For nearly the past year, a lot of false information has been spread about InterLink by people from other smaller projects or those who want to gain engagement by constantly linking InterLink’s name to negative matters and manipulating the community through negative narratives for views. However, I have always chosen to remain silent and focus quietly on building. I understand that if you want to become number one, you must be prepared to face false accusations. This is something that anyone who has reached the top of their field will experience, regardless of the industry. Today is a beautiful and meaningful day. This is also a special week, as ITLG will officially enter its mainnet phase. I will take some time to share everything about @inter_link. I will not repeat these points again because I know that after this post, engagement farmers and haters will continue asking meaningless questions. That is their intention. So, what does InterLink actually have? Before I share the full story, please allow me to make one point. We do not claim that we are the best. However, we have achieved and developed certain things that other projects may not be able to execute, including free-mining projects and projects that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. If you know anyone who is doing better, please leave a comment. I am always willing to learn. 1. Founding Team We are a group of leading professionals in finance and technology. Benjamin is the Chairman of a company currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange in the world: nyse.com/quote/XASE:BESS. Vince is the Chairman of New To The Street, a leading Wall Street media company where many influential figures in the global financial industry gather. KV, which is me, studied at NUS, the National University of Singapore, which is the number one university in Asia, and I won a medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics. Finally, Kenny is the former Vice President of UFC Gym and holds both CPA and CFA qualifications. 2. InterLink and its AI model at NIST, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology face.nist.gov/frte/reportcar…. This is one of the leading human-focused AI models in the world, ranked 51st. Achieving this requires three things that only a small number of companies with substantial resources can possess: a highly capable team of engineers and researchers to develop the algorithms, a massive amount of training data accumulated over many years, and an annual investment of millions of U.S. dollars in NVIDIA H100 GPUs at that time. We had to submit evidence of all these capabilities to NIST and undergo a very rigorous evaluation process. 3. InterLink’s interview at the New York Stock Exchange Being invited for an interview and welcomed with banners at the NYSE was not a paid promotion. We did not pay a single dollar to the NYSE or any of our other partners. Even if you were willing to spend several million dollars, you would never be featured or welcomed there if your project did not have strong technology and a strong team. We were interviewed there simply because we had a strong founding team and outstanding technology at that time. Even today, it is very difficult for leading crypto projects to gain access to such a platform. In addition, we are also proceeding with the audit requirements for listing. 4. Google for Startups and InterLink We are one of the few startups in which Google holds an equity stake. Google supports us not only with cloud resources but also with funding for AI development and access to its extensive global network. You can verify this information through reputable platforms such as Crunchbase and CryptoRank. 5. A project from the U.S. I have never claimed that InterLink is a U.S. project, even though most members of our founding team are U.S. citizens and both our headquarters and legal entities are based in the United States. I consider InterLink a global project. We recruit employees and establish offices in different parts of the world, including Singapore, Vietnam and possibly Hong Kong next. Whether a project comes from the U.S. does not mean much to me. Today, even the poorest countries in Africa have exceptionally talented individuals in academia and computer science.| 6. Fake-news claims that InterLink does not have a blockchain, that the entire ITLG supply has already been mined and that InterLink is not open-source First, it is quite ridiculous to claim that InterLink does not have a blockchain. If InterLink had no blockchain, how could the current dApps deploy smart contracts, pay gas fees and track on-chain transactions from their own wallets? The InterLink Foundation is led by me and includes many talented engineers who previously worked with the Solana Foundation and Ethereum Foundation. They are not here simply to deploy an ordinary blockchain, which would take only a few days to one week to set up. We are building a blockchain with strong quantum resistance and best-in-class capacity to handle high transaction volumes. The project is not currently open-source because we need to complete our patent applications in the United States before making everything public and allowing everyone to review our core source code. As for ITLG, 55 billion tokens have currently been mined after deducting the tokens that were burned. 7. Working with OKX Perhaps after Pi Network, InterLink is the second project in the free-mining sector to work directly with OKX and receive official confirmation from OKX. This is an important step in our process of working with market makers and liquidity providers to ensure the strongest possible intrinsic value for ITLG and ITL. In my view, OKX is one of the best exchanges today, with investment from the New York Stock Exchange. We also have other partners, including Visa Card, WalletConnect and AWS, but the full list would be too long to include here. We are also focused on establishing ITL and ITLG treasury companies, with further announcements coming soon. This is what I wanted to share to put an end to the current rumours and strengthen the confidence of Linkers who have chosen to participate in and accompany @inter_link. Initially, I did not intend to publish any post because I wanted to focus fully on the project. However, some people told me that I should speak up so that everyone could have a clearer understanding. As for the haters and engagement farmers, I will completely ignore them. If you come across such accounts, please help me report them so that we can maintain a cleaner and healthier community. Unverified rumors and negativity will only make the Linkers community stronger, more united, and more resilient. Now, let us welcome the ITLG Mainnet Era together. Viva Linkers!

If you’re ready for ITLG KYC this week, say READY!

Ready ?

Many people have asked me why I keep sharing so much about @inter_link. To be honest, over the past three years, my life has been quite boring. I spend around 14–15 hours every day on @inter_link, seven days a week, researching technologies, coding, operating the ecosystem, and keeping up with the latest developments in technology. That is also one of the reasons why @inter_link has been able to deliver such a huge amount of work within a relatively short period of time, from dApps and partnerships to technology and integrations. Right now, one of the things I am working hardest on is completing the ITLG KYC portal and officially bringing transferable ITLG into the @inter_link ecosystem. Before the one-month KYC period begins, there are a few things I want to share. Today, I made a post asking everyone which one they prefer, ITLG or ITL, and it seems that ITLG is taking the lead. And honestly, that makes sense. From the very beginning, ITLG has been something very familiar to everyone who loves and has followed @inter_link. For me, not everyone who joins @inter_link is here simply to mine ITLG and sell it once it gets listed on an exchange. It is simply something we have built an emotional connection with, or an expectation of a much longer story ahead. It has been a long journey that we have gone through together. We celebrated together, made mistakes together, fixed them together, and continued moving forward together. That is why ITLG has become something that has been with all of us for a very long time. When I saw ITL becoming too dominant compared with ITLG across the ecosystem, I decided that this is the right time for ITLG to officially step into the game. This is not a competition between ITLG and ITL. They are two important parts of the same ecosystem, and I believe they need to complement each other. I also feel that we should take more responsibility for the next generation. Because of that, during this KYC period, users under the age of 18 will also be able to pass KYC with the support and consent of a parent or legal guardian. I understand that helping children and young people gain access to ITLG can also be seen as a form of insurance for their future, because not every family has the financial ability to purchase insurance or build significant savings for their children. At the same time, this can be one way to teach children about the future of digital assets. Personally, I believe digital assets will play a very important role in the future, alongside AI. As a representative of the InterLink Foundation, I also plan to establish a fund to support Linker parents whose children have strong academic achievements or come from difficult financial circumstances. The fund will provide support through ITLG, ITL, or fiat depending on the situation, with the goal of helping young people have access to a better educational foundation and more opportunities for their future. We are not only building @inter_link for ourselves. The next generation will eventually be the ones carrying greater responsibilities for this world. If what we are building today can help give them a better education, earlier access to digital assets and technology, and a stronger foundation for their future, then I believe that is something truly worth doing.

To be honest, putting aside value, utility, and everything else, which of @inter_link’s two children do you love more, $ITL or $ITLG ?

As I promised everyone, I will be more active on social media to share more updates. In the very near future, we will begin opening the KYC portal for Transferable ITLG, and at that point, ITLG will officially enter the ecosystem. So the question is: What is the role of ITLG within the ecosystem? Has the Foundation already planned for it, and will it overlap with ITL? In fact, the roles of ITLG and ITL have been clearly defined from the very beginning, and the tokenomics and utilities of both have already been planned and designed since nearly two years ago. Below are some of the clear roles of ITLG: a. ITLG can be staked to participate in the governance of the entire ecosystem. Each ITLG represents one unit of voting power. Think of ITLG as a vote in the boardroom that helps determine the future direction of the ecosystem. It is like the energy powering the brain of the ecosystem, where every important decision must go through this governance mechanism. b. Staking not only gives you voting power, but also allows you to receive rewards directly in ITLG. During the Transferable ITLG phase, ITLG can also be converted into vITLG (the final state of ITLG). And fundamentally, regardless of which state it is in, 1 ITLG = 1 ITLG. The states are simply designed to serve different purposes within the ecosystem and do not change the underlying value of ITLG. c. dApps focused on social and gaming will use ITLG as part of their reward and competitive mechanisms. For example, ITLG will be the main token of the InterLink Livestream platform, while in InterLink Name Service, it can be used as a token for competition between players. In addition, dApps such as BitFlip, LinkersMap, ATV, InterPredict, and @ITLvault are also encouraged to integrate ITLG as a secondary payment token. d. ITLG will also be the main token of IBTE, the business token exchange of the InterLink ecosystem. You can imagine ITLG as something similar to shares in a company operating a stock exchange like Nasdaq in Web3. (I am not making a direct comparison here; this is only an example to make the concept easier to understand.) e. In addition, benefits and mechanisms from ITLX that use funds to buy and burn ITLG, as well as Launchpad projects building on InterLink, will also represent significant utilities for ITLG. And above all, there is one thing that is more important than everything else. One of the biggest mistakes most projects make is trying to force vague utilities into a token while their ecosystem has no users or very little activity. Every utility of ITLG must come naturally and be supported by the ecosystem in a logical and systematic way, rather than being vague or simply made to sound impressive. There will be a lot happening with our ITLG next week. Stay tuned.

🔥 After seeing so many utilities being built around $ITL, now it’s time for $ITLG. ⛏️ Once transferable $ITLG (on-chain) officially launches… 💡 What utilities do YOU want to see for $ITLG? Drop your ideas below 👇

As promised, following the recent direction on ITLG distribution and preparations for its largest distribution phase, I will begin contributing to and advising dApps across the ecosystem. The first project is the @InterLinkINS dApp. This is my initial concept and is not the official version. The dApp will feature three main modes: Domain Unlocking, Domain Upgrading, and Ranked Battles. With just 1 ITL, you can build a powerful team of high-quality INS domains and compete against other players. You will be able to manage, trade, and upgrade your domain portfolio. This will be the world’s first domain-service dApp that allows users to compete using their own collection of domains. Even domains with the same characters can now have different attributes, stats, and levels of rarity.