🚨LA residents set up fake homeless encampments right outside mayoral candidate Nithya Raman’s home.
After she said she doesn’t care about tents near schools and daycares, angry locals brought the reality to her doorstep.
It’s too late bro. You have disgracefully tried to steal the intellectual property of a deceased child and the market has rejected you as a result. In all my years in crypto I have never seen anything more disgusting. You made your bed. Now lie in it.
# The OG ASTEROID on Ethereum: A Story of Respect, Resistance, and Real Decentralization
## Why we filed IP in 60+ countries — and why we will never build our coin on the back of a little girl’s memory.
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Let me tell you a story.
In 2024, a small plushie toy named Asteroid floated into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. It was the unofficial “zero-g indicator” — the soft toy that astronauts and engineers use to visually confirm the moment of weightlessness. Asteroid wasn’t just merchandise. It was conceived by a little girl named Liv Peretto, and it became something far bigger than anyone could have predicted.
Liv was going through a health crisis. As part of her journey, she had one wish — to speak to Elon Musk. A call was arranged. But when the day came, she was too unwell to take it. What she left behind was a list. A list of questions she had written down, things she wanted to ask him. And on that list was a single, beautiful question:
**“Will you make Asteroid the SpaceX mascot?”**
Liv passed away before she got her answer.
Fast forward to April 2026. Her mother went on a widely-circulated podcast and asked Elon the same questions Liv had written down. When the moment came — that question — Elon answered.
**Yes. Asteroid will be the SpaceX mascot.**
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## Then crypto did what crypto does
Within hours, the chains lit up. Ethereum. Solana. Base. A flood of tokens spawned overnight, every single one trying to ride the emotional weight of Liv’s story to a quick pump. Bundled launches. Coordinated dumps. Influencer-led raids. The same tired playbook, dressed up in a child’s memory.
It was grotesque. And it was predictable.
The OG ASTEROID on Ethereum was conceived back in 2024 — long before the podcast, long before the trend, long before the vultures arrived. We were here first. On-chain history doesn’t lie. Everything that came after was a copycat trying to extract value from a moment that wasn’t theirs to extract from.
But this article isn’t really about being first. Being first on a chain is just a timestamp. What matters is **what you do with it**.
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## What this project actually is
$ASTEROID is what crypto was originally supposed to be.
No bundles. No cabal. No insider allocations. No influencer pump-and-dump arrangements. No team wallets quietly sniping their own launch. Just a community that found each other, recognized something worth defending, and decided to build it together.
That sounds idealistic. I know. Because somewhere along the way, “decentralized” became a marketing word that every centralized launch slaps on its docs. Every project now launches with one hope — get listed on a Tier 1 exchange so the insiders can dump on retail. That’s the cycle. That’s the disease.
Satoshi did not build Bitcoin for this. Vitalik did not build Ethereum for this. And we are not building $ASTEROID for this.
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## Where we draw the line: Liv
I want to say this clearly, because it matters.
**We have never contacted Liv’s mother. We never will, unless she reaches out first.**
That is not neglect. That is respect.
Every other project pretending to honor her memory has been doing the opposite — flooding her mother’s mentions, demanding endorsements, sending unsolicited “donations” with one hand while screenshotting them for marketing with the other. Using a grieving mother as a liquidity event. Turning a child’s death into a chart pattern.
We refuse.
Liv’s family is setting up a foundation. When the time is right — when **they** decide it’s right — we will contribute meaningfully and quietly. Not as a marketing campaign. Not as a Twitter thread. Not as a “look at us” moment. Because the moment you turn a child’s death into content, you have already lost the right to claim you cared about her.
I am not going to build a meme coin on the back of a little girl’s cancer story. Full stop. That is not who we are. We are better than that. The space needs to be better than that.
Between two asteroid coins on eth fighting over IP rights of someone’s deceased daughter’s wish & a nigga who traveled to Japan & jumped into a monkey enclosure to give punch a new toy to promote some garbage memecoin I can confidently say that crypto sentiment is in the mud
Lowest it’s ever been in history of this space it simply cannot get any worse than this
There are like 4 pending trademarks of ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 in the US for trading Cryptocurrency using Liv's Mascot
Legally, those who registered the trade marks can not claim ownership of Liv's work
Only LIv's mum @rebeccaperrotto can legally registered the Asteroid trade mark using the Mascot
She can also oppose those pending trademarks, sue for copyright infringement or force rebranding.
I've always been attracted to burn tokens. My take is that volume in/out of a contract should have some benefit for the long term holder. $sato does. Its mechanism is a novel one and the market is still trying to understand it. Furthermore, there are some parallels with $BTC which gives it some lore. It is the perfect blend of math and meme. This is a point not many people have picked up on but I'm betting eventually will. Everything is a risk, but I believe that consensus will ultimately form and the market will embrace this token. I am holding and accumulating.
Free @kekmaximusk 🐸
His April Fools joke was suggested by @grok itself
Kek loves this platform, and he's not a scammer
He's been a good friend to me these past 3 months, and I hope X does the right thing by lifting this suspension
Today, one of the biggest frogs on X, “Kekius Tees,” was suspended for making a joke on April 1.
If you’ve known him for a while, whether you love him or hate him, at least show some respect. People like him made this place fun. Thank you, Kekius Tees. I hope you enjoy your own real life.