Max,if you are real man and you genuinely care about your project you need to come up with some sort of statement at some point and not about Charles, what you've failed to do today, but about your concrete plans of development, preferably with a new road map and some time frame.
I know in crypto you can get away with everything but it is always better to finish your quest in a honourable way rather then giving up or hiding in a cave-in crypto live is short and live is full of black swans...