Neo Tokyo News: 25th - 31st Oct 2025

Citadel Clarion Call: Flippers GTFO, Builders Get Battle Ready

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Neo Tokyo News
November 01, 2025

Neo Tokyo News: 25th - 31st Oct 2025

In this issue:

  • The Latest MetaMask Disappointment (by Flower83)

  • Citadel Clarion Call: Flippers GTFO, Builders Get Battle Ready (by DadFuture)

The Latest MetaMask Disappointment

Seriously, man. What is it with old web3 companies screwing over the very people that were with them from the beginning and brought them to a place where they are now.

We were all sad when OpenSea, rather than just airdroping their $SEA to loyal users from 2020 onwards, announced another points campaign you can now officially farm. Surely, other companies will learn from this fumble, right? Apparently not if you are MetaMask. No, they just decided to run the exact same playbook; much to enormous disappointment to each and every user who has been forced to use their shitty tech for almost a decade now. But this sad news from Metamask arguably affects even more people than OpenSea did.

MetaMask teased the airdrop for a while (years actually) but then always found ways to not go through with it. This time we also all thought it's just another marketing tactic from them, but our hopes were reinvigorated when we saw them register their claim page on their official domain.  Could it be? This time they are actually doing it? Is it for real? 

No, of course not. 

This week they proceeded to let everyone down with the following historic tweet:

Instead of just simply honoring their OG members, they decided to milk past, current and potential future users for more fees and dilute the airdrop for those that supported them all these years. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it is a common thing to do for many web3 projects that decide to do a token. 

All of this even impacted their cousin token - Linea which is part of the same parent company that runs both the L2 chain and MetaMask. It is down almost 50% this month and continues to bleed out.

You know things are terrible when your team members have to write essays and long explanations to justify why this isn't so bad. 

The vibe on CT is, of course, devastating. Take a look at some absolute gems from this week:

All MetaMask had to do was what many on CT pointed out:

  1. Do an airdrop for historical activity. OG users get rewarded up front and don't have to farm points.

  2. At TGE distribution, set aside allocations for rewards going forward. MetaMask can still farm liquidity. Point farmers can still farm points.  Win / Win.

It is weird how these teams who have been in crypto for years and years fail to understand this one simple thing that community (and their sentiment) matters. It is baffling how  the basics are simple and obvious to everyone except the greedy web3 teams, it seems. 

Switch to Rabby. See you next week. 🫡🧡

This Week In Neo Tokyo:
Flippers GTFO, Builders Get Battle Ready

Citizens, if the crypto winter feels like it's turning into an eternal deep freeze, sharpen your Cyber Katanas and Charge Blades—because Firestorm just dropped the ultimate clarion call straight from the Citadel walls. Everyone figured we'd be cruising by now, especially after grinding through those soul-crushing 2022-2024 lows, but nope. NFT crews and token bags everywhere are hitting the panic button, soul searching their whole playbooks. Firestorm calls it a golden reset: hype-chasers with zero conviction? Wave 'em goodbye as they capitulate into the void. Real visionaries? Double down and feast.

Neo Tokyo's blueprint shines brighter than ever in this mess—a locked-down fortress of a digital HQ, stacking unbeatable networks for slinging products, forging alliances, or launching careers in the shadows. Gaming's our beating heart, sure, but any Citizen cooking infra, security, or AI wizardry? You're swimming in value deeper than most. S1 elites are preaching it loud: "It’s the biggest, oldest, & most connected Web3 gaming community in al of crypto It’s a great place to network, meet buildoors, get connected with resources, $ game with a bunch of degens."

Crasher echoed the vibe, dodging the CT doomscroll, fueling up daily on Citadel builders trading alpha and fire—four years strong, opportunities stacking like infinite combos.

Learn AI Live keeps Citadel brains on overdrive, with AI guru and gigabrain FelixNorden unpacking LLM hooks for your stack before the normies wake up.

NT Plays pivoted like pros: Reaper Actual alpha on hold for server glow-ups, but the squad will be jumping into Arc Raiders (Sunday 9PM EST) for co-op extraction chaos—clip those kills for easy $BYTES bags while odds stay juicy.

ByteStreet's maiden voyage with Project O? Decent amid the apocalypse. Smashed funding ceilings from old-school rounds, even as markets melted sphincters. Team's already hunting fresh gems off survey intel and chat heat—history-makers, you locked in early.

Marketing Talk Episode 6, shoutout Ajay/Blockchainmeta, unpacked ditching airdrop mercenaries for sticky crews that actually stick, with Accelerator boss, elite marketers, and game CMOs spilling frameworks that turn tourists into diehards. Subcoder's NT Insider synced the pulse: NT drops, psych hacks, whale watches, Q4 tea, live charts—mic wide open for your hot takes.

Empty your diaries: Town Hall Nov 10th - Citadel Laws reloaded, reset roadmap unpacked. Grand Rising… flippers flushed, we're forged sharper.

This Week's NT CONTENT

SHORT SCOOPS

Until next week, citizens.

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