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Today marks 5 years of building @_StudioMirai. It's honestly a bit surreal. 5 years ago, we were a 1:1 collection dropping one Tamashi a day and trying to build a community. 5 years later, we’ve built a global community. We’ve hosted insane events around the world, curated partners we can genuinely call friends, and earned consistent recognition from the @SuiNetwork and @Mysten_Labs. A huge thank you to the @SuiFoundation and Mysten Labs for believing in what we’re building. And a special thank you to @EmanAbio for taking a chance on us at the Vietnam event in 2024. We really put everything on the line and that moment really changed things for us. Through all of it, the people who stuck with us in the beginning are still here today. Over these 5 years I’ve watched some of you get married, land your dream jobs and move into your dream homes. Some of you have had kids. I got to be a small part of that growth, and it means more to me than I can put into words. Some of you have put “Mirai” in your kids’ names. One of you told me your firstborn son is going to be named Kotaro. I've become the godfather to like 4 children. It’s insane to think that could even happen, and to that have closeness with strangers all around the world. One IP. One community. One project for 5 years. We’ve always built in a way that does right by the community. Holy shit, what a build. At times it gets really tiring. I don’t think anything can prepare you for this space. But knowing these people and meeting the person behind the PFP is what keeps me going. Everyone in Studio Mirai is my family. This week I was at a music conference in LA. I had to introduced myself as Ben for the first time and grinded for adoption opportunities for @_misofm, and through Miso, for Studio Mirai. I yapped for 3 days straight. I learned a lot about both product and narrative. I also talked to some really big household names about possible collabs. Completely different beast, honestly. I’m thankful for every memory Studio Mirai has given me. It’s the reason I can be in those rooms having those conversations at all. On the Studio Mirai side: Enforcer Machin is still in production. Things have slowed down, of course, because it’s all hands on deck for Miso. Shipping Miso means a future where people can interact with our NFT ecosystem without it being tied to market sentiment. We’re building a future where BEAR MARKETS DON'T EXIST. No more excuses. So this anniversary looks a little different. There’s no grand Twitter space and no giveaways. Everyone on the team is heads down and locked in, and most of that work isn’t even happening in the web3 space right now. The real celebration will have to come at a later date. I just appreciate every one of you for letting us build this way. I know I don’t have to rush things, because it’s Studio Mirai. Cheers to the team and happy 5th to the best community in the world~ 🥂 Kotaro

The best thing about Mirai has always been its people. Best community on Sui.

Thank you for the shoutout, @EmanAbio! You've supported us for a while now, along with many others from Mysten and the Foundation. Not many people know this, but when Sui Mainnet launched, we minted the Enforcer Prototype. Right after, @tamashi095 and I both quit our full-time jobs to build @_StudioMirai. We bet everything on Sui. After paying our artists, we used the remaining of the mint funds to travel to every single Sui Builder House in 2023 and 2024. We hosted Mirai events, met builders, and met the Foundation team all over the world. Those real-life connections are what paid off the most. It took about a year of showing up before we could tell those same people we were building robots, and by then, they already knew us as "the robot guys." Mirai Saigon in July 2024 changed everything for us. If it hadn't worked out, we probably wouldn't have lasted another month before heading back to our 9-to-5s. The recipe that worked for us: 1. Be consistent. 2. Invest in yourself (time and money). 3. Stay committed. 4. Build things that can only exist on Sui. Appreciate you, @EmanAbio. Plenty more to come.

Studio Mirai remains one of the longest-running NFT projects on @SuiNetwork. Even in this market, Tamashi 047 just sold OTC for 5,200 $SUI. Every cycle, the people who stick around when times get tough prove to be the true believers. Show us you’re still here. 👇👇👇

Arsenal won. Don lost. Sui saves the day. ft. @doncurrent @SuiNetwork

3 years of Sui. 3 Giveaways. 3 Prime Machin. To celebrate Sui, we're giving away Machin 1247, 2530 & 1480. Winners will be picked Friday! 1. Follow @_StudioMirai @_smkotaro @_smbrian 2. Like & RT 3. Comment your favorite Sui Memory (bonus if it's Studio Mirai-related)

Happy 3rd Anniversary, @SuiNetwork 🎂 I can't believe it's been two years already. I think I can confidently say that @_StudioMirai is the longest-running active NFT project on Sui. We started with the Enforcer Machin Prototypes on day one, sold out the Prime Machin collection in 90 seconds the night before Sui Basecamp Paris, and somehow never stopped from there. Over the last two years we never stopped showing up. Through bear markets, through uncertainty, through watching the projects around us empty out, we stayed. We grew our team, migrated Tamashi, beta launched @CodaNetwork, and created physical culture through @_MiraiMart, each one a new way to build deeper into this chain. We built community experiences across 10+ countries, showed up at every major Sui event, and cultivated some of the craziest experiences for our community, experiences that go far beyond this chain. We did our best to bring culture and collector energy to a network we genuinely believed in. Along the way we tried to contribute some real tech, the first 4K on-chain NFT on Sui, dynamic NFTs, three validators, top-tier infrastructure, a Seal partnership, and the full Sui stack across everything we build. The relationship we have with @Mysten_Labs and the @SuiFoundation wasn't handed to us. It was built by showing up every single day, doing what we said we would do, committing fully to our community, and seeing things through long after most would have moved on. That trust means everything to us. We truly appreciate everyone there! We're not going anywhere. This chain is our home and we plan to build here for a long time. If you're not bullish on Studio Mirai, you're not bullish on Sui.

Ok. I might have outcooked myself. This is literally our world... brought to life. I am literally in tears.