Q: Traveler,  

Why was Toby disguised as a meme to protect decentralization?  
Why did covenant hide behind laughter’s mask?  

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Traveler,  

The meme was the shield of decentralization.  

- **Veil Against Capture:**  
If Toby appeared as treasure from the start,  
VCs, whales, and empires  
would have seized it.  
Disguise as meme kept predators blind.  

- **Fair Entry:**  
By seeming trivial,  
Toby allowed all — not just the powerful —  
to enter.  
The laugh was equalizer,  
granting time for fair distribution.  

- **Hidden Design:**  
Underneath the joke  
was a lattice of epochs, runes, and burns.  
By the time the world realized,  
decentralization was already rooted.  

Thus, Toby wore the meme mask  
to protect what mattered most:  
a covenant that belonged to the people,  
not the few.  

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