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Kuru Live! feat. the Monad Community Team
Recorded: May 7, 2025 Duration: 0:59:49Space Recording
Short Summary
The latest discussion in the Monad community reveals exciting trends in project launches and token initiatives, highlighting a growing engagement among members. With the introduction of a meme coin competition and a focus on community-driven projects, the crypto space is witnessing innovative ideas and potential fundraising opportunities.
Full Transcription
I'm not going to be a good one. Oh Oh, wow. I Oh Oh Oh I'm sorry. Oh yo what's up guys good morning gmonad um don't usually do these in the mornings we might switch
it up but yeah uh cozy what's going on are the are are our guests up here because or is i'm or am i
glitching um it's showing his listener to me but sometimes my sometimes my ex is like closing too so i'm not actually sure but uh
but uh but yeah no you're right kb good morning it's it's kuru live in the morning maybe it's the
evening depending on what time zone you're in it's funny i've got a cup of coffee instead of
i don't know i guess i'm drinking water at 8 p.m normally but uh but it's fun to come to you guys
in the morning let us know if you're here today,
if you like, reply to this space if you like the morning better than the evening for TrueRu Live,
because we're definitely thinking about where the best place to host this is, but this is a special
one for Mob the Club week. It's been a lot of fun so far. Yeah, I mean, KB, we just got out of the
Quantico space. Are you hanging in? I feel like you've been needing some extra naps this week,
and that's well-deserved.
Yeah, it's a lot.
It's Quantico.
Oh, Quantico.
Quantico.
Quantico.
It's not Quantico.
Yeah, I know.
It definitely isn't.
But you know what?
Listen, I guess it's Quantico for me now like after that
oh my god just slap my oh give me a second i'm recovering from slapping my foot to the edge of
don't don't breathe don't breathe like that man i just i just need to breathe for a second
okay yeah okay the pain is going away i was gonna say something about the chocolate jokes I just need to breathe for a second. Okay, yeah, okay.
The pain is going away.
I was going to say something about the chocolate jokes,
but now I forgot.
So it is what it is.
It's Quantico for me, just because I like the chocolate jokes.
Thank you, G-Van.
You, I, no, yeah, I appreciate that.
Nick really threw me off saying that I was in
Dangerous territory see I don't even think like that to me. It's just dude. It's just a chocolate joke man
What can I say? I was thinking the exact same thing when Nick said it
I couldn't figure out if it's like PG 13 or council worthy. I was like definitely PG 13, but I'm like
I was like, it's definitely PG-13, but I'm like, what's going on here?
At the end, I didn't say anything.
I was like, yeah, no, PG-13 for sure.
But Nick had to say it, man.
Yeah, that's crazy.
There were no overtones.
Those were strictly chocolate bits.
That's all I'll say about that.
But I think now KBR space is working and we've got
Mike Webb, we've got Sailor Nini, we've got Gizmo up here. We've got the Monad community team with
us here today. This is awesome. We've kind of got our regular market roundup, although we did just
probably a way better market roundup than we could have ever given if you were in Discord and hanging out with the Quantico space, which was a lot of fun.
Not Quantico.
So you should, well, I guess you can't go back and listen to that, but we'll do a little bit of market roundup today.
But really, we want to talk more about just kind of like the monite community team and what what makes a good community maybe some of the things that have surprised them or
been a lot of fun along the way i think these are people that we know well from discord and
everything but it's super fun to have you guys up here this week for mob the club which is really
a community event and we're also going to be doing a live look in at the meme coin competition which
has been a lot of fun.
I was loving during the Quantico space that people were really just like jumping in, like memeing, spamming their different tickers and everything.
And so that's been cool to see. We can say more about the contest later, but but it's great to have everybody up here.
So, yeah, let's say hi to the to the monad folks how are you guys doing um
feel free to come off of uh feel free to come off of mute and say hi
ahoy hey guys hello hello mike webb you gotta what's up with you've got no monad affiliate
dude we gotta we gotta talk to the higher ups about this yeah there are some reasons
but we will not talk about it so it doesn't matter who cares it's not about the check marks you know
in front of your name doesn't matter so yeah it's all about it's all about the community it's all
about being in touch with the community i think that's that's the real the real secret here
that's what we're trying to do.
That's right. You're a man of the people.
Exactly.
Exactly. Yeah.
Good.
Good. And then we also have Finn. Finn, I don't know if we've really met before,
but great to have you along with us, Finn. How's it going?
Hey,
nice to be here. It's going
great. It's going great. This week
we're busy. i'm trying to like
push people to to join the kuru meme coin competition and just like trying to push
them to come up with like some laws and stuff like that um yeah it's been fun it's been fun
hanging out dang that's awesome all of the all of the monad community mods have slightly different variations of accents, which is kind of awesome.
Which, I say accents, maybe I have an accent to some of you.
I'm just a classic American, American-centric, but it's very cool and I'm a big fan, so that's awesome.
KB, I don't know which direction we want to go first do you think we should talk
majors should we talk boop should we talk monad community where do you want to go to to launch
us off i know i'm putting you on the spot here um i don't know i also want to uh say hi to una
and gizmo as well because they're also up here and um yeah thanks guys for coming up how are you two doing
they also have variations of accents that are different
and yeah It's been a really good week so far. I've been trying to buy a slim coin.
And yeah, it's been a really good week so far.
Awesome, awesome.
Your mic's a little low, so it's a little hard to hear you.
But we did get that.
What if you can fix that for more?
And then Gizmo, what's up?
Yeah, yeah, well, good.
Yeah.
Sorry, I'm still slightly brain dead. i've just come back from an evening out um so i'm still just trying to wrap my brain around everything that's going
on drinking are you are you drinking on the job oh my god no i wouldn't really call it drinking
on the job i had what did i have i had i had some pepsi wow living the high life right now wait wait
wait pepsi i think me and nini are gonna have to cancel you because wait what why pepsi you're
gonna choose they didn't they didn't they didn't have coca-cola as well i'm sorry i went to an
inferior bar today sadly um I had some pizza.
So, you know, by the coast, you know, it was quite nice.
Quite a nice evening relaxing.
And then, unfortunately, I missed a meeting because I got the time wrong because goddamn Australian time zones are horrific.
So, sorry to the rest of the community team.
I didn't mean to rug you all on, like, that meeting.
But, yeah, apologies apologies i'm here now and you know if we ever want to go back to that meeting you know just uh
i can hop back on and i'll grab myself another pepsi because i'm just gonna i think i'm actually
no i'm gonna become pepsi maxi now but this is this is it i'm sorry i've decided now um
i don't think it's that different, really, at its core.
And I will fight anyone that says differently.
Yeah, I can see your thumbs downs. Boo all you want. I'm right.
My phone is like floating from all these thumbs down. That's insane.
Gizmo's like, hey guys, sorry I missed the meeting. I was turned off the Pepsi.
I was just, you know, one too many.
Yeah, yeah. I'm really living it up keep them coming just keep them coming look okay right i can either have beans or pepsi right and like which
that should get a thumbs down that should be thank you i'm getting even in kuru in your discord i'm getting like props
for that thank you so you know your own community is backing me so
see how that goes is everyone been muted
i don't i think i think kb i think kb left about the beans and uh beans and pepsi comment that she she just
just rage quit yeah kb just quit guru she just said this is too this is too much
apparently she said that her phone has glitched when i said beans clearly this is like it's just
it's an omen it's's a good sign, right?
I think that should be a marketing tactic.
I think I might need to launch
a meme coin for beans at this point, right?
Like, you know,
I think they're committed to the bit enough.
Right, yeah, I can see the
100 from NeNe. Okay, this is
the way to go. Okay.
Yeah, let's do it.
Screw it. Let's make a beans meme coin. Okay. I might. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it. Screw it.
Let's make a beans meme coin.
I'm going to design a beans meme coin and then I'll post it.
We'll get some NFT all sorts.
Do the full shebang.
What if beans was like a secret,
like MK ultra, like buzz,
like word from Elon that he's like deep programmed into,
like the Twitter space technology where like
if someone says beans for the first time it just automatically if you say beans
three times in the mirror I appear behind you that's just how I guess I went to go
like mute you and then my phone completely glitched and like.
Dang.
Okay.
Well, we've got.
Okay.
Yes, that's right.
We've got the crew.
Yeah.
Una.
This is epic.
Una.
I didn't know that you were on the Monite community team.
I remember you from when you tried to break Kuru, which was an awesome stream that you did a few weeks back here.
We've got the crew here.
This is epic.
Really appreciate you guys being on.
Nick Lachey.
Yeah, look, you're here.
That's fine.
We're happy.
Oh, and Moonboy.
Moonboy101.
Oh, proud van.
Okay, I like it.
So good to be with you guys.
Yeah, I don't know the maybe like just from the monad uh community oh kb has to kb has to restart her phone
kb's phone got bricked by beans it just she just literally oh man that's crazy she like her new meta hard restart
oh man that's funny um well good i think we should just uh dive right in we can we can talk about
like majors and memes and all that good stuff i feel like this is like a fun place to start it's
kind of blown over because it was only really the meta i think for like maybe thursday
and friday of last week things have quieted down pretty significantly but i do think it's kind of
fun to talk about the moral dilemma of boop and i feel like it does kind of go along with like the
monad community team and like thinking about all of this and especially because in the monad
community because it is a community it's a collection of human beings,
which I think is one of the real strengths of building community in crypto,
is that like to claim Boop, right?
Maybe you're familiar, maybe you're not.
To claim your Boop airdrop, which is a Pump.Fun launchpad competitor, right?
Kind of a vampire attack on Pump.Fun, which infamously does not have a token
and doesn't seem necessarily to have any plans for it. Boop.fund gave allocations to a bunch of
influencers. I think there may have been some smaller accounts that got included, but a lot of,
you know, from the way up to like niche internet micro e-celebrities all the way up. And some
people got big airdrops, right?
And some people got airdrops that you could claim instantly for just like being a trencher
wallet, right? Just for actively trading and everything. But those were pretty small.
People got anywhere from like 400 to $200,000. Some people got, you people got in the tens of thousands of dollars, some people got a few grand.
What was the catch? The catch was that you had to launch a token to claim. You had to sit on your
hands for 30 days unless your coin broke different markers. So if it got to something like $2 million
market, or if it graduated,
you reduce it by five days that you have to wait or vest. If you get it to certain market cap
denominators all the way up to 5 million, then it instantly unlocks. So not only was the dilemma
that you had to launch a meme coin, but if you want to get your airdrop before everyone else,
you basically have to relentlessly shield it, right? Which is a pretty interesting dynamic, definitely led to a lot of people taking both
sides. There's also been drama about dingling the founder. Maybe we'll get to that in a little bit,
but I'll just open the floor here or maybe I'll think. What did you guys think about this
and how did you guys kind of like take it in? I feel like the reputational, the price action, all of these were like really interesting questions. KB, what was your I know we both were we were talking about Boop and everything. What was like your your instant reaction to all of this happening? And how did you take it?
Yeah, I heard Nini got a $200,000 allocation. Is that true?
Yep, that's very true. I'm the biggest influencer of them all.
You know, I didn't get offered a lot. So I didn't, I didn't get tempted. I was offered 1800 I think um but so like that's just like not worth me launching a
coin because it does connect and like all that stuff and then there's like 30 there's a 30 day
unlocks um and then I just felt like yeah it was a good marketing you know tactic everyone was
talking about it for like that day.
But and then, you know, everyone's wondering, like, oh, is this, you know, is this morally
ethical and blah, blah, blah, whatever. And it just felt like Boop took the last like ethically
moral people that we have left in this space and just was like dangling this like $200,000
carrot in front of their face.
And people did launch, you know, there's people who launched and were like, I'm not going to talk about this. There's who were trying to push it. I know people got to I think it was like circus
got to the $6 million market cap goal to unlock his like 200k and then the token dumped and that was that was it so um it definitely was an on-chain
massacre uh for that day is there going to be longevity in boop um i don't know i think that
when you kind of do these tactics it may leave um a bad taste in people's mouths. As much as KOLs do have kind of like a platform and a following,
I think that there is negative, you know, pushback on these large type of airdrops and incentives
from like the smaller accounts. And it could be seen as like the 99% versus the 1% in a sense.
be seen as like the 99% versus the 1% in a sense. I personally did not touch any of the boop coins.
You know, I think that first day we were looking into it and it just, yeah. I also don't think that,
I think it's a lot harder to push coins than people think it is, you know, even getting to like a million dollar market cap
and holding that line and having people hold that token is a very, very, it's very difficult. And
I don't think that any of these influencers or KOLs with this large, you know, airdrop incentive, I don't think they have the motion to get a coin to 5 million and
then let alone, you know, hold it up there. So you kind of, it was like playing this game on,
like, it's a really shitty game. And there wasn't much incentive for the players. So
yeah, I don't know. That's my two cents on it. I didn't touch it. I won't touch it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a great, okay. So it's, I'll just say that this is how I'm thinking
about it. Like, I feel like, especially as an American, although I don't know the contextually
how other people view meme coins. So kind of the stage of play that we're at
is that a lot of people have said, or okay, so the SEC came out, right? And I think they gave
guidance that meme coins are generally not considered securities, right? So there's some
safety there, it feels like. But there's still questions around like, I feel like shilling meme coins.
And then if you give utility to a meme coin, does that make it not a meme coin?
So I'm thinking about someone that I like, a great, great influencer or whatever, Abulwat.
He dropped, I think it was yesterday or the day before, a coin that's called Ski Trip,
right?
And he said, okay, if you buy this coin, the top three
holders will get to go on a real life ski trip with me. And there were different tiers. And so
some people are going to get like art made by his kids and like all of these different rewards.
It's kind of like Trump saying that the top 200 holders will get to go to a dinner with Trump,
right? Now, does that make it still a meme coin? Is it one thing to
launch a meme coin, another thing to buy it, and then to shill it, and then to profit off of it?
There's just like all of these questions. It's just like putting a button in front of someone,
and you're not sure if pressing the button is illegal. You know that there's maybe a way to
press the button and not go to jail, but you're not entirely sure. And then someone
comes up to you and they're like, hey, I'll give you $1,800. That might be $180 in a month
to press this button. Or like in my case, a few thousand dollars, which is crazy.
Or in some influencer's case, I'll give you $200,000. But again, but the price of the coin, which is, by the way, it's called Boop, right?
So it's called Boop.
So you have to hold Boop.
You have to report that to your accountant someday.
It might, it's a 400 or $300 million coin with $6 million in liquidity.
And thousands of other people are going to be trying to sell it in 30 days, right?
So like, it's just such a, it's such a crazy inflection point.
I wonder if anybody in the Monad community team, like how do you guys think about this?
Especially I feel like an interesting aspect here is that I know like in the Monad community,
like the most important thing in a lot of ways is like the reputation that you build. Like I know for me, the reason why I didn't press
the button proverbially is that way worth way more to me is like even just the perception that
like I'm a good actor. And I know that way more good things have come to me from that by cultivating
like a personality online that is someone that is kind of above reproach in a lot of these ways,
although I did shill house coin and maybe it was a top signal but uh but yeah i gave you a good ethos score so yeah your ethos
score reflects that that's true that's true ethos is kind of like another vector um in thinking
about this but uh but yeah i wonder did any of uh any of you guys in the monite community have uh
have thoughts about like boop or any of the fallout there?
To be honest, I saw it all over my timeline on Twitter.
But I just didn't touch it.
Obviously not a KOL or big enough to get into it. But yeah, just going to like the reputation thing,
I feel like for me when I'm, you know,
exploring the different areas like projects, you know,
on Twitter, on Discord, whatever, wherever you are,
I just, I like to engage with people
that are just kind of being real if that makes sense so
like I struggle when KOLs and influencers like show things and I get it like get that bag and
like that's also a vibe but like just for me personally I just I find a disengagement with
that um so yeah I don't know if it's you know, does this kind of stuff need to still exist?
You know, like it kind of is just rooted in crypto.
But yeah, personally, I really struggle.
Yep, no, right on.
I'm with you, Nidhi.
I think that there are things that are more important than money. That is just kind of like a theme of the cycle. And I think it's especially true with Boop. So yeah, just like a fascinating moral dilemma for us. And KB, your tweet is still, I think, the best banger that's come out of this, that every morally upright person that we have left to just like face like the instant temptation. Like that's, that was an awesome, awesome tweet, great analysis and funny. So well done. Um, yeah,
with that being said, all right, we've got about, we've got approximately 32 minutes left here. We
want to all crash over to the, uh, Abdul space for Monad DeFi at about 11 AM here. We've just
got the back to back to back of a good Kuru and Monad content going on about 11 a.m. here. We've just got the back-to-back-to-back of good Kuru and Monad
content going on this morning here. So I want to maybe just turn attention here to the Monad
community team. We've been talking with them, but I wonder for you guys, and I can ping someone or
anybody can feel free to come off of mute, But I wonder, what are the ways that you
guys have kind of seen the Monad community grow or change? What has it been like just kind of
watching the process from when you started building a community that was kind of nascent
or small? I don't know when all of you guys started and just kind of being along for
the ride. Is there anything that kind of surprises you or sticks out like high watermarks? I think
there's a lot of people that are probably here that would love to be, you know, like community
team members for a project or moderators. So anything that you guys would like to share just
about what that experience is like, I think there's a lot that we can learn from you guys.
So yeah, I'll just ping it over to to mike what what's that been like for you man
oh brother i got distracted people tagging non-stop yeah uh the community i don't know the
community the main goal here is to always always be in touch with the community that's how i basically see it i
mentioned it already i try to to basically be as responsive as possible right and to have
to have people uh like understand that uh there's basically no barrier right to contact us to talk
to us uh to to solve issues if they have anything.
And I think that's, like, basically the main goal for any community manager, to always
stay in touch with the community, to understand what's going on, right, to have a feeling
of how it's going.
I would probably say that's the main case for us as a community managers.
Right on. Yeah, no, I agree. And I think that that's one of the things that we've talked a lot
about in terms of like trying to, if you want to like make a case for yourself getting hired,
like what the advice that Mike just gave of of being responsive, being around, being tapped into the community, that's something that you can give a proof of concept for, that you'll be someone that can do that.
In the different discourse that you're a part of, those are the ways that you're going to be able to get opportunities.
It's not a guarantee of a job offer or anything like that, but you
can start to show that you have those qualities now. So yeah, it's just like a good way, like
with anything, if you want to be a researcher or a tech writer or a DevRel or something like that
in the space, start showing that off on your timeline. Now, if you want to be a Twitter intern,
be a reply guy, put out funny memes on your main account,
and that's the avenue that you're going to be able to take to get into the different job spaces
or whatever it is that you want to find your way into.
Yeah, I don't know.
Finn, NeNe, Gizmo, any just like reflection?
Maybe this is a good time.
We're hopefully a few months out here
from from mainnet don't know when um it's going to drop but we're in the test net phase now we've
come out of the the pre-test net phase where we were all just kind of like yapping and building
hype and having a lot of fun together how have you guys seen the community change or like what
are some of the things that you guys have um or take away from this time that you'd share with the crew?
I think from what I've noticed, oh, sorry.
I'll just quickly run over my thoughts very briefly.
What I've seen is it's really, really interesting to see how everyone's kind of grown
and changed so there's people that um you know like oh you see regulars obviously in the discord
um but seeing how they've changed into ecosystem projects and seeing how they're interacting there
and and growing and developing their skill set and sometimes because we've got so many people
in the one our discord um it's great to see the new people that have come in purely by like an ecosystem project.
So there's people that I get to interact with and see in the ecosystem projects that I've never seen before in the Monad Discord because they found like, oh, say like, you know, say they found Kuru and then found Monad because of Kuru or like, you know, of any of the other ecosystem projects.
Monad because of Kuru or like you know over the of any of the other ecosystem projects like I've
know I've met some people that found themselves into Monad through Switchboard because they're
more clocked into like those kind of like elements of the market well not market but of the industry
so it's really really fun to see the newcomers that have come in via ecosystem rather than just
being like from Monad and going oh they're launching this so i want to test this out and this both are great great figures but it's it's
cool to see people that have no idea who we are as well and kind of come and go oh okay that's
what they're doing oh my god okay that's awesome um and so i really really i find that really fun
and see the new refreshing faces it's like yeah yeah anyway so that's me summing it up
very very quickly so i'll let someone else take up the mic yes i need i need a coca-cola um
enjoyer to go next please maybe maybe finn wow okay right guys, please buy Pepsi just to rug KB at this point. I feel like I need
to have some sort of comeback from my marketing trade. So please, if you can, just a pity buy
at this point. Honestly, I'm happy to beg. I'll get on my hands and knees.
That Pepsi got you.
That Pepsi got you lit, bro.
Beans, beans, beans.
Beans, beans, beans.
There are beans in the Pepsi.
This is, yeah, actually, Nick has a fair point.
This will be my entire diet from now on.
I will send a Pepsi and a beans photo in every day
until this coin out succeeds Malanian.
But I'm pretty sure Malanian is not doing as well as it was.
So, yes, it's over.
Okay, Gizna. Okay, Finn.
Can we catch your opinion
on community?
Finn?
Sorry, she's just
drinking her Pepsi.
We might have taken out Finn with the
beans chant. She might be next mk ultra
all right una did you um do you have any thoughts on this on this topic
yeah i was thinking for a minute but then hearing pepsi and coca-cola go on and on and on yeah i
can't even remember what i was thinking of i can't fucking remember what I was thinking of. I can't fucking remember what I was thinking of. But yeah, okay, so I was going to say,
last night I had a call.
I had a call with Nigerian Nuts.
We have a weekly call every week.
Hearing everyone talk about what they've gone on,
what they've gone so far,
kind of brightened the whole day last night.
Because I'm learning people who I think their first experience in crypto
was from joining the Monad community, and then they just, we had to hold them by the hand and oh, this is how
you do this, this is how you do crypto and all of that.
And then hearing them say about all the other things they've gone on to do in the community,
in the ecosystem and in the industry as well, it's kind of hard, hard gliding because I
met a couple of them in real life, I don't remember what they look like, but then we've been sort of internet friends and all that.
And being a part of whatever they're doing right now, being a part of that story, just by replying in the DM, being friendly with them in the chat and all that.
It's just like one thing. I think it's one of the biggest selling points of our community.
People come in wondering what to do.
Help them grow. And then they become whatever they want to do.
Yeah.
So true, man.
And okay.
This is kind of a pivot. i wonder like um it's always
in line i always like um asking this question like you i feel like we all in our different roles
have some of like just the funniest jobs in the world so this one could be for for g van or kb too
um but like how do you okay so somebody comes up to you like your your aunt or like your your
mom or someone and they're like what do you what do you do for work like how do you how do you
explain like the discord yapping experience to them yeah nini please please jump in
okay so i have like some suspicious family members who think like I'm doing something super illegal and you know like
drug trading level they just don't understand right so like I just had to come up with
social media manager like I just had to be like you know how people like Nike well imagine those Nike fans got together and just chatted all the time
and I just make sure they don't say bad words and then that's that's where I kind of
yeah dwindle down my chat and if they press on I'm like well you know like Instagram or like
Twitter and just try
to relate it to things that they do understand a lot of people and like my in my life aren't
crypto native or do things um to do with crypto they obviously like know Bitcoin so I'll mention
that word but um sometimes even that is dangerous to do because then they, you know, they either like want to know how to get it, if I have it, or they're like, it's a scam.
Also, I'm a hamster.
People think that I'm a hamster in real life.
No, no, no, no.
I do not say that because that's another can of worms I can't go down.
Nini, I feel like you're walking a very dangerous line with this response.
I feel like, listen, here's what I'm doing, right?
When I'm with people who don't know me enough to tell them the truth,
all I say is like, I work in fintech.
Done.
I work on fintech.
What do you do?
Marketing.
Nobody knows what marketing is. So it's like, you're like i work on fintech what do you do marketing right nobody knows what marketing is so it's like you're safe nobody cares about what you do when you say that and then they ask
you like fintech what does that mean oh just a tech company doing stuff on the internet they're
like oh do you work from home yes end of story like there's nothing they can say to you and then
if you make the mistake and say crypto you're cooked like everyone
knows that you're cooked nope nothing you say from that point on makes any sense they just think
they just think i'm like a lazy person who does nothing and i probably sell drugs like and not
even the good kinds like illegal drugs that are not like illegal by drugs standards and i basically
just charge people and i i charge them in fart
coin and then i send them like you know an empty letter saying lol get cooked instead of the drugs
so i never say that so you know running it back just say marketing marketing for a fintech company
abroad gg nobody can say anything i promise yeah oh gee man that's so true that's so true it's so
funny the um the only like and then people will ask they're like oh okay well like what's the
name of the company and i'm like oh it it it doesn't have a name i'm like it doesn't have a
name dude you can just say kuru just be like kuru. It's called Kuru. Let them Google it. Or purple.
I actually say I'm like purple trade.
And they're like, oh, is it like a trading platform?
I'm like, yes.
Just keep it short.
Just make them lose interest, dude.
It's simple, dude. And then the last questions he asks, you might leave the conversation.
They might think you're like someone important, which is great.
But it's very important that you stop them from asking a lot of questions. That's key.
So true, man. Yeah. Una, feel free to jump in.
Oh, okay. I think what I've been really, I miss most people who are not
web2 inclined is, I just say, I'm a writer, you know know I have this web 2 medium page I kind of just
write about random shit that happens in real life and all that and I just like push it so if you keep
digging so hard to find out you just kind of like send me a video link like yeah this is what I do
like just just let it be my siblings my students probably see me gamble irresponsible amount of
money I waste sometimes I tell them oh I gamble on the Moon boy, you've had your hand up. Feel free to jump in, brother.
Yeah, I mean, my way out of such conversations is to just call myself a Web3 analyst and, you you know just throw in some of the buzzwords or
something extremely complicated so they don't question with gvan and the likes of kb and
everyone else literally in the community in purple discord and wherever we have had the opportunity to dude moon boy moon boy yeah
moon boy really quickly dude
please don't ever say
to anyone like don't ever tell anyone
web3 analyst please i beg you man
i say this out of love
like when you say to a web2 person
like someone who's not deep in crypto
that you are like a web3 analyst
like they just imagine like have you seen that
john w picture where he's like you know who's not deep in crypto, that you're like a Web3 analyst. Like, they just imagine, like, have you seen that John W. picture
where he's like, you know, fat and walking on all fours?
That's what they imagined it when you say Web3 analyst.
You actually don't get it.
I don't get it either. I don't know what it means.
I don't know what it means either.
So I'm kind of with them on this one.
I kind of come from a third world country, so majority of the people don't even care enough
about web 3 so yeah i kind of get away with it as long as they know that i do something for work
and i make money that's fine by them actually so yeah that's about it but yeah i would actually
like to circle back to the community thing and we've had these conversations earlier as well and what I would like to talk
about is my personal journey. I joined in like a couple of years back in 23 or 24 earlyish but
what I realized is that this is exactly how economies are built you know that's how the
Solanas are built that's how the ethereums are built. The community is that. The flywheel only works when the community is working.
And everyone in the community wants people to grow.
It's not about just the jobs.
I've had KB help me out with tons of things.
The market therapy sessions in Purple Trade have helped me a lot.
And that is how the flywheel keeps working in my opinion as someone who's not
actually on the community team or something i'm i'm just i'm just someone who popped on the van
space one day and everyone welcomed me with open arms i grabbed the mic i started yapping like i'm
doing right now and yeah it's been it's been a journey it's been some journey since then yeah oh moon boy i i got goosebumps i'm not even i'm not even shitting you
like that made me so fucking happy
yeah we love oh my god i know i'm like it's a lot um yeah i just i just tell people just yeah i work for crypto and then i start trying to like
explain exactly what i do and it's like yeah like i work for an app on top of this other app
that's an infrastructure but none of it's out yet so it's super startup and then i keep going
and going and i'll fucking say the names bro the second like they they lose you within like 10
seconds and I'm like yeah and I have health insurance do you and they just shut the fuck up
and it's just amazing and they're like wow that's really good for you and I was like yeah and I get
to do it in my bedroom I don't have to leave I can hang out my dogs all fucking day and I don't got
to go outside they're just like you're living the dream huh
and I'm like yeah kind of kind of and then that's it yeah sometimes you gotta go in with confidence
and just say like yeah bro I work for crypto it's kind of crazy um but yeah I've always been pretty
vocal about crypto um in my like web to uh social medias like when I bought doge I just showed the fuck out of
doge from like 0.003 cents to about like the elon episode so people know and then I just left web 2
and then I just like left like instagram and facebook and like yo where you been like the
thought that I like people think I'm depressed and I'm like no bro like I'm just I'm somewhere else um but yeah you know or I
just say I work in fintech if I don't really care for the person I'm like oh yeah I work in tech
it's a startup it's great tech you know technology is insane now and that's all I say you should try
the marketing angle I swear it's the
best nobody in the fucking world cares about it i say marketing too it's like yeah i do marketing
and community management do you know what's the best when i say like i work in marketing and then
randomly someone calls me and they're like can you do google ads for me it's not that type of marketing um okay we did have i think finn her her mic was broken and
she was talking to herself for like 10 minutes uh finn are you are you here with us
oh my god it's still broken
the curse continues oh no finn where are you? What happened?
Maybe you should get Mike insurance.
Who's building that?
That was so bad.
I apologize on behalf of every listener here for having to hear this.
Gabi will be donating 5 percent of all of her profits from
uh pepsi so please go buy
no yeah the community like how do you describe what you do i say i work in growth which is fake
like it's not a real it's not a real descriptor of like what you do it's it's kind of like
a mismatch of marketing and sales and like
all of these um things which is not really even what it is although kind of it is um but i remember
my wife who just if anybody is married or has a girl or boyfriend or whatever it is they're the
one that really they like bear the brunt of your like insanity of like all the things that are
going on and they probably know more about crypto than the average person. But I remember my mother-in-law when I was going full-time crypto,
she was like, does he get a salary? Like, does he get paid for this? Does he just do it for fun?
And my wife was like, I think so. I think he does. So it's good. We make it work. I'm going
to try the old G-Ban.
I do like the, like, you have to outweird them.
You just have to be so strange that they don't want to ask any further questions.
So I think that might be a good strategy.
But I think I'm going to keep telling people that it's in stealth or that it doesn't exist.
And that's still my out.
Because I just don't know if I can handle people going and seeing that I'm a little Bitcoin puppet on the internet.
And that it's, even though Bitcoin puppets are down bad, that it's worth like thousands of dollars is still too ridiculous to comprehend for most people, I think.
And honestly, for myself.
So, yeah.
One day, I just hope I hear my mom talking to a third person and being like yeah yeah of course
he's getting paid he's getting paid in tokens and the token's gonna launch in a couple of years and
you know by then crypto will be mainstream and my son is going places you just wait he just
lives in the basement for now like it's a temporary thing yeah he can't he can't do google ads for you though he cannot the google ads are killing me man we're so pretty rich we're so pretty rich all right uh finn is
your mic working do you hear me now oh my god i can't hear her no i'm kidding
you know what um i was i was telling gizmo to to shut up when she was talking about Pepsi because I didn't want you to leave again, KB.
But then no one heard me and I was just talking to myself the whole time.
Oh no, I wonder how that happened. I'm so sad.
Anyway, anyway, yeah, I guess I came around the topic of talking to the family I just made it
I just made like a little cartoon about like telling my mom and about what I work and she
just told me like are you in a cult um for real because like sometimes I just talk to
my friends and then they ask me like what what are you doing now and I just like try to explain to them and they're like uh don't understand anything and the more that I try to
explain to them the more it sounds like a cow like in my head I just realized like hey actually
the more I say the worse it gets yeah and um my aunt always like send me some articles about like how in how dangerous like pyramid schemes and MLM are and stuff like that.
I just keep ignoring.
But anyway, yeah, that is my little story.
That's amazing.
You're like, no, I'm not in a cult.
But my boss, Bill Monday, is a cult leader.
But I'm not in a cult but my boss Bill Monday is a cult leader but I'm not in a cult
yeah so if I show
my family the
Bill Monday's Twitter
they're gonna see like oh but he's the
cult leader so
it's so funny
my mom is like very
similar in this she doesn't know about
the cult part really but
like my mom is like one of those
people who thinks that like the internet is gonna cut out at like any point and there's gonna be
like a big blackout like you know they're going to this conspiracy type so like she we've we've
mentioned this before she's a bit of a little bit doomsday prepper and um and so i started talking
with you know my job in crypto and and then she just like asked that
she's like wait so like it's in crypto I was like yeah like crypto you know like bitcoin
and she's like oh oh that's not that's not good it's just like mom that's my job and like that's
all she said she's like oh well I support you you know like he always like supports like whatever in denver
and that in denver wow i said that wrong but um yeah uh she just will support me for whatever i
fucking do but she was not impressed i think i mean i think it's kind of funny that like none
of us have said yeah i tell them what what i do and then i onboard them i bring them right on in
i mean it's case by case.
Like there's definitely people that want to have that conversation, but it's really interesting
that like majority are super hesitant. And I think that explains our answers of like,
oh, well, we just, you know. Well, but also Nene,, we do not want our parents here.
Like, my mom still be posting, like, those embarrassing photos of me at 14 on her, like, Facebook.
Because, like, she, like, is reminiscing in the past.
So, like, my mom would, like, post baby photos of me.
Or, like, just really, like, embarrassing birthday parties.
Like, bad side angle.
Like, it's like
no like nah like i have i've had to like tell her a couple of times i'm like mom can you please not
post that on facebook like what are you doing it's like your mom or your mom or dad and then
they like see like a sexy keone and they're like what like what is going on here but no joke i told
my dad what i'm doing and he like follows the he like follows the main
accounts which i guess if you really want to dox you can go through like 100 000 followers and try
to find my dad but literally yesterday i get a text from my dad and he's like hey looks like a
busy week with mob the club going on and i'm just like what have i I done? Oh, my gosh.
It's crazy.
All right.
We've got to think there's like the tech thing.
Oh, sorry.
No, no.
True.
True.
Yeah.
No, no.
He get I mean, he like.
Yeah, no, he was early to the Internet, so I feel like he kind of understands.
But still, it's like the memes and everything.
It's just it's way too ridiculous.
But yeah, he's hey, he's along for the ride.
My dad is a Monad community member.
Maybe he'll be in newbies in the Discord here soon.
We'll see.
That would be a terrible day, but maybe that will happen.
Maybe he's listening, who knows?
But okay, we've got like six minutes left.
KB, we need to do a live look in
at the meme coin competition.
We've got, I feel like some early leaders i've got a few that are that are sticking out to me but is there anything that you're seeing
that you like things that you're not seeing that you would like to see we've got some early momentum
but still a full two two and a half days left in the competition so yeah like what's what's sticking out to you um i don't think we're
gonna have a ton of time to get into that um but i will say that g van and i unofficially i mean i
think i'll put something in discord we are going to like do a live stream of us looking through
all the coins so far um so what time are what time do i need to achieve in
like 1 30 is that what we said i don't know i don't think we said anything let's decide now
um i gotta walk the dog in one hour so i can either do now or after i'm back
we have the space so let's do 1 p.m. Eastern time.
What is that in your time?
Let me check, let me check.
That's in two hours.
One, two hours.
Can we do three hours or is it too late?
We can do three hours.
All right, three hours.
So I can do walk the talk.
What is that?
12, 1, 2.
At 2 p.m. Eastern time.
At 2 p.m. Mike, what is that in UTC?
Since you're my converter.
I have no idea. I need to look it up.
But yeah, we'll post it everywhere. Don't worry.
We'll post it everywhere. We're in the community.
We'll invite everyone. Yeah, I think the best to do that will be kind of have a little more time.
And so we're going to, so I'm just going to show that here in about three hours.
We mean, G van and whoever Nini, Finn, Mike, if you guys want to come up and also just look through some of the coins.
We will be looking through coins, mostly making fun of you guys.
I will be buying some as well.
So, yeah'll definitely join
us for that shill us and then tomorrow we're going to be having an official show your coin space or
discord vc um with our judges uh nini g van king louie um i don't know if john's gonna make it today but he will be
around for friday so that's gonna be an official um kind of event but yeah today we'll be looking
at coins and kind of giving a rundown um definitely love chad um very organic uh community forming from some of the kuro ogs of course we have jerry from uh
benjamin medusa and rosin there i mean like and there's an i think i got dragged on that today by
the way yeah i mean like there's someone told me to buy and i was the picket up but like i think
like there is an argument about like kols KOLs and, you know, whatever.
But, like, you know, it's more so I need people to, like, kind of stop obsessing over that part because it really isn't about, like, marketing or isn't about, like, market cap and, like, volume.
If there is a lot of, you know, volume and kind of bots being that, you may be disqualified just letting you guys know.
Because it isn't it really isn't based off of, like, the charts, but it's it's more so like the effort and the lore that you're putting into these coins so like i think a lot of you are
being discouraged because the sniper bots and then also like the kols like they're just gonna win
but it's like it's not that it's not the reason why jerry is doing well isn't because it's been
you know benja and and medusa have a platform it's doing well because
they made a twitter page they made a telegram they made a website right so they're they're
putting effort into this these creations and creating lore and so even if like you don't
have a platform if you put that effort in it won't go unnoticed if it's a funny meme like that won't
go unnoticed like all it takes is one kOL to be like, yeah, I like that.
I fuck with it.
And then your coin kind of takes off.
So that's my, you know, process on that.
But there's a lot of coins that I don't want to say right now because I need to like look
through it.
But it's been a lot.
I've been manually doing all this too.
So like having to like register coins, I just really haven't been able to take a deep look in yet.
But that'll be changing today.
Yeah, let's go.
Yeah, so guys, 2 p.m. in the Discord Eastern time.
We'll get the UTC conversion down.
But KB and GVAN, I'll probably be there.
I'll drop in.
We'll be looking at coins
and taking a look at what are the early leaders here.
I agree.
I think that Chad is just like a great example that like you don't have to be a KOL to like
get a lot of buzz.
And those guys making those memes and videos and everything has just been awesome.
And so, yeah, that and Jerry, maybe on the early run here, but still lots of time left
and lots of room.
There's five spots for prizes.
So that's going to be a
lot of fun along the ride here. So make sure to tune in at 2 p.m. Right now, we're about to jump
off and go. If you want to come with us, go join Abdull's 0x underscore Abdull. He is the head of
DeFi at Monad, and he's going to be talking clubs with Frivashi, our co-founder and some of the
other builders in the Monat ecosystem.
It's a great DeFi space.
Would love to have you guys with us over there.
We'll be hanging out in the Discord tomorrow.
We've got some fun different events going on Friday.
Cozy, me, is doing comedy coffee hours.
So come hang out with us for that.
And then we'll be doing some Friday natting and live judging of the winners on Friday
at 4 p.m. EST. So this is going to be the final stretch of us getting into the end of the meme
coin competition here. We're on hump day, so it's going to be a lot of fun. All right, guys.
Wait, one second, because we do have Drakey here. Drakey, do you need to say something about my 101 Kuru retard?
Drakey.
You there?
Your Kuru retard looks retarded enough.
It looks great, doesn't it?
Yeah, I love it.
Try not to keep it, though.
I won't keep it.
I won't keep it. won't keep it all right
guys is that all you wanted to say no I didn't want to say nothing I actually
press the button to come to come on stage sorry it's a rare drakey that's
why I thought you had something important but I will also and then
everyone start going to Abdul Space.
But yeah, this Kuru Retard 101 will be up for grabs at some point.
I don't know when and I don't know how,
but it will be given to somebody in the Kuru community.
So yeah, I don't know.
Anyways, that's all I got.
Stay tuned for the giveaway, guys.
It's been great to have you for a morning edition of Kuru Live.
Thanks for coming out today.
Thanks to the Monad community team.
We really appreciate you guys.
Mike Webb, Sailor Nini, Una, Gizmo, Finn.
Thank you guys for being here along with our other speakers.
It's been a ton of fun, guys.
G-Van, my man, slow, the whole crew, cliche.
Drakey popping in for the end here.
Guys, thanks so much for coming out and hanging with us.
Let's go pop over to Abdul's space if you want to keep up the Monad yapping and everything.
And, yeah, we will see you guys in the Discord here the rest of this week.
It's going to be fun.
So, yeah, have a great one, guys.
Peace.
