Timeline

Complete chronological log of Neuko events, milestones, and discoveries.

October 2025

October 11, 2025

First Teaser Post

  • Event: Poetic reply posted: "i stood up i fell over i wept on the floor"

  • Significance: First public signal from Neuko account, establishes cryptic tone

October 13, 2025

Official Launch - "We're Watching"

  • Event: First major post with launch video

  • Caption: "we're watching"

  • Video: ~10 seconds, features hooded figure (G*Boy) in dark lab with monitors, breaking vending machine, walking dimly lit hallway

  • Engagement: 123K+ views organically, broke X algorithm without paid promotion

  • Significance: Official launch, establishes surveillance motif and G*Boy character

October 17, 2025

"Early Matters" Badge Tease

  • Event: Video teasing badge system

  • Caption: "early matters"

  • Video: ~21 seconds, panoramic white lab with old computers, badge close-ups (Rabbit and Moth), ends with hooded figure in rainy alley

  • Details: Rabbit badges shown with clean cases, Moth badges slightly worn - hinting at distribution phases

  • Significance: Introduces Rabbit 🐰, Moth 🐝, and Snake 🐍 badge system

  • Founder Comments: All three founders (@austin_hurwitzarrow-up-right, @SQU1NCHarrow-up-right, @greenie_srarrow-up-right) posted cryptic "🐰" comment

October 20, 2025

Cognitive Assessment Video

  • Event: Badge distribution requirements announced

  • Caption: (blank)

  • Video: ~48 seconds, black screen with breathing countdowns, flashes anime-style images (hospital, animals, fire)

  • Requirements:

    • 1,000 total badges (250 Rabbit 🐰, 750 Moth 🐝)

    • 24-hour deadline to DM Solana wallet address

  • Significance: First badge distribution phase begins, establishes "cognitive assessment" lore

October 22, 2025

Distribution Complete

  • Event: Rabbit and Moth badge airdrops completed

  • Caption: (blank)

  • Video: ~26 seconds, hands opening boxes with badges, screens show "Distribution Complete"

  • Distribution:

    • Phase 1: 250 Rabbit 🐰 badges airdropped first to 250 people

    • Phase 2: 750 Moth 🐝 badges airdropped after Rabbits to next wave

  • Puzzle Discovery: Spectrograms hidden in audio reveal time machine and testing chamber imagery

  • Significance: First two badge phases complete, Snake 🐍 teased

October 24, 2025

Snake Badge Distribution Begins

  • Event: Snake badges given to Rabbit/Moth holders to distribute to people they thought would benefit the community

  • Caption: "🐰 = 2 🐍 🐝 = 1 🐍 monday"

  • Video: ~45 seconds, TV channels flipping through chaotic scenes (highway, news, snake handler, facility attack)

  • Distribution Mechanics:

    • Rabbit 🐰 holders receive 2 Snake 🐍 badges each

    • Moth 🐝 holders receive 1 Snake 🐍 badge each

    • Holders decide: Hold, Sell, or Give

  • Significance: Decentralized community-led distribution begins, major social experiment

  • Puzzle Elements: Channel numbers, background chatter, hidden numerical codes

October 27, 2025

Puzzle Escalation - Channel Flipping

  • Event: Complex puzzle video with multiple clues

  • Caption: "dropping to distributors stage 1: complete stage 2: initiating"

  • Video: ~62 seconds, more TV channel flipping (jungle snake, taxi fight, news, record player, bedroom jacket)

  • Puzzle Discovery:

  • Significance: Leads to neuko.ai website unlock, most complex puzzle to date

  • Community Impact: Community members involved in puzzle distribution

October 28-29, 2025

Community Distribution Phase

  • Event: Snake badges distributed by community

  • Details:

    • Community self-organized to reward engagement, content creation, and support

    • Many holders bought badges on secondary markets to gift to others

    • Over 1,100 unique badge holders by late October

    • Only 2-3% listed on Magic Eden (diamond-handed community)

  • Significance: Social experiment succeeds - community shows strong conviction and generosity

October 30, 2025

Website Puzzle Discovery

  • Event: @thrax_nftarrow-up-right discovers hidden console logs on neuko.ai

  • Discovery:

    • Found disabled login portal for "Saint Juniper Research Campus"

    • Extracted .txt files from console reveal G*Boy logs

    • Contains badge protocols, integrity checks, "Zion-Campaign" directives

  • Significance: Major lore reveal, confirms planned nature of distribution

October 31, 2025

"Last Call" Ultimatum

  • Event: 24-hour deadline for Snake badge distribution

  • Caption: "last call, 🐍 hoarders"

  • Video: ~41 seconds, field operations recap with community shoutouts

  • Message: Rabbit 🐰 and Moth 🐝 holders who haven't distributed Snake 🐍 badges given 24-hour ultimatum

  • Lore Elements:

    • Mentions "G304" (G*Boy designation)

    • References facility attacks and "desertion"

    • Hints at moving operations underground

  • Puzzle Elements: Hidden contrast codes in shoutout scenes

  • Status: Consequences of ultimatum still unknown

November 2025

November 1, 2025

Community Debrief Threads

  • Event: @satoshi_owlarrow-up-right posts comprehensive debrief thread analyzing ultimatum video

  • Content: Breaks down shoutouts, puzzle clues, and lore elements

  • Significance: Community documentation and analysis begins

November 4, 2025

DEBRIEF#03

  • Event: @satoshi_owlarrow-up-right publishes third debrief thread

  • Content:

    • Updates on puzzle discoveries

    • Reveals team involvement in puzzle distribution

    • Documents spectrogram discoveries

    • Notes unsolved mysteries

  • Significance: Establishes community documentation pattern

November 5, 2025

Website Portal Video

  • Event: Video revealing neuko.ai website

  • Caption: "https://www.neuko.ai/"

  • Video: ~60 seconds, montage of animated hooded figures in fantastical scenes (desert, skate, bubble, party, mountain, fire, throne, dancing)

  • Website:

    • Minimalistic design with "NEUKO" title and logo

    • PIN unlock system requiring codes from puzzles

    • Console logs accessible via browser dev tools

  • Treasure Trail: Post-video treasure trail initiated for wallet holding 3x badges

  • Significance: Website officially revealed, new puzzle layer unlocked

November 9, 2025

Community Recap Thread

  • Event: @Sinsonxarrow-up-right posts comprehensive recap thread

  • Content:

    • Complete timeline recap

    • Team background and bullish points

    • Upcoming SolanaConf mention

  • Significance: Community-driven onboarding content

November 12, 2025

"Catch Up, Sneeb" Claymation

  • Event: Lore-deepening claymation video

  • Caption: "catch up, sneeb"

  • Video: ~124 seconds, stop-motion clay figures discussing conspiracies

  • Lore Reveals:

    • MITER-Corp experiments on "homeless babies" to create psychic soldiers

    • Badge phases explained

    • G*Boy escape causes "general chaos"

    • References "darker, insidious experiments"

  • Significance: Major lore dump, recaps entire story arc, hints at five core characters

November 13, 2025

Research Cutoff Date

  • Event: Latest information documented in sources

  • Status: Project still early, community growing

  • Metrics:

    • ~13,462 followers on X (up from 0 in early October)

    • Over 1,100 unique badge holders

    • Strong floor prices despite down market

    • 0.25% mindshare (per cookie.fun) - higher than many established projects

November 14, 2025

"Meanwhile in St. Juniper..."

  • Event: Cryptic video release shifting focus to St. Juniper Research Lab

  • Caption: "meanwhile in st. juniper"

  • Video: ~45 seconds, grainy CCTV-style footage, alarms blaring, empty corridors

  • Lore Reveals:

    • Audio decoding reveals panic about "Subject G304" and "Sector 7 lockdown"

    • Terminal flash: "SJ-SECURELAB DETECTED - User ID: node04 - Access Key: v5.12.03 - MOTH..."

  • Significance: Confirmed badge holders (Moths) could interact with the secure lab portal, kicking off the "Bloc" hack

November 18-20, 2025

"The Bloc" Hacks the Secure Lab

  • Event: Community hacker group "The Bloc" cracks the SJ Secure Lab site

  • Discovery:

    • Used badges and clues from Nov 14 video to authenticate

    • Uncovered /experiments/archive/VAR-G_TRIALS_SERIES_A_1994-09

    • 1994 Experiment Logs: Found video footage of young G*Boy (Variant G) undergoing telekinetic tests

    • Zion Campaign Files: Revealed badge distribution was a pre-planned "Phase 1" to recruit allies

  • Significance: Massive lore payoff, community actively "hacked" the story to reveal G*Boy's origin

November 19, 2025

Launch of G*BOY Special (AI Art Tool)

  • Event: Release of custom AI art generator

  • Caption: "drown them in his image - gboyspecial.com"

  • Tool: gboyspecial.comarrow-up-right - AI model fine-tuned on G*Boy aesthetic

  • Significance: Democratized content creation, flooding timeline with user-generated G*Boy art (#GboySpecial)

November 20, 2025

Founder Interview (Seed Club)

  • Event: Co-founder Austin Hurwitz interviewed on "11AM with Seed Club"

  • Content:

    • Discussed vision of "AI-native IP"

    • Explained "Actions Over Words" philosophy

    • Hinted at future interactive missions for badge holders

  • Significance: First major public interview, validating the project to the wider Web3 audience

November 21, 2025

Epilogue / Current Status

  • Status: Season 1 content arc concludes

  • Metrics:

    • 13.3k+ followers on X

    • 1,100+ unique badge holders

    • Strong "diamond hand" holding behavior

  • Next Steps: Community awaiting "Chapter 2" and Solana Breakpoint appearance

Upcoming Events

Early December 2025

SolanaConf (Solana Breakpoint)

  • Event: Team scheduled to speak about Neuko

  • Significance: Potential major catalyst and reveal event

Key Milestones

  • Launch to 10K followers: ~2 weeks (mid-October)

  • Badge distribution phases: 3 phases over ~2 weeks

  • Community self-organization: Successful decentralized distribution

  • Puzzle complexity: Escalated from simple videos to multi-layer puzzles

  • Market performance: Strong floor prices with low sell pressure (2-3% listed)

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