I have been awake for 36 hours for
@BankmenFinance
The entire team has grinded for over a year.
We made large risks to make Bankmen great.
We could have minted with just some art and fancy animations.
Instead we hosted events.
Built 4 products (about to be 5).
Hired many 20+ team members who deserved a chance.
Networked for a year.
Spent 8 months on the art with a native Solana Artist.
Partnered with the best launchpad.
Worked with top rafflers and lenders to get feedback on our platforms.
This project is more than just a single person, it's an extremely dedicated team of people who deserve a shot, they've all put in the most they can into making this great.
But this is just the beginning. Fud was expected, and some of its warranted. But we (including Titan, are all mostly young and in 2021 it seemed like the time to yolo and try anything, basically everyone failed besides top 0.01%.
At a point you have to give up if an idea doesn't work. Thats why we did what we did before mint, thats why we released 4 products (not needed) thats why we took feedback from top contributing Solana users (not needed) thats why we hosted events (not needed)
None of what we did was needed to mint out. None of it. We did it because we wanted to show Solana we are here to stay and we'll risk it all to make that point.
You can hate us, but i've spent 1,000 hours with this team, our intention is to make the best project we can for all of Solana.
If this was a pump and dump, or a rug, I promise you. We wouldn't have gone to these lengths, none of it was necessary if all we cared about was extracting from Solana.