Post #385

It has occurred to me that my previous message might have offended some of you, so I’d like to follow up to clarify a few points. The message was directed solely at the toxic segment of the BBC community, not the entire community. If you’ve never called us scammers, it wasn’t meant for you. Why did I mention revenue? First, I want to emphasize that even without revenue, I’m deeply grateful for the time and effort you’ve invested in the game over months. We’ve been through ups and downs together—fights, arguments, and all—but we were in it together. Even without the money, my time with BBC has helped me grow as a founder and in product design, leading to the creation of Jiko, which I believe is a product-market fit that secures our sustainable future. The era of products with few users and no revenue generation ended in 2021–2022. Today, a successful crypto project needs a use case, users, and liquidity. In short, even without money or revenue, I’m incredibly grateful for everything that has happened. (This is my sincerest sharing: building this project has actually made me poorer than before I founded the company. Sometimes, I ask myself why I left an easy life for this challenging path—phew!) Back to the main point: I mentioned revenue because a community member claimed we got rich from BBC players, delayed the SUGAR TGE, and took your money. My intention was to clarify that development costs for maintaining a project are extremely high. Anything below 1 million USD is minimal in this crypto founding game. It might seem like a big number for an individual, but for a project with an 18-person team, it’s a different story. I understand that the demand for a SUGAR TGE makes sense from your perspective, and I respect that we all have different data, viewpoints, and angles. I see your demand as reasonable; I just don’t like the way some rude people have called us stupid or scammers. Have you wondered why the new token is called aSUGAR instead of something like “receipt” or “cake”? We could have chosen a different name to avoid confusion, but we went with aSUGAR because it’s a preparation for SUGAR. The letter “a” is the start of the alphabet, symbolizing the start of everything. It also represents abundance. aSUGAR is created to serve as a receipt for SUGAR and pave the way for its introduction, promoting its adoption. The name “aSUGAR” reflects this transitional mechanism. From my perspective, I’ve chosen this path, so I don’t want to just complain about it. I want to share that my team, which works hard daily, has felt discouraged and offended by your harsh and toxic words. It’s been a year, and they haven’t had a single day off because we know how much you want SUGAR to TGE. There’s always a big deadline looming over us. Do you remember the guild war in November? That’s when we started building Jiko. Halfway through BBC, we realized that model wasn’t sustainable for just launching a token. To you, it might seem like another Telegram airdrop project you want to close out, sell, and leave. But for us, as the development team, it’s never been just a game. Many of us have poured our lives into creating something usable and widely adopted. We want to break the pattern of short-term crypto projects and find the holy grail of sustainability. That’s why we pivoted from BBC to Jiko. During that time, we were invited to join a Berachain mainnet campaign and provide a platform for all projects on Telegram. We started building it, but halfway through, the campaign was canceled—no mainnet campaign on Telegram. From your perspective, it might look like we’re stretching ourselves too thin, trying to build everything. From ours, it feels like we’re trying to please many parties. But that era is over. Now, we have more clarity on our way forward, with Jiko at the center, Beraji Bears as our spiritual club, BBC as our gaming portal, and BeraSig as our transportation system.