Maki 🍀

since my account now blowing up, i use this opportunity to talk about BATON cto. i want to go back to my original CTO post, where i said i like challenging the system. i see so much hate about the state of crypto. people complain about the crime meta, insider games,, KOLs farming their followers, and how difficult it is for ordinary people to win. but how many are actually trying to change something instead of just complaining about it? when i found $BATON, i saw a giga opportunity. the coin was holding the $1m levels without a CTO, without someone actively coordinating the community. that was a huge signal for me. it meant there was already organic demand, conviction and belief. at the same time, as someone who’s spent years frontrunning narratives and market shifts, i was noticing something else. the crime meta was starting to lose its edge. (and yes, i still believe this transition is happening.) people were getting tired of the same old game. the market needed something different: belief, communities, actual reasons to hold and people willing to build together. in my experience, these are exactly the periods when major meta shifts happen. when the old playbook stops working and new opportunities emerge. i decided to put my conviction behind one of them. and no, i’m not mother theresa. i’m not doing this out of charity. i like winning. i like making money. i’m competitive as hell. but i also find it much more interesting to win while helping hundreds of ordinary people win alongside me than to make money by playing a zero-sum game against everyone else. i’ve always believed there’s a different way to play this market. PvE over PvP. not everyone needs to be someone else’s exit liquidity. communities can create value, grow together and challenge the existing game. I belive BATON will help remind trenches how it should be done the right way.