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“Here at Abstract, we play a constant balance between a bully and a nice guy, if you don’t agree with us or if you’re not working with our preferred agencies or our Auditing partners then you must be a grifter who is doing something wrong, if you manage to generate insane hype without using our preferred agencies then you must be a scammer” Let’s address this, before you come to any conclusions, allow us the time to explain and point out the hypocrisy in Phin’s post and shed truth about the situation. Let’s start with our first correspondance, a few months ago, we applied through the Abstract Builder program and then received an email with @rajpatel 's Calendly link, booked a discovery call, we jumped on a call and had a chat, we showed Raj the full DEMO of the game and he liked it and said they WILL SUPPORT us. A group-chat with all the Abstract ecosystem members was created, and we then approached different KOLs, one of the topics mentioned to the kols is that we are in talks with the Abstract team and might be partnering and that Raj likes our product, which was true at the time. Phin then told us to stop that which was met with an immediate response from our side, we messaged every person that was told that and told them that our claims are not true and that there is no collaboration whatsoever with the Abstract team. Proof: imgur.com/a/uGLxB1j A few days later, I spoke to Raj about the support we'd get and then we got a follow from abs + abs ecosystem + a retweet, keep in mind, BEFORE getting followed there were no talks about any audits/ onchain/off chain mechanics, we were never informed of their auditing standards, it was just the Abstract team and their bad due diligence + unprofessionalism and eagerness to have quality projects on their chain, they never asked about the game architecture nor did they go in-depth, but were willing to support (hence the follow and retweet). After this, we went on a series of calls with multiple KOLs to try and get support for our upcoming referral program, which is a marketing technique that we believe would work best with all the big KOLs onboard, we managed to get some of the best, and some of the worst grifting KOLs (@kickzeth , was super responsive before getting paid and immediately ghosted after receiving 3k as an upfront payment). Fast forward a few days, I get a message from Raj in the gc, asking us to book a call so we can discuss the next steps (At this point we were followed by the abs main account + ecosystem, retweeted by them and getting messages from the team telling us to book calls so we can discuss our next steps together) Phin was excited to jump on a call and work on a “gameplan around it” Proof: imgur.com/a/tu1rWhG We jump on a call with Raj, and inside the call there is Phin and Mason, I start explaining the game concept, tokenomics, economy etc… The team seemed to not like that we will be doing a token presale and suggested we do a pack sale instead and that if we did that they would HELP us generate all the hype needed, I was warned about @inhuman and told to not work with him at all (After what happened I have come to a conclusion that the Abs cabal is only willing to work with people who will submit to what they want and Inhuman doesn’t seem to be that guy) I told them we’ll think of it and let them know, after the call there were discussions with the rest of our team. Including our devs, who are part of our team and not outsourced like Phin is claiming. @nibthebull is our lead dev. We made a decision to switch to pack sale, which made sense from an economic POV, as people will have to play the game in order to access tokens instead of having them own tokens from the start. They liked it and seemed to react nicely to the idea, Raj then adds @its_pedro who is the head of product at Abs ecosystem. He tells us we have a great product and envisions us as a great product for the portal, we then book a discovery call with Pedro to discuss xp and portal integrations, Pedro, Raj and I jump on the call for the first time, I show Pedro the game, explain the economy etc… Pedro asks us about how they can track metrics, I tell them that we have off chain game logic, but withdrawals/deposits + pack opening is all onchain, we then tell them we will be doing multiple audits before we even launch the game. We continue the convo in the chat and Pedro asks to speak to our dev, I then proceed to add our dev to the GC. We wait for a couple of days for Pedro to book a call, while all of this is happening, I send a message in the gc to Raj, informing him that we want to start our referral campaign asap because we want to keep up the momentum that we have already built. Proof: imgur.com/a/l2v3exm Pedro books, we jump on a call for the second time with Pedro (4th call in total with Abs team members), this time our dev is in the call, Pedro asks a few questions about the game architecture, we let him know that our game logic (movement, maps, etc) are off-chain but packs, deposits, withdrawals are all onchain. He doesn’t seem to like it and says that we’d have to find a middleground before they can support us in the portal, as a gamer myself I try to explain to him that we don’t have a gamified coinflip/staking concept in order for us to easily have it onchain, we have a lot of complex logic and that it would be better for us to have logic off chain to ensure optimisation, keep in mind, the biggest games in the history of crypto p2e were off chain/onchain hybrids. I then told Pedro that we could hire a 3rd party development agency or have someone from their team handle the production updates so that we can never have any interference with the game while people are playing, once again, fully transparent and willing to go along with what they suggest but Pedro still refuses. We jump off the call, I dm Raj telling him that we expected them to support us but then they backed out for reasons which we believe are unfair (we wanted to find a middle ground solution that wouldn't have us redesign the game ) and opted to take multiple audits but they still refused. Raj then tells me that they will not support us at launch because of security concerns and because we are eager to raise, I inform him that the reason we want to raise is because the game is self funded + liquidity needs to be added + infrastructure needs to be paid. He then goes ahead and removes the Abstract brand + team member follows. Proof: imgur.com/a/PZEMFso Not realising that they have only made themselves look bad because they didn’t do their due diligence before following us in the first place, this is where the saving face starts, Raj speaks to Kickz (who was paid 3k and 0.5% token supply to help us connect with KOLs, getting advice, speaking to kols and getting deals and ghosted after the payment by a week) and tells him about our situation, Kickz who claimed to be working with abstract tells on Raj then goes around telling people that we are untrustworthy and that the abs pulled out because we can’t be trusted, when I confronted the abstract team they denied that anything discussed in the group was ever leaked, but when I spoke to Raj in DMs he admitted that he leaked to kickz but never said anything about us being untrustworthy, this is where the rumours of us being a scam start to circulate. Proof: imgur.com/a/obFvmvw After realising that we have been done dirty by the abstract team, we decide to ignore what is going around, we make the card pack announcement post and let everybody know the next steps in private and that we have pivoted from a token sale to a card pack Sale. We didn’t inform the abs team about this because at this point they had already revoked their support. The pack announcement goes viral organically (At this point most of the KOLs have backed out and stopped replying) everything is smooth and we go ahead with our presale plans, we start selling out immediately. Phin then goes ahead and makes a post, implying that we are liars, and that if they don’t follow a project it means we’re mostly liars. We start to receive multiple messages from people, asking us about the situation, instead of us making a public statement, I decide to ask Phin about it and see if he’s talking about us (the timing was odd so I had to make sure it had nothing do with us) Phin DENIED that the post was about us, and said it was about another project and apologised to us, I then asked him if he could rectify his statement and make it clear that it’s not about us, but he refuses and says that it would mean he’d endorse us and he wouldnt be comfortable with that. I then propose to him that we will make an official announcement informing everyone that we are not partnered with abstract and of the reason we got unfollowed, but Phin advised against that, telling us it would make our project look bad (eventhough he used his power to try and do the same) after confronting them in the groupchat and pointing out their unprofessionalism, hypocrisy and lack of experience in the gaming field, I was met with ignorant replies, mostly them ignoring my main talking points and proceeding to push the same narrative. I kept on trying to get them to rectify the situation (Phin’s post which he denied in private but said the opposite in public, hypocrisy) but they just made excuses, after realising that they wont swallow their pride and admit how they have negatively affected us, I told them that I will share all of our correspondences and let the people judge for themselves (I still refrained from doing this because I don’t want the chain we’re launching on to look bad). As a counter-measure to this, Phin tries to damage control their situation and goes full hypocrite mode to try to control the narrative with what he posted today, working with a certain agency to push the “Blast Em liars/ scammers” narrative. (Please watch the video for the full correspondence). Blast' Em has been under development for 6-7 months and we have put our heart into it, we have a real game and multiple people have tested our beta, we will be open sourcing and auditing our entire code very soon. We will not allow a centralised chain to destroy all the great feedback, nostalgia and positive vibes that we have built around the project, we will continue with our plans and still build on Abstract chain, whether they like it or not. I am even more inclined to build and thrive for greatness, we are on a mission to prove a point, even more than ever. The proof is in the pudding. And as a web3 community, this can happen to any of you, put yourself in our position and support us asmuch as you can against this tyranny. I am not expecting an apology from the Abstract team nor do I want anything to do with them, but I do expect the web3 community to stand up against this tyranny. Regards, @0xAlladin

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@Quanterty A lot of smart people have been shouting about the extremely technically proficient MEV operation systematically sucking hundreds of millions of liquidity out of the SOL onchain eco but most of the gamblers didn’t care bc they were still winning Probs too late now