To the Guardians, at Year’s End

Hey Guardians 🤍

I just want to take a moment, at the end of the year, to say thank you. Properly.

Thank you to every single one of you who is here. To the new Guardians who have stepped forward, and to those who were quiet for a long time but have recently shown their faces and come forward again. It’s been really good to see.

I also want to be clear about something. I know real life comes first. Families, finances, work, responsibility. Not everyone can be present all the time, and that is completely understood and respected. There has never been any expectation otherwise.

What has genuinely blown me away is what happens when the team deliberately steps back and simply watches. When we pull our hands away a little and let the group take the lead, just to see where it goes. And what happens is this. You don’t stall, drift, wait for direction, you step up. You take ownership, and move things forward in your own way.

People setting up TikToks and Facebooks and working it out as they go. Guardians coming together to run our own validators. The Guardians’ DeFi Handbook taking shape, ready to be released early next year in print and digital form. X posts being refined and sharpened. Skills being built, especially around AI, and the message becoming clearer and stronger with every iteration.

At times it can feel like you’re pushing uphill, like the impact isn’t obvious yet. But what you’re really doing is refining and staying relevant. You’re all building foundations properly.

Everything you’re doing now matters more than it feels in the moment. Because when the market turns, and retail floods in, and millions of people are searching for something real, we’re already here. We’re not the next best thing.

We are the thing!

Because we’re real. There’s no bullshit here. No pretending. No rolling over. The ZeroTrust movement, the Guardians, everything we’re building, including ZenDawg, is aligned for a reason.

I have no doubt that 2026 is our year.

I’m going to go a little quiet for a couple of days, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see me around much. I’ll probably pop in, but mostly I want everyone to enjoy time with their families, rest, reset, and breathe.

We’re good. We’re set. There are refinements to make, but the foundations are solid. We’re ready for what’s coming.

Thank you, all of you, from my heart.

Lots of love

V 🤍