i/nu
紫の犬 · murasaki no inu · the purple dog
launched on long.xyz
long.xyz is the launchpad on Robinhood Chain where every new token is paired to a tokenized stock — NVDA, AAPL, TSLA — instead of ether or a stablecoin. we picked $NU: Nu Holdings, the purple bank.
the pair
why there is a bank’s ticker inside a dog’s name.
say it out loud.
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the stock is the other side
every buy and sell of $I swaps against Robinhood’s tokenized $NU sitting in the pool — not against ether, not against a stablecoin. the price of the dog is quoted in shares of the bank.
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the ticker was already there
$I on the left, $NU on the right, a slash between them the way every pair is written. we did not invent the joke. we just took the slot before anyone else read it out loud.
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purple by choice
the dog was violet before the pair existed. that it lines up with the bank is the kind of coincidence you do not argue with — you print it, in two inks, on the cheapest paper in the shop.
- Chain
- Robinhood Chain
- Launchpad
- long.xyz
- Pair
- $I / $NU
- Contract
- not announced yet
$I is a community token. it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nu Holdings, Nubank, Robinhood or long.xyz. holding $I is not ownership of any company and not a claim on anything held in the pool. nothing here is financial advice.
the puppy
he is small, round and entirely violet: lavender fur, a cream muzzle, four white mitten paws, darker patches over the back and hip, and a heart-shaped nose. his tail is dusted with star-sparkles, which the block cutter renders as flecks of bare paper.
he has no name yet. he has a ticker, a shard of violet crystal that follows him around, and about four hundred prints of his own.
- Ticker
- $I
- Breed
- shiba, puppy, purple
- Carries
- one glowing crystal shard
the prints
four sheets from the same hand. click any of them to see the whole print.
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bamboo grove at nightfall the stars came through the bamboo. we kept walking. -
the red road one road, one moon, no reason to turn back. -
snow forest the forest was empty. we left the only tracks in it. -
the wall after dark we found company up on the wall. neither of us said much.