Mase

I’m not posting this for sympathy, thoughts and prayers, or any of that. My dad spent the last couple days in the hospital dealing with partial heart failure. He’s home now and doing okay, thank God. But something happened today that made me think about what this community has actually meant to me. My dad and I weren’t especially close growing up. I always loved him, but we didn’t really talk much. Later in life we started getting closer, but he never really understood what I was doing. Whenever I talked about building things, crypto, communities, whatever I was working on, the question was always some version of: “How are you going to make money from this?” And I would tell him: “Dad, it’s not about the money. It’s about the community.” He never really understood what I meant. Then a few weeks ago he was visiting me and sitting next to me while I was on an X Space. Then Mase came up on stage. Nothing was planned. Nobody asked him to do it. And in front of everybody, with my dad sitting there listening, @MaseInSpaces started talking about me and said some of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me. I remember looking over at my dad. For the first time, I think he understood. Not crypto. Not tokens. Not what I was building. He understood that somehow I had affected people. He looked at me, smiled, laughed a little and basically gave me this look like: “Okay. I get it now.” After that, whenever I was on Spaces, he started getting excited about it. He’d jump on, make chicken noises, mess around and have fun with everybody. Today, after getting out of the hospital, he asked me: “How are your friends online doing?” Then he asked: “How’s the project going?” I didn’t have the heart to tell him what happened. And that’s why I’m writing this. Whatever happens with projects, money, tokens, technology, arguments, wins or losses, none of that can take away what happened that night. A community of people on Crypto Twitter, of all fucking places, gave me a moment with my father that I had been waiting years for without even realizing I was waiting for it. For one night, my dad understood me. That mattered. And it still does. 🐔 ccc

One week ago, everything changed. Since then, I’ve kept a low profile for a reason. I wanted to make sure that whatever I do next was based on facts, not emotion. Over the past week, I’ve been organizing the timeline, preserving every record. I’ve also been speaking with professionals to better understand the appropriate path forward, both from a legal standpoint and from a governance standpoint. Transparency has always mattered to me, and it always will. Over the next several days, I’ll begin sharing that timeline publicly so everyone can see exactly how we got here. Not my opinions. Just the documented record. I’ll also be bringing the documentation to the appropriate agencies and organizations where I believe it’s appropriate for them to review. At the same time, I’ll be reaching out to technology reporters because I think this story is bigger than our project. This isn’t just about the Chicken Crossing the Road project. It’s about what happens when experienced professionals with real-world reputations enter this space, earn a community’s trust, and then leave people trying to figure out what happened. Whether you’re building in crypto, AI, or cybersecurity, accountability still matters. As for me… I’ve spent this week looking forward, not backward. I’ve already started mapping out the next version of the KEKKEN and tech I designed with a new approach. What we’ve learned over the last seven months doesn’t disappear because one chapter ended. If anything, it gives us a chance to build it the right way from day one. To everyone who has reached out, offered support, or simply waited patiently… Thank you. I’m just getting started. Stay tuned. 🐔 ccc

Liquidity Pool is live 💰 And we still on top. 50,000,000 $chicken has been deployed into the single-sided liquidity pool. Today also came with pressure. A team member had a wallet drained, and that impact hit the chart. But the community showed up. People supported. People held. People helped stabilize the chart and bring us back over $600K after the drop. That matters. This is why structure matters. This is why teamwork matters. This is why having people you trust around you matters. We keep building.
We keep crossing.
 And like the bird, the Bar-Tailed Godwit, we don’t look back. 🐔 ccc

Invest in people, they’ll invest in you. 🐔 ccc

Liquidity pool next. Thank you to everyone supporting us. See you on the other side. 🐔 ccc

@MaseInSpaces you a real one, homy. What a pleasant surprise ⚠️ Thank you. 🐔 ccc