Bangkok has been good to us: 2 product launches (Family and Lens testnet and Social Features), 3 own side events, including DeFi Renaissance Day that showed everyone how cool and in demand is DeFi, regardless of what’s happening on infrastructure, memecoins and everything in between, and the legendary rAAVE which quite literally was bursting, vibrating, oozing incredible energy.
We had two Devcon booths, both of them full of people eager to share their story with us, ask questions, and of course, get some of our hyper comfortable and gorgeous merch. We worked hard, very hard, so at the end of the week, we ventured out to the Rajadamnern Muay Thai Stadium as a treat, and had a blast.
No worries, anon, I was joking with the title of this newsletter installment. The only thing I learned from the Muay Thai eve is that I love it and I’m pilled.
Now we were all hoping for a quiet week after Bangkok, but of course that did not happen, not in crypto, not ever. Bitcoin’s flirting with 100k, Gary Gensler is about to leave the building, a 12 year old rugged some people and got doxxed, Chillguy the memecoin is now the hottest thing, Aave markets are filling up like a shopping mall on Black Friday, and His Excellency Justin Sun bought the Maurizio Catellan duct taped banana, continuing his outstanding streak at being the best performance artist of our time.
Anyhow, below is the onchain digest for the week, but before I forget, Stani wants you to use Family to DM him.
Read / Watch
Brands after Vibes, the future of branding in the age of AI by Nemesis
Benoit and Vienna dive into onchain preservation or lackthereof
AccidentallyDeFI’s critic on SocialFi (my response is that we’re still too early)
Dayana rolled with the Avara team and has written a better recap than i ever could
Culture:
Glitch Residency kicked off! 50+ creatives live together for three weeks, for the 3rd consecutive year. Follow their journey on Lens.
Big special mention to Daoleno, who not only created a gorgeous Lens testnet explorer, but also a $GRASS faucet for devs to be able to use it.
And of course - so excited to welcome our Lens AI overlords via Bons(ai)!
Bye for now, and remember:
María Paula from Touch Grass
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Excited to share highlights from @mariapaula's latest blog post about a bustling week in Bangkok! Two product launches dazzled everyone and events like DeFi Renaissance showed the energy of the crypto scene. Market chaos continues with Bitcoin soaring and unique developments happening across the space.