It’s been a minute. Firewall’s first phase “Ignition” ended late April this year, about five months ago, so what have we been up to? Simple really. Building. Innovating.
Apply first principles. This is really a fundamental value of Firewall. Yes, we had a testnet ready a few months ago but what value does a user gain from this alone? Stop and think, here’s what it does: takes time, energy, money from both the user and project. Building novelty is hard and takes time. Our quietness has been consideration for our audience. Why waste your time?
We kept our phase one “Ignition” super lightweight. No effort to participate. The purpose as communicated was to form the grassroots base of our audience, introduce what we’re doing to the public eye, and get market feedback on what needs adjusting and not. It was successful! We found our initial base, you all, likely reading this. Long live the sparkooors.
I connected with many different folks, with all types of different audiences and experiences. I listened to the feedback and thoughts, formed some of my own, and encouraged you to strap-in, have fun, connect with likeminded folks who believe safe blockspace is a need. From Day 1 we have been purposefully different in how we treat our supporters.
When you stop and reflect, you have to realize it’s not the audience’s fault, it’s not the user’s fault. It wasn’t the user who requested this game. Did you ask to be farmed? No, I don’t think so. It was the shitty market dynamics of crypto projects with lack of product-market fit, lack of differentiation, and no reason to exist that trained and abused you for this. It’s strange, almost inverse to the relationship a business would usually form with their user.
Here’s the kicker → Firewall isn’t this. We don’t particularly care for whatever the latest trend is. We’ve been around and had major success across this industry for the past 8 years sticking to our own principles.
As previously stated, I have no interest in endlessly farming attention for no reason.
No, I won’t send you out on “quests”, use Galxe, Zealy, or other desperate BS that adds next to zero real value to what we’re building. No need for us to hide behind these facades. We respect energy, time, money — and our unique and innovative go-to-market plan reflects this. We’ll tell you exactly what and why adds value to us. Look, a little gamification and fun is not a con (and we’ll have it), but fundamental value demands consideration, in my opinion.
My expectations from this? Well I know users will be a whole ton happier with us, and I know we will be running a much more efficient business, less overhead, pure focus on innovating. Exactly what we’ve been locked in doing these past months. In turn for efficiency, we can return more value to our users. Win-win. Does this mean further silence? No, the why is below.
Our vision remains the same, we’ve done nothing but advance it significantly in the past months. Our team is tunnel vision, no distractions on our way to going live. Theft is still considered normal and acceptable in crypto. It makes me sick. People are losing insane amounts of money simply from being a part of Web3. Smart contract exploits continue to march on. All as expected at this point. These truths drive us forward, day by day, because we know the insanity will continue until we deliver.
The only reason I’m communicating now is because there’s something, actually scratch that, many things that are worthy of being told. We have net-new utility and value to offer you.
We have spent the past 2+ years building Firewall. Yet it’s only just begun, the best phases are yet to come. We have earned these moments coming soon. Protecting somebody’s life-savings, stopping the abuse of the user. Our team is thrilled to be entering this next era!
Look, this is all easy to claim right. Chat, enough with the vaporware, it’s time to prove we are different. “Proof of Tech” is coming soon ;). This is something magical, yet only the beginning of what we’ve built and are rolling out.
Without novel technology, by default whatever is used to attract interest relies on negative-sum actions. The beauty of true innovation is its positive-sum nature, the cost being it’s much harder to achieve of course.
Beyond our tech and product basis, we’ll continue to share our character, values, plans, and how we need you to fit into the journey of building safe blockspace (read: where the opportunity lays for you). My only suggestion is you pay attention to us now. It’s the only way to build real conviction for when said opportunity comes along.
As you continue to get to know me, and know our project, you’ll likely see the difference between us and other crap that exists. Continue to evaluate if you think we’re worthwhile of your attention from there.
Cheers!
Devan
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