Over the past few weeks, another memecoin trading mobile app has been making rounds as memes continued to dominate mindshare: Moonshot. I first came across Moonshot from a viral UGC ad for the app. It certainly raised my eyebrows, and probably did the same for others. Especially since their target market seems to be Gen Z users with dreams of making a quick 100x.Intentional low blow to teachers (shout out to the educators out there), and undeniably effective as this post got 500k+ views. Last...

dGEN1 is open for preordersToday the ethOS team introduced the dGEN1, an onchain ‘every-day carry’ for the Ethereum ecosystem. The device is built by Freedom Factory, a team that created ethOS mobile operating system and shipped the first physical phone with access to the Ethereum ecosystem directly integrated.The dGEN1 isn’t meant to replace your phone, but instead is a dedicated device for your onchain dealings on ETH. There’s a ‘system-level’ wallet associated with the device, making it ea...

Earlier today, I covered a session on Content Growth and GTM case studies to the inaugural cohort of the Octant Accelerator.What is Octant?Octant is a public goods funding ecosystem created by the Golem Foundation. Golem has a treasury of 100k ETH (~$250 million 🤯), which was accumulated by a crowdfunding effort back in 2016. That 100k ETH is staked and a portion of the yield (like interest earned from a bank account) is then donated to public goods projects. Octant community members can acq...

More memecoin shenanigansAs memecoin mania has continued to dominate headlines, it has dominated a good chunk of my mindshare as well this week (it wasn’t on purpose, I promise!). Fortunately, there have been several developments from the traditional memecoin concept that are worth noting and sharing. But before we get to that there was one set of exchanges on my timeline that happened to me yesterday.I got raided by the APU communityYesterday I shared a segment of my last piece, The Memecoin...

A couple weeks ago, one presentation from Token2049 made its rounds on X, reaching over 1.4 million views and tens of thousands of engagements: Murad’s Memecoin Supercycle presentation.Note the like-to-bookmark ratio, wild!TLDR on Murad’s talkMemecoins, both old and new, are outperforming all other tokensTokens are overvalued due to all the parties involved prior to listing (founders, VCs, angels, centralized exchanges, market makers, KOLs, etc.), leading to retail being exit liquidityMemecoi...

The Bobu Magic ShowEarlier today Azuki introduced the Bobu Magic Show, a livestream YouTube event on October 10th. If Bobu sounds familiar, I recently covered him a few months ago with his AI-enhanced YouTube livestream, and it looks like he’ll be back and better than ever. This time, Bobu will be adding more tricks up his sleeve thanks to a partnership with Flashbots and TEEs (Trusted Execution Environment).WTF is FlashbotsFlashbots is an R&D org focusing on minimizing the negative impacts o...

The Lindy EffectThere is a term that I was introduced to as I spent more time in crypto and web3: Lindy. What does it mean to be Lindy and what is the Lindy effect?The Lindy effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Lo...

Last week I saw a a post from LayerZero, announcing that unclaimed tokens from their initial airdrop would be reallocated to eligible wallets. As a fortunate recipient of the initial airdrop several months ago, I wondered…would I be a lucky reallocation recipient?There was one keyword that caught my eye though:What is LayerZero and how did their TGE go?LayerZero is a cross-chain protocol that allows different blockchains to interact and communicate with each other. Some applications of the pr...

NFTs in media, music, and beyondAlthough the topics I cover have expanded much further beyond NFTs, I still have a soft spot for them. They’re the reason I got into the space after all. There were several announcements, observations, and releases that have me hopeful for the next iteration of NFTs as brands, IP, and companies with sustainable business models. Are we…*gasp*…back?A short list of developments and observations:Calladita is a movie funded by a NFT collection in 2022 and hit #1 in ...

Let’s travel back in time to late 2021, the peak of the NFT hype cycle.If you only bought and didn’t sell, you probably look back on that year like that chihuahua having flashbacks. NFT collections were reaching ridiculous valuations, communities were ogling over rare traits, with a hot new project launching every day. Almost all of these projects leaned heavily on the notion of scarcity with a capped supply — 5,000, 10,000, or more. Good times. As the industry moved on from the NFT hype (whi...