In this issue:

• This Week in Neo Tokyo: Flower Was Right All Along (by PhoenixxDown)

• Mental Health Bytes: Crypto Culture’s Mid-Cycle Crisis (by ZeHI)

Last week, I said business was picking up in The Citadel, and that energy has carried straight into this week! There’s an important announcement in Internal Announcements that all Citizens should check out.

If you think you can add serious value to Neo Tokyo in one of its most prestigious positions, this is for you. Don’t miss it.

Check it out here.

On that note, a big shoutout to Ben Humbert, who has stepped down as a Council Member after serving The Citadel for some time. He’s now rejoining the civilian life with the rest of us. Thank you for your contributions, Ben!

This Week’s Neo Tokyo Content

Interlinked #70 - Cryptoetheus and Ben welcome Jihoz.ron, co-founder of Axie Infinity, Ronin, and Sky Mavis.

Did you know Axie was inspired by Pokémon? They get into that, the importance of gaming in onboarding users to crypto, and the unique economic models in web3 gaming. Also, what’s the best strategy for attracting and keeping players?

Market Monday Tuesday #113 - He might’ve taken a (well deserved) week off from telling you how absolutely terrible everything is, but you knew Flower wasn’t skipping Market Monday!

This week was his time to shine; the culmination of all his work live and in living color (a deep shade of red). Alts are bleeding out even though they have been drained into lifeless husks of their former selves, and now, Bitcoin is finally suffering too.

Maybe it’s time us delusionally retarded bulls just admit it… Flower was right all along.

Listen back here.

NT x Unfungible Space - What does your favorite anime say about you? If you’ve ever wondered, this Space. held earlier today, is perfect for you. Crypto and anime are a natural fit.

Personally I don’t have one, can’t get into it. Feels like one of those things that if I did start, I’d become obsessed with it. Like a good RPG, or developing a heroin habit. Just not enough time for that sort of thing with everything else going on.

Listen back here.

Astra Nova AMA - Fresh off their arrival into Neo Tokyo last week, Astra Nova has wasted no time in getting their feet well under the table here, kicking things off with a discussion with the AMA team!

Astra Nova is an AI-driven entertainment ecosystem that evolves with player behavior, redefining immersion and interactivity. Powered by Unreal Engine 5 and built on Base, Astra Nova delivers AAA-quality gameplay, UGC features, RWA rewards, and transmedia storytelling.

Listen back here.

Impakt AMA - Impakt is an AI-powered fitness agent/coach that can see, instruct, and guide workouts in real time using motion-tracking tech. Led by Citizen Winston Zin, and represented in this AMA by Citizens Claire and RatSpeare, they’re building the largest online fitness social network!

Listen back here.

Short Scoops

ART for $BYTES

The brainchild of two of NT’s most OG of OGs, LeBoomington and Photoshopped, has come to fruition….ART for $BYTES.

What is it? A superteam of Citadel artists coming together, we love to see it! Find out more below:

Marketing Talk

The first-ever Marketing Talk was hosted inside NT Discord this week, with some of the brightest minds dropping knowledge.

Don’t be like me and miss it because you forgot the clocks went back again. These aren’t recorded, so make sure you catch the next one.

Bullish BYTES Posting

Just one this week, but it’s a banger.

Sir Loin of Neo Tokyo recently sold all of his XRP for $BYTES and $SUPER. Will this be one of the shrewdest moves we’ve documented? BOOKMARK IT.

Until next next week, citizens.

In life, all of us go through periods of highs and lows. The low points, when we feel maximum pain, tend to be the moments that define us.

Some people embrace the challenges faced, and accept their pain as a necessary stimulant for true, healthy growth. They do the work necessary to correct their weaknesses that led them to fall, and to enhance their strengths so they can navigate future difficulties with more grace and resilience.

Once the tides change, these people will reach new heights of success and a more sustainable level of health.

Other people wallow in their squalor when faced with loss and adversity. They divert their attention to addictive, escapist behavior to avoid their “poor me” mentality, and often develop unhealthy and even dangerous habits.

The tides may change for these individuals as well. But the success they find will not be sustainable, and may even lead them into hazardous levels of criminality or self-harm.

As we know, our crypto culture goes through these cycles as well. In its last bear cycle - even though some communities such as NT tried to keep a focus on building - the crypto culture devolved into a degenerate band of slot machine zombies and casino junkies.

It is no surprise then, that our next bull(shit) market was dominated by rug-pulling meme-faced presidents, criminals at every corner and an unhealthy system that left most altcoins on life support.

I would like to think that this current dip in the market is a chance for us to reset as a culture. To get away from the “try to get rich today” mentality, and back to the decentralized ideals that drew many of us to the space.

Let’s do what we can to refocus our attention on building, on the builders doing real work, and on educating the world about the advantages and utilities that this blockchain technology could bring for the betterment of our society.

If we, as a culture, can do that, then - once the tides change again - we’ll have a chance to see the healthy and sustainable bull market that we’ve all been waiting for.

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