The Billions TGE finally landed on the 4th of May, and may the ZK verifications be with you all year round! Compared to the usual crypto launches... it was actually pretty clean.
The usual drama happens every time, and I've seen that even Discord OGs and ambassadors were non eligible for airdrops. We all know this crap happens every time!
I was more upset when they changed the rules for the Kaito Capital Launchpad! Those tokens were supposed to be 100% unlocked but they added cliff after holding our money for 9 months!
Prove me wrong! Billions played dirty and made early backers choose between full refund, a small bonus and a 6-months cliff, or a bigger bonus if tokens are locked one year!
We all know that 95% of the airdrops go down 95% soon after TGE so this was a risky deal. I wanted my $1000 back and will know in half year if it was the best choice!
Billions Network rolled out across multiple major exchanges at once, including the big boys at Kraken, Bybit, KuCoin, Binance Alpha, BitMart and a few others!
It was a move that shifted solid liquidity and enough visibility to make CT remember the project existed outside farming campaigns. What’s interesting is they didn’t really pull the classic post-TGE rewrite either.
The 10B total supply, zero inflation, around 24% circulating at launch, community-heavy distribution, and a slower four-year unlock schedule kicked some in the nuts!
The tokenomics stayed close to what they’d been signaling for months, and it was time to check the share of our airdrop allocation. Kaito yappers got their slice early... the rest had to wait!
Hit the Billions app to claim my bag of $BILL and got hit by the unlock date. The size of my allocation was bigger than I expected but it was painful to see 31st of October as "freedom day"!
Until then... there's a Billions Rewards Season 2 with over $100k in rewards. If those rewards are in $BILL tokens... then the prize pool has pumped to over one million dollars!
The first issue I hit when trying to claim 252,984 $BILL was that I needed $ETH on the Billions chain to sign the transaction. I clicked on the bridge but it was down for hours.
I assume that the bridge couldn't handle the surge of people looking forward to stake and lock their tokens until the end of October. Maybe was better to be staked by default.
Sent 0.005 $ETH after several tries, and it took more than 30 minutes. While waiting I went to check the Billions roadmap to see what they promised to deliver this year!
Early on, Billions was pitching this idea of building trust infrastructure for both humans and AI systems. The roadmap stayed weirdly consistent for a crypto project.
First came identity verification and proving whether something online is human or AI. Then the reputation layer with KYA, staking, governance, and all the “can this agent be trusted?” mechanics.
The final stage was always the bigger ambition! It's the epoch when they are turning verification and reputation into part of the internet’s base infrastructure itself.
The Billions direction and vision hasn’t really changed post-TGE. If anything, they’ve just expanded the scope... and they made me check Coingecko twice a day for price-check!
The focus now leans heavily into AI-agent verification, ERC-8004 integrations, reputation systems, and building the rails for governance and trust coordination between humans and autonomous agents.
The biggest shift is mostly narrative. Billions Netwotk felt like anti-bot middleware for crypto but now it’s positioning itself as infrastructure for the “trust economy”
Their vision is that AI meta, identity systems, and decentralized reputation all merge into one stack. My vision is for the price to hold for few more months and cash-out!
The TGE went pretty much as expected, the roadmap didn’t suddenly mutate into a metaverse gaming ecosystem, and the project still seems committed to the original thesis.
The airdrop didn't missed the usual drama, and the branding evolved from “verify humans” into ... verify the sanity of the holders who have their stash locked for months!
My $BILL bag gone ballistic since TGE and said it already that I am checking it twice a day! My bank account is on overdraft but at least I have $52k of locked internet magical money!
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