The Rujira Merge 🎉🎉

Recorded: April 5, 2025 Duration: 1:18:31
Space Recording

Short Summary

Excitement builds as the merge officially launches, marking a pivotal moment for the project with strong community engagement and new partnerships, setting the stage for future growth and innovation.

Full Transcription

Thank you. Thank you. Hello, everybody.
Hey, gang.
Yeah, hello.
I was thinking about playing a song. Should just play a song let's see yeah you know i want to go for it i'm really hello everybody well don't do that
you're just echoing me yeah i'm trying to it's ridiculous so the music never really plays but
um i don't know if you remember i mean mean, we're looking back about coming up to three years now
when we used to do the old videos.
We'd start everything with a song.
Yeah, we did.
Well, you had, what, a Xiaomi phone or something, didn't you?
I had a very, very poor phone.
It wasn't reduced.
What phone you got now?
Don't worry about what phone I got now.
Is it of an iPhone brand?
I've upgraded.
Oh, big boy.
Was it a celebration?
Sort of a celebration, in a way.
Like today, yeah.
Yeah, like today.
Well, what a day it is.
How times have flown by.
I remember, what was it last, was it August?
We were having a little drink with a PM and a hand.
Yeah, it was, yeah.
We went down a slide to celebrate even.
Yeah, we celebrated down a slide back then, and today we're celebrating with all of you,
all our friends.
Yeah, all you sad people on a Saturday listening to the spaces.
Yeah, the fact that this is on a Saturday, happy Saturday everyone as well, by the way.
You know, the fact this is happening on a Saturday, I was thinking about this just before
we come on.
It shows that this team never stops.
And think about it.
It's a Saturday.
Everyone else, what normal people are doing on a Saturday,
they go into the bingo or something, you know.
Friends, like drinks, parties and stuff.
Streaking or whatever they're doing like just
you know outside
but no not these guys
they're here shipping making sure it's there
making sure it's ready for you
merge day here we are
how lovely is that
grab yourself
a nice warm mug of cocoa
and settle in for quite an important day.
Sunday for old boy.
He's in...
It's not because he's anywhere.
It's just because he can't read a calendar.
I do love him.
He's the best old boy in the world, most probably.
He's the youngest old boy I've ever met.
He was paddling, wasn't he?
He went for a little paddle, I saw.
Yeah, he was paddling.
With someone who was definitely his daughter.
Yeah, exactly.
Don't you dare say anything else.
Or there'll be hell to pay.
No one talks ill of old boy around now.
So I was thinking what we do today, I mean, I guess that's sort of the hello.
There's quite a few things to kind of go through.
I mean, the journey to today, which has been quite a, you know,
it's been a multiple year journey for a lot of us.
We want to talk a little bit about the merge itself.
I mean, that's probably the thing everyone's here for
and excited about, with today being that day.
And then a little bit about the future.
Officially.
Officially, yeah, officially.
For all you people who went early,
well done for being our beta testers.
We appreciate you.
But yeah, is is the day
the official day happy marriage yeah happy merge day the 5th of april yeah and what a day is it's
warm outside the sun is smiling and i think a lot of you are going to be smiling too
that's nice isn't it?
I'm smiling.
I'm smiling. Yeah, there's proof.
That's proof in the proof.
Captain's really smiling, though.
Yeah, there's proof.
The proof is there's some proof pudding.
So loads of love hearts.
I saw you.
I saw you, monkey.
I see you.
Well, we've, you know, sort of everyone's kind of here today i can already see
yeah a bunch of people we'll try and get you know um a bunch of people up just to say a say a little
word here and there maybe you know there are their thoughts and feelings a little bit about the past
should we um i feel it'd be good to go for a little bit through the journey we've been through first. Just a very quick sort of history.
The history of today being an important day in this journey that we're all on.
I guess kind of a little bit on the history.
Where do we start?
How many years ago is it now?
We have to think.
It must be.
Well, I guess, I mean, a lot of us would have been involved
from the terror days.
I'm sure many of you are.
If you were, then put a little, what are the emoticons
you can choose from?
Then put a little fist.
A fist, if you were.
One of these.
In a terror day.
There we are.
Me and Monkey in sync.
We are two brothers with different mothers.
Yeah, I mean, Kajira, of course, began its days back on Terra,
where a lot of us would have first found it.
I mean, that's beyond three years now.
Yeah, I can't even recall.
But yeah, it was a long time ago getting back to that idio on
on star terror yeah star terror yeah the gaming platform what a terrible launch platform thank
god we have a better one coming yeah again yes thank god we have a really great launch pad
yeah on rogera we have a really great most things come in to be fair
and how do you make how how did we make it better with liquidity yay bang bang
if you believe it you can achieve it well within reason don't start don't don't jump out here like if if one if anyone here is like
oh i could be sort of i could be the heavyweight champion if i believe in myself i wouldn't yeah
don't sort of sort of you know believe in yourself no matter what, within reason. Yeah. We both really love Lux.
He's amazing.
But if he said to us,
I'm going to go fight Anthony Joshua
for the interim heavyweight world championship belt,
we'd be like, oof.
If he said to us,
a midget has moved in next door
and they've been making noise,
I'm going to go around and fight them,
even then I'd be worried for him.
Yeah. Yeah. I just don't think he's cut out the cut from the same cloth he's not
a fighter and also because he um because he's having internet trouble he he does not have the
right to defend himself but as but as we have established he's unable to anyway. Yeah. So Terra, Terra.
We got past Terra.
I mean, look, we had some good times there, I'm sure.
Yeah, Terra was fun until it wasn't.
Look, it was a great learning experience, Terra, in a lot of ways.
I mean, we kind of, Terra was almost the university of crypto for a lot of us.
I mean, it definitely was for me.
That was kind of my intro.
Terra was the first thing I ever...
I got made...
Well, I didn't get made redundant,
but I chose a redundancy after people started getting a cold.
So I chose a redundancy at work,
and I decided I'm going to go into crypto from that.
And Luna was my first foray.
You were a touch before me, but...
Yeah, I was a bit before, you know,
going on the streets and stuff,
trying to get some crypto, you know.
That's a funny story.
It's a funny story, actually a quite it's a funny story actually like
the first the first way you bought crypto just just to show how far like the difference that we
have now and this being created on this regera platform like how different explain what happened
to you when you first so uh the first time i bought crypto was in an asda car park if you
don't know what asda is that is basically a walmart in a car park handling someone uh i don't know a water cash i guess yeah and just uh waiting
for bitcoin to arrive in my wallet and uh yeah not far not far off a drug deal well basically was
because uh i tried to do it with a bank at the time to a place in Poland and the women wouldn't let me.
Who's laughing now, yeah?
Well, there you go.
And look how much easier it is now.
Our times have changed.
Our times have changed.
So, well, so we went from Terra and a sip of my coffee there.
This is where Kujira was born.
The whole chain was born, yeah?
Yeah, I mean, it completely changed.
It went from Liquidations platform to an L1 with all your candies, should we say.
Yeah, so much happened so fast and Kajira was born.
And that's where, you know, this is kind of a community meeting in a way,
I'd say, this moment, you know, being a celebration, we're celebrating this day.
Being a celebration, we're celebrating this day.
And a lot of the characters we see here were kind of forged
during these last couple of years.
We've got to know so many of these people
and maybe we'd even call them friends.
Yeah, 100%. I'd call Armeta a friend.
I'd call Armeta a...
What would I call Armeta?
Knowing that she can hear.
Just a very lovely lady.
Just a normal lady.
Very intelligent as well.
Super intelligent.
One of the most intelligent
ladies I've ever known.
High compliment.
Actually, Armeta's the most intelligent lady I've ever known. High compliment. Actually, Armette is the most intelligent
lady I've ever met.
I'd back that.
Yeah, good.
Good, okay.
Yeah, these last, well, so
that was about, so that would have
been July 2, so
just shy of two years ago.
Yeah, two-ish years, yeah.
Yeah, and that's kind of where our own journey started properly,
because that's where we started CoogeeCast.
Before that, we were just kind of learning investors.
This is where we kind of started our journey, I guess,
of being involved with no real sort of talent or abilities no no they do say fake it until you
make it yeah we just realized i don't think we still haven't made it but we're still trying
we essentially got ourselves involved for those that maybe weren't involved then or haven't
or aren't overly aware of us i guess that we kind of got a tiny bit of
notice by singing at the start of song uh videos which is ironic because we can't even sing either
speak for yourself i would say i'm quite a good singer well i don't think that's true but it just
goes to show if you work hard and try your best, you can do almost anything. Apart from Lux.
Don't fight.
Don't fight.
But apart from fighting, yeah.
No, the Wi-Fi's working.
Oh, now he's in.
Oh, hello.
He's like Undertaker showing up at the Royal Rumble last morning.
Sorry, guys.
I just had to sort out a neighbour.
I was battered in.
Yeah, I took enough Wi- know why it finally started working.
Oh, who did it?
I missed like 80% of what you said,
so forgive me.
It doesn't matter anyway.
You can do anything.
We haven't really got into the meat just yet.
We're just joshing about.
Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. really got into the meat just yet we're just um we're just joshing about you know yeah yeah
makes sense yeah yeah um and then yeah well we were just on to kajira the kajira days i guess
you know we want to get right to where we are today that's that's the main thing um obviously
a lot of tons happened during those two years didn't they, really? So many projects, protocols, things happening. Another real
experience of learning for everyone. And of course, we had those last days, I suppose.
Well, maybe not the last days, because you're still up currently. But what really come from
that was this opportunity, I think it's fair to say, opportunity and paired with a
resilience, inability to quit. Because there is no road to greatness that you're going
to go down. This is philosophical now. There's no road of greatness that you can go down
where there won't be bumps a lot of people would see
those bumps and turn back and say let's take a different road or let's just leave the road
but not this not this set of people yeah it's it's like rocky isn't it really it's a rocky story
it is a bit like rocky at all yeah so we're like rocky four i think now so like we're about to like
beat drago and we're about to beat drago yeah you know and he was like really good so
his training was nuts isn't it dolph lundgren like yeah i mean
you know but you can beat him again not not in real life. I wouldn't recommend anyone.
But in terms of not giving up and pushing forward in the DeFi world,
definitely do that.
And that's what's happening.
Rujira is rocky.
It is indeed.
So, yeah, of course, now we have paired Rujira, Kujira with 4Chain,
and we are here today. This is where the
real craziest times
begin, I believe.
We are bigger and stronger than we've ever been.
We've learned from everything that's happened
and all the serious stuff is coming.
So serious.
It's getting real now. It's getting real.
The merge contract is open. Also, I also i think you know this is a pretty significant milestone just that we've all been waiting for for a long
time too um you know like i know we got rugi swap what live like a week or two ago but you know now
that the the merge is is actually live you know more real, right, for everybody here in the room.
So I think, you know, PM, Mark, Brett, Hans,
just everyone that's been, you know,
putting in lots of work towards this, big thanks.
I'm sure we're all extremely appreciative towards everything,
and it's, you know, it's really nice seeing this come back to life again.
Oh, completely. And we can't, you know, speak's really nice seeing this come back to life again. Oh, completely.
And we can't, you know, speak highly enough of the work that's been going into this
or the amount of work that's been going into this.
Of course, I'm sure all of us have had it, the team especially, you know,
this sort of desperation to get things over the line and make things happen.
But we can tell, you know, I mean, even us,
between our little Wink team, a lot's been happening
every day, every day, every day.
But, you know, compared to these guys,
we're probably a step behind still.
I mean, it's definitely been a 24-7 last six or so months,
hasn't it?
For them, 100%.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't think,
I don't think that,
just because,
it's that thing,
you only see,
as I'm trying to,
metaphor about an ice bag,
so you just see the top,
the cream always rises to the top.
No, not even that, it's the wrong metaphor. It's the wrong one. the top, you know? Yeah, yeah. The cream always rises to the top. No, not even that.
It's the wrong metaphor.
It's the wrong one.
No, it does.
The cream does rise to the top.
What I'm saying is, you only see the sort of the fruit of the work.
You don't see all of the hard owls behind that.
And not to say that we've been in the room seeing it necessarily,
but, you know, we've been in groups and seeing it necessarily, but we've been in groups and seeing
these guys don't stop. You've got a metaphor.
Yeah, so basically a great
grandparent who plants a fruit tree
and he doesn't get to see it.
No, but they are going to get to see it.
They're not dead.
Well, I'm trying.
If anyone's got a better metaphor
please feel free to chuck it in
I've got one
wait this is going to be perfect
by the way everyone
there's two types of
mice in life
they're in a tub
of milk sorry
a tub of milk yeah Sure. Of milk, sorry. And one just like,
ah, this is...
A tub of milk.
Yeah, a tub of milk.
Yeah, no, perfect.
Brilliant.
One of the mice
just gets tired.
It can't be bothered.
The other one just keeps on
like running around
and he turns it into butter.
That's the team.
They turned it into butter.
Milk to butter.
There you go.
Again, I don't know that that's the metaphor
I was looking for.
Monkey definitely gets it.
I got the metaphor.
No, I got it.
One mouse is just looking for cheese,
and the other mouse powers the computer.
But what's that got to do
with not seeing how much work has gone in?
I get the metaphor. It's not difficult.
It's just, I'm saying,
they work really hard, you don't see it all, and then you
just see the end bit. Nothing about
there's a mouse that wasn't making
They churn the milk into
Who's the mouse
that didn't play with the milk
just the losers isn't it
yeah it's alright
thanks for that
absolutely nailed it
I'm sure everyone's
everyone's definitely
everyone's definitely taken something from that
everyone's thinking
should I buy a mouse
and put some milk in a jar right now?
And they find an ultimate mouse, right?
Right now.
There you go.
Imagine that war mouse.
That's kind of cool.
Vajira's mergers here.
Yeah, from a big
group of people that never gave up
and were never scared and
always said
don't afraid
don't afraid
that's something I can say with these guys
stuff coming stuff's on the way
it definitely is
don't afraid it is happening
so i think um now we probably jump into the merge itself
yeah and um let me get up the site quick well uh lux did you say the um the tweet has gone out? Yes, the tweet's gone out.
So, yeah, you can announce it.
Who should announce it?
Well, I guess, should we all do it on free?
All right, we won't plan exactly the words we're going to say at free,
but let's just, on free, all three of us will say something.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, perfect.
One, two, three.
We've made rujihub.com
Well, okay.
Yeah, so now
you know, the main account's put out
a tweet about the merge,
so now there's like a little write-up which links out
to ruji hub ruji hubs fondly love i'm live you can go to ruji hub.com um it's got a snazzy home
page and everything and there's a layout and of course there's like a layout on the front and
you can click on that and you'll see um like eight different articles about the merge if you go to
the first one at the very top,
it'll link you directly to all the other ones,
which direct whatever your situation.
But you can see a really comprehensive guide for everything.
And obviously, if there's anything that needs clarification,
you can reach out to Araday, PM, Mark,
just anyone on the team, really.
Yeah, just don't respond to people who dm you
on telegram that's definitely don't do that yeah definitely don't do that yeah so yeah so yeah um
this is one of the things we've been working on over the last few months is um i assume a lot of
people probably used uh wink hub or saw a little bit of WinkHub,
which was our old sort of content site.
We've scrapped that.
WinkHub is, well, no, I guess it still does exist,
but, you know, it's gone.
We've been working on Ruggier,
a completely fresh take on things,
something that fits in a little more with what Rujihub is doing.
Looks a little right.
We've rebranded it all.
And yeah, get on there, rujihub.com.
Give it a little look.
If you are on there, right at the top is a button
where you can get ready for the merge.
And as Lux was saying, there's a host of articles there
that would take you through exactly how you're going to merge,
no matter where your tokens are.
There's a guide for each.
And our friend Erudite has made little videos
to take you through that as well,
narrated by himself quite excell quite excellently i must say
so it makes it really easy yeah and we got the dot com as well so you know it's kind of a big
deal also um i don't if people want to jump on that i think we you know should i say about the
secret but i won't say what it is yeah don't say what the secret is yeah just say that
there's somewhere there's a secret that is uh very nice if you manage to you you're gonna just
allow our meta to just find it now aren't you um ever anyone except our meta is allowed to
say it so that somewhere on the site there is a little something extra it's yeah it's just fun
fun it will bring back good memories
I can't see it because he knows what it is
but anyone else
oh right okay
but more importantly
get yourself on those merge articles
because yeah the little fun thing
that can wait till after
that's not as important
what's important right now is the merge
because that is what today after that's not as important what's important right now is the merge because
that is what today is it's merge saturday worth mentioning real quick just that uh we put this at
you know the beginning of the very top article but for unstake it's temporarily they're temporarily
upgrading the i i think they're temporarily upgrading the contract so it's disabled seeking for
so for everything else it's working
just quick
tips just so I mean
it's all explained in the article
but you'll need gas fees
at various points of it so you'll
need Adam on the Cosmos hub at some point just to pay gas on the hub
and then to swap for some room for gas.
So you might as well just make sure to do that as part of the process
and don't skip ahead too much.
But yeah, it should be pretty straightforward.
As long as you have all the fees and everything, the gas,
it takes less than a minute.
Yeah, it's not a difficult process it's been
made very simple and it um well i guess the merge site itself is pretty self-explanatory and you know
the buttons kind of tell you what to do um but yeah of course again again there there is the
articles on rujihub.com where you i mean you can just watch a video and copy it, essentially.
It's pretty simple, whether you have got your Coogee, your R-Coogee,
your Fusion, Wink Levano, and then, of course, Unstake as well.
Get those merged into the big boy Ruji.
See, the number's already coming through, guys.
If you've got the page up.
I've got the page up.
Millions of tokens are already being merged, guys.
So make sure you join that party.
There we go.
There we go.
I'm just looking.
Them people who bought a nice bit of RQG on the pilot.
They're going to be happy, aren't they extra discount i got envoys doing well um and just a reminder for everybody
that uh the merge isn't the tge so even after you merge your tokens you know they're not going
to be liquid until until tge happens which hasn't been announced quite yet for that specific day timing.
But and as well as that, you've got, you know, the whole decay thing is explained as well in the main article, but you've got up to a month to, you know, migrate initially before
any sort of penalty or anything on any of your migrated tokens.
So if you still staked or whatever for any of your assets you should consider
doing that pretty soon so you can make sure that you have them and can start the process before
month is up yeah exactly you've got until the 5th of may um and then and then um you lose i want to
say around one percent every three days. Basically, isn't it?
Well, it's definitely going to be interesting, for sure.
Because you're going to have some choices.
I mean, that's part of the fun, I guess, that's coming.
Do you keep yourself in this merge contract?
Do you take it out on stake even?
And then LP as well.
Well, yeah, of course.
I mean, because unlike a lot of projects
that people get excited about,
this is all about generating revenue.
Everything here is going to be doing that.
So you can take a cheeky slice of that for yourself
and you can use that little revenue share
to go and buy yourself a nice little treat.
A nice pizza, maybe.
Yeah, or maybe a pizza if you're a boy and for the girls, maybe. Yeah, or like maybe a pizza
if you're a boy, and for the girls,
maybe like an anklet or something.
Lovely little anklet.
I think Swap is also
already generating fees,
which are accruing
which will eventually all just
pay out to stakers
once the network goes live.
There we go.
So I think we've, well, I guess that's all the Rooji stuff,
Rooji hub and merge stuff covered.
Probably a good time now to start getting people in,
having a little chat, see what's going on.
We've got Monkey here already, so let's get monkey up um hey guys yo a big day today so
thank you for hosting us and uh wow hey we finally made it so super happy
spend this uh beautiful saturday afternoon very sunny, just watching the number on the screen and
seeing all those tokens
being merged.
Finally, we got an
happy year and it's
exciting, just the
beginning of a yet
long journey, but now
it's going to be the
cool stuff coming.
So super, super happy
we finally made it.
Yes, it's been a real
journey, man.
I mean, like you said though, this is an exciting day,'s been a real journey, man. Like you said,
this is an exciting
day, this is a big day, but this is kind of
just day one.
Yeah, it is. It's very much
zero. Day one will
probably really start from
the moment we have the first app
Ruji Trade will be day one for me.
We're basically the prologue of a new book right now, that's what we are right now. We're in the
prologue, we're about to go be in chapter one in a few weeks time. This whole thing, it's a multi-year venture isn't it this isn't just a you know a few months a year
two years i mean we you know i i i often hear people going oh you know in four years we'll
be doing this bit and then this bit yes um it's got real long-term plans to it all right that's
a that's a word of premise we are not here to uh just do a quick pump and dump scheme like this.
If that was the plan, it would have been over four years ago.
So no, it takes time.
And every pump in the road means having to rethink and reinvent stuff.
But that's how we build a very resilient system eventually.
And in the long term, how we win.
So yeah, it's still just the beginning. but now it's going to be much more active.
Yeah, I think that the fun really starts now.
I mean, you know, you could already, there's already a tingling of that in the groups,
you know, the telegram groups, kind of that little bit of flame is kind of igniting.
I think from today, we're really going to start getting that energy and excitement back.
What would you say is the most exciting thing for you?
Sort of as a whole for Ruggiero,
in the future, everything,
what's the thing you're maybe most excited about?
For me, it's always come back to
the new market-making strategies
that we'll be delivering eventually,
that we'll be able to add a ton of volumes to the order book
and have to tap into this top chain liquidity.
I think that's what excites me the most,
because that's where I see the biggest revenue potential for the chain,
which of course, as a big QG bag order, is something that matters.
So there is this in terms of products specifically,
but more generally, it's really like, I mean, I don't know if you have tried yet
to merge or to do swaps on the
Ruge swap, but the omni chain experience is also pretty awesome. Like once you manage to connect
your various wallets and you get your Bitcoin there and you get your EVM wallets with base,
with Ethereum and with Avax, and then you get your Cosmos wallet with Guji and Cosmos,
and then you can start to do all those different things
from the same place with just by swapping between wallets.
It gives you a pre-taste of what it's going to look like
once we have all those apps
and how it's going to be very different
from anything else we had before,
including our six way on, on, on, on Jira. So that's,
that's also super exciting. Like this, uh,
this is very new, uh, way of interacting with blockchain. That's, uh,
that is only chain that's, uh, I'm looking forward to.
Yeah. It's exciting, man. I mean, this is,
this is just a time we've all been looking forward to.
And I'm just, yeah, these next few years are going to be really quite a mad time, I reckon.
Yeah, exactly.
It's all about starting to roll out these apps
and build up volumes.
And I think that's a very cool step.
So once we have all the
apps starting
to roll out,
what's going
to be really
nice is how
we are going
with Ruggie
something we
had in the
pipeline with
Matteo from
the action
back in the
we have res resolved the whole thing
and it's going to be integrated really as part
of the overall economic activity of the chain.
And everything you will be doing will be earning you points
and you will be having a leaderboard.
Periodically, we will use some of the RUJI
in the ecosystem funds to distribute rewards.
And so we can gamify this, the world experience.
And all the points are based on the economic activity you generate while using the product.
So it's also very well aligned in terms of trying to maximize earning for stackers while also rewarding people who
directly contribute value in the form of fees. So I think it's going to be very good. And then we
can start to further gamify the thing and maybe have some team system. And so, yeah, it's going
to be nice. And Alex and the Autologia team are also building all the AI infrastructure.
So they are already at this proof of concept,
chat to Wikileaks interface to interact, which is super cool.
And next step, they are going to start looking into autonomous agents.
I think that's going to also add a ton of fun to this experience. Like imagine that eventually you can compete in Ruge League,
but instead of doing it yourself,
you can just spin out an agent,
put some tokens in this wallet,
and then give him some instructions
to try to maximize your points.
Or if you can put it together with a team concept,
maybe you do that not just you,
but you can create a team of agents
with other people you collaborate with,
or just yourself, like spin out a bunch,
try to have them collaborate to maximize the points you earn,
maximize your place in the leaderboard,
and then maximize your rewards.
So I think it's going to open like a whole bunch of way
for people to earn
and having fun doing it.
So super cool.
I think it's going to be
a great experience
and nobody else
has been doing that before.
Oh yeah, I mean,
the Axion guys are great.
Of course, the Ruge AI guys as well.
I mean, the Ruge AI stuff's awesome.
Really, really cool stuff.
There's just so much coming from so many,
from the core group itself,
then these teams surrounding it.
And then there's going to be more to come
even beyond what we know about today.
I mean, we always see JP as recent as,
well, a couple of days ago,
going, who else wants to come and build on the app
player? Who wants to be involved? And there's going to be a lot of interest in the external
teams coming on and adding to what we've already got.
Yeah, so we have a full plan we are working on now. So priority short-term will be, of
course, to roll out the core apps and to onboard the existing projects. There are a few other
very cool stuff. So NAMI is also going to be a key part of the ecosystem now.
They will have all those different strategies,
but they will simplify the process and allow people
to just single-state deposits any token they want
and optimize earning on that.
And that can work well also with AI agents
and just trying to build some strategy on top of this.
And then we will have also,
we have the Kuji index guys coming,
which quite nice,
they are gonna be able to do indexes with native assets.
So it will be the only place where you can have
an index made of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, for example,
using native assets of each of the versions
secured by Torchette.
So it's a super good proposition.
And it's only possible because we have this partnership.
And this is quite exciting.
And then once we will be done with migrating,
onboarding all those teams, and rolling out
most of the co-ops we have, we are going to open the floodgates for new builders to join.
So there will be different tracks, like the people who build on top of co-ops,
people who can come and create something new that is not a vertical we already have,
or people doing things that we consider out of scope some things,
like, for example, Real World Assets would be great to have some of those on Rojira,
but we don't want to be as a team.
It adds a lot of complexity and costs
having to deal with the guarantee in the real world.
We don't want to do that.
We want to remain decentralized and store in user values.
This type of stuff makes sense that NextEarth does it.
And we will be onboarding all those people's
and there will be some i don't want to confirm anything yet but yeah we are looking into some
interesting uh funding mechanisms as well and potentially setting up uh
ruji venture funds that uh will be able to um to invest in those projects and do that in a way that is a bit different from standard
grants. So instead of doing grants,
we'll be doing investments
where it makes sense
And I think
the potential to scale,
to make it something a bit more exciting.
We had a few chats about that
and maybe a chat-tongue-like
type of show to try to attract new builders and uh sort of some sort of competitions and
and the one who win will fund them up to certain amounts that they will launch on
on the road adventure and use also tools and start to bootstrap real economic activity
by on the co- apps and the existing builders and
eventually expand that to the real world.
That's the ultimate
end of it. So yeah, a ton of very cool
stuff coming. It's really just
the beginning, but now we're going to start
to have time.
Here we go, boys.
That's what we've been doing
the last few months, really.
Just filling up that car the whole way, right?
The tank is ready for action.
We've got extra tanks.
Yeah, we've got all the tanks in there.
You are killing it with the metaphors.
Yeah, these metaphors.
Explain me that with a mouse metaphor.
Yeah, you need a mouse in the car because sometimes the mouse that doesn't fill up its engine doesn't get to have any milk.
Just think of it as you've got an empty fridge, but now you've got a full fridge.
but now you've got a full fridge there we go yeah that works yeah um that works yeah uh yeah um so
There we go.
That works.
what i was gonna say now is if anyone you know we've got a lot of community members here a lot
of team members and whatnot if anyone wants to pop up have a little word about anything really
about how you're feeling about your excitement you know what are you most excited about that'd
be really cool just feel free to pop up a hand um otherwise we're just going to start saying your names yeah let's start
saying your names i should i do like bingo to name and shame yeah right i'm going to start name and
shaming people i'm going to you're right so do you know what i'm etta i know there is not a chance
in the world that you will come up and speak but i'm still gonna say your name come on just come up and just you are a great great person
i made that
i met her if on such an important day it would mean so much to everyone here if you just come
on and just say hello that's it, just hello
there's a wave
philisopical
he speaks with words
sorry, with written words
yeah, exactly
I miss it, ok. I miss it.
Okay, I did it to you, the MetaPost.
I'm not good at the game.
Oh, no, Armeta is one of the awesomest community members.
Of course, we've got Hans and Mark here as well, if any of you guys, and Brett, of course.
Feel free to pop my hand,
otherwise I'm going to start calling out more of your names.
Who should we go with now?
There is always,
if we want to get real deep in the community,
if we really want to put our finger on that pulse,
if we want a really sort of educated
and sophisticated summary of the situation right now,
there's old now. Yeah.
There's old boy.
But we do have Mark first.
Thank God.
Hello to Mark
from Denmark.
What a day, huh?
What a day, man. It's here.
It's here.
I don't know what I'm most excited about.
Besides this, of course, this goes out to, I think, mainly Hans.
Just listen to this, guys.
Can you hear it?
Could you hear that? just popping the first beer
there we go
that's a subtle
oh that is a subtle
that is a subtle little one there
sorry guys I just had to do it it's been intense intense nine months That is a subtle little one there. Sorry, guys.
I just had to do it.
It's been intense.
Intense nine months.
It's been crazy, right?
I mean, dude, you were kind of the guy that kicked this whole thing off, really.
Nah, I don't want to take all that credit.
You know what I mean?
You put people in the room. You put people in the room.
I put people in the room.
Probably my biggest contribution to this industry.
One message between JP and Hans.
But yeah, I mean, it's been a riot, hasn't it?
I was just a normal community member in Kujira until then, I guess.
Which gives me tremendous faith in the community actually like I know there are people out there probably listening
into the space who definitely have more in them and wants to step up so don't be
a stranger guys if if there's something that you want to contribute to the app layer now we are live so now is a good
time to raise your hand and step into the ring because yeah I was just a community member nine
months ago I guess and now we're here right finally live onchain and making it possible to build a truly competitive alternative to
centralized exchanges again as pm mentioned if you go on rudyard network and just connect your wallet
or wallets to the interface is it just feels like a centralized exchange where you have all your
wallets all the different assets just stacked in your portfolio
to me that was uh when bread uh pushed that and I could sort of tinker with it and play around
with it for me that was just it became so real um so yeah I highly encourage anyone who hasn't done
it to go on their portfolio page and try to connect their wallets and then of course start merging guys um on the
on the page uh there's tokens coming in i don't know if you guys have the overview but we pushed
an update to fortune.net you have sort of an insights page now where you can see all the
different tokens migrating over so um yeah there's uh definitely some people out there doing it already but uh let's get it going
but no so what was the question again sorry there was what was the question i don't know
i don't know if there even was one which is just general well we were just basically saying mark
put a bunch of people in the room full of milk and then they and then they turned it into cheese so
there we go so that's yeah that's exactly what happened so yeah that's that's that's what mark
did basically what is um what is the cheese of denmark ah what is the cheese of denmark probably
a shitty one and i don't want to butcher it uh it when PM is in the room and he has like a long
list of cheeses that he's
going to demolish. PM's not even French.
He's from Brighton. He just puts on
the accent.
I'm really glad that cheese.
Monkey just has like
an English cheddar.
Exactly. English cheddar. Exactly.
English cheddar and peanuts.
That's my favorite.
With some salt and vinegar crisps.
Good times.
That offer is still open to anyone that wants to pop up a hand.
Don't be shy.
We're all friends here.
Because if no one puts their hand up, it's going to be old boy.
And you know what that means.
You know we can't control him.
What time is it for him now as well?
It must be what?
4am or something?
Oh boy, pop up and
Oh boy, oh boy, I'm going to invite you
to speak mate
Ah, this is going to be
No it's not, he's going to behave, we behave
He's going to behave
He accepts it
Watch him not accept it now because of the pressure.
Inability to accept.
Just press the tick.
Old boys blanked you.
There we go.
Well, that's exactly what we wanted.
Right, call out.
Who else are we calling out?
Pick someone.
Oh, I would like to get...
Wait, I can try to get...
I can try to get Lucas on.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, is Lucas here?
Oh, sorry, Bear?
Not yet, but I'll bring him.
Yeah, get Bear on.
Get Bear on.
Just because he's got a great voice.
For reference, if people don't know,
Or should we let him
tell people who he is?
Yeah, yeah.
I'll just do it in the meantime.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy was not on a device yeah yeah oh no i'll just i'll just do it in the meantime so bear oh boy
what old boys old boy was not on a device that you could speak from
so he's on a desktop he's swapping to one and he also called us
the c word which is mental we are cute though i guess yeah
he said you're cutes i need to swap to my laptop you're cutes that's
what he said yeah so actually let's get into uh i guess we can talk more about uh ruji a little
because bear will come up hopefully but uh bear was uh when did we start talking to bear about
uh making a wing cub 2.0 i think that that was, what, maybe November, December-ish? Yeah, probably
it was pre-Christmas, so probably
late November.
The Uundervalued never tired.
All right, Roochie Hub's on hold.
All right, old boy.
All right, how's it going, everyone?
It must be bad.
How are you doing, mate?
I'm doing okay. i've been waiting for this day um i've been coming out the ramen noodles
what flavor because if i know you if i know you you'd go for a bit of chicken flavor i think
what do they call it don't they call it i think they call it? Don't they call it, I think they call it cock,
don't they over there?
I've had to tell that
while I've been here,
old boy is abroad
currently.
I've been away since,
for reference.
so you're just
following the sun,
aren't you?
No, he's still in Bristol.
No, the sun.
He's still in Bristol
and didn't even manage to make it to
one of the Rudiera Summit
things, and he's still in that.
Well, you're following
the sunshine, at least yeah yeah the heat um well i actually have nowhere to
live um financially pretty spooked and i've been waiting for the market to turn so i went to places
where it was cheap to to live um but it's getting a bit desperate now. Do you know what? We've been considering the Thailand move a little bit.
Maybe on a temporary basis.
We haven't been as adults.
We haven't really been anywhere as adults,
but we're considering...
I've had an absolute blast, right?
But to give you an example,
that motorbike that I bought to drive around New Zealand.
Okay, I went through my spiritual
experiences of uh of scuba diving on mushrooms that was fucking weird and i lost my dive buddies
they were sitting themselves one was a rescue diver because they said take as many as you want
you're never going to do this again and they were nearly right because I nearly died. I got lost.
I was just sat on the ocean floor in some kind of Finding Nemo Aquaman world.
Happy as a pig in check.
I was searching the Pacific for me.
Be careful from now, please.
That wasn't being careful.
being careful
be more careful then
Be more careful then.
if going scuba diving
on mushrooms is being careful
one step more careful
because I did learn
how to paraglide on ecstasy and MDMA
well none of this
is sort of life advice
by the way everyone
yeah not financial advice well none of this is um sort of life advice by the way everyone um yeah
not financial advice or no viable advice no form of advice in any way no form of advice in any way
whatsoever actually i tried to be sensible for a little minute um this has been a long day in coming hey that's nice to have
it right oh yeah um what i've found sad personally is that oh a lot of the i mean you guys are stuck
with it obviously the the core team has stuck with it i was involved from day one and
i don't know i just couldn't do discord anymore i couldn't do it i had to speak to pm and say
hey and the discord it doesn't work for me no more Why talking like that mate I ain't fucking French And there seems to be
The old guard seems to have
Fucking run out of steam
You know in terms of
Not everybody but you know
There's a few people gone
And we've got new people in new blood
Obviously we've got a new chain
You've got new people mark and all this
of it erudite's doing a cracking job isn't it yeah he really is i mean but so were we three and a half
years ago yeah yeah it's been well you know it is going back on that sort of resilience point you
know sort of all the all the people that just don't give up are still
here, you know?
I didn't give up, I just
couldn't fucking...
Completely.
I was having a nervous breakdown
every time I got a Discord notification,
because I thought, oh, fuck, it's going to be one
of them that I need to speak to Hans about and hans has got about oh this goes
the easiest way to sort of think of like where we are right now is you know you guys were talking
earlier about it's like the prologue but i feel like it's you know uh i see it more as like you
know this we had book one maybe even even book two. Book one was Terra.
Book two was Kajira.
But now we're on the prologue of book three.
Maybe it will become an extended series.
But hopefully it'll all be the same arc, you know, from here on out.
I hope he's not so low.
There's a real skill.
But, you know, with each iteration, you know, things always change and sort of grow and develop.
But, you know, I think for a lot of people you
you know you sort of mentioned how times are tough right now just you know everyone knows you know
the economy is kind of shit like the you know a lot of things are kind of bleak but you know when
wearing don't please please don't swear wait please don't swear oh please don't swear i didn't
but you know when you said you said the s word please no swearing oh my
bad uh anyway uh when things are bad um the people you can trust the most that are probably the ones
that are the most resilient who have gone through the most bad times and you know i i think you know
a big part of why we picked roaches is just part of you can survive even nuclear radiation, right?
It's the sort of idea of we just keep coming back.
And I think that we've already been through a bear market before.
That's actually – so whether or not it's a bear market, a bull market, whatever's coming, we're going to keep building.
That's, you know, that's the real big thing.
And what's important for the future.
And I'm just happy that, you know, we've got such a solid team backing everything.
Yeah, that's the thing.
This team keeps on coming.
So that's the best thing.
But that's down to the best thing about us. He's even in my age, mate, but that's
down to the Graku in Thailand.
I mean, put
perfectly.
I've just seen
unable to speak for the reason
Hans is here and uh i met as shy
so that makes sense doesn't it stage fright it's fine we all get it it's fine no no yeah just
lust i'll say yes um on on this important day um another community member. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this.
All right, Sparrow, you know what I'm about to...
Well, no, I won't go to...
Because today's so important, this man cancelled a date.
He cancelled a date for the merge.
That's the dedication.
That's the dedication.
Thor Chain have cancelled loads of dates for the bird.
Stop it, you.
You're troubled.
I'm going to mute you in a minute.
No, you won't.
You won't because I'll find you and I'll throw you in the bush.
I'll move you into that cabin.
You take me scuba diving.
But then Sparrow, he has reneged on love for this.
He's literally...
You say potato.
You can make your word up.
Oh, but I'm going to meet you in a minute.
You've taken, honestly.
I've stayed up for this.
No, I do appreciate it.
I do appreciate it.
Is it one in the morning?
I've been kayaking all day.
Nice. Captain Sparrow has given up on love
in real life
and she was
no, no it wasn't
and she was a supermodel
and she was a track star
there you go
but he said to her
sorry baby
I've got bigger fish that fly
it's a Ruggiero fish
it's a Ruggiero fish isn't it
so look at that
I need a new tattoo idea
because I'm not losing
my Ruggiero one but I can't
think of one for
Marcuse everyone if anyone has an idea because i'm not losing my rude hero one but i can't think of one for my cousin everyone
if anyone has an idea for a tattoo for old boy and don't say twat too yeah don't don't don't be
silly anyone come on how about you i mean there is the cockroach option you know or there is the
I mean, there is the cockroach option, you know.
Or there is the...
There is the...
I think there might be another option soon,
but I can't really say.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
I think you'll have an idea soon.
Me too, but I didn't comment on that on purpose.
Yeah, I think you'll have an idea soon.
Yeah, you'll have an idea soon.
I did use Dennis AI to write this whole Japanese historic story
of how Rugeva came about, and it was a mythical story,
but then I tried to create the image to go with it,
and Venice didn't do images.
Yeah, that's the thing yeah just right we just need more milk to make more more more cheese
get a carton of milk yeah everyone do go buy go buy some milk and then
and say, oh boy, he's lost again on it.
Yeah, perfect.
Has anyone found the hidden thing on Roojeehub yet, by the way?
I haven't seen anyone say they have.
I did not see anything.
Oh, really?
Should I give a clue?
Should I give a clue?
No, because the clue would be really obvious, wouldn it no i was just gonna it's it's it's kind of go on it's something which you've definitely
seen used or done before and it will make you happy inside yeah but that does
there is one thing that's yeah very obviously out of place somewhere on the site
but but not not in like a bad weird way but if you um
yeah when you see it it'll be very it'll be like oh okay and then when you click it it'll be like oh
okay but it's good it's good it's not yeah what do they call it an easter egg it's an easter egg
isn't it oh easter's near as well kind of an easter egg happy easter egg happy easter's everyone
hope you get a nice egg oh love me write down the history of all of this, these stuff,
can I get the credit for calling NS2K nutsack,
even though it was the wrong...
I think it was.
It was you.
I'm pretty sure.
It was you with nutsack, yeah.
Yeah, you did say it.
Did you say it?
Here's the real thing, though.
Were you joking when you said it, or was it just...
I looked at it slightly dyslexically, or possibly on psychedelics,
and thought, NTSK, Nutsack.
And everybody got into it before they realised that it was Nustack.
It worked.
It did, didn't it?
It's funny.
Two other merch tokens have come from Wink and Nustak.
I remember that.
You can't make it up.
Oh, that's funny, isn't it?
Good times.
Silly coin. That's the the thing this is where all the cool
kids hang out
it's a matter of fact
get yourself
merging people
I'm going to have a cheeky look at the numbers
hey can I write a bit on deep dive
because I did do one
you definitely can
write an article
for Deep Dive. 100%.
I have fish
swimming through me.
More millions of tokens are coming in
I'm going to put out a final word now
if anyone would like
to add anything to this
or come up and say a quick word
now is your moment
otherwise it is gone
so you have a few minutes to do that.
And then we're probably going to,
we'll probably wrap it up in a little bit.
So raise your hand or do not.
any last words,
anyone want to last words?
I'm just reading some comments. Oh, we've we got we got jonathan yes from jonathan from lavana
where are you excited yes indeed hey guys jonathan
so we uh you know it's it's such a momentous occasion.
You know, when we first started talking with, you know, the ThorChain team, JP, about this,
it must have been, I guess, maybe seven months ago.
And so much work from so many talented people has gone into getting to this moment.
It's just, you know, it's inspiring.
You know, and I'm filled with a sense of awe here. So I'm very excited about, you know,
everything that's gone into this. You know, I see how big this project is and what the potential is. And, you know, what's most exciting is, you know,
this is just the beginning.
You know, it's like, this is like when the rocket ship is taking off.
So we've got so much amazing opportunity here.
You know, we're really excited to be working on RUGIPURPS.
We're really excited for the merge.
You know, we think that the vision is
spot on for what's needed in the market today. And, you know, we are also incredibly open for
feedback. So as you guys are participating in the merge, as you guys are playing with the products,
you know, as they're slowly rolling out, you know, we're looking at, you know, Levana just completed the audit for Rooji Perps.
So we're just at the, you know, polishing the buttons, so to speak, before we push this thing to mainnet in the near future.
And, you know, just already looking forward to what are the next features and, you know, what is the what's the next iteration of the product that's that's needed feedback and thank you. I'm just excited.
And, you know, just already looking forward to what are the next features and, you know, what is the,
Let's do this. We're ready to build. I totally mirror the sentiment that what you want to look
at is the people that are the cockroaches, the ones that when everything is just burned to the
ground. With Levana, we've been through everything, you know, whether it was the Terra crash, you know, deploying, you know, trying to deploy on Juno,
watching Cosmos kind of go through its maturation during the bear market, all the ups and downs, you know, everything that, you know, ThorChain struggled with, with the lending protocol.
And, you know, it's just everything, you know, it's like the old saying that like whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
And I think that, you know, we as a team, you know, working on Regera are probably the strongest team in the space of crypto today.
So just excited to see this moving forward.
You know, Hans, it's been amazing working with you,
and PM and Mark,
and just really excited to see
all these different cogs in the wheel come to market.
Hell yeah.
I couldn't have put that better myself, I reckon.
Yeah, we've yeah so so many so
many people in this in this collective now making things happen and yeah like so many of us have
been through so much and they're all we're all we're all pushing pushing forward making things
happen i see we've uh see hands as uh hands has joined oh oh hi guys um yeah i'm enjoying the uh the metaphors very nice they're really
strong they're really good um yeah i haven't got a lot to add really it's a it's an exciting day
but what's like what's nice is yeah i i joined i joined the harpoon team as it was probably about exactly four years ago um and to have the same
voices and the same faces in this space today is is pretty special right um yeah so i think it's a
testament to to to you know i guess this is what we went through but that's what we built as well
um and and the way that we went about building it for each other other than for uh for whatever um so yeah so so it's pretty cool it is yeah no
it is it's like quite you know quite an emotional thing really i mean i this thing yeah so definitely
say for myself and i think probably for a lot of us like this
this means more than maybe we can put into simple words um this is kind of something bigger bigger
than all of us is kind of the the vision really so yeah yeah when we think as well like just saying
it's four years like four years in crypto feels like 20 years in the real world
so it's even more more of a uh compliment that the uh the amount of people have stuck around
so yeah we've been through multiple cycles together and uh the the new chapter is about
to start well it has started should we say yeah i mean you know people people stick around because
they believe in something, you know,
and that's the exact reason we're here.
You know, we believe in this, we believe in the people,
and we believe this can be a really special thing, a special time,
and we're going to, yeah, just keep going.
Everyone, you know, get involved in any way you can.
As Mark was saying earlier, you know, he was a community member before,
and so were we.
We were just, you know, just community members.
So many people that are still here and making things and doing things
were people from the community.
So if you've got an idea or a way you can add to this or something,
get involved because you'll have a good time with it, I'm pretty sure.
We were very welcomed from early on and it's been a really crazy ride.
And it's just kind of still only beginning.
Beyond that, get yourself merged.
Take your tokens, whatever merge token it is you have
get on over to rugira.network now um there's a there's a button which says merge on is it doesn't
say merge it must say merge it says merge now so you can take that which is really simple otherwise
just put a dash and a merge um and you can merge your tokens right there.
If you have any trouble or you'd like a little more help with that,
get yourself over to rujihub.com
where there are articles explaining merging
from wherever your tokens could or may be.
Beyond that, any other little issues, I guess get in the group
and there's this great community there'll always be someone
able to help or willing to help um what else anything else any any anyone
anything else from any of you boys before we uh
i'm just thinking of another metaphor don't really don't i think
i'm trying to just build on because i I like Jonathan's one with the rocket.
See, but that was a metaphor that worked.
Yeah, but not all of us are blessed with metaphor, like background.
So let me try to add to it.
So we're a rocket ship with an extra rocket ship next to it.
Not to derail your rocket ships,
so to speak.
I did have one last thought, I guess,
that the, you know,
everything that we've done since August, it's been a significant technical upheaval
and a technical effort,
but it's been, I I think an equal social effort
and without the community, without everybody here behind this pushing it
forward, making their voice heard, you know talking about the core principles of
Kajira and why it exists and the revenue generation and all those
important things then we wouldn't have merged successfully with ThorTone, we
wouldn't have got the props passed, we wouldn't have merged successfully with ThorTain. We wouldn't have got the props passed.
We wouldn't have got the code merged.
We wouldn't have got the switch handlers switched on.
All of those bits.
So, yeah, everyone here, you've all played a part in this, really. I guess, yeah, all of us in some way.
Just keep doing it, really.
I mean, I'd like to just
point out that I made the merge so much easier
by stepping away and stopping
asking stupid questions
letting you get on with it
we'll play our roles
yeah mine was
going away
off you that old boy
yeah so everyone
get your tokens merged
just get involved
really get involved
this is going to be an exciting time
there's going to be a lot happening over the next few years,
and let's all help push this to exactly where and what it should be.
We've all got the same dream, same vision, same hope.
Let's all push and make it so.
As PM mentioned, so much stuff is happening right now.
It's really the start of something big, something new.
It's just great seeing everything finally culminate together.
Like Hans also mentioned, it's been a long time coming.
And there's a long time ahead of us as well.
Yeah, now the real fun begins, guys.
We have Rooji Trade lined up, Rooji Pools, Rooji Perps,
like a full trading experience.
And from there, we're going to have all the beloved Kutura apps coming on,
lending, liquidations is a personal favorite from my end at least,
the launchpad with Rooji Ventures.
So yeah, now the real fun begins, guys.
It's all kicking off, guys.
This is the kick-off.
I guess that's the metaphor.
I don't think we need
more metaphors. I think that'll probably...
I guess we just say
what's good to say.
You've got, what is it, till the 5th of May
to merge without any...
What's the correct terminology?
Penalty loss, should we say?
Penalty loss.
So, yeah. So do it within the next month just do it this month you know do it this way yeah well go on old boy go do it
yeah yeah get yourself merged all right um okay well I think that's probably just about everything.
Thank you, everyone.
I really appreciate everyone that's come on
and appreciate you all sort of being on this journey
and everything.
We've all, yeah.
We've all lived this and this.
But now the real ride
get excited
I'm excited
yeah we've all stuck together
and we're all hard still
so that's the most important thing
thanks everyone
we've all stuck together and we're all still hard
thanks Cedric for the sperm that did that
everyone loves that
alright let's wrap up there
we're going to start talking about
things that I always talk about
stuff like hard stuff
and semen and just sort of
I didn't see any semen when I was
scuba diving
there's enough of this
I'm sure you'll see plenty before you're back
y'all I've got to eat
thank you everyone
we love you all.
And let's get it.
Love you all.
You hang up.
No, you hang up.
No, you hang out.