Last night, just before shutting down my computer, someone in the group suddenly shouted: “The $6.9 SATO is about to go on sale, are you still waiting for @Kindred_AI?” I had sworn I wouldn’t get involved again today, but once I opened the official website, all my sleepiness disappeared.

This round of SAFU SATO uses a little AI ant to tie together “companionship + fundraising”: for $6.9, you can buy a SATO that stays on your desktop, chats with you, tracks habits, and even mines Sugar Points that can be exchanged for SUGAR tokens.

The mechanism is also quite unconventional: early bird + colony multiplier up to 6.9x, combined with community voting and contract risk control, aiming to add some “downside protection” to the presale. I think Kindred already proved retention with their pilots for Teletubbies and Axie, and this time SATO directly locks together hype and a real product. Whether or not to get involved depends on whether you’re willing to raise an AI ant first.