Priya Anand said a token without utility is a casino chip her protocol would never launch, then launched one five months later with utility to follow.
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Fictional demo · Chain Reaction
Building without a token
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The highlighted passage appears in the example Receipt. The surrounding fictional dialogue stays in its original order.
Petra Lim00:33:31–00:33:47
Loopline is the biggest protocol left without a token. Investors must be thrilled.
Priya Anand00:33:49–00:33:58
Our investors backed a network, not an exit ramp.
Priya Anand00:34:00–00:34:18 · Selected passage
A token without utility is just a casino chip. We will never launch one to juice a metric.
Petra Lim00:34:20–00:34:29
So the answer is never, or the answer is not yet?
Priya Anand00:34:31–00:34:39
The answer is never for its own sake.
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Recorded in the fictional scenario
Jan 20, 2026
Published in the fictional scenario
Jan 22, 2026
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The highlighted passage appears in the example Receipt. The surrounding fictional dialogue stays in its original order.
Petra Lim00:20:36–00:20:46
Congratulations, I think. What changed since January?
Priya Anand00:20:48–00:20:58
The ecosystem matured and governance needed a spine.
Priya Anand00:21:00–00:21:24 · Selected passage
The LOOP token is live as of this morning. Utility follows community, that's how every real network has actually worked.
Petra Lim00:21:26–00:21:34
In January the phrase was casino chip.
Priya Anand00:21:36–00:21:50
In January we didn't have forty thousand weekly builders asking to vote.
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Recorded in the fictional scenario
Jun 21, 2026
Published in the fictional scenario
Jun 23, 2026
Selected passages and the surrounding conversation are indexed in their original order. Unindexed intervals are not represented as a complete transcript.
People, shows, companies and statements in this demo are invented. No original recording or external source link is included.