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But realize this, brother. You fly no one's flag. You're free to seek your own harbour. And you can do so much more than tread water.
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I genuinely feel bad for the Soljak holders. Imagine spending months building a community and creating content, only to get fucked over and vamped dry
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JUST THE BEGINNING
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In Crypto - The Wild & Crazy Zinc Story
I’ve been watching the Zinc / ZKFG situation unfold, and the more I learn, the clearer the actual story becomes.
This is not about poor early investors being abandoned as some accounts try to spin the narrative.
That is the FUD based on financial incentive. From the ORE community to see Zinc fail, and from secondary market folks who have a financial incentive to try to capture Zinc success only after Zinc became successful.
The “investors rugged” is the version people want to spread because it lets them wear the costume of justice while chasing someone else’s upside.
The real story is something much uglier.
It is a story about good faith being punished.
ZKLSOL raised money for an idea. The business that they raised money for was a mixer. A tornado cash for Solana, as it were.
The team worked hard on it on it. Gave it their best effort.
And the market did what markets do with countless startups.
It said no.
That is not a rug or some form of theft. That is the nature of startups in this space.
Most startups fail. Most ideas do not find product-market fit. Everyone loves to say they understand that when they are buying the dream. Far fewer remember it when the dream gets punched in the mouth by reality.
The founder did not just walk away as he had every legal right to do.
There was a $500K refund.
People who wanted out got out. Many in profit.
And from what I found, the founder received no equity back. No token back. No “thank you for being a good guy” bonus.
Just money out the door to make people whole because his original business concept failed and the founder is a good guy with a generous heart.
That matters a lot in the current narrative.
Because when people try to frame this as “Zinc rugged early investors,” they are leaving out the most important piece of history.
The early investor issue was not ignored.
It was addressed.
Maybe not perfectly. Nothing in crypto is ever perfect. Half this industry is held together with duct tape.
But there was good faith.
Real good faith.
Actual money.
Actual exits.
Actual effort to keep people from being left behind.
But good faith is not the same thing as formal obligation.
There was no formal investor approval of a legal pivot into Zinc.
No signed addendum.
No updated operating agreement. (I know, as I've read the entirety of the 20-page operating agreement)
No formal contribution of Zinc IP into the original structure.
No clean legal document that turned an act of goodwill into a permanent claim on whatever the team built next.
This is an important context.
It also highlights the absolute mess of MetaDAO as a facilitator - one would think the founders would have insisted on formalizing this to protect early investors - instead they now have put up a proposal to formalize this long after the fact, and only after Zinc’s phenomenal success.
Because trying to carry people forward after a failed startup does not mean every future success becomes theirs to claim. Especially on an entirely unrelated business.
So the team decided they were going to dust off a two-year old idea and build Zinc instead. Zinc started working incredibly well. It quickly became the #2 revenue generating protocol on Solana.
That is when everything changed.
Suddenly the room filled with people who were not there for the hard part at the beginning.
They were not there when the first business failed.
They were not there when the team was trying to figure out how to salvage value for investors of a failed business, when they had no legal or moral obligation to do so.
They were not there when early supporters were being given a way out.
But the moment Zinc showed signs of life?
The moment the thing started getting attention?
The moment there was blood in the water and money on the table?
Here they came.
Late buyers.
Arb hunters.
Opportunists.
Like the founder of @streamflow_fi who put out the biggest piece of FUD on the topic, only later to admit that he was a late-stage arb buyer of the proposed outcome.
People who did not carry the original risk, but now want to inherit the reward.
And the most disgusting part is they are trying to use the language of investor protection to do it.
No.
Investor protection is making sure original supporters had a fair path out.
Investor protection is honoring the actual process.
Investor protection is respecting a passed proposal.
What we are watching now is something entirely different.
A passed proposal offered ZKFG holders a premium exit.
It passed.
The market spoke.
That should mean something.
Actually, it should mean everything in the theater that is "governance".
The founders of MetaDAO asked for a deposit to go towards the passed proposal. That deposit was sent over two transactions:
https://t.co/VNavH1y3E1
https://t.co/TwcCYqkfGA
Only after the deposit was sent (which is still being held hostage and not returned) did they say that they were not going to execute the passed proposal.
If a decision market can approve an outcome, and then that outcome can be dismissed after the fact because someone says the format was wrong, then the market is not sovereign.
Someone else is.
And if money was requested to support that proposal, an address was provided, funds were sent, the proposal passed, and then the proposal was later treated as invalid while the money sits without being returned, that should concern every single person who claims to care about governance.
You cannot have it both ways.
You cannot say a proposal is real enough to request initial funding, but not real enough to honor.
That is not how trust is built.
And all of this brings us to the the real lesson for builders.
If you try to do what you think is right, regardless of any legal obligation to do so, someone will eventually call it an admission of liability.
If you try to help early supporters when you have no requirement to do so, someone will eventually call it an obligation.
If you try to salvage value from a failed idea, someone will eventually show up late and claim your future success.
That is how good founders learn to grow cold.
That is how this industry teaches builders to give people exactly what the paperwork requires and not a single ounce more.
And then we all sit around wondering why everyone rugs, hides, ghosts, or lawyer-speaks their way through every uncomfortable situation.
We created that.
We reward the worst behavior, then act shocked when good behavior disappears.
Zinc did not create this mess by succeeding.
Zinc simply exposed it.
It exposed the difference between original supporters of a completely different business who were given a path out, and late opportunists trying to turn secondary-market positioning into moral authority.
It exposed whether passed proposals actually matter.
It exposed whether futarchy is a real governance system or just a beautiful machine that can still be unplugged when the result gets uncomfortable for those with greed in their hearts.
And it exposed something very simple:
Some people did not want fairness.
They wanted a claim on success, only after it became successful.
They wanted to arrive after the risk, after the work, after the refund, after the failure, after the rebuild, and say:
“Now that it works, we own some of that too.”
That is not justice.
That is greed.
Honor the passed proposal.
Resolve the funds.
Stop pretending late buyers are abandoned early investors.
And let builders build.
Because if this is how we treat builders with good faith, then no one should be surprised when the next founder shows none.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
Either $0 or $1000 - totally binary
New levels of delusions being hit.
$NOCK Bull Run Checklist:
- Kraken listing June 23 → loading
- Compute Market launch (end of June) → loading
- Merge-mining → loading
- First major NockApps going live → coming soon
- More CEX listings → incoming ;)
- Real institutional & enterprise interest → building
I’ve seen this movie before...
✅ Fair launch
✅ Real tech
✅ Chad founder
✅ Clear roadmap
✅ Exploding utility
This is inevitable.
Nock Nock
just realized the 60 day extension for the us-iran deal ends right around spacex first unlocks lol
@badattrading_ could be the team's supply no?
Coming soon: $NOCK
@nockchain is a hard money protocol powered by useful Compute Networks. Mining the network verifies useful compute instead of wasting energy.
Trading starts June 23
Get ready → https://t.co/47fNCUnRqD
$NOCK: two ways this plays out from here.
I've gone deep on this one. The whitepaper, the research docs, the threads, the tape. Here's the honest fork.
THE BULL PATH
The Kraken listing brings real liquidity and real eyes. Then the part that actually matters lands: the compute markets ship and get paid usage. Verifiable compute finds real buyers, fees flow in nock, and the flywheel the team keeps describing finally closes. The frozen 12-opcode ISA turns out to be the right proving substrate as zkML costs fall, and NOCK becomes the settlement layer for proof-of-useful-work. Fair launch, hard cap, real utility. That re-rates.
THE BEAR PATH
The listing is sell-the-news. Early miners and holders distribute into a fresh wave of retail and price fades. The compute markets stay demos, because proving a frontier model is still orders of magnitude too expensive and the market for verified compute stays niche. Unextractability never gets past heuristic, so the value story stays circular. What's left is a beautifully engineered narrative coin: elegant tech, no demand, slow bleed, one horse in a crowded proof-of-useful-work race.
THE DECIDER
Paid, third-party demand for verifiable compute. That's the whole game. Listings, merge-mining, roadmaps, and threads are supply and story. The one number that resolves this is whether anyone actually pays. Watch that. Ignore the rest.
Real tech. Real team. Unproven demand. Both paths are still live.
Sometimes life hits you so hard that it feels hard to keep moving forward. That’s what the last few months have been like for me.
* Lost my job.
* Took a major hit in the markets.
* Had to take our newborn in for heart surgery just a few days ago, and he’s still fighting an infection.
But nothing last forever. Gonna believe, keep fighting, and keep moving forward. God has a plan, and we trust that better days are ahead. 🙏❤️
- Vc é de qual turma?
- Eu trabalho aqui
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