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Kuru Live! - $ETH & NFTs are Back?
Recorded: July 23, 2025 Duration: 1:26:26Space Recording
Short Summary
KuruLive is set to launch a new product next week, enhancing user experience and signaling growth in the Ethereum market as it rallies to $3,700. The NFT space is witnessing a revival with upcoming launches and community engagement initiatives, including scrumpies NFT collection and generous giveaways.
Full Transcription
Thank you. You Y'all don I'm sorry Back to the place, tell first, fuck that, now I read cash, early on
I don't know, you just never quit, stop it
So I'm split up, bitch, better luck, you know, I'm fine
I'm fine, fine
Got no conflict with this
Bitch, I'm tough
Let's go, I'm so busy
I'm fine, fine
Yeah, I'm keep conflict with this
I'm fine, fine
Got no only witness
I'm sorry, I'm fine I'm six, I'm just kidding, I'm fine conflict I'm going to go to the next one. I I'm going to take the car with a I packed the van, you bought a while with a
Drink the rules, we all just fuck with a
Yeah, I hold clear to the front
I rotate to the front
All these tears to the front
I thought that shit, okay
They're fine, I'm left in the back
Gotta keep your eyes on the back
Out of my face in the back
Somebody's in the place Can't poke a face in the truth I can sell the best I Y'all don't come fake with this, bitch, I'm tough Let's go, mine's a big man's house, I'm for time
Y'all can't come fake with this, I'm on top
Got an only win this shot
Don't they can't come around, they showin' up
And when the king wanna drink, say 20 more
And when the king's gonna fuck, they hold up, it's true
I'm tryna break that bank, start a push-up Tell me y'all beena shake this close-up Yo, what's up? That'll wake you up good morning cozy
good morning kb good morning yes bit of a maybe a moody wake up right there with the warm-up music
but i like it i like it hey we're bringing the energy it's's Wednesday morning. Let's go. I'm excited.
Glad to be here.
Pound for pound.
Yes.
Yeah, I don't know.
Scrumpy just gives me that like dark, like, I don't know.
Mello, he's so fucking bass.
Like, we like the same music.
He's on, what's that?
What's that site?
Serum.
He's on Serum making fucking, making dubstep beats.
So I had to bring it to him.
What's up, Melo? Welcome.
Thank you for joining us.
Yo, good morning.
Or good afternoon from Belgium time.
How are you doing, KB?
I appreciate the dubstep compliment.
You know me.
I'm the Skrillex fanatic, so I have to.
You are such a bass head.
I'm such a bass head.
It's so hard for me to listen to anything else um but i am yeah yeah i like i like edm too i have some background
since i was a kid like in my teenage years
yeah wait so yeah i didn't know this but mello you're a you're a dj also you've done some djing
yeah like before the whole crypto thing i used to be a hard sell dj
and i played some some big events in europe like to tomorrowland defcon one
uh a bunch of festivals like all over europe dude that's like more than 10 years ago like i
played tomorrowland in 2013 i think i feel like there's a bunch i feel like that's funny because
i feel like there's a bunch of uh kind of like crypto coded hobbies where like if you're kind
of into this like you might fall into
crypto and like one is obviously poker like a lot of people play online poker and then become
like crypto traders i feel like a lot of i feel like there are like a fair number of like djs and
stuff like that um that are in the space maybe that's just because i also know cat5 but there
definitely are more djs that have fallen into crypto and then also like people that played runescape and wow when they
were kids which maybe was everyone but the wow cross-section was smaller i feel like
yeah yeah i agree there's there's definitely some overlap like i got into music production
I got into music production when I was very young because I just, I just enjoyed being in my bedroom on my PC, like nerding around with stuff, you know, because I didn't really need anyone to like do it.
I could just like download foodie loops and like start messing around.
And then with crypto, it's kind of the same thing.
Like you don't really need anyone
you can just like have a laptop and do whatever and so yeah a lot of djs or music producers are
like kind of nerds and so it overlaps in that way that you're just people who like doing weird stuff on the internet i guess anyway yeah right on oh my gosh we got wow dude we got
this is a big space let's go mellow really mellow said he was bringing the horde and he delivered
this is big time let's go dn dn okay okay can i make a can i make a confession okay guys i literally i i don't know does dn mean something
i don't know it's okay cozy no one knows what dn these nuts these nuts okay right on right on
what is these oh man good good oh man these beans what's up beans i have beans good to see you bro it's been
a little while that's awesome yo yo yeah it's it's nice to be here again let's go
well yeah i was kind of hooked up in the topic right now it's ethereum and then if these are
back i've been i've been trading like only only in monad NFTs, like BestNet once, but I don't know any news about Ethereum NFTs. Can you give us a brief explanation of what's happening right now?
Yeah, no, totally. Well, yeah, great segue, Beans. You're teeing me up. This is awesome.
You're teeing me up. This is awesome. Okay, guys. So, hey, welcome to KuruLive. Excited to be here.
I've got some stuff on the docket for us to talk about, like some typical market roundup type stuff.
And so maybe what we do, if this sounds good to you, KB, is we run through just a few of these topics, like the coolest ones, right?
Like the interesting ones. And we hit on those for maybe like a half hour 45 minutes or so here just kind of vibe talk about what's going on in the market
and then i want to take i don't i don't want to take advantage of you mellow but i want to be
grateful for you being here and i think we'll go to scrumpy's and we should get some of the lore
and like i just want to hear some of the story i know maybe some people i guess actually probably most people maybe do know the story but uh but maybe for some of the crew crossover crew
that are here um we can just talk about that we can talk about the competition that we just ran
which was just awesome man the nads are just goaded at the art and everybody just responded
so well yeah yeah it's good for me all good okay i'm gonna let you lead the way
okay okay all right that sounds good i've got a zen in i've got a big cup of coffee so i'm ready to
launch in yeah let's do it i don't have i don't think there's like a tremendous amount of like
context here but okay so eth is was running now I should actually take a look at
CoinGecko right now because I did not look this morning okay we're looking slightly red but we're
kind of we're kind of chilling so the reason why I went to this topic is that we had ETH go on just
kind of a tear over the last week week and and a half, right? This was kind of trending in this direction when we met together last week.
And we talked about the PTSD that we have about ETH leading the rally of crypto.
But Bitcoin has still been super strong as well.
But ETH has been actually playing some pretty strong catch up at this point in the action, right?
So ETH rallied all the way to $3,700.
And you knew that things were getting
kind of, I don't want to say, you can't really say euphoric for crypto when people are posting
like, you know, my dad who bought at like 4,200 because he thought it was going to 10K is like
super excited that he's almost back at break even and can like get out of his position now, right?
That's a little depressing. But ETH went on a great run.
And that's exciting to see
because ETH really is like the decentralized leader of crypto.
And so that's like a good sign for the space, I think.
And there's a few reasons for that in my estimation, right?
It looks like we might get staking in US ETFs
at some point in the near future here,
which will be really big.
You'll be able to get some kind of yield,
a natural dividend on your investment, which I think that Wall Street and Main Street might be really interested in in the long run here. You've got the crypto adoption vehicles,
right? Like the treasury vehicles are kind of loading up on ETH. You have the one that's led
by Joe Lubin from ConsenSys and some others that are really picking up.
And so the narrative is just kind of finally catching for ETH.
And I think that we're starting to see the foundation reap some of the benefits of really good hires that they've made, like Bingy from Optimism going to the foundation.
That's a vibe shift.
And then just like a really good developer direction.
But what that I think has led to, which is about the funniest thing and has led people to calling top signals and all of that is you saw some crazy crypto punk sweeps.
Right. You saw some strong price action from Pengu and from Pudgy Penguins and all of that.
So I think it's just interesting to see that when ETH shows even just a little bit of strength, maybe a lot of strength. I think ETH added something on the order of like $200 billion to its market cap over the last few weeks, which is, if I'm right, double the market cap of Solana, right?
Like that's just like crazy levels of a pump and adoption.
Then in that way, we've got, yeah, just like an interesting narrative where I think a lot of people for the longest time have said that NFTs are dead, which they have been for the most part, but
they're showing signs of life, right? People are going back to kind of like the standby
PFP collections and everything. And I've always been confident that we're going to get another
NFT season, but it's seeming like there's still a real correlation here between the strengths that
they're showing. Solana really is kind of like the meme homeland in a lot of ways but eth still has like this strong
stake on online identity with regard to these valuable pfps and maybe who knows some good
collections i bet if there was like a fire collection that came out at this point hey
maybe it'll be on monad in a few months here. Would love to see that. There could be some real steam and an attraction that comes up in that way. So that's really just
kind of the overview of ETH and NFTs being back as so far as I've seen it. And things have cooled
off a little bit right here, but we saw some good strength from Bitcoin yesterday. So I will be
curious to see where we go from here. But I don't know. Has anybody been looking at NFTs?
Anybody had some interest in kind of where the market has been going this week?
I don't know.
KB, are you buying?
I don't think you're buying NFTs.
But are you tapped in watching the market or any reaction to the ETH strength lately?
Yeah, yeah.
On the contrary.
I am watching out for those who are telling me to buy NFTs so I can hit that block button.
Yeah.
Damn.
Nah.
Fair.
I mean, crypto bats pumped yesterday.
Any news?
RIP Ozzy Osbourne.
Did you see that?
I did. I did. And the Trisha
Paitas meme, did you see that, KB?
Yes! Oh my god, this bitch is crazy.
That's actually
insane. There's some dark magic
going on there.
Can we get a minute of silence
for the king?
Yeah, we can do that.
I should have played some Ozzy.
Oh, real.
That would have missed opportunity
on my part.
Maybe that's how we play us out.
Maybe a little like Iron Man.
I'll do a little... I won't do this the whole time.
We can definitely play out with this a little later if you guys want to play some crazy but yeah no um definitely
hey um i mean it's good it's good for the ecos it's good for us i mean you know i kind of said
this earlier uh we have alt season and nfd season uh cooking up just in time for monad mainnet i
mean it's coming it's coming actually this time not like last year when we said soon
like actually soon but um but yeah no uh i'm not buying anything it's different now yeah it's
different now i'm not buying any nfts personally um but you know definitely congrats to those who were buying it, you know, during the lows.
I know that if you held your Pengu airdrop, that is now equivalent to your Pengu airdrop from a penguin.
You know, something that Nick Lachey sold.
He sold his.
But if you held your Pengu airdrop from the penguin, that is now one BTC.
So, yeah, I mean, you you know if you bought a sappy
seal uh two years ago that was definitely the wrong arctic animal to buy but hey hey hey who's
who's taking notes who's watching their fucking bags not pump not me hey we're bullish omnia we're
gonna we're gonna make it back in the wash it's gonna be it's gonna be good we're Bullish Omnia. We're going to make it back in the wash. It's going to be good.
Seal holders are going to be okay.
Oh, I love it, though.
That's so real.
Nick, you sold your Pengu.
Dang, man.
I want to see Nick Lachey's Penguin.
Is this still in the collection, Nick?
I'm a doodle maxi.
So that's all I own.
Dude, I'm going to kick you for that.
That's crazy.
You're holding your dude allocation?
No, I sold that instantly.
Dude to the moon.
Dude.
Oh, man.
Yeah, on the NFT and alt thing, alt season, like, yeah, neither of those things are good things.
Yeah.
Here we go.
I think typically when you see those things bump, yeah, it's never great.
And I think when people are celebrating their alts almost getting back to where they were six months ago that's not an alt season if you've
been here previous cycles that's just an opportunity for you to to exit without losing as much money
and then for nfts like yeah outside of like the ones you don't own all the ones you do own are
never coming back so so nick your read is essentially that like the rotation is happening kind of like too early or it's almost like speaking to sort of like a weakness that's like latent in the market where people are going almost like risk on too fast off of Bitcoin's relative strength, but kind of not being strong enough to hold on for like a long enough pump for people to actually like
probably do well at like a broader level of like a lot of a lot of wealth effect or something
passing on from this is that kind of your read on things i mean i think you see this like every
cycle where people risk on and risk off at the wrong times. So the time to risk on, right, was at the lows in April.
The time to risk off is when you hit a zone of highs
and then you start getting the highly speculative assets,
also getting bumps, but not like crazy bumps.
So like even the alts, like, yeah, we've had a good week,
but realistically, most of them are still underwater, right?
You have a few that outperformed um but even those like they're just we've had that throughout this whole cycle
certain all-time performing like a full season of stuff going crazy and 3xing from like previous
highs like that has not happened um and so i just think like when you do see stuff moving towards the speculative side
especially on an upside trend like that means you should you should consider de-risking especially
but that assumes that you risked on when things were low and made money and then you can de-risk
but the issue most people have is they never risked on when they should have so then they're not gonna
they have nothing to de-risk right so then they risk on at the top so i think it's just those scenarios right you just look at
sort of since april till now or since january till now you've had plenty of time to risk on
but if you're choosing now as the time to like let me risk on until like highly speculative assets i
think you're sort of doing the thing that people do every cycle which is your timing is off so
just my take yeah yeah no i think that's a i think that's probably a good take and it's definitely
i think that that your gut reaction when you see things pumping and it just makes sense like
psychologically is you're like everyone is getting rich but me. Like I need to pile in here to like get in on the action.
But there is like a real measured approach to saying like, OK, well, if things are kind of like popping off here, then I need to be careful because the tide as it goes in can kind of equally and commensurately go out.
So I need to be careful. And I think we
also have to see what kind of juice it seems like Bitcoin has to go much further because Bitcoin
definitely leads the pump in these ways. And so if Bitcoin is kind of like consolidating,
that's when you'll see that alt rotation. But yeah, you don't want to go too crazy,
alt rotation, but yeah, you don't want to go too crazy. Like buying highs or relative highs
can be like a dangerous or risky game that you can get into. So yeah, definitely time to be
cautious when others are greedy or maybe a little fearful. That might be the long-term game here.
I don't know if anybody has been watching this closely, but there's been a lot of like
the crypto treasury action that's been going on lately.
And one of the really interesting ones that I saw has been relative in the stable coin
game, which we've been talking about a lot over the last few weeks, months.
So we saw the Genius Act get passed, I think,
officially. I think that is signed into law now by Trump with his very boxy signature that he does.
And so the Genius Act is live, which I think is at a base level, like probably good. We've
talked about some pessimistic outcomes where we've said like, hey, if this is getting passed,
it probably has some pork in it or some things that aren't great. And it does, I think, instantiate in some
levels, like banks custodying a lot of the stablecoin assets and everything. So it's not,
I don't think, entirely good, but it probably is a step in the right direction for us in terms of
getting some clear legislation and everything. But people have been talking for some time now about Athena,
which is an interesting platform that kind of gives like a level of yield based off of taking these, if I'm right, like delta neutral strategies and then farming funding rates to give a
theoretically higher return to holders. And Ina has been kind of like lagging for some time now in terms of the craziness
that we saw from Circle and everything. And they announced an interesting kind of like treasury
buyback vehicle called Stablecoin X that's going to be buying something on the order of like 200
to 300 million of INA. But if I'm reading into this right,
it's something like there's locked Ina in the Athena treasury that they're going to be basically
like selling to this company that will be using it to do something like $5 million in buybacks
a day. I don't know. I mean, we've got our resident Quantardio on
with us. So I don't know, Nick, have you looked into the Athena acquisition vehicle at all? Is
that interesting to you? I've seen people both praise the setup and also call it like a touch
scammy seeming, but I don't really know if you have any deeper read there than I do.
I haven't looked too much into it.
I think I've just read sort of cursory stuff,
so I haven't, like, read too deeply.
But I think the good thing about Athena
is still things like Circling Supply,
all those numbers are fine.
But, yeah, I think it makes sense, kind of,
in the meta for them to have an outlet.
But, yeah, I mean, i think for things like athena um that was
like an 18 month play from january like when we talked about it so i think it's just stuff that
takes longer to play out because of who they're after um they're not after like the people on
this call in terms of investment right they're after sort of the heavy trad fi side. So I just think it's a different
type of kind of measured approach. And I think they needed a kind of a treasury style vehicle,
I think because that's the meta that's happening within trad fi. I think that was necessary
for them and the stable side. So to me, it makes sense with who they're after. I don't
think it's meant to sort of appeal to necessarily like the crypto native audience.
I think it's just to keep up, in my opinion, with some of what they have to with the men on the TradFi side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right on.
Right on.
I thought that those were just the interesting, yeah, like cursory news that I saw.
Let me go back.
KB, what did I send you here yesterday?
If there's anything else that really sticks out.
We're talking about the,
back to the NFTs and the ENS,
the whole like ENS debacle with Threadguy.
Yes.
Yes, KB, take us through.
If you can give us a broad form,
take us through because this was too funny. Yeah i guess uh thread guys ens like you know these things um they expire right and if
you don't renew it somebody can snatch it under you so thread guys ens was expired and he didn't
you know catch on and somebody snatched it and put it put it for sale for about I think 2.5 ETH and he was like
you know he had a hissy fit and he's like I'm not buying it like which he could have just bought it
and then they flipped it for about four ETH and so then he's like what the hell and he was like
listen like I will buy it from you for what you what you paid for and that guy flipped it for eight eth so somebody had
made like 15k selling thread guys ens and then i don't know if this is ben.eth they're using the
same pfp but they actually launched a coin yesterday using or i think a pre-sale using
thread guys ens i can pull it up. I don't want to pin it though
because don't, I mean, I don't know. It might pump. Do not take, I didn't put anything in it.
Okay. I'm not, I'm not participating in this, but yeah, it's a, it's a crazy, crazy. Let me see.
Let me look at this really quick. Yeah. So it's a pre-sale i can't i shouldn't pin it right
oh i got suspended okay okay it got suspended um so it was taken down but i do have the screenshot
here um but they did send e like send eath to wait actually that's the wrong that's the wrong one
that was actually a ben.eth one anyways so there was there was there was a presale using
the thread guide.eth ens i don't know if it's still up um but yeah he should have just bought
it for 2.5 eth and he and he also was like i should have just bought it for 2.5 eth um but
yeah that was probably one of the funniest things i've seen in a while um are ens are they coming back probably not um that's why i never bought it bother with an ens
but did you ever have one cozy i i still do i still have an ens i have a few they're like not
they're not like cool ones but i do have an ens because they are really helpful. My ENS is Zoomerdad.eth.
I just thought that was funny in 2021.
And so I just kept it ever since then.
You can see my very small portfolio in my graveyard of tubby cats and just other awful
NFTs that have all just absolutely 99% down.
But yeah, I do think that's one of the funny things of
eth going back up is that in your head i feel like eth this is maybe just me but eth is just
kind of like pegged to like two thousand dollars or something from just how awful the last you know
a year year and a half has been but you think think about it, you're like eight ETH times 35, $3,700.
You're like, damn, that's like 30, 30 grand. That's maybe 25 to 30 grand. That's, that's a
lot of money. That's crazy. Even 2.5 ETH is what? Like almost probably like eight or nine K. So I
mean like, yeah, probably doable for thread guy with the old phantom sponsorship, but, yeah, probably doable for ThreadGuy with the old phantom sponsorship.
But still, kind of ridiculous.
That's crazy, man.
You just get these numbers in your head.
Solana's back over $200.
That's been kind of interesting to see.
Yeah, TG should have just.
This is my word to ThreadGuy.
ThreadGuy, I like you, bro.
I'm a fan. Like, I'm on the ThreadGuy train.
You got a, like, professional stream overlay thread guy train you got a like professional stream
overlay done for your streams it looks bad it doesn't look good have someone redo it it's not
good I don't know why he chose that it's like light colored I just don't think it looks interesting
or professional he said he wanted it to be like tbpn it does not look like tbpn it's not it's not
good and I mean you don't want that if you're just thread guy to look like tbpn it does not look like tbpn it's not it's not good and i mean you don't want
that if you're just thread guy to look like tbpn but it doesn't even look like a cool version you
should you should redo that brother the clipping is good and everything but i don't know man that's
just my word to to thread guy here nick are you probably you got it sound like a bit that sounded
like a bit it was pretty good it was a pretty good. Yeah. Thank you, man. Hey, I'm,
we're doing bits on the fly here, Nick. I've actually been adding to the list.
Maybe we'll, maybe we'll do a bit later here. We'll see. But I've got,
I was traveling whenever you travel,
that's just fertile time for, for bits to come up and everything.
So I think I've got some new ones. I will not check in the list right now,
but, but maybe in a little bit.
I need to know when king louis uh
streams you mean you'll be the next third guy oh yeah i was thinking about this kb to be honest
but i mean i got so much to do at the moment and narrative is coming soon and And I have the VCC. We actually stream every Friday on Pipeline.
We roast the VCC.
We review videos of these guys and talk about this and roast the hell out of them.
So I'm basically streaming right now.
But yeah, I want to do it more often and more professionally.
Carl Zeno.
Become the thread guy of Monad.
I mean, I already got curly hairs.
I'm a bit browner than threat guy.
So yeah, it might be cool.
Might be a cool thing to do when Mainnet is coming,
when all the farmers are leaving,
when everybody's disappearing.
So I might start doing a stream
why not i think it's a good idea i'm gonna be keeping an eye on king louis.eth i might need
to snipe that and sell that for like i don't even know if i'm if i'm if i'm owning this
dude this might be an arbitrage opportunity for any of you opportunistic nads out there right now.
Go buy KingLouis.Eath and launch a pre-sale.
Now financial advice.
I mean, I'm a proud Eath holder, you know.
I'm a proud, everybody was roasting me for having Eath in my name.
Everybody was like, oh yeah, change it to Sol or to Mon, to whatever.
Yeah, take that, motherfuckers.
Now everybody wants the Ethoman again.
So yeah, if you guys want, buy it, send it to me.
I will appreciate it forever.
Dude, I would watch King Louis going like full Threadguy stream arc,
like launching his PumpFun token ticker, Louis.
I would buy that. and i just imagine the stream
would just be louis being like okay wait let me try to get my louis going he would be like
you are he would be like you are retarded buy buy eath eath is going up buy buy eath buy man buy my I'm on. I'm on. Are you trying to do the German accent,
the Arnold Schwarzenegger accent?
Is this the Arnold accent,
or what are you doing?
Try, man.
So for any ENS snipers,
it is available,
and to get it for a year right now,
KingLouis.eat address,
it's $11.
Holy fuck.
Okay, I sniped it.
Open this domain.
It's a shame. I won't change it anyway you can't you can't you can't buy it i still i still keep it you know you can't change it what are you gonna do
that's why i never got an ens because i would definitely be the one to just forget
i don't even have i don't even have ethereum anymore i'm just done like yo i was chilling
ethereum all over the timeline i was i was i was a narrative in the discord in the chinese
community we're talking about buying ethereum a thousand eight hundred thousand nine hundred
and um people born i hope they're still holding it i'm not but um no i'm just kidding but yeah um i'm a proud i'm i'm ethereum maxi i like ethereum i
like vitalik my my autistic little prince you know if you don't trust an autistic little prince
who are you gonna trust you know and this and this and this kind of fucked up word. So I trust him, man. Real.
Dude, you want to know how down bad I am?
I'm like, OK, so I followed Fapital into this trade.
You guys might know me.
He's like one of the new like kind of KOLs on the block.
Great poster.
And he was big on SNS names. So like Solana name service, which is clearly like an ENS derivative.
Like I should have known there was no world in which it was going to do
well maybe they will someday thank god i didn't think it was smart to like go out and spend like
two grand or something on like a three-digit sns or whatever like a lot of people did but they
already had a token because they had like taken over i like they've rebranded to sns or something
like that but they used to be called something
different and so they launched a second token which which dude is just never a good idea just
a total red flag and they launched this token and i'm i've got like 20 sns names dude i probably
spent like a grand on sns names and they dropped me like a hundred dollars dude like 150 dollars and then it went down like
it died and so i'm like just holding this i'm like dude if this 10x is i'm gonna break even
like i think i'm just gonna take my wife out to dinner this is brutal there's just nothing nothing
here sns was uh was not the play are we going to be are we going to be able to trade the old domains? The Monad ENS derivatives?
You're going to sell KingLewy.net or something?
I just sniped that shit, dude.
I know, I know. You all sniped my names, you know.
I like to slowly, you know. I wake up too late and then I need a couple of cigarettes and coffees.
And while I do this shit,
you know, you already snipe everything.
Is it tradable?
What's the offer on this one?
Can we buy digital domains too?
Can someone pin that shit?
I don't know how to pin here.
What are you pinning?
King Louis domain that I just sniped.
Oh my god, yeah.
Best $9 of your life. Kosi, were you saying that all the name services king louis domain that i just sniped oh my god yeah
were you were you saying that all the name services on one ad are likely to fail is that kind of your the story that you were saying with your sns story is that the uh the takeaway what
what i didn't say anything about failing bro um don't um i haven't anything. I just I just asked if this tradable and if I can buy three digits domains because in fact
I was a big ENS farmer, you know back in the days. I had like all the domains. I had all the emojis
The three emojis the four emojis the middle fingers the middle fingers went really well
the middle fingers, the middle fingers went really well.
So I had the three digits, the four digits.
I was farming it hard.
So I would like to have this get back again.
It was like, it's not true to generate, you know?
Someday King Louie is going to be like talking to his grandkids
and they're going to be like,
Grandpa, Grandpa, like how did you,
like how did you make your millions?
And he's going to be like the middle finger emojis like they did great for me back in the day my grandkids gonna be proud of me
that's awesome okay okay we should go into the one last uh one last serious topic here, which I mean, it's not that serious. But we've been, I mean,
we slash Nick Lachey slash KB. Okay. So like, I feel like at first I was vindicated on PumpFun
and the PumpToken because the ICO sold out in like 12 minutes. So like the demand was there.
But Pump, okay, this is the funniest thing is that like in the one or two days after the Pump token goes live,
people are like, everybody who's a sophisticated trader knew that Pump was free money just laying on the ground.
And you just had to pick it up and take it.
And it did Pump.
It pumped to like six and a half billion, something like that.
They were deploying buybacks, all of this.
And since then, Alon's strategy is just posting like very cryptic, retarded tweets that he's
just like, they make no, they don't make sense.
Last night, dude, last night was unbelievable.
He says, all right, like I'm looking for community. Also like three
Solana founders at the same time are like, we're deploying, I'm deploying like Solana into buybacks,
like show me like what's interesting or whatever. Ben Pasternak loads up 10 soul, 10 soul, dude,
we're down bad. This man is like clipping like $2,000. It's not looking good for Evelyn Waugh and her boat.
But so that happens.
And then Alon does this.
And then the coin that he shields, I'll pin it.
I'll get there.
It is called poop aura.
KB, did you see this?
Did you see poop aura?
I unfortunately did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah let me read this seeing people this is
a real tweet from the guy who just raised a billion a billion dollars imagine you're like
some like professional like liquid or like vc fund and you clipped like 50 million dollars
into pump fund and then you read this tweet from the founder that
you just backed seeing people rating hard and creatively exclamation point is refreshing.
Poop aura is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. But the community is proving that bag working
isn't a lost art. Make rating great again. And the tweet tweet says the tweet says poop warriors assemble
crypto twitter struggles to ignore poop aura dude this is down bad man and so okay down bad
so pump fun is not pump the pump token is 10 at least as last night. I don't know what it's at now.
But it's 10% below the ICO price, which is crazy.
And also, it's fully unlocked.
It was fully unlocked, so there was no locks for investors.
So some of them who bought into the ICO, I imagine with size, apparently were selling for a 25% gain. So if they were like, this is the free money that we're picking up off the
ground. Imagine your like strategy on like a trade is like, we're going to buy this and we're
going to sell it in like 24 hours, which maybe is not a bad idea, but yeah, man, kind of brutal
for pump. I'll take it. Let me look at what a pump is trading at right now, but I don't know
any, any hot takes. I mean, Nick Lachey, you were kind of bearish on this from the jump. We got a bit of a crash out from you on this.
Yeah. I mean, I think these are all recorded. So last time, what we had said was that it probably
does fine in a very short window, right? Like a few day window. And then it's going to suck after
that. Like long-term, no chance, right? And i think that's what happened because again like all of it
didn't add up um you mentioned the people selling so obviously the early investors they can't they're
they aren't fully unlocked but the institutional investors that were like what were they like 18
or whatever they were they were fully unlocked right just like the ico buyers because you're
part of the ico so yeah those people just dumped, right? The two funds that had like low nine figures in it, whatever it was. But I just think the same
things, right? When a guy, his whole messaging is ridiculous pre, like what do you expect it to be
post? He said they're going to simultaneously take on Facebook, Twitch, and TikTok. Like, it's the most ludicrous thing, right, to say.
And then, to your point after, it's Pupara.
So, like, that's where he started, right?
He started with some of the largest social media and content organization in the world.
And then he is on to Pupara.
So, I just, i don't know i don't know what they've done
historically that makes you think that they can accomplish that kind of massive feat um but yeah
i actually thought that they would inject more liquidity at some point into it yeah but you
know he made that tweet where he said something and then since then they haven't spent another dollar um so who knows with the airdrop and all the other stuff um but yeah like there is no airdrop i love
you yeah they couldn't even pump me like he couldn't even pump poop aura to like 30 mil
or something like it is like and then instead of poop aura pumping pump just dumped like it is like and then instead of poop or a pumping pump just dumped like it's like
what are you thinking like this is literally like what you don't do like did we not live through
trump and melania like you do not launch a meme coin and then show another meme coin right after
like you know you cannot divert you cannot fragment the attention even if it's you know, you cannot divert, you cannot fragment the attention, even if it's, you know, pump.
Like, it's just it's just the oldest trick in the book.
But that's the volatility of these meme coins.
KB, no one, no one could have pumped Pupora to 30 million, I think is the problem.
Donald Trump could have said, could have tweeted out Pupora looking good here.
Thank you for your attention to this matter and it might maybe 20
mil but that was that was not gonna happen it oh my it's almost too crazy and the funniest thing
was last night so it gets announced that elan is going on um is going on thread guy's dream today
which will be some popcorn material for sure and so a a few people like Tolks, who's like,
I think is like actually a really smart trader and a few others. It was all over the timeline.
They're like, hey, I'm a longing pump into the Alon interview. But they would also caveat it.
They would be like, he can't like help but say something bullish, right? Like he's got to,
he's got to like lay out a roadmap or like a plan or something bullish, right? Like he's gotta, he's gotta like lay out a roadmap
or like a plan or something, which there never has been. There's been so little clarity with the
pump, the token, just the entire way through. It's actually like kind of mind boggling and then
poop aura. So like that's, and it just, it dies even more. Yeah. So pump is at like 3.7 or so billion, which is, I mean, roughly like eight or 9% down
from the ICO price, which is kind of insane.
Yeah.
The one, my, my true regret is that I didn't fire off a, the right, uh, like Mark Zuckerberg
banger that could have been like people like i wanted to like put
mark zuckerberg's face over the like uh sir a second tower has been hit george w bush meme
where it's like someone telling him like sir pump fun is try sir pump fun is trying to kill
facebook they've acquired kol scan so then you get kol. And then like the follow up is like, sir, the founder has
shilled poop. It's like, kind of beyond comprehension, man. But maybe this should
just make all of us bullish. You can just do things like Alon is shilling poop or he's made
a billion dollars. He's made a billion dollars. So like maybe we should feel better about our prospects or worse.
But it's both like this is kind of like, is this the best that we have to offer the world?
But also like, hey, maybe I can be maybe I can show poop aura someday and print a billion dollars.
Like if he can do it, maybe I can do it.
Oh, man.
We got to tell by Bob that he's got to start getting real deep in the trenches here.
We need to find the poop aura of
Monad. I don't know who's going to
step up and launch that.
I'm pretty sure it's dump. I'm pretty sure
we have the dev here.
Let's go.
What are you talking about?
Wait, what?
Wait, what?
Nobody knows anything about this.
Okay, last interesting thing is we got the, okay, we got a few funny things wrapped up in this, but there was the base, the base, base rebrand. And then the
base app, which is cool, kind of an interesting, they're really leaning hard into Zora and like
tokenizing tweets where like, if you tweet, it's actually so crazy, man. If you launch, so every tweet that you do on this Zora slash base app, they're calling it a new social network, which is bold.
You get earnings when people trade your tweet.
And so like some girl posted about this who has like 15,000 followers.
I don't even know what she is who she is or what
she does but she got like 60 dollars off of people trading her coin and then there was like
this controversy because you don't just get like i think maybe you do get like some small amount of
like latent trading volume rev or something like that but it's very small but i guess you maybe you get
some like allocation in like the supply of the tweet or the post or whatever it is so this girl
like sells her 60 which like what just don't do just don't sell 60 but like then people are
fighting her for selling her post which again like the default on all the posts that
you do is that it's instantly tokenized, which is, it's crazy, man. So yeah, this is just base.
I want to believe that they're actually like smart and sharp and the app does look like
interesting and kind of cool and like the direction that they're taking things. But I still,
yeah, like one of the things that they were saying,
they did like an on the ground, like, go, hey, can I give you $50 to get on chain?
And they changed it to, hey, can I give you a free juice to get on a social media that
pays you for posting? Which in that scenario, if I'm understanding this correctly,
what it means is that it pays you to dump on your phone, pays you to dump on people, which maybe is the most accurate
onboarding to crypto that you could have for anyone.
It's like, hey, can you do you want to get paid to dump on the people that believed in
you?
That does feel, unfortunately, very true to the crypto experience.
But at the base level, nice, nice base level, they went from maybe just at this, KB, they
went from a circle to a square.
So any instant reactions off of the base announcement?
I don't know if you watched any of the stream or anything, but yeah, I don't know.
Did you have any?
Marketing geniuses dude did
you see the whole thing dude like they made a video out of it it was crazy dude the video he
changed into square it just it just changed into a square yeah and that designer makes four hundred
thousand dollars a year-based salary for sure but uh but yeah
no cozy you didn't put that in our list of things we're going to talk about.
Actually, yesterday in the Monad Discord, and I don't know if this was like related, but Nini was like, I'm gonna murder Sora.
was like related but nini was like i'm gonna murder sora and i'm like why is nini so aggressive
towards sora this is crazy and then i changed my name to sora to like mess with her but i didn't
really understand what it was and maybe that's not what it was but no i don't pay too much attention
to what's going on on base to be honest um but maybe i should just make fun of them that's
real i did forget that you're not a federal agent so that might not be the most uh interesting thing
in in the world to you but uh but yeah i mean the base like kind of super app idea coinbase does have
distribution i can kind of see where they're uh where they're coming from with that. Yeah, maybe just last thing, just the funniest thing with like the circle to like, yeah, man, the circle to square thing. Like you just think that like they had deep, like probably serious internal discussions where they were like, hey, like the circle with a little line cut out, which is reminiscence of Coinbase, kind of makes sense.
Like you would want those to be affiliated.
They're having like long internal discussions and they're like, no, you know what?
It should be a blue square.
And they're like, should it have anything else?
And they were like, no, just a square.
It's a building block for builders.
Cozy.
Yes.
Did you see the meme Sherlock Hoddles posted with Mourinho?
Like, this is how I felt.
Like, what you said, like having an internal discussion and hours of meeting and be like, this is the bunker.
This is it.
This is how we'll do it.
Yeah.
Yes, I'll find it.
I'll find it and i'll uh
i'll pin it we also got the hoddles is the goat he's just literally like the best how does he a
he's literally a mona team member i just shared his uh no thanks i bought the pump raise which
was a total banger but yeah let me see if i can find the the square tweet. It's very like if you go five tweets below.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Diner after going circle to square.
Oh, dude.
It's so good.
Oh, man.
What a life.
But the square is better, right?
I mean, if you look at the Kuru logo on KB's thing,
the circle, and look at the Kuru logo on KB's thing, the circle, and look at the Kuru square.
Which one would you rather have?
What are you talking about?
They're both squares.
No, everyone here is a circle.
Oh, are you talking about my PFP is a circle?
No, just on those spaces.
Yeah, no, I on the spaces.
I'm a square.
I'm literally a square.
We've actually been thinking about transitioning the Kuru logo to just a black rectangle.
Because it's the foundation for Monad.
Those would be the types of discussions that we would be having with our designer.
We'd be like, okay's okay the k is cool i'd like the little uh i don't know whatever these are like a polygon or whatever's going on here but
what if it was just a what if it was just a rectangle i just hope you will never get a
designer bro you will never become a designer man um this is a horrible idea and um just stick to
social media management and let the graphic design do the
professionals please for the love of god yeah i got an idea why don't you why don't you make a
poll on twitter and in that way like uh no no you could see some of the things cozy okays in our
design program and then he's like kb what do you think and i'm like absolutely not like
i'll just give my reasons as to why not what that is not that's not real i think the shirt
the shirt okay i liked which okay okay i liked the which which one and all that's alpha that's
alpha right there we're gonna we're gonna flip it to Alpha. But the shirt?
The first one you're talking about.
Yes.
Okay, fair. No, no, that's fair.
But it was cool, but okay, yes.
But that is Alpha, and I actually was thinking about the same.
Yeah, that's a good tease.
We've got this.
It's not, okay, I've really been debating about what we've got a new activation competition
dropping soon.
We've been waffling on the timeframe of it because honestly,
like shout out to Mellow and the scrumpies.
I think that all,
I don't think that we thought it was going to be a throwaway,
but we were like, oh, this is something fun that we can do.
And the nads were like, no, we're taking it to 11.
And so it was a ton of fun.
So I think that we might be launching this activation competition, like no we're taking it to 11 and so it was a ton of fun so i
think that we might be launching this activation competition whatever you want to call it on
monday but there will be an exclusive kuru shirt and i think okay kb the second design looks cool
right like the second design is really sweet and it's from our new designer so it's way better
it's way better than the first one yes yes. Yes. It would be very cool. There'll be 10 exclusive shirts that will be up for grabs.
IRL shirts.
Also, I will be making the shirts handmade. So it's coming from love out of me.
Yes. Love out of me. Okay, cool. But phrasing. But okay.
You know it sells.
Okay. All right. Good. Yes. But shirts coming soon. Keep know it sells. Okay.
All right.
Good.
Yes.
But shirts coming soon.
Keep an eye out for that.
We've got the activation stacked up.
We're ready to roll.
Main net very soon.
It's going to be a ton of fun.
I'm excited.
But, okay, good.
Good transition point.
We've covered enough serious stuff.
We're yapping.
But, yeah, no.
Let's go full scrumpy.
You never go full scrumpy,'s you never go full scrumpy but i'm
about to do it um mellow i know that we've got a bunch of people here that are in the in the
scrum you just bring us back to the inception of like scrumpies and like where the idea came from
you you've done art yourself on uh on your ipad i think if i remember you telling me the story
right in denver but uh but yeah just give. But yeah, just give us the lore.
Give us your origin story.
Okay, yeah, I'll do it all.
I'll do everything on the iPad.
I studied graphic design when I was younger,
so I kind of have a graphical background besides all the DJ and hardstyle stuff that I did back in the days.
So yeah, I'll do everything myself.
It's just Scrumpey's is a one-man army type of thing.
I also do Twitter and everything.
Basically, the lore is there's this actual guy named scrumpy so the whole project is like
dedicated towards him he's like i don't know he's like this random fucking german dude that i met in
a in a degen discord four years ago i guess and uh the one Discord from MoonOverlord, which is like a complete
Dejan fest, like NFT traders, whatever.
So I've been hanging out there for like many years and I met him and we both, we both started
farming Monad at the same time, kinda.
So we entered the Monad Discord to, like, grind it, I guess.
And, I mean, I just started shouting his name on the Thursday poker nights,
basically, because we both joined and he was, like, too shy to put on his mic.
So I was, like, scrumpy all the time, like shouting. And then one day that voice
sample got like added to the Monad soundboard. I think it's gone now. Somebody got rid of it.
I don't know why. And yeah, so people just started like shouting his name in a Discord in general.
And yeah, so people just started shouting his name in the Discord in general.
And then one day I was like, I should just turn him into an NFT project on Monad.
Because why not?
I can just pull it off myself.
I don't need anyone.
I have all the freedom.
I have time.
I can just do things.
And I asked him, hey, dude, is it fine if I turn you into an NFT project?
And he was like, whatever, dude. You can do whatever you want. And I'm like like, hey dude, is it fine if I turn you into an NFT project? And he was like, whatever dude,
like you can do whatever you want.
And I'm like, okay, cool.
So I made a Twitter account
and I started making these little purple things on my iPad.
And yeah, that's basically most of the lore behind it.
Pixel Art is new for me,
so I had to install an app on my iPad
and try Pixel Art for the first time ever.
It's more difficult than I expected,
but I've been doing it since the start of Scrum Peas now,
so I'm getting better at it.
Yeah, so that's kind of that's kind of the lore it's just
a decent friend from germany that i never met but i turned into an nft project um
and yeah so it's kind of kind of like a joke but then it became something. And people actually seem to like it now and vibe with it.
So we just continue this grumpy thing, you know.
But it's a fun lesson.
I learned this pixel art.
I learned how to draw, how to do the animations, the lightnings, the shadows.
It's getting all better.
And it's like, I just enjoy doing it.
It's like a fun experience.
I like being creative and making things.
So this is just another part of me doing creative stuff, you know?
Dude, totally.
No, that is awesome.
Dude, I love the backstory.
And no, I mean, it's got to be kind of wild i
mean i'm not trying to like juice you too much here but like you have this meme idea and you're
like oh this is just kind of like fun i'll do this in my spare time and then like i mean dude
scrumpies are like a blue chip monad nft like people he has like also money to like get to
get out scrumpy yeah yeah yeah some people did but also
one of the reasons is like he just has a stupid name like scrumpy i don't know how he came up with
it it's like the best name ever it is it sounds it sounds so so funny and stupid that is like
perfect for an nft project well it's just amazing too like that's how organic
it all kind of came out and i think that that's what people appreciate the most like there's no
bullshit there's no gimmicks there's no like you know utility behind it essentially like it's you
know you're not trying to make it something that it's not it just is and it just exists and like
also you essentially just being kind of that one man show, you creating an art and being, you know, the guy behind it.
I mean, I love my honorary, by the way.
It's like it's so cute.
It's so amazing.
You're like, do you smoke cigarettes?
And I'm like, not really.
But when I'm at the rave, I do.
So that's my scrumpy raving.
And it's just, you know, very fitting because we like the same music.
But yeah, it's pretty amazing what you've been able to do here and also just the support that you're getting from, you know, from everybody.
And even like the first weeks of Testnet, you know, in turn giving away scrumpies during, you know, Monat in the mornings
and, you know, you just being so a part of the eco and, you know, us meeting in Denver,
you know, these things really do matter in the long term. That was amazing. That was an amazing
time. I went also on Monat in the morning that week or the week after yeah exactly yeah exactly like you're it
really does make a difference when you can put in that effort and um you know just be a part of
something almost accidentally I feel like that is similar to my story as well and like being in
Kuru like none of this was really um none of this was really like a goal or like i didn't really
anticipate any of this when first coming into monad and it's almost like i stumbled into like
this position i feel like you just stumbled into this you know this nft project and it is essentially
what the ethos of you know culture, culture and Monad Eco is.
So, yeah, it's really cool to see and really cool to support.
Like, I'll always support you, Melo, and Scrumpies.
I have a question.
What's your position at Switchboard or what's, you know, your involvement with Switchboard?
And is there, like, any involvement with, like, Scrumpies and Switchboard?
We'd like to hear a little more about that as well.
Cool.
Community lead.
That's what I do at Switchboard.
So I just take care of the Discord and the community, host events, things like that.
It's a very technical product because it's like a permissionless Oracle.
But I'm not a dev.
I'm not super technical.
So I basically do all
the fun stuff at Switchboard
and try to make it a fun place in the Discord
and on social media
and stuff like that
it's not officially
affiliated with Scrumpys
in any way but the team is
very supportive, they really like
Scrumpys and what I'm doing
holders can get a DN role in the Discord if they want.
So if you have a scrumpy, you can actually go get a special role in Switchboard.
That's like something new that I did last week or two weeks ago.
I made a tweet about it on scrumpy's account so just
if you haven't done that and you have a bet on testnet you should probably go catch a roll in
switchboard but yeah that's my full-time job actually and also my first job in crypto
um i've been doing it for like a year and a half now. And yeah, so I do that and scrumpy's on side and then like full time being in the trenches.
Yeah, full time web 3, baby, full time web 3.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Yeah, I feel that. I'm right there with you.
But you're brave to do an NFT project.
I definitely would never but i'm
not an artist either so i mean yeah yeah sometimes i think the same sometimes i think like like
what did i start bro like this is this kind of crazy man like um but yeah whatever that's kind of the best. And so I guess we'll go into, you know, this essential prize.
We have 50 guaranteed whitelists.
So tell us more about that.
I know that we had a seclusive, a limited amount of testnet NFTs, but this is the first time we're seeing whitelists for the scrumpies
and what that means for the collection.
Yeah, so this is indeed the first time I'm giving away actual whitelist spots
or the end lists like we call it.
So, I mean, you can already kind of guess, like, it's going to be bigger supply on Mainnet, it's going to be 5,555 to be exact.
And, yeah, actually, to be really honest with you, I haven't really thought about mid-phases or allocations.
Besides the people who have a scrum pad or a DN from Fantasytop and now Kuru, I still
have to figure out how to give away all these DN-less pods.
And please don't DM me with your project asking for a collab.
I don't want to do that.
I will reach out because there's a lot of people like like, Hey dude, this is so the crew thing. Do you want to do a collab? Like
fuck, like I will check it later. I still have to finish the art. There's so much
time going into the art. I want to like prioritize that and make sure it all looks
brilliant. And then I'm going to figure out all the other shit.
Yeah, if you are doing everything alone,
that's like things get hectic a little bit.
Melo, are you doing all of the scrumpies by hand?
Are they kind of randomized?
I don't even know how that works, being an NFT artist.
What is that like for you um so yeah it's all hand drawn all the
trades on my ipad with with a pencil and then i just like throw throw them into a program
and it randomly generates um the collection but like from there a lot of time
and fine-tuning goes into it.
Assigning rules like
this cannot go with that.
making changes.
There's
a lot of time
going into that.
Making new trades,
testing them, randomly generating generating them seeing if it fits
deleting it trying it again making rules going back and forward and yeah it's like a it's like
endless journey kind of that's really going a lot of time into that but fun i like it no i hope you dude i hope you retire
off of scrumpy's man that i mean dude just the even just like you get enough that's not really
the point and you're just like people are like mellow like how did you how did you make this
happen and you're like yeah so i was on discord and there was this random German guy named Scrumpy.
That's your origin story for your generational wealth.
I'm affirming that this will become a reality for you.
I hope so, man.
For me personally, the most important thing is that they do look kind of good and attractive or special or original
because it's going to be forever on the Monad chain, you know.
So that's like my number one priority is making sure that it looks kind of dope
and people vibe with it.
And all the other stuff is like extra, you know.
And if I'm right, the scrum bees on mainnet
look a little different than the scrum pets that are on testnet is that right
yeah yeah that was like the plan all along like i wanted like a long time before testnet dropped i
was like i should just like um mint 500 little pets or whatever
and call them scrum pets.
And then people who have that and like own it
can get like the endless for main ad.
And then on main ad, I'll make like the bigger boys
in the same style, obviously,
but like a little bit bigger and cuter
and better detailed art um actually kb has seen a
few of them so you can ask her opinion i did see a few of them is everyone jealous because you should
be um no they're really cool i love them a lot. And I think they're going to look amazing, especially as a PFP.
But mine looks so amazing.
And I'm really obsessed with this PFP, Mella.
Like, I love the Kuro background.
I love the Onion, of course, the Pikachu.
And, yeah, like, the more of these that I get, I mean, I'm definitely spoiled in the eco.
And I do appreciate
all of you who've made me honoraries. It's just it's been it's such a like humbling like just
experience. Never had so many honoraries in my life. It's so nice to see. This was kind of like
a stressful moment for me because people like the pets so much and I I did not expect them
to like it that much and then I was like fuck I need to make something better now for test
for mainnet and I have a few months left so I got to work and like the first iterations were kind of
bad I was like shit man no they're so good um I'm fucked man and i kept i kept trying every day and like now i have
like a base model which looks sort of okay now now it's just about fine tuning and getting it done
but yeah that was kind of a stressful moment for me because people like the pets so much
they do they do they look so cute um i'm gonna ask you one more question and then
we have 20 minutes left um we are gonna run run a, we are going to announce the winners on a stream led by SoulStyle.
Cozy and Mellow are going to join.
So definitely join the Kuru Discord after this.
I'll pin the Discord to the top so you guys can join in.
And then also, if you guys have any questions for Mellow and Scrumpies, you can go ahead and ask in the comments.
I'll kind of run through those and see.
So if you have any questions, now is your time to ask those.
And I will pin the Discord here in a minute.
But, okay, so my question for you, Melo, is with the pets.
I know that you sent me my honorary on Testnet.
On top of the collection of your 5K,
are these going to be also minted on Mainnet,
like these honoraries and the original collection?
No, no.
There will only be one collection on mainnet um the honoraries are
minted on testnet i'll send it to your wallet um there's going to be only one collection but um
yeah there's going to be there's going to be something fun in the collection let's just let's just say that i can't give away more than that
okay fair enough let's go teaser and i think the coolest i mean i just am i feel like it would be
one everybody talks about money nfts and rightfully so it's been one of the most fun aspects of
testnet i think that in part because karma i I like, I'm not going to lie.
When Karma came on as NFT lead, I don't want to say I was skeptical, but I was kind of
like, is there enough depth here?
And Karma has done really, really cool work.
Not that I did, I just didn't know Karma previously, but the NFT breakdowns and the mentorship
and all the stuff that she's doing, it's actually like S tier. It's like really cool.
And I actually look forward to her content. And I was wrong because, and I should have known this,
but the Monad Tessna NFTs, now not all of them. Look, I think some of them are bad, right? Like
we, I think probably can all agree on that. But like blue chip monad nfts are actually like some of the
best and coolest and most creative art that we've seen in the space for like a long time and i think
that all of that is fruits of the community that's been built on on uh on pretty test net and then the
discord telegram all those things but like yeah i mean scrumpy's are scrumpy's on like eth i think if they had the
requisite lure could cook because they're cool right like the chow i mean i'm wearing a chog on
main um and i wouldn't if i didn't think it was really cool but like the chogs are really cool
like chog stars are cool mondana baddies are actually cool like all these projects are like
really well done so i personally just i mean we we were talking about NFTs at the beginning of the show, but
like NFTs are awesome because I think all of us are like digital natives, at least in
some sense.
And so you're like PFP matters.
Like that is why like penguins, even outside of like a financial speculation vehicle and
everything have like real values because they're cute and cool.
Like you show, I can show my, I showed my wife probably back in like 2021 or 2022, a
penguin and she just got it instantly because they're cute and they're cool.
And like, they're awesome.
Then you show her a bored ape and you tell her how much they're worth.
And she kind of despairs about humanity a little bit.
And that is the appropriate response.
Right. worth. And she kind of despairs about humanity a little bit. And that is the appropriate response, right? But when you have like good art, that is kind of like the outcome that you can have. So I
really do. I'm really bullish on the ecosystem in the NFT space on Monad. That is not like news to
anyone, because I think that we all share that in a lot of ways. But it is not just like a function
of like it being the only thing
for us to speculate on i think there's like actually like this underlying like creative
value which is really cool to uh to see that come out and so yeah i can't wait for mainnet very soon
to just yeah be able to like mint these and like get in the game and honestly like for me and i
think that i would encourage everyone in this way, it is a financial vehicle,
right? Like maybe, well, I'm sure there will be people that will be flipping them. There are
probably people on this call that will be, but like the, I think the healthiest way to like
relate to NFTs is to treat them like a meme coin that you think is funny that you're just going to
buy a piece of because you just enjoy it. Like for me, that's chill house. Like I just think
that chill house is really funny. And so I just enjoy it. I don't really care about the price
action that with NFTs. I feel like it's the best way you just mint what you like from people that
you like, and then you just have fun with it, right? Like that's a way less stressful, like
healthy way to like relate to NFTs when they come on Monad and Mainnet. And so that'll be really
fun to be able to get into the, into the game soon so i'm looking forward to that it's gonna be sweet
yeah you're actually launching an nft you guys were joking about like montardio is this like a
real thing i don't think it's real i thought it was maybe sorry hello hello hello can you guys hear me hello hello you're back sorry i got rugged um
no i mean i thought it was real for a second and then it's just like whatever i think he was just
farming monad uh for a follow back um and then i was like yeah i'm down to help out and then
he was like yeah i give up is this wait or who, wait, Q-Ban? Or who? Yeah, Q-Ban.
But it was just a joke.
Like, you know, it was just a joke to get, like, a Monaz bottle back.
Oh, no.
Anyways, anyways, anyways.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
I just got a text.
Okay.
We have two questions.
We have two questions.
The first one is, is there going to be a scrumpy Discord?
Oh, man.
I already have so much work doing the Switchboard Discord.
I don't think so.
People can make one if they want.
one i'm gonna join it but don't want to organize karaoke night and um so
I'm going to join it, but don't want to organize karaoke night and shit.
i don't think there's gonna be one for now okay i'd rather keep things simple and let people do
whatever they want no absolutely um and also like you don't necessarily need a Discord for a good NFT project.
So I agree with that.
Yeah.
And then the second one is, what are you using to, like, what app are you using to make your pixel art?
I use Pixaki on iOS.
It's probably on Android, too.
Wait.
Pixaki Pro. Yeah, that's what it's called
um i heard a friend who did pixel art with that on his ipad and it looked really easy to use
and it's actually super easy to use so yeah that's what I use. Pixhaki.
And a pencil.
You're going to need a pencil.
You're going to need a pencil.
Cool.
I think those are the only questions that I saw on the comments.
So, I think everything's pretty straightforward.
And definitely, guys, like you saw before, we have 50 whitelists here on the line.
But there will be more later on.
So definitely follow Mello, follow Scrumpy's, and just watch out and also follow us.
But definitely watch out for, you know, more opportunities if you missed this event, if you didn't win this event.
And yeah, but don't be a beg either.
So don't beg Mello for whitelist or you definitely won't get it.
Yeah, and also, so we have 50 whitelists, but we also,
Mello, this is some lore.
We're giving away a scrumpet.
And Mello, this is your own, you've given us your only scrumpet. You're about to be scrumpet-less.
Yeah, man.
I mean, dude, I only have one. I had to do something with it, right?
And I like Kuru. I like you guys. I met you guys. I believe in the product you're building.
I was like, I'm just going to give it away. It could be a cool collab.
So, yeah, it's fine. I don't mind. i will get more main name for myself right on you better you need to
get uh you need a little the little founder aloe just don't do the uh what was it um i don't know
if i mean look i it's not a it's not a kuru live if cozy doesn't mention uh ordinals but uh i think
the node monks something like the node monks founders own like
yeah that's like two thousands right yeah dude they both have like 500 or like a thousand node
monks that they just they kept from there i mean like look secure the bag like i understand
founders should get some allocation and like that's 100 real and fair i'm not gonna be that many for myself i'm just
i'm just gonna mint i'm just gonna make sure uh scrumpy the actual guy from germany he gets like
shitload yeah right using his name and everything that's it real real no i mean yeah watch like
mellow mellow like mints the 5,555 and there's like circulating supply of like 50 and it just keeps like 5,500.
Oh man, it's too good. But yeah, 951. I don't know. So guys, basically I just, we're about to
roll over to discord in, uh, in just a minute here here maybe we'll actually wrap up in just a
few minutes here and you guys should crash over to discord and we'll get in it's a you know is it
it's an event kb in the in the discord or are we just going in vc1 um we'll probably do the stage
would be best um to kind of like you know be a little more structured are you gonna play hard
style i don't know i don't know okay i don't know what we have uh going on i have i have a dm mike
uh i'm sure he has a million things going on in his discord but we're gonna be doing something
here so oh yeah all right we going to go wild in the discourse.
So you guys should join over there in just a few minutes.
Like I said, stay tuned.
We've got some big stuff.
Guys, we have – okay, I'll drop a little more alpha.
So right now we have a new – oh, what can I say?
Okay, we have an exciting product release coming next week that's basically
what i can say so like i joke about the kuru roadmap like on the timeline like fairly frequently
i true like i actually am incredibly bullish like i know that that's one of the things that
vaibov and i have talked about um for bas, have talked about is like, we really feel like, you know, we're very blessed.
We got Paradigm's backing and everything,
but we look at the app and like where it's at now on testnet.
And we're like, we just have so much room to go,
so much room to grow.
And so they're just really exciting things.
And we're actually realizing that like looking at the timeframe between now
and mainnet, which is not concrete, but is becoming more so.
It's real.
And we're like, okay, we actually need to figure out like how to appropriately roll out all of the awesome like changes and new features and redesigns that we have coming.
So there's a real makeover coming for the Kuru app soon.
And so we've got an exciting first piece of that that'll be dropping next week.
We're also going to be running another activation from Twitter next week where you guys will
be able to win some exclusive free shirts.
So I hope that you guys go all out with that.
I just want to thank you guys for going so hard with the, with the scrumpies collab.
We'll go celebrate in the discord. But I think again, like we said, we thought this would be a
fun iteration of the kind of like claw monsters collabs. Like Evo made a great scrumpies claw
monster that will be dropped tomorrow, which will be a ton of fun. But thank you to Mello for giving
us these awesome prizes. We are honored to be the first to be able to give out main net whitelist
for scrumpies. So that's going to be a ton of fun, but yeah,
thank you guys for going so hard with the art and submissions and everything.
Like there were so many worthy designs.
And I think that with this and with mob,
the club and all the things that we've done,
we maybe had some expectation of how it would go and have just been blown
away at like the amount of not just like sheer participation because that's not really what's important to us
but that there's so much like quality stuff like people actually put in like real time
and thought i tried my best i tried my best yeah you're welcome i was talking about you there chaos
yeah for sure um yeah dude this the thought and and effort that went into dump it was
just it was unbelievable it was so it was so beautiful but uh but yeah no it's so real and
so guys we're just very grateful for that and excited to go um celebrate here in uh in just a
few minutes in the discord so come turn up with us one person is going to win mellows only scrum
pet on testnet 50 people will win guaranteed whitelist for mainnet.
It's going to be a ton of fun.
So you should come out.
Shout out to SoulSao for putting all this together.
Mainnet coming very soon.
Yeah, we're just so pumped up.
And like I said, the Kuru roadmap is truly very exciting.
And I'm biased, but I hope you guys are excited too, because I
can't wait to share more of the stuff that we've been cooking up behind the scenes with you guys.
The main net app, I think is just going to be very different than it is today, but in all,
a lot of like really good ways that have been both like listening to you guys and also just
like these North stars of like really good and like solid advice we've been
getting from like the Paradigm team and all these different crews. So we can't wait to
help you guys experience the speed of Monad through Kuru and to just continue to improve
and iterate on the app as it stands today. So yeah, just thanks for rating this space this week.
We'll be back next week at 9.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time with another episode of Crew Live.
But now we're going to pop over to the Discord.
I don't know.
Melo, any closing thoughts for us in the Twitter sphere
before we roll over to Discord here?
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Okay.
No, no. No, I appreciate you you guys thank you for the collab and everything
see you in the discord right on right on let's go okay let's go raid kb anything else on your end
or we are we ready to roll i think we're ready to roll boom boom okay well i hope you guys come
join us in the discord the link is um in our bio at the
link tree if you're not already a member of the discord go get over there we'll be on stage i
hope you come vibe with us and uh hey we're gonna go party so shout out to soul sal come here some
sweet djing and uh we'll take a look at some of the winners of the of the collab and everything
so let's ride baby i'll see you guys in,
in just a few here and we'll be back next week with another episode of
Kuru live.
Thank you all.
We will see you guys in just a few here.
Peace.
Bye.
