A thread on The Void: Part of the journey of web3 is redefining “value.” Whether it’s community, status, art collection, or experience, each of us uses a different lens to evaluate what we find “valuable.” 1/7
🔥 Kicking off a new @NeoTokyoCode lore post series
👀 I had my Hermes agent build an exhaustive Neo Tokyo Lore Library on my local drive in about 10 minutes
Posts, wiki pages, lore art, artifacts, mechanics, founder breadcrumbs, Citizen history, and cultural signal
Every morning, it suggests one piece of lore worth resurfacing
I’ll curate, edit, and post whenever it feels right
And yes, I know NFTs feel dead to a lot of people
You would be right to question why I’m still posting about an NFT project from 2021
I get it
It is a weird hobby
But I’m not here for floor-price nostalgia or old bag defense 😂
I’ve long since gotten over any speculative price dreams
I’m here because Neo Tokyo is still one of the best brands to ever come out of the crypto universe
The lore
The scarcity design
The identity system
The token mechanics
The founder breadcrumbs
The endless layers of story, culture, and game design
It never was just another static NFT collection, it’s more like a living cyberpunk city
That’s what I intend to celebrate
🤷🏻♂️ Take it or leave it, may the algo serve it up to whoever cares
But the mission is simple:
Treat Neo Tokyo like the living city it is
Not a “remember when” thread
Not floor-price nostalgia
Honestly:
Regardless of any crypto or NFT niche aversion you may have developed
To me this is a very worthy study in brand survival, tokenized identity, scarcity design, and lore-native architecture
Neo Tokyo fuses myth, mechanics, and community language in a way crypto still has not fully processed
So we’re going back through the archive
One artifact at a time
👩🏫 Today my Lore Librarian agent suggested this highlight to kick us off:
One underrated piece of @NeoTokyoCode brand design is how S2 onboarding still felt like entering a city, not minting a random NFT
Outer Citizens were not just “the next collection”
They were assembled from 3 separate components
👉 Outer Identity
👉 Outer Item Cache
👉 Outer Land Deed
Each piece added another layer of who you were, what you carried, and where you existed in Neo Tokyo
But the wildest part is the Item Cache
Before mint, Outer Identity holders competed in a PUBG tournament that helped determine the rarity of the Outer Item Cache they received
That is mechanics-as-lore
Your gear was not just metadata
It was connected to a shared community event, a test, a memory, and a specific moment in the city’s timeline
This is yet another example of why Neo Tokyo has always felt different to me
At launch, the brand did not just sell cyberpunk imagery
It made citizenship feel earned, assembled, ranked, discovered, and remembered
And that is much harder to replicate than art alone
🗼Grand Rising
🔥 @NeoTokyoCode was a free mint launched on October 2, 2021
Season 1 Neo Tokyo NFTs still trade at a current floor of 0.84Ξ (~$1.8k) 4 years & 8 months later
That alone should be enough to make you stop and wonder why that’s still holding after all this time
🧹 Current S1 floor structure is impressive as well:
Price Range → # of Listings
🔹0.845–0.99Ξ → 5
🔹1-1.29Ξ → 0
🔹1.3–1.99Ξ → 8
🔹2–3.99Ξ → 5
🔹4–5.99Ξ → 5
🔹6Ξ+ → 9
Notice the significant floor gap: If those 5 at <1Ξ sell, floor jumps to 1.3Ξ
🤔 But back to the question: why is Neo Tokyo holding such value after almost 5 years from a free mint?
For some clues, check my mega thread “Navigating the Value Within Neo Tokyo” here:
🔗 https://t.co/DvQECQTS4j
And a reminder of the strengths of the second-ever NFT project utility token, $BYTES:
🔗 https://t.co/fbKSvobLu4
🗼Grand Rising
A long-time Pocket Universe user lost $17,000 after signing a malicious transaction
We covered every cent through our up to 30,000 USDC coverage
Here's exactly how it unfolded 👇
The NT AI Division is kicking off a weekly AI Education series!
Think of it as a Book Club, only for AI nerds.
We'll be going through Anthropic Academy Courses 1 by 1 then discussing together in an open VC.
It starts simple, with Claude 101, so attend if you're just diving into AI or you are @felixnorden himself.
Complete Claude 101 on your own time, then come to the 1st session on Tuesday prepared for discussion and questions! https://t.co/pEzfW29hns Citizens only.
“A great nation is not saved by wars, [William] James said; it is saved ‘by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.’”
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC
It was said the United Americas Europe and China corporation owned everything, both in the dying world and its digital counterpart. Every pixel, every stone, every dream.
Neo Tokyo is the last bastion of freedom, a digital utopia where citizens still fight oppression.
Neo Tokyo Chronicles Episode 1 trailer is my first entry to the @higgsfield_ai contest
https://t.co/l7e4szCY70
If this gets enough likes @NeoTokyoCode citizens I'll make another entry where I reveal some of the epic fight scenes...
#HiggsfieldAction
From the S1 Mint to Code Breaker to Whisperer, Citizens have tested their skills in Neo Tokyo themed mini games.
UAEC Escape, Ascend to The Citadel, UAEC Evade, and Consume are now available to play!
The NT Arcade lives here: https://t.co/bOkTg9DpSJ
📝 Kerberus 2025 Recap
Acquisitions, expansions, and the stat we're most proud of:
0 losses for our users now in 3+ years 🔥
Here's how the year unfolded 🧵
Pocket Universe Major Update
Our biggest expansion ever
All your transactions are now enhanced with Kerberus technology:
- 99.9% detection rate (0 losses for users for 3+ years)
- 50+ chains (previously only 12)
- Most wallets!
🧵
December's Damage Report
$51.8M lost to address poisoning
$10.1M lost to DeFi phishing
52.55% of the $117.8M total - all avoidable
How? Sentinel3 with 99.9% detection rate & address poisoning protection
If every Web3 user had it, this month would've looked very different