Hey Linea Team!
This is my second topic here, on the forum.
I have noticed a clear trend in the community messages and desires over the last few weeks. This includes the TGE date being pushed earlier. I’m not a newbie here and of course I have read the written form of AMA on Discord with Declan multiple times and have read the underlying problems caused by the legal issues surrounding the upcoming distribution. But let’s face it, most teams in the market have deviated from their initial course and pushed their token releases to December, trying to catch the wave of the favorable market in the form of ETH at 4k and Bitcoin at 100k.
I understand that Linea is not about speculation, that precise decisions require time and thought, so I’m not trying to accuse you of anything or belittle you. But guys, come on, the end of Q1 is not serious, but rather ridiculous. It’s not about people’s greed, but about the fact that the majority of the community sits and watches the market from the sidelines, watches how tokens of other chains grow, and $Linea, God willing, will most likely come out at the end of the bull market, if there is one at that time. After the announcement of Associations we’ve seen no official updates.
I really hope that behind the scenes you are working hard and persistently, but you are people, you understand perfectly well that only you can see this, not the community. For us, this is 4 months of waiting, misunderstanding. And the saddest thing about this waiting is that you can sit for 4 months in hope and ultimately see terrible tokenomics or “not eligible” on the checker. Then who were all this 4 months waiting for?
Guys, it’s not good, you straightly promised, quoting :
We chose Q1 because we want to gather community feedback and do this in an open and transparent way. From now until the TGE, we’ll be actively sharing updates and proposals, inviting community feedback to help shape these governance mechanisms
But it’s been 3 weeks since the announcement, and we haven’t got even a hint on what’s going on. We haven’t seen any influence of our discussions in Discord on tokenomics or something.
If you have already decided to follow the path of transparency with the community, then release at least weekly updates, some sneak peaks of tokenomics or ideas, warm up interest in the blockchain. Or at least introduce us roughly a roadmap of $Linea decentralisation, for example, on which month we should wait tokenomics or on which month we’ll approximately see tokenomics. I understand that you tried to distract the community with a new competition with a metamask card, but what should I do, not having the opportunity to even order such a card, like most of the community? Sit and silently stare at the point?
This is not my position, this is the position of the majority of the community. Just look at the Discord chat and the screenshot I’m attaching to this message. We’re not asking you too much, just keep us informed and reconsider your position on TGE in March. Most want January, or at least February, but not March. You’re just missing out on interested traffic and tormenting old followers of the ecosystem with such eternal wait. The picture proves Linea being the only one L2 chain with negative funds inflow during weeks, since capital seeks better opportunity costs on different chains. At the same time, the native tokens of each blockchain grow, allowing them not to lose tvl in $ denomination.
For the past few years we have suffered from the endless decline and horrors happening in the world, and now, just when the first rays of light broke through in this gloomy picture, when joy and anticipation rushed in different communities, the Linea community is forced to wait 4 months. Personally, I imagine this as a feast during the plague, when others celebrate, and we sit and silently watch it. I hope for your understanding.
In crypto 4 months is like 4 years. We’re patient and we were always patient with Linea. But guys, let’s be honest, more than a year of LXP campaigns, testnet and many other events and after this we must wait 4 more months doing nothing, when all chains and all projects are trying to launch as soon as possible due to market conditions, and there’s nothing bad in it…
agree. Why wait for the full implementation of the token utility when the market is at its best right now? Just carry out the TGE along with an announcement of the upcoming update — that will be enough, and the entire community is already waiting for it.