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cooltimes w/ Oogy, Dandies, Matrica Labs, YugiBAO
Recorded: March 21, 2023 Duration: 1:24:49Space Recording
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We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
I'll send you some info right now, but over 50 people in here already.
Let's go.
Let's ride.
Appreciate you guys.
Let's get dandies up here as well.
Let's share this thing out.
Let all the homies know.
Everyone's out there having fun at NFTLA.
I don't even have FOMO because we're riding.
We're all good.
Okay, cool.
We're going to start off the Solana spaces today.
We got Matrika Labs.
We got...
Let's see.
One second.
Let me hit them up right now because they're having some trouble connecting.
So, yeah.
We'll see if my buddy Tranquo wants to come up.
If you got like an Android, there's a glitch right now.
Yeah, we might have to shuffle around the schedule.
So, while they're figuring that out right now, we got Wise Whales on the stage right now.
What's up, Wise Whales?
What's going on, man?
Happy to be here.
Yo, glad we could get you on today.
I've been trying to track down, you know, the whales for a while.
Been whale spotting for a long time, though.
What's Wise Whales?
Give us a little overview real quick because I'm not even too familiar with it on like a
nuts and bolts standpoint, but definitely know the name.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, what we do is we find all the whales in Solana.
So, the NFT whales we find by just looking at marketplace volume.
And then we do things like we cluster them by finding their burner walls, group them all
together, and then we pull their entire transaction history and figure out how profitable each
one of them are.
And the most profitable whales we call the Wise Whales.
And we track them and we show you what they're doing historically and in real time.
So, we do this through tables where, you know, every collection you can see in different
time frames how much the Wise Whales, the most profitable traders.
Are buying and selling and listing any given collection.
And we have charts, which are our most kind of powerful tool.
Basically, it's like, you know, OHLC candlestick data, like on Tensor or SoulSniper, except
overlaid on top of that, we have a scatter plot of all the sales for any given collection.
And then highlighted in green and red are the Wise Whales buys and sells.
So, you can see visually when these guys are buying and selling.
And we also track the trader whales, whales that are likely to kind of sell soon after
they buy.
And diamond-handed whales, whales that are likely to hold on to collections.
And we track and we're integrating them into our charts.
And we have signals that have done really well.
So, basically, you know, when these most profitable traders, the Wise Whales, when they're buying
more than they're selling and a few other criteria are met, we send out signals to our Discord.
And we have some community partners as well.
So, that whole 10 Wise Whales NFTs, we get the signals to their Discord as well, except only
half of them.
We can't get the full value.
But, yeah, I mean, they're in beautiful rendered images.
And it tells you kind of when each, you know, how much each of these classes of whales are
buying and selling in different time frames.
And also, how the floor listings are changing and how the volume is changing, all that kind
of stuff.
So, we do a bunch of on-chain analytics stuff.
And, you know, this is just the beginning where we're growing from here.
And we got a PFP upgrade coming soon.
Oh, love that.
Love the upgrade there.
So, I'm, you know, mostly an Ethereum guy.
I do dabble in Solana.
So, I want you to kind of correct me where I could be wrong in this premise that, you
know, look, it's awesome to get, you know, into these Solana projects early.
Like, we got Oogie on the stage right now.
That's like, you know, the top new project.
And it's almost worth your entire week, month, whatever, grinding for that whitelist, for
somebody's top whitelist.
I don't know, from an outsider's perspective, I don't know that I'm not trading secondary
as much as I used to.
Do you feel like Wise Whales is still helpful even in a market like this when there doesn't
seem to be as much, like, good volatility on the secondary market?
Yeah, that's a totally fair point.
And I would say it's definitely, you know, the more volume, the more volatility there is
in the market, the more value these tools have, 100%.
But even now, I mean, just, you know, tracking these new collections that are coming out, certainly
lots of opportunities there.
And I mean, you know, you can see volume, but it's, you know, is it smart money getting
Is it the wisest whales?
Or is it, you know, other volume getting in?
And being able to see that in real time is super valuable.
And, you know, we've, you know, we've been able to predict kind of a lot of these funds
we've had signals.
You know, you look at the run out from Klanosaurs and Lily, Famous Foxes, Galactic Geckos, and even
some of the more, you know, super, super recent ones, you know, being able to see when smart
money is really getting into these collections, especially when they're accumulating over a
week or so, it really is a good indicator as to, you know, if this is a smart investment
or not.
So, yeah, there is definitely less opportunities, I would say, than there has been, you know,
when the secondary market's super hot.
But even now, I mean, you know, if you got into Klanosaurs, as the wise whales were accumulating
Lily, you know, there's still a lot of money to be made.
And, you know, our community is definitely making some money on these trades, 100%.
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, Klanosaurs, it's kind of crazy.
I mean, I think, like, I had a whitelist for Klanosaurs I minted, and I think those got
even down to, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I think those got even down to 15
Sol, we see them, you know, skyrocket up to 70 Sol, Galactic Geckos.
I actually posted a thread yesterday about Galactic Geckos, which I think those got down
to five Sol, and this was several months ago, but those got down to five Sol, and, you know,
this was pretty much just a powder keg.
So, they're definitely, and, you know, if you're buying multiple, if you have conviction
in these projects, that's really helpful.
Talk a little bit about the Wise Whales community.
I mean, are you seeing big Ws from the community members?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, you know, I think basically every project that has done well over the last couple months,
like, we've had a number of signals over the days for this project.
So, you know, our community is happy with results.
You know, we have a pretty active community, and they're also very, like, analytic-focused.
You know, we spend a lot of time in Discord just analyzing projects, what's cooking, you
know, what's the sentiment like, and, you know, we don't just use the Wise Whale data, right?
Obviously, there's, you know, more to it.
It's not like just a magic one, you know, one data source cure-all.
But, you know, it's honestly probably the best source of data you could want for these
collections.
So, yeah, our community is doing great and super convicted.
And just so you know, we actually are planning on going cross-chain to Ethereum next.
My ears just perked up when you mentioned Ethereum.
Well, actually, I'll be honest with you.
It's my dick got a little hard.
It wasn't just the ears.
But, yeah, fire.
I could love seeing some Wise Whale analytics over on Ethereum.
All right, yeah, definitely watch out for Wise Whales, guys.
PFP upgrade?
When is that coming?
It's in the works.
I mean, we're, you know, it's just something that wasn't even on a roadmap.
But, you know, our community wants it.
And, you know, obviously, it's an important thing.
But I didn't want to just make it an upgrade for the sake of doing it and just, like, not
be super honed in on the art.
So, I mean, we have the base model.
We have some traits going.
It'll be, I don't know, probably, you know, a few weeks, a month, maybe a little bit more.
Who knows?
It depends how picky I am.
And I'm, like, pretty particular with the art.
So, we've gotten a bunch of feedback from some of our whale holders.
Everyone loves the art so far.
So, it's looking good.
And it'll be ready by the time we move over to Ethereum, I think, for that launch.
Wait, so are you, like, bridging to Ethereum?
Or are you just going to be doing, like, a separate mint on Ethereum?
Yeah, it'll be a separate mint.
I'm not sure how much...
We can't have any more people leaving Solana, bro.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not leaving Solana.
Like, look, man.
I mean, we started, we actually started on Ethereum, you know, parsing Ethereum data.
And I went to Solana just because, you know, that's my home, right?
And, you know, for people in this space that know me, I mean, you know, I'm at the hacker houses.
I'm, you know, I host Twitter spaces daily.
I'm, you know, my home is Solana.
But, you know, you have to be flexible in terms of where you're going to raise money and bring a product to.
So, you know, my home is and always will be Solana.
Our community is Solana-focused.
But that's not to say that we can't bring the value of Wise Wheels cross-chain.
For sure.
All right.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks for hopping on on short-term notice here.
Appreciate you, bro.
Yeah, thanks for having me up.
Yeah, happy to hear from these other guys, especially Oge.
I don't think I've ever, maybe we chatted once on one of our spaces.
But, yeah, happy to hear the updates from the up-and-coming Top Dog project, man.
You guys are killing it.
Congrats on that.
And thanks for having me up.
Yeah, I don't know about you guys, but I'm feeling oogish.
Oogish as fuck.
Yeah, shout out to them.
And they're, I mean, shout out to the other projects, too.
But, you know, we got 115 people in here right now.
I know a lot of people are excited about Oogie.
And I think it's really dope that they have founders and a team that, you know, I just hit them.
I'm like a, you know, I do a lot of Ethereum spaces.
I hit them up, and I was, you know, obviously a fan.
I was like, hey, can you guys do a spaces with me?
And, you know, no shade.
But there are some other hot projects out there recently that I hit up.
And, you know, I don't think they're looking to come on and talk about what they're doing.
I don't think they have much else to talk about.
Oogie?
Yeah.
Shock face.
I think Oogie's ready to, I mean, like, I love when founders, I know on the Ethereum side, founders who are active is so, so, so bullish.
I mean, we've seen it with Luka with Pudgy Penguins.
We've seen it with Pawns at play.
Like, I mean, am I allowed to say Frank still?
Can I still say Frank on it with D-Guys?
No, I probably shouldn't.
But, like, if you actually go back and check the records, I did Frank's, like, first Twitter space back, like, way, way, way back in the day.
And it's really cool to pull in different founders and hear their POV.
Before we get to Oogie, though, we're going to talk a little dandies because it's a Tuesday, and why not feel a little dandy?
Dandies, what's up?
Yo, what's good?
Thanks for the opportunity, fam.
Yeah, of course.
Gentle Monkey is requested.
He's one of the co-founders and our lead dev, so if you could just bring him up, I'll tee him up a little bit and talk about the short history of dandies.
But, yeah, thanks again for having us.
So, dandies, it falls under the X-Labs brand.
So, that's in Dragons, Mob Studios, a couple other that, you know, people on Solana are familiar with.
Minted about three months ago during the Bonk race.
So, we were early supporters of Bonk.
Minted in Bonk.
Burned a fair bit of Bonk as well as part of that.
That mint really rode that wave early.
And I think our floor price had hit maybe the low teens at one point.
Continued to build throughout.
So, really, at our core, we're builders.
And I know that that's what, excuse me, a lot of projects hold claim to.
But, you know, Gentle Monkey, as I mentioned, is a Solana OG.
And I probably, he's probably the least known but yet best dev in the space.
So, he's already pushed a number of products.
He's got another one coming out here very shortly that he's built in a matter of days there as well.
So, I'm hopeful he's able to come up and talk.
Because, as you mentioned, getting founders on spaces is something that, you know, I think as of late, he's committed more to getting in front of the community, getting out on spaces like this.
And just talking about Solana and what Danny's is all about.
So, yeah, I think he might have popped back in.
So, he may request again.
Yeah, I'm trying to get him on.
There's been a glitch in the past week with Android.
It's not enough.
That Android users have the green text messages.
Like, it's not enough.
Like, I was like, I texted.
I got a girl's number like a couple months ago.
And, like, she was really cute and everything like that.
Great conversation at the bar.
And then she had the green, like, text bubbles.
And I'm like, it's just not going to.
There's something wrong.
Like, I thought she was like.
I'm like, you're a bot.
Okay, you're botted out.
I don't know.
So, yeah.
All that to say that I'm trying to get Gentle Monkey on here.
There's been a glitch for Android people.
So, if you see somebody on the speaker stage, be bullish on them because they have an iPhone.
Yeah.
Back to you, Danny.
Yeah, sure.
So, let me talk a little bit about.
I won't go into great detail about some of the tools that we pushed out.
But, there's been the vanity address generator.
So, creating the naming for SPL tokens.
The SPL token generator.
NFT suite.
A snapshot tool, which is the fastest snapshot tool on Solana.
And, really, all of these are available to Dandy's holders.
So, it's token-gated utility.
We are staking from Bonk.
And we fully support and appreciate the Bonk grant that we got.
And we back the team and forth from the team.
Not financial advice there.
Obviously, some volatility recently with Bonk.
But, we do want to separate ourselves to some extent from being just a Bonk staking project.
Because we are building legitimate tools here.
And want to be recognized with the likes of Famous Foxes and, you know, Smiths, etc.
Which are about, you know, we're about a tenth of the floor price there.
I think the market, just for builders, and you touched upon just kind of low liquidity outside of some newer mints.
I think over time, as we continue to build, and Ilgi, congrats on that.
You guys are active as fuck.
I've been on multiple spaces with you.
I've had pre-sale.
So, thanks for pumping my bags there.
But, anyways.
Yeah.
So, Gentle's been working on a airdrop tool.
So, I know Ilgi's doing an airdrop.
I don't think those are connected whatsoever.
But, you know, that's going to be released somewhat soon.
I would love to have him up to talk more about it.
And he would get kind of into more details about how it may be better than other ones that may exist.
But, that's going to be called Magpie.
And not to be confused with the bird that looks like it's wearing a tuxedo.
That's going to be the tool that we push there out somewhat soon.
And then the larger, and not just a tool, but a product that I think people who kind of stayed close to us was originally conceptualized as the library.
There's been very little info shared about that from the team's perspective.
And we plan to continue, you know, to keep it that way.
But, that's going, that's now rebranded as Biblio.tech.
So, Bibliotech in Italian, you know, the library in Italian.
That's going to be released over the course of a year in multiple phases.
And it will eventually be multi-chain.
So, he touched on Ethereum.
I think we certainly want to start with Solana because we are all Solana OGs and have been here, you know, since the early on, you know, NFT kind of phase there, right?
But, eventually, that will go multi-chain.
So, we're super excited about that.
And what we tell our community, and we're focusing now, Wild Gentle Monkey, and we did bring on two more devs as well that are going to be starting to push those, you know, expedite things and move us forward a little quicker, is really to focus on the community building.
So, I'm a part of, you know, I'm doing some work on that front and trying to really have our community zoom out and see the bigger picture.
I think it's really easy to think short-term when liquidity is low.
So, that's probably why we've seen some movement in our floor price because we are kind of categorized as a builder.
But, ultimately, we have a really strong foundation of whales, the team personally, and multiple other people.
So, being a 10K collection, it doesn't take much, as we all know, to the tank a floor.
So, anybody considering it, now, I would say, is the time to accumulate dandies and just sit back and watch us build.
Do you think, again, I am not Mr. Solana expert.
I am, I will call myself Mr. Ethereum expert.
So, I love doing these spaces because you guys educate me and hopefully some of the listeners a little bit as well.
So, but, I mean, I heard a lot about Bonk.
I mean, that seems inextricably tied to what you guys are doing.
You know, you stake your dandies for Bonk.
You know, you can win projects by using Bonk.
You know, auctions with Bonk, all that good stuff.
Do you feel like you're almost too, are you too correlated to Bonk?
Which, I don't know how, I don't know what the number is on it right now, if it's doing well or not.
But do you feel like there's sentiment is tied to that?
Yeah, there certainly is some perception that we are.
And that is the case, right?
Like, you do stake for Bonk.
That is a finite supply.
So, at some point, we will run out of that.
I think maybe originally when Bonk was pumping and our floor was pumping, there was certainly correlation there.
I think at this point in time, it's just coincidental to some extent that Bonk basically dumps right after that massive pump.
And then our floor kind of dropped just because it's, as a builder project, you try as hard as you possibly can to maintain hype and to push your value proposition.
And ultimately, how we're going to, we're not going anywhere.
This is, we're looking at the long term.
We're trying to consider the short term, but with the low liquidity that we're seeing here and really everything going to new mints, and deservedly so for the mints that are doing things right and pushing the ecosystem forward.
But, you know, it's certainly a valid point.
And what we're trying to kind of, we said debunk as a plan on debunk, is we're so much more than that, really.
And we're providing tools to individuals, to projects, to sub-dows.
And so anybody who wants to make a shit coin, anybody who wants to start their own project, anybody who wants to support, you know, their own community, et cetera, you can get access to our tools through holding just one singular dandy.
Now, what may exist within Biblio, which is the larger product, right, is that we're going to start incentivizing for heavier bags.
We're still working out the mechanics there.
But the use case and what Biblio is has not been disclosed whatsoever because we're desperately trying to avoid any type of pump and dump here and front running.
Yeah, I mean, and that's certainly not the, you know, what you guys are about because, I mean, there's been multiple hundred-plus Solana sales, I've noticed, on some of the one-of-one grails.
I think three in the past week.
Where do you think, with all being considered, where do you think that massive conviction is coming from in your community?
What's their investment thesis there?
Yeah, no, and thanks for noting that.
I was actually one of them, so the Fire 101 is the one that I picked up, and I'm not on my laptop or my personal account.
But I think it has everything to do with, and we have a nice kind of graphic, too, that says,
In GM We Trust, and it's just gentle monkeys, his in-roll life background, his commitment.
I mean, this guy barely sleeps.
I think he took his first vacation, he came back a few days ago for the first time in a year, and we were able to sustain, but he's been back for maybe three, four days, and he's built, I think, largely from scratch, this airdrop tool.
So, shit you not, he's one of the quickest builders and most knowledgeable Solana people.
I mean, he could write white papers for how to build on Solana, but, you know, and maybe someday we monetize that, right?
But, yeah, I think it's, and the team collectively, and their success in the space, right?
So, X-Labs, Xen Dragons, and Mob Studios have all done well.
So, it's that experience and that knowledge over the past, you know, year and a half.
Who has better art, dandies or OK Bears?
I mean, I obviously love dandies.
Why do I take a deep breath?
There's no deep breath.
You gotta say that.
You know, from a PFP standpoint, you know, OKB has got your prototype kind of PFP there.
I think there's just so much more, like, just from a trade perspective and a variety.
I know there's a ton with OKB for sure, but, yeah, I don't want to dig too far into it because a lot of a PFP to me is also, you know, where the floor price is.
And I think we're super undervalued, so you might see what I'm implying there.
But I'm not trying to get in any beef with anybody, so.
I am.
No, I'm just kidding.
All right, cool.
Yeah, go give dandies a follow.
Strong community.
A lot of conviction in that community as well.
So, rooting for you guys.
And thanks for coming on today, man.
Thanks for having me.
Of course.
All right.
We're going to get to Oogie in a second.
God, I'm so locked in right now.
I'm so ready to go.
I noticed we got my brother JB on the stage right now, though, who, I mean, he's a veteran of this game.
He, he's, you know, it's like Peyton Manning on that, you know, that they do like the Manning cast on like Monday Night Football.
Like he, he's, he's seen the game before.
He knows what this whole game is about, you know.
Obviously, very influential, very much integral to the, to the D-Gods community.
And now he's very integral with the Oogie community.
Before we officially talk to you guys, I just wanted to talk to my brother JB real quick, if he's available.
What's up?
Are you there, JB?
What's up, buddy?
How's it going?
Going well.
Are you, you're not in LA right now, are you?
I'm not, no.
I'm on the couch in Charleston, working from home.
We have friends coming to visit us, driving up here on Friday.
How is it not on LA?
Considerate of them.
You should be rocking out with, with Frank and the boys and doing shoes.
Don't get me started.
I've literally like this and NFT NYC are the two events that I had on my calendar to go to.
And, and I go to my wife a couple months ago to, you know, Hey, let's, let's book these tickets.
We can fly to LA for like 200 bucks a round trip, even from Charleston, which is wild.
And I give her the dates and she's like, Oh yeah.
So, and so are going to be here that weekend.
And then Allie's going to be here that weekend.
I'm like, excuse me.
Who are you?
Wait.
So you're entertaining her friends.
I mean, yeah.
So the one coming this weekend is like her best friend, uh, and, and her husband, like
they're cool.
I mean, we've been together for eight years now.
So like, we're all really close or whatever.
Um, but the, the friend coming NFT NYC week weekend is like one of both of our friends,
um, was in our wedding.
We haven't seen them since the wedding, like three years ago.
I was like, dude, like, can we just rug this friendship?
Like, is this really, you know, that important that we're here?
Um, and she was not a fan of that idea, but that's all right.
Next year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of course.
I mean, you got to do what you got to do.
Uh, let's, let's talk about you real quick.
Um, what do you kind of, uh, you're, you're very much entrenched in the community.
What, what are you kind of seeing, uh, really early on from this community?
Again, you've, you know, you've seen it all, uh, D gods, cats, um, maybe what's,
what's your kind of pulse on this community right now?
I honestly, the community has like really impressed me the last week or so since mint
and, and even like leading up to mint, um, you know, obviously like leading up to mint
being in like the discord and on Twitter, like everyone is so excited and blah, blah, blah.
And, and causing a ruckus.
And then a lot of the times like mint rolls around and, and people, you know, flip them
and make their bag and the community just dies.
And like, you never really hear from that project audibly again, you know, like obviously
there's still the people who are invested in it, but if they kind of just stick with
the discord or it's like, it just kind of flies under the radar from then on out.
But these motherfuckers in the Oogie community and discord and on Twitter are so fucking loud.
It's insane.
I'm like, I'm genuinely getting like, I hate making this comparison and pre mint people
would always hit me with like the, Oh, Oogie's the next D gods.
Oogie's the next D gods.
And I'm like, I don't like being that guy.
But the amount of engagement that you can drum up on a relatively simple tweet from these
people is insane.
Um, like one of my D gods buddies the other day just made like a casual comment in my
replies or like a reply to one of my comments on his tweet or something about sweeping Oogie's
on his live stream that he does.
I think he got like 150 retweets on it within like an hour.
Like, it's just an absolute army.
It's insane.
The discord is like shit posting and copy pots to fucking 24 seven.
Like the energy is just high as shit.
And, uh, it's, yeah, it's been really impressive.
I love it.
I want to, uh, you know, transition that into, um, like a bounty week, like almost like an
OG D gods week type thing.
And really like, you know, get some of these people, their flowers and whatnot, but holy shit
so far, very, very good.
I'm super impressed, super, uh, you know, almost surprised by it.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
They're popping off hard for sure.
And again, uh, showing up to do just little spaces like this, just show up, you know,
talk a little bit, not, not hiding from, from the grind or anything like that.
Um, when, when Oogie cast, no, I just kid, but, um, I see, I see your, uh, I peep.
If you're an advisor, great ass hire, I think, in my opinion, um, me and you go away.
I mean, we, we did a video months and months, maybe even like a year ago, we did like a
video together.
Uh, so I've been, I've been tapped in with my guy, JB, but, um, talked a little bit about
the community.
I mean, I'm sure you've been approached to get on different teams or, you know, to help
launch whatever.
Um, what did you see from just a team at, you talked about the community.
What do you see from like a team aspect where you're like, all right, like this is my reputation.
I'm willing to put it on the line because I believe in what the team is building.
Yeah.
Uh, so I actually met Justin, I think it was like a year ago.
I legitimately think it was like last March.
Um, when I was doing divine dogs with one of like my OG D God's buddies, uh, and Justin
heard me talking on a space about like some of the things we were going to do at divine
dogs and reached out to me cause he had like a similar product or whatever, or, or was
working on a project that could maybe help out.
So our, our, our paths crossed way back then, uh, the, the project that they were like working
on was like, no offense to Justin and Andy, like the concept was cool.
And, and part of that original concept is part of the Oogie roadmap now.
Um, but at the time it was just kind of like not super flushed out.
Um, you know, the art was, was not very great.
For lack of a better word.
Um, and, and they just kind of shut it down.
I think they realized that like, you know, they weren't going about it the right way.
Uh, and it probably was not going to be as successful as they wanted it to be.
And then a couple months later, I think like early May, late April, Justin hit me back
and was like, Hey, we scrapped everything.
Uh, we, we are, instead of just like pushing out this tech that we have been building, we
want to, you know, start over, redo the art, make the art insane.
We want to like properly, you know, try and build up this community and like go through
the entire process to like build this thing from the ground up and, and kind of show people
that what we're about versus just like launching this kind of half-assed project, you know,
making a couple bucks to, to put out a product or whatever.
Um, and to me, that was huge.
Like to have basically a product that, or a project that was like 90% done, they could
have pushed it out to mint if they wanted and probably made like a little bit of a bag and
then just kind of let it, you know, fade off into the, into the silence, whatever.
The fact that they said, fuck that, we're scrapping the whole thing.
We're starting over.
We want this to be like a big deal.
Like we don't just want to be another project.
That was the first thing to me that was like, all right, these dudes probably like going
to be around a while.
The fact that like Justin's been a D God forever, that helps the fact that they all
like were willing to instantly dox and like, you know, give me their cell phone, fucking
talk on video calls, whatever, um, was what made me initially be like, all right, I will
see where this goes.
And it kind of just started as like, we had a, you know, a couple of calls a week and I
would just like see what they were doing, where they were at with the project and, you
know, offer a little bit of advice here and there.
But I mean, that was last March, April, it's been, you know, almost a year.
We just minted a week ago.
So like, obviously over time I was like, hold, like these dudes are not fucking kidding.
Like they're, this thing is not going to go to market until it is absolutely ready
to rock.
And I think, you know, obviously that was the right decision just based off how things
have gone since meant, but yeah, I mean, it's just when you talk to teams and obviously
like since meant I've been getting offers like left and right to advise projects.
And you can tell who like, just wants you to be an advisor or whatever, to use like
their name or your name rather to like give their project some validity and who like genuinely
thinks that, you know, you have good experience to offer and whatnot.
And honestly, it's just super easy to bet on like projects like Oogie, like founders like
Justin and Andy O'Brien, because if like, if they were to disappear tomorrow and be completely
gone, like, I don't think anyone would look at me and be like, damn, you're a piece of
shit.
Like, this is your fault.
I think I would be just as surprised as like everyone else would.
So bet on winners, I guess.
Yeah.
And this one is definitely a winner that we like Solana is fucking reviving.
Like, yeah, well, it's going, Solana is going on a run right now.
I got to give like the little salute emoji to you and the Oogie team for, for crushing it.
Um, appreciate you stopping through JB to say what's good.
Uh, definitely need to catch up.
And, uh, yeah, I mean, the, the memes are on a different, even though the memes on, on
some of the replies, I, I just pinned my favorite one where it's the AI Trump, uh, getting pulled
away by the police.
Um, and, uh, his, his last words are, I need to reveal my Oogie.
That one's a banger.
Yeah, man.
Banger.
I, I'm like not really a discord guy that much anymore, but like I'll, I'll poke in the
Oogie discord and just watch just because it's so like entertaining and fun.
Like it reminds me of like the D Dow on an announcement day or like a night where everyone's
been staying up for six hours, waiting for something that was supposed to drop and keeps
getting delayed.
And people are just like losing their mind and having a good time the entire time.
It's, uh, it's very fun to watch, fun to be a part of.
Yeah.
I mean, you're, you're doing it.
Hey man, you're, you're dropping like early D gods vibes.
Like, you know, you gotta be, you gotta be careful with that, man, because I'm re I'm
really hate being that guy and trying not to be that guy, but it's like the only thing
in my experience in the time I've been like in Solana FTS that I can compare it to maybe
I'll give it, I'll give them like early cats on crack days too.
Like that discord was a fucking, just a madhouse 24 seven.
I'll give it that comparison just to not be the early D gods guy.
Nah, I, I, I'll do early D gods.
Like I'll, I'll be out the bar with my boys and I'll just be like, I don't know, that
girl's kind of giving me early D gods vibes.
And they're just like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Um, so literally what, what does that mean?
No, no one knows what it means, but it's provocative.
It gets the people going.
It's provocative.
Exactly.
All right.
Let's talk a little Oogie here.
Um, we got the, the team on the stage right now.
Uh, we got Brummie, we got the official account.
I don't know who wants to jump in here, but, uh, I know you guys are out at NFT LA right
now.
So I appreciate you guys stopping through, uh, my show.
Um, it's all, it's all some of the team members hanging out with Frank last night.
Um, any, any inclination so far, if you, how's, how's NFT LA going?
Are you hearing anything from reports there?
Are good connections being made, but what are the vibes like out there from the team
members who are there?
Yeah, things, uh, this is Brian, by the way, um, we're, uh, we're taking NFT LA and shifts
right now.
It's been a really good experience.
Um, the vibes are good.
Um, you know, we're doing a holder's lunch tomorrow.
We didn't want to do anything crazy fancy right after we just minted, but we want to give
a chance, you know, for people in our community to get together.
Andy, um, is up there right now.
He is, uh, went to the D gods event last night.
He's going to the, uh, Clayno event tonight.
Uh, he was, you know, saw Frank, uh, Frank speak with Mark, um, at one of the events,
I think at noon today.
So yeah, it's like from, from what he said, just like great connections being made where
he got to chat with a ton of our holders.
He wore his Oogie gear to the D gods event last night and was, you know, getting sworn
by people just like congratulating him and everything like that.
So, um, it's been really good.
I'm going up tomorrow.
Um, and I'll be up there for a while.
Uh, like I said, we're going to do that holder's lunch, but yeah, I think overall vibes are good.
We're just happy.
Um, you know, it's been really fun ever since we minted, like you guys were talking about,
like just bringing these good vibes back to the Solana space and, you know, the overall
crypto space, honestly, like there was just such a lull there for a while.
Um, and it feels good, you know, like some of this, this healthy rivalry that we have
with bastards going on with, uh, the art wars and stuff.
And, um, you know, it's, it's all in good fun.
It's just good to see people lively and enjoying themselves.
And, um, we're having a great time with it.
Um, obviously we, you know, I have had this plan in place for a year, so it's like, so,
you know, nice to see it come to fruition.
Uh, and yeah, we're just, you know, we're just vibing out.
We're getting ready for our reveal.
Um, we went through all 15 K.
So we generated 15 K of our artwork.
And then we went through as a team and hand deleted 5,000 of the ones that we just thought
like weren't a vibe or like have layering issues.
Coloring was off.
Um, so we've put a shit ton of effort into, uh, um, getting this reveal ready.
Uh, and yeah, we have, uh, we have a very cool reveal mechanism in store for people that
we can't wait to, uh, to release what that is.
I've actually never heard of anyone doing that.
So that's dope because, uh, you know, Hey, uh, JB cover your ears, but it's like, I don't
know that any, not that many people wanted like the helmet Utes trade.
I don't know that that many people wanted that.
Um, so sometimes it's like, Oh shit.
I don't know that I needed the crazy eyes board API club trait to be the one that's constantly
on the floor.
So that's fine.
I've actually never heard of any project doing that.
So, I mean, I like that you guys are literally curating the art and yeah, I love that you
guys are showing up in FTLA, which I think it's a testament.
Like Solana, like everyone wants to wish it to be, to be dead, but it's, it's the opposite.
Like I was at FTLA last year.
I'm not going this year.
Last year, I don't think there was one Solana project that showed up.
It was just, you know, all, a lot of the same ETH parties where they did an open bar.
They spent all their royalties money.
They're going broke like the, the Solana projects are the ones like we got, you know, Clay
No, D gods, um, uh, Liberty square showing up like Liberty square.
It's like, they have the plague as like the second billing, you know, a big ETH project
has second billing on their, their event.
And like, I'm just like, Holy shit.
Like NFT LA is all about Solana projects or Solana adjacent projects.
And, uh, I think that's a huge fucking testament to the overall ecosystem.
So, yeah, I actually started, I started my experience on the ETH side of things.
I come from like a finance background and was big into like DeFi.
And then I naturally was just like already messing around with ETH.
So I started with ETH projects and stuff.
Um, and it was really Justin and Andy who like got me into the Solana space.
And, uh, yeah, it's just, I mean, like they both have their pros and cons, I think.
But, uh, the community aspect of some of these Solana projects is just so strong.
And like, there's just like a lot of like bag flippers on the E side of things.
There's like a ton of bots that like ruin projects on the E side of things.
Not that it doesn't happen in the soul space, but, um, yeah, like I've, I've enjoyed so much
the last 12 months of like diving like very deep into the soul space.
You gotta, you gotta be built different in my opinion on Solana.
Like the community is strong, but like, uh, they're, they're vocal.
Um, well, they can be rude.
So, but everyone, every, everyone can be ruthless.
That's yeah.
ETH people are like, we're like, oh yeah, we've been slow rugged a thousand times.
Like it's, it's okay.
Um, wise, I'm going to get to you in one second, but I just wanted to circle back on
who you talking about, um, you know, the, the traits and the reveal that they've been
going through.
Um, I mean, give a little bit of alpha out, like what had there, were there traits that
you guys saw that you were like, like, I know you said you deleted some, but, uh, were
there traits and, and mixups that you saw that were like, oh shit, that's fire.
Like might not be like the gold, like 1% rare or whatever, but like, oh shit, like that's
a fire.
Can you give us alpha on like some traits that maybe you personally were like, oh, that's
really cool.
Brian, let me go.
I go for it.
I'm actually going to drop a couple later.
We just tweeted a sneak peek, um, from the main account, but I, I saved a handful that
I really liked when I was doing my part of the like 15,000 review.
Um, one of my favorite traits, which I don't think we've like ever seen before.
We have a body trait.
That's a surfer.
So he's like carrying a surfboard and has like the puka shell necklace and shit.
Some of the combos with that body trait and then like the more traditional traits and then
like the kind of ancient, uh, style Oogie shit that we have going on are absolutely fucking
phenomenal.
That's, I think that's like my all time top favorite trait.
Um, there's another one that I'm going to drop, uh, that's like an iteration of like
the classic pit vipers trait too.
That is a fucking stunner dude.
And a lot of it like, okay, this is like kind of alpha, but not, not that big of a deal.
So a lot of the like eye traits, the, the glasses, uh, like the reflective ones, especially
have like reflections of landscapes in them.
So like you look into the pit vipers and you see like, you know, the city of Oasis in
the reflection of the glasses.
And that happens in a lot of like the, the rare, more like reflective glasses traits.
I think that's one of my favorite touches, like in the entire collection, all of the
details are insane.
But like, I noticed that today, um, as I was going through some of them and it's, it's so
fucking sick.
Like I'm going to drop four of them later today on my Twitter that are all bangers.
And some of them are just like clean ass common bangers too.
Yeah.
I think that's what I'll say shocked me the most just going through, I mean, like we each
went through, I don't know, like 2,500 or like took ownership of 2,500 ourselves.
So like when you're going through that many, like it's easy to get like, you know, lulled
to sleep and be like, damn, you know, I'm looking through 2,500 of them.
But like, when you look through this collection, there's such a good variety of like, even
the cleanest common ones that are like, if you want like a guy who has like a, like very
street wear vibe, like that is in the collection.
If you want a guy who has like just some crazy ass trait combinations, like that is definitely
in the collection.
If you're looking for a guy who's like, has more of like a buttoned up look with like a
rose in his mouth, like kind of like Brummie's, uh, PFP, like super clean.
And like, there's just so many vibes that I feel like people can empathize and connect
with on like multitude of different levels based off their personal interests.
Like the, you know, what kind of, you know, skin tones or blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever
they like.
Um, and so that's something that just like stood out to me is like, wow, this is like such
has such great clean variety in it.
Um, so yeah, not like specific traits, but that was just like my overall takeaway from going
through like the, this, the 15 K I think that was the first time I heard, uh, Oh yeah, go
ahead, Brummie.
What's up?
Yo man.
Yeah.
Just, uh, just, uh, well say hi, I'm a Brummie marketing lead.
And I was just going to say like on the back of what Brian and JB was saying, if you looked
at our chat at the time, like one, when we were trying to choose our PFPs and two, when
we were like curating the collection, it was just constant, like, Oh my God, this is my
favorite. And then two minutes later, fuck no, this is my favorite. Like that. You
can't, you can't choose. It took me, uh, it must've took me like a full weekend to
decide what I wanted as my PFP. And then going through them, I just keep seeing more
and you know, some of them are rarer than others, but the whole aim with us is we
wanted like even the commons and the, you know, the, the traits that you might see
around the floor, like can be really desirable as well. So I'm, I'm just absolutely
buzzing for a veil. Yeah. That, I think that's the best part you got. Like, you
obviously you're going to see like sub trait dows come out of like traits that you
wouldn't even expect there to be these like really galvanized communities around
like, you know, for, for you. So I'll go back to you. It's like, everyone wants, you
know, a hoodie. They want to be cozied up. So, uh, I, I love when it's like, not even
the most rare traits are the ones where everyone's like, Oh, I need that. Um, Oh,
wise whales. You wanted to jump in real quick. Yeah. I mean, uh, first of all,
yeah. Give these guys their flowers. I mean, I know, um, I personally brought up
these guys in discord and our discord and wise whales, I don't know, six,
seven months ago. I swear to God, you know, we faded, we faded them then.
Like, I don't know. Uh, but man, the grind that these guys have been on and, uh, to
try to perfect the art over that period of time, uh, super impressive. Um, I just
wanted to ask a quick question about the utility. I know you guys had a, uh, art
aggregator that was, uh, being planned on, uh, with form function kind of, uh, going
belly up. Do you guys, uh, still, uh, have that in your roadmap or, or what are you
guys, um, uh, what are you guys, uh, doing in terms of, uh, utility? And also
before that, I guess, I also want to say, uh, you know, shout out to, you know, for, for
coming up the gate, uh, post mint, uh, strong, uh, you know, there's really kind of a
battle between you and the bastards, uh, you know, just indirectly. Um, not
saying you guys have any beef and not throwing shade on those guys, but coming
at the gate strong and having a game plan post mint is just super important, um, in
this, uh, in this market and just keeping the momentum up. And it looks like you
guys are doing a great job on that, but yeah, if you could speak about, uh, utility,
I would, I would like that.
Yeah. Credit to, uh, to Brahmi and the rest of the team. We definitely knew like,
when you go into mint day, everybody expects that to be like the peak of like the hype
cycle. And like, what we wanted it to be is like the bottom of the mountain that we
were about to climb in terms of, uh, the, like just noticeable, I guess, awareness of
our project that we wanted to generate. So we had a amazing plan post mint of like every
single day, what were we going to tweet and like making sure everything down to like the
way we tweet the wording, the branding, like everything is on point to just like allow
this to, to keep soaring. Um, so credit to them for that. Uh, and, and we have a great
plan, you know, in place for the next couple of weeks, the next couple months, um, down
the line, as far as utility. Yeah. Great point. Bringing up form function. Um, we, you
know, I was actually a lucky enough to get my hands on some of the financials for form
function to see kind of like what they did and how, like where they went wrong and maybe
like how they could have corrected that business. Um, I was just super interested, honestly,
just from the financial aspect of things, like, like how they ran that business. Um, they ran
it, uh, you know, not as lean as they should have. I think that there's an opportunity, um,
for the artist aggregator to truly be successful. I think it really just depends on like how, and,
and you have to listen to artists and you have to listen to people who are out there
buying and, and understand like what they want. Like, I think if you look at what happened
with form function, like they were kind of like the first ones to come out with that
product. And then exchange art kind of ate their lunch because if you talk to a lot of
these artists, it's just like way more difficult to, I think, use a lot of like the, the interface,
um, that form function had. And then once like you kind of establish a buyer base, like the artists
are going to go where the buyers are buying from. So it's kind of a combination of those
two things. They also had like way too many full-time employees. I think, um, they were
spending a lot on like backend SaaS infrastructure that was unneeded, like probably like 20 K worth
of costs that they could have cut in half. So, um, I definitely think there's a viable business
model there. And like, yeah, I mean, but, but to, to, to add onto that, like it's our duty,
like if, you know, having that as a utility to also just like grow the entire buyer base,
like you can't just keep like going back to the same small pond and fishing. And we don't
necessarily like, if we're going to like integrate with exchange art and stuff like that. Um, like
we want the pond, we want to like the pond to turn into an ocean, right. Of like people who
are out there buying art and artists that are coming on platform. Like we know a couple
of like photographers in real life that are like trying to sell prints on like a shitty
like website that they like meander together. And we're like, why don't you use NFT? Like,
why don't you access this market? Like what has stopped you? And they're just like, I don't
know anything about it. Like we just need to learn more about it. And so there's like a huge
opportunity I think to really bring like not only bigger buyer bases, but also like more
people. Um, that's like for our last one of one that we auctioned, like our artist Simo
did a one-on-one collab with, um, a famous photographer in San Diego. And so like the
entire backdrop of that piece was actually like a San Diego sunset that he took a picture
of that. Then Simo, our artist kind of like blurred and drew on top of. So yeah, we, we,
I think we were aware of the challenges. I don't think it's a dead space at all. Um, you know,
obviously we're in a bear market, so those are all things that we have to ultimately consider.
But, um, yeah, we've definitely put a lot of thought into it. So it's a great point
that you bring up.
Is there, is there like a market to, to aggregate other than, you know, other than, um, uh, I
mean, are we, we're down to one mark, one of one marketplace. What are you guys going
to be aggregating?
Yeah. So we haven't fully flushed out the name of the product yet. We were, we've gone
with artist aggregator, but, uh, that's like kind of just our like standing, standing
name for it right now. Um, but really what it is, is more of like a, a very high quality
discovery tool. And so like when, what we've seen talking to artists and talking to buyers
or one of one are, it's like form function exchange art didn't have really a great method.
Like they have a leaderboard, uh, but they don't have like any sort of backend infrastructure
that tags certain characteristics of these art pieces that you can either search by them
or search by like specific styles or even get recommended the pieces of art that you
may be interested in based off of what's in your wallet or what is, um, like what, like
if you, like, like we said, it's kind of like Tinder style. Like if you, if you have 15, um,
like pieces of artwork in front of you and you swipe left on some and swipe right on something,
like there should be a way that that mechanism is learning like your personal preferences in
order to then like feed you more art that you could potentially buy. Like, I think a lot
of what stops people from buying one of one art isn't because there's not good art out
there or they're not willing to spend money. It's because they have trouble, like literally
finding something they like. So if we can be like a better, um, I guess a better word
than aggregator would be like facilitator, honestly.
Yeah. I mean, uh, that makes a whole lot of sense. And, uh, there's, there's some math
that can go into that. I mean, that's actually, um, somewhere, uh, somewhat similar to the,
the kind of work that we do taking a look at, uh, the networks of communities and stuff.
So if you guys wanted to, you know, we could, we could, we could chat offline about, uh,
helping out with that kind of stuff.
Yeah, no, that sounds amazing. We should definitely get together. Um, like we said,
we're always trying to work with any projects in Solana space that are going to move the
ecosystem forward. So yeah, we definitely, let's connect offline.
JB, did you want to pop in?
I was just going to expand on what Brian was saying a little bit. I, my like elevator pitch
for it is, is Tinder to find artists. Basically. I think people hear aggregator and they think
like hyperspace, but it's, it's artists aggregator in the sense that you're like getting all of the
artists in one space and helping you, you know, find shit that you like, like Brian said. Cause
right now the only way to like find new art is either to be like into the one of one space and
talking to people and in group chats and shit where people are like, you know, dropping new artists
here and there. And even then, a lot of the times it's like, it's not new artists. It's artists
like they hold and they, you know, want you to buy their art cause it pumps their bags.
The other option is to literally scroll exchange art and just look for art that you like. And from my
experience, that option as it being very expensive, cause you just end up bidding on all this shit
that you like. So hopefully it's a, I just think it's gonna be really fun. I'm really excited
about that one. And obviously there's like, there's a lot of things we can do partnership
wise with a tool like that. Um, that'll be, you know, really cool for our holders, really
cool for artists to like get their name out. Not that like Nev, the guy that collabed with
Simo and the last one of one needs to get his name out. Cause he's already like pretty big
fucking deal. But at the same time, like not a lot of people know photography on soul and
like having him use a real life photo in an Oogie fucking PFP is crossing like two completely
different spheres of the salon of space that generally would not be crossed at all. So
that's where I think, uh, like a lot of the excitement for the aggregator comes in is like
combining the D gens with like the one of one in the art space. And, and, you know, cause
we're all fucking D gens at the end of the day. There's definitely a space in the market
for that. Uh, you guys are hitting the nail on the head. I think you, you gotta re you
gotta rebrand it, not to aggregator, but to something else. Um, that sounds, that sounds
awesome. Oh, I'll shut up now. Thanks guys. Yeah. Yeah. No, the, the rebranding is a work
in progress. Brummie's Brummie's been tasked with something better than what, but, uh, what
I could come up with. Um, but I was also going to add to JB's point. I think like the best
proof of concept for us that we got was our 15 auctions we did. And like the, it's not like
these are like artists who haven't been around for a while or like they're artists that people
in the one-on-one space know, but yet like, because we were lucky enough to work with them
and kind of like help bring their art, like to a wider group of audience, like they were
smashing all time highs left and right, like two X, their all time highs, 10 X, their all
time highs. So like, it's not like, like I said, it's literally not like, that's the biggest
proof of concept there. The artists were already there. The people were already buying NFTs.
It was just the fact that we were bringing that those two things together. Yeah. And
I see soul cat in the audience. Love you soul cat. Um, but I think it's literally just like
the fact that it was just tough to like bring those two together. And I don't know why, but
like it's, um, it's something that needs to be done. And yeah, those 15 auctions were
proof of concept. I don't think, I think scum was the only one who didn't set an all time
high, which was a tall task for, for anybody to, to try and do. But, um, yeah, it was,
that's, that was a great experience for us.
There's so many gatekeepers when it comes to art as well. I mean, I know on the Ethereum
side of things, like if you're not on super rare, uh, people don't find you, uh, people
don't think you're legitimate and you know, it's like, okay, well, super rare, you know,
might not know exactly what the fuck they're doing. Um, now you guys, I'm gonna let you
guys go in a second. Cause I know you guys got to like, you're, you're inundated with
stuff. You're even doing an NFT LA, like founders meetup, which is really cool. But
what, what, like, what are you guys were in the next couple of days? Like what's on your
schedule? Like, what are the things, like, I know you were working a lot on, on the art
recently, but like, what are the next couple of steps for you guys? What, what are the
conversations in the group chat about like, what are the problems you're trying to solve
or, uh, things you're trying to build in the next couple of days? Like what are your
most immediate next steps?
Yeah. So I think we have a whole lot going on and that's the reason why we have three
co-founders who are all like very skilled at doing very different things. Um, and then
we also have Brummie, um, who's obviously leading up the marketing. So, I mean, we have
a plan for like, when I say we literally plan every single day, what announcements
are going to be made, what alpha we're dropping, what, like what we're saying in
the discord, like we literally have every single day planned for the next month,
probably in two months, like down to the day. Um, and obviously we have the ability
to adapt from that, like from a technology perspective, um, like we have this reveal
mechanism that we're working through. Um, it's a pretty heavy lift from a tech build
perspective. So like what we want to do is fully test that out. And Justin, you know,
coming the first NFT he ever bought was a D God. So I always say like, he like is the
ultimate perfectionist to like lead any project. Um, and so obviously he wants to like thoroughly
test that out. Um, but reveal will be soon. Um, we have like the ooze, um, that has been
floated out there. I'm not going to say any more than just the fact that it's out there
now. Um, so that's, you know, another piece of, of information that people are paying a
lot of attention to. Uh, we've had some other marketing pieces that have, you know, bits
and pieces of our lore embedded in them. And that is all related to like our kind of 180
day roadmap for the future. So, um, yeah, there's like a lot, a lot, a lot going on like
all at once. And so that's, I mean, that is why we have a team of three founders. Um, you
know, Justin does this full time. Um, Brummie is, you know, working with us the entire time.
We have a team of in discord constantly answering people's questions. It is a, it is an entire
operation. It is a full company that we are running at this point. So, um, yeah, it's,
it's super exciting, but there's a lot, um, over the next just, you know, week, I guess
on top of just going out and networking and NFT LA and, um, you know, trying to meet with
other projects, like likewise, where I was like other people who are builders to just
like really move the ecosystem forward. The alpha is what Andy is going to be handing
out an NFT LA today and tomorrow.
Yeah. It's just the first one. I'm pretty sure he's given, he's given the first who's
out. So someone out there has got one.
This is where they need to have more re like, I need to put like the, the two, like the eye
emoji. Like I need to like, bro, I was looking for the eyes the whole time. I know. Like
what the fuck Elon? God damn it, man. Just guy can do fucking can create a rocket to create
SpaceX Tesla. Can't do fucking the little like eye emoji when he drops the mouth. That's
bullshit. Um, guys, don't, don't distract Elon. We need to get him to fix the rugging
issue first. Don't, don't, uh, don't do other shit. Yeah. Or just, uh, you know, I
about, how about let me send like, you know, 24 hours worth of DMS without getting limited
and having to respond to people with just reactions. It also be sick if people who paid
for Twitter blue could change their profile picture, but I, I I'm asked, we're asking
a lot right now. What's the complaint there? Cause I, I have Twitter blue. I've changed
it like three times in the last week. Yeah, I actually, I refuse to pay for Twitter blue,
but I know that people were bitching about that. So I'm actually capping a little bit
right now, but, uh, yeah. Um, Broomy, what's up with you, man? What do you, what do you,
I mean, it seems like the marketing for Oogie has been firing on all cylinders right now.
Like, do you get to go on vacation right now? It seems like the marketing couldn't be any
better.
Yeah. It's, it's been a, it's been busy, but it's been a lot of fun. I think, um, me and
Justin work as like a really tight team. Um, so we're just constantly back and forth and
I think it really helps actually like us being totally different time zones. So there's almost
like always someone covering at any specific point in time. And then I'll wake up to like
a ton of messages from him. He'll wake up to a ton of messages from me and we'll just
go from there. But I think the key, the key really is like, just, just working like two
steps ahead is like a game of chess, right? You, you know, like everything we're rolling
out now has been planned and the key is like, okay, cool. What's next? Like what's coming
down the line? Like when this, when this happens, what about this? So it's a lot of
strategy involved. Um, we had a lot of, you know, just a lot of fun vibing the discord and
stuff like that as well. Like the, the way the community has taken off has been something
that I, even in my wildest dreams, like wouldn't have, wouldn't have really expected, but it's
just so huge. So now it's about like paying that back and rewarding them and just giving
them more fuel to just go absolutely wild and become one of the biggest communities in
the ecosystem. So yeah, really exciting stuff and fucking love what I'm doing.
I think as well, by the way, I will also say like, I say it's like me and Justin, like
we, we head it up, but like the whole team, like constantly, we're just in the telegram
chat, just like constantly coming up with ideas and like every single one. And even, uh, I
think Brian had a funny one cause he's usually like the, the, the sort of numbers guy and all
this, that and the other. And he, he, he came up with like some creative stuff the other day
and he was like, I did it guys. Yeah. I'd had my first creative contribution to the
team in 12 months. It felt pretty great. I came up with, uh, I think it was the caption
for the reply tweet to bastards and they liked it. And I was like, holy shit, I'm on top of
the world. Did you use Chad GBT? Be honest. No, I did not. I did not. I swear, but that probably
wouldn't be better if I did. But yeah, that sounds like a boring thing to do. Yeah. Yeah.
Now I'm suspicious. Now every time you send something, I'm going to be like, ah, fucking
chat GPT again. Brian GPT, Oogie GPT, Oogie GPT. Yeah. Yeah. Next step for us is to get,
uh, no one can find Brian on Twitter cause he's like B camp. He doesn't have his name
on his Twitter. So like next, next step for us, like we're going to include it as a little
sidestep in our roadmap is to, to find Brian. So we're going to get him a new tag. Any suggestions
for a new Twitter handle? Let us know. Yeah, that's a fact. I think Andy, Andy's Twitter
had like 300 followers and then the main account retweeted him one time and he like tripled
my follower account. I was like, God, I think it's got to be Brian GPT now. Should it be
Brian GPT? That'd be kind of lit.
Especially since you used it for, for the bastard's reply, you know, it's all right.
No, I'm just kidding. You didn't. Um, yo, you guys pulled in like over like 250
NFT MFers on a, on a Tuesday afternoon, just to, you know, just some light, uh, super impressive
before I let you go. Uh, what do you guys want to say to, to all the holders, perspective
holders? Uh, what do you want to say to everyone in the crowd? What do you want to let them know?
Yeah, no, I appreciate, uh, just as some closing remarks, we like have been absolutely blown
away by the support. Uh, but we are working tirelessly day in, day out. When I say that
we are a team that does not stop, like we have people literally right now, like the reason
why Justin and Andy are not here is because Andy's rocking NFT LA, giving away, you know,
ooze. Justin is in the discord and working on a backend infrastructure things. Like we work
24 seven for our holders. Um, and we're super transparent with everything we do. We take
criticism. Well, so we just hope that you guys continue to support us. And, uh, yeah,
we always say we're here to just change our holders lives and, uh, we're ready to, to ride
this rocket ship with everyone else.
Well, I'm ready to run through a fucking brick wall. That was way better than Joe Biden's
state of the union, by the way. So, um, yeah. All right, guys, you know, I don't know. I was
going to say like, go follow Ugi, but it's like, you know, I'm actually just going to follow
me. Like you're already following them. I don't know. Follow JB, follow Broom. I don't
know. Um, definitely gotta, gotta show some love to Ugi though. Uh, coming on my Twitter
space just to talk to the holders, give you guys an update. Hopefully we can keep doing
this maybe, you know, in the next couple of months we, we hop on again, but, uh, crush
and at TLA sounds like some good connections are being made. And, uh, I don't know. I might
have to scoop up that, uh, Puka shell Hawaiian beacher. I love that movie. What was that movie
with, uh, Matthew? Oh, the beach ball with Matthew McConaughey. I need that kind of
vibe for my Ugi. So I don't know. Yeah. Banger in there. There's a few in there. All
right. Uh, yeah. Be ready for JB's tweet later. I actually, uh, I do have to hop off. Um, but
yeah, thank you guys so much for having us and yeah, make sure you, you see all the bangers
that JB is going to post later this afternoon. They are, there's some heat. That's the alpha
before the alpha. Thanks Ugi. Thanks Brian. Thanks Broomy. Thanks JB. Thank you, buddy.
Always a pleasure. Thanks Bob. Yeah, of course. Glad you were able to hop on. Uh, fuck. Yeah.
Damn. That's, I got to tuck my boner in my waistband. That was a lot of alpha and fucking
30 minutes right there, boys. That's what it's all about. Um, all right, we're going to wrap
this one up. Thanks to all the Ugies for showing love. We're going to talk to Ugi Bao real quick
before we do wrap up as another salon NFT project. Let's just tap in with them real quick. Uh, thanks
again to everyone for showing out for Ugi. Um, and, uh, yeah, send me a message or, or send
me a comment. Any other salon projects I should interview, uh, the projects that aren't running
from the grind, uh, who's ready to come on here and talk about what they're doing. Uh, let
me know. Give me, give me some good suggestions. We're gonna talk to Ubi, Ugi Bao though, real
quick. Ugi Bao. What's up?
What's good, fam? How are you? I'm, I'm great. Like I said, I'm, I'm just, you know,
getting a little flaccid now from all that alpha that was just packed into that, uh, spaces
sesh. But, uh, while we still have the, the gigantic crowd, what is Ugi Bao? Give us
the overview.
Oh, sick, fam. I'm happy to, um, hi everyone. Uh, this is Trinkster, uh, the new community
lead inside Ugi Bao. Um, and we're glad to, uh, to be here. Uh, Ugi Bao is a project created
by Morgana Studios, which is a Madrid based in real life company, uh, animation studios
with, uh, projects, uh, and movies worked, been on like, for example, Despicable Me or
Minions. But I know that you don't want to hear like all of the, like web two background,
which, uh, a lot of projects come inside the Web3 space with big names, but at the end
they do not deliver. So, um, what we plan to do here on Ugi Bao, uh, we minted, uh, around
a month ago, uh, within Magic Eden. And right now, uh, our, our, our community is good. Uh, we're
a, like, uh, like I said, we're, uh, uh, a team based on, uh, in real life animators. Uh,
so we're an art project. That's where we're trying to focus, uh, on bringing the art game
in Solana, uh, the 3D art game up, uh, inside the NFT Solana space. Um, and what's coming
right now, it's, for example, um, we, we just launched skate, uh, staking, uh, during
the weekend. Uh, and we're just, we're working, uh, on a, on a Dapp where you can create your
own PFP, uh, from your NFT because there are animated and still, uh, NFTs from, from Ugi Bao.
So inside that Dapp, you can download your own, uh, PFP and a skill card, which will be relevant
because we're working, uh, inside a game, which is on the way, way long run. But, um,
what we're trying to focus right now, as I said, uh, is basically to bring up the 3D art
inside Solana. Um, so what we're working on right now, uh, it's, uh, this one of one partnership
collapse with projects and one of one artists inside Solana. And, um, I was happy to hear
that, uh, JB was here because like you, like you guys know, he's, he's one of, uh, of DGOT's
most, uh, high top, uh, community member. And he has a, a, uh, DGOT, uh, like the, the
McDonald's, you know, the outfit. And we're working right now with a sub DAO with, uh, within
DGOT's, which is 10X DGOT's, which is a community of, uh, 10 plus, uh, it's a basically a community
of holders, which has, uh, more than 10 DGOT's. Uh, so we're, we're working on them to bring
up a one of one, uh, collab between 10 plus DGOT's and Yugi Bao, um, where you get, uh,
for example, uh, you get a animated one of one dope, uh, NFT. Uh, you can download the
same image of it as well and hold perks of, uh, utilities, which inside Solana, uh, the
utility is really big, uh, in comparison to ETH where the brands are more, uh, or the
NFT projects are more brand established. So that's what we're trying to establish. Like
we're the art, the 3D art brand inside Solana. Um, other projects that we're working, uh, uh,
alongside with is also MacUTS. So that's another sub DAO within the DGOT's and the Yugi community.
Uh, and we're totally open for new projects. Uh, we're working with two other clients, uh,
two other projects as of right now. Uh, and yeah, so that's basically where we're going,
where we're heading, what we're doing right now and where we come from, fam.
That all sounds great. When you, when you hopped on though, the first thing you said, you said
you were the, like the new community. Was there like a transition in leadership or is that,
are you just somebody new on the team? No, I'm just someone, uh, I'm just someone new
on the team. Uh, for example, um, on the very beginnings of Yugi bow, I used to host for
them, uh, some Twitter spaces, some live streams inside YouTube. And after mint, uh, the team
proposed to me if I wanted to join, uh, the community team as, as the community lead, because
I was already so involved within hosting spaces and live events and live streams and stuff
like that. Uh, and yeah, that's where, um, I'm, I'm joining, uh, to lead the community
also to, to their take part in some marketing strategies and just where the division of the
project also is going to, uh, because at the end of the day, two heads think way better than
one. So that's where we're going fam. Love it. Yeah. Talk, talk a little bit about like
the, the, the specific art for Yugi bow though, because I noticed that you guys have some really
clean, like 3d art. Yeah. Uh, let me just pin a tweet here. Uh, for example, uh, for, uh,
let me see yesterday, we, we announced a little teaser, uh, like a, a picture of the upcoming one
of one collaboration with 10 plus D guts, uh, which I, like I mentioned, it's a subbed out
community, uh, from holders with more than 10 D guts. And I just pinned a tweet here. Uh, if you can
see that image, that's a little sneak peek of, of what the, of how the, the one of one will look
like. Uh, and also to mention, uh, to the winner of this one of one, uh, which will be an auction,
uh, these all one of ones will be redeemable for a physical 3d toy. Uh, because we're also aiming,
uh, within our staking, uh, to be able to claim yourself, your, your Yugi bow for a physical 3d
animation toy, you know? Yeah, love it. I mean, I think the, the D gods X partnership is really,
really good. I think the more, you know, types of people you could bring in bigger collectors,
you can just kind of bring into your orbit as a project is, uh, that certainly can't be a bad thing.
Um, cool. I mean, uh, let everyone make sure to go follow Yugi bow. Um,
Eddie, are you a fan of Yugi? I keep thinking of Yugi. Oh, are you, were you a fan of Yugi? Oh,
I was more of a poke. Oh, you have no idea, bro. If I sent you right now a photo of how many Yugi
Oh cards I still have, it would go nuts. I still play online sometimes. I'm not going to lie.
No, I, I, I believe you, bro. And I'm, I'm jealous. Like that's the thing that sucks about you.
Like, like, I feel like Yu-Gi-Oh was like, like NBA top shot. Like it is overprinted the card.
So they're not like that rare anymore. Like Pokemon was like, like they're actually elite
because they didn't overprint the, the gen one. So, um, looks like you, you might've picked the
wrong hobby, but you should have been just stacking up the holographic, uh, charizards with
the PSA 10, uh, you know, great on them, but, um, it's all good. Um, so are you hosting any other
Twitter spaces for Yu-Gi-Oh about how do people get involved in the community?
Yeah. For example, uh, you can all follow us, uh, within our, our, our Twitter main account.
Uh, we will be hosting tomorrow, um, another space. And then on Thursday we will host another,
uh, another space, uh, with the, with the founder of, uh, X plus D guts with math. He's the founder
of that subbed out, uh, where we will talk more in detail about this first one of one
collaboration that we're going to have with them. Um, as long as well as a one of one
collaboration with my youth. So we have clients in, uh, in our, in our system, because like
I mentioned, we want to establish ourselves as the art, as the base for the 3d art scene
inside Solana, where we're also, uh, delivering what we mentioned, which is top notch art. And
at the end of the day, we're also lending our in real life studio services for other projects
to create any 3d ads, uh, asset whatsoever where it can be within from a collection, just
some graphics, videos, um, anything whatsoever related to, to 3d because, uh, that's the main
card of the project, which is a studio called Morgana studios, uh, which is a Madrid based
animation studio. Uh, and we're, we're planning on doing a lot of spaces, uh, just to get the
awareness, uh, way, way up and, and just collabing with art with one of one artists and with projects
and sub doubts, which we think that can, uh, help us elevate the game inside the 3d art scene.
So be aware of, uh, Thursday space, uh, with X plus D guts to get your information way more specific
on the first one of one auction with them.
Sick. Um, make sure to go follow you, you bow. Uh, thanks for hopping on. I love projects that
just, you know, keep, keep the legs turning, keep, keep pushing forward. And, you know, 3d art is
something that, uh, I think we're still kind of underexposed to it. There are so many horrible 3d
art projects, uh, that it almost gave, uh, gave 3d art a bad name. So I appreciate
you guys kind of leading that forefront.
No, yeah, yeah, for sure. Because at the end of the day, uh, that's that where, where
we trying to establish ourselves, you know, because it's fun, it's memorable, it's cute
because at the end of the day, it's for everyone and not just, uh, for civic target
it's in, in our opinion. So glad that you liked it, Tim.
Yeah, definitely. I've been a fan for a while. So thanks for coming on. Um,
gonna wrap up the Twitter space right now, guys, but I, uh, I see we got my,
my guy, uh, genuine articles in the crowd, uh, showing love to him. Uh, the leader over
at galactic geckos, gonna try to get him on maybe the next Twitter space. We do
next salon Twitter space. We do, uh, actually just pin to the top here. I was asking myself
recently, like, like, is, is there any chance like a project can make a comeback? Like I was,
I was thinking about cutting bait recently with, with a project that I hold that I, you
know, spend too much money on just like we always do. We, you know, I bought the top
of a project and I was like, ah, maybe the, you know, people were telling me, ah, don't
worry. It'll make a comeback. You know, project glenosaurs kind of made a small comeback.
I'm like, Hmm, can it really, can like an NFT project actually make a comeback? And I went
through it and I looked at all the data and the answer is, is very interesting. And I, I,
I wrote a thread, um, and I pinned it to the top talking about three Solana projects that
actually were able to make a big comeback and how they are able to make a comeback. And if
you can draw comparisons to that, to any of your current bags, uh, might be worth holding
on to. Uh, and if not, it might be worth cutting bait. So check out that thread. Pretty interesting
stuff. I do pretty, uh, in depth writing on three Solana projects that made big comebacks.
So, uh, definitely want to watch out for, uh, yeah. Wise whales. What's up?
Yeah. Galactic geckos is like a key example of that, right? I don't know if you'll bring
it up for that, that reason, but I mean, those guys made just the, the most killer comeback.
Shout out to them.
Yeah. Well, one of my thesis is, um, you pretty much need a D rug. You pretty much need a change
in ownership. It doesn't even need to be a D rug. It just, you pretty much need a change
in ownership for there to be any type of catalyst for upward pressure. Um, and without that, it's
really tough. I did give an example of one project that didn't have a change in ownership
and how they were actually able to make a comeback, uh, without changing ownership. But,
uh, the data is kind of grim. Uh, probability is low of comebacks, but there are a couple examples.
So, so go check that out, but going to wrap it up. Make sure to give wise wheels to follow
Yugi bow. We still got broomy. He's still lingering on this. Oh, broomy. Oh, I love you,
bro. Uh, shot you a follow as well. Let's tap in. Um, and thanks to everyone for, for joining
again. Uh, if, if you have any suggestions on, you know, Solana projects, Solana, you know,
teams that I should interview on an upcoming space, let me know, uh, free promo. Love doing
this shit. Uh, I'm going to end it right here. It's cool times getting, getting into the
cats. It's up to my ducks. Appreciate y'all. Have a great day.
Bye.
