This shows that Atika Inu is not just a meme coin - it is this belief that the investors have hit behind
I believe they should be allowed to fail or succeed off their own merits
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Is dumping the tokens in ANYONEāS best interest besides Gitcoinās?
yes, literally hundreds of projects could benefit from these funds in the next gitcoin grants round. Too many to list! Gitcoin | Explorer
Akita devs could participate in a grants round and compete for funding the same as everyone else, based on the quality of their work, that seems fair doesnāt it?
The whole reason the cryptosphere is so attractive to many is because itās a new frontier! Itās freedom!
In a world completely bogged down by overreaching big government and corrupt institutions - you actually propose that what crypto needs is our freedom to be restricted in these various ways you alone see fit?
freedom to send half your supply to a single person. freedom to donate them towards a community funding public goods. freedom for that community to sell them, or do whatever it determines is the best use of those funds for itself. freedom to collaborate on ideas too, if anyone has any creative and novel suggestions.
Notwithstanding the fact that $AKITA has a real, actionable plan to become more than just a meme coin
This is very important. What is that plan? Can anyone show anything to us? code? design documents? if we consider this an investment in a roadmap, then where is it? can we review it, critique it, improve it? are the devs dedicated enough to that vision to lock up their own tokens in a vesting contract? how about the community, will they lock up in a vesting contract? you seem dedicated, will you lockup your funds like you are asking gitcoin to do? are we assured devs are capable of managing a project with many millions of $ of gitcoins funds on the line? what is their track record like, can we trust them? Do they share the same values?
Vega5 posted a link whilst i was writing. Seems like they are making a dex on avalance? and one sentence about decentralized social media?
Details would be greatā¦ Looks like another uniswap fork? why is it called polarfox? Why is there a separate $fox token for governance, and how does it relate to akita? why is the git repo empty? why did you choose avalanche over other chains?
I joined the discord but it seems people are only talking about the token price and exchange listings, as i kind of expected. I am surprised how little conversation there is about gitcoin being sent 50% of the supplyā¦ why hasnāt an announcement been made to the community? honestly, it looks like the usual pnd token, like the hundreds of other cloned tokens. I really donāt get why we should be supporting this.
But you also have fun things, interesting things, promising things, risky (exciting) things, etc.
We can fund hundreds of projects, toys, hackathons, using the tokens that have been donated to us. Or we could fund akita?
Just asking questions before we give up a lot of money for a meme.
It is not up to you, me, or anyone to try to steer the whole world of crypto to suit any one of our individual visions.
Yes that is why we debate, and develop funding methods like QF to ensure that public funds are distributed in the way the public want. Maybe it would be best if we made use of the mechanisms we have available to distribute these funds, and the people can decide who should get them.
Let us not forget what happens when the people grow unhappy with those in authority.
There is no authority but yourself 
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Itās clear, based on the telegram chat, that most $AKITA holders have no idea whatās going on in the background. They see meme coins as an opportunity to make a quick buck and are more focused on getting the next listing than the real issue at hand. This is a shame but Isaac I think youāve been in the space for too long and forgotten what itās like to be the average person venturing into the unknown. Let me explain.
I started in a very similar way, not with a meme coin but with others. I made my first investment on Revolut and soon after on Binance without understanding the technology or knowing the fundamental drivers of each project. Iāve made some money along the way which I am very grateful for but 6 months later I have started to understand the potential and the real word applications. It is exciting and happy to be an early(ish) adopter.
Upon reflection I believe that most ānormalā people enter the market for the same reasons, they see it as an investment opportunity. This may not be the right reason, but it is a reason nonetheless, and it is one step closer to mainstream use. Youāve made it clear that you do not support meme coins and anyone who has been in a while knows the danger of the but before long I have no doubt new investors will have the same outlook at myself.
It seems pointless to ask the plan for $AKITA when itās clear it was not created to change the world. Ironically it is making changes in that the majority of holders appear to be new. Collapsing a coin with tens of thousands of new and small investors will not solve the issue.
The team at Gitcoin have a far better understanding than I and Iām sure will make the right decision, I just hope not at the expense of early investors who will not only loose money but also faith in crypto.
Just to clarify I am not an $AKITA holder, Iām just interested to see how events will unfold and what can be learned along the way. A key lesson is to not give away 50% of all supply!
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fwiw, I am with my good friend @tjayrush - burn it all and let us get back to better uses of our time than debating idiots, who will just bring the conversation down to their level and beat us with experience.
We do not currently have the tools or coordination here to handle elegantly any of the other options presented.
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āthe fate of our project has been put into your hands.ā
I donāt think thats really a rational way to put things, especially with no governance in place. Without governance, its just market capitalization that is in Gitcoinās hands, the path of the project can be independent from the tokenās price. Theres really no onus on Gitcoin here.
However on a separate topic, assuming funds are effectively liquidated, I think that there should be some consideration made towards establishing a MetaCartel style venture DAO that participates in the early funding of open-source projects coming out of Gitcoin Kernel.
Gitcoin has unique access to the best new talent and projects in web3, the previous two cohorts each with ~10-25 projects eventually funded. If the concern is the perpetual funding of open-source community goods, significant returns are required for this funding to mean anything on a long term basis.
With a venture DAO, Gitcoinās community multisig (or whatever it becomes) would then have access to these potentially high r/r opportunities, have projects coming out of Kernel with aligned incentives, and without LPās to pay out, have the ability to sustain this funding perpetually.
There would definitely be questions as to selection processes, etc., so Iām unsure how realistic this is in comparison to just throwing the funds into some protocol, however its clearly a step that would lead to growth across all of the web3 community, and leaves a clear route for open-source funding beyond hope for continued Gitcoin Round matching.
Edit: This took awhile to get approved/posted so apologies, conversation may have moved past it.
Edit 2: It had in fact moved past it, with the context of vitalik specifically saying this is meant to fund gitcoin grants rather than gitcoinās overall mission statement, Iād likely put my vote into throwing funds into yearn and perpetually funding grants that way.
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If we go the yearn direction, I would STRONGLY add the suggestion that profit be calculated on an adjusted basis. If the funds yield 15% APY, one should only be able to withdraw and contribute 10% of that 15% to gitcoin grants in order to ensure the value of funds are retained over time and not lost to inflation.
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There are some super interesting ideas in this thread so far, thank you all for helping guide us here. 
Like @owocki Iāve been listening + digesting the conversation and trying to get a sense of all the options the community has in mind. I truly believe thereās potential for a positive-sum outcome here as in all things crypto, and we should strive towards that.
So far from the discussion, Iām noticing a few key options that I want to try to distill down:
1) Sell a fixed percentage of tokens and burn/hold the rest
This option seems to be the most popular, but it seems like thereās a lot of variance in how much people want to sell. Some folks like @cupOjoseph think we should sell everything while others like @relic want to keep the number closer to 5%.
On average, it seems like most people in the thread are on board with somewhere around 10-20%. As I think most people in the thread know by now, Vitalik ended up burning around 80% of his SHIB so thereās some interesting precedent here but that doesnāt mean itās necessarily the right decision.
In terms of how to sell, @HelloShreyas mentioned a few strong options above, for example finding an OTC provider, drip selling into the market, or setting up a Gnosis auction. Other folks like @Crisgarner have even suggested some kind of buyback program.
2) Hold the tokens and use them in collaboration with the AKITA ecosystem
@omnianalytics and @Enrique have both suggested that we simply keep the funds but dedicate them to bounties, and specific quadratic funding rounds that benefit the AKITA ecosystem, the idea being that the most valuable thing here isnāt the money but the community. Others like @papa_raw and @castall have suggested that we could hold the tokens but distribute them as part of the matching amount to grantees.
All of this feels very positive sum, but as @isaac and others mentioned there are opportunity costs and maybe even potential risks to putting our energy behind AKITA.
3) Do nothing, send the funds back to Vitalik
As always the empty set is a subset of every set. As @tjayrush and @cryptowanderer have suggested, we could simply send the funds back to Vitalik or burn them entirely to move on to other things. This would allow us to avoid taking a side, and minimize opportunity costs, but at the cost of funds that could go towards Ethereum public goods.
A Suggestion on how to move forward
I noticed that @coopahtroopa put together a great template. No matter which of the options above (or others) we want to move forward with, I think we need to really clearly articulate the reasons why and consider both the potential, the downside risk, the second order effects, and so on.
Do we have any folks that would be willing to take a shot at drafting some proposals and posting the final drafts here for the community to review?
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agree 100% on it isaac .
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isaac
I will address each of your concerns.
- Akita devs could participate in a grants round and compete for funding the same as everyone else, based on the quality of their work, that seems fair doesnāt it?
Was SHIBA forced to compete to get their community back? I donāt think youāve gotten past the first part of the problem yet. How do you liquidate your prize without cannibalizing a community?
Each token liquidated is value taken out of our communityās hands. No one asked for this. We took a project that was dead and build it up from nothing, with our own personal funds.
#2. āFreedom to send half your supply to a single person. freedom to donate them towards a community funding public goods. freedom for that community to sell them, or do whatever it determines is the best use of those funds for itself. freedom to collaborate on ideas too, if anyone has any creative and novel suggestions.ā
Yes if the Gitcoin community is willing to do that to our community sure, the power is yours.
#3. āThis is very important. What is that plan?(Establish governance and funding for our community project) Can anyone show anything to us? (Our Github repos are public) code?(Our Github repos are public) design documents?(What kind of design?) if we consider this an investment in a roadmap, then where is it?** ( Here https://www.polarfox.io/docs ) can we review it, critique it, improve it? (Sure) are the devs dedicated enough to that vision to lock up their own tokens in a vesting contract? (We have paid for this out of pocket thus far so , sure.) how about the community, will they lock up in a vesting contract?( Iām sure they would) you seem dedicated, will you lockup your funds like you are asking gitcoin to do?(Yes) are we assured devs are capable of managing a project with many millions of $ of gitcoins funds on the line? (Theyre only gitcoins funds if you choose to kill our community) what is their track record like, can we trust them? (We have gone public from a telegram group, we are a new team. ) Do they share the same values?ā (I personally do , but why does this matter? )
Vega5 posted a link whilst i was writing. Seems like they are making a dex on avalance? (Yes we are) and one sentence about decentralized social media?(Iāve written many sentences, but the decentralized social media wont be built until we have governance and our dex up)
Details would be greatā¦ Looks like another uniswap fork?(Yes, it is cloned from pangolin/zero/uni) why is it called polarfox?(Why are you called Isaac?) Why is there a separate $fox token for governance, and how does it relate to akita? (We dont have access to the AKITA contract, so we will stake AKITA with PFX to yield a governance token) why is the git repo empty?(Its not) why did you choose avalanche over other chains? ( Avalanche is an underrated blockchain with a team of really smart people, Avalancheās consensus model is winning awards in computer science, Avalanche is already a next GEN L1 blockchain. Room for growth. )
I joined the discord but it seems people are only talking about the token price and exchange listings, as i kind of expected. I am surprised how little conversation there is about gitcoin being sent 50% of the supplyā¦ why hasnāt an announcement been made to the community? (Yes the community has been well informed.) honestly, it looks like the usual pnd token,(really the usual 1B market cap PND token huh) like the hundreds of other cloned tokens.(right all of those other ones ended up on gitcoin forums fighting for their lives) I really donāt get why we should be supporting this." ( You should be supporting this because this is what decentralization is supposed to be. People coming together from many places to do one thing. We were literally rugged, and a team formed. A team of like minded people that wanted to fix a situation together. Why would you not want to support us? We are real people, have become friends over the past 5 months. This is a part of our lives now. We are part of Ethereum history whether you like it or not.)
āWe can fund hundreds of projects, toys, hackathons, using the tokens that have been donated to us. Or we could fund akita? Just asking questions before we give up a lot of money for a meme.ā ( I kinda feel how iād expect a person experiencing racism to feel, the āfor a memeā line is kind of played out. Weāre working hard, we made our identities public, we are really funding this ourselves, I just find this really offensive, probably because I have actually worked hard. Sure you can fund hundreds of projects, by killing the one that actually worked to get where they are without funding, how ironic.)
āThere is no authority but yourself 
ā
and Isaac apparently.
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Thank you for helping us move forward. I have posted my proposal.
I still have open questions about it. Please help me answer them, and I will amend the proposal as needed.
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Hey, lead dev in the AKITA team here.
Feel free to ask any technical questions if they need an answer.
Iāve seen many people in this thread complain about the AKITA Telegram not being serious and only discussing the price. What do you expect of a group with 35,000 people?
You can check Polarfoxās Telegram here to see more interesting conversations and that people are actually interested in the project.
Our code is public and can be accessed here. We are open to any suggestions.
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Gitcoin as an organisation is coming across as a person that picked up a wallet with $$$ and someones ID card in it, so they know who it belongs to. The person that lost the wallet is asking for it back, but Gitcoin claims they can spend the fund in said wallet better? They know what the right things to do is but they are trying to justify their actions.
Vitalik did a token burn with the Shiba Inu he received, if Vatalik didnāt send Akita to Gitcoin what would he have done? He wouldāve burned the tokens if you were looking for an answer.
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Isaac, I think you need to take a second to zoom out a little bit, all you are doing is trying to justify your actions by rug pulling a crypto project because you feel itās just a meme coin, Ever heard of Doge coin, itās a meme coin in the TOP 10! Now Akita has to justify themselves to you, are you actually being serious right now?
Why was 50% sent to VB in the first place? It was sent to him as a token burn wasnt it?
The only reason VB sold some Shiba and made the mistake of sending Gitcoin the AKITA is because ETH couldnāt handle the traffic the meme coins were bringing to the network so he had to do something to bring down the gas fees. He has since burned most of the Shiba tokens, so you have to ask yourself what would he have done with Akita? He wouldāve burned it as well wouldnāt he?
The only way I see this is you picked up a wallet with money and an ID card in it, the owner on the ID card is asking for his wallet back. But you already saw the money in the wallet and thought of all the million ways to spend it, even telling the owner that you would be able to spend his money better unless he can somehow convince you otherwise?
At the end of the day we all make our own decisions, and we have to live with ourself afterwards.
PS - I see there is only 104 comments so far, should I bring some of the Akita community over to state our case? Since they have been kept in the dark what you want to do with 50% of the tokens.
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Above, Scott mentions me as the primary proponent of the āSend it back to Vitalikā path. I wanted to expand a bit on my position.
First, this suggestion is in no way a remark about the value of or lack of value of these particular tokens. My suggestions is 100% in support of the future viability of Gitcoin.
Second, a thought experiment: assume GitCoin does not get rid of these tokens and instead tries to stabliize or even maximize the value of the tokens because they want to use them as future funding. How many other new token will do the same thing in the future? None? One? Thousands? What happens to GitCoin when thousands of new tokens try to use it as a source of legitimacy? One thing: GitCoinās legitimacy goes to zero.
Third: Getting rid of the tokens as if they were toxic waste is a metaphor. Are the tokens actually toxic waste? Who cares. There is no outcome where keeping them benefits GitCoin in the long run. Thatās the only reason I say get rid of them.
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I am absolutely befuddled by the recent responses here.
āGitcoin as an organisation is coming across as a person that picked up a wallet with $$$ and someones ID card in it, so they know who it belongs to. The person that lost the wallet is asking for it back, but Gitcoin claims they can spend the fund in said wallet better? They know what the right things to do is but they are trying to justify their actions.ā
What in tarnation. This is a donation that was given to a nonprofit entity for a specific purpose.
Doing anything else with it other than fulfilling that purpose is completely ignoring the intention of the donation and moreso is against the ethos of web3 as a whole. This isnt Gitcoins money to decide what to do with. This was Vitalikās and he already decided.
Its not up to Gitcoin to determine whether they should use this for Gitcoin grant funding. Its up to gitcoin to determine the most effective way to do so.
Pretending Gitcoin would be rugging a project in doing so is a ridiculous platitude that ignores the intent of the original allocation to Vitalik.
The only question is whether the akita community has a proposal at the table that maximizes its value.
If they do not, its then up to Gitcoin to sell the token in the most efficient manner possible.
There isnāt really much room for debate there unless the Akita devs and community themselves can identify a way they or their project are currently able to bring value and fulfil the intent of the donation.
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I strongly believe Gitcoin should liquidate the resources and put them to work.
Unless someone can explain how AKITA is going to fund public goods Iām all ears.
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@JTraversa I am also absolutely befuddled with your responses.
I quote:
āThis isnt Gitcoins money to decide what to do withā (read the last quote it gets better)
āIts not up to Gitcoin to determine whether they should use this for Gitcoin grant funding. Its up to gitcoin to determine the most effective way to do so.ā
This is my favourite one - āThe only question is whether the akita community has a proposal at the table that maximizes its value.ā āIf they do not, its then up to Gitcoin to sell the token in the most efficient manner possible.ā
I stick with what I said before, Gitcoin is just trying to justify their action and hiding behind Vatalik is sad to see.
Why did AKITA send the tokens to Vatalik? They sent it there to be burned didnāt they?
So we just have to assume he sent it to Gitcoin so they could carry out the burn.
This was the original reason why 50% of the tokens were sent why is Gitcoin trying to change the narrative?
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Solely from the position of a community member of the Akita Network, I need to chime in here. What many of our experience has been has been the ability to experience a pivot in action.
Stated clearly, Akita was formed as a MEME coin, a shit coin if you will. Whoever made the coin, abandoned it somewhere down the line. As the story spread around forums and Telegram rooms, it became even less clear. The creator also apparently made a bone-headed decision to send half of the coins to Vitalik, creating the very unstable foundations where we stand today.
HOWEVER, we as Akitans have seen many things beginning to brew, and I will say that our core is optimistic. We have seen some community members be drawn into active roles in the project. Self-funded. Without a definitive answer on what will be done with the donated Akita. The dev team provides consistent updates, and often asks for input from the community. Updates, even though theyāve been subjected to a never-ending barrage of questions about the project on Telegram. And while this project may not yet be packaged up and marketed into what many at GitCoin would like to see right now, that doesnāt make it any less valuable. This is the value, itās the evolution of the project.
What our community craves is certainty. We ask that both sides come to the table in good faith to bring the maximum amount of value from the donation AND the community. There is much good we can do together.
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Very curious. What gives you this impression?
There is nothing that provides a basis for this claim. If they wanted them burned, they send them to the universal burn address. Like every other project that burns does. Any tokens sent to Vitalik were simple marketing. Thats it.
Using mental gymnastics trying to validate some distorted perception of ownership and of charity isnāt necessary. Weāve been told what to do with the tokens.
On calbears comment:
āWhat our community craves is certainty. We ask that both sides come to the table in good faith to bring the maximum amount of value from the donation AND the community. There is much good we can do together.ā
Yes. This is the only path. The question is whether the Akita community has any proposition at the table to do this.
If they do not, why is the onus being placed on Gitcoin. There is no logical chain of thought that would result in that conclusion when there has already been established intentions.
The Akita community expecting others to create value is pretty ridiculous given the context that there hasnāt been a single proposition from their community other than āDont sell the tokensā or āGive them backā. Neither can be classified as good faith nor maximum value.
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Hello my name is Sahputra and i too am from the AKITA community, i write this from a personal standpoint as a mid-late average joe investor because its actually kinda scary and frustrating reading some of these comments here
Firstly i really dont understand how selling the 50% supply off quickly / most efficiently and damaging / hindering the akita project in the process is even up for debate for a community like Gitcoin. I think most of you havent even understood the first problem that comes to mind
Dont look at the investors, screw them (me)ā¦
Whoever invests into a crypto / meme coin should know what heās getting into, at least most should. The price can go up, sideways or straight to hell and its a risk investors should be able to deal with on their own.
But atleast do look at the people who got hurt by the initial roots of akita then took that dead project into their own hands, funded it themselves and made it public again, with decent success i might add (price wise) and even their path and vision of what AKITA wants to become is (for me) interessting and something to look forward to
Secondly I understand that the Gitcoin Community doesnt owe AKITA anything, I understand that sending the 50% supply to Vitalik was a publicity stunt yet not one that relic and his team made, but also from my understanding its Gitcoins mission to help build / fund the open web like stated by Mr owocki, not destroying something thats in the making.
Whats been given to you is essencially not Hard Cash to use but a crypto currency, now i dont think i have to explain how cashing these in like some members on the board suggested would impact Akita, im sure everyone in here is smarter than me.
So infact whats been given to you is power over the work others have done so far, you may destroy it, set it back, help it or even leave it be but I really dont think funding projects you deem better justifies destroying / hindering a selfunded project and is not in line with Gitcoins mission at all
Finally all said and done im not even here to suggest any solution, of course i would love to see the communities come together, work together and build together. But if i do itāll just be stamped as āoh hes just another investor afraid of losing his money or maximize his profitsā in most peoples mind and im not smart enough to even imagine how to do this
If anything from a neutral standpoint, if you believe that the AKITA project is unworthy of funding/helping/working together or just another meme coin or whatever then just leave them be, but dont put the hammer on them and waste the work and money they put into the project just because you have a bag of money infront of your eyes.
The most neutral suggestion i read here was from Mr.Tjayrush;
Just send it back to Vitalik see what he does ,let AKITA fight it out again if he decides to send it to someone else or maybe he even burns them like we(AKITA) wish he would do. Gitcoins hands would be clean, reputation and ligitimacy intact, and everyone can just move On from this messy situationā¦
After all Gitcoin has been doing just fine if not great even without the money they could gain from this donation
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After all Gitcoin has been doing just fine if not great even without the money they could gain from this donation
Its not about Gitcoin. Its about open sourced funding, the donation is specifically meant to fund Gitcoin grant quadratic funding matching. This is a completely separate entity from Gitcoin itself.
And I appreciate the sentiment of this comment. But the difficulty is that as you said, none of this proposes any solutions whatsoever other than to ignore the intent and act like Vitalik donated on accident?
Theres kind of an issue there.
Of course its not in Gitcoins best interest to just 100% dump the coins either. That doesnt maximize their value.
But Iām sure at some point Akita devs have to either propose something reasonable, or Gitcoin needs to commit to a given sale scheme, whether internally or publicly.
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