Hello CT👋 To lead with the obvious, we could be better in accepting criticism of @bankless. I hold Bankless very dear, and I've got an innate reflex to protect it when I see it being unfairly attacked. This clouds my ability to hear what CT is trying to tell me, especially when it is drowned out with very obvious, unwarranted, and off-base hatred towards Bankless. Please forgive me for blindly throwing out the baby with the bathwater, when it comes time for CT to constructively tell Bankless how it feels about stuff. It is something I will work on, and hopefully this post is an effort to rewire that reflex. ==== As to current events, here is the signal I've gotten: The sharing of the brand between two independent entities, @bankless and @banklessDAO, is too confusing for the industry to accept. We’re aware that crypto has been burned by fake separate entities before. While in our case it’s true, the onus is on us to prove it. The concern is that BanklessDAO would not be able to make such ambitious proposals without leveraging the weight of the Bankless brand, which they did not produce, is not theirs, and ought not to benefit from. In an industry with its sensitivities towards grift turned up to 11, there are worries of a cash-grab via DAO proposal. Then, CT floods my and RSAs mentions for a proposal we were totally unaware of, had no involvement in, and are not the beneficiaries of, critiquing our actions and leadership of Bankless As a result, my+RSA's defense mechanisms of @bankless kick into gear. CT is expecting to hear "Okay, we see how this is confusing" and instead, it got "Bankless did nothing wrong" Hopefully I can impress upon anyone reading this that when there is 1 useful tweet mixed with 10 shitty ones, reacting non-defensively on Twitter is a huge practice in mindfulness and openness. It's opening up to exposure, at a time when your haters are throwing💩at you So, a moment to thank those who helped me work through the process of learning how to understand the issue of the moment, @kain, @lawmaster, @cobie, and those in the following screenshots. You might be thinking "It's really not that hard, you're just being dense", and that's also probably true. 6 years of being a public persona in crypto with strongly held opinions and aspirations, mixed with the toxicity of this industry, has produced an innate defense mechanism that's hard to unwire. I ask for forgiveness here - I was defensive before getting to crypto for other reasons too, and then crypto made it worse This is something I will work on, I promise. And if in the future I'm being dense again, pls link this post. Please know all good-faith criticism of BanklessHQ has been heard. Please also know that we get attacked for some of the stupidest shit, and it makes responding to events like this harder than it ought to be === As for our next steps: 1️⃣ We plan to submit a governance proposal to BanklessDAO early next week to clarify the branding separation between these entities. 2️⃣ We also plan to burn all of our BANK tokens on the back of this proposal.