Looks like the founding team, all pure-blood Binance members, has officially set the tone for Warden to follow HyperLiquid's self-funded, no-VC financing route. Given Warden's team background, raising tens of millions from VCs, then pushing up valuations through OTC and finally wrapping up with TGE wouldn’t have been hard. Previously, I thought they were holding back since they hadn’t disclosed any funding details, but today’s announcement made it clear: the founding team has invested $6.5 million of their own money and won’t seek VC funding, opting for a community-driven approach instead. Plus, @wardenprotocol will allocate 2.5% of the total token supply to Kaito—super generous! The announcement also mentioned being inspired by HyperLiquid, deciding not to continue creating high-performance public chain "industrial waste," but instead focusing on the application side. Their product direction is an AI Agent app store, aggregating AI applications—essentially becoming the hao123 or Wandoujia of the AI era. According to the disclosed data, Warden currently has over 13 million users, 250,000 daily active users, and an annualized revenue exceeding $2.5 million.