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#77: @guac_gg - Solana, Defi, Games, NFTs, and 🥑🥑
Recorded: Nov. 10, 2023 Duration: 1:11:33Space Recording
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Good afternoon, everybody.
Hey, guacamole. Hey, Godson.
How are you doing?
Hey, thanks for having us.
Yeah, we're so glad to have you guys.
Welcome.
Letting our speakers connect here, and I'm just going to mute for maybe a minute longer.
I'll let the room fill up, and I'm going to just spread the URL on Twitter and Discord,
and make sure we get some more people in here, and then we can kick off.
Oh, darn. I'm afraid I don't have Discord installed on my new laptop yet. Paola, do you think you can drop the spaces link in the Bat Brigade?
Sure, I will.
My pleasure.
Welcome, everybody. Room's filling up. I think we're waiting for Guillaume still from our side. So give him a second.
Oh, thank you.
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While we wait, though, hey, avocado team, or guacamole team, where are you guys based?
We're kind of spread out, all of us. We have developers on, I think, three different continents
right now.
Nice, nice. Okay, so like a typical Web3 project.
Yep. Typical, you know, everybody's fully remote. We've actually, myself and most of the core contributors have actually worked on several other platforms and projects over the years and have built a rapport over the last, I think, almost a decade now of developing together. So we work very, you know, efficiently together. We know pros and strengths and the weaknesses and can delegate efficiently to make things happen faster.
That's amazing. I love to hear that. Hey, actually, while we wait for the room to fill up a little bit, I had a kind of a random question. When I was doing my research for the spaces today, I was searching like by news articles and an interesting article about Chipotle came up, you know, Chipotle, the fast food chain. Yeah. Have you guys ever partnered with them or considered partnering with them?
And like, there's a reason I asked, but just ask you that first.
So we're pretty like Web3 native right now in what we're doing. Yeah.
I don't think, I don't think they'd be interested in partnering with a Web3 project with a bunch of developers cosplaying as avocados as they release a bunch of products.
Hey, you know what? I think you'd be surprised.
But you never know. You never know.
I think you'd be surprised. Chipotle actually ran some ads through our private ad platform through Brave Ads.
And actually, the reason I asked you the question is because so they had this campaign going to celebrate National Avocado Day, where they encouraged participants to, quote, buy the dip.
And I guess it involved like buying their avocado dip, their guacamole.
And then participants had the chance to like win crypto and other prizes.
So, yeah, I don't know. I just thought that was interesting and could be like a fun tie in because it seems like they actually are kind of into Web3.
Yeah, we trade a bunch of tweets back and forth with the official Avocados from Mexico account.
So that's kind of always fun as well.
You know, get their interns some visibility on Twitter.
That's really awesome. I'm going to have to dig up that profile.
All right. Well, the room is filling up, so I think we can kick off.
Welcome back, everybody, to another Friday Space with the Bat community.
Today, we are in the Bat cave with guacamole. Yay!
Yes, thanks for having us. Super excited.
It was a last minute intro yesterday, but I had talked to people from the community before about them wanting us to come on.
And so when the opportunity opened up for today, I figured I'd seize it.
Yes, we really appreciate that.
Thank you so much, our guests.
Yeah, we had to bump our scheduled guests and then you guys came in at the absolute last minute.
And yeah, totally appreciate it.
Really excited to learn more about guacamole.
So, yeah, welcome.
And for anybody who's totally new to guacamole, just quick, quick background, they aim to provide the freshest Solana experience, according to them.
And we'll learn all about what that means.
But basically, guacamole is a multi-application, community-oriented ecosystem that consists of both DeFi and consumer reward parallels.
And their hope is to help onboard the next generation of users to fund and simple applications that make the world of crypto fun and exciting.
I think that sounds familiar probably to most of us because Brave has a very similar sort of approach.
So that's awesome.
So, yeah, let's power through the intros today and then dive into the discussion.
Normally, how we do it is we go around, we introduce our team panel.
I think we only have three people besides me here today and then we'll introduce our guests and then we will hop in.
And then, as always, I mentioned if people in the audience have questions, do feel free to, if you don't want to come up on the mic, put them in the, not the chat, but the, you know, the comment area, the space of the link.
And if you do want to come up to the mic, please request it.
We will bring you up as soon as an opening.
So, yeah.
So, a little background on the BAT community.
I see some new faces in the audience.
So, we'll do some background.
And, by the way, welcome, everyone.
So, whether you're a regular listener here or you're here for the first time, we're really happy to have you.
We are the BAT community and they're all about the basic attention token, BAT, which is an Ethereum-based rewards token, which is integral to the Brave web browser.
And if you haven't heard of Brave, what are you doing?
I'm kidding.
But Brave is a fast and privacy-focused web browser that blocks YouTube ads and other third-party ads by default.
It's a pretty much third-party ad-free experience.
It also rewards users with BAT for opting into seeing privacy-respecting ads and allows them to support their favorite content creators or causes with BAT donations or tips.
And the Brave browser also comes preloaded with a ton of privacy features, like a shield.
That's our ad blocker.
Private search and AI summarizer.
Private video conferencing, VPN, multi-chain crypto wallet.
We actually just – our AI assistant, our native AI assistant called Leo, just came out of beta.
Definitely worth a try.
And you can learn more about Leo at brave.com slash blog.
And if you want to learn more about Brave and all its features, you can go to our website, brave.com or brave.com slash features.
But please do so after the space.
And you can do the same for basic attention tokens, just basicattentiontoken.org.
All right, so that's it for the background on us.
And then just quickie team intros.
My name is Jenny.
I'm speaking from the BAT community account today.
I have been with Brave since 2017.
I started as a member of the community.
And then I, you know, basically just started volunteering.
This was before we launched the BAT token.
And then eventually I was asked to come on as community manager.
And today I still am heavily involved in the community.
And I run our BAT Ambassadors Volunteer Program, which is a global program made up of volunteers that help champion BAT and Brave worldwide.
And I also focus on partnerships that drive BAT's growth and adoption alongside my amazing team, which are here today.
So I'm going to hand it off to them for intros.
And maybe we can start with – let's see, Paula can kick us off.
Hi, everyone.
Well, I'm Paula.
I do – I host weekly – well, I try to do weekly spaces in Spanish on the BAT LATAM account, which is here.
Yes, it's with some Brave projects in Spanish, ad campaigns with plants in LATAM, and also with Web3 projects in the region.
And I also make summaries from these weekly spaces that you can find in our Discord and the BAT community account in X.
And I'm a huge, huge fan of Avocados.
Honestly, I eat Avocados on everything, even ice cream.
I'm a huge, huge fan.
So I'm very excited.
Go ahead, Godson.
Yes.
Good afternoon, everybody.
My name is Godson.
I'm a community coordinator for the team.
I've been a fan of the project since launch in 2017, and I finally came onto the team early last year, late last year, actually.
Yeah, I'm just a B-class crypto personality, and I'm just happy to be here.
I'm not really too hip with what Guacamole does and everything, but I'm here to learn.
So let me pass it off to Guilherme.
Hi, Guilherme.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Guilherme Pantoja, fresher of Neocon, and I'm an artist slash designer.
I specialize in illustration and design for Brave and Basic Attention Token.
And basically what I do is create visually stimulating pieces to engage with the community, such as today's CoApp,
which you can claim by usually messaging Drew, but Drew's not here, so you can message either one of us.
Or just join our Discord at batbrigade.gg.
No, sorry, discord.gg slash batbrigade, that's the thing.
And then you can scroll on down to where it says CoApp, and you can claim it right there.
And I'll pass it on to Guacamole to give us more introduction, like better introduction for us to understand what they're doing within the space
and get us to know them a little bit better.
Yeah, thanks for having us.
So I am a Guac intern.
I'm the synonymous founder of Guacamole and one of the main internal contributors of the platform.
I've been involved in crypto, started mining, and, you know, some other hobbyist activities around 2014.
And officially went professional in the industry around 16 and 17.
Since then, I've worked with a slew of different platforms, exchanges, wallets, protocols, layer ones.
Everything from, you know, communication design to product development and management and ecosystem planning.
One of the things that, you know, we wanted to do with Guacamole is take a bunch of our experience that we've kind of gathered and knowledge that we've gathered over almost the past decade now
and take these theories and kind of put them into practice as well.
And, like, we can, you know, get into a bunch of what that looks like when we talk about Guacamole as a whole.
But I have a formal education in communication design and psychology as well.
And I would say my specialty is probably product design.
We have a team of internal contributors right now.
It's like four and a half, five people that all do different jobs.
Everything from back-end business development all the way to, you know, full-time Solana developers and UI developers as well.
And I kind of delegate and go back and forth with kind of helping and coding and designing and doing a little bit of everything.
I also like to be a degenerate on Twitter and post memes from our official account, et cetera.
But I'm really, really glad to be here a little bit, you know.
And I'm actually a big fan of Brave and Bat as well.
Just throw that in there.
I remember when Bat was first released and, you know, the first instances of Brave were released.
And I've been a big user since then.
It's cool to see something specifically like a browser.
And we were talking about this yesterday in the Guacamole Discord, how, like, intense browser development can be and how smooth of an experience Brave is.
So one of the things that we did actually for today's call, because we knew that I was coming on with you, is we actually integrated the Brave wallet into Guacamole.gg.
So that you can now use the Brave browser or Brave wallet to access our DeFi suite.
So that's a little bit about me.
But if you wanted me to jump in, you know, about Guacamole, we can get started.
Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
Well, first of all, holy Guacamole.
That was quite an intro.
It sounds like you have a super diverse background and are like a true factotum, like jack of all trades, can kind of do a little bit of everything, which is amazing.
And it's just, like, so great to hear, you know, from somebody who has so much experience.
And I loved what you said about how you and your team have been working together for a little while now.
And so you've all come from, you know, different corners of the space, different pockets.
And you've kind of taken the lessons you've learned, you know, over the years and assembled them to create something super fresh, which is Guacamole.
And I kind of like assembling, I think you guys did this metaphor in the documentation, like, you know, taking off precious ingredients and assembling them to create an amazing dish of Guacamole, right?
So it's so nice to think that.
And love to hear that you're a big fan of Brave, of the feedback on the browser.
And, of course, you know, if anybody here knows you, but anybody here has feedback on Brave that, you know, isn't all positive or you encounter a bug or you support, you can always reach out to our team to do that because we're here to help.
But we do love that you love the product.
So music to my ears.
But, yeah, why don't we just go ahead and dive into Guacamole?
Maybe we should start soft.
When did the project launch?
So the project that so we actually did token first, unlike a lot of people.
So one of the big things that we wanted to do with Guacamole essentially was, you know, we were watching the Pepe movement and everything.
We've been planning what Guacamole would become for years now.
You know, some of the things that we're releasing have been, you know, kind of filed away in dev and the code bases are already done and just being configured to, like, match our branding now.
But one of the things that we wanted to do essentially is take advantage of memeability, right?
So, like, when you look at Guacamole, you want it to be brandable.
You want everything that we do or release or, you know, any social marketing to essentially fit within that brand.
And the best way to do that is through memeability and virality.
I've talked a lot about cultural currency on, like, previous spaces and interviews as well.
And one of the biggest things I think that gets overlooked specifically in the crypto space is the, you know, the factor of cultural currency and be able to, like, spread like wildfire.
And that's one of the things that we can do specifically, like, you know, with X slash Twitter, with Discord, Telegrams, et cetera, and, like, word of mouth.
And, you know, we wanted the project to be easy to remember.
We wanted it to be easily identifiable as a household name.
And we wanted, like, the mottos and the slogans and everything that comes with it, like scoop the dip and all of that to go along with it in a sensible manner as well.
So, what we did was we actually launched, I think it was May 3rd was our launch.
And we launched for Cinco de Mayo.
So, because, you know, if you're launching as a meme, you want to take advantage of the holidays.
You want to take advantage of, you know, notable events as well.
And, okay.
And so, what we did was we actually, and this goes back into, like, our guacanomics slash, which are our tokenomics.
So, with guacamole, instead of, you know, raising VC funds, instead of, you know, doing the traditional Solana DeFi 1.0, like, high FDV value and, like, no tokens actually on the market, what we did was we actually took 94 per, we admitted guacamole.
We took 94% of the total supply of tokens and then immediately locked them in a liquidity pool on Radium and then burnt the liquidity pool redemption tokens so that, like, those tokens are locked there forever.
I think the total position amount right now is, like, $250,000 as well.
So, it's grown quite a bit.
And then the other 6% originally were put aside in an intermediary wallet, which is, and we'll get to that as well, which was initially used for, like, integrations, exchanges, bridges, stuff like that.
And half of those tokens, I think, in the first month were used for market making for a BitMart listing.
So, that left, like, I think, like, 2.5 trillion tokens left, 2.5% of the total supply at the time.
And meanwhile, with all this happening, we were actually announcing two parallels at the time.
So, we announced our first application, which is guac.gg as the URL.
That's essentially, like, our shop and our rewards application.
And we also launched the Community DAO initiative.
And unlike a lot of DAOs that you see in the industry where a centralized entity comes in, basically, like, sets up a foundation, says, this is exactly how the DAO is going to run, like, signs their name off and says, you know, all of this stuff.
What we did is we actually held, it was a fully democratic process, everything from what the quorums would be, are we going to use raw guac, should we have a council to manage the DAO, and then the community voted on having a council, and then we had a full council election process with interviews and, you know, electoral processes and democratic voting as well.
So, it's been really, really cool to, like, see this transform and kind of follow our theory of, like, the guaconomics and, like, what this can become by focusing on community first instead of a product-oriented first, right?
Because when you build the community first, then you build those OGs, you build those followers, you build, you know, the people that want to be on the council that see your long-term vision.
You build the people that, like, that get elected to be community mods and join in and help with the process and then contribute in their own fashion as well, whether it be just memes or social posting,
whether it be, like, being active in community all the time and answering questions, and all the way to, like, becoming internal contributors and, like, helping with the docs and helping to code or design things and providing feedback and, you know, doing quality assurance for us as well.
And the community is definitely good with that.
So, after the DAO was formed, we actually transferred the remaining amount in the intermediary wallet, which was around, like, 2.5 trillion tokens at the time, to full DAO control.
And since then, what we've done is we've used revenue from products that we have released, which we'll get into, to actually acquire Glock off the market, to build a Glock treasury pool that is fully, you know, community-run.
We're on proposal number four right now, which includes staking options.
So, instead of doing raw staking, where you just, like, stake a token to receive a token, and it's actually passive dilutive and inflative, because there's no more Glock to be minted on the market, you know, there's total amount in existence.
Since it's already released, it's already circulating, we actually decided to, you know, go a different route and do staking options to reward loyal users and participants within the ecosystem.
So, that's proposal number four right now.
But then, you know, going back into, I think, one of the most important things is actually the release of the several applications and products that we've done.
So, if you want to, you know, head over to the first application that we released, that's guac.gg as the URL, it's essentially branded as a fresher way to reward yourself.
And what we did here was, at first, we, you know, started with raffles and giveaways where you could connect a wallet and participate in raffles for not NFTs like other platforms or anything like that, but actual games and gift cards and subscriptions.
So, you could, like, enter raffles to win Cyberpunk or a copy of Diablo.
We gave away a Solana Saga phone, things like that, and a bunch of giveaways as well.
And then we actually transformed this platform into its other name, which is the Glock Shop.
So, what you can do now is actually, you know, browse the shop, and we have a bunch of games, items, you know, subscriptions to software services, Discord, Nitro, Crunchyroll, if you like, anime, gift cards as well.
All that you can, you know, acquire for actually cheaper than they would be, like, on Steam or anywhere else just by connecting your wallet and paying with USDC.
So, the main purpose with this portal, this application, was kind of, if you're looking at, you know, when you introduced us with the, you know, the reading from the documentation or earlier, we wanted to focus on several different ways of onboarding.
If you're looking at a community where it's, like, you know, if you're just a lending platform, if, like, you're just this or if you're just one thing and, you know, it's tokenized, then you're stuck with, like, trying to find product market fit for just that one platform.
So, with the way that, like, you know, the developers and everybody, you know, we were talking about how we can work fast and efficient, and we have a lot of connections, you know, we've been here, not only worked in crypto, I've worked in gaming and esports and things like that.
To be able to do these things, it provides a nice parallel.
So, like, when we did eventually launch the DeFi application, we already had this consumer application as well.
And, like, we're really excited that within the past few weeks, we've actually partnered with both OKEx and Bybit so that you can sign up or register for an exchange account, right?
If you're looking for a place to, like, onboard into the ecosystem, you're looking for, like, a place to trade, et cetera, in, you know, a centralized manner, you can actually earn rewards and points that are redeemable for games, for subscriptions, for gift cards on our platform just by, you know, following a few steps and then doing whatever you want to do on OKEx or Bybit.
We're actually launching a full Bybit portal with Bybit in the coming week.
So, we're super excited about that, you know, build a little bit of credibility there, show people how the platform works, more prizes, things like that.
And the main goal with, you know, with Glock.gg is to essentially become, like, the social rewards interface of the application so that you can do everything that you want within the ecosystem and all the meanwhile you're earning these reward points, right?
So, instead of just giving raw Glock back because we can't mint Glock to do reward systems, we're rewarding people with things that they can use in, like, their daily lives as well.
So, like, you refer a user, you earn points, you know, you can go buy the new, you can go buy GTA 6 when it comes out, right?
Things like that.
You can go buy the new Forza game.
You know, you can go Black Friday shopping on Glock.gg and we'll definitely have some deals that are going to be released there as well.
So, and, you know, like I said, everything is always on sale.
It's cheaper than, like, buying it on Steam, Origin, EA.
There's Xbox games, PlayStation games, everything that you can imagine, and the list grows longer every week.
We essentially work with suppliers there and make sure that, like, we have a designated flow fund, and then all of the revenue that goes in at this current moment gets recycled back into the flow fund so that we can offer more games.
We can take larger transactions and everything, but then once we get to a point, revenue from that product will also be driven towards the DAO through two expansion initiatives as well, getting better prizes, et cetera.
And we're already scaling that platform.
So, and Glock.gg did launch, like, in one version, and we just recently updated it with, like, the new branding as well, and it's really nice to see, like, our applications get cleaner over time with community feedback and being able to offer more.
And I'm excited about, you know, the exchange partnerships and other partnerships that we're doing, too, and being able to, you know, essentially integrate Guac in every manner through multiple facets and parallels of the ecosystem where it's not just a one-dimensional, you know, application for this is what you can do and this is the only thing that you can do.
Because if you're looking to onboard, you know, and become that household name, like, why brand as Guacamole and why go through all the trouble of, like, you know, the freshest ingredients branding and breaking everything down and focusing on that virality, that cultural currency, if you're not going to take advantage of it and only become, like, a one-dimensional platform, right?
So, like, being a multi-dimensional platform and a multi-dimensional ecosystem with expanding apps as well helps us to onboard.
And, you know, the two apps that we have right now aren't, like, the only apps being planned.
There's more, you know, parallels in the future for us as well.
It's just that we want to focus on, you know, what we have in front of us, finish these out, and then the next one comes along, and Guacamole, you know, now has three applications, which is huge.
So, that's a little bit about Guac.gg, which, you know, is the first part of the ecosystem after the token and after the community and after the Dell.
And then you go into Guacamole.gg.
They are different URLs.
We try to keep it simple.
We try to have links between them as well so that, you know, you can easily navigate back and forth.
Or if you find one website and you're like, oh, this is all Guacamole is, it's easy to, like, you know, invite the user to participate in other facets of the ecosystem there as well.
So, guacamole.gg as the URL is actually our DeFi suite.
This is the newer platform.
So, if you type in guacamole.gg in your browser or, you know, your wallet or, you know, go to Brave and put that in the URL bar, you'll see the Guacamole DeFi suite.
And one of the things that we wanted to do here, going back to the theory of being multidimensional, is even within the DeFi suite, instead of just being, like, a Dex or instead of just being, like, an aggregator or a lending platform, doing a little bit of everything.
Because if you want to become that household name, you know, and you're talking, you know, if you're talking to your cousin about this and you're like, oh, what's the best, like, what can I do on Solano?
Or, like, what can I do here, like, after I buy it?
You're like, well, you can go to this website or this website, do this on this website.
And that becomes a lot to ask of somebody to explore an ecosystem, right?
So, in theory, the best way to do it is essentially not – we don't like the jack-of-all-trades because when you talk about the jack-of-all-trades, you're losing quality, right?
So, we talk about the Amazon thesis where, like, they continue to develop in multiple different vectors and bring it all back into one platform, right?
So, essentially, what we're doing here is the same from a product design standpoint as well.
So, if you look at the Dex, you know, everything's broken down.
And it's funny because, you know, this is where we get into the freshest ingredient stuff.
We have the ability to explore, trade, earn, play.
We have tools to make, you know, your life easier.
And a lot of emphasis lately has been on, like, our new launch platforms coming out.
And then we also have ecosystem links as well.
So, the Explore on guacamole.gg is actually our newest release product.
That's, like, the guacamole terminal.
It gives you – there's two versions of it.
There's the total terminal, and then there's the tokenized terminal, like the token terminal.
So, the regular terminal gives you a nice overview of everything happening on Solana.
You know, token performance tracker graph, right?
When you get there, you can set a watch list.
You can, like, look at trending tokens.
You can see trending swaps by volume, top buys on Solana, top sells.
You can even look at trending NFT collections or, you know, ranked Solana protocols by TBL,
all with having, like, the swap module on your screen to make quick decisions.
And then if you search a token in the search bar on the top or, like, you search it – you click on a token on the token performance tracker,
it brings you to that token-specific page where, you know, we've worked with Gecko Terminal to integrate charts trending today.
You know, there's a bunch of token information there, risk and safety, where, you know, if you're a trader or specifically on chain,
you're always worried about, like, who top holders are, how much they have.
So, we've broken that down for you.
And you can even view, like, liquidity sources as well.
Then you go into trade, and there's a lot going on.
Like, and the funny thing is it's, like, constantly developing, too.
So, we currently have the swap aggregator live.
We have bridge swaps, so you can, like, bridge funds between Ethereum, BNB, AVAX, and Arbitrum to Solana and back and forth as well,
and even do a swap in between so that, like, you land on Solana with guac and some soul for gas.
We're also working with the Hero Network to do crypto futures, and there's a bunch of things that are coming for that product as well.
In the earn section, we have dynamic lending vaults.
We're about to finally release our tokenized NFT farms.
You can liquid stake your Solana if anybody's familiar with that as well.
And the guac staking options are coming soon after the DAO proposal.
And then I think one of my funnest, you know, I like to be a DGEN.
At the end of the day, I'm a developer, designer, but, you know, everybody likes a dopamine hit,
so we integrated, you know, some on-chain games where you can play dice, roulette, slots, et cetera.
And then the community favorites, you know, are the tools where you can easily airdrop tokens.
If a wallet is compromised, you can hit emergency send to clear everything out of a wallet to a new wallet.
And then you can burn tokens, burn NFTs, close accounts as well.
So, any questions so far?
You're doing great.
You have covered a bunch of the questions that we have got.
And I've just been, as you are speaking, I've been just searching for the different things like the Vecato DAO,
that Vecato, sorry, the Guacamole DAO, and the Guacamole GT.
And I've been following along, and it's very impressive.
Like, I can honestly keep on going, and I'll keep exploring and having fun.
So, I try to tell a story as we speak so that everybody can follow along and, like,
give the links that you can look at on your screen and everything.
But, yeah, I just like to slap every now and then and make sure that, you know, doing a good job.
But I think one of the most important things for what is to become the next version of Solana DeFi
that we're starting to see now and what the community is, I think, most excited for
and has been excited for is the spicy launch, the launch features,
because we're taking that ethos of, like, how we launched Guacamole, like, being community oriented
and, like, everything that we did and essentially providing every step of the way as a no-code tool
so that you don't have to be super technical to launch tokens.
You don't have to be super technical to, like, read the block explorer, see if liquidity has been burnt, etc.
So, the Create Token tool is getting a full revamp where we're going to support multiple different versions of tokens,
including, you know, Super Token or Token 2022, whatever you want to call it on Solana,
which is similar to, like, a tax token or, you know, a specialized token on Ethereum.
You'll also be able to immediately list the token in our guac.gg shop
so that people can, like, use your token to buy the games, buy the subscriptions, buy the gift cards as well.
And then one of the main things that we've been teasing lately is actually our liquidity lockers.
So, one of the main things on Solana, one of the problems that we actually encountered when we launched Guacamole
is, like, talked about when we burnt the Radium liquidity redemption tokens to prove that the liquidity couldn't be moved.
Well, if you're, like, posting a blockchain transaction link and expecting newly onboarded users to the ecosystem
to understand what they're looking at, then you're kind of crazy, right?
So, like, one of the things that we're doing here is making it, like, the most easily manageable, viewable, shareable platform on Solana
to essentially prove to the community, to the ecosystem that your tokens are locked, the tokens cannot move.
And, you know, all you have to do is launch your liquidity pool, which will be also available on Guacamole
for both Radium, Meteora, and eventually the Guacamole AMM ourselves, which we will be launching after, you know, this process.
And then, you know, you can choose how long to lock the tokens for, et cetera.
And then, you know, all you have to do instead of sharing a blockchain link, the blockchain explorer link,
is just post the Guacamole liquidity locker tab.
You can take a screenshot of it, post the URL, and it's a lot easier to understand for people to basically say,
okay, these tokens are locked for this long, they're locked for 100 years, but they're never moving.
So, you know, this may be a safer trade.
And then there's also other things in there, you know, like being able to launch your own liquidity farms
and NFT farms and the full project management tab, which allow you to, like, update token metadata
and change authorities if they're active on your token and make it unmintable if you didn't do that at first.
So, yeah, there's definitely a lot going on within the ecosystem.
But going back to the branding, we wanted, you know, the freshest ingredients possible when we're making our guacamole.
So each of the sections is represented by a different ingredient.
So, like, the explore tab is the avocado.
The trade is garlic.
Earn is tomato.
Play is lemon.
Tools is the onion.
And then launch, because, you know, we do call it spicy launches, is the hot pepper as well.
And this is, you know, our favorite guacamole recipe.
So we kind of play into that as well, because one of the big things in the meme was like,
what in the start was like, what's your favorite guacamole recipe?
So we decided to share it as tools on the platform instead.
Yeah.
So, like I said, there's a lot going on.
If anybody has any questions, I'd love to, like, stop for a second and answer some questions.
I'll just ask the question that is probably on everyone's mind.
Why guacamole and why the fruit team and vegetable teams?
I heard the first part.
Why guacamole?
What was the second part?
Why also degrading the just going on in the fruits and vegetables team?
So going back to, like, guacamole, I've actually been, like, obsessed with the guac
as, like, a possible platform or, like, website for a while now, because it's easy to remember.
It's super brandable.
It's memeable as well.
And when, you know, the meme coin craze came back, it was, you know, essentially it's like,
this is what we're going to use.
It's very easy to spread.
It's very easy to, like, make those mottos, make those memes, you know, break everything
down for branding within the applications themselves, you know, where we've been able
to dissect each section into an ingredient of guacamole, right?
When you use identifiable concepts or, like, fun and simple concepts, it's a lot easier
to build a platform that gains market fit as well, right?
Because people want to interact with things that are both simple and fun.
So being able to essentially, like, slide the design of whatever product you're building
in that direction as well, it makes it a lot easier to scale and expand.
And when you're talking about, like, when I give that example, it's like, okay, just, like,
talking to your cousin.
You're not telling him to go on, like, a platform that has, like, you know, it's like, soldex2.0.io
or something like that.
Or, like, you're talking, you're just like, yeah, look up guacamole.
They're going to remember guacamole, right?
It's so easy to remember when it comes down to, like, the branding itself that it becomes
easily accessible.
So, like, if they're about to type a URL and then they're like, well, where can I do
this?
Where can I make this trade?
It's like, oh, guacamole, right?
Because it's easy to remember.
Because the cultural currency behind the branding has been established.
That makes perfect sense.
And, you know, sometimes we have the same issues with bands, like, bands with longer
names are hard to remember.
And when it started with the meme, was it from Fresh Fuckadoo?
Just out of curiosity.
Yeah.
So, we've posted that one.
Like, we've done some variations of that as well.
That's the great thing with, like, guacamole.
It's like, you have, you know, Step Brothers memes.
You have, like, cartoon memes.
You have, you know, viral video memes as well.
And, like, we try to build all these memes into, like, announcement trailers as well and,
like, kind of go on that.
And it's good when the community is also, like, contributing and making their own memes
because there's so much material to go on, right?
And, like, memes are essentially, like, new advertising, new branding.
Like, understanding that and how that works as well is super huge.
And by being that, having that brandable name and having that brandable community that
can be spread through this, it makes it a lot easier to accomplish our goals as a community.
That sounds great.
And I'll ask one final question before stopping to monopolize the questions for my team.
Have you considered adding SPAT to the liquidity pool?
So, one of the things that, like, we've done, the only liquidity pool that we've set up as
the contributors was the initial Radium liquidity pool.
All the other liquidity pools that, like, you see for Guac itself on multiple platforms right now
were community set up, which is cool to see.
Like, you know, the community wants to provide liquidity for their coin against ours or a coin
that they have an investment in against Guacamole.
You know, permissionless aspect of, you know, DEXs allows them to do that.
When you are going to either lock liquidity, create a liquidity pool on Guacamole, anything
like that, SPAT will be available.
So, like, if it's available on any of the third-party supported platforms, it'll be available
for integration.
And then on our native DEXs as well, any Solana token will be able to be integrated as well.
So, all you have to do is, like, search it in the drop-down list and good to go.
And, you know, you can also go to guacamole.gg right now and look up, like, that in the search
bar, the basic attention portal, the basic attention token, you know, the portal version
of it comes right up right now.
You can view charts.
You can view top holders on Solana, things like that as well.
You can view available liquidity pools on Solana for your token.
So, we're already starting, you know, and including every token that we can helps us to essentially,
like, provide tools for those ecosystems as well.
So, stunning.
I have a question about the Spicy Launch pad, which is, I believe, still happening.
You did touch on it a little bit.
But what problems within the ecosystem does this product aim to solve?
And then can you tell us a little bit about this spiciness scoring system?
How does that work and what does it mean?
Yeah.
So, going back to, like, Spicy Launch itself, one of the things that we wanted to solve in
the ecosystem, it's a two-pronged problem, essentially, that, like, we wanted to solve
with Spicy Launch show.
We wanted to provide further transparency both for ecosystem teams, developers, etc., and
the community.
And we also wanted to make it a lot easier to both launch tokens and interact with these
tokens.
We're not looking to be, like, a full, you know, traditional launch pad where it's like,
hey, this IDO goes live in a day, like, subscribe here.
That's not what we're doing with Spicy Launch.
Which, we're making it, it's essentially a permissionless system where if you want to
launch a product, you know, if you want to launch a project, an ecosystem, your own
DAO, anything like that, even from, like, tokens to NFTs to compressed NFTs on Solana
for the main interaction factor, you'll be able to do that in a no-code permissionless
setting.
You don't have to set up a CLI.
You don't have to learn how it works.
All you have to do is, you know, go to the platform, click on a button, you know, upload
your icon, select what you want, and you're off to the races.
So, you know, things that, like, the updated token creators include, it's, like, token
creation with metadata upload, you know, setting specifics, like, not being able to mint anymore,
like, who the update authority is.
You can also, right after you create the token, create liquidity pools right away.
You can set up liquidity farms right away.
You can airdrop tokens, create faucets.
You can distribute them to, you know, communities if you want to, you know, airdrop in a specific
way.
You can burn tokens.
You can vest them so that, like, if your tokenomics aren't the same as guacamole, where,
like, there is a necessity for, you know, team tokens or fundraising tokens, et cetera, you'll
be able to, like, vest them in the platform as well alongside the liquidity lockers.
And you'll also be able to, like, manage your whole ecosystem through our portal that's
coming as well.
And then when you talk about, like, the spicy score, right now, internally, we call it, like,
ripe or rotten.
So it'll probably be, you know, rebranded in the docs and the platforms for ripe or rotten
instead of spicy score.
Essentially, what that does is it looks for transparency markers or parameters within your
ecosystem or token setup and gives it an automatic score.
So, like, there's a platform on Solana called RugCheck right now that we're actually working
closely with that'll be integrated.
And we're going to be taking a little bit of information from them.
And then some of our own information, you know, like, is the mint authority announced?
Like, can tokens be minted?
Who the ownership is?
Is liquidity locked at all?
You know, was it fairly launched?
And, like, we have specific algorithms that we're developing to essentially look at distribution
and initial distribution of a token and see and, like, compare that to, you know, traditional
tokenomics and community-oriented tokenomics to kind of classify this in, like, a fair launch
process and not pumping the initial liquidity pools or token prices.
So, it'll, like, kind of track that as well.
And it looks at other things like, you know, when you're talking about distribution or responsibly
determining allocation.
So, like, where's the allocations between liquidity and investing?
And, like, are there just a bunch of tokens sitting unlocked in a single wallet right now?
And then, you know, there's further community-oriented, like, voting options as well that we'll be
doing because one of the major aspects was, like, any Web3 and crypto project is always
going to be, you know, community input as well.
And it won't be a gameable input like you see on, like, a lot of platforms where I'm
sure if you've ever run a project, if you've ever been a moderator of a project, you get
100 DMs a day asking, like, hey, I can make your token trend on DexTools and I can give
you 8,000 CoinGecko upvotes and things like that.
So, we're looking to essentially anti-gamify what the community input looks like to make
sure that it's, like, raw, valid data instead of manipulated data as well to provide a more
transparent, a safer place so that, you know, anybody that's trading on guacamole can make
safer decisions faster.
I love that so much.
It's kind of like a, but for, but for Web3, very cool.
Okay, I have a question about your play portal, which you did touch on a little bit, you know,
and that's where people can play a variety of simple games.
Sorry, sorry to interrupt.
Guacamole, can you please mute the microphone because we're going to hear some microphone
through the back?
Oh, okay.
Thanks, G. So, yeah, the play portal.
What was the whole idea behind the creation of this section?
You know, what games are available there?
And I know you did mention that participants can earn guac, you know, to redeem rewards on
guac.gg, presumably, but can you elaborate on, you know, why you chose to integrate a whole
sort of, like, gaming portal into the ecosystem?
Yeah, so the gaming portals, like I said, one of our favorite parallels when you're looking
at community revisit or, you know, conversion rates and things like that, being able to
provide not only, like, trading tools and information tools and launch tools like we
just talked about, but something that's interactive and fun and something that, you know, can bring
them back to the portal itself where they can, you know, potentially earn even as well
is fun.
And, like, the games itself have been branded in a fun and interactive way.
They're, you know, accessible on both desktop and mobile in a responsive way as well.
And we actually work and contribute to a, it's another third-party protocol, Gamba, that
we use as well.
And we're, like, main contributors to that platform in a UI perspective and helping them
to, like, revamp their product.
Right now, the play section only works on sole liquidity, so, like, you essentially, like,
use sole to play the games.
But we just announced recently this week that Guac will be available soon, and you'll actually
be able to, as, like, a user or a participant to provide Guac liquidity to the pool so that
people can play with Guac and then earn a percent of fees back in Guac as well.
But we didn't want, so one of the things that we focus on here with the play portal as well
is branding it as play and not games, because when you have a multi-facet ecosystem, like
we talked about, and one of the main, like, objectives of the other portal on Guac.gg,
like the game shop, is actual games.
We didn't want it to confuse people, right?
So, like, we marketed this as play because you are essentially playing games, but we didn't
market it as the games because we have, you know, hundreds of actual games on Steam and
games that, you know, traditional games that you're all familiar with available in the
ecosystem as well.
So it kind of gives, you know, if you want, like, a quick, you know, something to do, you're
not looking to, like, sit down and play, like, an actual, you know, game and maybe earn some
money in the meantime, you can go to the play portal.
If you're looking, you know, for a gift for your nephew or, like, a new game just came
out that you're super excited with, you can go to Guac.gg and see if it's on there and,
you know, in a few minutes you're racing or, you know, playing FPS with your friends or
playing the latest MMO.
So we wanted to kind of incorporate games and play features for every interest within
the community as well.
That's amazing.
And so let's pivot to the Avatar NFT collection because I don't think we've really talked
much about that yet.
Can you give us an overview of the collection and what it's all about, what makes it interesting
or unique?
Tell us about the art.
Tell us about the community that holds it.
Tell us all about it.
Yeah.
So we love the Avatars.
So the Avatars initially were actually our way to, one, give back to the community and
early supporters and actually grow, you know, some external representative social presence
as well.
So what we did here was when the Avatars became available, we had three different ways to
essentially mint an Avatar.
So if you were from outside the community, you could choose to either mint with guacamole or
Solana, but if you were inside the community for like the amount of time before this, we
actually airdropped an Avvo token.
So it's essentially an avocado token.
It's a zero decimal, non-splittable token.
And it's essentially our game theory token.
Like it's the only thing within the ecosystem that we're not fully transparent about like
what's coming next with because we like keeping the community on their toes and we like having
at least one thing to like have fun with from like a psychological perspective.
So the first use case for the Avatars token was being able to burn the Avatars token to
redeem an Avatar.
So people earned Avatars tokens by playing games, by trading, by, you know, entering raffles,
giveaways, interacting essentially with any facet within the ecosystem at that, like in that
period of time.
So it was a way to earn, like essentially, you know, reward loyalty and usage within the
platform and reward the OGs that were there as we were building as well.
So, you know, a large portion of them were actually minted by burning this Avatars token,
which then decreased the supply of the Avatars token.
And we just, you know, the next use case has just been introduced for that as well.
We're like, you can go on guac.gg in the portal and burn Avatars for guac points as well
to like redeem for games when that version of the portal releases.
But going back to the Avatars a little bit, the main thing here that we wanted to do with
specifically with this is, you know, it's a PFP.
They're designed to be cute.
They're designed to be fun.
I'm actually the main artist on them as well.
So it was definitely like an interesting period in time, both developing like what we were
doing in the platform and then also like spending a lot of time like doing the traits and,
you know, sitting there at night with the drawing tablet, making sure that like everything
was good between breaks as well.
But with the avatar itself, we essentially like didn't want to step on guac's shoes, right?
So one of the main things in the community that we always like to make sure of is like
guac, the token itself will always be the main factor here.
But with avatar, it's cool because we've actually been able to do more of a premium membership
based on avatar holding.
So like right now, if you connect to like guac.gg, the gaming and points portal, you
can actually, if you connect with a wallet that contains an avatar, you'll actually immediately
earn premium status, right?
So it like checks it every time that you connect.
So, you know, if you connect once and you have it, you connect it again and you don't,
then you'll lose your premium status.
But what this allows you to do is it actually gives a guac points multiplier for everything
that you do.
So if you like enter a raffle, instead of earning X amount of points, you will earn the X plus
the multiplier as well, which we do change like all the time and it's available on the
page.
And then it also actually allows you to receive an extra 10% discount on any like items that
you buy in the shop.
So the game's like already cheaper than you could get it on Steam or like on the EA shop,
you connect a wallet with an avatar and you actually get an extra 10% discount on that right
away.
So if you're a huge gamer of like you buy, you know, Discord Nitro, or if you're buying
like your Crunchyroll subscriptions monthly through us or anything like that, the avatar,
you know, not regarding secondary market prices, we don't control that, but could essentially
pay for itself over again as a, you know, a premium discount as well.
So that's one of the cool things that we wanted to do with it.
We're also integrating it into multiple different facets of the ecosystem as well for like a reduction
in trading fees on the gamified perpetual futures, an ability to like increase your referral
bonuses.
And then some other things that we have planned as well that like we officially haven't essentially
announced yet as well.
But most of those will be like better access or, you know, access to specific tooling that
may not be available.
Hey, that's amazing.
I love that you've basically created premium memberships based on avatar holdings.
You know, like you're saying, if you have an avatar in your wallet, then, you know, connecting
to the ecosystem, you automatically get premium status.
There's a guac points multiplier, discounts on perks redemptions.
You know, essentially you can get more than your guac is worth at face value with an avatar.
So that is amazing.
And also, I see a bunch of avatars in the house today.
So I just want to shout you all out.
It's awesome that you're here to support the project.
Hi, guys.
How does everyone feel about being here today?
Woo.
Awesome.
Yeah, the avatars stay following the intern.
There's always a bunch of avatars wherever I go.
I bring my little avocado army with me everywhere.
I love that so much.
What are some of the other ways that guacamole engages its community and scales its community
and how crucial is community input in shaping, you know, the project's overall direction?
Yes.
So one of the things that we talk about a lot and that I mentioned before essentially
was going back to like community contribution, feedback, et cetera.
So like not talking about incentivizing participation, but talking about like what the community does
for direction of the platform as well.
Um, I actually, and this is, it's like a fun internal joke between me and the contributors.
I actually have like a full, um, college bound notebook of like notes that we've gathered
from like the support channel or people asking for like certain things, or even if they didn't
ask me, like mentioning something in passive, like conversation, right.
About like this platform or that platform or like how they interact with this or like
what this does or this use case or like this NFT integration or, you know, this partnership,
et cetera.
So it's broken down into like several different sections, you know, with pages upon pages of
things that, you know, still can be improved in, in both the applications.
And, and when we're making updates or we're designing a new product every single time, you
know, even from, you know, cause as a, as a product management, product designer and developer,
it starts its life as a wireframe and a workflow design and like fig jam.
And then it goes to the Figma design and then it goes and gets translated into code.
And then you integrate the smart contracts with third-party protocols.
So every step of the way we revert back to the notes that we have to make sure that like,
is this how you would interact with this?
Right.
So like there may be a community or like a, an industry standard way to interact with
things.
Um, and some of the times that's the way to go, but sometimes industry standard is just
because people have become lazy and that's like the way to do it because there's open
source code.
So you go back to the community notes and you're like, Oh, so this person had a great idea on
this date about making, you know, this function in this way.
Like, so when we're releasing products or, you know, we make announcements or I hop on
these calls, um, you know, we always revert back to like what the community has said.
And that goes from everything from like product design to bug fixes, to updates, to new integrations,
what game should be on the shop and we can make it happen, you know, any, any further community
run events and things like that and ideas.
And it all gets brought back to, you know, the internal contributors, to the elected
council, to the mods, things like that.
And it's exciting because, you know, it helps keep the community involved because we're not
here to just say like, uh, as the, as the founders and internal contributors, we're not
here to just say like, this is guacamole.
This is like how it's going to be run and, you know, um, deal with it.
One of the best things that we've done since like the very inception is essentially like,
you know, how should this, like, we have these ideas and we're going to develop this.
How do you guys want this to interact with the greater ecosystem?
You know, in crypto, you have to, you know, there's always going to be trolling.
There's always going to be like, uh, invalid feedback, et cetera.
But being able to like actually accept critique when like, you know, or like can realize that
you were wrong or may not have had the best idea, um, is a very, very important skill that
I think gets overlooked a lot.
So community critique has been huge.
Um, and then actually, you know, by integrating the critique and integrating the features that
the community asks for, it's a rotating effect as well, because they know you're listening
to them.
They know that like, you're doing your best, you're trying your best and actually making
the changes that they're like wishing or asking for.
Um, so that it's not like a lost cause the next time they go into support and the next time
they're like in Glock chat and they're like, Hey, like, what about this?
Right.
They know they're going to be listened to.
They know that I'm there.
They know that we'll reply.
They know that a council member will like make a note of it as well.
And I think that's super important because everybody plays their part, right?
Even if you're not a developer, when you access a platform, like if something seems off, like
report it and like, you know, it, it makes us better as a community.
It makes the platform, the application better as well.
And then going back to like what the community looks like from like, how do you get people
to interact?
Um, and how do you get people to conversate?
I think, so I'm a member, you know, I'm sure plenty of people here are members of like
hundreds of discord servers as well.
Um, and the guacamole discord server like stays for lack of a better word, like popping 24
seven.
Um, one of the best things, you know, that we do is like people make memes of each other.
You know, we, we troll each other.
We, we literally even have our own integrated troll bot that like one of the moderators has,
has, um, developed for us where like, if you say specific things or, you know, um, if you've
like earned a community rapport for being like a certain type of like, you know, member, it'll
throw you on that.
Um, because we're here to have fun, right?
We're, we're here in the, um, multiple different ways.
Like we're here to build the next big, like largest comprehensive application ecosystem that
exists, but we're also here to, at the end of the day, like have fun.
Um, and that goes back to like our initial branding as well.
So by being that fun environment, that's also attached to like this revenue generating
ecosystem that sends a bunch of, you know, funds back to the DAO and allows the community
to do all these amazing things together.
Um, it allows us to, to continually expand and there's always member rotations and holder
rotations and that's just how like the industry and like, you know, markets work.
Uh, but over time, you know, we've watched the, the membership count, like, you know, continue
to scale.
People have like earned specific roles for their contributions.
And like, uh, and then at the end of the day, you know, if the community loves to make
memes of each other as well.
So there's plenty of like meme members in the community, uh, too.
And we do specific things when it comes to, you know, um, incentivization of, of the platform
as well.
Like we talked about like the guac points for interacting with it.
We do, we've done a bunch of free play Fridays before, uh, where like, you know, interact
with the platform and we give away free plays for the plays, uh, the play section.
So you can be like, go roll the dice for like, you know, 0.5 or one Solana for free, stuff
like that.
Uh, and kind of, you know, we've done, we've even done like incentivized governance and we'll
be expanding upon that before we're like, if you participated in the governance vote, you
got rewards because, you know, governance is the main thing.
There's, there's currently hundreds of thousands of guacamole in the community treasury.
And we want to make sure that like every single time the treasury is voted on every single
time, a proposal is sponsored by a council member that it's used in the most efficient
way.
And, you know, making announcements sometimes doesn't go far enough.
So sometimes incentivizing, you know, the capability of that and, and making sure that
people feel once again, like their voice is heard, uh, makes a huge difference as well.
Um, before I like end this part of the conversation, I'd love to like, just like give a huge shout
out to like both the elected council members.
I see a few on here right now, specifically just like looking at my screen.
I see Mr. Burns who just launched like defenders protocol.
Um, the avatars were actually like the first B2B NFT to be like protected by their ecosystem.
And there's huge overlaps with both guacamole and their ecosystem.
And some of the things that we're planning together as well, where there'll be available
in our tool set all the way to like saying thank you to just like our community moderators
as well.
I think one of the most important things that gets overlooked is like guacamole as a whole has
been like a bootstrapped system.
Um, where everybody contributes like on their own free will.
So like everybody is, you know, essentially like has skin in the game and wants to see
the project or like their ecosystem become like what they want it to become or succeed
in, in any, many different ways.
Uh, so everybody gives their time essentially like, you know, nobody is paid like the internal
contributors, essentially like the people that work for me, I pay them myself.
Um, you know, none of the mods are paid.
None of the council members are paid for their position and everybody just has like the,
the best interests of the ecosystem at whole.
And it's, it's essentially a very interesting psychological dynamic that like we've worked
on since the start.
And the community has definitely helped to like make that happen as well, because there,
there doesn't have to be at the end of the day, continuous monetary like incentive from
like a payment perspective.
Um, it just has to be that like, you find, you know, your niche, your community, um, build
around like our products and everybody just wants like the best thing for the community
at the end of the day.
Like some people in our community are only here for the game shop, right?
Some people in our community are only here for like the DeFi suite as well.
And it's cool to see them like interact and like talk about like what they like or dislike
and like what can be changed or like how like we're better than this product or like,
you know, web two comparison in, in any way as well.
Um, so yeah, that, that's, um, it's specifically having that education and like the communication
design psychology, it's cool to see like the thesis play out.
That is incredible.
I mean, it's clear that you deeply value the individuals in your community.
It was really nice that you shouted a bunch of them out just now, um, as well as everybody's
input and feedback and that you, you know, recognize and uplift and give back to the community
as much as possible.
Um, it's a beautiful thing.
I mean, there's nothing else to say other than it's amazing.
And I know that Mr. Burns from the audience had a question, so come on up.
Mr. Burns, you have the mic.
Ah, we lost him.
Come on Burns, I know you know how your phone works.
We're coming up on time anyway, so it's all good.
Oh wait, hang on.
He's back.
Let's, let's bring him up.
Ah, man.
Okay.
Mr. Burns, welcome.
You know, I'm so sorry.
My phone is so weird.
Like I swear every time that I hop up onto a space and get, um, brought up as a speaker,
suddenly like I can't hear anything and nothing works.
So shout out to Elon for always rugging.
Um, but I did, I did want to hop up and, and just, um, throw flowers to, uh, to the intern
for creating guacamole.
Um, I am really, I've always been drawn to the decentralized concepts that we all love here
in web three, um, having DAOs and have governing, uh, governance, um, you know, like a community
running organizations.
Um, to me, that's like that, that is right at the core of, of web three, you know, self
custody, um, currency, self custody, um, your own security, all of that, like being responsible
for yourself.
And I just, I love that.
That's, that was what drew me to, um, to guacamole, um, you know, zero VCs, um, there was no, you
know, it was all driven by the guacamole team and, um, and they started small.
And so, you know, uh, as, as a co-founder of defenders, um, we are very, very bullish on
what they're doing.
Um, excited to see what is coming out next.
I am, uh, I, I started out on Ethereum and Binance and, um, and pancake swap was, um, was
always such a central tool.
And, you know, when I started realizing that, um, that what guacamole was going to do was
to start creating, you know, this suite of DeFi tools that were integral to Solana.
Um, I mean, like day one, I was, I was pretty much sold just on the memes.
And then when I started to realize what was being built, it really solidified, um, my belief
in, in what is being built and what tomorrow is going to look like.
Um, you know, so when, um, when I went to, um, to the intern and started speaking with him
about, um, how Chadwick and I were building defenders, um, and he had said, yeah, let's
do this.
Let's, let's bring you guys on as, um, you know, our, our security tool.
Um, it was just like a match made in heaven for me.
Um, and, and to give you a real quick background on what defenders is defenders is a smart contract
based, um, utility that, um, that provides security for your digital collectibles as well
as your digital assets.
Um, our, uh, our primary developer team is hello moon.
Um, and the tech is, is done.
Um, we're just putting the finishing touches on it and making sure it's ready for prime
time.
We can't wait to, um, to have the link on the guacamole, uh, website live and point us
over to point everybody over to, to, um, to our application, um, because it's going
to save people a huge amount of money.
It'll let, let people sleep well at night.
And, um, you know, overall, like we're, we're building defenders so that, um, it's really
like along the same lines of guacamole.
Um, we want to offer security at a, at a rate that's reasonable, you know, people who hold
the defenders collectible are able to, um, to secure their wallets, um, uh, forever.
Um, you know, it's a, the defenders collectible allows you to lock and unlock your, um, your
stuff forever.
It's basically like an unlimited access license.
And then for everybody else, um, we've made it so that the, um, the cost to use a protocol
is $2, um, for a lock unlock.
Um, and we've, we've created a low bar of entry so that, so that people can actually like
secure their stuff.
But as the central, the central issue of web three is that when you get, when you get
your stuff stolen, it's your fault, which is, um, unfortunate.
We want, we want to give, uh, create agency and people so that they can not only have secure,
um, procedures, but also an extra layer of security that will, you know, that will prevent
anything from, uh, from going wrong.
And, and, and that, what that means, and I'll shut up in just a moment, but, you know,
our protocol secures your wallet, whether your, um, seed phrase, um, is compromised or
not, it doesn't matter.
So your seed phrase can be compromised and your stuff that is enveloped inside of the, the
defender's protocol still will be safe.
And we've got an emergency migration tool also that allows you, you know, in the case
that your seed phrase is compromised, you can just send your stuff to an emergency wallet.
And, um, we're just so excited to finally release this to the, um, to the, uh, the general public
and to the community.
Um, today we wrapped up our mint and, um, and we're live on magic Eden and soul sniper.
And we're just super, super excited to be where we're at and, um, to be part of the guacamole,
um, tool suite and part of that community as well.
So once again, cheers for thanks, uh, cheers for having me up and, and, um, and flowers to
the, to the intern.
Um, and excited to be talking to bat seriously.
Yeah.
Thank you for coming up and thank you for, um, you know, telling us about your project.
We'll probably have to have you on for a space another time, but, um, also very kind words
about guacamole.
Um, how do you feel about that intern?
All those nice things said about you and your.
So I actually, so yeah, I met actually, uh, Mr. Burns, like very early on in guacamole
and he had decided to, you know, he was very active in the community and decided to run
for council member and got elected to the Dow council as well.
Uh, I can't tell you how many times I've been on phone calls with, with Burns talking about
defenders and, you know, helping him kind of understand some of the dynamics and, you
know, pushing my experience in the ecosystem over to them as well.
And to see them like carry this out has been a cool thing because at the end of the day,
you know, uh, two things here, it's like one of the best things about Solana and a decentralized
ecosystem is the composability, right?
So the, the ability for us to like integrate what they're building into the guacamole suite,
integrate avatars in there so that they're protected as well, uh, is huge because at the
day, like we like to teach wallet security and having wallet security tools is super important
to us.
And then, you know, seeing these projects, um, or, you know, um, development that comes
out of the guacamole community, like the guacamole contributors as well is really cool because
at the end of the day, like we're not here to just like, you know, steal everything and
be like the only thing, like in order for the ecosystem to expand things like this need
to happen.
And, and we, at the end of the day, when people like, you know, slide into my, my, my DMs
or ask a some, like a question about like what they're building or, or anything like that
as well, like, you know, multiple questions get asked, you know, I talk to them about
like the architecture, we talk about the design, we talk about economics, we talk about, you
know, um, once again, composability and like, you know, if they're interested in integrating
that as well.
And that, you know, at the end of the day, like, uh, guacamole is built up of not only
like our own tech and our own protocols that, that we're working on launching as well, but
other platforms too.
So like the Jupiter airdrop is super important, important right now from like a psychological
perspective on like socials and like every swap that goes through guacamole, like, you
know, you're eligible for the juke points.
Uh, you know, if you're looking at like the, the trade section, we work with several different
protocols there to bootstrap liquidity, including hero.
We work with wormhole and portal and mind finance in the bridge section.
Uh, I already mentioned Gamba in the play section that we're like main contributors for when
it comes to feedback and UI development.
Uh, so, you know, having this and like a, a born project that comes out of the guacamole
ecosystem, like I would say I'm a proud now godfather.
So sweet.
I love it.
Um, well, we are over time, everybody.
Um, in turn, this has been a wonderfully informative session.
I think we've all learned a ton about guacamole today.
And I also feel like in some ways we only scratched the surface.
Um, but either way, you know, we're really thrilled that you jumped on with us at the
absolute last minute.
Um, and, and, you know, showed up to teach us all about your ecosystem.
Um, I'm sure that there are a ton of people here who would love to remain involved or,
you know, learn more or, um, get involved with guacamole, at least at the community level.
Um, so what's the best way for us to get in is joining the discard discord, a good place
to start.
Um, you're muted.
Um, joining our discord is, is definitely the best place to start.
Um, we have all of the official like social links in our social profile.
We also have a bento page that has links to like the full ecosystem.
Every website that we have has links to like our, our socials and discord as well.
Just make sure that, you know, you're always interacting with a valid and verified link.
Um, there is public chat available in discord as well.
And then there's also a holder role.
We're very active in both chats.
So anybody's welcome.
Even if you aren't a holder to come and ask questions and provide feedback, we always listen
to everybody.
Um, and then we do have a telegram telegram.
We're not as active on, but we do post announcements and moderated as well.
Uh, it's just that the guacamole community has, has definitely chosen discord as their, their
main portal.
Uh, once again, we have two different applications.
If you're interested in earning rewards or, you know, shopping, you know, using your, your
crypto portfolio, you can go to guac.gg.
If you're interested in exploring our DeFi suite of tools, you know, trading, earning,
playing, you know, launching your own project, looking at everything else that's in the ecosystem
as well.
Guacamole.gg is the website for you.
Um, and yeah, thanks for having us on such short, such short notice.
Thanks for the great questions as well.
And I'm glad to be here and talking to, you know, the community from a project that, you
know, I've been a huge fan of and user of for a long time now.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you so much.
And I, um, yeah, it's been a total blast.
Everybody in the audience, please throw down some emoji reacts for our guests today from
Guacamole in turn, and also for our community panel.
Thank you guys all so much for coming and spending time.
Um, please do follow Guacamole on social, jump into their discord, get involved.
And similarly, if you would like to get involved in our community, you can visit discord.gg
slash bat brigade, where you can get today's POAP, specially designed by Guilherme, our community
artist.
And also we host, uh, you know, weekly games, discussions.
We have a, we host a weekly community call on Tuesdays with our VP of business ops, where
we cover the latest project developments.
Um, so join us there and, um, Guacamole team in turn, you are welcome back anytime to share
new developments, launches, anything that you want to talk about.
We're open to having you whenever you'd like to come on.
I appreciate that.
Thank you for the, uh, the open invite.
Maybe I'll show up.
Love it.
We hope you do.
All right, everybody.
Thank you so much for coming.
Follow everyone in the room that you want to stay in touch with.
And remember, it's all bravey, baby.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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