Race In Peace: HOSKY Community Rallies for BONE Pool Operator Gregg’s Family

The HOSKY community launched a fundraising campaign on July 8 to support the family of Gregg, the operator behind BONE Pool and a long-standing participant in Cardano’s stake pool ecosystem.

The official HOSKY account shared a Cardano address and a GoFundMe campaign, stating that all ADA sent to the published address would be converted and delivered directly to Gregg’s family. The announcement ended with a message tied to his decades-long connection with motorsport: “Race In Peace!”

On July 10, the project reported that two separate donations of more than 20,000 ADA had arrived during the day. The campaign was also accompanied by messages remembering Gregg as a stake pool operator, community member and friend.

HOSKY Community Organizes Support for Gregg’s Family

The fundraising appeal gave Cardano users the option to contribute through an on-chain address or the accompanying GoFundMe campaign.

According to the announcement, 100% of the ADA received through the address would be liquidated and transferred to Gregg’s family. Stake pool operators, delegators and other Cardano community members shared the appeal across social platforms.

Many responses focused on Gregg’s personal involvement with the community. Users recalled his support for smaller operators, his conversations with delegators and the HOSKY-related gifts he sent to friends, families and children.

Several community members mentioned plush HOSKY toys and other items they had received from him. Those memories added a personal dimension to a community widely known for memes and intentionally irreverent online humor.

The phrase “Race In Peace” continued to appear in tributes during the following days, connecting Gregg’s Cardano identity with the racing world in which he had carried the Bone nickname for more than three decades.

$HOSKY is one of Cardano’s longest-running meme tokens. Users can hold and trade the token, collect related NFTs, participate in community campaigns and delegate ADA to stake pools associated with the Hosky RugPool network. The project’s official website also added a memorial message for Bone.

BONE Pool Supported Cardano From the ITN Era

Gregg operated BONE Pool together with Krista, his business partner and technical lead responsible for its hardware infrastructure.

They had participated in Cardano staking since the Incentivized Testnet period, before the launch of mainnet staking. BONE Pool was established to support Cardano’s decentralization while building a community around long-term delegation.

Gregg and Krista were also involved in the North American racing scene. Gregg’s background included work across several areas of motorsport, including NASCAR and road racing, while Krista competed in Sports Car Club of America events.

Their Cardano Race Team concept was designed to connect Cardano projects and community members with motorsport audiences. The initiative aimed to introduce blockchain projects at racing events and reach people working in engineering, mechanics and professional racing.

BONE later joined the Hosky RugPool network, a group of independent stake pool operators connected through the HOSKY community.

The “RugPool” name reflected the humor of the broader $HOSKY brand. Participating pools combined staking services with community games, NFT distributions, token rewards and other activities for delegators.

BONE Pool also created a treasury used to purchase community-issued tokens and NFTs for later distribution to supporters. Its reward programs considered both the amount of ADA delegated and the number of epochs a delegator remained with the pool.

The pool also delegated part of its own ADA holdings to other operators, including several members of the Hosky RugPool network.

From Delegator Rewards to Direct Family Support

Gregg’s role in the HOSKY ecosystem extended beyond operating staking infrastructure.

Messages shared after the fundraising announcement described personal conversations, gifts and support offered without a formal commercial relationship. Delegators remembered an operator who treated staking as a community activity rather than only a technical service.

That history is directly connected with the current campaign. Gregg and Krista used part of BONE Pool’s resources to reward delegators, purchase assets created by Cardano community members and support other stake pool operators.

After Gregg passed away, that direction of support was reversed. Delegators, operators and community members began assisting the family of someone who had spent years supporting them.

The two donations exceeding 20,000 ADA became the most visible part of the response, but the campaign also documented relationships built through staking, racing and years of participation in Cardano.

For BONE Pool, “Race In Peace” carries the identity Gregg brought from motorsport into the ecosystem. For the HOSKY community, the campaign has turned its RugPool relationships, social reach and on-chain participation into direct support for the family of one of its long-standing members.