Hello
@VitalikButerin
I've noticed you're either clearing out some tokens in your wallet or experimenting with your AI assistant. But I still hope you can see this post I made. The Asteroid community has sent you a portion of the tokens; the token contract is: 0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 If you have time, we hope you can look into the story of this token. Ten-year-old Liv was diagnosed with a rare form of undifferentiated sarcoma—a highly aggressive soft tissue cancer in children. She began a five-year battle: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, and clinical trials. But even in her hospital bed, she maintained her yearning for the stars. In 2022, 11-year-old Liv received a special invitation from the Polaris Dawn mission—she was asked to design a zero-gravity indicator (a small object that floats in a microgravity environment to alert astronauts as they enter space). In just 30 minutes, she drew a Shiba Inu in a spacesuit, named Asteroid, inspired by Elon Musk's dog Floki. This Shiba Inu was quickly made into a plush toy. On September 10, 2024, the Polaris Dawn mission launched. Asteroid soared into space aboard the Dragon capsule, gently floating in zero gravity during humanity's first commercial spacewalk. At that moment, a part of Liv's dream had reached the stars. All proceeds from the sale of the plush toys were donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to help other children like her. On January 14, 2026, 15-year-old Liv passed away peacefully in her mother Rebecca's arms. On her bedside table lay a sheet of eight questions she had written down herself—the questions she most wanted to ask Elon Musk. The eighth question was: “Could you make Asteroid—the Shiba Inu zero-gravity indicator I designed for Polaris Dawn—the official mascot of SpaceX?” Musk replied "ok".
@elonmusk
However, this token had existed before that. Community members spontaneously donated to
@StJude
and received a thank-you letter from the hospital. To fulfill LIV's dream, community members traveled the world with Asteroid plush toys, leaving their mark in every place.