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WELCOME TO FUZZYCON I. For the first time, we're all here. Not behind screens. Not through profile pictures. But together, in the same room. And there's something special about that. Over the past months, the Fuzzy family has grown into something much bigger than we could have imagined. New faces. New friendships. New communities finding their way to Fuzzy. And while we've always believed that the internet can bring people together, there's nothing quite like meeting those people in real life. That's why we want FuzzyCon to become something we celebrate multiple times a year. A place to reconnect. A place to meet new people. A place to celebrate everything we've built together. And hopefully, a place we'll look back on years from now, remembering where some of our best friendships started. Before anything else, we want to thank the people who made tonight possible. To everyone who helped organize FuzzyCon, who spent their time planning, connecting people, preparing everything and making sure tonight could happen. And to everyone who traveled here, showed up and decided to spend their evening with us. You are the reason we're here. A special thank you to our friends at Evernorth for joining us in celebrating the XRP and Fuzzy communities. We hope you love the merchandise we created together. And of course, a massive thank you to @Ripple for their continued support, both publicly and behind the scenes. We're incredibly grateful for the relationship we're building and excited to see where it takes us over the coming months. Now. There's a reason tonight is special. We've reached the castle. And something much bigger is about to begin. INTRODUCING FUZZYVERSE. Over the past months, our community has grown significantly. More people discovering Fuzzy. More people collecting. More people representing what we're building. And as we prepare for the next chapter of the XRP ecosystem, we've been thinking a lot about what matters most. Because when the next bull market arrives, attention will be everywhere. New people will enter the ecosystem. New communities will form. And millions of people will discover projects they've never heard of before. We want Fuzzy to be impossible to miss. Not because we're shouting the loudest. But because our community is everywhere. On timelines. In conversations. At events. In profile pictures. And in places we haven't even reached yet. The strongest communities are the ones you recognize before anyone has to explain who they are. Our existing PFP collections have become an important part of Fuzzy's identity. They represent the people who believed early, the community that helped us get here and everything we've built together. And we want to build on that. Our two existing collections have an important role in growing Fuzzycards, while Fuzzyverse has a different purpose. Growing Fuzzy as a whole. We've already seen what a community of dedicated holders can accomplish. Now imagine what happens when that community grows tenfold. More people representing Fuzzy. More people sharing our story. More people carrying the same identity across the XRP ecosystem. Not by replacing what came before. But by building something new alongside it. Something that welcomes the next generation of Fuzzies while celebrating the people who started it all. We originally planned to release our final PFP collection during a bull market. But after countless discussions, calculations and probably a few too many brainstorming sessions, we came to a different conclusion. Why wait until everyone arrives to start building the foundation? The foundation needs to be there before they arrive. So we're bringing our plans forward. And we couldn't think of a better moment than the first FuzzyCon to do it. Together. In person. Our final PFP collection. Ever. But this isn't just another collection of profile pictures. Fuzzy has become one of the strongest performing assets on the XRPL across almost every major metric. And with that comes a responsibility. A responsibility to show both new and existing members of the XRP community what's possible on the XRP Ledger. To push boundaries. To experiment. And to build things that haven't been done before. So for Fuzzyverse, we wanted to do something different. A dynamic NFT collection. A collection that doesn't stay the same after you mint it. A collection that evolves. Over the next two months or so, Fuzzyverse will move through four phases. Each phase will reveal another part of the story. Each phase will automatically update your NFT. And each phase will take us a little further into the lore. Not just the story of Fuzzy. But also the story of the XRPL. Because these two stories have always been more connected than some might realize. Some things will make sense immediately. Others might take a little longer. And some things are better left for you to figure out yourselves. Phase 1 begins tonight. The mint opens at 7:22 PM NYC time. For the first 30 minutes, minting will be exclusively available to holders of the Fuzzy token or NFTs through our whitelist. We wanted this mint to be about participation, not exclusivity. Because this collection isn't about making Fuzzy harder to access. It's about giving more people the opportunity to represent it. At 7:52 PM ET, 30 minutes later, the mint opens to everyone. And the first reveal? That comes next month. Four phases. One evolving collection. And a story that has only just begun. There's a lot more coming. Over the next weeks and months, we'll continue sharing what we've been working on. More partnerships. More developments. More exciting things to look forward to. Some announcements will be small. Some will be big. Some will probably raise more questions than answers. But that's part of the fun. We're building for a future where Fuzzy is represented everywhere. Online and offline. By the people who have been here since day one. And by the people who haven't even discovered us yet. We believe the XRP ecosystem is entering an incredibly exciting period. And we intend to be ready for it. After tonight, we hope you will be too. To everyone here at the first FuzzyCon, we hope you have an evening you'll remember for a long time. And to everyone following from home, you're just as much a part of this. This is only the first FuzzyCon. There will be more. More people. More places. More memories. And a lot more Fuzzy. We've reached the castle. But the castle was never the end of the story. The bear smiles. Stay Fuzzy.