Ben Jorgensen: Stand Strong. We Have More Conviction Than Ever.
Constellation CEO Ben Jorgensen addressed the community directly, on the AIAI transition, the Uphold delisting, and the long-term vision converging AI and blockchain across enterprise workflows.
Good morning and good afternoon @Conste11ation. First and foremost, let's stand strong right now. Over the last month and a half our company has gone through a transition of merging both our technology and operations alongside @_AiSquared. These things take time and patience to see the intended outcome. Constellation is still operating a company and an ecosystem but now have added responsibilities to both the public and our organization.
We have not "sold out" or forgotten about our community. We have more conviction than ever to succeed and apply our technology and team at scale. We are making press headlines to help drive the narrative. Behind the scenes we are working with management to provide improved communications that clarify the AIAI vision and convergence of AI and blockchain across organizational workflows.
Why We Decided to Be Acquired by AIAI
This is why we decided to be acquired by AIAI. We, including AIAI, believe that what our blockchain is ripe to be more seamlessly integrated in traditional industries while advancing our digital capabilities. We see that AI can evolve our technology stack and we can introduce and deploy better products to market that apply our protocol in unique and value accretive ways.
We need to do a better job of painting this picture and offering understanding of how all our new tools work together.
We are working on this. Our new family and vision is all very very new.
On Uphold
As for the events over the last week with Uphold have been quite astonishing. We have all experienced something devastating to DAG with their recent decision to delist DAG. This is only temporary and not indicative of a broader negative campaign nor does it have anything to do with our technology and overall strategy.
We were not given notice nor an explanation on why they delisted. We were not made aware of their holdings and their intention to migrate DAG. It appears that Uphold held a significant amount of DAG and made no attempt to communicate and find an alternative solution beyond causing paranoia and hysteria in our community.
This is not how we like to do business, but it is clear that this is how some do business. Constellation is not behind the negative sentiment and we are not feeding into it.
This is a temporary blip in our narrative and I assure you that it is not where we want to let our energy reside.
We are not going anywhere. Let's turn this sentiment around together.
This is the message the market needed, straight from the CEO.
Ben rarely posts long-form like this. When he does, it matters. The signal here is not a price call, it's a posture call. The team is not retreating, they are absorbing AIAI, shipping product, and refusing to take the bait on the Uphold drama.
The Uphold delisting was loud, ugly, and badly handled. It was also one exchange making one decision while a publicly traded parent company on the Nasdaq, Gate AI in production, Arca Wallet live, Dôr deployed at retail, and the Philippine lottery integration all keep moving forward. Confusing the two is exactly the trap Ben is calling out.
The honest critique stands: communication has lagged execution since the AIAI close, and Ben acknowledged it. The fix is the only one that ever works in this market, ship and explain. The conviction is there. Now the storytelling has to catch up.
Heads up. Stay sovereign. Keep stacking the thesis, not the noise.
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