This badge signals the breaking point in the battle for trader sovereignty. In July 2025, MEXC Exchange unlawfully froze over $3 million in funds belonging to The White Whale - a prominent trader known for his high-level profitability and for exposing the darker underbelly of the crypto industry. The offense? Trading too effectively against MEXC’s external market makers - quant firms tasked with providing “liquidity,” but whose real role is to tilt the game in the house’s favor. Rather than honor withdrawals, MEXC retaliated. No violations. No transparency. Just silence and seized capital. By claiming this POAP, you stand with every trader whose funds were frozen, whose success was penalized, and whose autonomy was erased by offshore exchanges hiding in lawless jurisdictions. This badge is more than a symbol. It’s a statement: We are not exit liquidity. We are not prey. We are the tide.

On this day, the remaining ENS numbers from 0000-9999 were finally minted out, marking the birth of the 10k Club, immortalized on the Ethereum blockchain forever.

Tuned into one of Violetta Zironi's live music shows in the run-up to launch of "Another Life - from tape to blockchain", her second and largest PFP/music NFT collection dropping February 17th 2023.