$ITX didn't start with a whitepaper and a marketing budget. It started with code, a community, and a belief that privacy should be earned, not bought. Here's how we got here. And why 2026 changes everything 🧵

August 2024. Mining began on Ethereum using the Tornado Cash codebase. Published on GitHub and a Tor website. No VC announcement. No influencer campaign. Just an open invitation to the privacy community. Spread and joined permissionlessly.

October 2024. AML and circulation rules were implemented. The dev team proposed a "dev tax", the miners said no. Community governance from day one. The people who build the anonymity set decide the rules.

Late 2024 → Mid 2025. Mining moved to Base. Faster, cheaper cycles. Then in June 2025: INTMAX mainnet launched. Mining migrated to INTMAX's own contract with new rules. The infrastructure finally matched the vision.

By the end of 2025: $800M worth of ETH will have gone private through this system. Not through hype. Through participation. Every deposit. Every cycle. Every miner contributing to something bigger than themselves.

$ITX was never about speculation. It was about building privacy infrastructure that rewards those who strengthen it. The history is written. The next chapter is coming. Stay close.