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America Fun Friday 🇺🇸 - 2025 Recap & AMA w/ AOL Team
Recorded: Jan. 2, 2026 Duration: 1:07:18Space Recording
Short Summary
America Fun is gearing up for an exciting 2026 with new project launches, a unique focus on USD1 token launches, and a strategic shift towards quality in the crypto space. The upcoming staking program promises yield opportunities for users, while the introduction of a $200 launch fee aims to enhance project quality and drive growth.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. What's up guys?
How's it going?
We'll do a mic check real quick. Can you hear me okay?
I'll take that as a yes.
Cool. Welcome to America Fun Fridays.
So we're kicking off 2026.
It looks like the first day of...
Well, I guess it's the second day of the year.
I'm kind of thrown off.
But it looks like everything on America Fund is basically green right now.
So we're off to a good start.
Let's hope that the rest of 2026 continues like this.
I'm pretty hopeful and think that it actually will.
But I'm not going to jinx it for you guys.
So one sec.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Let me just say it's going to go.
Everything's going to continue to go down and then it will do the opposite
of exactly what I said.
I don't know.
Banana is not with America fun, right?
Ox Banana?
He is actually.
Yes.
So today we're going to highlight some people who don't always,
don't always get kind of the spotlight. And Banana is one of those.
We're going to turn the space into like a three-hour space
with just Banana speaking.
He could do it. He's a very likable guy.
Actually, Banana, you're manifesting the charts right now
because they kind of look like a banana.
Like they started up and then they enter down lower
started up, and then they enter down lower,
and now they're on the upside of the banana phase.
and now they're on the upside of the banana phase.
Year 2026, Bananazon 2026, I'm ready for it.
I'm waiting for the Bananazon curated token
so I could put my other animal names into it now.
Make it happen.
I think in January we can probably make that happen i think in january we can probably make that happen
the word banana though is actually it means bullish in japanese i don't know if you guys
knew that or not but wait say it again yeah the word banana in japanese it means um it means
number go up so oh no way yeah kind of kind of crazy check it out on chat see i was thinking
those emojis they were sending me
meant something different, but now I understand.
Yeah, I need to figure out
the eggplant emoji.
I need to figure out the space emojis.
Oh, I didn't know
I could change the color of myself on space emojis.
I thought I could only be yellow.
You can? Oh, no way.
You got to thumb up it. All right, cool.
Oh, crap. I didn't know that either.
Can you change that heart from being purple or not?
You can.
You can make the heart different colors too.
Dude, I'm going to do yellow heart for banana.
There we go.
So, Oval, what did you do?
How are you making the numbers go up today on America phone, man?
I mean, there's a couple of things happening right now.
I saw Eric Trump tweet USD1 stuff.
That's kind of helping too.
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
I mean, USD1 stuff is heating up right now.
Obviously, like the eco in general is heating up.
We've done a couple of cool partnerships and kind of collaborations and handshakes and whatnot the past week or two.
But in the past few days, especially, we've been kind of ramping this up. We've got some
good stuff coming in the next few days. And so I think people are getting excited about that.
But I mean, just generally speaking, if you go, if you think about, okay, USD1 ecosystem,
it's kind of, it's a pretty big matter right now. Like it's getting pretty hot. It's probably
going to get a lot hotter as time goes on because World Liberty Finances vote that went through to unlock a lot of the USD1 to do whatever's
going to happen there. You know, speculation is that that's going to go back into the
ecosystem and hopefully some of that lands in areas that we touch. And so I think there's
just people wondering exactly what's going to happen in the future with the USD1 stuff.
And they're trying to get in on the early stages.
Because I mean, literally everything is like early right now.
Like on our system and on like the bonk system, like everything's early.
If you look at market caps, like everything's babies at the moment.
If you compare it to like, say, last year at the same time.
And so, I mean, we had someone come in last night and, you know, he picked up 1% of AOL and it cost like, it was like 50 grand, you know, or something like that.
Like it's so little if you actually think something's going to go crazy.
And so this is kind of, this is what it is, I think.
I think it's just, you know, there's really nothing more complicated than that.
USD1 is a meta.
There's only one launchpad that is focused entirely and specifically on USD1.
That's ours, America.fun. And we're building a whole lot more than just a launchpad.
And I think that as we start to hint about those things, if people start to see, oh,
there's going to be some actual use cases for AOL and some syncs and that kind of thing,
I think people start to realize there might be a play there.
Well, the coolest thing is, is you know how we had bmb season which lasted maybe
three days yeah leading up to that though um pancake swaps token cake just absolutely soared
so if you think about it from that perspective if aol is like the de facto primary usd1 launchpad
it's like i probably said this before you probably like, you're saying the same thing
over and over again, but it's like buying
pickaxes
and handing them out, right?
So you're going for the
main play where everyone can trade the USD1 tokens
and obviously get points and stuff for it.
Yeah,
it's a no-brainer to hold AOL.
So I wish I was that guy that loaded
50k up yesterday before
it went up 100 but you would have been even better to be the guy who three days ago put in 100k
and now he's up by by he's he's in profit by 150 000 now in two days the funniest part is that
everything is still so low though like in a million years like if we talked about this in the summer or even maybe the
fall of last year even it was like 300 million was low because everyone was looking at like over a
billion right so it's just these prices are laughable across the board so anyone who thinks
like oh shit i've already pumped i didn't get in early enough it's just is this time to actually
just turn your brain off and just mark by again? It's so funny.
I mean, you know, AOL back a couple months ago was at $40 million.
And today it's at eight, I think, or something like that.
And $40 million was nothing.
And I don't want to talk about just like what the prices are and stuff, but I'm just saying like even if you just compare it to its own, you know, to its own history before anything was even talked about, before there was anything being built, which we built so much stuff now, before there was really a lot of plans, to be honest with you, for some of the stuff, before any of the partnerships, before any of that kind of stuff.
Now that we actually have those things, I don't know.
I can't suggest people buy or sell or do anything like that, obviously, but I can only tell people what I do with my own money, and I tell people all the time.
And I tell people all the time, you know, AOL uses its, America.fund uses its treasury very consistently to buy AOL back.
We bought $160,000 of AOL back ourselves from fees in the past couple of months.
And then I personally continue to buy and I've bought probably a few times more than that, my own self.
It's okay. You can't say it, but I can say it.
I've been like just shouting out the whole thing. It's USD1 season. It's just so obvious. It's going to be so obvious to everyone else in hindsight. Then it's just betting on the number one launchpad for USD1 in general.
The thing is this, I think is this too, actually, you know, because there are all the launch pads that work with USD1.
And I think as USD1 gets bigger, they're going to be more, right?
That's sort of the thing.
And if USD1 grows as much as we think it will, it kind of won't matter.
Like you can have a Walmart and a Target in the same town.
You know, it's okay.
Like they can both survive.
Yeah, I'll get certain things at one place and not at another place.
Exactly.
Exactly. It's okay.
We're all going to have our own lanes, our own swim lanes, as my good friend Nam puts it.
And, you know, we'll have our world that we live inside of and we specialize in.
And I think people, if they want to have one thing, they'll go to one.
If they want to have something else, they go somewhere else.
So I don't know if the algorithm is just pushing me america fun because i keep on that actually is
probably a good thing so i keep saying usd1 and i'm not being specific to america fun or bonk or
anyone else and i keep just seeing specifically america fun and i hear i guess i don't hear but
i see a lot about v2 coming yeah i guess i don't even know what v2 is is that like a real thing or is the algo just tricking me with v2 posts no we actually do have like a so so we've been waiting we've been doing
audit for for what we call our v2 for a long time now and it's it's it's kind of interesting because
like because because v2 basically is so v1, which Banana encoded everything up, was incredibly done in such a short period of time that like, I mean, we've had a website live now for months.
And this came from literally like a phone call that I did with Banana.
And then he had loads and loads of calls with Vesper just working through the details and kind of pumping it out.
And I mean, we have a working product, you know, that does
this thing for a while, we're trying to grow and trying to build, you know, a much bigger kind of
an ecosystem, not just a launchpad, which I think people don't quite realize yet. And it's going to
be I think it's gonna be amazing. Like, there's just so many cool things. But V2 is like the second
step toward that toward what's's like probably like 30 steps.
Like we have a whole 2026 thing like laid out.
I'm waiting on my compatriots who were some of whom were on this call to read over the whole plan and give me feedback on it so we can go full fledged on it.
But there's a whole plan that's laid out for 2026 that has so many pieces to it.
They're going to be awesome. But V2 is the next step. V2 is basically a slightly redesigned
website, more comprehensive, more flexible for us to grow with some of the things we want to build
and some of the things we want to add. And yeah and one thing people have been asking for for a long time and understandably so is uh
staking and because we i said from from the very beginning i said look we're going to have the
ability for people who stake a well you're going to be able to participate in the upside
of the platform from the point of view of the fees and whatnot and so we will have i'm not sure if
we'll have it on day zero, but it'll be very soon
because we've just finished the audit on this part.
But we'll have staking on there for AOL
and maybe even for some other stuff.
That's not AOL, we'll see.
Yeah, so that's basically what it's gonna be.
It's gonna be, that is like the front end.
And then the biggest piece of it besides the staking
that's gonna be coming is that it's going to be we're rolling out our
permissionless part and so at the moment everyone who's used everyone who's worked with us has has
seen us do a few launches we've done like uh five launches now semi-curated uh kind of launches and
then now we're going to have a permissionless pad and so the permissionless pad is going to have
some friction in between it so you can't just go launch willy nilly. You got to pay 200 bucks worth of
AOL token, or you can also do it in Solana, but we just take the Solana and buy AOL with it in that
case. But you have to buy $200 worth of it. And that's how you launch. So we get rid of some of
the riffraff who comes in, causes problems, some of the spam bots that make 50,000 of the same thing.
We get rid of that crap, put a little bit of a cost on the front side of it,
build in a mechanism for, obviously, for AOL to be useful, AOL the token to be useful.
But people can start to launch their own projects and see if we can get some good runners out of it.
That's actually really good because it's still going to be a quality over quantity type play.
Because right now that's what it kind of is, right? It's semi-curated.
And I think that's actually something that has been missing
because a lot of people are just like,
my God, there's so many things being deployed.
Everyone's sick of endless vamps, right?
There could be a really cool community,
but then their token gets vamped
and then the people just kind of die, right?
And then just another one gets vamped and launched.
So I think that $200 buried entry is high enough
yet low enough to be really helpful.
And I actually didn't realize this.
I don't think you've mentioned that before.
Yeah, this is a brand new number information
on this space right here.
This is some alpha.
And I have kind of subtly talked about it
like in passing in our Telegram here and there.
So those who've been really, really paying attention, I've seen some kind of hints at it.
But yeah, this is the first time I'm saying it fully out loud.
That's what it's going to be. 200 bucks worth of AO per launch.
And if you can imagine, if we get 50 launches a day, we get 1,000 launches a day,
if we get whatever it is per day, that's going to be kind of meaningful potentially.
I need someone who's good at spreadsheets to spreadsheet this out because that is pretty... No, you really can math it out of if there's 200 bucks a day of AOL. And I guess
what happens to that AOL that gets... Is it locked? It always just burned. It goes away.
Oh, damn. Does it go away to Harrow's wallet or where does it go?
As of... We're definitely going to play with the nomics a little bit as we go along, but coming Does it go away to Harrow's wallet?
We're definitely going to play with the nomics a little bit as we go along, but coming out of the gate, it's going to go into a bucket,
and then we'll burn those on a frequency.
Over the course of time, it might be a situation where we take some amount of those fees
and throw them back at AOL Stakers or at, say, Burger Stakers or something like that.
But out of the gate, it's going to be those go into a bucket. We toss them into the trash.
I like the idea of it going back to, well, obviously you can pick and choose what happens to it,
but that's one thing I think is missing is other launchpads not really heavily supporting the tokens and communities built on
their launchpads, right? They'll support maybe their own launches on the launchpad, but they're
not going to support like an organic, homegrown kind of community type of coin, right? If it
doesn't naturally benefit them. So I think that's kind of cool if you can kind of be the de facto,
kind of cool if if you can kind of be the the de facto um hey we we support everybody who's
building on america fun and it doesn't have to be like our own type of setup launch right we're
going to give you the resources to kind of be successful and this can help you to to help
your community with with airdrop rewards or whatever so yeah um the way i vision the future
by the way is that is that those teams can start to kind of that they that the teams can stake and then they can kind of vote on where these where these LP rewards go and what happens with them.
And so create a little bit like a compound of what kind of situation among bigger teams as time goes on.
But in the beginning, we'll just say, hey, look, these are the one, two, three, four projects that are important for us right now.
And then as we go along, maybe we'll add some,
maybe we'll remove some, that kind of stuff,
just depending upon what the community says,
what teams are still working hard,
which ones aren't working very hard.
And we'll try to reward the folks who really stick with it
and really actually put in the effort
and try to make America.fun what it can be.
That's awesome.
I think so.
I want to, if you're okay with it,
kind of have people get to know Vesper and Banana,
because they don't really,
I mean, Vesper's kind of fairly,
I guess, fairly new to the team.
Well, no, no, no.
Vesper has been there since, since, since the beginning.
But docs, right? I can't remember.
But only docs recently.
Yeah, she was on stage one night.
Exactly.
Yeah, so I think the people we have in here right now,
that just so you know,
the names of folks that I see personally,
maybe there's more,
but I see Vesper, Banana,
Bell is in there from our team,
and Carr, I see Carr.
Those are the people I see right now.
We do have a couple of other ones that might be joining
later on.
His name starts with K
and then a funky sign
and then an O and a V.
Oh, okay, okay.
Yeah, I know him as Bell.
I'm not going to
rock him.
I'll just call him Bell.
Bring somebody else in there. let me rest my throat for
a minute and introduce them to some of them well uh vesper how are you doing can you hear me okay
hello hello yep i can hear you man is it late let's see i'm gonna look it up real quick
it's kind of late no it's all right it's all right uh where i'm at it's actually pretty early
morning so oh good i was yeah i was worried that i was gonna hit you in the middle of the night No, it's all right. It's all right. Where I'm at, it's actually pretty early morning.
Oh, good.
Yeah, I was worried that I was going to hit you in the middle of the night.
And I was planning on waking up maybe at 2 a.m. to do this so we can move with you.
But I appreciate that.
I think our listenership would probably be a little bit lower.
So definitely wanted to make it at a time that was kind of convenient for folks in the states uh yeah not there at the moment um just traveled
traveled uh back back home to see some family and friends were spread out across the world
you know what i forget it's such a weird thing as being in in this space is it it still doesn't
really sleep right like you try to do anything in Web 2 or real life
and everything's pretty much shut down
for the month of, from December 20th to like January 5th.
But in Web 3, everything continues, it feels like.
No, literally Christmas day,
I was like answering messages and stuff
and my mom was like, what are you doing?
I was trying to, yeah, I know.
It's the craziest thing.
It just, it doesn't
stop, but that's why I love it so much. It's perfect. No, exactly. So I'm sure a lot of
people already, already know who you are and what you do for America Fund, but maybe if you want to
give a high level intro on yourself, your background, and then what your, I guess,
involvement is with, with America Fund. Sure. Yeah. So, um um I have been in the space for about five years
uh before that I was doing kind of a normie job I guess um but then kind of got into crypto really
during the pandemic and just made like a bunch of friends like really in like the trenches I mean
it wasn't really called like the trenches I guess like or at least like not with like the people i knew in 2020 but that felt like the real trenches like kids these days
they're talking about the trenches but like it's not the same uh no it was it was like just swapping
things blindly without any like additional tools or add-ons and then not knowing what came out the
other end literally the amount of times like people don't understand like pump fun bonk like these new
launch pads are so much better than like the way that we used to like ape into tokens previously
you know like the amount of honey pots that i bought in the beginning where i was like oh wait
these are great the price just keeps going up but then you realize like wait i can't sell and like
there was no way to like figure out really like what's this honeypot, you know, before, you know, you've kind of figured out more tools and stuff.
So you entered like in the farming phases when we had like a whole, we're farming food and yams
and urine and all that stuff. Yes. Yeah. So pretty much. Yeah. The good old days.
Want to bring that energy back, you know thousand percent aprs and all that like
insane stuff um but yeah so i entered kind of during that period um i worked on like a kind of
a few different projects was like modding for a bunch of different things um really just kind of
like slowly worked my way through and then um yeah recently kind of uh started work on like AOL
it really just like started you know and most of you guys know like it started off like really just
as like a meme coin and then because we already had so much like groundswell and like support from
the community it was like you know I remember just DMing Ogle and being like hey I know you launched
this like as a test token but like what if we actually kind of built something and actually grew it and made it huge?
And so I was the first person who created the Telegram group and then organized the
X community, made the Twitter account, all that kind of stuff.
So I've been mostly just behind the scenes supporting the projects, but I have tried tried to i guess like become a little bit more
public as we've grown i think it's like just important for folks to be able to like you know
see a name you know to the face right and like that's a huge step forward yeah exactly like
we're trying to build something that is like actually long lasting actually like legitimate
like i have nothing to hide um you know like Ogle obviously has like
you know his security concerns and stuff but you know for me like I'm I'm I want to build something
like legit legitimate I have nothing to hide and I want to you know be able to go out and
publicly speak about it and stuff as much as possible so um yeah that's kind of like my little
story I guess um the the best part about this though is
if I saw if I ever saw Ogle in real life I think he looks just like his his avatar
that's what I think yeah same that's like fully how I visualize like Ogle in my head
I I would say I guess what the hell is yours is yours a billy coat or a yak or what is that? Oh my gosh. A billy goat.
I don't know what it is.
It's got a rat tail.
That's so funny.
It's in the Chinese chat.
People have referred to me as like a deer head in Chinese, which I think is adorable.
It's just like my PFP is honestly just like a little fictional character.
If you guys know like the artist Leonara Carrington,
she's one of like my favorite surrealist artists out there.
And so this is like, if you zoom into like one of her paintings,
they're all like amazing, fantastical, like very, very detailed.
And this is just like a little guy I spotted in a painting that I enjoyed.
That's cool.
I'm going to offend the artist by calling it a billy goat now
that's something different i mean yeah the chinese folks just call her um what was it
they say little town right like that's something over and over again yeah that's so cool i love
the chinese community i don't think there's a better i mean i'm not chinese but man there's
no better community than the chinese community, I feel like.
No, exactly.
Our Chinese community is goaded.
And they, I think, especially in the beginnings, were really responsible for so much of our growth.
I think it kind of came out of nowhere, I guess.
Ogle, it turns out, had a massive Chinese following.
And so from that, we were able to kind of grow this like Chinese community.
But like, you know,
if you look at some of our earlier posts and stuff,
like the hardest raters,
like the people who were talking about us,
like on Twitter and stuff,
were like from the Chinese community.
You know, so like a big love and like support,
you know, for those guys.
And it's like amazing because you wouldn't expect it,
you know, with the platform being called like America.fun and like the whole narrative and everything. But I
think it really goes to show that like just the general like ethos and the spirit of like America
is so transcended, you know, beyond borders. And like the idea of like really being this like
shared space of like optimism, growth, where like anyone can succeed, you know, which is like really,
really unique, I think, to like the American ethos. You know, like I've touched upon this,
but like I'm not, you know, I'm not American. But when I moved to like the States, I really just
like found a massive, massive culture shift, like in a very, very positive way of like, wow, people, like people
around me are like actually trying to support me and like support what I'm trying to build rather
than like tearing me down, you know, which is like, and I've lived in like a lot of different
countries. Um, and I never felt like the same sense of like, you know, support and like enthusiasm
to build, you know, whereas like in the States,
like you meet people every single day who are like, you know, they're hustling, they're working
three jobs, they're eating ramen to like achieve their goal, whether or not it's like to be,
you know, an actor or like a singer or like to build their startup, whatever it is, like,
there is so much like support in the system I think whereas like other places
I've lived it's like you're trying to build something people are like oh like that's kind
of a weird idea like that doesn't fit in the norm um and then you don't get as like much support so
anyways I'm rambling um this is all to say I love America I think it's the best country
yeah we were gonna hope you we were hoping you would ramble for like two hours before
banana takes over for his three hour ramble.
Yeah, well, that's cool. So what I like how you said, like, you know, I'm pretty much
with you kind of doxing yourself and doing more public speaking and everything. It just
kind of shows me like, hey, this is we're here to build and we're here for the long
term. Right. And how cool is it to just be public about that and own it?
Right. You have nothing to hide, like you said.
And it's just like, let's take something.
That's actually what makes me even more bullish is you're taking something that
was just like an initial test and then you're like, you saw some motion with it.
You're like, why can't we why don't we actually build this?
Like, let's really run this up, you know? And you've had really successful semi-curated launches so far.
I keep saying quality over quantity because everyone knows this.
Like, there's so many, especially over the past several months,
the amount of bonded tokens is minimal.
It's just all about deployers, raking in fees and stuff,
and not really about communities trying to really build something.
So it's cool to see you guys do something different.
Yeah, Harlow, actually, just really quick here, you're talking about some of the runners that we've had.
We've had these curated launches.
And I got hit up today.
I got hit up yesterday.
I got hit up two days ago from different people saying, oh, you guys, you really should launch an Eagle.
You really should launch an Eagle.
Here's an Eagle token, blah, blah, blah have valor like valor is the eagle have you not seen it
and a lot of people like wait valor was on was on america.fun we had no idea you know valor ran to
17 million bucks it's got a cco right now it's you know things add up right now i think in a really
solid way hopefully we can see those same numbers and maybe maybe a lot more sometime in the future
but it's like people are coming around now and having the ideas that
we had a while back right like they're already there we're set up and ready we just need to to
get our stuff out there and get the word out there we appreciate you having us on here to do that
yeah the coolest thing is um with with valor just being recently taken over, what, two, three weeks ago, I feel like. I think that's where people are who don't buy now.
Like, you look at the America Fund chart, so Dream, Patriot, AOL, Burger, etc.
And then you see Valor at, what, it's 2.23% growth today.
I think it's just one of those where you're just going to get a god candle out of nowhere
and then people are like, oh, shit, that was kind of obvious.
I should have bought that, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
I totally agree with you.
I mean, Valor was one of those that kind of, we thought it would do well, but we didn't know how well it would do.
And then it just absolutely murdered.
And, you know, then now we have a CTO that's taken it over.
They picked it up at 600K market cap, something like that.
Now it's at like, I don't know what it's at. You can tell me. Maybe it's like one or something like one or 600k market cap something like that now it's at like i don't
know what it's at you can tell me maybe it's like one or something like one or 1.1 something like
that yeah i mean i mean we're 17 times down from the all-time high on valor you know like and and
the thing about valor is there's a huge community still there's still loads of like really really
really supportive people there they're trying hard to actually push it because they believe you know
valor is the eagle there doesn't need to be a money signed eagle token necessarily because we already have Valor.
So I'm just super excited about some of the eco tokens, that being one of them.
You talked about the semi-curry launches.
I had to plug that one just while I had a second.
Well, yeah, and I think anyone who – I mean, I'm sure Valor in general got hate because you had some people that bought at 17 and they're like, oh, it went down. But it's like,
you know, things go up and down. You can't
look at AmericaFan or Valor
token or whoever the team was initially
and say like that's just fantastic
to go up to 17 million anyway in the market
condition after 10-10.
And really after the first 90%
drawdown is when you usually see the next 90%
run up after
past previous all-time
highs so i think it's gonna cross our fingers cross our fingers do you want to chat with someone
next or are you going to keep on with uh yeah i was just going to talk for a few more hours but
um hey look what can i say people want to hear me talk no we do i was gonna say if you guys have
any questions too that are listening in um just type them up or send them to Bell in Telegram, and then Bell can relay it over.
But, hey, Banana, let's hear from you, man. We're in the banana zone right now on all these tokens. How are you feeling about that?
What in the world?
He's going banana. he's going banana mode
does that sound weird to anybody or is it just me
no no it does
it does you sound like a chipmunk banana
hey banana whatever
voice transmogrifier you're using is
effing up right now
he was banana zoned
man that's just what happens when you go into the
banana zone
he's requested again I'll bring it back up if it doesn't work out He was banana-zoned, man. That's just what happens when you go into the banana zone.
He's requested again.
I'll bring it back up.
If it doesn't work out, let's chat with Mezcal or the car for a little bit in the meantime.
Yeah, I'll add him up.
All right, Banana, give it a try again.
Can you hear me better?
Oh, man, I like your other voice better, man.
Ah, shit.
Shit, Monk Banana.
Can you hear me again? No, I took off my headset. I took off my headset. I'm out.
I'm hanging out with my dog. Uh, dude, I'm feeling,
I'm feeling pretty good out with the market. I think, uh,
I think this relief pump, uh, after tax loss, harvesting cycle is,
is nice. Uh, I think, uh, I think people are feeling a little,
a little risk on like, Oh,
the market can be risk on again,
and we can actually maybe see some up. If you look on, you know, kind of like the majors on
the long-term timeframe, we've been, you know, kind of trending down. I think we're finally
hitting local bottom. So I think the relief is welcome to everybody, right?
Well said for the banana zone. I think you're absolutely right.
And I think I always time this actually kind of wrong when I try to do my tax loss harvesting
and I sell it a little higher than I should probably.
And then sometimes there's like bad slippage and then I don't get back the exact same tokens.
But really, I think after December 31st,
as soon as we hit Jan 1,
things are looking different, right?
We're seeing a huge pivot into Shiny Rocks.
He's got Silver, Gold, now Platinum.
And I think a lot of that's going to kind of reverse
back into more risk-aunt assets.
So Banana, I've never actually talked with you before,
and I didn't even know you were on the America Fund team.
Tell me a little bit about, I guess, what your role is with America fun.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think this is the first time that, uh, that we're hanging out and speaking.
So it's definitely good to put a voice to the, to the PFP. Uh, I've definitely not been on the
spaces. I'm pretty quiet. Um, I'm, I'm engineering on the team. So like Vesper said, um, I built out
the V1 website. Vesper said, I built out the V1 website.
Vesper said I built out the V1 website.
It was like a conversation.
Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could do this?
And I was like, yeah, that would be cool.
Let's see if we can do that.
And, you know, like, not to put the cart before the horse, but V2.
But man, am I so tired of V1 and ready to retire it.
of v1 and ready to retire it.
It was not made for what we're doing.
It was not made for what we're doing.
And I'm super excited for the improvements
that we're going to have coming up with v2 coming out soon.
You know, so I'm behind the scenes,
building, building, building the things
that Oval Investor want and the things
that the community brings to us and says,
hey, we have some bugs.
And I say, oh, I did miss that.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
So that's what
that's what I've been doing on the teams thus far the I mean the cool thing about that though is
Vesper mentioned and alluded to that it being it was like a test token in the beginning
so the fact that v1 was rolled off of it being a test in the first place is pretty impressive
yeah yeah we're doing this like skunk works
and it's definitely been a fun ride and a challenge
and I'm glad to be getting to the part
where people get to see the work
that we've been putting in.
Banana, am I remembering or wasn't it basically,
like I launched it,
we kind of vibed a little bit in like a Bonk chat.
Me and you were talking in like a Bonk chat, unrelated.
And then I talked to someone
on the bonk team and I said, do you know of any good devs who might be interested in actually
like playing around, like kind of kind of like skunkworks kind of thing, like just playing
around, seeing what we can come up with. And someone said, oh, banana's a dev. I said,
all right, well, I mean, he and I chatted a few times. I like his vibe. Let's do it.
And so we got on a phone call, chatted for 30 minutes. And he was like, and then the
next thing you know, like six hours later, he's here's here's here's uh the bones of v1 i was like
are you kidding like this is the way that i heard yeah yeah yeah yeah we we definitely were just
vibing on something else and it was just unrelated and and whomever whomever put the bug in your ear
that that i build like kudos i think it was tindies maybe. I think it made them Tendis.
I was hoping... Tendis has such a special place in my heart
and I'm glad.
I'm glad because I spoke to them
a couple of months prior.
Like, hey, I'm looking to build.
I'm out here, I'm looking to build.
So kudos. Thank you, Tendis.
I owe you dinner or something.
Give them some Tendis,
some Nuggies or something.
Tendies is one of the developers for Bach,
just in case anyone doesn't know.
Absolute chad.
See, I learned to code from a website back in the day
called MySpace.com where you could change your
HTML to be whatever you wanted it to be.
That's about the extent of what i can do banana
but oh that's okay i'm actually yeah is that where you learned too or oh uh yeah dude i remember i
remember the days of of being on your friends page and like needing to be in like the top spot
and like jiving for it and jockeying for it oh those were the days i mean those were the days
until you uh move someone down a slot
and then they came after you because you moved them off your top eight to your top
and then your your internet single girlfriend was your top one and everyone was wondering what was
going on so that didn't happen to me i just just people i know you know obviously obviously
so banana where i guess what is your background in the crypto space?
Like, where did you, have you been in here for a while?
Sounds like Besper joined at one of the peak fun times where people were getting on chain.
How about yourself?
Yeah, I actually, I'm so glad you asked me that question because that means I'm so washed
that nobody knows who I am.
That's so good.
I got into crypto pretty, like like personally full-time i'll
just use like full-time uh during during nfts right the nft mania of 21 like sometime in the
in the summer i think um i was doing my normie trad by job doing normie nonsense and um they had
policies around trading and like trading windows and all this stuff.
And I'm like, I'm finally making some big boy money.
And like, you're telling me I can't trade.
And they're like, exactly right.
Like, you can't do that.
And I was like, oh, I was like, oh, this sucks.
So then I found NFTs and some other stuff.
And I was like, hey, do you guys know about these?
And they're like, we don't know what the fuck those are.
Have a blast.
So I just got into like the NFT scene in 21.
And I started producing art and i
started um building tools for for creators because like as like as we all know in this space like any
edge that you have is like the edge you need to take and i was a builder i'm still building stuff
so that's what i did in 21 i built nft tools for for artists who were producing um helping out like
that space and had a really great great time working for a bunch of companies
that we've heard of and places that we've heard of
that aren't really relevant to stuff that we're doing now.
I've been hanging out here for a while.
It's really nice that I can say that right now I am full-time
proper in Web3 and just building with the AOL team.
I don't actually know if you... I to block. Banana. That's really.
I don't actually know if you.
I'm not sure if you saw the post.
There was a post someone had like probably a week and a half, two weeks ago.
It was about something related to America.fun or USD1 or something.
And there was a comment.
And I like to go down to like the show probable spam section because sometimes there's actually decent people down there.
Like the thing things just misunderstanding
a spam. And someone was down there. And they said, they said
something along the lines of like, if you want to really be
taken seriously, you need to get some of the Solana OGS in there,
such as at banana and whatever. And I said, Well, it's your
lucky day at bananas, one of our developers, what do you know,
he's heading up, he's heading up our team there.
So, I mean, you know, I thought that was actually kind of cool to see someone shout
to you and someone else.
I don't know who the other person was, but they're like, if you want to be taken seriously,
you got to get some guys like this on board and then what do you know?
Yeah.
Oh man, that's awesome.
Yeah.
So, so to throw some like, to throw some experience on my name, I did spend, I spent
a year in change working at the
solana foundation doing growth for nft ecosystem uh i spent six months uh at tensor doing dev rel
for tensor i spent the last year building out a uh blockchain that unfortunately did not hit main yet
net main net yet i wish them the best of luck if they're able to do it but like i've been i've been
building in this space for a while so uh i have no intention of leaving because it's the most
fun space on the planet so yeah i was gonna say that to tie in what vesper was saying how
how she kind of entered at a stage where there really wasn't any tools for for anyone on chain
right i think there was the best we had at the point in time was DEX tools
and that was only to see
what a chart looked like
on online chain stuff.
And then I can't remember
where it was before,
before there was even lots of DEXs out there
where you'd be able to swap in your wallet.
There was just nothing.
So to hear about like your experience
coming in with NFTs
and then having known firsthand
that those evolved a lot, right?
The trading experience and different tools and things that were offered so people could
actually have an edge with it.
That's what's cool.
And I think with your experience, we're going to see something really cool out of V2, V3,
et cetera, that will give people an edge by being part of America Fund.
So that's what everyone didn't have before
back in the DeFi days and the NFT days
until we started to get utility.
And it sounds like you have done a lot of this stuff before
to where you can come up with some new ideas and new things.
And obviously with your guys' relationship with Meteora,
I think they're personally out of the...
I think Meteora is the better of the two, let's just say.
So I think you guys are in good hands moving forward.
So excited to see what you're doing.
Well, I think the whole world thinks that because I just retweeted something yesterday.
It was talking about volume across crypto.
And do you see who number one was?
It was Meteora.
Meteora was number one.
Jupiter was number two.
I mean, like, and by a wide margin. The user experience
is so much better. It's just
what I use, so yeah, for sure.
I've used them all, right, but
nothing compares to Meteora.
Yeah, for me, it really was UX, too.
I mean, they could get $6 of volume,
but it was just a better user experience.
It turns out that the other side, too, the building
side is also, frankly, a lot better of an experience.
So, you know, good all around for us.
So, hey, Mezcal, I'm going to bring you up and put you on the spot.
How does that sound?
You're on mute, though.
Let's just make sure you can hear me.
Yeah.
Oh, you're good.
In three minutes, my brother just called me from outside the house.
I have no idea what's going on. Let me just go figure that out. I'll be back in a sec. You're good. In three minutes, my brother just called me from outside the house. I have no idea what's going on.
Let me just go figure that out.
I'll be back in a sec.
You're good.
I'll skip to car.
Can you hear me, car?
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
How's it going?
Gamerica.
Gamerica.
Doing good.
That's the easiest thing to say.
Gamerica.
I know. Gamerica. That's my easiest thing to say, Gamerica. I know, Gamerica.
That's my job, basically, saying Gamerica on the timeline.
Okay, well, that's good.
Maybe I could ask Ogil for a job then, if that's all.
I would do pretty good at that, actually.
So, Kar, what do you do for AmericaFun?
I love how Vesper says she's behind the scenes i
think i'm even more behind the scenes but i'm more in the marketing you're behind vesper's
goat i'm behind vesper's behind yes exactly um i'm helping out with the marketing stuff
so anything from the partner marketing america fun marketing that's that's what i'm trying to
help out with.
I was going to say, you must be doing a good job because I just said before you popped on that I've just been typing out, um, just USD one season. And I, maybe I'm the type of delusional
permable that's been saying it forever, but I feel like I've been typing it out for at least
two months because I think it's coming and I feel like we're getting closer and closer,
but for whatever reason now I'm starting to see everything USD one specific
around America fun versus anyone else.
So we'll, we'll attribute that to your marketing efforts.
Well, she says that she does a little bit like that, but, but,
but you don't see the 17 page go to market document for a V2.
Like it's not just like a couple of things here and there.
It's like really comprehensive
work car did you put together a white paper i i should have i'm very i'm very anal about this
stuff i love corporate background okay the last white paper i read was i when i used to actually
i guess it's not really white paper but we'll call it a white paper because people know what
white paper is but in 2017 i was
scouring for white papers and just whoever had the best looking one but damn so you so 17 pages
what page are we on right now we haven't even hit page one i bet if it's for v2 then right
we're we're hitting page two two or three we're questioning y' the end of the launches having people that have to have $200
in AOL or sole equivalent. That's going to be marketing all on its own.
No, we're all really excited about this. I can't even say it's a long time coming because we only
launched in October, but it does feel like a long time coming. We've all been super hyped about this.
So yeah, sooner than you'll think.
You know what's actually crazy, Ogle, and this one's kind of new to you,
is launching in October when it was just absolute hell and dog shit
and just to see you guys bring powerhouse name after powerhouse name
out of the woodworks.
I swear, the AOL founder or previous CEO is now an advisor or something like that.
Yeah, Greg, who is now hitting up Fiber, he was one of the executives at America Online,
like the OG technology company, America Online back from I think 1996 to 2003, which is basically the
heyday of America Online.
That's like when they crushed.
And we just announced him recently.
He came on as an advisor to the company.
You're exactly right.
Car, we're going to attribute that to your 17 page doc of getting him to push out that.
I'll take it.
I like the silent behind this. I i mean there's so much to it right
and that's what people probably don't realize it's just how many different skill sets and
backgrounds people have to kind of push this thing forward like even bell who's not up on stage i'm
guessing he is probably heavily involved i don't know if he's directly on the team or what but i
always see him supporting america fun and ziggs i always see him around. Mike Carter. There's a lot of people, right?
Really strong community. There's a lot of great people that are helping push and we really
appreciate every one of them. And what's your, I guess, what's your Web3 background? Have you
been in the space very long or are you kind of just trial by fire? I think I've been in the space for about five years,
similar to the whole NFT hype.
Oh, yeah, you guys are seasoned.
We'll call you OGs.
I mean, you came in at the money-making year, we'll call it,
because everyone lost in 2017,
and then 2021 people made money.
And we're still here, and we're still cooking,
so I guess we did something right. Maybe you round-tripped it all like me, and that's why we're still here and we're still cooking so i guess we did something right maybe you
maybe you round tripped it all like me and that's why we're still here maybe
it's not right it's it's only a round trip if you don't zoom out far enough you know
i'm gonna steal that yeah that's a page yeah i've been in the space for a minute i guess
nft stuff worked at a lot of startups, worked at Ledger for a bit.
So that's why I probably provide the 17-page go-to-market
because I learned the corporate way to do it.
We'll add a round-tripping to page 18 of the document.
I'll help you with that.
I have a really detailed thing of what I do.
It's basically, it's very simple.
If I buy and hold, it goes down.
If I buy and sell, it goes up. So I just need to like figure that out.
Technically at the end of the day, that's the TLDR of the whole doc, right?
Yeah. Summarize Grok. Here's what it equals. Cool. Well, thanks. Thanks for coming up.
I appreciate you. And yeah, it's cool to meet the rest of the team because I've talked to Here's what it equals. Cool. Well, thanks. Thanks for coming up.
I appreciate you.
And yeah, it's cool to meet the rest of the team because I've talked to Ogle before.
And Vesper, I don't know if you and I have talked on Spaces actually before.
I just have seen you start to come out.
I saw you pop out on stage and Ogle had announced that you guys,
that you're now, I guess, doxxed to some extent.
So that's really cool to put your name and face out there.
And Banana, obviously, I feel bad that I was an ETH maxi.
So I always, I love the Solana people.
I don't like how people back, what was it, 2000, maybe it's 21.
They said Solana is the poor people chain.
And it was just a lot of ETH maxis dunking on soul people.
But man, how the times have changed, right?
So you're doing very well.
Harrow, just real quick.
Is it okay if we get a mess calendar?
But before we do, can I just say something really fast?
Yeah, please.
I just want to say for anyone here listening, hanging out,
first off, thank you for coming.
Second, can you please retweet the space?
While we're sitting here, take seven seconds. We. Second, can you please retweet the space while we're sitting here?
Take seven seconds. We'll be quiet and click the retweet the space button.
We have the V2 coming up. We really rely upon all of you guys ourselves.
Obviously, too, we rely upon all of you guys to try and get the word out as much as you possibly can to make sure that our V2 launch goes successfully.
And the best way for people to get an idea of who we are, what we're doing, what we're working on is to join this space and listen to us talk.
Right. So I appreciate any of you guys who just press the button.
If you didn't, you got three more seconds and then and then maybe Mescap can talk to us.
Yeah, I'll pin it to you real quick so that I can get it here.
One sec. You're also pumping my bags because I like to do these because i have a lot of aol
so and i believe in the vision uh mezcal are you done with your brother yelling at you are you good
now yo i'm so sorry yeah so he was actually like yelling at me and i was like i i was sure i kept
hearing my irl name being shouted at i was like like, I'm playing. I'm listening to space.
Then I noticed he was calling me on my phone.
I was like, oh, should I have his keys?
I locked him out of the house.
So yeah, everything's good.
You're good.
No worries.
So Mezcal, explain to everyone, I guess,
your involvement with America Fund.
What's your background?
What do you do for the team?
Where are you at from, I guess,
where did you start
on on chain etc so i guess i've been in the i've been in web3 for about four or five years
at this point i think it's the first time i can say five years now um but yeah i joined back in
the nft days i remember i was working at a restaurant back then and then i saw a nft being sold in the metaverse of a yacht for a
million dollars i remember seeing it on instagram and i sent it to my back then boss at the restaurant
and i was like you need to get into shit and like three months after that i think three or four
months after that i quit my job like really looked but went full time on web3 and it's been a wild ride since then
I worked in startups I worked in VC funds I did a little bit of independent work I worked
a lot behind the scenes in the trenches have helped teams launch projects here here on
Solana they're on base and yeah I remember it was a couple months ago and vesper originally sent
us the aol token and then we like bought a little bit and then a few weeks months after
she came back to me asking like hey we want you to join the team and so i've been with aol since
then i've been helping vesper find good teams to come and build with.
I've been helping her find other teams to do partnerships with.
So I've just been working as much as possible here,
trying to build the future of token launch pads, basically.
So you're heavily involved with BD and community building, right?
Like expanding the ecosystem?
Yeah, precisely that.
Yeah, and I think that's actually really important too.
And it seems like all of you kind of share the same traits
and abilities, right?
Everyone kind of has their own thing,
but it all kind of blends over to,
and Ogil, you said this, it's not just a launchpad.
It's more of just an entire ecosystem.
And when you think about it like that
is yes there's the AOL token but then there's all the communities that directly also benefit the
token so their success also helps America Funds success and America Funds success also helps
their success so oh man we haven't even talked about the whole ecosystem yet dude like I mean
it's like I mean like when people are not thinking bigger I say think bigger please think bigger
but I say that I really mean it like people gotta I mean, like when people are not thinking bigger, I say think bigger, please think bigger.
But I say that I really mean it.
Like people got to think, if you look back at like what America Online was a long time ago, and for those of you who are so young, you don't remember that, like, look it up,
watch a 30 second video.
What did America Online do?
You logged on to it, you had internet access, you had email, you had chat, you had video
games, you had stock portfolio analysis, you had everything
in one area. Okay? We're not just going to be a launchpad. The launchpad is step one.
Well, I'm not going to say what the other steps are, but I'm just trying to say
there's a whole lot more coming. What does it rhyme with? What do the other steps rhyme with, Ogle?
There's at least seven different products that are in a little thing that I sent through two days ago.
At least seven products there that are not launch pads,
but that all touch everything,
and it's all centered around America.fund and the AOL token.
Yeah.
No, that's super bullish.
So I own a lot of this token, unrelated, called Keyboard Cat.
I think I'm up to just over 2% of that stupid fucking cat now.
And I think I need to start selling some of it
and just put it into America.fund itself.
That's a lot in one meme token in general is 2% of a, anyway.
Well, I mean, I want to have soon actually where, I mean, soon Harrow, what I want to have is where
when you go to the America.fundv2 website and you want to get a little bit of AOL, but you don't
have any Solana ready or you don't have any whatever, you click a button up there and it
says, Hey, would you like to convert any of this garbage? Like this, this keyboard cat,
would you like to convert any of these garbage like this this keyboard cat which I can convert any of these automatically one click into AOL yes it's not garbage it's just being garbage
absolute trash I'm just kidding but but we want to give people the opportunity to very easily just
press one button and boom they can convert you know other assets they have not having to go to
Jupiter or wherever else they can sit right there and and do it and we'll handle it from the back on the backside. Well, I think it's important to say
I you know how much I probably talk about just farming in general, right? So I know that there
again, like, I don't know if you guys listening know what friend tech was or blast was
the Reno, there's a lot there's lots of different farms right but have after getting about seven
figure well 800,000 so almost seven figures from friend tech um i've just been addicted to airdrop
farming in general and i think america fun also has uh an opportunity to farm for points and you
can speculate on what that will or won't look like. But when the market's kind of
slow and choppy and banana zoning out for banana, it's a really, really good time to start getting
in and earning points for some future thing. Web3 is the coolest place to be because you get paid
to participate. So just participating, swapping, buy, sell, etc uh that that could change your your life without
even knowing about it so i think that's one cool thing that is understated probably for america fund
um of and hopefully not me saying this is doesn't dilute my own kind of point form but i think that's
one one of the things i'm super bullish on so yeah no you're totally right i mean i mean there
are people out there who are definitely like watching on the website
and I'm not going to tell them they should,
but I'm not going to tell them they shouldn't.
You know, they're very welcome to.
And as time goes on, we do have a point system.
I kind of, I'm not going to lie,
I kind of hate point systems mostly,
but we're trying to build this in a way
that is not just net extractive
where you have just like passive users
coming to do a thing like farming basically and then leaving. We want them to farm and then stay
right and so if we can get them addicted if we can get addicted in a good way but if we want to get
them to have habits to where like for example I'll give you a good example of this of what I mean by
like building habits. So in the future whenever you stake your AOL and you get a chunk of the LP
revenues and by the way we've had sevenOL and you get a chunk of the LP revenues,
and by the way, we've had 700 and something thousand dollars of revenues coming from LP
profits in the past couple of months.
So it's been quite a lot.
So in the future, when you stake your AOL or stake whatever else, and you're getting
a chunk of that money for doing so, you're going to need to come and collect it, right?
It's not just going to accumulate forever.
And so we want people to come there on a certain cadence.
Let's call it a day or a week or whatever we decide.
And we'll tell you publicly, obviously, what it is.
But you have to come back and actually do it.
And the point is we want you to log in.
We want you to see the new tokens that are there.
You come there to get your daily 15 bucks
or your daily $35 or whatever.
But we want you to see the new stuff every day over and over and over again.
And I think in that way, we can build these habits and make this a place where people come to every single day to do different things, not just launch, not just invest, but also check on their portfolio and a whole bunch of other stuff I'm not going to talk about.
Yeah, no, that's actually going to make it fun.
It's like a place you actually go to to check in every day.
And I think, I mean, I don't know, you you know coin gecko candy where people can check in and get
yeah candy on coin gecko um i think they uh i mean i don't know what they're doing with that
candy but i have a shit ton of candy because i check in on coin gecko every day to grab some
candy or i did i haven't for about a year but if that ever turns into something it'll be something
good so it sounds like you're building kind of an everything.
Yeah, we're trying to.
But I just noticed Greg is down in the audience.
I don't know if he's interested in coming up and saying hey for a minute.
He's heading up Fiber.
We mentioned him earlier as being instrumental for America Online, the original America Online.
And he's built and worked with incredible teams since then.
He might want to come up and say hey for a minute, I don't know if he's in the mood, but if he does request, be sure
to let him up and say, hey, because he's one of our great partners and he's an advisor personally
to us. Yeah, that's awesome. I even invited him. So Greg, if you feel like you want to talk,
go for it. If not, you're okay. You can just listen to it. And we're all excited that you're okay you can just listen to it and we're all excited that you're here anyway um so v2 i guess ogle and maybe banana when can we start to see some rollouts happen um things
seem like they're moving pretty quick and you guys don't seem like you're going to slow down
we're only two days into 2026 but what's your kind of time frame as we roll into the rest of
january and the rest of January and the
start of the year?
I'm just going to assume banana does not want to talk right now because he
usually doesn't. So I'll just say something until he butts in. But yeah,
so, so, so we were, we've been in audit for several weeks now.
And what we were mostly focusing on the audit was the staking program.
The thing is like,
that's the place where you can lose funds, where users can actually lose funds, right?
You put money into, excuse me,
put money into like a bucket and what happens?
Like, can it be stolen?
Can it be double counted?
Can people take advantage of it to get rewards they shouldn't?
Could people take out more than they put in,
this kind of stuff.
And so it requires more work than you might expect
to do something that sounds pretty simple,
right? It's like, it's like, oh, drive to the mall. Like, that sounds simple. But actually,
there's a lot of components that come into like building a car and getting there, right,
and combustion and things like that. And so the staking program is very complex. And we've been
getting audited for forever. I'm very happy to say that I think yesterday, I think yesterday,
maybe the day before yesterday, the audit finished.
And so we had a series of things that they came back with the first round.
And then we fixed those things.
And then they really looked at it and we fixed those things.
And unless Banana corrects me, I'm pretty sure that we've kind of finished those rounds now.
So with that being said, the V2 is very soon.
I mean, like very, very soon. We need to
polish up a couple of things. Vesper is pretty anal about, and in a good way, but pretty anal
about like text being aligned and, you know, buttons being the right size and that kind of
stuff. So we've got a few of those kinds of feedbacks to fix up, but we're talking, if I'm
a betting man, I would say single digit days before it's out.
I'll say this.
I am pretty sure I will launch a token on America Fun when you guys do that.
There's no promises about how it's going to not go, but I want to try it out.
And I think that I have a froggy who's just a goaded artist for the Pudgy.
Well, I don't know if he works for Pudgy Penguins anymore,
but he's responsible for like billions of views on their gifts.
And I'd probably just make it an art-based token and launch it on AOL if I did launch one.
So I'm excited to see you, man.
That would be so fun. So fun. Can't wait.
Yeah, I would do it. Maybe I'll make it the Billy Goat Vesper.
That would be so fun. And I I think ogle ogle set aside some
cash to be aping all the tokens on our ecosystem well that's what I was hearing
what was it ten million dollars ogle you're sitting aside wait I got 50 I
heard it was 50 mil that well ten million telling me 10 million per day for a month so it's a little bit more than that
Right. You guys are giving me anxiety
Look, I could definitely tell you this whenever bonk first came out, you know, bonk is just friends
It's not even my own platform. But when bonk first came out with let's bonk I
I aped probably, I put 10 or 15, 20 soul into at least 300 projects, I would say, at that point.
aped probably I put 10 or 15 20 soul into
And a couple of them, you know, really, really, really worked out.
And then most of them kind of didn't.
But I expect that the, I expect personally that the quality of the things coming out of America.Fund to be significantly higher than you get with other places because of that friction in the front, because you have to pay $200 of AOL to actually launch in the first place. I think because of
that, we're going to get rid of a lot of the BS probably. And so, yeah, I mean, more than likely,
I'm going to be heading into some projects that, you know, that come out of there. I can't say
it's going to be necessarily, I think you said 10 million a day for 30 days. So I'm not sure if I
got 300 million bucks put aside for that.
But, you know, we'll see.
Sorry, you'll make it happen, Ogle.
I think you can find out a way.
Just drop in the bucket for you, you know?
Drop in the bucket.
Yeah, something like that.
So let's wrap up here.
I'm supposed to go to dinner with the wife in like 30 minutes, if that's okay.
But I did want to – actually, I love that I got to speak with you.
Banana, I'm actually so offended that I didn't know you before.
You should be offended that I didn't.
You sound like this big brain go to dev that I never knew because I was an East Maxie back when you were killing it on Solana before Solana absolutely
blew up.
And then Mezcal, it's good to see your background.
Vesper, great to talk to you the first time.
And Carr, I'm interested to be page number 18 of the round trip of the white paper you're working on.
But I'm really, really excited.
And I keep saying USD1 season because I think it's a real thing and it's going to happen.
And there's no better place for it to happen than America Fund.
I mean, the signs are literally all there.
And launching a token, I mean, when you guys do do V2,
I need to be, I guess I already have you on notifications,
but I'll have to know about it because that's the place I need to do it at.
So I'll start talking to Froggy and see if he can spin up some art and do it.
The hardest part, Ogle, though, is launching a token sounds so scary
because I just already know the DMs you get.
If price goes down at all in any shape or form.
So it's like launching it, I'd almost have to like...
I'm interested to see what Banana comes up with with the launch strategy
because I'd need to buy 90% of it and earn it or something.
I have no idea.
It is incredibly annoying. I'm not going to, I'm not going to sugarcoat that part. Like
you can have the best intentions in the whole world. You can have the very best intentions.
You can spend all your money. You can put all your time into something. And if anybody buys the
top, which of course, that's how life works, then you're always going to be blamed for everything
that happens, but that's just how it works. So I'm not going to sugarcoat it. But that said,
you can control that a little bit by making sure you get the right amount of your own supply,
making sure that you communicate, you know, that people should, you know, this is fun,
it's art, that kind of thing. And I think you'll be all right. By the way, if you want to take a
run through it yourself and try and launch 10, 12, 15 tokens,
we're not gonna refund you the 200 AOL,
but just if you just wanna play with the system
and burn some AOL, you're very welcome to.
Will I get points?
Yeah, you can just get a bunch of points.
That's a good idea.
There you go.
Yeah, I'll get some points.
I know you're not a fan of points, but I don't know.
I don't like points for platforms I don't believe in,
but when I actually believe in something, I think it's well worth it, right?
Yeah, no, I agree.
I'm not saying I hate points per se.
I hate the way points have been used in some systems.
I think about Blast points, for example.
That brought a humongous amount of liquidity,
a bunch of points for virtually nothing.
There was really no purpose in doing it. It was meant to be mercenarily boring, like a humongous amount of liquidity, a bunch of points for virtually nothing. Right?
There was really no purpose in doing it.
It was meant to be mercenarily boring.
And that's what happened, you know?
And it feels, I don't know,
it just feels boring to me,
like, you know, those things.
But I think if you can gamify a system,
which is what we're trying to do
is actually gamify this system.
And there are purposes, in fact,
there's actually good purposes
where you can even use your points
for some stuff
like like we're we're kind of working on that uh which is a little more comprehensive a little
more complex yeah i think that's one of the differences too like on the topic of blast
it's like everyone only participated but participated in blast to make money on the
airdrop and if you have that then you're gonna have no one really left to really want to build
on it other than just to try to farm users for their drop, right?
So I like what you guys are doing.
It's not really an emphasis on the farm.
It's about the entire ecosystem, which there's piece one of multiple coming out,
which is really cool.
Thank you very much for hosting us.
You know, your wife is yelling at you.
She's going to be yelling at me.
She's not yelling at me yet.
But we're going to McDonald's Play Place tonight.
So we've got an upgrade.
So I'm excited about it.
Well done.
It is a bullish market again.
So you got to go have fun.
Yeah.
Vesper was making fun of me about my ramen diet.
So I got to go up it tonight with some dollar menu items, I guess.
But hey, thanks so much for joining.
It's great to meet the rest of the team.
I hope you're OK that I keep doing these things on Fridays.
It's really cool to connect with the community.
Maybe I'll do one with Bibiora soon.
I see Kitty listening.
That'd be fun.
And then kind of learn more about their background with AOL.
So yeah, that'd be fun.
Thank you very much for hosting.
We'll try to get some of the other,
the other team members to come on at some point as well.
We got a few more folks that didn't, we couldn't make it,
but thanks so much for talking to everybody.
It's been a lot of fun and thanks everyone else for joining.
Before you leave, if you can retweet this, please,
so that folks can see the recording.
I would appreciate it.
Hey, and actually on that topic of retweeting it,
I'll pick one person that retweets this by Sunday so it's my Friday right now by Sunday and I'll give
you guys a hundred bucks in Seoul to one person that retweets it so no who will
win let's go there's currently only I don't know how many retweets there are I
can't count well I'm gonna match I do another hundred for my own personal
wallet and Harold can just tell me who wins.
All right, still.
Cool.
Thanks so much, guys.
We'll talk soon.
Take care, folks.
Thanks for hosting, Harrow.
Take care, guys.
Bye.
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