Ales

[Luca | Knackfisch @Knackfish]

Can't really put it into words, but I feel deeply honored that we got the chance to take over SpaceBudz.

For me personally, SpaceBudz always had a special role! Looking forward to this journey 🚀

[Ales @berry_ales]

@Jennycitalinda @spacebudznft Thank you so much Jenny and for reminding me what got me started and excited in the first place!

[Jenny Brito @Jennycitalinda]

When @spacebudznft launched in March 2021, it felt like the beginning of something special for Cardano.

I had already been investing in Cardano and collecting NFTs on other chains, so when these little astronauts appeared, I was instantly hooked. I minted 3 Budz, my babies, and quickly became very active in the community that formed around them.

Along the way, I also became friends with Ales. Over the years, I've watched him build things that quietly shaped parts of the Cardano ecosystem in ways many people may not fully realize.

The funny thing is, Ales never really saw himself as "a dev." He was just exploring, building things he found interesting, and sharing them openly. Before any of this, he had already become an SPO with a simple mission: to prove that Cardano was so energy efficient it could run on Raspberry Pi computers, and to teach others how to run nodes and become operators themselves.

Like many great builders in open source, Ales built on tools and libraries that came before him and shared his own work openly so others could build on it. And through that same curiosity and generosity, he ended up enabling a lot of what people build on Cardano today.

Amongst them:

- The CIP-25 NFT standard, which SpaceBudz and Berry NFTs helped pioneer.

- Nami, which helped make dApp connections possible.

- The SpaceBudz marketplace, the first smart contract-enabled NFT marketplace on Cardano, which he open-sourced so other marketplaces could build and flourish.

- Lucid, a JavaScript library that made development on Cardano much easier.

- CIP-68 NFT Standard (programmable NFTs), opening the door for more advanced on-chain assets.

Recently, Ales shared with me that after a lot of reflection, he feels ready to step away from the digital world and pursue a life that feels more grounded in human connection. And as part of that decision, he chose to pass SpaceBudz on to new hands. And I fully support him in that choice.

SpaceBudz will always remain a special part of Cardano history. It wasn't just a collection, it was a moment when imagination met experimentation, and suddenly the possibilities of the chain felt wide open.

A huge thank you to @berry_ales and @punk9968 for creating something that sparked that moment and sharing it so openly with the ecosystem.

And thank you to the SpaceBudz community, which has always understood what this project was really about. Exploring the capabilities of the chain, building with open tools, and letting each Bud take on a journey of its own.

Ales, thank you for your friendship and for the journey we’ve shared through all of this. I will never forget it.

And to @Knackfish and the @TavernForge team, now stepping in to guide SpaceBudz forward, thank you for taking the torch and continuing the journey! SpaceBudz has always been about curiosity, exploration, and the courage to step into the unknown. A reminder that sometimes the greatest adventures begin when we choose to see what might be possible beyond the horizon.

I'm excited to see where you take the Budz next and look forward to the adventures still to come. 🚀

[Tavern Forge @TavernForge]

For us SpaceBudz means artwork, experiments, community, and last but not least history and history deserves to be treated with care.

As long-time holders and community members ourselves, we're picking up this project to preserve what it is: an artifact. The collection stands on its own. We want to honor that. What excites us is the IP. SpaceBudz has a visual identity and a spirit that deserves to live beyond the original collection. How exactly that takes shape is something we want to figure out together with the community.

We are looking forward to continuing what started as an experiment, to some degree this experiment goes into its next stage!

Tristan & Luca

[Ales @berry_ales]

This marks the end for Zieg and me.
Thank you everyone for the magical time, and for letting us experiment.

Now it's time to move on.

[SpaceBudz @spacebudznft]

SpaceBudz started as an experiment, a way to explore what was possible on early Cardano. That experiment is now coming to an end for us as creators, and we will be stepping away from the project.

@TavernStudios (@Knackfish and @TristanUckie) will be picking up the project in its current form. Their intention is to honor what SpaceBudz has become and its history, while finding their own path forward with it.

It has been a great journey. Thank you to everyone who collected, built, and believed in SpaceBudz along the way.

Ales & Zieg

[Ales @berry_ales]

@Padierfind Honestly I didn’t believe myself I could get beyond transforming the basic cube lol. But once you get familiar with the GUI and basic commands you can already do cool things, but definitely had to torture myself a bit. Also AI was helpful ;)

[Ales @berry_ales]

@Padierfind @thinkgrowcrypto @Sokosumi Good question, I need an agent that helps me with blender and unreal engine😂

[Ales @berry_ales]

@elraulito that's enough Internet for today...

[Ales @berry_ales]

@masatoalexander Come on Alex. Look beyond the mess and see the beauty in things again, it's not all bad. Deadlifts should teach you how to "let go".

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

People are starting to get how rare it is for a network to be able to recover from this type of attack. Cardano behaved as intented

[toly 🇺🇸 @toly]

I am gonna go out on a limb and actually say this is pretty cool. Nakamoto style consensus without proof of work is extremely hard to build. The protocol functioned as designed in the presence of bugs.

[Patrick Tobler @Padierfind]

For the record: I highly disagree with everyone who's calling for authorities.

Cardano is supposed to be secure. The code is supposed to be the law.

If the code is flawed & you can do a transaction like this, then we (the Delegators + SPOs) are the ones responsible. Not the attacker.

We cannot pretend to build a decentralized network that's supposed to replace nation states and then when someone finds a flaw and abuses it, call for said nation states to intervene.

[Ales @berry_ales]

No matter how much we strive for perfect code, humans always make mistakes. What really matters is how a network responds when things go wrong, and how easily it can recover. And I think that's where Cardano shines.

[Ales @berry_ales]

What is fascinating about yesterday's event is how Cardano recovered from a minority chain and got rid of the symptom while preserving most of the history and progress since the incident.
🧵

[Ales @berry_ales]

The symptom is now permanent in the system and there is no recovery possible. Only solution is a coordinated hardfork from before the symptom, but all progress and history since then is lost. The financial damage could be huge.