Subject: Shib CoOp Community Update: Winding Down Operations & Refunding Founders
Dear ShibCoOp Community,
We are immensely grateful for your unwavering support, passion, & commitment which have made this community one of the most vibrant in web3. Your energy has fueled our mission, and we’ve strived to honor it with transparency and utmost integrity for 3+ years.
Our Achievements:
✅ 1st project to accept SHIB payments on Shibarium. (ColonelCoup Chikens)
✅ Built Launchpad for numerous respected SHIB OG community projects.
✅ Only project where community created the art & received the majority of mint fees (ColonelCoup).,
✅Built PLOT tool to optimize SHIB: The MV lands market.
✅Viral mascot (Da'Chikens on Tenor with over 500K shares
✅1st Big Burn on Shibarium L2 Chain (97M) which led to deep discussion on burning "in the contract" vs on the ETH chain.
✅Ran multiple spaces to promote community projects.
Our Vision & Challenges:
Shib CoOp was built to support Shib:TheMV with tools like PLOT and Maps.& Long term plans to help build out & promote MV projects; however, delays in Metaverse development & unclear timelines have hindered our progress. The departure of our volunteer developers & limited funding—solely from the Founders Collection and Launchpad—further strained our ability to continue operations.
Despite these challenges, we’ve prioritized utility over profit, with no token raise & no team member compensation except to our original developer. Our core team volunteered thousands of hours of time & significant personal resources, driven by our ‘WeNotMe’ ethos.
Decision to Wind Down:
After careful consideration, we’ve decided to wind down ShibCoOp operations due to insufficient funds for full-time development & unsustainable reliance on community developers & MV future timeline.
True to ‘WeNotMe,’ we will refund all Founders minting costs (including BOGOs) at 16 $BONE each and all paid PET token mints. This adds on to the generous @theLTDtoken token donation which we chose to airdrop gift to Founders holders (we even excluded core team in the airdrop).
Refund Instructions:
NFTS must be in your wallet. IF YOUR FOUNDERS NFTS ARE LISTED ON MANTRA, PLEASE REMOVE LISTING SO THE REFUND WILL GO TO YOUR WALLET. Refunds are expected to process later this week to give users time to delist from Mantra marketplace.
What’s Next:
This isn’t the end we envisioned, but chickens are resilient, and new beginnings may arise. Follow @ColonelCoup1 on X for potential future projects.
We also thank Jim from @ChewySwap who we've been in discussions with for months, and Chewy is launching a Shibarium marketplace including CoOp Launchpad projects to continue minting and trading.
Note/Disclaimer: Shib CoOp has no ownership of Launchpad project contracts so we recommend projects contact former developer to confirm & monitor contract status. Shib CoOp will have no access or liability for the website or contracts.
Thank you for believing in us for the past 3+years. We've made many great relationships, & we hope to cross paths again & again.
With gratitude,
The Shib CoOp Core Team (Da’ Chikens)
@ColonelCoup1
Shib: The Metaverse Gets a Major Upgrade
A new update is rolling out in Shib: The Metaverse, focused on making the experience smoother, faster, and more immersive for everyone.
The team has improved performance across key areas like Shib Station, Technology Trench, and Bark Park. Over 200 texture files were optimized to reduce GPU memory usage by 15–25%, helping the metaverse run better on more devices—without losing visual quality.
What’s improved:
•Smoother gameplay
•Lower VRAM usage
•Faster load times
•Sharper lighting and environment details
These upgrades are part of the Shiba Inu ecosystem’s wider plan to “Optimize the Future.” As Shibarium grows with tools like the dApp Store and the upcoming Shib Alpha Layer, the metaverse is being prepared to support more users and apps.
This update helps turn Shib: The Metaverse into a more powerful, useful, and beautiful hub for everything being built on Shibarium. It’s not just a patch—it’s progress.
We’re excited to announce the testnet launch of Positions Exchange, the perpetual exchange on Puppynet, going live on July 5th.
An official Shiba Inu partnershib, guided by @ShytoshiKusama and @kaaldhairya — built to empower the SHIB community with decentralized perpetual trading.
Users will be able to long or short with up to 8x leverage.
CRYTPO FOR DUMMIES Lesson (like me).
Swapping SOL for SUI on @phantom wallet.
I was able to successfully swap $SOL for $SUI on @phantom wallet cross-chain, so I thought I might as well share the steps & experience to possibly educate others interested in trying this new technological development. (1 of 9)
Dear Shib CoOp Community,
In our consistent #WeNotMe style, the refunds for Founders mints and paid PET mints have now been distributed.
Founders were refunded at 16 $BONE for each Founder held and the $BONE refund has been distributed on Shibarium.
The PET mints were refunded at their mint price on Ethereum. Below are the refund transactions: Founders Refund: (2 transactions on shibarium)
1) https://t.co/G7MBDOTdrU,
2) https://t.co/LfqVQUmC3h,
PET mint Refund: (2 transactions on Ethereum)
1) ETH mint Refunds - https://t.co/Gknz4Dy2Zg,
2) SHIB mint Refunds - https://t.co/XypLoCw7v8,
Thank you all for your amazing support over the years and being so understanding with this difficult decision we have made.
We wish you all the best!
With gratitude,
The Shib CoOp Core Team (Da’ Chikens)
@Lumibots_art When projects like @Lumibots_art came to us for help.... It was easy. Money comes and goes, integrity & honor can last a lifetime.
Cheers to the robots (the good kind)
Thanks Ragnar. Means a lot from a leader who's been here through many hills and valleys.
Individually we're not leaving shib, we're not burning Bridges; we just had to make this decision due to the uncertainty of being able to exercise roadmap without any certainty of when MV launches for the builders.
Subject: Shib CoOp Community Update: Winding Down Operations & Refunding Founders
Dear ShibCoOp Community,
We are immensely grateful for your unwavering support, passion, & commitment which have made this community one of the most vibrant in web3. Your energy has fueled our mission, and we’ve strived to honor it with transparency and utmost integrity for 3+ years.
Our Achievements:
✅ 1st project to accept SHIB payments on Shibarium. (ColonelCoup Chikens)
✅ Built Launchpad for numerous respected SHIB OG community projects.
✅ Only project where community created the art & received the majority of mint fees (ColonelCoup).,
✅Built PLOT tool to optimize SHIB: The MV lands market.
✅Viral mascot (Da'Chikens on Tenor with over 500K shares
✅1st Big Burn on Shibarium L2 Chain (97M) which led to deep discussion on burning "in the contract" vs on the ETH chain.
✅Ran multiple spaces to promote community projects.
Our Vision & Challenges:
Shib CoOp was built to support Shib:TheMV with tools like PLOT and Maps.& Long term plans to help build out & promote MV projects; however, delays in Metaverse development & unclear timelines have hindered our progress. The departure of our volunteer developers & limited funding—solely from the Founders Collection and Launchpad—further strained our ability to continue operations.
Despite these challenges, we’ve prioritized utility over profit, with no token raise & no team member compensation except to our original developer. Our core team volunteered thousands of hours of time & significant personal resources, driven by our ‘WeNotMe’ ethos.
Decision to Wind Down:
After careful consideration, we’ve decided to wind down ShibCoOp operations due to insufficient funds for full-time development & unsustainable reliance on community developers & MV future timeline.
True to ‘WeNotMe,’ we will refund all Founders minting costs (including BOGOs) at 16 $BONE each and all paid PET token mints. This adds on to the generous @theLTDtoken token donation which we chose to airdrop gift to Founders holders (we even excluded core team in the airdrop).
Refund Instructions:
NFTS must be in your wallet. IF YOUR FOUNDERS NFTS ARE LISTED ON MANTRA, PLEASE REMOVE LISTING SO THE REFUND WILL GO TO YOUR WALLET. Refunds are expected to process later this week to give users time to delist from Mantra marketplace.
What’s Next:
This isn’t the end we envisioned, but chickens are resilient, and new beginnings may arise. Follow @ColonelCoup1 on X for potential future projects.
We also thank Jim from @ChewySwap who we've been in discussions with for months, and Chewy is launching a Shibarium marketplace including CoOp Launchpad projects to continue minting and trading.
Note/Disclaimer: Shib CoOp has no ownership of Launchpad project contracts so we recommend projects contact former developer to confirm & monitor contract status. Shib CoOp will have no access or liability for the website or contracts.
Thank you for believing in us for the past 3+years. We've made many great relationships, & we hope to cross paths again & again.
With gratitude,
The Shib CoOp Core Team (Da’ Chikens)
@ColonelCoup1
@DORAYAKIKUZU So did we. It was some amazing art centered around great plans.
Think of it this way. You get your money back and you still get to keep your nft (s).
Who knows, maybe they'll increase in value because of what they represent, or you'll have a collection of some very nice art.
Thank you Pit.
We always put the community interest first. #WeNotMe was the motto from the beginning.
Don't know if any projects ever refunded all investors, so maybe that's another first.
We formed for the metaverse, and pivoted to shibarium to help projects launch NFTs, and strongly considered launching a token.
Internally, some amazing people with integrity and deep thinkers finally decided... Let's give the supporters their funds back, even those who got free nfts on the BOGO contests. (That's a 2X).
IF... We come back our hopes are the true community spirit rejuvenates & members remember. #WeNotMe never took a dime from anyone.
The Shibarmy is full of wonderful people who deserve the best in life.
So pull together, help others, support, educate, and lift up community with love... And make Shibarium great again.
✌️
**IMPORTANT Update on Founders NFT holders Refund**
The wallet snapshot will be taken on Thursday 6/12 at 7:00pm CST to capture all wallets that are holding Founders NFTs.
If you have any Founders listed on Mantra, please unlist before then as they don't show up in your wallet when listed on Mantra.
The refund of 16 Bone per Founder (Full mint price) will be issued within 24 hours following the snapshot.
Thanks again everyone and much love,
Shib CoOp Core Team
@AndrewLads Thank you. We definitely were fortunate to help the best of the best OGs launch their NFT collections. #STFT. Hope you'll follow @ColonelCoup1 "just in case" da chikens pull a coup
@andre_tfw You already know. We're lucky to be able to host such an important project who looks to give and teach about such an important cause...Cancer. The support will continue. Much Love