In this issue:

• This Week in Neo Tokyo: Many Have Been Shaken Out. History Will Not Remember Their Names. (by PhoenixxDown)

• Is ETH a Communist Coin? (by Flower83)

Wen airdrop? No, not the OpenSea one (though that’s refreshingly glorious to hear). I mean, wen will be the next airdrop for holders and stakers of $BYTES?

I know nothing—I’m but a mere Bitcoin of Crypto Gaming speculatooor like everyone else.

But with ByteStreet coming and the Council (specifically the legends that are Cryptoetheus, Ben Gothard, Firestorm and Chr0nicle) making moves in recent months, if I were a betting man, I’d suspect something is on the horizon.

$BYTES are low right now. Dirty low due to weak souls selling. NFA, but if you liked them at $20 (or for the OGs among us, $170), then you should be loving them at $3??

This Week’s Neo Tokyo Content

Interlinked #67 - In this episode, Ben and Cryptoetheus welcome Nathan from FaenoraVerse to discuss their blockchain gaming project, focusing on their game "Wildlands of Faenora," a pixel-art roguelike tactical RPG.

They break down battle strategies, character recruitment, and the optional use of blockchain features. The discussion also covers the game's nostalgic art style, the role of music in gaming, and their Web3-enabled hunt mode for competitive rewards.

Market Monday - Keeping with our “Oh God, it’s all over” theme lately, this week’s edition was headlined: “Is Crypto Doomed?” Thankfully, looking at the charts today, it doesn’t seem that way. But make no mistake—this period has been brutal. So many have been shaken out. History will not remember their names.

We also hosted Woods from Metropolis World for a deep dive into the project. Listen back here.

SKALE AMA – SKALE is a gas-free blockchain designed to scale gaming, AI, and high-performance dApps for mass adoption. In the past year, hundreds of projects have joined the network. Andrew Saunders (Chief Marketing & Growth Officer) and Falcore (Head of Community) joined our AMA to break down why SKALE is so attractive.

Listen back here.

GameCentric AMA – GameCentric is a Web3 gaming platform built for gamers, by gamers. With 50+ titles, they host tournaments and leagues with real rewards, and they’re making Web2 to Web3 onboarding stupidly easy.

If you’re an esteemed Citizen of The Citadel, you should definitely be paying attention to what’s going on over there. Listen back here.

NT x Unfungible Space - On that very note... who will disrupt the Web3 Gaming Meta? Will it be GameCentric? Someone else? The Unfungible Space panelists debated exactly that—who’s just grinding XP with no endgame?

Find out by listening back here.

Short Scoops

Congrats to our Dark Overlord, who got married this past week!

Here he is with our Angelic Overlord, proving once again that Neo Tokyo doesn’t just have the brightest minds, but also the most handsome faces. We truly cannot be stopped in all areas—it almost makes you feel bad for our competition.

Shoutout to Photoshopped! A man close to many hearts—especially ours at the news team—has just been selected as our Champion for the Lizard Labs Intern Meme Off. I fancy his chances GREATLY.

It’s Valentine’s Day—so why not suggest to your wife’s boyfriend that he pick up Angie’s favorite mug to stay in her good books?

NT Plays Game Night is kicking off shortly, featuring Shatterline. Casual vibes, good times. Get all the details below and hang out with some of your favorites on this Friday evening!

Until next next week, citizens.

This week every ETH holder had to reassess their reality and worldview, look truth in to the eye and ask themselves:

Am I a communist for holding ETH?

You know, when Vitalik put on a Milady PFP the crypto community was polarized. We had a lot of questions:

• Why not a punk instead?

• Why an NFT PFP now after all these years?

• Is he edgy enough for this?

• Is this a little too cringe actually?

• Should I myself consider buying a Milady after this?

But there was one big overarching and underlying question to this, which simply reads: Is this mid to long term bullish for Ethereum? Well, I think we got our answer this week. (Hint: It’s a strong NO.)

The past few months in crypto have been plagued with many failures from the ETH camp. The ETH Foundation consistently selling their free bags in large chunks, holders being exhausted, too many L2’s, high fees, Solana winning the memecoin game, NFTs being dead, fragmented liquidity, etc.

All of this quietly contributed to ETH’s abysmal price action, which is less than pleasurable to put it mildly.

All of the above are real issues, you see. But now, with recent tweets from Vitalik, people argue there is one bigger issue than all of them; the fact that Vitalik is alive and tweeting. 

My whole timeline is begging him to just shut up and go back to being a dev. People are saying he is obviously too autistic to publicly represent ETH in a positive light on social media. There is a case to be made that he is actively destroying his legacy (and of course our bags) with all this.

This is the one issue that BTC doesn’t have: Satoshi is quiet. And it's a tremendous advantage when you think about it.

Anyway, here are a few highlights, memes and funny responses on this topic to help you laugh the pain away.

See you in the next one 🫡👍

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