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Developing Jungle Bay Island
Recorded: Jan. 23, 2026 Duration: 1:13:33Space Recording
Short Summary
Jungle Bay Island is gearing up for a transformative project launch, focusing on community engagement and innovative tokenomics. The accidental launch of the Jungle Bay memes token marks a significant milestone, while discussions on gamification and strategic partnerships signal a trend towards more interactive experiences in the crypto space. As the project seeks to grow and attract builders, the emphasis on profitability and community involvement sets the stage for a promising future.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, all right.
JP, what's up, my brother?
How are you?
GM, as we say on Jungle Bay Island.
GM, my dog.
How you doing, bro?
All good.
Excited to be here.
A little bit nervous also i i haven't done a x space in a while so um but we'll roll with it it's good to dust off that it's
it's good to dust off the the instrument you know we got to tune it up you know sometimes you
that's the beauty of a space like this.
Like it's intentionally supposed to be.
This is not for someone who's tuning in for like straight entertainment.
This is actually like a productive effort where, you know, we've been actively developing what the next layer of Jungle Bay Island looks like.
being what the next layer of jungle bay island looks like right how we scale his project with the
relatively uh scrappy treasury um but to do so in a way that's impactful and that continues to
position us for long-term growth and jp fucking mfer to their core. An incredible builder. Someone that was referred or introduced to me by Sardo.
So you guys know Sardo.
And he's just a motherfucker builder who's genuinely here to change the paradigm, to change for the better.
A lot of, you know, to contribute in a way that makes an impact. And to be able to
align with someone like that, I feel very grateful. And what he had mentioned was like,
look, as we continue to cook, there's some great minds in this space. There's people that are part of this Jungle Bay MFers community
that probably have their own ideas, their own thoughts that would be useful immediate feedback
to how we're thinking about approaching this. And why not build in public? Why not let all like
the messy stuff, whatever, like let's show up and show motherfuckers where our thought
process is see if there's any insights that may be able to help us fine-tune and hone and just
see where it takes us you know what i mean like we could call fall flat on our face but the the
only way you fucking know is if you fuck around and find out right so that's what we're
doing today yeah for sure and this uh opportunity of doing this space and hopefully doing them
regularly um it's also a window of opportunity for me to um for people to know myself like I haven't been active on the Jungle Bay community
but I'm a person that is always open to train new things always open to like get to know people
for me something that is captivating about this project is the focus that you have and you always share with me about this being about the people,
about having a place where people can belong and where people can find meaning through art,
through memes.
And we are exploring what the fuck is happening in the world right now.
Like everything is getting weirder and weirder. what the fuck is happening in the world right now.
Everything is getting weirder and weirder. And in that sense, memes and art can be an anchor
for us to navigate that process with having fun.
For me, developing this project and helping on its growth requires to have fun.
It requires to be creative.
It requires to listen to people also.
For that, having this space and inviting people to chime in and to talk.
inviting people to like to chime in and to talk you know I I would love to hear some people from
the community and get to know what Jungle Bay means for you why are you here like what makes
you come to this space it could be anything you know it could be that you earn some money making
memes it could be that you have fun making memes it could be
anything you know and for me it is very important to get to know you and get to know the community
so that I can create from that place you know because uh and yeah well just to add to that
point and not to step on your toes there, but just for some context, by design, Jungle Bay has not been a for-profit venture to date.
It has not been.
We focus on the art.
We focus on building community because the DM plus T, the dank means plus time philosophy requires an organic foundation to be built. And the only way you can
do that is over time. And as you guys have seen, I've tried to do what I can through the years
with funding these meme contests out of pocket to bring more artists together to try to continue
to forge a group of memes creators, but also focus on the MFR's ecosystem, which is fact with builders and by your own
bootstrap innovators. And through that process, I think we really have established a real core
of people that recognize that we're building differently. And, you know, now it's also time
to step it up now that we have that trust layer established, right?
And one of the ways that we kind of are chewing on as far as like how to approach this next step
is like, you have all these different meme communities that they love what they're doing, they love their meme, but the metas, they come and they go,
and there's no thread or no tethering
that really gives people an indicator
of how much time people have been around,
how long they've been involved in whatever they're building.
And Jungle Bay Island has always been
like this metaphorical connective tissue
between these different communities that are really here
because they love the shit,
because they intend to be here and continue to show up,
continue to add new layers to what they're doing.
And so we are trying to flesh out an impactful
and also organically revenue generating or scalable,
investable platform to be able to a continue to be that,
that common ground between the communities,
but also to elevate them, to be able to, we want,
if a project is able to have a bungalow on Jungle Bay Island,
it means that they have passed a certain threshold of proof of work over time. It means that there
are people that have really shown up, that have not just come over all of a sudden, you know,
where the community is great after 30 days. No, these are motherfuckers that have been around,
that have been through the blood and the mud and show up and continue to build.
And through waiting different pieces,
whether it's their wallets, what they hold,
we're waiting time over size.
We're waiting how long,
we're trying to figure out the best way to kind of
allow, you know, enable these projects to independently scale their bungalow and build
cool shit in their bungalow and have access to doing so, but to have that access provided by
proof of work over time. So it doesn't, if you're holding, you know, a certain artist collection tokens and you're holding, you know, Bobo or you're holding MFR, it matters how long you've held them.
Not just that you bought it yesterday.
And we're trying to establish this essentially like a heat score that fluctuates based on the time held.
So if you sell it, your, your heat score, uh, score cools, um,
the, the access and ability you have to, to kind of innovate and contribute to your bungalow on
the Island changes, et cetera, et cetera. And JP put together just like a very rough initial
kind of scope, uh, which is in the top of the mountain. One of the docs, the Excalibur, one has it where anybody can contribute ideas or thoughts or feedback. And the other just kind of
is a more visual representation of like how this could scale out. And when we're seeing all these
different tools, right, that are coming to our fingertips to like add real amazing graphics and abilities for relatively bootstrapped endeavors.
That is where this has become very enticing hand in hand that now like we really feel like
there's proof of work over time associated with Jungle Bay that's undeniable, right?
And so that's kind of where the initial spark was for doing these spaces.
JP, did I miss something there?
Oh yeah, like I'm building on top of that, like you have been here since the beginning and like spearheading this movement in a way.
And like, how do you recognize those people?
Like, how do I find them as a person that is new to this and as a person that wants
to understand, like, who are those that have been putting the effort and that kind of deserve to be part of this initial iteration of this project?
How would you say that I practically find those people?
And I think that like how we're propping up or positioning Jungle Bay Island to be scaled, right?
To have the MF for Bungalow, the Vibe Market Bungalow, the Bobo Bungalow.
All these projects are associated with people from our home team that have really been here able to measure the time that they've been invested in these
respective projects, then you're able to kind of have a vision of who's been around Jungle
Bay, especially if we add our different artists, individual, independent collections, and,
you know, as well as the associated projects that we've done like collaboratively, like
Junglets, like Bo Jungles.
If they're holding those, they've been here.
They were released when we were in deep bear market
and shit was not fun.
And only the people that really loved this shit
were showing up.
And so these are kind of seeds
that have been planted throughout the process.
And so, you know, from there though jp and i and blends
and ghost were talking yesterday about like okay like conceptually that makes sense but like how do
you how do you make it fun and how do you make it where like dude there's so mind share capture is
is insane to to retain these days because we're inundated with so much shit. So it has to be something that is dope. And Jungle Bay memes, the token, was launched accidentally on the timeline,
which it was launched trying to make basically like an ETF of Jungle Bay home team meme.
I wanted to ask BankerBot to like, if I said buy Jungle Bay memes, it would know to buy $10 of Bobo, $10 of MF or $10 of Riz, right?
And so instead, though, it deployed Jungle Bay memes, the token.
So we were like, all right, fuck it.
This is kind of fun.
And I've been buying.
There's been Avis.
A couple people have been buying a good amount of supply to be able to set up a rewards component for participating
on jungle bay island and in order to access these different mechanisms you know as far as like from
a vision standpoint we want to be able to use this heat score to be able to to measure how long you've
been holding these different home team memes and be able to have these fun ways to unlock and find jungle bay memes one of the ideas
that we were talking about yesterday which is it could be totally out there so again we're just
we're just being very transparent with stuff that we're throwing against the wall but one idea was
like with minecraft right you're you're mining for fucking uh rocks and you find these these
treasures on the island like it could be fun if there's a way to
tap into a Minecraft server and find fucking diamonds or whatever and be able to access
places you can actually mine for them on Jungle Bay Island. And then you go and you redeem,
you have to burn jungle or you earn Jungle Bay memes. And then to be able to access other stuff,
you burn Jungle Bay memes to redeem. So we have different mechanisms that we could use a as a burn mechanism for the
native token but also for people that are home team that have showed up over time to be able to
earn themselves you know what i mean so that's that's one idea but you know i'm not sure how far
jp looked into whether it's roblox or or Minecraft, but some sort of external third party server to be able to not have to build an entire world.
Because obviously we are bootstrapped and that would be a little bit too over our skis.
So we want to be thoughtful about building realistically, but also doing stuff that people will really enjoy and actually are going to show up for.
people will really enjoy and actually are going to show up for.
Yeah.
Something that I, like, since our conversation yesterday,
I have been thinking through is that, for example,
I personally, I don't have, like, too much holdings of any token
that I have still on my wallet because I don't have, like,
too many resources in my life. I just had a daughter. So I'm not like holding actively the projects that I care about. And I could imagine that that
is the case for many of the people. But those same people could also be active members of the community in a different way.
So that's part of the tricky aspect of rewarding for holding a token, for example,
because I don't have an answer.
I'm thinking through this, but that's something that I have in mind.
through this but that's something that i have in mind because it could be jp what what about
what about something like if i were to um gift you bow jungles or or jungle it's like some of
the art that we would have uh lend weight to boosting someone's heat score but it wasn't
purchased would we be able to kind of transfer the time held from one wallet to another?
So essentially like if I held if I transferred you a Bojongu that I've hold for the held for the past ten months or whatever
That that ten months would be just just transferred over to your wallet because there's no transaction
Like a like a buy or sell
like a buy or sell transaction.
transaction. Yeah, that's that's interesting because
Yeah, that's interesting because like art,
I don't know if there have been like collections about the different
bungalows that we have here that have been minted.
But for example,
like a piece of art that a member of the community created and other members of
the community minted probably doesn't have any like secondary value.
So probably that piece of art is still on the wallet of like a user.
So that would be easier to track than an ERC-20 token that has enough liquidity for me to like sell it, sell those $10 of that bobo,
for example, and with that buy a game for my daughter, you know, that like that liquidity
from tokens makes it harder to hold them for a longer period of time, but a piece of art that was minted
has a different quality to that liquidity,
so it could be like a better piece to track, you know?
And what you say about like transferring
the amount of time that you held it
and you are giving to me,
like I don't think that...
Well, for example, like let's say we're saying,
okay, holding these tokens, Bobo, Pepe, MF, etc.,
plus holding these vibe market collections of the individual artists, holding
Bojungles, holding seeds from the Mimetic Garden, right? The tokens, we give a certain amount of
weight for holding them or a certain amount of heat. So then it really wouldn't be the dollar
amount of liquidity in my view. And I could be wrong on this, but it would be essentially
my view and i and i could be wrong on this but it would be essentially how many you've held over
time right so wouldn't it be the time as the focus rather than i mean we are measuring size
to a certain extent but like could it since it's not sold since it's kind of or i guess since it's
transferring wallets it kind of it would wouldn't be able to be differentiated that way right
because i'm just thinking the gift the gifting part could be amazing
for people that are like, no, this person is earlier,
but I believe in them.
I believe they're here for the right reasons,
so I want to gift them the time that I've held
in this particular token to bring them in the mix more
and give them more skin in the game on Jungle Bay Island, right?
Is there a scenario where that's feasible?
I wouldn't need to look into it,
but, like, everything is
on-chain, and that makes the
information about
what has happened with a given collection
or a given token, like,
accessible. It's just about
like, digging that information
in the right way to extract
it and be able to like use it
then we then we get into like is is that effort worth it you know and right and that that becomes
like um i like a different question you know because we could spend our time like doing that
but we could do that for then rewarding people with the
value that we already have in some sense and not necessarily creating new value and and I think
that it is important also to like focus on the creation of value for like the people that are here so that through that creation of value we could
enhance their career or their art or whatever. And in that sense, I would like to open up
that different problem. We have and we have flat flat three two one here and
yeah i want to hear i want to say what's up to fla and and dr robotnik i saw they came
on stage and uh and definitely want to give them a moment i know i know we were cooking there for
a sec but but we'd love to pause and check out my dogs here you'll hear if they have any insights or thought on on uh on what's going on well what's good what's up brother what you talking about no i just hear
some yeah no so so essentially just just for anyone who's joining now um jp is is heading
up the technical build for the development of jungle bay island we've been cooking with him
for some time he's a he's a really fucking dope MF for builder.
And if you look at the top of the mountain, there's two links. One is kind of the just
base template of what Jungle Bay Island, the initial phase and the other is where anybody
could contribute if they have ideas or thoughts. We're just trying to build in public. And with this establishing Jungle Bay Island essentially as a connective tissue layer for different communities that are kind of isolated on their own,
but have been here over time that have been kind of embraced as home team memes and allocating a heat score to how long the tokens have been held, not necessarily the size. It's about really
unlocking ways to reward and give opportunities for these communities that are independent on
their own, but also happen to have a connective tissue tangently through Jungle Bay just being a
part of the mix for a while. So essentially allocating weight to
different tokens that are a part of this Jungle Bay Island ecosystem and then developing that out.
So that's kind of the foundational layer of where we're aiming this, but also it needs to be
profitable. It needs to help Jungle Bay grow and be a competitor amongst the the few you know projects that are
actually out here scaling and and be you know well well positioned for strategic investment
etc etc but jp is all about open source is all about building in public is all about um
transparency and i i am too and i thought it was a great idea that he had to just hold a public, hold a venue in a public space with different minds, different people in the community to get, you know, real time feedback, real time ideas, thoughts, because that will only continue to help us hone like what exactly we're going to be focusing on since we have, you know, limited time windows.
And since we want to be, you know, smart with the very,
very scrappy treasury that we do have. Yeah. And on top of that, doctor, I want to ask you
directly, like, besides what you were going to reply now with, but like, what does Jungle Bay
bring into your life? Like, what is your role into this community? And why are you here?
And how do you see it evolving?
I would like to know more about you and your relationship to this whole thing.
The relationship I have with Jungle Bay is sanctified.
You understand what I'm saying?
And it's very personal.
And I would choose not to.
My Jungle Bay is dead.
He's in the dead address.
I hold mines for life.
He's immortalized.
Immortalized.
The dead address owns my Jungle Bay.
So that's how serious I am.
I'm Jungle Bay for life.
Until the day I die, it'll be in that motherfucking dead contract.
Let's go.
Okay, here's my thing.
I posed this question.
Doc, you have been here through the years.
You've seen the fucking...
Blood, sweat, and tears.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've seen that.
I've seen the blood pick up in aisle four,
and I've seen we reach the mountaintop.
I've seen it from the highs and the lows.
Here's what I...
I posed this question the other day and i asked and it's not
it's kind of relative i think i said if you're i asked the question if you're in a token a meme
coin with relatively low volume and just people that believe in it what would make you bullish
tech wise like what was something like the devs could do tech wise that will make you bullish
while fighting
through the pain that's a question i posed and it just made me i rethought about that now because
i'm like okay with what you're talking about and what the brother building i personally feel like
gamifying the ecosystem i'm really starting to feel like gamifying i think helps breed morality and i think like you can
make an app where even normies i hate using this word but like non-native crypto people can have a
jungle bay app where maybe they could earn some things by you know like submitting art or maybe
answering questions or something like that something that brings them into the And I think, I really believe that Gamify does it.
So I don't know, like, I know you got a treasury.
I don't know how you plan to use it, but maybe Gamify...
It's not big.
It's, you know, it's diminishing, bro.
Like, where, this is bullshitting.
But I'm just saying, maybe Gamify-ing it to a certain extent,
and maybe, like, the Jungle Bay people that's in the ecosystem
can take that to their family and be like, yo, check this out.
Boom, boom, boom, man.
Get them in there.
That's just a thought that I have all the time.
And to your point about the low liquidity thing real quick, because this is something I've thought about a lot, especially with like, you know, a project like Riz that is close to heart that, you know, Jungle Bay home team a most of the existing supply now because like
everyone else dumped on the on our heads and it was a misalignment with like giving it to the
wrong people trying to think that they were going to be down but really people are just
they're not they're not built for it and so the people that have had proof of work over time
those are the only ones that we're going to be focusing on. But also having it as a part of the island and having it have this kind of credibility of getting
a bungalow intentionally over time, right? Just isolates a group of 10 to 15 to 20 to 30, like real substantive, foundationally sturdy groups that could have a mutually
beneficial rising tide, lift all boats ripple effect.
That is really kind of the intention of getting people skin in the game, getting people opportunities.
We have Pepe on there.
We have Bobo.
We have Riz.
Those are very different market caps.
So even with the small market cap, if they're recognizing what we're doing, then they have the opportunity to get like significant skin in the game on low market cap as well, because people do like to have that. they're in and hopefully that's over time and and this kind of filters out only the people that are
paying paying attention now and not the people that are just you know looking in to do the the
same flip bullshit that continues to just fucking have diminishing returns in the space
um green i see you have your head up or something yeah dude that's up and shit
i'm alive.
I'm living life one day at a time.
I hope you're doing well as well.
All good, man.
All good.
I'm always happy when we're trying to get some creative minds together
and people that understand Jungle Bay and where we've been
and hopefully where we're trying
to go hell yeah you know what i was gonna say so basically um i think the gamification of uh
of this is super important like me personally like i'm kind of retarded right so like i think i i
think visually bro so like how i wanted to approach it was uh like actually gamifying it
um so I come from Decentraline you guys probably know this right um so I was like how do I contribute
type shit so I'm like I know Loground build like a website so I'm like yo dude um it'd be kind of
cool to have like a 3D environment where we could like see into like worlds of like all our artists that we have here.
Right. But even take it a little step further by like actually bringing all these tokens inside the game and actually creating like quests and stuff like that.
Right. Where like the heat score actually like, like, another facet, bro.
You know, like, it feels more real
because it's not just on the timeline
or, like, in DMs and stuff.
You're, like, meeting up with your friends and stuff.
You're having events.
Maybe you meet new friends like this, right?
And you want to onboard them, too.
And to that point, to have the Heat score
being, you know, essentially, like, a token gated access to that point to have the heat score um being you know essentially like a token gated
access to be able to participate in ways where you can you know access and and gamify um you know
mining in some fun creative way jungle bay memes which then you can redeem to be able to contribute
to the bungalow of your respective meme project like Like if someone from, let's say, MF or someone who's bullish on MF
or wants to contribute to the MF or bungalow,
they would go, depending on their heat score,
they would have access to participate in however it's gamified.
They would uncover treasure or something a bit less lame sounding,
but something dope like a gem on Jungle lame sounding, but like something dope, like a, like a, like a gem on
jungle Bay Island. Right. And, and depending on the amount that they, that they have, they get,
they, they get jungle Bay memes, which then they can burn to be able to add, contribute to the
bungalow of their choice different. And, and you can, depending on the amount of jungle Bay memes
they burn, they can contribute in different ways
to the construction of their bungalow on the island, right? So you have a community effort of
gamifying where you can either take the jungle bay memes that you mine and sell them or hold them,
or you can burn them in exchange to be able to build. So essentially having skin in the game,
in the construction of the bungalow of
your, you know, the, you know, whatever meme is close to your heart that you've been a part of,
that you've been here building, you know what I mean? So that's kind of the, the system at least
that, that is the underlying vision, but it's, it's a lot easier said than done because it's a
bit ethereal how that gets implemented in a way that's feasible, that doesn't take people
into these tangents that are relatively clunky. Like for example, we have the on cyber sites that
we made, right, which highlights a lot of the different artists' art and they hyperlink to
be able to buy the art, et cetera. But the bandwidth that it takes is very slow. So it's clunky.
the bandwidth that it takes is very slow. So it's clunky. There's, there's like bugs in it.
The tech isn't ready. It's not conducive for it yet. So it's hard to kind of, um, send people
to these third party lands until the, the, the, the tech is much more like frictionless and,
and accessible for anybody that's essentially like participating on their phone and may not
have the best service or whatever, like something like that. You know what I mean?
You're brilliant. I love, I love how you added the little, uh, part at the end. Uh, so check this.
The reason why I took this approach, right? Is because, uh, the phone app is out. Um, cause
bro, I understand like not a lot of people have like high end computers, right? Um, so like you
need to actually reach to everybody, bro, for it to make sense, bro.
But yeah, there's the phone app.
So yeah, yeah.
So we're going to be able to access it on our phones and stuff like that.
But yo, here's the kicker, bro.
Here's the kicker.
So because we're in an environment like Decentraline and not on cyber,
we're actually able to utilize the tokens itself, right? So what I was thinking is like, eventually, like, we'll have like artists
that will want to like, you know, create their own stuff. And instead of who knows, bro, maybe,
maybe they don't want to like sell an ether or anything, right? Maybe they want to sell in
jungle day meets. But like, you know, there needs to be an environment for that right where they can like
visually see these assets like you know and be like yo this is what i'm adding for my bungalow
or whatever right are you are you saying that that functionality currently exists on on the
central land as far as the token piece goes the functionality has existed for the past four years
the phone app basically but isn't it just mana or or am i mistaken on that
no dude you can put any token bro oh wow that's dope yeah yeah bro what do you mean bro it's a
bro you used to be a multi-billion dollar like platform no i know i i definitely you know
but that was always the thing right it was like i remember going there and it was definitely the
best of like sandbox,
all those ones.
Decentraland, in my opinion, was the most accessible,
but it still was, you know, in the 21 era,
it was very, it was clunky, right?
It was clunky.
If you were using a great computer, it was amazing.
But like to have someone essentially like,
let's say we wanted to host a space and then also be in Decentraland,
fucking around, checking things out, you know, playing a game of fucking paintball or whatever,
you know what I mean? Like whatever it is that makes this interactive community forging,
multi-layer participation more fortified. Like that I feel like is is still like we're
waiting for the hardware to catch up with the tech I so you you would have been absolutely right
a couple years ago but what they did bro was uh like it's bro it looks so beautiful bro I would
definitely recommend at least downloading the client and checking it out because what they did
was they actually switched to unreal bro and the grass looks amazing everything looks amazing it's so
fucking sick oh i didn't know they switched to unreal engine that's crazy and it's a phone app
too bro i'm telling you it's like so that's right i'm telling you i don't need nothing from no
treasury bro because like bro mfers do what they want, bro, you know? But so, yeah. But the beautiful side of Decentraland, in my opinion,
was the fact that they themselves wanted, like, people to come build, right?
Because they have a DAO, bro, with their own treasury.
Like, I know it's kind of, like, bootstrappy right now,
but, like, it still has 12 mil.
It's decent, bro, at these prices.
So these guys are good. And I don't need nothing, bro, because, like, it's fun, bro, at these prices. So these guys are good.
And I don't need nothing, bro, because it's fun, bro.
But I thought it would be super creative and a super awesome onboarding tool.
Well, I'm hyped to see what you're talking about.
And you mentioned LaGround.
in LaGround. Dude, LaGround went and created junglebayisland.com, which is currently what
we have to drive attention and elevate the home team artists that have showed up over time.
And we add new ones as they've really kind of been around for a significant amount of time,
but just to highlight their work. And I mean, that's the whole point, to mutually elevate
each other in whatever our respective lanes are. And then by, that's the whole point, like to mutually elevate each other in whatever
our respective lanes are. And then by extension with these bungalows to mutually elevate the
different projects that we're focused on in a way that is authentic and is not an overlap.
It's supposed to be a perceived value add for whichever community is intending to scale.
And that I think is the fact that we have put in
the work over time and the fact that there's going to be a threshold to be able to start developing
a bungalow or contribute to a bungalow on Jungle Bay Island, I think are important touch points
to be able to separate the, for lack of a better phrase, the signals from the noise. And that's
always been kind of the guiding North Star of where this intends to go. But the gamification
piece, to your point, I do think is critical. I think it's got to be something that is enjoyable.
I also think if there's a time limit to it, that could be fun.
Like you get five minutes a day.
If your heat score rises, you get seven, 10, whatever,
to be able to mine fucking island treasure or whatever it is, right?
And then obviously, then you get the Jungle Bay memes
and you can burn them to be able to add assets,
add information, add context to your
bungalow, then you can spend as much time as you want in there doing that. So like to have those
points, I think are, you know, just ways where people can level up and where proof of work and
the amount of time that people have stuck around and held their jungle bays and held their you know memes that we we
consider home team and held their our independent artists um respective collections the tokens in
their collections these are all ways that we can you know the tech allows us to to measure um and
that you know someone like jp can can add an actual uh logic to how they're weighted with time being the, given the preferential attention
rather than just they hold size in the token. I think that levels out or brings the real
substance to the top. And obviously if you hold a lot over time, then you get a double,
you know, it's a double dip. That's a double dip that's a beautiful thing but you also
if you just bought a big bag out of nowhere because you think that you're going to level up
you're not going to have a high as high a heat score as someone that held one or two tokens
for the past three years five years four years whatever it's been november 2021 we started. Right, FLA?
Hell yeah.
I think he dropped down.
Oh, he did?
No, but you can check on the blockchain.
Exactly. He got his hand on the screen.
Hold on.
I just had someone walk through.
Oh, there he is.
Oh, he had someone in the shop.
You're good, bro.
But yeah, man, like, we're definitely...
Bro, because when you do that...
Bro, I was looking last night...
When you do the query on the contract, it make you put the token ID.
I don't even know the fucking token ID.
Well, I was looking last night.
I thought he had the wife beater with the... It was a blue
ape, but I was looking and I was filtering through
the blue apes when you were holding your space
last night and I couldn't find them, but then I
was like, I had to handle some shit.
I can filter.
If you can find
the photo of him and send it to me, then
I can
figure out where I'm going.
I think I can just search him.
Yeah, good idea, because I'll just search. Damn. Yeah, good idea.
Because I'll just search Jungle Bay in my search bar, and then I'll have a picture, and I can just get it from there.
It's cool.
All right.
I ain't even thinking about it.
Okay, better.
But I'm like, damn, when I went to the contract to read, and I put the owner balance, that shit made me put the token ID.
I was like, fuck.
Sometimes you could just put the address, and it drops the token ID. This one, you got to put the token ID could just put the address and it drops the token ID
you gotta put the token ID
it's all good though
and like you know what we intend to do
cause like dude this is a project
where nobody's profited anything right
and but we
need to make it profitable to scale it
and be a competitor to
the other projects
that are scaling their brands in the space. And
there's only a handful, but they're backed by big, big money. Like we want to have this initial phase
be able to set us up for the right strategic investor to come in and help elevate us to be
a real competitor. And that just takes, like, I think the time, as all these tools become so
accessible and these like world builders, it can become so easy to just create some dank shit as
just an independent person. The scarce resource is going to be the real community, the proof of
work over time. Like it's always these people that do these KOL launches, that do these TGEs,
that do these fucking moments where they're do these TGEs, that do these fucking moments
where they're just max extracting up front
rather than putting in the work,
showing the ethos of the project over time
and then teeing it up to scale from there.
So that's kind of the intended contrast
that I haven't seen from any other group.
And as you guys have seen,
like the home team artists cook
Dank ass fucking memes
every day for years in the most
Brutal market conditions. They don't give a fuck dude. They love these memes
They they are showcasing and fine-tuning their fucking art just by putting in the reps dude
those are the types of minds, the types of
characters that I want to align with just from a camaraderie standpoint. It's so hard to sift
through it. So when you see how somebody really acts out here over time, it's refreshing to be able to uh know that there's a high concentration
of these types of minds on jungle bay island or who come by and stop by jungle bay island when they
can all right i'm back i think y'all are cooking i think we're on to something um i'd like to see if
we could um you know advertise in a way that we are trying to onboard more builders that want to step up and build a reputation for their self.
And I think if we figure out an incentive to get real builders that want to make a name for their self in whatever lane they want,
they can use Jungle bay island as home
field and help build their reputation but we're just looking for you know solid loyal people that
are really trying to build their reputation for a long time and i and oh sorry go ahead i i know
we got all we got so many moving parts now because there's so much proof of work that we need to probably make a spreadsheet and a couple of spreadsheets and maybe even start having people volunteer for certain roles and certain things because we all know that we have something here.
We have a good community.
We got a good.
Yeah, I feelLA to that point, that's why I was so grateful that JP had this idea to build
in public as we build in the background by doing these spaces, right? Because if you
look in the top of the mountain, the first post is exactly that. Where someone who has
an idea that listens to this, if they understand
the context that thinks they have something to bring to the table can directly add it. And then
if it's fucking dope, like, dude, we're all like, we got no option, but to, to, to forge the best
fucking minds and builders and concept, because you only get one chance. If you're going to spend
something, if you're going to fucking try something, if you're going to spend something if you're going to fucking try something if you're going to roll something out you only get so many
opportunities to uh to change um or or to to implement them effectively and so this is like
the intention of hosting these spaces as we continue like with next week we're gonna have
i'm sure j JP will have some,
some new dope shit to share some things that have been, that we've been considering. Um,
and as that process happens and people tune in and they're interested to see how this all progresses,
let's say even if green, uh, uh, shows what he's been, uh, cooking it on the Decentral and for all
these different pieces that are in motion,
if we find a way to structure them,
to best position us as a project, as a group, long-term,
that's the intention.
And look at fucking Doc.
Changed his...
He got the motherfucker.
He found it, dog.
He found the Jungle Bay that is forever fucking...
Forever aligned with his fucking uh account bro the the burn address you can't get more fucking locked in than that shit
bro uh that's dope man good to see the jungle bay back on you that crip jungle bay with the
fucking with the fuck you tongue out i love it yeah but the fla 100 the thing is like there's a lot of people that having things like this
the thing at the top of the mountain right the the opportunity for people to actually
contribute words and and effort it does sift out the idea, guys, right? Because most people got a lot of
thoughts on space where it's easy to just say something, but if they actually want to contribute,
that effort really is a good way to filter who wants to play a role in the development.
And then for us to determine how we can best align and make it work there while,
right? That just is what it is. There's too many idea guys out here and the executioners, bro,
the motherfuckers that actually can show up over time and put in the reps and stress test
and just have a vision of what excellence demands, that is where hopefully
we'll be able to reach different people that we wouldn't have if we were just in the back
channels alone.
And also, they $63 on the floor.
You talking about the Jungle Bays?
Yeah, the jungle bays yeah the jungle the disrespect the disrespect that y'all show these
fucking jungle bays is funny to me bro in this it's okay though they honestly what does it mean
it means that the memes are not dank enough yet the output is i'm not blaming no motherfucker
except our output i don't give a fuck bro if yall want to do it, then it's not dank enough yet.
It's not dope enough yet. We need to try harder. That's just what it is. Like everyone's always
like, Oh, like people are doing this and they're fucking, everyone's buying this instead of like,
okay. Well, it's not undeniable yet. So like every fucking brick stacked,
hopefully brings us closer to where this shit is just undeniable. And that's like,
nothing else is acceptable. And I got time. I got time. A lot of the people, FLA has been here since
day one. Motherfuckers got time, bro. We're here for a different reason. And it all came from
seeing these extractive mints that were going on where
people were clearing a million dollars for a project, NFT project, all these promises.
And then shit got a little uncomfortable and down market and everybody just bounces with
some half-ass excuse.
This is nobody put shit in their pockets.
And we've been here for four plus years years like giga focused on forging real
authentic fucking bonds and community and proof of work in whatever way the respective builder
artist community member it could just be like dude for example warden's been been hosting
spaces he did a live broadcast of the jungle bay island um on cyber was fucking around in there like
it was so dope to see man but he did that all on his own he's streaming he's video streaming he's
got people tuning in he's building his own stuff with rage and hopefully there's a mutually
beneficial ripple effect that happens from that but but nobody asked him to do that he was inspired
because he can recognize when motherfuckers are really here for the right reasons and when people are trying to pull a fast one on you you know me and mark
face and i forgot what it was erbotnik like you know what i find is like a lot of people uh they
they want to help and stuff bro like everybody like inherently like you know wants to help right
otherwise they wouldn't be around um but what I noticed is, like, usually people run into barriers of entry, bro,
and how they want to help, you know?
Because they go, like, okay, you know, like, I have tokens and stuff.
I got my JPEGs and stuff, right?
But how do I actually contribute to the art?
And then they get stuck, you know?
And it's, like, everybody wants to, you know, participate in and, like,
you know, contribute, bro, but they just don't know how sometimes.
Me personally, I'm like, like, I wanted to always like work on breaking those barriers of entries.
Because, you know, if everybody creates, we're like, imagine if this entire room is home team artists, right?
Imagine the output.
It'd be insane, bro.
It would be insane.
Like, you know, I was talking about like building
in Decentraland
stuff right
like the
on cyber thing
you can
you can't really
keep building
that's why I just
like you know
I stopped building
in there
but Decentraland
you can continue
building
and you can like
essentially make
all of Decentraland
jungle base
I just really
really wanted
my fault
I just wanna say
something
my fault
and I know I'm cutting you off.
But my fault.
Because I be forgetting shit.
I'm coming down right now.
All right.
I think Jungle Bay should start attending more conferences.
I think that is a way to get eyes on a project.
Conferences.
Conferences.
Listen, hear me out.
Hear me out.
Hear me out. Yeah, hear me out yeah go ahead
go ahead
I think
if there's one benefit
to those crypto conferences
it's networking
and I think
I think a dank ass
booth with some
fire ass
or with a motherfucker
that know how to
articulate himself
would net a lot of
networking
positivity for the project
I think
I think well doc let me
let me ask you something though can you name one project that has had a conference presence
that has uh meaningfully scaled anything here that's noteworthy i can't really i can't really
think too much maybe pudgy penguins for sure um we were talking about that dog they're an anomaly
no but they're a good reference I get they're an anomaly.
No, but they're a good reference point.
I didn't know that they were out here doing conferences.
Like for me, I noticed that Luca was making strategic partnerships and he was kind of structuring these really innovative ways to scale the project that were, you know, with, I think it was Walmart or Amazon.
And then obviously with the ETF, like these are kind of more strategically focused
backend things rather than like,
because I just feel like events,
the people there are not the amplifiers.
The amplifiers are building their own things.
They're building, they're investing in companies,
they're advisors, they're artists and contributors. And
those are people in the space. And to Green's point real quick, because I think it's a very,
very important one. If anyone's ever been in business, you come a lot, the worst thing that
you could have is a team of motherfuckers that go, how can I help? How can I help? That is
fucking dead weight. When you have someone like Green Usain,
what he's been just actively cooking with no ask on fucking Decentraland. Loground creates
junglebayisland.com. Out of nowhere, nothing asked nothing. He was like, yo, boom, check this out.
And he continues to make it better to highlight the artists. These are completely team-driven,
but from a place where motherfuckers know what they bring.
That's a warden grabbing a mic and hosting spaces
just because he fucking loves it
and he sees that he can forge and grow in that lane.
Whatever your respective skillset is,
this is intended for the people who don't want to ask,
how can I help because that is
that's dead weight and and you know I hear you on the on the conferences part but also I'm like
it's just an aspect you like you don't want to leave yeah the the what's the goal right the goal
is to make motherfuckers see what you see because you believe it's some dank ass shit right and it
has value and the value isn't determined by ETH,
but the energy put into it by the artists in the community.
That's the goal.
Anything that helps towards that goal is a good thing.
You may not like conferences,
but there's probably people who like that type of shit, right?
And why not have a booth at Jungle Bay
and motherfuckers expressing what it's about
and where it came from, how it started,
showcasing some of the art?
Why not? I mean... Well, showcasing some of the art. Why not?
I mean...
Well, no, that can't hurt.
But my question is, like, when is the moment?
Like, if we're able to have something...
Like, if we went now, right,
before Jungle Bay Island is fleshed out,
before we have gamification,
before we have, like, a rewards-based, like, flywheel in place
where you need to burn the native Jungle Bay memes token
to be able to contribute and construct your bungalow right it slaps different at a at a conference than if we
already have that and we have maybe some strategic investment so i think timing uh as far as first
impression goes with certain levels is an important strategic consideration you definitely gotta be
prepared and cross your t's and dot your I's. But I just
I'm speaking from even a
near future type of thing. Not like tomorrow
or nothing like that. But like, I think
motherfuckers should be at NFT, NYC,
NFT, Miami, all that shit.
I definitely believe that at
some point, whatever point that is.
I think that
showing up to conferences
is like cool
um like you know if you're trying to like meet like big brands and stuff try to get like money
from them right but bro i'm telling you these guys are gonna laugh at you bro if you don't even have
a minimum viable product bro you know what i mean like you want to show up to them when like you're
like yeah bro like you know give me your mill And they're going to be happy to give you them because they're going to be like, oh, we're going to do more.
Right?
Like, for example, to that point, because I think you nailed it.
Like, I have intentionally for four years not approached one strategic anybody for this because it wasn't ready yet.
The other day I had a video call with my dog Avis who had some ideas.
The other day I had a video call with my dog Avis who had some ideas.
He reached out because he thought it was ready maybe to introduce and open up a conversation with some people that might have some traction.
So we had a fucking hour and a half video call and it was dope.
But if we hadn't put in four years of proof of work on the timeline and he hadn't witnessed it himself and we had retroact or if we
have reached out proactively at the wrong time like the alignment wouldn't be there so sometimes
it's like i i like to say like like you get the vibe steer and have the preparation be ready for
that fucking timing because if you force it when the conditions aren't right when the whatever it
is in the ether that's steering the that areers that are tapped in to, you know, the pursuit of something meaningful, that can't be forced.
And so like that's where the time expectations I think are critical. And that's where like,
as long as the people contributing and part of the group have factored that in to their
contributions, I think it really can be a beautiful foundational layer
that just gets fortified as time requires.
Go ahead, JP.
Yeah, Green, if you were to say
what is that minimal viable product,
like what could it be?
Like I want to understand like practically
I come from like the development of stuff,
and my mission now is to distill whatever is happening here
into something that I can put in front of you,
and it could solve any problem for you or do something.
And what is that something?
I want to know,
what do you see in that? Bro, I'm, I'm a little bit delusional, but I'll share my,
I'll share my perspective with you. No problem. Um, for, for me, minimum viable product, uh,
is to actually like, like actually like visualize the island itself, right?
And take it further, for it to become like a household product,
you know, it has to be in front of everybody.
The island, the visual island, has to be in front of everybody.
The story, the lore, everything, you know, like everybody should know it, bro.
So for that, like, you know,
you're going to have to get through them through their phone screens by them playing.
Like, think about it.
All the nostalgic things we have, right?
Bro, they're all from our, like, younger days, you know?
Because the things we did for fun and all those memes, they stick around, bro.
As we grow up, that's what becomes, like, our little culture, right?
And so, bro, like, I've always, like, that's why, bro, it's like,
like, I like the metaverse, bro.
I'm not even a gamer, bro.
I don't even game.
But I understood, like, you know, that it's super, super important.
But, yeah, dude, like, that's basically the final,
the minimum viable product is basically having a visual place
where you could show them that, look, this is our art, you know, this is some activities.
Like, bro, there's so many things you could do.
But like what Sikasa was pointing out, right?
Before it was just not like feasible, bro, because it was just so early, bro, right?
It was still just a dream.
But now it's getting a little bit better to a point where I initially, I started using it, bro, just to make it easier
for me to animate. So like, instead of like animating in Blender, which would take me forever,
I would just go like make a skin. And like, for example, here, let's take a jungle Bay example,
right? Let's say we have like, because we have a build coming right so like I was saying we we have a 3d
AI art like videos but we don't have like renders because it's not really scalable right because it
takes so much work but what if we were to rig all the skins and have a build and just like you know
make videos around that right then we would have essentially infinite content with, like, all the apes,
if you really want, all the memes, whatever memes, you know?
But it's, like, for me, I kind of wanted to address, before I forget,
what Tsukasa was saying earlier about, like, people being, like, you know,
I don't know what to do.
How can I help, right? Bro, me personally, I don't know what to do. How can I help, right?
Bro, me personally, I don't look at it as dead weight.
I can understand like, you know,
but me personally, I get really excited.
I get really excited when people ask me,
how can I help?
Because that's all I really need, helping hands, right?
Because there's so much work, bro.
Green, I think it's worth clarifying
because you'd make a good point i think i i was
a little broad stroke in that what what i'm saying is that a lot of the times i've seen
that being that they just want to check off the box the box as opposed to okay you tell them right
and then they they have the the diligence and the commitment to like to to show up and do it because
it's not yeah you know what i mean so So I think you make a good point, though.
I don't mean to broad stroke everyone.
Like if there's people with gender who want to be there, that's one thing.
Yeah, my bad.
You're good.
No, no, I understand the frustration too, bro, because people are,
people just tilt you, bro.
They just be like, oh, how can I help and shit, right?
But they don't really want to help, bro.
And like, so, you know, it's like me personally, I don't really care, bro don't really want to help, bro. And like, so, you know, it's like,
me personally, I don't really care, bro. I just, I just want to help, bro. So like, you know, if
anybody has barriers of entries, you know, it makes sense, bro. Like, for example, right now,
I know for a fact, like, even just like stepping into the 2D art, bro, is a leap for a lot of
people, bro. Because a lot of people don't have iPads, bro.
Like, literally.
Like, for example, my, like, I'll feel so happy if I can make Dr. Robotnik make art.
Like, with his hand and contribute to Jungle Bay.
So, Robotnik, what's the barrier of entry that you think you're facing right now that we can break?
I don't know how to fucking draw.
That's one thing in my life I wish I knew how to do is fucking draw i love that you say that i love that you say that i never ever picked up a pencil to draw until like three months ago
either um i did not even have an ipad until a month ago.
So, yeah, we're in the same boat. My thing is, you want something built tech-wise, then I can help with that.
I know I can help with that.
I can't draw.
That ain't me.
I could build some Python code that'll draw for you, but I can't draw.
I feel like you're underselling yourself,
Robotnik, because I truly think that you can. I think that you just haven't had the tools
to showcase your talent, dude. I do take Doc as an artist too, in his own right. I've seen it firsthand and it is on the technical front,
but I do think that can extend to where it is.
I see even someone like my dog, Louis Jett,
down in the listeners contributed to the meme death match
with his first time that I've seen doing digital art.
But just fucking, he was like,
fucking, I'm just going to throw my hat in the mix, dog,
and just start somewhere. And I feel he was like, fucking, I'm just going to throw my hat in the mix, dog. And just like just start somewhere.
And I feel like like forging a genuine but also like like diligent effort to to to forge your own creativity is like one of the intended elevating and ripple effects of what Jungle Bay Island metaphorically as a place represents like a like the to be able to remove
insecurities and the fucking normal barriers that we have of like
reaching down into whatever well the creativity speaks to you and where you can tap into your flow state and then scale that shit over time and
shit over time and i feel like that is really like one of the one of the driving um components
I feel like that is really like one of the one of the driving
of of where the ethos of jungle bay always has been and intends to to to aim toward
avis i see you come up man it's good to see you thanks for thanks for coming through how you
doing brother super super guys that was an endear be space but i jumped as soon as i saw what you're doing i the website it's it's
amazing amazing whoever designed it and built it is incredible guys that's jp he's uh he's spearheading
our technical build uh the my co-host just the way the talk can move and the bungalows and the design
and you know the pastel coloring and you have a super clear
token image on top of it and smooth it's nice and this is just a rough rough
just like starting point because we wanted to get something for the space
you know these spaces are going to be intended to get provide update reports
of the development of jungle Bay Island and also to get community feedback
because the second pin post is where people can contribute or add their ideas update reports of the development of jungle bay island and also to get community feedback because
the second pin post is is where people can contribute or add their ideas and then we'll
you know sidebar with them and bring them in the mix if there's something that they that they think
you know or you know ideas they have that are that are slamming right so just just for context
this isn't like this is just like kind of a jumping off point this is the first of those
spaces i just i didn't mean to interrupt you there but i wanted to clarify that can we add drb right now or pepe or bubble
into the uh they should be there are they not there can we actually add tokens they're they're
there bro they're there both pepe and drb are there yeah i i deployed the the smart contract, it should work. You should be able to add tokens to the DMT pool.
I wouldn't recommend you to add more than 50 cents of it, but you could test it.
Just to check it out.
Yeah, I deployed it one minute before the space, so I didn't have time to test it properly,
but it's like, as
I said, a proof of concept.
And if you can test it, but the smart contract is deployed.
I like to develop against production always.
I write a version of the smart contract.
I test in a while, bro.
We don't run no tests.
We test in a while, baby.
Yeah.
Let's go. Who's that, Dr. a while baby yeah let's go what's that
doctor robot nick yeevis what's going on og what happened to you where have you been i've been here
he's he's back he's back he took a hiatus for a couple weeks but i know he's a we miss we miss
his uh presence man when he when he's when he's out the cut. So it's good to have our dog back on Jungle Bay Island, especially today.
See, Casa, I'm emotional.
I mean, seeing the website and seeing everything that you have been discussing
all those years, coming in fruition, I mean, that fucking shit.
It's a sentimental...
It's dope to hear, man.
It's dope.
It's dope to hear, man.
Like, Avis, you've been here and seen a lot of the growth and the difficulties
and building when it's not popular, building when it's not fun.
And still, you know, we are determined.
And hopefully we continue to be able to have opportunities to breathe new layers into this.
And we would be nowhere without each of the motherfuckers each of
the the the artists that have just been relentless with their contributions to this kind of shared
vision and i and we're and and this is no victory lap but we aren't even taking a lap yet this ain't
even the the trial run but it's a it's a good indicator that progress is being made i think
and to be able to have
someone like jp at the helm who's just dude this guy is such a a real builder but like philosophically
aligned so much with what i um idea like how i envision the ethos of jungle bay island to to
represent that it's like it feels serendipitous that we've been able to sync with him
and then also that he had this idea to extend the build process
to the entire community and just get real-time feedback,
get just the great minds that make up the island to be a part of that process
and see on a weekly basis or bi-weekly how things are progressing.
Yeah, and on that note, I need to drop down in a few minutes, but I want to...
No, we're gonna wrap this bitch when you drop down. I want to make sure it's short and sweet.
You know, we don't want to rub it in. I'm also gonna do a space later to go through the meme deathmatch art submissions
because I want to just take a second to admire
those fucking incredible artworks. We'll probably do that in like 20 minutes or so. But JP, go ahead.
I just wanted to add that. Yeah, I wanted to basically extend the invitation to each member of this community. It's inspiring to see how much energy it has and
I'm here to transform your ideas into something that could bring something important to
to the world. You know, I think that there is something brewing here. My job is to distill that into a product
and hopefully have that product extend the network of Jungle Bay
and broaden the horizon of what this could be.
So I will be like
testing things and
ideating and we will
be here on these spaces
every Friday I think. So
you're always welcome to come
and share what you think about
yeah. So thank
you for coming. Thank you. This is the first space that I do.
So I don't know if this is going on still.
Maybe Cicasa racked.
No Cicasa left, but you got to leave because you're co-host.
Okay.
So yeah.
Thank you all for coming here and see you next Friday.
Have an amazing weekend.
Goodbye.
Bye.
Thank you, JP. Thank you.
