For shit suit today, uh, no i'm speaking for the mean coin i'm about to announce
I don't know if i'm speaking for sheets. So i'm just hijacking the space. That's all
Yeah, yeah, I think that's cool as well agt should be around
Yeah, I think he's he's in the audience
And so guys I often play crazy fox as the intro of every d5 space
Uh, but today I don't have to move for it. So sorry
Yo, how's it going everybody
Yeah, not too bad friday. Woohoo. I'm still in work here as well
So i'm lucky that there's no one else actually in this uh, this office where I am cubicle
I'm multitasking. I suppose you could say yeah
Yeah, but I appreciate your
Uh enthusiasm to come on stage today. Cheers, bro. Good to be here
Just waiting for nico just to see if uh, oh nico is requested. Okay, let's go
All right, all right welcome welcome everyone how we all doing
Gm doing well a little tired, but uh happy it's friday
Yeah, good to be here. That's right
What's up, ram? Who's behind the nico account? It's david
Deal here. Oh david. Oh, okay
Yeah, so welcome welcome everyone
And oh boy, don't we have an interesting space today?
Uh, yeah, but before we get into that i'll introduce myself
Um, so your host today will be me today
So you might know me as kurang through to an on twitter
I do various thing at near reach from content to development
If you're around the new ecosystem, you probably see me shit posting her every day
So for those who's unfamiliar, um, never is the official near poco newsletter
We have a comprehensive weekly newsletter
That goes out every monday and subscriber can claim each edition cover as a unique nft bear shadow
Um, we're also not the number one content up on near where we do various kind of content
And our singular mission is to foster the growth
And to succeed at the new ecosystem
All right, i'm actually so so glad I can pull everyone up
On all the hot stuff that is happening on here right now
And I managed to pull up alton
So, uh, let's do a round of introductions. Um
Black dragon long nico shitzoo and dragonbot
Go from the old one to the new one. Um
Maybe shitzoo. Can you introduce yourself a bit? Uh
Around you and shitzoo as coming as a community
Uh agt from shit to I see several other prominent shit to members
Uh, so yeah, you know shitzoo's been around for over two years since april 2022
We started as a as a free mint, uh from the not defined
dasian lending protocol on aurora
and the community initially banded behind the vio of a
gameplay, uh, but then you know
Ups and turns ebbs and flows of the meme coin community. We're still around
And now we're just kind of supporting all the projects within the near
Yeah, so uh for neko we launched in march of 22 with our
Good fortune felines nft collection
Uh, but we had our tge in february or january of 23
As far as an intro on myself i've been active in the near eco for
I don't know a couple years now and got into crypto in 2016
Awesome, I guess next on the line will be uh black dragon
Shoot forgot to I had my I had my mic on mute. Sorry about that
Um, I think the first thing I need to do is clarify that I am not part of the black dragon team
I'm just part of i'm in this instance. I'm just kind of the spokesman and speaking on behalf of black dragon
Uh black dragon itself is a community driven
project and initiative and nobody actually knows who is
Behind the project and you know, that is as much a feature of it as as anything
so I think that's the first thing that I wanted to clarify but um
Really excited to be here and just kind of the energy that all of this meme
Uh token craze, uh has, you know brought a lot of these things together and you know, really
You know a lot of the people and projects in this space and I know for me personally has given me
A brand new perspective on like the utility of meme coins whenever they're done purposely
Awesome, yeah, just to clarify. Um, actually black dragon and long
That the team behind those token cannot join because they want to remain anonymous
So instead the community members is going to join and speak on their behalf
Long who is from long hands up
Hey, yeah, I think that's myself and uh bailey there
Yeah, let me give you uh, I mean give people here an introduction of yourself and a brief intro along
Perfect. I'll go first there bailey. Uh, yeah, i'm groggs. I've um been in the near space for about two years
Um, we've only been in crypto for about two and a half years near was the first
chain that I actually opened a wallet away from a centralized exchange and
Found out that this whole ecosystem is behind all these cryptocurrencies
Uh, so I consider it kind of like my my home team like a football team almost no matter where I go
I always come back to near
For let's say in relation to lunk. Yeah, same as what rhyme said as well that like we're just community members and all that
um, I was there on launch day
And I I thought to myself, you know, try and get in as quick as possible to to uh into liquidity pool
And I was quite lucky that when I bought the price had actually
Dropped after the the initial kind of set up
Um, so I was lucky there in one sense that I didn't get pulled out at the very top of that big week
Yeah, so far. No, that's that's uh, that's like I suppose my little introduction go ahead
Gm everyone my name is bailey and uh i'm here today to represent the long community
Yeah, i'm been in near like forever
like i'm sorry since tessnet and then
Let and lately I found myself like wondering about the oldy memcoy
This this this this kind of like, uh
This kind of uh feeling came from the uh inspired from from the near cold and sit through
Memcoy because I they've been on near
That is what i'm learning from them. And then I want to try to
To to bring like more of their quality
Back on on the memcoy. So that's why I want to stick with near i'll stick with long and then
Long is like a very community driven project
And then our motto is like we we cut long
2024 so that is our main person
Awesome, awesome. I'll turn
How's it going, uh, i'm alton, um, i'm in the foundation, um
Just a bit of a back background about myself
Uh, i'm a bit of a sort of a blockchain nerd
But i've been sort of doing a lot of the sort of the business development and and some of the marketing stuff lately as well
So i've been all over the place and the foundation
Um, well we've been loving like this is my opinion that we've been loving this sort of the the culture
That the teams brought up to near over the over the sort of like the two months
We've been really enjoying it and that's been the kind of the sentiment i've been seeing across the ecosystem which makes me quite happy
Um, so that's why I want to just jump in and talk with you guys to just really have fun
And and and enjoy this sort of the meme culture that we brought to near
Awesome love to hear that people from from the foundation is also
You know having fun with all these meme calling popping off
Let me just before we kick things off, uh, I want to ask each
Representative of the meme coins here to describe about the meme coin using three words
Maybe we can start from shih tzu
Sorry, where was the question again? Yeah, I was asking if you can describe shih tzu in three words
Maybe nyomi can help. Yeah. No you take this one
All right me uh, I think of course you have to include fun
I mean, I guess it's like fun educational and
Yeah, I mean, I guess you can take the third one
So you come to pewdiepie as well
Well, I think we we are no holds by our kind of platform. Uh, also we kind of promote the internal kind of
Building of our members with these kind of soft skills
Uh, so yeah, I mean we're just kind of early
Yeah empowering is it's nice
Awesome. Awesome thought it
Um ryan, how about like dragon? Yeah three words. Uh black dragon is near
Yeah, I love it I love it
Uh, so three words for long is uh long near bowtown prime
That's technically five words but i'll take it
First to start things off. Um
Let's just go back to basic a bit. Um, if this is like an this is like an open question
so, um, what are meme coins and
Why do they do matter and don't matter at the same time?
Oh nico you have your hands up
Yeah, I mean I think in like the traditional sense memes are sort of like
units of cultural information
That are transmitted between people and memes have been around
Since humans could probably communicate and write and
Put things down on stone tablets. Uh, so, you know memes aren't really a new concept, but they evolve
with the digital age and I think it makes sense for
as blockchain ecosystems evolve
That the culture is in a lot of ways driven by
These these memes these units of information driving new concepts and just building communities around it
As we first sort of discovered meme coins. There's a lot of question about
What sort of value can actually be created there?
But we are seeing time and time again that there is a lot of value in bringing people together and
working towards a common goal and just
Sharing the evangelism for the blockchain ecosystem that respective people believe most in
Dan delir this is a meme coin space not the history channel nobody can answer after that. Sorry
Yeah, uh before we continue with things, I just want to say we have a new speaker marcus from from here, um marcus what you want to say hi
Hey, can you actually hear me real quick?
You can now join twitter spaces from a computer or laptop on the web. I didn't even know that awesome stuff
Um, cool. Yeah, good to be here everybody. I'm marcus. I am now on founder support that near foundation under the new restructure
I've always been part of the ecosystem and focused on supporting and engaging the ecosystem. So happy to be here
Like alton said this is definitely a lot of fun. I love seeing what's happening and uh, and trying to support where I can
I just wanted to like I only came up to speak because you asked what is what is shih tzu in three words
Uh, so I just wanted to come up and say proof of finger
Um, that's how I would kind of summarize it
Um, but yeah awesome to be here
Awesome awesome. Thank you for being here marcus. Um, does anyone want to add to what uh, david?
Yeah, just I suppose to add on on what delir said there. Uh, you know, what's the value in meme coins?
I think they're a good onboarding vehicle into an ecosystem
Uh, and also they're they you know people
Rally around a meme coin. It's almost like a creation of a community
But from there then it's up to the actual community then to I think
Uh, you know in conjunction with the team to actually build on that to try and create things
From that initial kind of coming together of of the community
Yeah, I just want to oh, sorry
Yeah, sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. I do
No, I just want to echo uh, what grok just said essentially, you know memes are as a measuring stick
Once a meme stick a meme community can decouple from the ebb and flow of its liquidity play then, you know, that's a community
That's kind of you know, uh, uh persevere no matter what so yeah, I just want to echo that aspect
So yeah, I guess for for me, right i'm i'm not
As much as you guys here, but I can say from the effect of meme coins on mirror and meme coins on like
other ecosystem in general, um, I think meme coins are like culture and it it works because
People can relate it to it easily. Um
There is a reason why that the biggest meme coin right now
Have already established themselves as like a kosher meme even before they were tokenized
At one side they don't matter because
They literally don't have anything to do with the
progressions of web3 or blockchain overall, but at the same time they do matter because
They can be used as tools to bridge the gap between the people and the tech. So
I think it's an interesting
You know relationship there. Um
I also think meme coin can be seen as the most
uh effective way to bring legions people onto
onto the chain, um, I mean, why why do I why why why do I say so because so
For meme coin, right there are two main aspects, uh, which is one is it's fun
Um, so I think these two are literally what
What made digens digens? So
and uh another aspect of that is digen is actually like the
So adigen bad factors, I think definitely not
I think they might they might live for sure when the hives die
but they're also likely to be
They want to try out everything first to
stress their stuff to give feedback and
And some of them might even stay I'm I think I think a handful of us here actually came onto near because we are
We were once a digen and we stumble upon near and
accidentally stick around forever. So yeah, um, I think meme coins are great and
Not everything has to be so technical and so, you know information overload all the time
Of course that in the case if they they they don't rock
You forgot one description of digen is to buy at the top and don't sell at the bottom
Let's talk a bit about the uh possibility here. Um, I I don't think we have a very successful meme coin yet on here
But just to come right but we've seen meme coins
What meme coin can do to other ecosystems so
uh, you know study case or
See that good things store an ecosystem and create
Yeah, so I was mining doge
Um a couple years ago, so that was like my introduction into meme coins. Um
And it that was a a positive experience for sure
When I entered the salon ecosystem in early 2021, um, there was a samo Samoyed coin
And they were sort of the first mover meme coin and
I was able to partake in the early community there and
I saw the power that that was created through that the the power of the community and
also when you have a team of
Builders what they can do with the community that's created with the momentum from the memes and
It was really eye-opening for me to see
You know, not only what happened to the same old market cap during the last bull run, but also just
That they were able to have throughout the ecosystem based on the support that they are providing at the development level and also just
Community building level so that for for us was a pretty big inspiration
Going into the near ecosystem sort of seeing the same
Um, you know first mover opportunities that I think sort of existed when it was day zero in the salon
Eco and knowing that a meme coin is a critical component to
The growth of the community and I think maybe we were a little early but ultimately
Um, I think things are playing out
Uh, okay, so I just want to add on like I want to take long like long as a
case study on on on the meme coin thing
so if you guys are following along on the launch day, there was like actually like the
The launch is kind of a little bit messy and then the whole king can stuff
You can see that you can see at that at that moment that
Let's say like we want you to have like king cam to be our like
like the the long ceo or whatever
But like we we saw like the movement to to promote like a community that
That that he's just doing like
Not that now i'm saying not exploring but like he's just doing what what he did and then
Then he got like tons of long and then we we just wanted that person to be the ceo
ceo of long and then and after that actually the the the founding teams of long like promoting
Uh can to be as a as a I don't know as a part of of the team
So I think that is the power of the community to promote like an individual like not related to anything too long
But like promote to a person that to be like part of the founding team of long
So that is a really really uh inspiring. Uh story on on near that actually happened
so that thing that thing is
Saying to us that community community have power the same stuff happened to dodge to dodge or to to
To do all the meme cards on on so now so everything that happened on so now right now
That is currently happening on near so we are just like a little
A little bit behind on on the culture and the community power
Uh thing so yeah, that is a very interesting
Case study I want to provide
Yeah, I I I guess the whole launch thing happened with long is quite hilarious, right because
A minute before there was like in crisis
They didn't speak a word in in the chat
One minute later, they just
Kind of play play along with the whole
Uh camp thing. So I I find it quite hilarious
Actually, like if you like if you I don't know if you have every
Work for to launch a project again, but like when you launch a project and then things get messy
very on on on the edge of being like collapse but like
What i'm trying to say here is the community
Is saving it is saving it by promoting like the culture of that of that idea and then?
That is the power of the community that's saving a messy launch
Or the project that is on the edge of like being collapsed. So yeah, that is
Definitely ram. You were trying to say something
Fully endorse everything that that bailey just spoke of and you know
Just to kind of speak more from my perspective and the things that you know, i've learned
One of my favorite kind of quotes i've ever heard in web3. I mean really the hardest bar i've ever heard. Uh
Shout out ant marshall is culture is code. Um, and you know to me
The meme coins are really an embodiment of that
You know you if you're involved in the different groups, like every one of them has their own kind of different vibe their own inside jokes
Um, honestly i've never had as much fun
in my life in the crypto space as I have the last
Few weeks just being involved in you know
All these different like areas and just watching how they're kind of immersing themselves and attaching themselves to the different corners and nooks and crannies
Ecosystem and you know really transcending that meme coin status and you know, i've spent a
removing the financial component to uh
Like nfts and you know, that's been my focus is building communities with you know artists and musicians and you know framing them as
You know community assets and like this isn't any different than that
It's just you know in the fungible token form and you know in these cases a little more degenerate
but conceptually it's a lot of
You know the the same things and you know, you're just building culture and you know these
Nfts or these memes they're you know, they're really community assets and vehicles for you know
These communities to interact and operate and you know
It just so happens that there's a handful in this ecosystem right now that are doing a really great job of you know, really
Deepening their community value and you know relationships throughout different levels
So, you know, there's a large synergy with a lot of these projects too that
I think is is adding a lot more value than you know, what a lot of people might think that a meme would
Yeah, i'll echo that we know like it's it's quite interesting because blockchains have a start which is the genesis block
And then you kind of keep building these blocks and eventually you can actually see
The culture of the blockchain over time, right?
I mean you can think about this year where all the sort of the
Meme coins that popped up on near have some sort of connotations to the dragon
I mean being like the year of the dragon, but also sort of elia's being username being
Um in ale black dragon, right?
So it's kind of interesting like and then we have obviously like neko and shitsu coming up before that and then
You look at the future and maybe there's something else that we don't know of but it just builds
that sort of like cultural history of the of the blockchain without having it even like a writer, right? It's just
Basically having a ledger that just writes onto this chain
So basically having like the smart contracts and writing onto the chain that you can have a cultural study
Which is which is quite interesting, which has never happened before it's a bit of a it's a bit of a nerd response
But it is quite interesting
in in in the more like a historical sense
Yeah, definitely, I definitely think memecoin has
Speaking of history of history, right? I think the most og memecoin is not in this
In the space to today and that coin is called hakuna matata
Uh huck h-a-k, which is like I think you say it has been around since like
chinese chinese or something like chinese chinese one. I don't even remember but that's definitely the most
I think they're not around anymore. So
So actually i'm quite curious, um, because i'm not
Active in any community at all. So I want to ask, uh, agt
Why are you laughing now nary?
This uh, this question might not fit for you, but but you feel free to speak. Um
How does this feel like to be like a part of
Of a memecoin community like what are the main drives for you to become a part of this?
You know, I think uh from someone who can really care me i'm relatively new to crypto, uh, and at first I kind of
Let's cough at the um, meme coins
Uh, I didn't I didn't see I thought just irrespective to play but when when shit to happen that free men
But you know, I don't know people know this i'm
I'm just a volunteer and shit to i'm not part of a passion or anything
I just minted a couple shit to that day
And I got invited to this telegram. I didn't even know what telegram was. I mean I was completely a normie
And then I got sucked in and I just saw the evolution of shit to how it just kind of developed it grew
And then how it went through its downturns. And um
When I saw that first downturn that the community was disintegrating
Uh, that's when I decided to become involved because you know, I've seen communities in real life
Just disintegrate and how it just happens to the morale
Uh, so that's the power of the meme and that's what really, you know got me into memes and that's why I stayed on memes
Uh, just for that power that I think has been mentioned by several of the speakers here
You said yourself, right? You become like a face of shit through and now like one of the most
Enchilidistic near, you know lovers so
Really respect for that. Um
Yeah, um, I think for me it just really goes back to
Building culture and you know, that's always what has drawn me to the crypto space even before, you know
I you know was building in it just
the cultural impact and social impact that these different tools and assets
Had and you know the different ways that they were going to affect these different communities and you know, i've been dismissive of you know
meme value and you know just
What they're able to to do?
Uh, you know in in the context of of their ecosystem and you know in even those niche communities
Within them and you know, I just think that being able to you know
Help build these different cultures and kind of, you know be involved in the small ways that I am
Um, you know is really, you know, what's
really motivational and kind of you know, why I you know
Feel like i'm going so hard for you know, some of these things in the most ironic way because you know a month ago
I would have never thought
Uh, I I would be I would be uh, banging the the meme coin drum, but here we are
Um, so with new information comes uh new perspectives, I guess
Yeah, just like what ryan said there as well, you know, there was a point in my life
I would have looked on meme coins like doge whatever and thought like that's such a fucking waste of time stupid
It's bullshit or whatever
Like i'm a finance professional and then to look at these coins like mooning like that
You're there there is a sense of kind of uh, I don't know you're kind of annoyed or something
But it actually wasn't until uh nico in let's say where the good
No, not the mint but the actual um the white paper and stuff that I read
And that the the goal of the objective of meme coins is of course to to educate
To you know to onboard people and then I was like, ah, of course sure. That's uh, you know
It makes kind of perfect sense then that
That's their underlying objective. Um, and and that you will get people to follow them because of a number of reasons, you know, usually they're they're
They're denominated very very let's say very small or whatever. So that people think that they're buying, you know
a good chunk of them and all that like so
But yeah for me to be part of a community now that the the community is kind of formed i'd love to see
You know what we can do with that to kind of to interact with let's say the developers on here and say look
We have x amount of eyes that that look um on these meme coins
And let's just come together and build something, you know, um build something on a platform or
Yeah, or something just just to continue on like the kind of uh, the good work that's already already done
Yeah, that's an awesome site really
Uh, yeah, I just want to echo what grog say is like a party part of like, um, uh nicole and shih tsu
What what what bring me to what do you demand driven?
reasons for me to to building this meme coin or contributing
myself to meme coins that uh, I I got like
The huge amounts of inspiration from nicole and shih tsu
So yeah, yeah, if you stay on near for the past year
You can see how hard it is to to actually like surviving on on on near or in the crypto
So what nicole did and and they're pushing out like education contents like daily monday weekly
they it's just like a huge amount of energy and and and and and
effort to to to like contribute and and educate people
To onboarding near because that is the main reason are the demand purpose on on near protocol, right?
We we want to onboard like 1 billion people
And then nicole did that like tires
Uh tire lastly, so so that is the very the main reason that inspired me to to build
To to contribute to this meme wave and then that is the reason long long is that existing right now?
Like we want to bring more like outside. We want to onboard more outside
Or anyone that interested in meme
Back to near and then to see how like awesome that near ecosystem or memes are are thriving. So
Yeah, but I just want to echoing that
Do you have something to add?
Thanks daily. Uh, that means a lot to hear hear that from you and I would say
When when neko first launched there was a lot of um
resentment maybe from from certain stakeholders in the ecosystem people
certainly didn't understand the purpose and I think um
Mika was very misunderstood by a lot of maybe the og's at the time back in early 2022 and
Although, you know, we knew what we were doing was important and you know educating people creating content, you know
It's very important. There was still
Just the the sentiment around meme coins and near was very low
And almost antagonistic at some time. And so it was actually the community that we had formed that
optimistic, um knowing that we had you know, lots of people that that were supporting and that
Did share that same vision even though it wasn't
broad-spanding across the entire near community we had a community of people that
Did believe and wanted to contribute and that was really the fuel for through the bear market that kept us going
Definitely huge respect for
Nico for sticking around for so long and
Doing all kind of stuff. Uh
And go beyond to just being a meme coin, right?
Um, so but I think that's not just for for for nico. Um, I feel like all the meme coins here have already evolved and
Kind of moved itself away from being just a meme coin
maybe let's just touch a bit upon what have
Your meme coins or the community have achieved like up until now
What's you know, what the French is shit to is, you know, we're basically random people put together
To try to do the speculative, you know, we didn't come with like a central vision
You know my hats off to nico how they continue to build and they have a vision
You know, we just uh shit to just bandit random people and somewhere there for the speculative play
I was just there for the vibes and then I was able to recruit or just people naturally came into it
Um, so, you know, we don't have a team. There was no devs
Uh, you know, I try to recruit some and we finally got a super dev to help us out to kind of push this
Uh, but you know, I think the shit to go is to promote the whole ecosystem
So ideally what we want is an interdisciplinary approach approach among the memes and near and aurora
So we can work in parallel
Uh to promote the entirety of the ecosystem and you know, occasionally we're going to interact
Uh, but you know what i'm hoping is this meme spotlight
It's actually bringing new users and retaining users. I think you know the past year two years
I think the focus is shit too into some apart large part nico has been
retaining and bringing utility
Uh to our users, but yeah, I think that's our hope as we continue to uh to evolve
Yeah, definitely definitely just to feel like it really feels like the people coins like right now
Maybe uh, ram or groves belly. Yeah guys. I don't have anything to say for a part. I didn't like
Yeah, fuck it. I'll just go ahead. I'm just gonna wait for the bus
So rather than me being on a public bus and say yeah, we're gonna fucking land near back to 2024 and 2024
The best that I speak now, I suppose
So what was the question again? What exactly are you know?
What's happening? Is this?
Oh, yeah, I was just asking. Um
Since uh, what's what's what's on the horizon or something let's say for long
Okay, cool. Uh, so yeah at the moment they've um, I believe they've they've created a tge or telegram trading bot
And I think they're going through testing and they'll they'll release that
Uh at some stage i'm not too sure exactly when I think possibly next week
Uh, also what's quite interesting is the long validator that essentially has been set up
Um, and i'm not too sure exactly how the validators work
But I guess it's trying to get that 25k of of near now
So we'll probably be looking to reach out to the medical community. Um
To let's say secure some of the votes that that will allocate some near. Um
And yeah, that that's it for the moment, I think
Yeah, I kind of want to ask about like what what have plonk achieved as well, but um, maybe bailey did you kind of speak on that?
Yeah, yeah, let let me do this one. So yeah, uh
Long since the launch, um, we we can see that we brought like a lot of people outside of the ecosystem
Pre-launch like we can see people from sauna from abac. We can see all the digits that that coming
Come to attend the launch
One of our goals to when we launch in long and the second one we we
Our achievements that we achieve like almost like three million dollar in volume
Uh in trading volume in outer in like 24 hours after the launch
And then the the third achievement we want we want to highlight is that we got listed on on web finance and back
and back so yeah, uh, I don't think
Uh not and not much like uh mean token rather than the black dragon can achieve that
But that we we still meet them in in back cell
And the final one is that we we we can do the ongoing
Uh backdrop campaign that designed to increase that in get engagement between the different party in the in the ecosystem
So we want to reward. Okay people. Okay, like uh kol influencer that like
And og's or og project that contribute like huge things
In in in in the ecosystem and so we just want to drop like our small support
To them in in in their in their work. So that is like our best like achievement so far
Turn to before let's go. Um
I think don't really want to say but but I think ram uh,
Um, let's just ram to go. Let let ram go first because he was about to speak earlier
yeah, just uh one thing I wanted to kind of like touch back on that alton mentioned was you know about it being an archive and
of like narratives and on-chain history of
You know of near of the ecosystems and of the different
uh, you know projects that exist and I think that's you know, again, one of those things that has really resonated with me because
You know of the black dragon
Project has it's really brought
to light a lot of the origin stories of near as a whole and brought a lot of synergy around those projects and a lot of
new understandings of you know, how and why and you know the different things that
You know near has done to this to this point
You know, so I think that's something that's really cool, especially, you know, because you know the whole intention of
You know the project from what I understand is you know, it was a community
Token that was just kind of given life and you know
Its fate was put in the community's hands to to see what to do with it
So, you know kind of seeing the community step up in the different ways that it has and you know
like I said kind of form these different relationships and synergies with
Everything going on and bringing all these new narratives and storylines to light and you know old ones
You know that people may not have been aware of like i've learned an incredible amount, you know in a short amount of time probably more
Uh, you know about near and you know
just web3 and crypto as a whole over the last month and I have like my last like seven eight years just as like
But how how how how can you speak so fast so quickly?
Oh, yeah, shout out. Shout out. Oh cafe cartel the only cartel we acknowledge
Legit reason. All right, david
Yeah, yeah, just for kind of what what neko's been able to do. Um, so far. I think
Only thing on i'll touch on for the token side is just the fact that neko is
One of the most widely distributed tokens, uh in the near ecosystem with over
23 000 unique wallets holding neko token
I think it puts it out like number four of the most held tokens, uh, most widely distributed tokens on near so I think that's
A really cool statistic and uh, it kind of showcases how many people in in near do
You know have some sort of exposure or connection with neko, but in terms of like material deliverables i'd say
Initially content creation was you know
The core focus and through that been able to sort of scale some of the most
Widely engaged and followed social media um content creation channels. Um
spanning youtube tick tock of course twitter
Um, and uh, and then we we launched a podcast the neko morning show which I think definitely leads. Um a lot
a lot in terms of metrics for
Projects that are working with the near marketing dao so we've been able to
scale that on board really
great content creators to
Make this happen and yeah, i'd say the content creation side has been really wonderful. Um more recently we launched our
We dove into sort of mass merchandising. So we launched our genesis plushies where we're now
Bringing the cute and cuddly neko cats to your home. So we're really excited about scaling that and then we also
Recently a notch. Oh a notched. We recently announced our
$125,000 grant fund for content creators in the near ecosystem. So again continuing to empower and scale
Content creation within the near ecosystem, but i'd say some those are some of the main ones
Yeah, I think we just covered all four main beam clients and i'm really excited to see um
The future and to see in one years from now on will this mean like still stick around right?
Burning schedule. Let's move on to
Let's move on quick. Um, so so this question is uh, specifically for autumn so
Because you're from the foundation like and maybe marcus you can speak as well if you have like a say on this but um
How does like the new foundation or do you guys view the evolving landscape of meme coins and what potential
Contributions, so you see them
Uh making to the ecosystem
Yeah, that's a very good question, I guess marcus has the
Sort of has the owns the grassroot efforts, uh, but from my side and my views only
Um, I love this sort of the meme coin ecosystem. Well, one of the things is that I think
Well, we've all observed given marcus this year i've seen alex coming around
I've seen other folks around the foundation coming in hopping hopping in and up and out. Um, it just brings the community close to
The foundation itself, right? I mean by
Engaging this ecosystem. I met like a couple of people
I met the founders of the the meme coins and then and which are usually and on
developers and then uh, you meet like
You know other folks in the ecosystem and you maybe like haven't talked to them before and then that's that's how like it's just a
Conversation starter and then we understand sort of by doing so
We understand the the problems of the community and and uh,
And marcus himself is probably the expert in this one is like, how do we how do we help others, right?
So I feel that it's it's kind of a bonding exercise really to get the foundation closer
To the community. Um, and that comes with I guess the drug and memes which you guess transfer
Uh over to uh to the ceo at the foundation that really brings up the whole community being excited about not only foundation being excited about the
The black dragon coming coming back but also all of you guys kind of getting excited
So that's that's the stance I have is that the more we have these things and the more these things being launched
Uh, we'll love to support all of them. I think like in in terms of
Anything that we can do. Um
Not on the not on the price side but on the sort of like supporting on the community side
Um is that is the is the is the thing that I can say
On the price side, um, did you guys see the the tweet? Um, that the a bass relations
Talked with me said that they're gonna buy
What do you think on that outcome?
The the one that advanced from avalanche foundations announced that they're going to publicly yeah
I mean culture is I mean they definitely I mean they they say it's the it's a
It is actually directed to culture, right? Which I mean technically meme coins are culture, right?
As I as we talked about in culture as code, right? That's what we talked about it
Uh, it was quite interesting for us when we saw it
Uh, but uh, I don't know the mandate of the foundation for that from our side
Uh, but uh, definitely interesting, right?
I mean they're the first one to do this in terms of like how do we
Support the the culture and ecosystem. Uh, and if these are cultured too, right?
I mean if you think about it so as the the code is the culture itself. I mean you can argue
That uh smart contracts are culture
Uh using that logic, uh, but uh, that's that's my take really
Awesome very very very very very very yeah
I think naomi and ram you guys just have your hands up
Oh, yeah, I think this culture discussion is interesting
I'd like to hear from people what they think about the near culture because i'm like
Sometimes I think it's okay. Sometimes I think it's terrible and
I'm still not sure where to land in the end. But at the moment i'm not that convinced
Like I mean shits was always fun
But the other places are very like if the price goes up there suddenly people coming back from the
From the graveyard and pretending they've been there all along. I mean
I don't think anybody on this space but um in other places
So yeah, I don't know. I i'd like to see how you guys see the culture because obviously i'm
Also in other ecosystems and I see other places and how they build their stuff. So
No, I think naomi you brought up a really great great point and
As far as people sort of you know coming coming out of the woodwork, maybe when when things are doing well or maybe when things are doing
That's I think that should be expected because people have really busy lives, right?
So, you know, I I don't expect anyone to be sitting around in discord all day or telegram just to communicate
That's we all have our own lives. We're all doing things and
Just to be you know holding assets and you know, that's a really big means of support
So, you know, I think it's okay for people to have their own lives. Um, I think that's it's it's imperative to to to do so
but in terms of like the culture of near, um, I think that the
small amounts of liquidity that exist
have sometimes a detrimental effect on
Different communities in terms of how
People treat each other. I think that can sort of introduce a level of like tribalism
um, you know creates like you versus me mentality that that ultimately makes is a worse experience for everyone and so
that's where I think we can you know, we have a lot of room to improve is just to
You know understand that we do have the same goals and that
if we win we can win together, um
But if we kind of fight against each other we'll all most likely lose and just absolutely fail
so that's sort of where I see the near ecosystem at this like very
Fractalized liquidity this this low liquidity environments do tend to maybe bring out some of the
Communities in terms of how people treat each other
Okay, so, uh, I just want to bring up like more positive side of this of this like meme for I think
But if you if you've seen it like I have seen it like for the past year, we don't even have much
Uh a thing to call culture, you know, like there's no meme culture on near I can say that
I can't comfortable say that there's no like liquidity in meme that we are having right now on near so we are bringing like
thousands and a million even millions in little liquidity from outside to near by meme so
Have you seen any kind of like the five project that that that can bring that amount of of liquidity?
On on near for such a short amount of time. So
Right now. Yeah, like a lot of people and we are the near ecosystem is that
Because we we can say it is coming back to life because of the meme
Because that we are and then and by that we are building the culture that that started from nico from from
so yeah, we we just want you to empower that that culture that that they are buildings and then and then
The next generation of memes like long or back dragon
Uh, and this is and something like that. We just want to empowering what what what the og's have done. So yeah, uh
Happy i'm i'm really i'm really happy to to to being part of this
Can I just say as we're sailing into the weekend that I see I see a certain sale in the in the crowd there
Meme coin is there would they like to step up and kind of give us a
Finding more insight into what's going on
Yeah, it would be nice if sale can come up i've seen crazy wave of uh
Uh reactions on their posts, so it could be an interesting case
You can speak anonymously on twitter as far as I know I think you can change your voice so
If you want if you wanted to you could use the voice changer in it. It would probably work
I I think you can just just give it put on an accent tell us you're going to fucking
Take off some celebrity and give it a go. Go for it. Yeah
Just put on an accent like bumpy accents or yeah pinch just paint your nose. I can speak that that'd be fun
Um, so yeah, um, I have one question for you mark. Um
does uh the foundation have any plans for you know integrating the meme coins into some of the
conference, uh, you know mascot for like social media in introductions
I think near oneself like a mascot of the mere cats. Um, maybe the new one can be
Each of them the meme coins here
Guess while while marcus is coming up I can share just some kind of some insights from from our end
Base basically the last couple of months maybe starting in december. Um, it it
Does seem like the near foundation has been you know, extremely supportive of the newer
Mimetic projects that are that exist in the near ecosystem and we've never had more robust lines of communication
Regular meetings and that has been you know, really positive to see so i'd say from our end
Change in in the best possible direction
Yeah, definitely definitely I definitely saw um people from the foundation right like they're interacting with all these new meme coins and
Uh comments and stuff and you know, just to boost just to kick it just to have uh
Make them have a nice boost like uh alton here or marcus or david mo which is really uh active on socials
Interacting with this meme coin, so I think it's quite wholesome
Yeah, and also came organically too like it wasn't even it wasn't made for us
We just we just was like and alec sometimes does it and croneer who's harsh as well who's very supportive of these things
I mean, it was just a bit of a small like deejang culture within the within the near foundation. So it's it's quite it's quite fun
Um, but yeah, we'll love to support if there's more to I mean, we'll love to
Have more more of these cultural, uh artifacts as to say
Awesome. Awesome. Hope hope probably gonna have like a meme quite panel this year. Yeah, yeah con. That'd be dope
We should organize a barbecue in the summer
Yeah, so, um, I think we pushing time a bit, but let's just go to like
Thanks. Thanks for having me guys, uh to have a quote but it was a it was a great chat and nice to see all of you
Awesome interacting in telegram
All the best. Enjoy the weekend
See you guys later. Bye. Yeah. Yeah, edt. Yeah, just one last question
Oh shit, the the autumn also loves
Yeah, alton alton had to drop off he just said
It's not no it look I don't know. Is it the same for you?
But anytime anybody speaks it's only shih tzu that looks like it's speaking. I don't know what that happened to anyone else. No
Yeah, the whole fucking like early on I looked up and I was like holy fuck that's
I thought that sounds like denier, but it's not it's shih tzu speaking
Yes, who has taken over the space?
Odin and twitter. Let's get it
Yeah, so, um, just last questions, um, what uh, what do what do you see uh, what kind of untapped?
You know meme coins to make a positive impact like beyond their current scope right now
Well from uh, the shih tzu standpoint, I think we've been motivated and influencing. I think uh,
leading the charge to build
Infra, so, you know now that we have a
A full-time shih tzu dev volunteering. We're focusing on
Reviving some of the infra on near as we become the chain of extraction
So he's currently working on the uh, the skyward the the launch pad and then we'll probably pivot to something
But now we're gonna kind of turn inwards and start focusing on the infra and like all crypto projects, you know
Uh to maintain, uh, you know, we got to keep moving forward
Uh, is she here? Are you okay? She seemed like you would be dropping off like somebody or something
Yeah, it's my rank. Someone's in the front door. Their rank's going off. It's his yoga retreat
Yeah, um, so let me just repeat the questions so just in case it drops somewhere
Um, what kind of untapped opportunity do you see that exists for meme coin to make a positive impact?
Anyone feel free to answer this is like an open question
Yeah, i'd like to take a stab at that one. I think uh,
You know touched on a lot of things that people are doing well and to be honest
There's not a whole lot that I would change. I mean to me the the visions are are being realized in real time
Uh, but I think one of the most powerful things that we can do
And we kind of have been seeing that also kind of emerge more recently is you know
Content more content and you know leveraging a lot of these platforms and videos and personal brands
Reach people outside of you know, these silos that we kind of find ourselves building in oftentimes
So, you know as much fun as these communities are and like I truly mean it when I say that i'm having a blast
If we want to be able to bring more people in we've got to be able to reach people outside of these telegram groups outside of
Twitter feeds, you know the ones that are algorithmically tailored to us, you know
We need to be able to push this content and you know
Culture outside of these spaces and you know make it more accessible to you know
The people that we want to be a part of it
So, you know to me that's the biggest thing that we could do as a community
And then you know just as far as you know
All of these things kind of just coming together, you know
and and having that core synergy and nucleus like
You know as far as i'm concerned like the center of the meme coin universe on near is jump d5
Ref is currently certainly the uh, probably the rightful owner of that of that title, but hey, we'll see what we can do
Currently yep, definitely
There's always another angle that that you can tackle
Uh, yeah, yeah, I I just want to to highlight like uh, what uh
The first dragon team is doing yeah
The least they are they have been the same purpose as us like we want you reaching
outside of the degenerate especially
The the one on on sauna right now and different like ecosystem
So I want to drop you guys like some ampa
On on long uh entire lot like we are working on to to
We kind of we are working on to to
Uh bridge like the we want to want to bridge the token long
outside of uh outside of the
Near ecosystem so long token bridge able uh bridge able gonna be soon. So it's gonna be tvd. So yeah
Feel free to uh, watch uh, follow along and then uh, watch for more announcement on on that on fire
I think I don't know what people would bridge a meme token for but uh, but that could be fun
Yeah for for untapped, uh opportunities, I think
online communities are not
Specific to crypto by any means there
Probably are hundreds of millions if not billions of people that are active in various online communities. And so as these
meme coins continue to grow I think just
Expanding the horizons and saying there's there's people that you know are going to relate to you know, this this
Dynamic that we're fostering and we should you know
See how we can continue to grow and expand outside of just the the confines of a blockchain community. I think there's a
streamlined way of onboarding that is sort of aside from
A token, I think that just the power of the community itself the the vibes that it puts out and the actual development
Um tangible products that are released can really help grow people that might not even be interested in crypto at all
so just continuing to see how important online communities are and
Following ways in which we can continue to grow them in our own respective ways
Yeah, that's um, I completely agree with you on that and
Just to end things off. Um, I actually really
The meme coins on your are really well diversified
Like for nico, right you guys focus on content and allocations
For black record and shit too. You guys focus on
And to bonding the whole ecosystem together and for long it's like a like a d gen community
Which is cool. We we need that on on on on near we don't have that for quite a while now
Um, and I will see you got to see a lot more
Uh diversify when it comes to you know, different community on the earth
a polyzookian skin of 666
I don't know what that is
But that is uh, and it's just in case yeah, but shout out to uh, ndc
Yeah, so a reminder to make sure to take your meds
I think one of the new community members got off their meds
Sorry guys, um, but um, I think we have a nice sessions today guys
uh, really appreciate you guys to join and you know speak about your own community
What can meme coins do to the ecosystem and the impact of the community as well as the historical aspect?
Um, you guys have any last words you guys want to say to the audience before the end
I posted a little alpha up top for everybody
I I didn't hear you at all. But I said I posted a little alpha up top for everybody. Oh
Yeah, uni fat is like, uh, uni fat is an interesting case because they are not mean mean quite right, but
Uh, not mean coin, but also not that you know that
Serious, I just but yeah, um barely
okay, so the meme is fun and it's
Uh, the habit is real but like please I do not like gambling your your financials on on on the old doesn't mean token
So yeah, I just want to highlight that that people please I be responsibility with with your financial and your budget
and only play only gambling on on the mean token when when you are ready to lose so and
You you make the decision. So
Please don't don't make this like more like financial or legally
It should be it's just like we trying to build the culture we're trying to build like
What the best for the ecosystem?
Like what is lacking is is a is a big it's a really like culture
So that's what we're building. So don't bring like too much financial in it and then like later on like
Spam the the project that I building like they are scam or anything
They're just like like you guys. They just want to do what the best for the ecosystem
They just want to produce a content and stuff like that
So yeah, uh, that's it my
For everyone that is on this space and everyone who's on
Yeah, for sure for sure you should always have a different mentality when it comes to
Buying and trading meme coins, right? Um, don't take it too serious. Um, just have fun with that, right?
We're all here to have fun
especially with meme coins, so
I just don't expect anything too much at this meme coin
All right guys, um, we have a nice session. Thank you guys for coming up to the space today
Uh, thank you everyone in the space for dropping by and listen until the end
Awesome meme coin project nico black dragon long
Yeah, um, I think we have quite a blast set today. Honestly, so thank you guys. It's been new week
And I see you guys in the new ecosystem
Cheers, thanks very much. Enjoy the weekend
Thanks for having us have a great weekend guys