BennyAnn◻️

Just me.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@Ernesto5145 @Bitcoinhabebe Outgrow it and move forward. In the crypto world, you've got to move ahead or you move out. Sorry about your loss and remember you aren't the only one but you've got to move on and keep moving till you feel like moving out or till you make it.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@sirmapy @KaranSh57912957 🤣 correct reply

[Stable Naira @stablenaira]

We are happy to announce that StableNaira / SNR is now live on TON (@ton_blockchain)

You can now buy SNR on the TON blockchain. God bless SNR, long live the Naira.

https://t.co/ZkRYxYjTBW

[Ice Open Network @ice_blockchain]

💫 Over the past month, we have been working on a new direction for ION — one that I personally believe can define the future of this project.

This time, we are doing things differently.
In the past, we shared too much too early: teasers, plans, timelines, and details before products were fully ready. We learned from that. This time, we build first, launch first, prove first, and only then reveal everything.

Phase One of this new product is almost ready and is expected to launch within the next two weeks.

The product is connected to the AI industry, designed to generate revenue from day one, and built to bring real utility and long-term value back into the ION ecosystem.

Unlike previous initiatives, this does not depend on crypto KOLs, hype cycles, or market noise. It can be marketed directly through proper business channels, including social and search campaigns. This was something we could not realistically do with Online+ due to the nature of the product and the restrictions we faced with major advertising platforms.

Once the campaigns begin, we believe it should take around four weeks to validate the product, the demand, and the market response.

For now, because of the aggressive FUD and unnecessary attacks around ION, we will not disclose the product name publicly until the right moment. The product is being launched by Ice Labs under a separate brand, as it is focused on AI and not directly branded as the ION Chain.

This approach protects the launch, protects the team’s work, and gives the product the clean start it deserves.

I will keep the community updated step by step as we move forward. Once we prove traction and growth, we will reveal more and bring the community fully into what we are building.

In around six weeks, we will have a much clearer answer on where ION stands and what this new direction can become.
I am more confident than ever that ION can come back stronger, sharper, and more focused than before.

Now it is up to the community to decide: believe in the rebuild, or watch it happen from the sidelines.

Zeus

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@wahala_trouble @RotimiOfRaftech @connectwithtola @sirmapy @PhtEmmanuelO @DPatient_Bull @ProphetJoelO @vigho4u @B_Versee @tabotinosphere I don't understand all of you including the ídolos on this. Is this the first time a meme coin has been said it would get to $1? Almost all communities do this and even more. You guys sound as if the crypto world just started. I don't get it, really.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@VictorJB03 @connectwithtola I don't think Tola has understood the identity he is creating for himself on the crypto space.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@sirmapy @connectwithtola 🤣

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@sirmapy @Vindicatedchidi Personally, I think we shouldn't bother about what Tola says or not about $WKC. We just have to find a way to take advantage of whatever he says either negative or positive. Wikicat is bigger than whatever anyone is saying now.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@lorddrey Gemini got the plan perfectly

[Vindicated Chidi 🕊 @Vindicatedchidi]

I cannot keep quiet because one day, it may be my turn and I would also want people to speak up for me based on truth and experience.

I want to clearly put this on record: the @sirmapy I know will NEVER intentionally hurt his community. He is not a scammer and he is not a criminal.

Yes, no human being is perfect. We all have our flaws. There are times I may not fully agree with some of his tweets or decisions, but as a builder myself, I understand that many battles are fought behind the scenes that the public may never see.

On November 7th, 2025, when I launched @Shalom_Token on Asset Chain, I faced one of the biggest challenges of my career. Three different contract addresses were created that same day because of technical issues from the launchpad, @MoonPieFun.

If not for my community that believed in me and gave me the opportunity to explain, my reputation on CT could have been destroyed completely. Many people would have simply labeled me a scammer without understanding what truly happened.

This is why we must learn not to rush into conclusions whenever issues happen in Web3. Builders also go through difficult moments, technical problems, pressure, attacks, and misunderstandings.

I believe Sir Mapy will address the community and explain everything that happened.

Let this also be a lesson to everyone: not everybody praising you genuinely likes you. Some people celebrate you publicly but secretly wait for your downfall.

“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” — (Matthew 15:8)

To Sir Mapy, stay strong. Every storm eventually passes. Difficult seasons do not last forever, and with time, truth always finds its way to the surface. The same community you have worked hard to build will eventually understand the full picture. Better days are ahead.

Shalom 🙏

[Sir Mapy @sirmapy]

I will add liquidity soon, so you guys can buy. Just add it on your wallet for now.

Contract Address:

BNB: 0x6B6f93a12705b6eB60490A8b8a9aC15b3B1ce0f2

ETH:
0xfaE7C1AD37b7ad8848f840109332793bC5889563

Base:
0xfaE7C1AD37b7ad8848f840109332793bC5889563

[Panel Of Judges @PanelOfJudges]

Very laughable
Zeus was building a never ending roof when there is no foundation
How is a Chain useful if Tokens is not being traded on it?
Or how else to make money to continue building his endless roof(of course he was relying on the community to pump $ION) instead of gas fees

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@Prof__block Nice!

[Professor Block @Prof__block]

I built this because everyone for a considerable amount of time was saying that you cannot build or do certain things on the chain, including being able to launch/mint a token on it.

This is a showcase of that. More things will follow over time, and my last wish is to make it to DEX one day, if project remains.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@PanelOfJudges SIMPLE!

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@Vindicatedchidi Hmmm!

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@ice_z3us You have to win this time, at least for yourself. Win big and put us to shame.

If you don't win this time, you will never see this grace again. So in the midst of all the noise, make sure you win and put us to shame.

A WIN is a must for you. I believe you can if you really want

[Zeus @ice_z3us]

👉 A personal note on the noise, the lies, and why I’m still building

Lately, I’ve received a lot of hate, FUD, and even death threats from certain people in the community. Some of those threats have already been reported to the authorities.

Despite all of that, I’m still here. I’m still building. And I’m still ignoring the noise.

What I’m seeing lately is not criticism grounded in facts. It’s conspiracy theories, hallucinations, and people repeating accusations they never took the time to verify for themselves.

So let’s address a few of them directly.

1) “You rugged the community”

This claim falls apart the moment anyone looks at the public history of our work.

We started building this project at the beginning of January 2022. We made the code public in March 2023. That is easily verifiable on GitHub across all repositories related to Phase One.

For example, when we made the mobile app repository public, it already contained 229,000 lines of code written by our team during that period:
https://t.co/owyHa16Fyy
Since then, our team has written millions of lines of code across the broader codebase over the past four years.

So let me ask a simple question: does it make any sense that a team would invest years of work, millions in cost, build publicly, show its faces, attend conferences, go live on streams, and continue shipping for years — only to “rug” at the lowest point?

If the goal had ever been to scam people, there were far easier moments to disappear. We did not disappear. We kept building.

That matters.

The work was real. The cost was real. The commitment was real. And it has all been visible for anyone willing to look.

What is not serious is hiding behind anonymous accounts, refusing to verify public information, and then throwing around the word “scam” as if that replaces evidence.

2) “You changed from ICE to ION so you could mint tokens and dump on the community”

This is another false narrative pushed by people who either do not understand how bridge contracts work, or do not care to understand.

We did not migrate from ICE to ION because of some secret plan to mint coins and scam users. We were sued by Intercontinental Exchange over trademark infringement related to ICE. That legal battle went on for years. We won in the US, and then the fight continued in the EU. Based on legal advice, we changed the ticker from ICE to ION. That is why the migration happened.

Reference:
https://t.co/E8JT6llSxv

Now let’s address the bridge contract allegation clearly.
The fact that the ION BSC bridge contract contains mint functionality does not mean we can mint unlimited tokens whenever we want.

That is how bridged assets work.

The ION bridge between Ice Open Network and BSC follows a lock-and-mint / burn-and-unlock model:

When a user bridges ION from Ice Open Network to BSC, the original ION is locked on the Ice Open Network side.

Then the corresponding bridged amount is minted on BSC.

When a user bridges back from BSC to Ice Open Network, the bridged ION on BSC is burned.
The original ION is then unlocked on Ice Open Network.
So yes, the BSC contract has mint functionality. It has to. That is part of bridge logic. It does not mean the team can arbitrarily create supply out of thin air.
This is visible in the verified contract code on BscScan, where minting is part of the bridge mechanism involving validation logic and functions such as voteForMinting, not a simple “owner prints tokens” button:
https://t.co/HCg4pdmAx6

The total supply remains 21B ION. Bridging does not create extra supply. It mirrors already locked tokens across chains.

And if anyone wants to verify major allocations and wallets independently, they can do that on our official whales page:
https://t.co/PHDchnhF27
You can clearly see the main pools there, including:

Elector — staked coins from community users

Rewards — community rewards pool, vested and locked
BSC Bridge — coins allocated to bridge activity to BSC

Team — team allocation, locked and vested

Ecosystem Growth and Innovation — locked and vested
Treasury — treasury allocation, also locked with vesting
These addresses can also be cross-checked against our Coin Economics page:
https://t.co/ODJAmLOZS7
Everything is public.
The contract is public.
The distribution is public.
The allocation model is public.
So before repeating the claim that “the team can mint unlimited ION on BSC,” verify the data first.

3) “You stole $50M from investors in your previous project”
This is another lie that keeps getting repeated by people who read one headline and then build a fantasy around it.

I have never hidden the fact that I worked on another blockchain project before this one, and I have spoken openly about using the lessons from that experience to build ION better.

The false “$50M stolen” narrative comes from a PR article that said we had raised approximately $50M. The reality is much simpler: at the time, we were in discussions with potential VCs who had shown interest. The money was never actually raised.
That headline created a completely false impression, and now years later some people are using it as if it were proof of a crime.
Use common sense for a second.

If someone had really stolen $50M from investors while being publicly known, publicly visible, operating openly, and continuing to appear in public, do you seriously think that person would just be freely walking around with no consequences?

The answer is obvious.

No money was stolen. No $50M raise was completed. That narrative is fiction built on a misleading PR statement and amplified by people who want drama more than truth.

4) “You’re a hacker, ran a botnet, and all the rest of the nonsense”

This is another story that has been twisted far beyond reality.

Years ago, there was an article about a business I was involved in within the IP industry, and ever since then some people have used that to paint me as some kind of criminal mastermind. It is nonsense.

What I can say is that in competitive internet industries, smear campaigns are real, trust attacks are real, and dirty tactics are common. I’ve seen that firsthand. A lot of people online read one article, make zero effort to understand the context, and then confidently spread the worst possible interpretation as if it were fact.

Again, use logic.

If I were what some of these anonymous accounts claim I am, do you think I would be operating publicly, showing my face, speaking live, attending events, and continuing to build in full view?

People are free to question me. They are not free to replace evidence with fantasy.

Where we are now

As we announced a few days ago, we are not going anywhere.

We are still building.

Yes, for the time being we have chosen to develop closed-source, and we will make things public when we are ready. This time we are taking a different approach: building products that bring revenue and utility from day one, with a strong focus on users outside of crypto so adoption can be much broader and much faster.

My history has taught me something very clearly: the bigger the project, the more noise comes with it.

More lies.
More hate.
More people projecting their own frustration onto the team that kept working while they were busy posting theories.

That changes nothing for me.

We will keep building.
We will keep shipping.
We will keep fighting when necessary.
And we will not stop because anonymous people on the internet decided to confuse fiction with facts.

If you want to criticize, do it with evidence.
If you want to verify, the data is public.
If you want to spread lies, at least understand that I’m not going to bend to them.

I’m still here.
Still building.
Still moving forward.

That’s all that matters.

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@ibby_ice Zeus had one of the strongest community in crypto. They stood above all the insults and if you ask me, I'll say they've done what they should as a community already. So I can't fault them if they've given up. I mean who won't when Zeus already insinuated shutting down the project

[BennyAnn◻️ @BennyAnn_]

@Dan_shila_ @Vindicatedchidi Isn't this obvious he knows the end of ION? It is well o. What a pity