During Consensus, I was asked several times about the story of ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 as far as we were aware. Many people were pleasantly surprised by how we managed to exit our position without damaging the community. This is the summary.
When we set up the process for accepting crypto donations at @stjude, we set the criteria that we would convert the assets donated as soon as reasonably possible. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is focused on leading the way that the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. While we (the crypto industry) may wish the world would leap forward and be more on-chain, that isn't how it currently exists and we need dollar denoted currencies to run the hospital.
Nearly 2 years ago, .5% of ASTEROID was sent to the St. Jude ETH wallet. We didn't have a way to readily convert it into US Dollars, so we left it in the wallet.
Due to external factors, the token went from a market cap of ~$20k to over $150M. Our position fluctuated between $500k and $1M in valuation. I had several messages asking if what we were going to do, and I responded to a few that we were figuring it out.
The next 48 hours were a whirlwind of approvals, but I knew two things. We would need to go to a DEX (a first for our mission) and that we would need to avoid hurting the community. Leadership understood and gave approval for the approach and we proceeded.
Some people may disagree with how we did it, but I believe it to be the best option out of the ones that we had. Over 2 days, we proceeded to exit the position in 12 varying sized tranches. During the entire process, we kept an eye on liquidity of the token and did our best to ensure it never dropped below $3.5M and that the Net Buy pressure didn't exceed $75k.
We exited the position with over 290 ETH valued at ~$676k. Thank you to the ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 community that came together on this asset. These monies will go a long way in support of the life saving mission of St. Jude.
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旧亿老师你好,我是 $ASTEROID CTO 其中一员,这边想针对几��回复下。
1️⃣ 捐赠代币
2024年在捐赠代币时,对于一个 cto 社区,我们非常努力,凑满 21亿代币,0.5%代币量。我们认为如果代币涨到 1亿市值,这笔捐献会非常有价值,远比我们捐u还要多很多,可以救更多癌症��童。你可以参考我们捐款的推文。
当时医院持币地址拥有 0.5%,已经是前30大持仓了。StJude医院也知道这件事,本来医院跟我们是要做一个入口,专门支持给 ASTEROID 代币捐款,但是后来他们技术不支持,所以暂时推迟了这一个计划,让我们直接捐入医院地址。
所以当你说这笔钱是刚好值钱了,我觉得很难过,因为这句话直接否定了我们在背后做的一切努力。
2️⃣ 官推帐号
官方帐号变得不活跃这件事,是因为那段时间社区成员们带着 ASTEROID 玩偶出门拍照去了。当时我们已经有了越南社区,日本社区、韩国社区,台湾社区、澳大利亚、罗马和德国社区。
我们的想法很简单,就是带着 Asteroid 玩偶去到全世界,这是 Liv妈妈告诉我们 Liv的梦想,她因为生病了,没办法上太空,所以才有了 Asteroid,她特别希望 Asteroid 玩偶自己去到世界每个角落。
我们发推的时间都是例如 Liv 去了南极,我们跟妈妈一起聊天,为什么在飞机上的玩偶没有穿太空装。Liv 生病了,我们让社区帮 Liv 祈祷挺过难关。
她妈妈每天都看我们推的,大部分推文都有点赞,跟我们聊天,不仅官推甚至社区成员的推特都是。时间横跨超过一整年。Liv还透过妈妈的推特跟我们说话,说她最喜欢日本的柴犬地标,最喜欢anya,她的生日等等。
所以你说妈妈骂我们消费她的女儿,我们早在 Liv 前几次癌症治疗时就已经陪着她们了。这也是她为什么妈妈一直追踪我们的原因,追踪了整整一年半。
我们从早期就陪 Liv 治疗,从未在币涨后打扰妈妈。妈妈现在决定取关我们,我甚至都回复感谢妈妈把我们的努力给 Liv 看见了。
3️⃣ 实质性帮助
你说小女孩 Liv ��需要帮助的时候,可能是2025年8月要去看医生的时候,那时候妈妈连续在推特上呼吁大家在他们 gofundme 上捐款,筹集 Liv 的医药费,台湾跟越南社区捐赠了很多医药费,推文也都有呼吁大家继续捐款。
因为我们是真的希望小女孩 Liv 能活下来,我们希望看着这个故事成长,就像 Liv 喜欢的太空员一样,最终开花结果,真正实现自己上太空的梦。
我们在 Liv 过世前一天,就已经完成了 Asteroid 在世界的影片,由我发布在我的个人版面,Liv妈妈转发了这个影片,大家都很感动,我们也知道 Liv在过世前,看见了 Asteroid 真的自己去了全世界。
当时候甚至 Asteroid 都还不是SpaceX 吉祥物,全部的社区只有我们做了这么多的努力,在当时全网甚至都没办法合出一个 Asteroid 视频。
4️⃣ 妈妈
而为什么说妈妈不是 Asteroid 的理念,是因为如果你看了 Polaris Program 那篇介绍,你��理解 Asteroid 设计的原因,是因为 Liv 没办法去太空了,所以 SpaceX 找她设计这个柴犬玩偶。
Liv 的想法是让 Stjude 医院的癌症儿童可以受到鼓舞。她希望当那些孩子看到 Asteroid 玩偶可以鼓起勇气去追梦,就像她虽然患上癌症,依然没有停止追寻上太空的梦想。
因此,Liv 要求 Spacex和 北极星计划,每一个卖出玩偶所获得的25美金,都要捐给 Stjude 医院,所以才说这些是跟医院还有梦想相关,Asteroid 的愿景跟妈妈没有那么大关联。
回到我们捐赠给医院的代币,医院他们已经卖出了,拿到大概60万美金左右,我们是秉持着 Liv 的想法,也很高兴看到这笔资金可以被运用。
这就是让我非常不舒服的地方,从旧亿老师的角度,似乎我们这些一直努力的社区成员,所做的努力都不值一提,甚至都是在蹭这件事,这个我非常不能同意。
我希望旧亿老师可以理解,我们社区从 2024 年就一直在做这些事,不是突然冒出来蹭热度。我们社区成员这一路的努力、陪伴 Liv 与妈妈的过程,是真实存在的,我希望我们能被如实看待。
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