 57 Bored Apes worth millions got rinsed because he couldn't remember to cancel his own joke

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