Big Thicco🐉 $MON

Strength & Conditioning coach that dabbles in WEB3
Former @Pixelmon Moderator

[Warden's Ascent 🔺 @wardensascent]

Rise with the Air Element! Strong against Grass & Ground, but weaker against Water & Electric. What’s your favorite Air Element monster?

[Big Thicco🐉 $MON @_Thicco]

The fact that @HyperliquidX hasn't even addressed this issue at all is pretty crazy.

$500k isn't a small amount of money AND this goes against everything they marketed themselves to be.

Either they own up the mistake or get exposed as LARPers

[Grail.eth @graildoteth]

To be a DEX or not to be a DEX, now that is the question for @HyperliquidX

Is Hyperliquid really a DEX or is it a CEX larping as a DEX.

Because actions like taking legit spot listings won from auction owners who paid out six figures, then handing them over to new, bigger cap companies look very much like what the Bybits, Bitgets, and Binances of the world do.

Is @chameleon_jeff just another CZ wearing the mask of decentralization while running his own CEX?

Where do you start to draw the line?

Yes, he's made some people very wealthy here. Yes, he's pushed the idea that a DEX can compete with a CEX.

But when you start to run things like the very CEXes you claim to disrupt, what are you really?

Just straight out admit you are a CEX larping as a DEX behind the narrative sham of decentralization.

[Big Thicco🐉 $MON @_Thicco]

@wardensascent R-6 BABY!

[Pixelmon 🔺 @Pixelmon]

Nova Thera: Battle of Honor | A new Pixelmon™ Official Anime trailer

A battle waged with honor, carried by the loyalty of their monsters

[Pixelmon 🔺 @Pixelmon]

Something ancient is stirring in Nova Thera.

A battle where bonds are tested, monsters awaken, and every move leaves a mark.

Anime new trailer tomorrow.

[Akku @Akkukap]

I’ve been a Hyperliquid maxi for a long time, and HL still remains my largest position in Web3. But a recent decision by the team has been extremely disappointing to see.

Earlier this year, @monprotocol acquired the $MON ticker on HL for ~500k:
https://t.co/5TnzDkOB86
The rationale was that CEX interactions were frustrating, and the Pixelmon team wanted to align with a fully decentralized venue. The token ultimately didn’t gain much traction on HL (very low volume, practically a waste in hindsight), but at least the team had secured an immutable asset.

Fast forward to Monad’s launch, and suddenly the MON ticker on Hypercore now refers to Monad, not Pixelmon. So I checked with the Pixelmon team assuming they must have sold the ticker.

Turns out they didn’t.

Hyperliquid simply changed the frontend names:

Pixelmon is now shown as “Monpro” on UI (but still $MON on-chain).

Monad is shown as “Mon” on UI (but is actually $UMON on-chain).

So technically the ticker is immutable, but from a consumer perspective the actual UI identity has been reassigned. And realistically, no one cares what the ticker is on-chain when the UI shows something else.

If this isn’t effectively a ticker grab, what is it?

Pixelmon paid 500k for something that the frontend can override at will, while Monad (or rather @unitxyz, who is clearly closer to the HL team) gets the visible name without paying for it.

To be clear, this doesn’t materially affect Pixelmon’s future. But on principle, it’s wildly disappointing.

Is this the ethos Hyperliquid wants to stand for?
Centrally aligned players first?

What message does this send to smaller teams who choose HL because they believed “listings without fuss” meant UI consistency and fairness? Are we now saying:

“You can buy the on-chain ticker, but we’ll decide the visible name depending on who we talk to”?

Tagging @chameleon_jeff @iliensinc because this seems like a serious breach of HL’s own stated values, and I’m not sure whether this decision was fully acknowledged at the top.

For clarity:

Pixelmon ($MON): 0x622cf551933f19f9136303dcab56488c

Monad ($UMON): 0x58dae745c8c5fed4012f35ef39829c2d

Frontend:

This requires an explanation imo and its not about this particular case but more problematic for the overall direction team wants to take. To me this is a clear slap on the face of smaller teams being allowed to be strong-armed by privileged partners.

@sershokunin can you also pitch in as to what happened here?

[Warden's Ascent 🔺 @wardensascent]

All of these Pixelmons are ready to fight with you in Warden's Ascent!
Download and play now!

[Big Thicco🐉 $MON @_Thicco]

@SeatinGameDev @GiulioXdotEth @wardensascent @Pixelmon Thank you!
Absolute legend!

[Pixelmon TCG 🔺 @PixelmonTCG]

If you have these spell cards in your collection, which one would be your must-have spell card for your deck? 💥✨

#PixelmonTCG

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@ShiftyMunkey9 Lordshiftythegoat

[Varan🙊 @varanpension]

Just unboxed some @PixelmonTCG @Pixelmon cards ! My 20th pack probably 😂

[ⱤɄ₲ ₱ɄⱠⱠ ₣ł₦ĐɆⱤ @rugpullfinder]

🤯Absolutely insane!
@Pixelmon – the NFT project that promised a Pokémon-like metaverse – kicked off with sky-high hype.

In Feb 2022, it sold ~8,000 Pixelmon NFTs at a Dutch auction (starting around 3 ETH each), raising about $70 million in a single day

However...

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@Akkukap @CyberKongz How much?

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@fabdarice @gmoneyNFT @varanpension kevin still #1

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@mimikhaha @spellborne I’m taking you off the ergonomic list for that

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@SteerzNFT @Blake_ethX @Pixelmon @YieldGuild @PixelmonTCG 😂😂😂

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@maverick23NFT @cerebro_hq I've been afk from the space but great to sere that your idea of what you wanted to do with @cerebro_hq is thriving

Keep up the good work Maverick

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@JasoNFT_ Current max bench???

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@JasoNFT_ Early Pixelmon VC vibes >