It’s been three weeks since we kicked off this whole “concern” experiment—and what a ride it’s been. If you’ve been lurking on CT, you already know 2025 started with a bang. We’ve seen rugs, FUD, insider trades, celebrity meltdowns, political dunk fests, and more. Through all of it, the concernors managed to rally behind a single meme. Some folks are frustrated, some are just chasing dopamine, many are waiting for their token to moon—but nearly everyone loves the meme.
I’ve spent a lot of time pondering the future steps. I looked at countless meme coin sites and even combed through the top 100 meme coins on CoinGecko (with a little AI help). Honestly, most are boring, cookie-cutter clones promising “revolutionary” this or “based” that. Spoiler: everyone’s still just trying to extract value in “creative” ways. The reality is, people will jump into anything if the hype is strong enough.
My personal motto in crypto has always been “Your money is in better hands now,” usually dropped on folks who lost their shirts chasing meme coins. I kept my distance from the meme trenches, since it felt like a nonstop cycle of hype-fueled money grabs. Then one day, I realized that they are not really going away, and thought maybe I can do it better. After stumbling upon flaunch on x 22 days ago, I YOLO'd $CONCERN the next day, determined to get my hands dirty by leveraging real Web3 features and steering clear of shallow hype. I had no clue if anyone would care, and I still don't, but hearing people shout “I’m concerned” across channels gave me the spark to keep going. Fear’s inevitable, but it shouldn’t paralyze us, right? So here we are another YOLO mode activated.
First, a quick victory lap. Before the recent pump, we were going sideways for a while. I saw it as a golden opportunity to market-buy with the community’s memestream revenues, hoping we’d found the bottom. Feeling extra confident, I doubled my own exposure immediately after, ending up with 3.08% of the total supply. For the first time in my life, I actually bought the bottom—so I’m taking full credit for the pump that followed.
And, to sweeten the deal, I just burned 2.23% of the total supply. The world has fewer concerns now. You’re welcome.
Now finally the actual updates:
We gave the website a massive facelift. It’s still hosted on Fleek and rocking an eth.limo domain. ENS & IPFS is powerful, and we’re taking full advantage of it.
I put up a rough draft of our guiding ideas and raw principles on the /manifesto page. Expect more polish, but for now, it’s a pretty good glimpse into the direction we want to go.
Check out /branding for a clean version of our logo and the OG meme. Feel free to remix, share, or meme them as you see fit.
I created a Farcaster account as an alternative to X and Discord. Base is pushing hard into social, so we might as well leverage it. There’s now a /concernors channel for hodlers of $CONCERN. Anyone can read, but only the concerned folk can become a member and cast.
We also spun up an unauthorized /flaunchies channel—an experiment in structured discussions that Telegram just can’t provide. Our aim is to capture conversations in a more organized way while expanding our reach across platforms. We want the flaunchies to dominate the Base landscape (for the good of meme trenches everywhere), and step one is conquering Farcaster—so, here we are, reporting for duty.
We set up a Zora account to function somewhat like Instagram for our memes. Apparently, Zora now lets every post become its own meme coin. (Yes, that’s as weird as it sounds.) Don’t buy any tokens unless you’re fully prepared to lose them. I’m still figuring it out myself, but I’ll explore it more and report back.
I’ve also set up a Paragraph page for updates and posts, along with some docs on fileverse.io for storing and organizing project documentation. We’ll get a dedicated portal once its out for public, making it easier to keep track of our random idea dumps in a structured way.
Grow Our Farcaster & Zora Presence: More social footprints, fewer walled gardens. I will need your help!
Set Up Snapshot Votes: Let’s check consensus for critical decisions before I yolo our bags into irrelevancy.
Add Wallet & Farcaster Integrations: Seamless user flows on the site and on farcaster.
Action plan for Fileverse Portals: beg to be whitelisted.
Radicle as a GitHub Backup: Transition eventually for maximum decentralization.
Protocol Guild Pledge: Use revenues to buy and send 1% of supply to them, and figure out how the community can help. Please don't buy more before I figure out how to do this.
Plan for X (formerly Twitter): Keep being a solid reply guy, popping into threads to spread our concerns far and wide.
That’s the current state of the $CONCERN experiment. We’re trying to walk the talk of Web3 by actually using all these decentralized tools, rather than just hyping them up in theory. Will it work? Who knows—but if we’re not at least trying to become unstoppable, why bother in the first place?
Stay concerned.
concernor
