One of the most fascinating things happening on Ethereum right now is not a new L2, not a VC raise, not a protocol launch.
It’s a community that took a single 64 ETH animal welfare donation from Vitalik Buterin and turned it into a decentralized movement.
Now near 200 ETH has already been routed to Animal Welfare Fund through $AWF.
No one forced this to happen.
No central organization coordinated it.
It spread because people resonated with the idea that Ethereum could be used for more than extraction and speculation.
And somehow, through memes, markets, and community coordination, that idea became real funding for animals.
This is the side of Ethereum the outside world rarely understands:
sometimes the network doesn’t just move capital.
Sometimes it moves values. 🐾
TLDR of why $RKC is trending:
🟣 @TheRoaringKitty posted the coin’s address before deleting it, sparking hack speculation.
🟣 $RKC surged to a ~$12M market cap before crashing 90%+ amid insider dumping allegations.
🟣 A CTO pushed the token back to its current market cap.
Someone called Micheal Musk and based in San Francisco has filed for the trade mark of $Asteroid mascot in the US
Note: it takes 10-11 months to register a trade mark in the US.
Due to ongoing IP enforcement and legal actions, Etherscan has removed the “ASTEROID” and “ASTEROID SHIBA” ticker labels from the unauthorized token. It is now displayed simply as “TOKEN.”
People underestimate how important this is.
Etherscan is one of the core identity layers of crypto infrastructure.
Exchanges, wallets, trading tools, analytics platforms, and aggregators rely on its data to identify and classify assets.
When a token gets stripped of its identity at the infrastructure level, it’s basically a death sentence - CEX'es, platforms start removing it, aggregators stop recognizing it, and new exchanges won’t touch it.
This is another step toward establishing clear distinction and protection around the original Asteroid brand and identity.
One by one.
The Original $ASTEROID
This is for the entire $ASTEROID community.
After the first crypto exchange delisting announcement against the “cabal” Asteroid just a few hours ago, Etherscan has now also confirmed that they removed them from the platform. On top of that, a warning message is now displayed on every transaction involving the token. The dominoes are starting to fall.
Not only were they unable to get verified over the past few weeks, now they’ve been completely removed from the biggest explorer/data provider, and the chain reaction will continue as this situation fully unfolds.
Hopefully now you’re starting to understand what we meant when we said it was time to stand together as a community instead of attacking each other, and to stop blindly following these “influencers.” The original coin and the real community always prevail in the end.
To every average holder out there holding any version of #ASTEROID, you are always welcomed to @AsteroidCoinOG - the one and only legit coin behind the narrative.
To every KOL who spent this entire cycle scamming people and dumping bundled wallets on innocent holders out there — this will be the biggest FUCK YOU you’ve ever seen.
Like I said before, greed never leads anywhere good.
It’s time to show what the power of true community and conviction really means.