I've been tracking NFTs for
Monday through Friday at least.
And just like the ones, like the blue chip ones that, you know, minted maybe two, three years ago,
pudgy penguins and doodles and all those ones.
And even in Cosmos, too, the different kind of blue chip NFT projects, the floors up and more excitement.
And yeah, man, it's great.
I think NFT season is always the best time of the year in crypto, to be honest with you.
And I'm not just saying that because we're technically on an NFT call here, but just in general.
No, I agree. It is, it is like the most, like, they're all about the culture, right? Even, even meme coins, like, there's like maybe a little bit of culture, but that's mostly like,
buy, sell, like, pictures of, you know, videos of like 10 year old kids giving everybody the middle finger.
Like, NFTs are a lot more wholesome and just enjoyable.
Yeah, it's definitely less PVP in the NFT community.
You know, like a lot of people, I know quite a few people, essentially just are NFT collectors and they'll go wherever and collect NFTs.
And, you know, I see a lot of the same familiar faces throughout all the different communities, you know, like just in whatever community that I'm viving in.
And I, my stupid non-financial advice school kind of worked out.
Like, I said about like three years ago, three, three, three, four years ago.
I was like, I'm going to get an NFT on all these different blockchains that I think are going to be relevant in 10 years from now and just try to find the blue chip ones.
And yeah, man, it's, it worked out through different airdrobs and other NFTs, air drops and just like random shit that I got air dropped.
I mean, for the time, kind of helped out with my, my bankroll when it came to just blown a bunch of money on NFTs and.
Yeah, it's just a lot of fun too.
And then essentially, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if it wasn't for NFTs because it allows me to express myself without having to show my face.
Even though I'm not technically worried about showing my face, I go to the conferences and stuff like that.
But it just allows me to just be me.
And, because I'm not one of these type of people that like to flex and, you know, oh, I got this and I got that.
And then, you know, right now, just change my PFP to my 101 art, you know, and it's cool, man.
Like, I just, it's, I don't sell NFTs.
That's basically the way I am.
I just stack them and I just like them.
Well, I mean, it looks like I like your doodle that you had before, but I am, maybe I'm biased a little bit, but I'm partial to the, to the new architect you're rocking.
Hey, Cryptic here from the architect's account.
I'm the artist over here.
We had to give you some architect vibes, but maintain some of that same style that you had there.
Yeah, for sure, man. I really kind of slept on doodles. I should have been...
minting everything. So now pretty much any collection that I feel is pretty cool. I'm just minting
more than one and just stacking them and I don't really care. And I did that with recently the
Good Vives Club and then Bearish and I just go wherever, man. Like I just can I have a good sense
of good community and, you know, the founders and team and I'm not one of these type of people.
Oh, why should I mint or why should I do this? I'm just doing it because I like and have
Geez. And then if I get something out of it at the end of the road, even better. But I, yeah, I look at everything as kind of a donation to artists. I'm just supporting artists at that point. So I don't really care. But these are cool as hell, though.
and i i regret i had a i had a white list for a few white lists for after school club and it was
like at an off hour for me it was real expensive so i wound up not doing it huge regret but i
agree like nfts are one of the best ways to get exposed to these different ecosystems because
otherwise i have nothing else that i would want to do on eclipse uh because i'm just not that
Yeah, it's a good way to onboard people too.
And, you know, I listen to a lot of NFT spaces because my day to day is usually like doing really boring crypto stuff and tech and AI and just like nerd and out all the time.
And can only handle so much of that.
So NFTs, to be honest, but during this kind of lackluster market that there's been minus Bitcoin, it's been like just listening to the spaces and looking at people's.
content and i know the algorithm kind of caters towards this but it's been filled with a lot of
nfti uh communities and and most of them just like the vibe and have a good time you know i'm sure
they want to make some money too but there it's just it's just good man it's like the heartbeat of
crypto and like i said whenever nfts season
is around, it's definitely good for the market as a whole.
Like, you know, if you want to use like Paddy Pang,
one to me is pretty much like the blue chip of all blue chips in crypto when it comes
Not too long ago, their floor was at like 8th.
And now it's at like I must 11 or so, Eith.
And so like, and that's in a short time frame.
So that's usually a sign of, yeah, NFTs are back.
And yeah, and a lot of it has to do with what you were talking about earlier.
And I do like meme coins too, but yeah, the NFT communities compared to meme coin communities,
just no comparison at all.
So anyways, like, yeah, man, tell me, tell me how everything's going.
I know you're going to be on osmosis, which is cool.
And another thing is I probably wouldn't be doing what I'm doing without osmosis because it was the first time.
was it back in July of 21, I was kind of getting bored with crypto.
I was like, man, this shit kind of sucks.
Like there's all these different blockchains and you need 75 wallets and you got to know all this stuff.
And I don't mind learning it, but I realized that no one else is going to want to do this for the most part.
Then osmosis came out and that's how I found about IBC.
And then I was just really having a good time.
So I think I probably wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now if it wasn't for osmosis.
but yeah let me know what's going on here yeah we really love osmosis they've been an incredible
team um finding the right partner was really important to us and
They've just been extremely helpful and kind, and we couldn't say better things about them.
I know for me, coming into Cosmos, that's like the app that I had open all the time, where I was swapping and interacting with things.
So, yeah, it really feels serendipitous to us to be able to partner with them to launch our
our NFTs and then be able to bridge it over to Stargays where we see a lot of people trading NFTs as well.
Like I, one of the very first people that I met was Sonny.
And I always respected his like grind and he builds a real good product.
And I'm fairly confident that regardless of token price and all that, if you want to take that out of the equation, I'm pretty sure that anyone that uses like osmosis is.
is probably like, yeah, this is the best decks in all of crypto.
So and they always keep, you know, improving and getting better and stuff like that as well.
So I'm, I always have it up as a tab.
It's just one of those tabs that I always have up, you know, one of my browsers or whatever.
I have freaking too many browsers and too many extensions and profiles.
But I always keep it up and check it out.
And it's, yeah, it's good.
And I like what they're doing with Bitcoin now.
And yeah, man, it's a good product.
So tell me more about the collection.
How many are there going to be?
Like if you had a mint date, get into all the good fun details.
Yeah, so we are the architects.
We're kind of like a secret order of builders.
We're fueled by the cult, which is our token.
We'll be stream swapping into cold on April 1st.
That bootstrapping phase is a couple of days and immediately after that is the stream where everyone gets their distribution of cult.
And then we'll be minting on the seventh, that following week, essentially.
Yeah, and then there's going to be a lot of fun things to do with cult.
So not only is cult deflationary and each mint burns cult,
so we raise the value of cult with every mint,
but you'll be able to use some of your cult for performing rights,
which is essentially upgrading your NFTs within our dashboard that we've created.
And like we're trying our best to make this the most intuitive and fun experience possible.
Um, Kaku is like a freaking superhero in our minds with what he's been able to build.
Like essentially, you know, if you have your cult and you bridge it to stargaze or if you have it on osmosis,
kind of regardless of wherever you have your cult, you'll be able to mint.
It's kind of like, it's really a seamless experience.
So we're top of our mind is like the, the user's experience, um,
making things fun. We have 6,666 NFTs,
kind of leading into the occult side of what it means to be a part of a secret order,
practicing dark arts. We're having fun with just...
creating art all over, whether it be our animations, our collection,
the interactions, even within our dashboard, when you go to upgrade your NFT,
there's a lot of animations, and we're making music to add to that too.
We're just trying to create an overall really fun experience.
Yeah, like I always enjoy the communities even more whenever they kind of make it a little bit
easier for me to create content with my picture, because some of them, you know, they just
kind of launched their collection and then there's not much tolling for for users to like create
content and to me that's the best way of of growing your brand really is just allowing people
that minted or buy it on the second market to use their profile picture or their just collections
in general and create you know stuff with it really at the end of the day so if you have that
tolling even better and i always prefer that because
I, I, you know, my wife helps me make stuff and I have some other people that randomly will send me stuff, which is like so cool and grateful.
And then I meet myself sometimes. I'm like, oh, I got to, I have a good idea right now and I want to post something, but I don't really have something right away.
And if you're able to just kind of throw it into a generator, it's always cool to do that.
And then, you know, just vibe out on replies and all that. So yeah, man, that's awesome. And, uh,
Yeah, so 666, someone's going to have to burn one.
I don't like that number.
Well, is it going to be kind of the same,
it sounds like somewhat of the same mechanisms
as the mad scientist where if people don't use the cult to mint,
then there's going to be just ones kind of sitting there
ready for someone at any time, right?
So each NFT will cost 150 cult.
That goes times 6666, it's almost
We're going to burn that additional 100 cult as a celebration.
But yeah, basically, it would require everyone to mint an NFT to really get to that number.
And you're going to be using cult for your upgrades as well.
So there will be some use case there, which will go into our treasury.
fuel the community and the project with that as well.
So we'll be, in some cases, be giving some of that back out.
We'll maybe have some burning parties, things of that nature.
So, yeah, we probably won't get exactly to 66666.
amazing if that did happen um but yeah very similar nice yeah i think i got a i'm not sure
if i'm in the discord yet i need to to get into discord i'm not a big discord person but i
i'm always like oh i want to join this one let me delete a couple of these other old ones
because i'm at the max or whatever
But I do know that there's always like pulling and fun stuff that you can share in Discord,
especially in NFT community.
We're creating, we've created a game bot called the Tribunal.
It's our own version of a Rumble Royale where, you know, architects sacrifice each other.
And a chosen one is selected at the very end to be the winner.
We have offerings within our Discord, which you can get through different offerings roles.
We give those away through our tribunal and just general interaction.
We're giving away a lot of stuff just for fun.
And we also have another game bot that we're building as well just to kind of
So Discord could be a home for a lot of fun.
And another thing I love about Discord, too, is once you do upgrade your NFT, there's going to be some animations in there.
And we've kind of tested how that looks when your NFTs animated and what it looks like on your profile pick within Discord.
It's a cool, fun flex to show the new aura that your architect has gained and the power that it has within it with each level that you ascend through the order.
Well, I'm trying to join right now as long as I could pass this Verify Captcha.
So let's see if I can get the code right.
Sometimes I'll type it in wrong.
I hope I didn't get it right, I don't think.
Yeah, so what was the inspiration for the actual collection itself?
Like, where did you, like, hey, this is what we're going to kind of go for.
It's going to be a shout out to these type of people in crypto, or how did that come about?
We've always thought it was kind of funny.
The conversation people talked or had about, you know, there being cabals within the crypto space and NFTs and how we kind of see ourselves as builder architects kind of, that's exactly in line with that.
And this idea of forming a cult because so many projects and coins, meme coins, whatever, feel that way.
So we really leaned in heavy to that concept.
And it just feels like a perfect fit.
Nice, I like that. Yeah, and that's kind of the ultimate sign of Cosmos, right?
Like, I've been to so many different conferences, whether they're Cosmos related or not.
And, you know, I'll say, they'll ask me, like, who I am or whatever, and I'll say, like, I'm into Cosmos.
And I've met so many different devs.
And I've yet to meet one person that's like, oh, yeah, it's bad tech.
And, you know, it's, to me, it's like a playground for devs to be able to build whatever they want with essentially no limitations at all.
You're starting to see all these different roll-up solutions and all these different things to make crypto better as a whole.
They're all that's happening into cosmos, one way or another.
They might alter, I don't know what it's called now.
It used to be called Tenderman.
I can't think of the word.
You know, they might alter that and rename it, but they're really just using Cosmos.
Like Hyperliquins is a prime example of that.
You know, they're not really claiming that they're a Cosmos L1 or whatever, but they're
technically a Cosmos project.
So, but yeah, it's really cool that people could just do whatever they want.
And you're talking about earlier, about Stargays.
Like, that's another one of my favorite apps.
I think it's like one of the coolest consumer chains and, you know,
I think eventually the market will kind of follow where the users or where people want to do things.
Because even still, it's more infrastructure-based and people are still giving a lot of money to info plays.
But at the end of the day, people just want to do stuff and have fun and express themselves and vibe out.
And it still hasn't really been the focus of crypto yet for the teams and builders.
It's eventually it's going to be a thing.
Yeah, I think Cosmos is always going to be around.
It's really good, it's really good text.
I think my background is in graphic design and just general Web 2 stuff.
So coming into this space and seeing how developers are innovating in Web 3 is really cool.
And NFT specifically feels like a really fun way to gamify things,
appreciate art, collect things together as communities.
and build something really cool.
I think that's what made us really bullish about bringing Kaku onto the team because he felt like
four developers wrapped into one.
I'd love for Kaku to speak on his experience in Web3 because he's such an incredible dev.
Every new thing that we want to implement and create,
he seems to have an insight or an idea on it.
So just the growth of our project has been really awesome with him included.
You're making me blush, brother.
No, I appreciate it. I don't, I think the ecosystem is great, right?
Like, it's great to have, we have Stargaze where there's so much NFT stuff going on.
There's osmosis, which has great liquidity and the Dex is there, and there's, you know, some other great apps there.
So, I mean, it's just been such a good fit.
There's, you know, even bridging the NFTs across chains and being able to rely on that bridge that,
ARC puts out like it feels very this term probably doesn't make sense a lot of people but like mezzan plots right everything in its place
Yeah, and then I mean the other piece of the puzzle
cryptic is just amazing at what he does and I have the experience in the tech right? I did
You know I've been around for a minute. I did yield most I have I've been working full-time in
a number of years now and it takes a long time to get exposure to all these different things the different uses of iBC the ecosystem for making the front ends the ecosystem and like developer tooling for cosmoism and all that stuff so um i mean the opportunities really are endless you just need to dig in and gain the experience and and get those miles
Yeah, shout out to Yield Most.
It was something that I always used all the time.
Yeah, man, it was a product that we need, especially in Cosmos, because one of the things I really enjoy and still do enjoy about Cosmos is really easy to...
And that really is interoperable, but like even from the community and slash, um,
communitarian aspect, it's really was super easy to buy other assets and stake them and
kind of go to and from a different blockchain, you know, and it was like, well, at the time,
it was kind of a pain in the ass. I was like, well, man, I can't really stake or I have to sit here
and manually claim and restake and all this other crap and really annoying, right? And, um,
So when you guys built that, I was like, yes, finally.
This is so much better that you could just do this.
And I almost wish sometimes that Cosmos, like how the staking mechanisms worked is you can...
It's just by default was a kind of auto compound.
I think one that would help with less cell pressure on these different assets, which would be a net positive.
But two, it's just would be just easier.
Just like I don't want to sit here and click buttons all day long to compound my money.
my uh you know my staked assets or whatever but yeah when you guys built that that was that was pretty
good and unfortunately you know when you build common goods for the community it's really like
not that um lucrative from the building perspective and unfortunately things in life aren't free so
it's like you have to kind of monetize like anything that you're doing so you can stay in the game so to
I guess that's kind of what happened maybe, but yeah, dude, it was a good product for sure.
Well, 100%. And I mean, right? Like they say like you either winner you learn, like big ups to Tom and like restake.
Like no shade. I think our product was more polished, but he taught me the lesson of
you make it a product that requires less upkeep and can kind of run itself a little bit better,
and that's going to have longevity in different ways.
And so I learned stuff there that I've taken to architects, right?
All of the upgrade system that we have for the NFTs, like that is all decentralized.
It's all stuff that even if we went away, you'd still be able to upgrade your architects.
and deal with the vast majority of the system because at this point it's finished code that's on the blockchain, it's ready to rock and roll regardless.
Tell me a little bit more about the upgrades, like kind of what is it and what can you do with it and things?
Does it morph or evolve your NFT?
Yeah, so we've created a whole app where you can mint an architect, you can view your holdings. So even though
there's not really a marketplace on osmosis.
We want you to be able to see everything that's within your wallet.
Also within your holdings, you can bridge to stargays and bridge back to osmosis for those upgrades
because essentially osmosis is where all of our infrastructure lives.
But we also have an on-chain quest system called rights badges.
So we're going to be releasing badges, which you can claim through a various means of claiming those.
Right now we have a password protected rights badge, which is kind of the free starter badge for everyone to get.
That's not really a quest that you have to achieve.
The badge itself is on chain, but once you have the password and you get in there, you have access to your first.
So essentially with each upgrade,
you'll need a badge relative to the how many times you want to upgrade.
So for the first upgrade, it's one badge.
The second upgrade, it's two, so on and so forth.
And yeah, once you could see all the traits on your architect from our holdings.
You can select, you could see your requirements for upgrading depending on where you're at.
You can click a button to perform a right, which is, you know, how we see a ritual of upgrading your architect.
Once you select to perform your right, your architect goes to like the ritual platform.
So like when you go to your perform rights page, you'll see an empty platform.
And then when you select an architect,
you'll see that ritual kind of start to animate.
So the platform becomes a gift that animates.
And then when you go to perform your right,
you'll see like a power up kind of beam in case your architect.
And then you'll see your trait change to the new level.
You'll see the visual change the new level.
And then also within our dashboard will be a way for you to claim cult, which we'll talk about in a second with regard to our cult collective communities.
But Kaku's also created a really great snapshot tool.
So we want to work with other communities to add...
more rights badges to our platform as a form of collaboration with that community.
And then we also want to include the snapshot tool to allow other communities to reward our holders.
And that snapshot tool can discriminate between the day that you want to capture the snapshot for
and the level of architect there is.
So if a community that we partner with wants to reward our highest level of architects,
They could choose that as the selection of holders that they want to reward.
Yeah, and there's just, we feel like there's a lot of possibilities that can come with like having that kind of a claim or status within the order by having one of your architects reach those higher levels.
And then with each level, it's like a slightly different animation.
So the first one, you get like a little badge in the corner, minimal sparks.
And then you'll then there's other ones that are like gold flares and blue flames and like blood dripping across your architect or fire encasing it.
We want it to feel fun and interactive.
And then another piece that we're adding to it too is we have a reward system that we're going to be implementing into the upgrades.
And we'll be able to drop like the very concise details about that as we get closer to those upgrades.
But essentially, 10% of our raise, we're going to set aside into a Holder's Dow, which will be reserved specifically for rewards.
And we want to reward you each time you upgrade.
And as you get into those higher upgrades, we want to include greater rewards with that.
So yeah, so some of that will be monetary.
We have other ideas for things to include in there as well.
But everything kind of fuels that upgrading system so that it's not only visual and fun,
but it allows for collaborations with other projects.
And then just our way to give back to the community who's interacting with our platform and is having fun there with us.
Do you happen to have any female architects?
And that's something that we're working on right now as well.
So, yeah, we do have some body traits that are female.
There's a couple of robe traits in there that kind of expose your front.
There's some funny things in there.
And then, yeah, yeah, we certainly do.
And then what about, is there any pink traits?
Yeah, like clothing or hats, like anything.
A lot of our traits have more of an ominous tone to it.
To kind of give the vibe of like what it looks like to be a part of different sex within the order or different lodges within the order of like, you know, maybe you're a part of like an unholy sect or a...
or a holy one, or like, you've gone through some rituals of your own, or you've had to sacrifice something.
We have some really cool trait variants, too.
So as an ode to osmosis, we have like a osmosis flask that if your architect is holding that, then your robe has like a purple variant to it.
So like you'll see when you're looking at the collection that you might see a particular trait look a little bit different if they're holding that flask.
We also have like, you know, and keeping in the theme of the occult, we have like a summoning staff and a summoning stone.
And we have some kind of crazy looking traits like a venomous tongue or like medusa snakes coming out of your face.
Those kind of things will appear specifically if you have that summoning stone or that summoning staff.
So we're trying to find really fun ways to make those traits change depending on what you have.
But yeah, we're trying to innovate in every way possible right now.
I'm checking out the media care right now because I'm going to have to make me some good mornings with my new profile picture.
So yeah, you guys are killing it.
You guys, this isn't a knock on you guys.
It's actually a positive.
I feel like you guys have been working on this collection for a very long time and all the infer and everything.
We conceptualized the idea about a year ago.
And I've just been working on the art for a long time through that and discovering what kind of resources I could use to...
to render the collection and create different.
I just really wanted to see something different in the way that we created the art,
whether that be like, you know, some traits will appear behind the architect,
like if we have a dark arts trait.
So that will appear in front of it sometimes or behind the architect,
But we've been really trying to drum up ideas on how to make this collection really cool and how to
to cater to the community in a really fun way. And a long arduous part of that is finding the
right partners that felt like they aligned with our vision and could help us execute this in the
best way possible. So we've just kind of taken a long time. We brought Kaku on near the end of the
even he's helped us evolve some of those ideas and like make those badges on chain so they weren't just appearing within a database
So yeah, we've been working really hard.
We actually have a team of five.
So it's Kaku myself, you'll see in Discord very often, Master Traveler and Gatsby.
And then we also have Arlen as well.
So there's the five of us that we've been kind of putting our heads together, sometimes
budding heads to make the ideas as best as we possibly can.
but yeah we're we really love the team that we've built and have been working hard at it for a while now
Yeah, that's what's up. I'm looking right now. I didn't even realize there's a bunch of comments in the chat. I think there's a few questions. This one's from Johnny. It's actually a pretty good question. You may have covered this. Maybe I'm definitely sleep deprived today. I really didn't get much sleep at all. But it says when you upgrade the NFT, do you get to pick the traits or is it randomized?
So your traits maintain, but the upgrade is essentially just like an aura or a vibe that kind of happens to your architect.
So the only trait that changes is your level.
And then everything else kind of just gets a fresher look.
But a lot of it is just like an overlay or an aura that happens to your architect.
At a certain point, too, like midway through the upgrades,
If you have a flat color background, it becomes a detailed background.
So some of those backgrounds already are detailed.
And then we have like a level that is around...
Around level 10, that is the elder architect.
So you'll see your robes become more weathered,
and you'll get like a glow around you from kind of the power-up that you're getting as well.
So there's some minor changes that happen, but not complete trait changes with the exception of
If I could say the traits
they all stay the same, but they look
different as you go along.
So you might get like a new
things change and your rarity.
The rarity of your architect
I wasn't going to touch back what you guys said earlier about the tooling.
I think that's cool that you're going to be able to, I guess, verify, or the word snapshot,
actually, again, I'm super sleep deprived, but be able to take a snapshot and reward, you know, the archit.
How do you say, you pronounce you had an architect, or just architects?
This should probably be a bad point to bring up.
Wasn't this originally going to be on Archway?
Yeah, we did have a plan to launch with Archway.
And I think our timelines just differed a little bit.
There is an artist there, Ricky, who made a suggestion about our backgrounds, which we thought was really cool.
And they wanted to help us in some big ways.
But there was just a couple of things that we couldn't quite align on and felt in order to give the best to our community, we had to find maybe a different partner.
But we really appreciate those guys.
We just had a difference of...
aligning on a couple of things that we felt we needed in order to fulfill our promises to our community.
Yeah, I mean, that's what you got to do.
I mean, at the end of the day, you're running, in theory, you're kind of running a business.
So it's like you got to do what's best for you in the community.
And if it's going elsewhere, I mean, it is what it is.
I actually appreciate when people make decisions based off of that, not just based off of like,
emotion or whatever else it is or just like you know any other sort of determinations but yeah
i mean osmosis is chill because i mean that's at the end of the day i know they're very supportive
they've always supported me like the the main people that are working and grinding day to day
in osmosis they've always supported me and uh
um so i have nothing but good things to ever say about osmosis and i think that most people that
enter into cosmos have probably used i think it's almost impossible and have not to use
osmosis at some point during your cosmos and cosmos grind i don't know how you couldn't but uh so yeah
being kind of the focal point on there and they're obviously going to support you guys and and
in the artwork speaks for itself and it's really cool and
A lot of times when I look through Twitter and I, you know, I'm just scrolling through a lot of, a lot of, I guess, PFPs really don't stand out, but this one's clearly going to stand out when I'm scrolling through.
And it was the same thing with the mad scientist.
They always pop out when I'm looking through.
And the bad kids always pop out too.
And, you know, there's a couple other collections, too, that always pop out.
The doodles pops out, but a lot of the other ones kind of look somewhat similar, and it's just like doesn't really pop out.
They look good, and they're cool.
And I do like the kind of gamification, and you can involve the NFT because a lot, I don't really know any other ones that I'm in that kind of do that.
Yeah, and we just shared a post on the spaces here.
So you could see one of the levels and the animation.
And he's wearing kind of a little gold osmosis pendant.
One thing I have to say is really cool about what osmosis is doing is kind of folding in Bitcoin into osmosis.
And in terms of partnerships, working with them and Stargays behind the scenes, it felt like a really cool opportunity to allow for Bitcoin trading on or to trade your architects and sell them in Bitcoin on Stargays.
So we're like super enthusiastic to be.
the first to be able to do that and hopefully it allows a lot of other collections to do so as well but i think
That partnership with Osmosis and Stargays has been really instrumental in being able to make that happen.
And we're grateful and excited to make that possible.
Yeah, it's nice that Osmosis kind of seen that vision.
I'm not saying they got this for me, but I've been harping on this for years now, that Cosmos has the best...
stack and the best interoperability.
And, you know, when it goes from one place to the other in all of crypto, there's been
zero hacks on IBC transfers.
And I was just like, man, you know, I know that I'm a big, I'm a big, you know, believer in Bitcoin, but I do realize after a couple more happenings, I don't know if it's going to be financially sustainable for people to actually want to mine Bitcoin.
Because like currently a lot of people don't know this, but it's at least around like, you might get a little bit cheaper, maybe a little bit more.
But to like mine one Bitcoin is probably cost around like roughly around 60K.
to do that and then you know you look at bitcoin now and it's like 88 k or whatever it is but
it's not it's not a crazy margin to do all that and that's at the subsidies that it's at now
there's there's still a decent amount of bitcoin inflation and then you know it just keeps happening
every four years so a couple more of those and it's like man where where's all the fees and
revenue is going to be generated for miners to want to do this because there's just not
enough transactions per second and
And not enough people are actually using Bitcoin to do stuff with.
And I know that there's borrowing and lending starting to become a thing, which is great.
But you need Bitcoin to essentially just be everywhere.
People are actually using it besides just buying it and holding onto it.
So I was always like, man, Cosmos is like perfect tech for all this.
And we're starting to see it.
You know, I don't know what the TVL is now for Bitcoin on osmosis, but it was definitely growing.
And then you guys added more utility where you're able to buy and sell.
And Bitcoin's kind of cool, too.
So I'm all for it, all for more utility for actually having Bitcoin.
Because like I said, it's not people can sit here and think it's going to go up forever.
But at the end of the day, people need to actually use it for stuff.
And no one really technically is right now.
So the more the merrier like if Bitcoin was kind of the currency of all of crypto or at least a big part of it
I'd be all for it because then it just to me makes it more sustainable and obviously a healthy Bitcoin's just good for the
industry as a whole. So yeah shout out to them for doing it. It's about time someone's starting to do it.
I was going to say, like, for me, at least,
like instead of holding some of these Cosmos alts
and trying to trade NFTs with those,
like to me it makes way more sense.
We have all sorts of other avenues in the project to,
Those, I know cryptic said before,
we're setting aside 10% of our raise
to further incentivize use of our platform, right?
converted to BTC, we're going to find some cool ways to do that there.
Like the liquidity pool that we're going to set up right after the stream swap,
that's going to be a BTC cult pool.
And so you'll be able to, if you want to join the Magma Vault,
you'll be able to earn literally both cult and BTC at the same time,
you know, work towards one more, one more architect or, you know,
that next upgrade while stacking stats.
I think there's just so many cool avenues for using BTC and defy.
That's like way under explored, way under explored.
They shut down their deposits, but last time I checked was about a week ago.
And their TVL was over $4 billion in Bitcoin.
So, like, again, I'm all for it because...
you can say or think that bitcoin's going to indefinitely go up forever which you know if you listen
to maxis they'll tell you that right they're convinced like bitcoin could sure everything in the world
and maybe it can but you still have to use infrastructure to do that because it's just limited you know
i was kind of crunching numbers and
You would have to eventually, in like 10 years from now, there'd have to be like $5,000 of fees per block, like on Bitcoin to be really sustainable for just the run.
Maybe Bitcoin at that time is a million plus or something per BTC.
But I just wouldn't count on that.
So it definitely is sustainable, though, if Bitcoin is...
Like, oh, Solana has X amount of Bitcoin.
And all these different app, you know, all these different L-1s have a shitload of Bitcoin on the chain.
So anyways, yeah, I'm all excited for that.
How long is stream swap going to be up?
I know you said it's on April 1st, and it's serious.
It's not like April Fool's joke or anything, right?
Like, it's actually April 1st.
The Colts not, it's not fleece in us.
Like, it's going to be happening.
No, yeah, it'll be on April 1st.
I believe, Kaku, if you can correct me, it's about 52 hours.
It's about just over two days.
of the stream swap and then the stream where you get your cult occurs within an hour after that.
Yep, it's 52 hours and then it'll be a one hour streaming period.
And we should have the link to the like coming soon stream swap like tomorrow so that everybody can dial in
their like exact time for the opening and closing.
But also we have it posted in the
in the Discord, like in that info channel, you could see we put the timestamps that are like local to you.
So you could see like exactly, because otherwise, like giving times in like a Twitter space like this is useless.
I don't know what my, I don't know how to convert from UTC to my local time zone.
So yeah, check that, check the info channel.
Yeah, and anyone, because I have to do this all the time because most people that I'm communicating on generally in a daily basis aren't American. So I don't sit here and go, oh, I got to think about plus six minus two, none of this crap. I just, I use real time buddy.com and.
It's free, and I'll just do everything in general UTC, which is London time.
So if someone's like, oh, 8 p.m. UTC, I'm like, oh, that's 4 p.m. my time or whatever.
You know, so it's just, it helps out and makes life easier because I can't do that.
So people are like, oh, I'm plus three.
I'm like, that's too much for me right now.
I got too much with my mind.
And then I'll figure it out with real time, buddy.
i guess the alpha that i would share for my experience on stream swab it's always it's always best to be in
super early it seems like my maybe it's wrong but oh 100% yeah get in get in super early not financial
advice but my experiences with different stream swaps is like
like Talgate, like if you're out, you're going to the sporting game, you know, if you want to have a really good time, you go, you go to the stadium beforehand and like get loose to the parking lots or whatever.
You have a good time as opposed to leaving your home or whatever late and then you're in traffic and then you get there right before the game starts.
You got to find your seat and all that.
So same mentality with stream swap.
Be early if you're going to do it.
I'm going to be actually on April 1st.
I'm going to be at my brother's wedding.
He doesn't know I have my funds already in my...
mobile, my mobile wallet, and I'm all ready to go.
Don't tell him, I got to go take a dump in the middle of his wedding to attend to some secret business.
Yeah, man, I really, sorry, I really am like constipated.
I got to be back in a little bit.
Like, I got to go to the bathroom.
And they're just like ever here buying some cult.
You get the, I think it's instantaneous, right?
You get cult, you would get cult right away, or do you have to wait until the stream's over.
I can't remember how they do that.
Yeah, so there's 52 hours where you could deposit and withdraw.
And then once that 52 hours is over, so on the third, there's going to be an hour where the stream actually occurs.
Once that hour is over, you could withdraw.
And then it just automatically migrates over on osmosis, right?
Like, it'll just be on the deck, like the liquidity pole.
Yeah, I mean, once it ends, we will, like, immediately go set up that LP.
And then I'm going to go test our like SkipGo integration, make sure that's all set up on the front end.
Otherwise, minting's ready to go.
And we've said the seventh, but like if all the testing goes well, it's possible we even open up minting before then.
So anyone out there, if you haven't used it, I think it's just IBC.fun, fun.
USC one, like recently, from Ethereum over to Osmosis, or over to Noble, it was, you know, Ethereum takes a bit, but whatever it was, 10 minutes or something.
It was, I think I actually arbitraged it and actually made some money, like not much, but the fees were just ridiculous.
Like, even if you didn't, it's like two cents to go from Ethereum over to Cosmos.
I was like, this is amazing.
So, yeah, they're doing good things.
And I think I've always been bullish on the skip team.
So if anyone's going to essentially add utility and make Adam real relevant or more relevant, I should say, within crypto, it's going to be them.
It's all it's them or no one, in my opinion.
I am very, I have a lot of hopium for the skip team to add value to Adam.
And I'm not like some crazy Adam maxi, but I do, I'm on an idiot, a good, healthy Adam price.
And, you know, everyone talking about it's just going to be good for business all the way around throughout all of Cosmos.
It doesn't matter what chain it is.
yeah I'm bullish on them I've always been bullish on them I've had nothing but respect since I've met them guys like I missed five years ago now four or five years ago they're very good team I just wish it was earlier they took over but it is what it is I'm nothing but bullish on them so hopefully Eureka sets the tone and we get it going
yeah couldn't agree more like that's that's like such a huge advancement like they're saying within
90 days they're having the bridge open to ethereum like that's huge yeah man it's uh it's it's good
because like i was saying earlier
that people, I just know people to like collecting NFTs.
They don't really care where it's at, but they do in a sense where, say they're on Ethereum and something like launches on near protocol or some other chain and they've never done anything.
They don't want to sit here and.
download a freaking new wallet and then figure out a way to get like funds over there they just
want to click a button so teams that are kind of doing that and making it real simple and just
intuitive and not overly complicated you're just going to build success for the for the industry as a
I know it's still not there yet in general in this space as a whole, but it's a million times better than what used to be.
And really, if no one's used IBC.fond, just like use it once. It's just amazing how fast and smooth it is and just good and...
You know, Squid 2, Squid Router, that's Axler team.
Build good protocol to go from one place to the other, which is real smooth.
And then obviously, Osmosis has it all baked into the protocol where you just, you know, it feels like a centralized exchange.
You just click deposit, boom, there's your assets, withdrawal.
It has that real centralized exchange feel.
Just people keep doing stuff like that.
It's a lot easier to onboard.
And then being like an NFT community, because I do think
NFT and music and gaming and all that's going to be the easiest and best way
to just onboard, you know, a shitload of people and,
That's, you know, if you have the tools to do it and people don't have to sit here and like figure out seed phrases and all this other crap that's not fun, then you'll be able to just get them in the game.
So people just got to keep working on that.
And then you guys are going to be positioned well to just be able to kind of go to and from and collaborate with different projects and stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah. I think it's super exciting and even seeing the ux that osmosis has put together for bridging in Bitcoin, right? Because people are going to need Bitcoin to do all sorts of things around the cosmos now, like to see how smooth they've gotten that and polished.
It couldn't be more bullish.
As long as people can realize that there are so many people out there, like their end goal is I just want to stack more sats.
Like, yeah, I like these other things.
this is my savings account and I want to just stack more SAT.
So like if protocols can know that and just say, okay, we're going to give the people what they want.
We're not going to force them to do these other things, you know, even if it, in theory,
doesn't necessarily benefit us in the short term, it's going to benefit us in the long term.
And they really focus on that.
literally any good protocol will be successful.
Because I know there's a majority of people in crypto,
whether they want to or not,
if you can build tooling to just,
my goal is to stack sats or stack stable coins or whatever it is
and give it to the people.
you'll be successful for sure.
You don't want to fight gravity,
like anything else at times is going to fight gravity.
having uh you know bitcoin and like being able to get out sats as as uh you know part of our protocol
is great like that's the like bitcoin really uh is like the purest part of crypto right no vcs actually
decentralized like all the things that that a lot of us came to crypto for
is there right we could have gone with us dc no no shade to circle but like bitcoin is just such a
such a more clear fit for a true uh crypto o g kind of collection oh yeah man like i tell you recently
it's a little bit not off topic but it's on topic is jemini they offered a credit card you
know just a regular master card that i use anywhere and they give two percent on
just like regular shopping, 3% on food and restaurants, and then 4% on charging an EV or
filling up your gas tank. And I use it for all the time now. And you can select what
crypto reward you want for your kickback. And I just do sats. And then I just like just use my
card normally and I'm just earning Bitcoin. It's kind of cool. It's like just like random little
stupid simple shit like that is just.
what people want, you know?
And like I went out of my way.
I was like, oh, that's actually,
because usually I get, you know,
I get so many credit cards in the mail
I'm like, yeah, this is stupid.
And then I randomly got this offer and I'm like,
yeah, like, I'm signing off for that.
Like, let's, and then now it's like my main go-to card.
And that's just like pure example if you build stuff like that, people are going to do it.
And I think a lot of people, I know I do, I just look at Bitcoin as something that I don't want to sell and I just want to hold on to it for a long time.
you know, goes to where I can go in 10 years from now or so. And it's like, oh, yeah,
all this time that I've been just stacking it really added up. And to your point, it's like,
not as, not as much of an upside stack and just stable coins. So if you, you know, if you stack
sats, it's like, oh, man, like this used to, you know, like people, I think a lot of
times people think they're still late. They're like, oh, it's 88,000. I'm late. I can't buy this.
And they never do. They're like scared to, but,
I still think it's very undervalued of what it can do and eat up.
And there's, you know, the problem with money right now in general is just there's so much inflation throughout the world.
So someone, people just want stuff that they can collect that doesn't sit there and get blasted by inflation.
Bitcoin's kind of one of those.
You're seeing governments do it.
Everyone is on board now.
So it's like I still feel like it's got so much upside that I'm not even technically
But I don't want this to turn into just like a Bitcoin showing because I think most
people kind of get the premise of it.
But like for you guys, if everything goes successful and all that, are you guys going
to be showing your faces anywhere?
Like there's NFT, NYC coming up, I think in June.
Cosmoverse in October and then there's all these other events.
So are you guys going to be doing anything?
It was cool seeing Zerk in Dubai.
So, yeah, I'm down to, you know, people.
Like, I think my favorite conference, one of my favorite conferences to go to is just
Because it's crypto related, but it's not like shilly and, oh, you know, this protocol's
It's just more good vibes.
So it'd be cool if you guys go.
Yeah, I really want to, once I heard that Croatia was on the menu, that's sick.
I've been to Cosmoverse a few times.
It's always good vibes, good people.
NFT Nashville we have out here and that's smaller, but again, it's like a little bit smaller and you kind of meet everyone there and that's also cool.
Yeah, I got to go. I was supposed to go last year. I think I got like kind of sick right before. So I didn't I didn't make the drive down because it's not too far from where I live at. So I was going to take the nice little road trip down. And usually it's in the fall, isn't it? Wasn't that last fall? Yeah, like November, October or something like that.
Yeah, so maybe I did it up this year.
I know Joe and Tank and a couple other people seem like they go every year.
So it would be nice to see.
It's so fun, always seeing people in real life.
Like, I was at Cosmoverse, and I didn't have anything where you could kind of identify me.
I mean, a lot of people, unless they've met me before in person, they really don't know what I look like.
And I was at Cosmoverse at dinner.
And someone was like, are you Cosmoverse?
Yeah, and they just started laughing. I was like, what, my voice? They're like, yeah. And it's always nice being faces behind the profile pictures. You know, it's like, oh, yeah, these people are real people. So it's always a good time.
That's cool. Well, yeah, if you make it out, you know, I'm local out here. So I'll be there for sure in Nashville. So.
Nice. Yeah, you'll catch me out here.
Hell yeah, man. I'm a fan of that area. I was actually even thinking if we, my wife and I were to move somewhere, it would probably be in that area. If we didn't move from where we're at now. So I do like it. I do like it down there.
Decent weather. There's no personal income tax at the state level, which is a good thing. And it seems more up and coming when it comes to different things. I like that area.
Crypto you coming out to Croatia in when is it November come on let's go I would love to
Yeah, I'm gonna I'll hit the local spots first then I'll I'll make the abroad trips just got to check my passport
But I'm down yeah, dude I was I was I was checking out some pictures the other day. I was like oh, this is beautiful
I was like I got to go it's such oh it looks real nice
Oh, one thing I want to mention too,
about the collection is we have our cult collective.
So we've partnered with a lot of collections
and set aside 10% of our cult to airdrop to those kind of collection partners.
And we have a form for you to,
or a way for you to submit your wallet within Discord.
The deadline ends tomorrow.
So if you're ready to get that air drop,
make sure you submit that wallet before it ends tomorrow to participate
and get a little extra cult.
And we'll have our cult claim page on our website so that when the mint day happens, you'll be able to submit your wallet to claim your cult and participate in the minting party.
I'm about to mint these random OKDs.
Right now. I like, I just like any collection anymore. I'm just like, I'm minting. I just like minting NFTs anymore.
Like a fun experience. Like a raffle ticket. It's like, did I get something cool? And then it's cool whenever you mince an NFT and you have kind of similar traits of your other favorite NFTs. It's always a good time.
Yeah, so long as your internet connection is great and it's not boughted.
Yeah, right? That's the worst. Or if your wallet kind of goes idle and then it shuts off and you didn't realize you got to put your password back in and then you missed them. That's happened to me before a couple times. I'm like, fuck.
You have one device on Wi-Fi, one on cellular and just you're hitting refresh constantly.
Yeah, that's the most annoying thing ever. You're like, damn it.
Yep. I want to be respectful with your time. I mean, we're kind of at the top of the hour.
So, I mean, if you had any other closing thoughts or wanted to mention anything that we haven't talked about or whatever,
let me check the comments, make sure there isn't anything that I forgot to ask.
If someone asked, and we are, in theory, we were doing a giveaway.
Yes. Yes. So if you want to pick a winner, we're going to be giving away 10.
10 Adam, go ahead and pick the winner-hoss and just let them know to DM us, and we'll get them that 10 Adam sent.
Or we could do a couple maybe, right?
What's the thoughts there?
Just do like two winners of five, maybe?
Yeah, I like when more people win.
So let's do this for a pulse check.
Let's do, I'm going to write a random number down.
Just to make sure everyone's listening.
So give you time to do this.
I'm going to write a number down right now.
And it's going to be from 1 to 50.
And I just wrote it down on a piece of paper right now.
So anyone that guesses it, the first one that guesses it, you get one guess only.
Don't do more than one guess.
Or I'm going to be mad at you.
But put the numbers from 1 to 50.
The closest that gets it will win.
So if you get it, you win, obviously, and then the next closest, we'll get it.
So this is kind of to make sure you're alive on the other end of this voice recording.
And then we'll check, and I'll give it a couple of minutes.
So go ahead and put in the comments now.
The closest number or the number that gets it, 1 to 50, anything in there.
I see one that's extremely close.
So that's a little bit of a hint.
So we got the two people already.
Let me look through real quick.
Because one person definitely put the right number in.
They did this 39 seconds ago.
Let's see if anyone else did the same number.
And then we had two people put 28.
So let's do who did it first.
So what we'll do is we'll do three winners to make it cool.
So telepathic quala, you get five Adam, Johnny 2.5, and then...
it was what was the other one tagu
hell yeah so those are the three winners so congrats
thank you for everyone that participated
it's awesome to see that people have a pulse
and they were actually putting the numbers in right away
so that that means the communities were locked in
they didn't like fall asleep from my boring talking
like they're they're locked in man
that makes me even more bullish on the community
in the collection to be honest with you like let's fucking go
And then I'm going to try to remember.
I'm going to set a reminder for actually the day before.
Like, hey, tomorrow is stream swap.
And then I'm going to put it up on my computer on my wallet and just like wake up and get it go.
Because I forget, I forget everything unless I like write shit down on my calendar.
Yeah, and if you're good with UTC, I'm pretty positive at 1700 UTC, so be there.
I'm going to keep lurking on the Discord and the Twitter, because I'm sure you guys will have follow-up announcements.
And by the way, that pin tweet, that graphics pretty dope.
You got all the cool-ass little NFTs from all the different collections around the table.
That's actually pretty badass, actually.
Yeah, that's our collective.
Our hardcore collection of, our collective of collections that we really love and appreciate
and are happy to be able to give some cult to them and have them a part of the airdrop,
These one-on-ones are sick, by the way.
I'm looking right now, it's pretty good eye candy.
Robos is a guy, I'm assuming that's a boxer dog.
Yeah, I used to have a boxer back in the day.
Aaron's is pretty sick, too.
I don't know who the other ones are, but they're all fire.
Yeah, we got Johnny in there, Aaron, Robo.
Yeah, but we even got one for Sunny that will reveal here pretty soon.
Yeah, he might have to earn his, his, uh,
his pirate hat through upgrades.
And then we're going to be showcasing a lot of our upgrades tomorrow with a little fun animated video.
And yeah, man, we're excited to have everyone.
sharing this experience together and hopefully you can convert your USD to Cole and then when you
sell your NFT you got Bitcoin in your wallet. Yeah, that's pretty sick. See, I won't get any
Bitcoin in my wallet because I have like an emotional attachment to all my NFTs. I just don't sell
NFTs. But my new strategy should be.
like this is common sense strategy
if you are going to collect
and kind of want to pay for your habit
is to get more than a couple
and then sell a few after the floor price goes up
and then you're kind of like
even Stephen and then you get to just vibe with your NFT forever and you won't feel as bad that
you spent whatever you spent on it. That's kind of what I should do, right? That's kind of,
it should be my logic, but at the time I still don't do it because I'm like, oh, these are cool.
I have six of them and then I don't sell any.
Maybe you can upgrade one, put it on the marketplace, allow someone to take your baby and upgrade
them even further. Yeah, that's probably the move. I like that.
but yeah man it's been it's been chill let's do another one on i'm sure you're gonna have a mint party one
so i'm down the host and vibe out and chill out and get after it and yeah yeah dude it's always been
Awesome guys. Thanks for having us on, Haas. It was really great chatting with you and anyone who's not already in the Discord, come over and hang out with us.
Yeah, definitely. I'm over there now too, and that's not why you should join, but it's really cool how it's all set up. It's very organized and very gamification and all that.
So I'm definitely, I'm definitely vibing. I've got to figure out all the mechanisms, but that's why I'll be in there. I'll just ask questions and annoy people with all the questions, but it's all good.
All right, all right, everyone.
Have a good rest of your day, evening night,
wherever you're located at.