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LUKSO x NOWNodes
Recorded: July 2, 2025 Duration: 0:52:33Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent AMA, NowNodes and Luxo discussed their strategic partnership, highlighting the growth and innovations within the Luxo ecosystem, including the launch of universal profiles and the ESP program aimed at supporting developers. The conversation emphasized the importance of user-friendly blockchain solutions and the ongoing commitment to enhancing the Web3 experience.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Hey everyone!
It's Wednesday my dudes and that means it's time for a new AMA here on the Now Notes Twitter space.
This is a series of AMAs that we've been hosting with Now Notes partners
due to the fact that Now Notes turned six years old.
Dina, correct me if I'm wrong, six years old.
Exactly six.
Yes, thank you.
Six years ago, NowNodes emerged as a project and we've hit so many milestones and I've been super happy to have witnessed that.
Just in case, if you didn't know, my name is Pauline and I am Chief Strategy Officer
over at ChangeNow, which is a parent company of NowNodes.
My wonderful co-speaker and co-host is NowNodes CEO Zina Cash.
Zina, say hello to everybody.
Hello, everyone.
Nice to meet you all.
Happy to be here!
Yay! Now we're waiting for the hero of today Antachi, also known as the Ethelorian.
And we're waiting for him to request a speaker place.
And we're going to start our wonderful AMA.
start our wonderful AMA. We're going to learn all of the alpha about Luxo, about what it
does and what it is and what the synergy is between Luxo and Now Notes. Basically, we're
going to learn everything. We're going to keep it real. We're going to drop some alpha
today and we're just going gonna yap and have some fun
so uh let's just wait for a few minutes and uh while we're waiting zina how are you doing
how's now notes been so far since we met last week great working hard actually working hard week. Great! Working hard, actually. Working hard with all the new networks and new partners and,
well, focusing on stability, of course, as always. We are focused on stability mostly,
more than anything else. So, yeah. Many new developments here in our notes, actually.
Over the past several months, we actually
added several new features.
So we're not just an RPC provider right now.
We also provide different APIs.
One of the most important additions to our feature list, so to say, would be the an RPC provider, as I'm saying, basically
we're becoming like an infrastructure provider. Yeah, right. Not only nodes,
but also whatever you need to build your own service on crypto blockchain. Welcome. Yeah.
crypto blockchain, welcome.
Yeah.
This is wonderful
to hear and while you were
dropping all the exciting news about
Nanos, we've got a wonderful guest here.
Greg,
hello, thank you so much for
taking the time to chat with us.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
Thanks for having me today.
I'm pinch hitting for
Jonathan Juan, our growth officer. So I'm happy to be here.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
So, let's talk shop. Let's talk Luxo.
So, can you tell us, before we get into the depth of it, before we get into the trenches, can you tell us and our listeners a little bit about your background?
What did you do before we joined Loxo?
How did you get into Web3?
We're basically itching to hear all about it.
Thanks. I'm glad people want to know my background. I'm happy to hear all about it. Thanks.
I'm glad people want to know my background.
I'm happy to share it, though.
Let's see.
I think the most important place where we start is I actually was a physics instructor for years.
I taught secondary school physics.
And it was I moved up through the ranks, became an administrator.
And it was about, let's say, 2018 when my brother convinced me I really needed to pay attention to the smart contract platform Ethereum.
That led me down a whole rabbit hole of learning and personal upskilling.
led me down a whole rabbit hole of learning and personal upskilling.
And the deeper I got, the more I became infatuated.
I always had a little bit of a background in programming,
but then I actually went and did a full professional course of study in programming
programming through the MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And then I really fell
through the MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
in love with Luxo, everything that Luxo is offering relative to self-sovereign identity and
building out a new vision for a social blockchain. And that led me into the community of Luxo. I've
been around here for years and years and years, and I just formally joined the team as a DevRel lead and communications manager
just shortly after ETH Denver, actually.
And that brings us up to the present.
Oh, nice.
And it's wonderful to hear that we've got actual real scientists joined the space.
We could use more of those, especially those trained over in MIT, because I
also have a little bit of an academic background. And I know that MIT has a plethora of wonderful
linguists because my background is linguistics. So yeah, super nice to have you here. And can you talk a little bit about what Luxo is as a blockchain and what problem it is solving within the Web3 ecosystem?
Yeah, happy to do so.
So Luxo was created, I think, fundamentally to rethink how identity, interaction and creativity work in web three um it's kind of like i'd like
to say we're inspired by the vision of building a more inclusive and user-friendly maybe culturally
relevant blockchain ecosystem uh we really look to empower not just developers or traders but also
the creators the brands communities, the everyday user
that could really benefit from the technology that is blockchain. So we're trying to move away
from key-based wallets to really a smart contract-based account where the key is less
important and can be swapped out at any time. We've got updated token ecosystem.
So it's not just the quote unquote dumb ERC-20,
which might not be the best way to say it.
But I say that because the ERC-20 lacks metadata
and some of the composability that our new token standards offer.
And we also feel that Web3 is just too finance driven
and maybe a little too extractive
and doesn't provide enough room for the circularity of maybe these creative and
social applications. And if you're interested in learning more, anyone, there's actually two
vision papers on the Luxo Medium that actually do a pretty good job of talking about what we think about relative to the new Web3 where
identity is modular and accounts are smart contracts and the user is in control.
So I guess specifically the problems that we're solving, identity and ownership.
In Web3, identity is tied to keys, like I said, and the ownership of those keys and
custody of those keys is fragile and impersonal. And our solution is universal profiles. And that's our smart contract-based
account built on the ERC-725 standard. And then the smart contract ecosystem around that standard
based account system. Yeah, I think that's what I would say. That's a pretty good answer, I think that's what I would say.
That's a pretty good answer, I think.
It is a pretty good answer indeed,
and excellent one, in fact.
I also kind of agree with the key message that right now we're kind of treating crypto and Web3 as more as kind of like an extension of the TratFi ecosystem,
where we have exchanges, wallets, neobanks and stuff like that, but on the blockchain.
blockchain and I do believe that identity ownership especially with crypto getting more
and more adopted lately is very again as you said it is very fragile especially for newcomers it is
hard for them to keep track of the keys and I do believe that the mission of Luxo of making crypto a little bit more user friendly
is what more and more projects kind of need to be doing sooner than later.
Yeah, I think we have to look after the user, right?
The user comes first.
I mean, in our big picture, I think at Luxo,
we're thinking about kind of creating
a decentralized operating system for this new Web3,
where maybe the universal profiles
could be a persistent identity layer.
The interface layer, I work for Universal Everything,
which is kind of the largest window into the new standards
and what the Luxo network is offering through this ERC-725 base.
And then the execution layer then can be spread out across Luxo or Ethereum proper
or other chains that offer block space in maybe unique or stratified ways that are specific to the user.
in maybe unique or stratified ways that are specific to the user.
So I think we're really looking at a stack that's truly user-owned
and composable for the digital expression of the normal person.
And I think the normal everyday user isn't looked after right now in the industry.
I'm agreeing with you.
I'm agreeing with you.
Oh, for sure.
Oh, for sure.
I mean, maybe this is, I mean, at the very least in my personal opinion, the hostility of the Web3 space, the hostility that has been persistent for basically since the inception of crypto, which have made it kind of to be more of a fringe
thing that nerds engage in, has made adoption stagnate.
And it's very cool to have projects who are trying to solve that.
But I do have a few questions about the identity layer. So we do have a few projects in the space
that are already trying to solve the problem of identity
in the decentralized context of blockchain and Web3.
We've got your Civic ID, we've got your Polygon ID.
And what makes Luxo kind of different from these protocols that are trying to kind of put identity on a blockchain?
Oh, great question.
I think when we speak about identity in the Luxo ecosystem, we're talking about more of a soft identity that is built up over time reputationally
through your interactions.
Now, this doesn't mean that you can't store aspects that are defining characteristics
of or real identifiers for you.
But the core technology is, again, built around the ERC-725, which allows you through the ERC-725Y to attach custom metadata.
So, you know, I guess links to data about yourself to the smart contract account itself.
Luxo ecosystem and you create a universal profile, this universal profile through LSP3,
which is a standardized structure through which we hold profile data and store it in this
universal profile. You might have your avatar, the banner image for your account. You might have
links to your LinkedIn or your Spotify or something that's important to account. You might have links to your LinkedIn or your Spotify or something
that's important to you. You might also have tags that might say you're a developer or you're
an artist or you're a sculptor. It's as varied as the people who use the account.
What's interesting here is we're not as concerned with, or the differentiator is we're not as concerned with adding your license or your healthcare records to this identity system as we are concerned about in a social context, what is your digital presence online and how do you represent yourself?
that persistent because even right now, I'm talking to you in a Twitter space, but at any time,
I could be deplatformed. I could lose this account. And then I would have to go and create
a new account, but I would lose all my contacts, all of my followers. In the Luxo ecosystem,
that account is yours. You own your digital presence. And you take that account with you
to every one of the platforms that you engage with.
So this soft identity that you build up reputationally that you own from day one
is now independent of the platform, which is super cool. And this allows developers then
to plug into the standardized metadata that points to this data that can be held off chain even,
and then reference it in an attractive way
for its users based upon context.
So if you had a social media where you were very highly interested in only representing
the avatar image, when I log into your decentralized Twitter, it will immediately log in.
It will show my image.
It will reference my username.
If in a different context, you weren't as concerned about that, but you wanted to know
what my metadata tags were because you wanted to filter out and find everybody who labels
themselves an artist on the blockchain, you can do that as well. And nevermind looking into the
transaction history of the chain. So to sum up this very long answer, which I realized I gave one, the difference is we're not as concerned with that hard identity piece as we are with the soft identity, which is your digital presence that you want to portray to the online world. that then kind of acts as a summary for your activity
and provides context for your fellow users.
Oh, well, it does make sense.
And it's all okay.
We have invited you to the AMA to tell us what you think is important
about the project that you represent.
So you can yap all you want.
My calendar is pretty much free for the rest of the day. So whatever you feel important to say, please do. And what I also wanted to say about Luxo, what excites me about it is basically you give people a choice about what information they choose to reveal about themselves. And for the record, I don't think anyone should be putting their medical
data on the blockchain. This is just something that should not be done at the very least at
this point of the existence of the space.
Nobody should be putting their very sensitive personal information on the blockchain.
But basically, this is like a form of your digital avatar.
It can be anonymous from what I understand.
So basically, it can have your username or nickname as a placeholder and a picture
instead of your photograph, right? That's correct. Absolutely. You choose
what digital presence you would like to have. And you can actually have more than one profile if
you want. So if you had a more straight-laced community pillar profile because you wanted to interact with your local
bookstore who offered, let's say, a chipped copy of antique rare books so they had a digital twin
on chain, then you can have that. If you wanted to be a little bit more out there and express your
artist self, then you could create a profile specifically for that and really lean into those communities
in authentic ways.
Amazing.
Thank you so much for the explanation.
It was super concise.
And the last question that I wanted to ask about Luxo is, what's your current kind of
vision for the near and perhaps not so near future?
Is there anything exciting on the roadmap coming up?
So if you want to share, please do.
Okay, I'll share within bounds.
Let's say that so I don't give anything away for anyone who's listening.
A little bit.
Maybe I don't give anything away for anyone who's listening that maybe I shouldn't.
But we're really leaning into this vision of the full circle moment with the Luxo Network because what we want to create is a circular economy on chain where in a context like this, where maybe you're the owner of a building and you want to have an event in the building, so you want to contract with an event promoter.
And then as the event promoter, you want to issue tickets.
So you can do that on-chain.
And then if you issue tickets, you want to then be able to verify very simply this ticket for the people who are collecting this ticket.
So you would then be able to have distribution through the Universal Everything platform.
Then you'd be able to redeem the ticket through, again, maybe the Universal Everything platform.
And you really have this kind of full circle of moment where at every stage of the event, the stakeholder is able to
gain not just like a financial and speculative value from it, but a real world value that is
making their life better. So not only are we trying to, not only do we have our desktop extension,
the universal profile, but we also have the mobile application,
the universal profile. And we actually have a feature release coming up very shortly that will
just enhance that even more, make it a more pleasurable experience to use. So we're really
trying to lean into where the users are and how the users are interacting in their daily life and fitting the blockchain into
their daily life versus trying to make them adapt to it. That is something that we're really looking
at because in order for Web3 to go mainstream, it's really got to shift from a UX perspective
away from the nerds behind their desktop, although I am a nerd sitting at my desktop right now,
and get it into the hand of the mobile user like my mom or my daughter, my youngest daughter who's
14, and make it meaningful for them so they can enjoy the benefits of this self-sovereign identity
or digital authenticity and not make them jump through a million hoops to do it.
So that's kind of, that's where we're leaning into right now.
Wonderful.
And what does the token, basically, what does the token, like what role does the token play
within the Luxo ecosystem?
Great question. So the LUX token, the LYX token, serves the same purpose as the ETH token in the Ethereum ecosystem because LUXO is an Ethereum to clone at the network level. So it is used as a stake token to help secure the assets on the network. So if we know what Ethereum does, that's the same thing that
Lux does on our network. Nice, amazing. And now I would like to kind of shift the attention.
First of all, I would like to thank you for giving us so much information about Luxo,
because I do think that it is a great protocol with a lot of potential.
And that's why Now Notes have basically been your partner because we at a company also see quite a
lot of potential in Luxo. And I do know that you guys have been partners with Now Notes for quite
a while now. And I'm going to give a few words to Zena to kind of
kickstart the discussion about the partnership with NowNodes. So Zena, if you will.
Yeah, hi again. It's a great pleasure to have such a guest here, really interesting. It inputs
and it has such a great story
thank you so much for coming here first of all and yeah I wanted to tell you
like a bit a bit more about the collaboration that now nodes has with
the Luxo actually I'm I would say that I'm proud, actually, to mention that, but I think that the Now Notes team were we became one of the first infrastructural providers
supporting Luxo, basically from the very start, as soon as we could support you, we started doing
this. And actually, that's exactly what now Nodes is, I would say, famous for, and what we're aiming to do we do support a lot of
networks I would say probably most networks that I've compared to other
providers so we're always open to find new new partners like you and I'm so
happy that our partnership in particular became such a strong one and it's been going on for several years
now and actually with the help of now nodes even other companies within the crypto space
they can support Luxo and they do support Luxo. First of all like I would happily mention that, well, obviously, ChangeNow is currently supporting Luxo using our service, as well as such companies as Wallax and Herplane.
user service to promote what you do and to bring more like mass adoption, mass understanding
of what you do.
And again, through our platform, through our infrastructural services, offer Luxo to their
end users.
So yeah, and yeah, one of the mentions, actually, like my team is so happy to talk to you and to like communicate with Luxo.
One of the people communicating with you in 2022, he is listening right now.
Team, hello.
He's so interested that he came here and still watches you really closely.
Yeah, so this is like a bit of a history between the two companies.
Like this is what I see about the partnership.
And Craig, like, what do you know about our partnership?
And maybe know something about No Notes and how your experience with our service has been.
Oh, okay. Perfect. So like I said, I'm pinch hitting for John today. John has
all of the institutional knowledge, but I debriefed with him and got as much as I could,
you know, like as quick as I could learn it before I could come down and sit here. So I know that we started this
relationship, like you said, in 2023, pretty much as soon as we were going to launch our actual
testnet and mainnet. I think it's John Specked Out, March of 23 was when we formally started
the relationship with testnet and then obviously from Mainnet on.
And John actually said, I'm going to paraphrase some of Jonathan's words because these are important here.
He said, we are really drawn to NowNodes as an infrastructure partner for several reasons.
The first reason he gave me was reliable infrastructure with strong uptime guarantee.
And John said, when you're building
in Web3, consistency is everything. And now Node's commitment to high availability and
reliable uptime across all of your supported networks really gave us the confidence that
our applications would remain performant and accessible, even under load or during network
volatility. He also mentioned a responsive and collaborative team.
He said from the start,
now Node stood out for your developer first mindset.
He said on pretty much everything,
your team's been fast to respond,
open to feedback and really proactive
in developing solutions that fit our ecosystem.
And in a space like this,
you can't ask for much more.
And that's a hugely human and a wonderful
aspect of this partnership. Said, you offer really accessible pricing that scales with developers
and affordability really matters. And when you're an early stage chain and you are dealing with
early stage builders, you actually had a grant program, I believe, that just came out.
And I think Lex from year one actually may have taken advantage of that. I just see him there,
so I'm mentioning. And then, yeah, that's what I know about the general history of the partnership
and how it came together. That's what John kind of debriefed. Am I pretty much on the point there, Zina?
ZINA PANIERA- Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm so happy to hear this. And yes,
exactly. Thank you that you noticed. We're really trying to be really people-focused and communicating
a lot with our partners. Obviously, the overall team's I would say 80% technical guys 80% like
developers and technical support guys however we're doing our best to keep like the actual
face you know and to communicate with people as much as we can because we need to understand what our partners need and we need to supply
whatever like the partners the clients uh need for months uh yeah thank you so much really amazing
words really amazing words um but like um well in the beginning i have a question here in the
beginning um did you ever considering other providers as well?
And how did you make this choice to go on with downloads, basically?
Yeah, I think that obviously there's that due diligence stage when you're trying to choose a crucial infrastructure provider like this.
But at the outset, we had clear priorities. We wanted a
globally distributed infrastructure. We needed a partner with nodes that were going to be deployed
across multiple regions to ensure low latency. This was really like a non-negotiable. It was
essential for providing the kind of responsive experience across the entire globe that blockchain really demands.
We wanted to make sure that there was API reliability and good uptime. And the NowNodes
track record is fantastic there. So that was a really important aspect for us.
You provided native support for our network. That was something we were looking for, right? We needed native support from the infrastructure provider. And you in NowNodes is sure that our own network would be
well-supported, not just technically, but also in terms of responsiveness to any updates that we
were making, hard forks that we were moving through, or just our evolving RPC needs in general.
That was something that was really concerning to us. That's why we want now nodes. And really how it played out, I'm going to grab John's words here.
Again, I hope John's ears are ringing wherever he is. He said, we've been pleased to see these
expectations met and even exceeded. The infrastructure has proven to be stable and
responsive under load, and the team has been reliable in supporting our network, including adding features, resolving issues, and updating endpoints quickly when needed.
So basically, in his words, the onboarding was smooth and over time the collaborations felt
more like a partnership than a vendor relationship. And I think that's a real credit to the NowNodes
team that you would get that kind of words out of him. Again, thank you so much.
Exactly.
Like partnership.
That's, that's the word that we need with all the networks that we work with.
We're really partnering, not focusing on like vendor relationship, but partnering.
And that's why we, like you mentioned this, I think, but I would tell them to say
this again, like, yeah, we create several like initiatives to promote, to promote Luxor
and other networks. Like, for example, with you in particular, like couple of months ago, we started the ESP program and we even had like several people, several companies who won this initiative and we gave them like an open access to use NowNodes in order to build platforms on Luxo. And I wanted to give them notable mentions here.
These are like FamilyLix NFT platform and Radio NFT collection platform and one year
team.
These guys were really amazing.
And again, we're open to creating more such initiatives with you in future to attract even more companies using your network and building with your network.
And again, thank you so much for the kindest words that you gave us.
That's really like honey to me.
Thank you. Thank you a lot.
Penny to the ears.
Exactly.
Yeah, thank you so much, Zina.
Thank you so much, Craig.
And thank you so much, John.
Wherever you are, it's a shame that you couldn't make it.
But we've been having so much fun with Craig.
Again, thank you so much for the kind words.
Again, thank you so much for the kind words.
I think like a human first approach is what we try to strive towards in the now ecosystem, which is now now is change now and now payments.
Because again, I think a lot of projects in crypto, especially a lot of like bigger companies within the
crypto sphere, they have kind of lost the sights of like the smaller person, the retail
person, the regular user, like your daughter, Craig, or your mom, or my mom, or basically
anyone else in the space. And it's kind of super nice to hear that there are projects in the space that, again, as I already said,
like to pay attention to the little guy because strength lies in numbers.
And we've got, if we want to make crypto mass adopted for real, we need to attract
millions and millions and millions of these little guys.
And you cannot do that if you don't make the space user-friendly, comfortable, and welcome
for those little guys.
to me for those little guys. For sure. Although institutions hold a
For sure.
sway over the global financial system and there's a lot of locked money and capital in it,
it's the base of the billions of people who have phones in their hand that use it daily for communication, interaction, finding belonging in this world.
It's that interconnection. That's really where we're reaching into. And I think that this entire
industry needs to reach into if we're going to survive long-term and be more than just
a recreation of systems that already existed on maybe, let's say, lower friction rails.
I think many of us got into this or attracted to this industry. I know I was because of the
promise of smart contract platforms and how it could transform really my interactions with my
local community, nevermind the global world. And I've yet to realize that in any meaningful way.
And I want to stretch towards that.
I want to reach towards that.
I think that's why Luxo is really important for me.
And it's why I've been in the ecosystem
and I work here now.
But at the end of the day,
we're nowhere without critical infrastructure pieces
that are being provided by companies like NowNodes or the ecosystem of Now.
That critical infrastructure is what allows these blockchains to hum seamlessly so the end user can enjoy this wonderful UX.
So again, thank you all for the role that you play here in making sure that my daughter can one day enjoy the benefits of blockchain on her phone.
I mean, we're always happy to support great projects
in this space because, again, this is, I believe,
kind of like a symbiotic ecosystem
because we, as a product lineup would not exist without all of the wonderful projects
that are tapping into it, that are using the resources that we provide, that are kind of
offering support to both existing and up and coming projects in the space.
And I think that's what's important.
We're all friends here in the Web3 space, basically, because it's still so small and it's a village and we're all here growing our own crops and sharing metaphorical milk from our metaphorical cows.
Yeah, we have to think with an abundance mentality, right?
And share amongst the village.
And we can't come from a place of scarcity where we're afraid of what our neighbor is accumulating, right? And share amongst the village. And we can't come from a place of scarcity where we're afraid
of what our neighbor is accumulating, right? Exactly. Or to accumulate much on our end and
share nothing with our neighbor. That's not how we grow. That's not how effective communities grow.
So I think in this niche space, the more we can lean into the world that you're proposing,
and I think the world that I want to live in, the better it will be for everybody.
Yep, for real.
And can you tell us a little bit more about the ESP Luxo ecosystem support program?
mentioned um in a few short words but if you could tell us a little bit more about how it happened and
um how it like what it was built around i think that would be super interesting for
everyone listening to this space oh see that's a great question but that runs just slightly
out of my depth because that is in john's domain of he really kind of thought about it. What I would say is
where we're innovating is we're really innovating as a smart contract ecosystem.
So there isn't at the moment, the economies are not, what do I want to say?
At the moment, there isn't a ton of extra money sloshing around for speculative bets on things. Instead, we're investing in builders at early stage who align with a vision of this better, more expressive Web3, right?
Where we're not limited by tokens and we're leaning into the profile itself.
So I think in this type of scenario, knowing that family.lix is building a universal good,
he's building universal goods, which is actually something that many creators, brands, designers can plug into to make their local activity
a little bit more expressive and capable in this world.
Or in the case of Lex from year one was innovating around notifications on chain.
These are primitives that have to be built.
These are foundational elements that have to be built at the smart contract level, which
might not have a huge volume of money pouring into them right now, but to invest in them
by providing this core infrastructure at a lower cost is really to provide the basis upon which others can stand on their shoulders
and bring in the economy, the circular economies that we need to really grow.
I think that's the general core belief behind that ESP process, I think.
I mean, this is very noble, again, because I do know quite a big amount of founders who have really wonderful ideas, but are struggling to kind of where struggling to gather funds because they're, again, when you're building meaningful in the Web3 ecosystem, it's kind of complicated to get any real funding aside from ecosystem grants from projects like Luxo or Avalanche or whatever, like Orbitrum, Polygon, so on and so forth, because these days, VCs kind of pay more attention to short-term investments that are going to prove super lucrative.
through that, it's kind of easy, in my opinion, to get sidetracked from adding real value to the
space aside from making a few lines and graphs come up. Yeah. We're fixated on these charts
and oftentimes we don't have control over the charts. In fact, we don't. One of the first questions, I remember listening to a podcast in 2020 and I remember I was
standing outside my house while I was trimming a hedge and it was a TradFi investor saying
he got into investing and really fell into that world because he did not understand why the charts were moving.
And I remember thinking at that time, I don't understand why the Ethereum chart is doing what
it's doing right now. And that kind of sent me on this trajectory to where I am right now. But
I don't think the charts make any more sense to me. Markets are wholly irrational a lot and they can be maybe manipulated by large players.
But what that has led me to understand is the real value. There's so much value being built
outside of that silly line going up and down. But as an industry, we really have to move into
a space where we value real change for real people more than the silly line moving up and down.
Because if we do that, it's kind of just nihilistic.
I mean, if we're just here to make money and then pull it out of the ecosystem and never leave it here, are we really making our digital world better?
I would argue no. So I love the programs, especially like the program coming
from you guys as an infrastructure provider that allows people to experiment and gain access to the
tools that they need to continue to push forward this smart contract space. So we actually see
a smart contract ecosystem that isn't focused on the token,
but instead can be focused around the user. And that user could take various forms. Again,
it could be the individual, could be the brand, could be the AI agent. It could be almost anyone.
It's really just a vehicle for changemaking. I mean, I totally and completely agree. And while we were
chatting, there have been some questions from the community. So to kind of wrap up this AMA
on a very sweet moment, the first question is, how's the partnership with NowNodes going to help developers connect better with the
Luxo network? I know that this question has kind of been already answered, but perhaps there
could be more details from either you, Craig, or Xena that we haven't really covered yet.
that we haven't really covered yet?
Well, I think I would start here.
Well, yeah, we already mentioned that obviously now Nodes supports Luxo
in shared accounts and shared Nodes and dedicated Nodes as well.
So if you need to build anything
basically using Luxo, you can come to us. Yes, in addition to shared terrorists and
dedicated terrorists, we also offer public nodes for Luxo. So again, you can
use that. This is mostly the thing that we do to support the dev community here.
Obviously, other things would be like materials from us, some instructions and how to do and all this content that we generate on how to use it and how other services use
So it's just an educational thing as well.
Yeah, and also, like, if there will be some other initiatives, again, as this is, you
mentioned, take part in it. you may win as well some free access to nodes that we provide.
So I think that's it.
Craig, do you think I forgot to mention something?
No, I think you're spot on.
I think it's important just for people to understand
what you're providing is a way for the end user to get their information onto the chain and off of the chain because without
your core infrastructure, right, without the infrastructure that a company like NowNodes
provides, we wouldn't be able to talk to the chain. Exactly.
So that's very important for people to understand.
This is critical core infrastructure.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Happy to be here.
So any other questions here?
So I can see that there is another question. I think it's mostly to you, Craig.
What specific actions will the team
take to boost community involvement
and get some momentum going?
Sure.
These are good questions.
I think the first thing that we can, I mean, we have upcoming some catalysts that are interesting in our ecosystem.
You said, Zena, that actually NowNodes is providing infrastructure for Hyperlane, correct?
Did I hear you say that?
Exactly, yes.
Yeah, so Hyperlane is actually,
it's the warp routes, which the bridge,
the much anticipated bridge that will connect
the Luxo network with Ethereum
and perhaps some other chains actually use.
So really capitalizing on the catalysts of the bridge along with some other catalysts
that I cannot speak to, unfortunately, right?
There are rules around what you can say and what you can't say.
So I'd love to tell you more, but I would say for us to aggressively lean into these
catalytic events and communicate more across the base of our social
media platforms that would be something that i think you could look for thank you thank you
and uh we have another question right uh pauline are you here yeah we yes i am here. Where else would I go? I'm not leaving until the AMA is over.
The last question we've got here is how much Lix tokens is NowNodes making from this partnership?
Zina?
Thank you for the question. Well, I would say that what NoNodes
making from this partnership is the trust and love from all developers using Luxo. That's what I can say here. Amen to that.
All right.
This has been a titillating conversation, but I'm afraid that our time is going up. And I would like to keep it a little bit short and sweet so as no one is tired from yapping that much.
so as no one is tired from yapping that much.
So thank you so much, Craig, for coming to the space, to the AMA event.
We're super happy and excited to support great projects such as Luxa with our Now ecosystem.
Thank you so much to Zena for showing up as well.
I mean, you had to be here,
but thank you nonetheless.
And thank you to everyone who's been listening to this space.
I always love hosting these.
I love seeing all the happy reactions
and talking to all the wonderful guests
and speakers on the space.
And yeah, everybody, have an excellent Wednesday.
Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see you soon.
Thank you so much.
It was an amazing, Amy.
Thanks for having me and allowing me to pinch hit.
So it was a pleasure.
Oh yeah, baby.
Okay. Bye baby. Okay.
Bye, everyone.
Bye. Thank you.
