Greetings everybody! A lot of exciting stuff happening this month. A couple of rather important highlights:

1. We've launched our new complementary token, $BEAST, in a revolutionary never seen before way that's very safe and super low-risk, meant to push ICOs to a whole new level, as part of the state-of-the-art accelerator we're in, q/acc. You can mint it between 6-20th December, at a very advantageous ratio. Read more about it over here in the blog post https://ancientbeast.com/blog/2024-12-3

Dive straight ahead to the project presentation and minting page https://q-acc.giveth.io/project/ancient-beast - I've linked necessary guides over there as well, or you can check out https://q-acc.giveth.io for more concise info about what this whole thing is and how to get involved. The first cohort we're part of is composed of 8 projects, which are ground breaking, you might want to check them out as well 🐻

2. The project is now part of KWoC 2024 (Kharagpur Winter of Code 2024) https://kwoc.kossiitkgp.org - meaning that for 5 weeks I'll be mentoring coders and students that contribute to our project https://github.com/FreezingMoon/AncientBeast and besides or token bounties, they'll get a certificate to enhance their CVs and increase chances of getting accepted in future similar events, like GSoC next summer and others 🚀

3. We have new exciting partnerships (and more ongoing talks for possible some even more) that I'll be announcing in more detail on our Twitter page in the near future https://twitter.com/AncientBeast 🐺
Next week I'll be presenting the project in a few important X spaces, so more opportunities can emerge.

4. Our Discord server has been getting some love recently, having a lot of channel clean-up https://discord.gg/HU6Pcw99MB - looking forward to growing the community, eventually we'll have the game nicely integrated with Discord, so you'll easily be able to play against other members or team up against challengers. One step at a time though, we still need a bit more resources to get that online multiplayer up and running again.

5. I've started learning more about AI and actually putting it to good use, I've managed to prototype part of an upcoming expansion for Ancient Beast among other things. But something awesome is that we're now using a new logo that pushes the old graphical ideas that represented the project to a whole new level!

Big thanks for all your support, you have no idea how much it means to me! Life has been though for me lately, especially this year, had health issues on top of health issues and accidents, I've pretty much spent months in bed. Last month when leaving home for 2 days to recover, my motorcycle got stolen the very first night from next to my home's window, from right under video camera *sigh*. As I'm finally able to walk rather limping, now I have no means of transportation and I'm far from any bus stations, so I am spending a lot of time at home, as it's winter anyway, but I'm dealing with some depression, agoraphobia and even scared to leave home now as I'm afraid I'll get into some other accident or that thieves will target me again right away.

I hope life will give me a break soon and I'm trying to get back to having some balance, so that I don't end up with burnout, as I used to do this sort of thing a lot when I was younger. Timing kinda sucks as usually close to the end of the year the project tends to lose quite a few sponsors and I totally get it, but it's a bit scary.
Ironically we started getting way more traffic lately thanks to all the marketing, partnerships and web talks.

There are some upsides to this year as well of course, hopefully will get to recall them nostalgically soon and maybe finally start sharing some of those good times on social media, though I keep saying I should do so for years now, it doesn't come natural to me. Thanks for reading until the end. Keep safe and enjoy holidays! ☃️

[ Linkin Park - My December ]