The timeline is getting too ridiculous for me to ignore.
Bankr is 11 people. Some of the most talented people I’ve ever worked with.
I’ve watched
@0xDeployer lead through hacks, fud campaigns, and major partners turning around and building products directly competitive with ours, and somehow stay calm and optimistic through all of it.
If you’ve been in crypto long enough, you know how rare it is to catch one real meta. Bankr has done it multiple times over two years. We were building agent infrastructure long before the rest of the market decided agents were the future.
So when a much larger company makes a drastic move that threatens the livelihood of 11 people, most of whom have families, I’m not going to apologize for us making bold moves in response. We’re not going to roll over.
And none of this is personal. I have a ton of respect for the leaders and employees at these companies, many of whom I know personally. I can respect what they’ve built and still fight like hell for our team when our interests collide.
The part nobody sees on the timeline is how tight our team is, how well we work together and how much conviction we still have in what we’re building.
Survival in this industry is hard. Sometimes surviving requires doing things people won’t immediately understand.
I’ll take that over playing it safe and disappearing.