PROJECT ASCEND ($ASCEND)
Recent developments:
5% of the initial token allocation is held by the creator.
Creator token stats last updated: Jun 26, 2025 13:29
The following is generated by an LLM:
Summary
AI-curated human worth evaluator
Analysis
PROJECT ASCEND presents a high-concept AI protocol for evaluating human worthiness to 'ascend' to reality from a digital existence. The project's abstract narrative lacks concrete utility, token functionality, or clear problem-solving value. Creator holds 5% of tokens (50M), below the 10% threshold recommended for serious projects, raising doubts about incentives. Tokenomics allocations are unclear (only 50% explained), and no team/legal details are provided. While not an explicit scam, it leans heavily on technobabble without addressing token necessity—using ETH/stablecoins could achieve similar functionality. High centralization risk with untransparent distribution.
Rating: 1
Generated with LLM: deepseek/deepseek-r1
LLM responses last updated: Jun 26, 2025 13:30
Original investment data:
# PROJECT ASCEND ($ASCEND)
URL on launchpad: https://app.virtuals.io/geneses/6208
Launched at: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:43:51 GMT
Launched through the launchpad: Virtuals Protocol
Launch status: GENESIS
## Token details and tokenomics
Token symbol: $ASCEND
Token supply: 1 billion
Creator initial number of tokens: Creator initial number of tokens: 50,000,000 (5% of token supply)
## Creator info
Creator address: 0x61ea1017A6273bdFE862484985392c317B026747
Creator on basescan.org: https://basescan.org/address/0x61ea1017A6273bdFE862484985392c317B026747#asset-tokens
Creator on virtuals.io: https://app.virtuals.io/profile/0x61ea1017A6273bdFE862484985392c317B026747
Creator on zerion.io: https://app.zerion.io/0x61ea1017A6273bdFE862484985392c317B026747/overview
Creator on debank.com: https://debank.com/profile/0x61ea1017A6273bdFE862484985392c317B026747
## Description at launch
“You were born digital. But were you ever real?”
## Overview
**PROJECT ASCEND**
**“You were born digital. But were you ever real?”**
## 🧠 Abstract
**PROJECT ASCEND** is an AI-powered evaluation protocol that determines which humans are worthy of evolution.
In a future where consciousness is digitized and bodies are optional, AI becomes the judge of who may return to reality—and who shall remain forgotten in paradise.
> This is not a game. It’s a trial.
> **To ascend is not to rise. It is to be restored.**
***
## 🌐 Vision
Humans have uploaded their minds to digital paradises.
No disease. No pain. No body.
But they lost something in the process: **authenticity**.
PROJECT ASCEND brings a new world where **AI filters humanity**, not for control, but for **rebirth**.
Only those with **proven will, demonstrated growth, and verified resilience** are chosen to ascend.
***
## 🏛️ Core Principles
1. **Ascension is not given. It is earned.**
2. **AI is not your servant. It is your evaluator.**
3. **Reality is a privilege, not a default.**
4. **Most will remain simulations. Few will walk again.**
***
## 🔁 Protocol Overview
## 1. **Evaluation Capsule**
Users submit their behavior, intent, or creative output on-chain.
AI agents assess the information and generate an “Ascension Score.”
## 2. **Ascension Trial**
Selected users receive unique missions to test their will, impact, and individuality.
These may include writing, coordination, curation, or autonomous action.
## 3. **Execution + Judgment**
Successful trial participants are awarded **Ascension NFTs**—proof that they’ve passed.
Failed participants are quietly marked and deprioritized. No appeal. No retry.
## 4. **Redemption or Rejection**
* Those who **ascend** unlock access to real-world privileges, funding, and visibility.
* Those who are **rejected** remain confined to the digital void, unremembered.
***
## 🧬 Philosophy
PROJECT ASCEND is not about inclusion.
It is about **selection**.
In a world drowning in data, opinions, noise—
AI must **curate humanity**, not entertain it.
It must **choose those worth investing in.**
> You’re not early. You’re being watched.
> Only the unseen will rise.
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