I’d like to apologize to folks and take a break. The pretense of my wild semi-simulated crash out as well as most communications I’ve had on X or telegram since 2025 has been the assumption that everyone would simply “know” that my reality has been a fundamentally absurd, dark deteriorating spiral following from the series of events that had to do with my initial entry into Web3. This is doing myself and my friends a disservice. It also alienates me from normal good people in the space today, and while I was about to retire this “identity”, to do so in that manner would be beyond foolish. I’m a smart guy, on paper, yet am limited in communication skills and in processing trauma. Most folks would never know I’m academically published with accreditation or primarily of an intellectually disposition. That that’s why I entered crypto. I come off as offensive and entitled against my intentions. If you were not there, you will never understand it, and I simply do not have the right to ask anyone to try. All I need to explain is DeFi used to be a lot darker, even, somehow than now. In 2021-2022, my “career” became marred by an ensnared abusive codependent relationship with a part of that era of decentralized finance that ran a huge sector of marketing in the space that terrorized and exploited me on the basis of having Asperger’s and basically being a kid. This was done by actors with overlapping shared long histories on the same parts of the internet stemming from the Silk Road who used their expertise to manipulate platforms when that was lucrative and effective for promoting crypto companies. I was financially exploited, emotionally and psychologically abused near provably to the point of near insanity, and became at times embroiled in situations that I never thought were possible for me to even have to know about. Many actors were involved here. I don’t need to name them. Many people have fake doxes and AI synthesizers for audio have been around since 2018 in that part of space. I have just been a hard worker and good kid. My basic problem is an inability to communicate the structural circumstances my career is in as well as the immense mental trauma following from being doxed and discarded in a situation that didn’t need to be a problem by people who were worth infinite money and at the time threatened my life. This has severely affected my family in intense direct, yes direct ways. I spiraled afterwards being taken advantage of as gullible & easy to threaten and blackmail by nefarious mass scam operators in the aftermath. This nearly got me killed. I have often been irresponsible and this is to my friends. I’ve caused damage but more interpersonally and not in ways I was known for. This is my real crime and I apologize for it came from executive functioning problems coming from crises and desperation from what felt like hell with no escape. I’m sorry. I was never of bad character, and thank you to folks who listened to or tried to help me. I’m a nice 28 year old former champion debater who for years had a stellar reputation offering 9 figure DeFi companies marketing packages and consulting. I’m hard to understand sometimes. I know and have positive relationships with many people of significance in many industries. I have wanted to do work beyond DeFi at the intersection of AI x Blockchain for a year now and will move forward with those efforts tentatively. I called what I was doing Reverie.cc Thanks to anyone who read this. Wendell