The “BONK has no warchest guys” are especially funny; we’ve already won the endurance game
We worked 80 hours a week for a year through this PA because we believed in the vision and we’re still working today because the job’s not finished until they rename Solana to “BONKchain”
Resounding NO's in the replies for the prior chart tweet. Great to see some OG's remember this $BONK chart at its ATH lows in Oct '23
While people were attacking Pengu, others and $BONK that it was a scam, contributors kept working, ignoring the FUD, community kept growing and laid the foundation for what was to come.
2023 largest % gainer on coingecko and today's largest community, memecoin and launchpad on Solana.
So Pengu why are you sharing this history lesson?
1) It's easy to assign everything as a scam or rug because of price down but there are teams and communities continuing to grind. There is a BIG difference for those who give up and those who grind.
2) Community projects should keep grinding and ignore price and FUD. Often price is a trailing indicator to value. Resilience is key and the unwavering commitment to working for the project's community.
3) When the tourists leave and the ones left are those with real conviction, many times is the exact moment projects may take off.
This was true for $BONK, #USELESS did the same from recently after 90% drawdown and capitulation, then moved ~12,000% and biggest winner in 2025. This is the lifecycle of Memes like @theunipcs pointed out in past post as well
4) Have thick skin like Pengu. People in the cheap seats don't matter. Don't let people who aren't helping you affect you. Don't listen to haters, listen to your real community, adapt and work hard.
$BONK was born in the depth of bear market to help the Solana community. Many may not have been here for it but its an important part of the history and DNA and culture of $BONK
While haters raged on timeline, $BONK led by @TheOnlyNom and many others continued to work and bet on community all through the months of the grueling bear with no improvements of price to show for it.
The focus was on community, not price. This is how $BONK ended up where it is today with a community FIRST mindset
This message isn't for the haters or FUDsters. This is a message for the $BONK ECO community projects that continues to show up daily and represent.
Keep your head up, keep grinding and with a little luck, believe good things can happen.
Pengu has confidence there will be few multi billy winners and several 9 figure runners coming from @bonk_fun . It won't happen overnight and it's not supposed to. That's the point of the process.
The strong ones who overcome the adversity of the ups and downs and keep going are the ones that will reach those levels. Pengu may have personal experience with this and here to Win and Help Win
It's $BONK ECO SZN and we're just getting started
Pengu out

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