Kantaro and San Chan

The story so far:

$SAN is the story of a young guy named Kantaro hiking around Japan who decided to adopt a baby shiba inu at one of his stops in a city called Beppu, a famous Onsen (hot spring) town

(day 256 of his adventure changed everything)

@kantaro_Japanwalker had already accumulated over 50,000 followers on Instagram through his travels and showcase of his Japanese adventure

but the minute he started posting San Chan, his following count went exponential.

He went from 50k to now 1.5 million followers in just 9 weeks!

He is currently averaging 20,000 followers per day on Instagram.

his TikTok is a similar story of overnight virality which is averaging well over 6,000 followers per day and has gained over 200,000 followers in the last 30 days alone.

The $San community contacted Kantaro, and having invested in crypto before and being familiar with the space he immediately came on board.

this is where OFFICIAL legal contracts were put in place around Kantaro’s involvement: including around 3% of supply which was given to Kantaro.

Kantaro, having been a monk for 3 months and generally not caring about material items, decided to lock the entire supply for donation purposes with a small percentage being released each week just to donate over the next 10 years.

so far 3 donations have been made since the schedule began

as of now over $12,000 dollars have been donated between @k9_rescue, @ifawglobal and @dogsbetterlives

this can be verified by checking with the individual charities on their pages

this is a weekly commitment for 10 YEARS by Kantaro

Kantaro has already been on a podcast with @Valkyrae where $san was present on set the entire time

he now has upcoming podcasts with other large YouTubers and streamers scheduled and is set to give a TedTalk at one of the top 3 universities in Japan (WITH $SAN)

THE THESIS:

$san is a real, living narrative, with endless real world attention that continues to snowball

this is the absolute opposite of the constructed fake pump and dump narratives that have plagued Solana onchain for far too long

in crypto we often say ‘normies will buy our bags’

well if normies are actually going to buy anything, it will be this once the real-world attention meets the crypto narrative

if you want normies to buy your bags, bid on something they actually like and care about

picture this:

Kantaro attends his TEDtalk mentions his coin to the audience a few of the students buy it and then tell their friends to buy it after seeing Kantaro and $san on stage snowballs: half of Japan is buying it

this is just one of an unlimited amount of potential scenarios where this coin goes real-world viral overnight

perhaps for the first time where the real-world buys before the crypto world and crypto natives have to fomo in later

it’s only a matter of time till the virality and exponential social media growth of Kantaro and $san combine with the coin

its a bet on the tokenised popularity of a pair, man and dog, that could easily become nationally renowned in Japan and abroad (at only $3.5m!)

And if you’re not convinced yet, come and join the twitter spaces tomorrow where @kantaro0925 on x will be going live with $san on video to do a Q&A!

$San

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