๐งโ๐ป An Update from the CEO
Over the last two days, we made the decision to continue โ and more importantly, we acted on it.
We have already restructured the company and reduced operating costs from roughly $400,000 per month to around $45,000 per month. This was not easy, but it was necessary. We moved fast, cut deep, and focused only on what is essential.
The last four years taught us many lessons, but one stands above all:
A good idea means nothing if execution is too slow.
That is the lesson we are taking forward into this next chapter.
Our priority now is simple: focus on a fresh direction that can rebuild trust in the community while also generating real revenue for the company. We are no longer interested in wasting time, energy, or capital on anything that does not directly move us closer to product-market fit and sustainable growth.
I will personally be joining the development effort to help bring this next product to market as fast as possible and to work directly with the team on execution. We are not going to repeat the mistake of overpromising before delivery. We will not reveal what we are building until it is ready. For those who still believe in us, stay with us a little longer โ and when the time comes, we will show you.
To move faster, we will be building this product in a closed-source environment during development. That decision is purely about speed and execution. Right now, shipping matters more than optics. Once we are live, we can focus on opening things up properly.
We are now a smaller team, made up primarily of developers, and our time will be spent exactly where it should be spent: building. No distractions. No wasted effort. No unnecessary overhead. Just execution.
Whether people choose to stand with us or not, we are moving forward with this plan. We are going to take this shot and see it through. Once the product is live, it will be something that can be marketed far beyond the crypto industry, which gives us a much stronger path toward real adoption and sustainable company revenue.
At this moment, the company still holds a little over 1 billion $ION. These tokens will be used only to cover essential development and infrastructure costs. Because the previous service agreement has ended and that external funding is no longer available, we will be activating an automatic daily sale of $1,500 worth of tokens to help fund operations at the current market price. This is not a choice we make lightly, but it is the practical path that allows us to keep building over the coming months.
Over the next 4 to 8 weeks, you should expect to see major changes across the website, the whitepaper, and most importantly, the launch of the first version of the new product.
Our goal is clear: go live fast, get real feedback fast, and scale 10x faster than we did in the past.
What we are building is a real utility product with real-world use, something unique within crypto and something we believe the market genuinely needs.
Once it goes live, we believe adoption can accelerate faster than anything we have done before โ because for the first time, our growth will be driven by real utility and real demand, not just belief alone.
To everyone who has stood by us for the past four years: thank you.
Give us 4 to 8 more weeks.
That is all we ask.
Stay with us, watch what we build, and witness how we turn the hardest moment in this projectโs history into the foundation of its strongest chapter.
We are still here.
We are still building.
And we are not done yet.
Thank you for the support.
๐ $ION is now live on @MEXC_Official
Trading for $ION has officially started on MEXC.
The momentum continues as Ice Open Network moves closer to the next major ecosystem releases.
๐ Trade now: https://t.co/oW61b6Vjjt
๐ As promised, our partners at #BaoTrader have just launched another utility app on the #ION ecosystem. Today marks the beta launch of @Bao_rush, a real-time crypto prediction game powered by @BNBCHAIN and $ION.
See it in action at https://t.co/UOfUpDLVCD
๐ฅ All activity within the platform integrates $ION utility and burning, further expanding the tokenโs role across the ecosystem. The beta is currently available to a closed group of testers, while the demo version is now live on website, allowing anyone to explore the platform in a risk-free environment before the live mode launches next week.
More updates coming soon.
๐ A major milestone for Ice Open Network.
The latest versions of the @pumpit_now Chrome extension and Online+ have just been shared with our beta testers. With this release, we are entering the final phase of testing before the public launch of Tokenized Communities.
After months of development, the ecosystem that allows creators to launch tokens and communities to trade them directly is almost ready to go live, powered by $ION on @BNBCHAIN.
๐ช The next chapter of Ice Open Network is very close.
Since the time of posting this post, more than 15 million $ION tokens have reduced in supply.
This is happening purely by holders swapping their ION (BSC) to ION (ION) and staking them, effectively taking them from trading float circulation. And it is going to accelerate as more people accumulate and stake their tokens for long-term holding and rewards.
All this is happening while tokenised communities hasnโt even launched yet, which will explode the buy back and burn mechanism, along with many other utilities that accelerate the burn mechanism.
After exchange listings and tokenised communities launch, most probably within just a couple of weeks from now, the invisible incineration will be at work while you will watch in awe and curse yourself for not understanding it better beforehand.
Besides that, it is rare for projects in these days to have a tangible and high utility and meaningful products to support their growth. Online+ is a giant engine, not just because of its deflationary mechanisms, but because it ensures where the future of world is aligned: censorship free, surveillance resistant and real ownership. Free speech and decentralisation is not always going to remain only a debate, but essential to integrate into daily digital life.
More in detail later.
If you are not on Online+ yet, join here: https://t.co/MD2xdcTwgv
$ICE $ION @ice_blockchain
๐ We said weโd ship. Beta testers have it now.
As promised, the latest Online+ build is now in the hands of our closed beta testers โ and yes, it includes Tokenized Communities + our $ION utility working end-to-end.
Over the next few hours, weโve asked beta testers to reply to this post with real feedback, including videos, screenshots, and first impressions from inside the app.
๐ If youโve been quiet or waiting to see proof before getting excited again โ monitor this thread.
No hype. Just product. Real users. Real-time.
๐ The listing of $ION is just the first step.
After completing the migration from $ICE to $ION, we are entering the next phase of Ice Open Network. ION is more than a token. It powers an ecosystem built around tokenized communities, social interaction, and integrated crypto functionality.
๐งฉ After months of development, Tokenized Communities are about to go live. This framework enables creators and projects to launch and trade their own tokens directly through https://t.co/3cMilKYyF3 and the @pumpit_now browser extension, transforming communities into tradable on-chain ecosystems.
๐ฅ #ION is the core utility asset across both products. It is used as the main trading pair, powers every transaction and on-chain action, and each interaction contributes to burning $ION, supporting a sustainable deflationary model.
Built on @BNBCHAIN, this is where real utility meets scale. And this is only the beginning.
๐ฅ #PUMPit is coming soon.
@PUMPit_now is our Chrome extension designed to turn any post into a tradable token in seconds. Creators will be able to launch tokens directly from X content, and communities will be able to trade them instantly.
โก๏ธ $ION x $BNB = #PUMPit
Built on @BNBCHAIN, PUMPit combines the scale and liquidity of $BNB with the core utility of $ION, which acts as the main trading pair across the ecosystem.
Every launch, every trade, every on-chain action contributes to burning $ION, supporting a sustainable deflationary model.
โจ The wait is over.
$ION listing goes live Tuesday, March 3.
This is the final step before we roll out Tokenized Communities on #OnlinePlus together with @pumpit_now.
๐ Letโs build the new online. #ION x #BNBChain
๐ Tokenized Communities are now live for our closed beta testers.
Next week is all about real user feedback, stress-testing the system, and making sure everything is polished, stable, and ready for the official launch.
Yes, it took longer than expected โ but we chose to build it right, not fast.
And now, weโre more confident than ever in what weโve created.
This is just the beginning.
$ION #BNBchain