ANON STORY

 Hi friends, we want to shed some light on the current situation and tell a brief history of ANON, which is unique and unparalleled in TON, and we have not found a similar one even outside of it.

WEB BEGINNING.

 On April 2, 2024, the day immediately after the end of the mining phase in Notcoin, its CEO Alexander created the Telegram channel ANON and held a presale in his private chat. Within an hour $500k hardcap was collected and the token was launched, where 50% went to the liquidity lock and the remaining funds were distributed among the participants minus the 6.2% supply sent to the zero address. Further after the successful launch Alexander announced that this token has no team, no budget, no leader, no plan and that is enough for development. The participants of the private club were intrigued by this story and the first activists appeared, who on pure enthusiasm began to chaotically perform simple important tasks that are necessary to position the new token in the market. A roadmap was developed, the first collaborations and verifications were made, the website was launched, stickers and many simple tasks were done within the first week of listing. 

In parallel with these processes in the community, Alexander supported ANON using his capabilities and credibility, there was a tweet on April 6 from TF guys, a speech on April 8 in Hong Kong integrating ANON into the trading bot of the main Notcoin version, fast feedback from key organizations in TON. It was fantastic growth, yielding over 35x from presale in just over a week. 

FALLING AND GROWING UP 

But starting from April 10, the trend in the markets changed and a correction occurred, which became the reason for demotivation of many participants to move forward on enthusiasm, not having direct material benefits from the daily growth of the portfolio. In the course of a series of controversial discussions that lasted more than two weeks and based on requests from the community about the need to develop a utility for ANON, a draft of an updated tokenomics was presented. It envisioned collecting donations in treasuries for ANON development for the stated benefits of royalty %, future drops, mines of official NFT collections and other privileges from ANON products. Over $500k was raised in an hour, and in the end about $950k after deducting refunds.

The spontaneously formed team faced basic organizational and infrastructural issues, developed rules of organization and groups performing tasks according to borrowed principles of holocratic organizations, where decisions are made by a circle of competent persons within departments or by all by means of voting. Roles were distributed, some dropped out due to lack of competencies, some lost interest or chose other priorities, the team was reduced from 30 to 17 people and took responsibility primarily for award distribution and in parallel formed a vision of a product that is in line with market trends and will offer quality interesting solutions for the audience of TON and our holders.

We went live on MEXC on the neighboring Notcoin listing day and throughout the month of May there were over $300k worth of drops for box owners and the first NFT freemints for all chat members and SBT ANON Pass owners. The majority of those who supported the token upgrade fees recouped their costs, many earned and greatly increased their donations due to the instant profits from the drops sold in the market or hold and the subsequent sale of Anonymous Numbers, ANON Stories, Agent IDs, NOT Sasha and 8 Club NFTs received.There were certainly those who did not recoup their full costs, usually the big donators, all of whom were Pass holders except for the winners of the box raffle.On June 9th the first monthly distribution of awards for Pass owners was held with partially generated profit from royalties from the collection trades and additional funding from the treasury, from that moment on every 8th day of the month Pass owners receive a directly proportional distribution of the monthly budget of the rewards, the community even nicknamed them salaries.

ATTENTION RETURN

 On June 13th we reached 100k on the channel, it was an important goal for us, given the team's busy schedule of responsible events in front of donators and not yet having our own attention-grabbing product in the market.

But it was already under active development and on June 23, after 3 weeks of development we presented the very first beta version of our app.It was not easy for us, but we tried to do everything qualitatively, so that there were no bugs, glitches, so that everything worked stably, safely and looked stylish. 

We launched our own video production for promo teasers for the app updates, we thought over the storyline so that every player would be interested in our story with every update, and we attracted the first 350,000 players in 10 days. Of course, we tried to make everything very tasty, so that we wouldn't be ashamed in front of TF and Alexander, who are obviously watching us and waiting for the results, as it seemed to us. 

In parallel, we were working on a marketing product to get traffic from opinion leaders. From July 1 to August 5 we held 2 seasons of ANON League, this is the first and unique event in TON, where not projects but Influencers competed for awards in $ and NFT, due to which the application gained the attention of more than 15 million audience and grew to 800 thousand users. Also on July 8th, together with the salary for Pass owners, we presented our game for mining game items and their future conversion into WEB3 assets.

APPLICATION AND BLOCKERS 

       On July 22nd we introduced an in-app utility for ANON where every player can lock in a token and take advantage of in-game privileges.

The players collectively blocked over 9% of the entire supply with 800k audience, which was very supportive for ANON and offset the overall pressure on the exchange rate, being sideways all summer market and the context of unfulfilled applications in Hong Kong, for which we can't be held accountable in any way. 

We didn't see any more support after the trejeri collection, but we met a lot of ignored requests and blockers in trivial tasks, such as delegating a tweet that we waited 1.5 months for or daily moderation of private chat on anon number to exclude those who bypass login through renting a number for a few minutes.We also sent all possible requests for marketing from TF, listing of mini-app in App Center, for trivial ticks of bot and channel verifications, but the requests are still not processed after more than 1,5-2 months. ANON team has never been closed to cooperation with Notcoin and other key companies in TON and certainly never ignored requests from them.

BEST PRACTICES

 At the same time, we were doing a lot of collaborations to build up our audience, but we noticed that the quality of traffic even with big-name projects became very questionable, the market changed and we started looking for possible solutions to the problem.

Of course, we looked at Notcoin solutions, how they cope with the attention in the market with a tradable token, which is in fact a very rare if not unique application of such reach at the moment. 

The DOGS project came on our radar, as well as everyone else's, and, naturally, we immediately realized that not just guys from the street are behind it. After all, in the very first weeks verifications appeared in Telegram, its support was quite dynamic from all the major tyr1 projects and media resources, there was literally a frenzied shill everywhere.And when there appeared tasks with Notcoin leagues, it became quite obvious that this was their second project. 

STRATEGIC ACTION

 We liked this experience, evaluated it, brought our ideas with balance deflation and launched Project B in just 7 days. Due to this ANON Space started to grow sharply after a period of stagnation, which everyone remembered by the viral screen of 666,999 MAU from Telegram. We temporarily abandoned collaborations and a few days later we broke through the coveted million, adding 400k+ users to a brand new and vibrant audience. While Project B gained its first 1.5 million users in just 10 days, and of course we put league assignments in ANON and released collab posts. 

All this operation was done completely by ourselves, without any support from anyone and by a team of people we don't know personally, spontaneously formed from Alexander's private chat and not being in the market for more than a year as Notcoin team. On one of these days project B went viral and attracted the attention of a huge number of bloggers, because some of them started to label the project after a post in the NFT partner channel of NOT Sasha collection as a project launched by Sasha himself, although no such information was declared by us or the partners. But to sell their referral link, as we know, talented people do not invent anything. 

APPEARANCE

 Exactly on this day Alexander unexpectedly contacts us, which is the first time at all.

Of course, after another long pause and without answers to our simple queries related to his decisions, he suddenly inquires about the latest emoji-post referring to project B. 

We inform him that it's a collab, ping the burning questions and in a few minutes we are confronted with unfounded claims and accusations of unfair work, because he was cut off in his private message and he has no desire to understand and the only thing he needs for such an assessment is a graph with a low rate.... Ok, we submitted a constructive extended comment with a proposal to establish cooperation, which we still do not have, before evaluating us not according to the summer schedule in which in addition there were holders waiting for a trading bot or any such support from key companies and persons in TON as in April. 

Alexander didn't answer anything and came back 2 days later with one short request, to ask NOT Sasha's partners to declare in their channel that they have nothing to do with him. We passed on his request and agreed that the guys would make a simple light statement on Monday, of course we could have asked them to do it immediately, but being in a context of constant ignoring, unfounded claims and a generally unproductive approach to things we considered it quite normal that it was not worth rushing the guys over the weekend. 

RED SUNDAY

 On Sunday evening, Alexander unexpectedly posted a statement in his private chat with the specific names of the NFT collection and Project B that he doesn't care about them and let them not pretend that they are his projects, but do something useful.

In the course of the resulting discussions, he also added that ANON was supposed to be different and that the team was producing second-rate projects. 

At the same time, the ANON Foundation group was stripped of all admin rights, leaving only the status, so that it would be invisible to everyone in the private club. The chat turned into chaos, only people who didn't notice could not see how many tweens came to the chat to spread hate and fud against the AF team, and those who stood up for the defense began to be mewed or banned. 

They put 'fren' plaques on their counterparts, as if marking their own aliens.

 Of course, this caused enormous emotional pressure on everyone, including the AF team, and even more so on the artists who didn't understand what was going on at all. We took a pause of 4 days in public statements to get our bearings and understand what was going on. Despite this we are still working as per our plans and roadmap, as evidenced by publications or updates.

RHETORICAL WHY

 Despite the context of current circumstances ANON Foundation is not going to condemn or scold anyone, give any assessment of products of other companies in the market, but we believe we have the right to voice a number of questions to Alexander as on behalf of users and holders of Notcoin:

- Why does the Notcoin development team breed tokens, having objective questions from users to the technical and economic part of pools organization, to the constant postponement of the announced trading bot to July, to the minutia of NFT skins and in general to the part of NOT token utility except for use in pools and collab lotteries?

- Why did an open development team make the most closed in terms of communication with the audience of the DOGS project, stating in the last days of mining that it was their development and publishing a “dogenomics” with 10% per team? And also putting 20k wallets in the leaderboard, calling it a bug and claiming a sticker utility that could have been similarly claimed in Notcoin?

- Why is the open and experienced Notcoin development team not waiting for the DOGS listing to announce the release of another token BUILD, where it is claimed to be used to access presales, rewards and drops. Why couldn't this have been implemented in Notcoin this summer?

- Why is the experienced Notcoin development team entitled to produce “second-rate applications” that go up in 7 days, while other market participants are not?

- Why Alexander is so eager to see a new marketplace in TON, but he creates a community token with distribution without a development budget, throws this complex idea for utility to the unorganized community, then shilts the token for some time with the declared integration into Notcoin and leaves to deal with other tokens and simple applications, as if forgetting about the laid expectations in the cost of ANON. At the same time, having an experienced team of developers with considerable budgets does not want to make a marketplace?

- Why does Alexander use his public authority and people's love, earned through the exclusive phase of mining and listing Notcoin (which has never happened in the history of ANON), to publicly condemn anyone's work of other participants in the market with a completely different model of market entry and organizational form?

- Did Alexander plan that the community token would decide to make its own lunchepad with unique mechanics when his team already has a Tonstarter and how interested is Alexander in seeing our product in the market? 

- Why did Alexander want a “wibbly-wobbly” decentralized ANON so badly, yet Telegram, Twitter and LP liquidity tokens are centralized under his control until now, and simple requests from the social media team are handled for months or ignored altogether?

ANON Open

 We do not know what goals Alexander has in mind for us, but we want to strongly protest the actions of the ANON Foundation team, which entered the market just a few months ago in a unique context. It faces the same difficulties and issues that any very experienced team in the market has, and even more so when there is a tradable asset that came out as a sell, not a drop and a shill from the top figs in the market. That said, despite the challenges we are holding 4-5x from presale and are no longer asking for support from anyone today and are self sufficient. We want and will continue to work, we have fulfilled and will continue to fulfill our obligations to our holders and users, stated in the project Upgrade ANON Tokenomics and Roadmap. And of course, given the current circumstances, it is now much easier for us to establish communication with the community, without fear of answering questions that were in limbo and did not depend on us.

 We know that a great number of projects in TON are facing such difficulties today, we know that bloggers are afraid to talk about it due to their pragmatic nature, and only paid biased interviews remain, which are perceived as advertising and distort the essence. That's why we open the ANON Open platform for any team in TON that has faced development blockers in the ecosystem and wants to talk about it in detail. ANON has a unique history as a team that was formed literally from the street and advocates for a free market for everyone. You can submit a request for publication at https://t.me/AnonCenterBot.

 We would also like to remind you that the ANON Foundation team are the members of Alexander's private club, who are also NOT holders, respect him for the opportunities provided and once again offer to establish cooperation and collaboration, as it has been suggested many times over the past two months. 

This statement was accepted and published by the ANON Foundation team as a result of the voting results. 22.08.2024