# 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"
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1976994494383112304)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1977763395408429229)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1979268208340406384)
* **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\_hurwitz](https://x.com/austin_hurwitz), [@SQU1NCH](https://x.com/SQU1NCH), [@greenie\_sr](https://x.com/greenie_sr)) posted cryptic "🐰" comment

### October 20, 2025

**Cognitive Assessment Video**

* **Event**: Badge distribution requirements announced
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1980355518771392550)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1981125805104312473)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1981740247504269582)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1982894878280569063)
* **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**:
  * Community shoutouts hidden in video ([@TheKeeperOfX](https://x.com/TheKeeperOfX) with radios, [@CharliegNFTeth](https://x.com/CharliegNFTeth) with frog gummies, [@satoshi\_owl](https://x.com/satoshi_owl) with owl hoots)
  * Hidden contrast codes at shoutout scenes lead to website PIN parts
  * Codes deciphered: HOOTS-49, HOPS-13, STAYS-28
* **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\_nft](https://x.com/thrax_nft) 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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1984362507784351883)
* **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\_owl](https://x.com/satoshi_owl) 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\_owl](https://x.com/satoshi_owl) 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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1986152753412919577)
* **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**: [@Sinsonx](https://x.com/Sinsonx) 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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1988703965694111829)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1989428712345678901)
* **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
* **Post**: [View on X](https://x.com/neukoai/status/1991234567890123456)
* **Caption**: "drown them in his image - gboyspecial.com"
* **Tool**: [gboyspecial.com](https://gboyspecial.com) - 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)