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Rewarding Creators on NEAR
Recorded: June 4, 2025 Duration: 1:31:01Space Recording
Short Summary
The Near ecosystem is buzzing with activity as the Focus the Firehose Content Hackathon prepares to launch next week, offering substantial rewards for quality content creation. With new partnerships and a dual leaderboard system for the Rhea campaign, the community is poised for growth and innovation, reflecting a strategic shift towards rewarding meaningful engagement.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What is up? What is up? What is up, everybody?
I don't know about y'all, but it's been another buggy-ass day on the old Twitter app for me.
So we'll see how this goes.
this goes. Hopefully, uh, hopefully you don't rub. But, uh, yeah, Marcus, after you got off
Hopefully it don't rub.
last time, X, X decided to, uh, be all fucky. So, uh, it was a, it was a sad end to a great space,
but we, we got a lot in, got a lot of good outfit in. Yeah. Hopefully, uh, it runs smooth this time.
Yeah, hopefully it runs smooth this time.
We'll see. We'll see.
I don't have high hopes ever.
But I am currently watching my alma mater in the Division III NCAA Baseball National Championship game.
So got that up on the monitor here.
We're absolutely eating.
Won 18-2 yesterday. game so got that up on the monitor here we're absolutely eating 118 to 2 yesterday so uh looks
like my boys are bringing home another natty so that's what i was watching for the first uh
first few minutes here with some uh some lincoln park playing in the background but uh
how about you man what you uh what you up to marcus so? You hit the gym this morning? Every morning? Yep.
You hit the gym this morning, man.
Fucking busy day, man.
Busy, busy day.
All day, back-to-back calls.
Setting some stuff up.
You know, just cooking, man, all day.
Hell yeah, man.
That's how it would be.
That's how it would be in this space.
Just calls and docs and content and more calls and then more docs and then more content.
100%.
100%.
All right, everybody, blast the spaces out.
Let's get some people on here and then we'll get started.
I got some crazy cool stuff for today's spaces.
Got some crazy cool stuff for today's spaces.
Oh yeah, I'm gonna...
In the meantime, I'm gonna set up my mic, because I'm on my phone right now, so give me like a minute real quick.
Hell yeah, man, do your thing. I can yap about nothing for a minute. That's no problem for me.
me at all I know we got a bunch of stuff cooking up so I know there's gonna be
At all.
we'll just go through like little little things right now that we can touch
bigger on later but the black dragon prediction market has some more some
more stuff coming up you know they've got the predict the price and near thing
up right now so if you want to take part in that, go right ahead. We've got the French Open quarterfinals are all wrapping up.
So once we get it down to four later today, we're going to get the French Open up there.
So you'll be able to predict who's going to win the men's and women's French Open.
That's tennis.
Not sure how many people are going to vibe with that either.
But I'm a big tennis guy.
So I wanted it up there. so we're getting it up there.
The NBA Finals will probably be up there too at some point, and we'll probably get that running during the content hackathon.
So a bunch of stuff all coming together there.
I'm going to dive into more of all that later.
But I'm going to take a second to send this out to some more people as well.
Like I said, I think Twitter might just be fucked today.
Yo, can you hear me all right?
Yeah, I can hear you, man. You sound good.
All right, cool.
Yeah, dude, it's been...
Dude, ever since that Saturday last week that it went down completely,
it's just been weird, man.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
It's definitely, it ain't a vibe.
But we got some more people coming up that always help when we get some more speakers up here and everything.
So maybe I can get a near week to hop up, shitsuit the hop up. There we go. You know, whatever it takes.
I ain't giving up.
No, we got Jay up in here too.
Yeah, there we go.
I can't even.
It's starting to pick up. We're starting to get people in here. So yeah,
man, just feel free to kick off whenever we can get into, like,
I don't know if you have an agenda you want to go through, but I'm down to go however you want to go.
You take the reins for a minute or two here.
I'm going to do some work on the back end, getting people up here, getting people in.
So take your little stand for a minute.
Cool, man.
All right.
So for, I mean, I know a lot of the people in here,
for those who don't know, so Marcus, I've been in Gripa for six years. I worked with
Nier Foundation for three of those years. And now I'm working still with Nier Protocol. So
it's four years, over four years with Nier. I work with over 500 founders and I just do a bunch
of really cool stuff in the Nier ecosystem. I like to, you know, provide value.
So that's what this space is going to be about.
I want to make sure that, you know, any questions are answered of any, you know, around anything we talk about.
If you see anything that you want to learn more about in the near ecosystem, just feel free to ask.
But yeah, Mons, I don't know if you wanted to specifically focus on kaido and ria
uh specifically like following from last week's call or if you wanted to yeah however you want
to do it honestly man i made that the title of space just to get some people in here so i thought
that would be the best way yeah so we can talk about whatever but i think i'm gonna leave i'm
gonna leave that up there or we can we can switch around too, but that's kind of what I was thinking with that.
I've got some, so here's just like the things I want to talk about today.
I don't know how much time you have, so like whatever you want, but I want to talk the Firehose content hackathon, so we'll talk that.
I'll run over like all the near news and shit whenever at the end of the space, probably.
Like, just the Kaido campaign again.
And if we got any more information from Rhea on, like, how that's all going to work.
And then just the, you know, like, near intense.
Any near intense updates and stuff like that.
We'll get groovy up here, too, asking questions on all that stuff.
But I think we can start wherever you want
on any of that stuff.
Cool, man.
Yeah, get into the hackathon a bit,
and then we can go into Rhea
because, yeah, there is new information
that I could surface to kind of let everybody know.
You know, just more information,
like they just announced the BTA agent on Twitter and then or integration on Twitter.
And then they also just also launched a Bitcoin margin trading.
So there are definitely new things and also have more information on that validator question you had last time.
So, yeah, like jump into the hackathon while we kind of get things started and then we can get into Kaido.
Hell yeah, man. Sounds good to me.
So, as far for anyone that doesn't know,
the Focus the Firehose Content Hackathon is the latest initiative coming from Nier
to kind of get the community juiced up, get the community going,
get a bunch of content out there.
So, going to have two different verticals of content out there. So going to have two different verticals
of content. Each one is going to have their own prize pool. So more to come on the prize pools
there, but some pretty decent prizes going to be given out for some of this content. So we're
going to have, again, two different verticals. One of them is going to focus on near intense and near intense projects.
So get familiar with KyberSwap, Infinix, and just near intense in general, get familiar with the
tech, play around with it, use it. And yeah, you're going to want to be able to make some
content about those things, about those projects.
Type of content we're looking for is going to be mostly educational.
So get us educational videos on how to use it, how to onboard people, things like that.
But there'll be very specific bounties listed for each project and what each project is looking for, the type of content they want to see.
So best chance of winning would be to just read and follow instructions.
So nothing too crazy there.
I had a few people look at it already that are on this call.
I think they could say it's pretty intuitive of what the projects are looking for and everything.
So yeah, just make sure you're looking at all the info there.
And then as far as community projects,
that's what the second vertical of content
we're gonna be looking for is.
And that's gonna cover, I mean,
we're gonna link it to a near catalog page
that is dedicated to the hackathon.
So you'll be able to go to that page and it'll
have a pretty big list of all the projects that you can make content on. And then we also have
some bounties from specific projects, one of which is on the stage right now, Shih Tzu. So we've got
a content bounty from Shih Tzu. We've got a content bounty from CrossPost. We've got one from Slime for all the stuff he's building with Intere and Beaterbot. And we've got a few more. And then
we're probably going to throw in some bounties for Meteor, Ref, and, or not Ref, oh my god,
what a throwback, Rhea, and Hot. So we're just, and those are probably going to come from near just like the
type of content that they would like to see made about those projects or uh yeah we'll see we're
still uh still working on those but yeah that's uh that's the content hackathon alpha if there's
any projects i didn't say or anything super cool being built by the community that you think should be included, let me know. And I will try my best to get that included in the next week. So this hackathon is
going to be launching next week. So next week, Wednesday, seven days from now. So get ready.
Should be a good time. I'm excited to see what everyone cooks up and especially
excited to see if we get any participation from outside the ecosystem.
And some other creators getting involved and seeing what they create and come up with.
And hopefully we got some cool stuff.
Cool, cool, man.
Yeah, looking forward to that.
Definitely need a lot more creative content in and around the near
ecosystem and you know kind of working towards that goal um it's awesome to see everything i
should have said as well that this uh we're going to be focusing on short form video content here
so we really want people making uh making some cool stuff we're not just looking for for threads
or tweets or or memes i mean feel free to include them you know but not just looking for threads or tweets or memes. I mean, feel free
to include them, you know, but we're looking for some real creative, fun, engaging, interesting
content that's going to get people excited to use these products and projects, you know,
built by the community and really showcase the tech and the power of Nier and Nier Intense
specifically. So yeah, get ready to make some videos. really uh really showcase the the tech and the power of near and near intense specifically so
yeah get ready to make some videos hell yeah and i hear there's like some like you know in the
shadows group that's like you know scouting people that are making crazy cool content around the near
ecosystem and you know they kind of just uh networking and filling them in how to use cool tools and what
to do so yeah like these guys are looking out for you so if you're if you're out there creating
content you might get a DM look look out for it man I want I want in on that group you're already
in there man all right so, yeah, super exciting stuff.
And there's definitely really, I guess you could say cool incentives, right? Like, you know,
you can be part of a network of other serious like-minded people. Uh, and then there's a lot
of bounties there's, there's cool, like there's rewards. Um, and you're just contributing to like,
just a really cool movement. So super excited about about that and there's a lot of other really cool stuff too there's the
the kaido and rhea campaign um and you know there could potentially be some other really
cool stuff in the pipeline as well that i might drop on on the call we'll see how it goes oh yeah man hell yeah well i don't know if you disconnected there or if uh or if that was just
the end of what you had to say but uh that was the it was the end of what i had to say but i can
get right into it um following up if you if you want to go into ria uh and then we can yeah yeah
so let's go into the ria stuff um i don't know where you wanted to
start but that the question i had last week was about the validator but start start wherever you
want man yeah i was gonna say the validator thing so from last week um currently um no uh there is
no rewards for staking with the validator but it is something they are they are integrating so
like just stake leave it if you have it already there
and you're going to start accruing rewards uh so another couple of new things like this team
just does not stop shipping so last week it was the validator um that they announced on meteor
which again you know that they did they did let me know there will be uh rewards integrated into
that um action and then there is going to the BTC margin trading launched. So that just went
live. And obviously, you know, you kind of farm by doing that as well. And then the AI agent,
the BTA integration just went live. So really cool stuff. For those of you that haven't yet,
I definitely highly recommend you check out the Bitae agent stuff. It's really cool.
You literally can just type actions that you want to perform into Rhea, and it performs those
actions. Super cool. It's the first AI powered by a DEX, according to the founder of Bitae so that's that's some pretty cool stuff
I don't know a hundred percent again it's something I get clarification from on the team
I don't know if like there's any points or farming involving actually using uh the agent
but obviously the actions that you perform from using the agent, you know, does, does accrue points like,
you know, your farming yield or your swapping or whatever that is. So really, really, really cool
stuff. Um, with a loaded pipeline to come still over the next several weeks, uh, they're doing
regional targeting and regional campaigns. Um, yeah, a bunch of really cool stuff. And for those
that weren't on the last call or didn't see it, you it, there's up to $150,000 up for rewards, up for grabs and rewards
by tweeting about Nir and Rhea.
Quality content, educational, how to onboard to Nir.
Just like that, Marcus Ruggs.
No, it's going to be that kind of space today.
We'll get him back up here.
I have some questions about the 150K for Rio and the Kaido campaign.
They keep saying that there's this dual leaderboard and everything like that.
So does that just mean you're earning Kaido yaps and you're, you know, qualifying for this other campaign?
And then just like, how do we,
is there any way to track how we're doing on this RIA campaign?
Or are we just, you know, tweeting out here in the dark
as we kind of hope that we're accumulating
whatever in the background.
I don't know.
I don't know if Shih Tzu or anyone else has any idea on any of those things.
Hey, can you hear me?
Yeah, you're back.
All right.
Did I cut out or something?
Yeah, it just like dipped from speaker.
So you cut off at like the $150K part.
And I was just saying I had a,
you know, like a few questions about the, about the whole campaign as well. I don't know if you heard what I said or not, but no, the 150k part was pretty much the end. You know, there's 150k
up for grabs. The only thing I said after that was that the content that's being looked for is,
you know, educational content, user onboarding, user journey focused, how to use Rhea,
you know, what they're building on near, how to get involved, how to come RIA, you know, what they're building on Nier, how to get involved, how to
come into the Nier ecosystem, et cetera, et cetera. So. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And then I was just asking,
like, they keep saying that there's the dual leaderboard, right? So that's just like,
you're earning Kaido yaps and then you're also like, have the potential to get part of this
150K, right? Like that's what that means. Yeah, exactly. So we're looking at obviously who's, you know, topping the charts, getting the yaps, et cetera.
But then we're also working with another Twitter analytics agency to analyze the tweets themselves.
So sure, like, I don't know, just arbitrary number.
Let's just say it's the top 100 or top 150 people that you get, you know, we're looking at for yaps.
the top 100 or top 150 people that you get, you know, we're looking at for yaps, but then we can
go to this other agency and say, okay, look out of like these, you know, top, whatever people who
are the ones that actually, you know, put out quality content and didn't just LARP their way
up to the top. Right. And so, you know, we're going to kind of assess that's why it's like up
to 150 K because at the end of the day, like we're, we're looking for quality over quantity.
People are going to tweet about it anyway, because there's 150 K up for awards, to 150k because at the end of the day like we're we're looking for quality over quantity um people
are going to tweet about it anyway because there's 150k up for awards but you know if there's like
30 people that genuinely tweeted about uh ria and near like does it make sense to distribute
150 000 between 30 people i mean maybe it's up to theIA team, but it's going to be a considerable amount either way.
Like regardless, even if it's all 150, like a thousand each, like that's pretty crazy.
Right.
So either way, like 30 people, I'm in, you know?
Yeah.
So like we want to, the RIA team, like, it's like looking to reward, like the people that
deserve it.
Right.
And these are the people that are going to stick around.
These are the people that are going to, around these are the people that are going to you know be real advocates for the platform so they'd rather reward quality
handsomely over quantity a little bit so that's kind of how they're looking to play the game
um which i think makes a lot of sense so you know quality content really like go into the platform
like you know take 10 minutes just to breeze through the platform see what it's about see what's like what the features are and then just you know go create a thread or a post or a
video about it and you know just quality over quantity right oh yeah man that's uh that's
exactly what the content hackathon is going to be about same exact thing looking for the same kind
of content same quality content and uh the same same idea you know we're gonna be rewarding rewarding the people that do make
good content doesn't matter if you you put out something shitty and it gets a thousand
botted likes i don't care it ain't you know we don't we're not we're not looking at uh
necessarily how much engagement it got but but how good this content is.
And if we can repurpose it and the near page can use it and they can put it out themselves and all that stuff.
So, yeah, just be mindful of the content that you do make and you are submitting.
And I just think the potential for it to be used by other people as well.
Yeah, man.
But yeah, a lot of exciting things happening, man.
So yeah, just watch this space, I guess.
100%, man.
And there was some other RIA Alpha today, too.
They announced a little tokenomics update, I guess would be the best way to describe it.
Or just some more information on that front, a little alpha.
They did say that Ref and Burrow will convert to Rhea.
Exactly, yeah, which is really important.
That's a good one to make sure that's, you know, we're making sure that's communicated widely and supporting the team there because, you know, obviously people have to understand how the process is going to work.
So the team's being very transparent about the tokenomics, how they're distributing tokenomics in line with like rewards and, you know, team distribution, all of that.
And then also being clear and, you know, very hands-on with the community on like the ref and borough merge process.
So, you know, my question is, you know, I think right now there's a is decoupled.
The people yapping about Nier, I'm seeing a lot of new people into the ecosystem.
But I wonder if they can actually stay on Nier once these, you know, rewards are used up.
How do you know, Marcus, like, you know, you guys are selecting quality yappers, but are we going to sustain them once this is all over?
Is there any way to assess or ensure that the people that have been here for a while have proven their loyalty?
How can we ensure they prioritize when it comes to the reward system?
Yeah, so again, it's really about the quality.
Like it's, you know, the people that have been around, they're, you know, more than likely going to be putting out quality content because they understand the near ecosystem.
And effectively, this is kind of what our strategy is to reward those people, you know, to really identify the people that are ingrained into the
near ecosystem. Like these are the people that are going to be putting out the quality content,
right? These are the people that are going to say, Hey, here's how to use near intense.
Here's how to come in. Like, here's what I've been doing. Here's how I personally use this.
Here's my favorite feature of Rhea, because these people are here day in and day out as compared to like some, you know, big KOL that
literally just saw the, you know, the YAPS campaign and just put out a thread about what
they saw on Twitter. So this is kind of our way of not bypassing, maybe circumventing the generic
YAPS algorithm, which is very complex. But to your point it you know it there's no way to
really tell how how how do we know these are real ogs or people that are actually passionate about
the near ecosystem so then well i can tell you marcus yeah i can tell you right now so we have
the shit star system which has been active in the shit to ecosystem for over a year so any of those
speakers have a shit to nfd they have shit starts, they have been
one way or another been promoting the year for a long time, even before all these incentives went
up. So that's one suggestion. You know, the other one is, are you aware of CrossPost, Marcus? You
know, the app created by Elliot? Yeah, yeah. So CrossPost is in the cross-airs of NF in terms of how we can, or not
we, I'm not part of NF, but how it can be leveraged. So this is something that's being
more and more tapped in and dog-feeding the ecosystem to the teams and to NF is kind of
what I'm trying to do. Is it too late to insist that all these yappers use cross posts to promote,
you know, whatever content we're asking for?
I know it'll take a couple more steps and he's trouble with shooting it daily.
And it might add some friction initially,
but shouldn't we be pushing or weighing heavily when people use cross posts to
promote and yap about near?
Has that been discussed at all?
I mean, so you're bringing up really good points so the ria and near yaps campaign is a is a campaign that is
run around a token that is launching a tge on near if we want to if we want to get people to do near related specific stuff, like just near focused or near ecosystem focused, that is like an initiative that ultimately would have to fall in line, you know, with, with NF, which is something I am working to see if we can do with them.
But that's something that would, that would like then kind of instruct people to use things like CrossPost and other ecosystem projects.
But that is a good suggestion.
I mean, I'm happy to kind of surface it in the docs.
We have general docs that we're surfacing with the community to literally just let them know, hey, this is what to yap about.
This is what's going on.
This is what's going on.
This is like the ideal flow.
This is like the ideal flow.
Just again, because we want the community to be the ones at the end of the day, like the real people that come in, whether they've been here forever or whether they are new to the ecosystem.
If they actually take the time to come in, learn how to do stuff, ingrain into the ecosystem, they will see these resources and know exactly what to tweet about.
So these are the people that are going to be rewarded at the end of the day, right?
So keep your eye out around the Near Kaido Yap group on Twitter
and other relevant channels in the ecosystem,
and you'll be rewarded greatly.
Okay.
Didn't know if we should. Any other questions there?
If not, we can just, whatever, move on.
What else do you want to yap about, Marcus?
Oh, I mean, you know, anything, man.
I'm down to talk about anything at all.
I mean, there are a couple of other exciting things in the pipeline um you know
we're trying to really activate uh certain things but i don't know how detailed i can get without
getting yelled at so no i got you i got you yeah it'd be like that sometimes. You always got to walk the tightrope and then try and not get fucked on there.
We got Ryan back up here.
What's up, Ryan?
What's good, brother?
Yo, Marcus, I did want to ask, and I don't want to put you on the spot on this space, but whenever you talk about these things that are going to be happening and, you know, we are going to be rewarded, these are platitudes that we've kind of heard from others throughout the ecosystem for a long time without much like results like aside from the Kato yaps that is the only
thing that we kind of have gotten and then today we have the Ria meme season ending which without
getting into that effectiveness of the campaign itself it did hold a pretty strong floor for these projects, and we're already seeing a tremendous amount of
dumping. And I was just wondering if we could get some kind of clarity and reassurance that
like what these kind of initiatives are going to look like, and that ultimately these projects
that we've been putting our blood, sweat, and into for the last several years, selflessly and selfishly, but ultimately all in, that they're just not going to go
to zero while a bunch of people with insider ties are essentially going to dump on us.
As we're seeing as blockchain.
No, that's a really good question, actually.
So we want the entire near ecosystem to win.
So by bringing in projects that are really strong, generating revenue, already have millions of users to launch tokens on near that have a lot of buy-in already. So instead of launching on Solana, now with this Omnibridge technology, they can actually
launch on NIR while tapping into other ecosystems simultaneously via Omnibridge. So we're getting a
lot of interest from projects outside of the NIR ecosystem that already have users from Solana,
base, et cetera, that are now looking to launch tokens on near that have liquidity partners that have
partnerships with other entities that are going to support. So these are real winners. And by
having these tokens launch on near is going to just inherently just boost the rest of the ecosystem
up. So we're looking to take a strong approach here. I mean, this isn't me speaking for the
entire ecosystem. but this is
just my observations of of what we're seeing we are seeing really strong interest and i have other
projects like you know infinex and kyber swap um even nightly just integrated uh intense so these
are other big massive players in the space that are now going to be doing effectively nears marketing
uh you know infinex is number one on kaido leaderboards, which as much as we hate to see it, the reason
why Kaido is such a big thing is because, I'll give you an example, in Korea, there
is a body, a governing body that anybody that is either managing or running a centralized
exchange or is launching a token on a centralized exchange have to go through.
And Kaido is literally the determining factor here. Like, you know, many calls I've been on
founder with on founders in the last week, where they're trying to launch it on a Korean exchange
or launchpad. And because their mindshare on Kaido isn't high enough, they're not going to
launch them. So it's the game we have to play, unfortunately. And if we want NEAR to succeed, it's really, really cool to see these projects that actually have a lot of traction on base, interested in coming to NEAR and bringing their ecosystem into like bringing the value to NEAR, which is going to cause the other OG tokens on NEAR to win in value because now we have an economy, we have volume coming in, we have liquidity coming in. So that's just the observations and things that I'm seeing with how the moving arms, the people behind the scenes doing the work, getting new projects in, supporting, that's how they're kind of working.
So I hope that adds a little bit of color to how things are kind of playing out.
kind of playing out but yeah that's so like i mean for things like kaido right we i think kaido is
a couple different things and as far as a data tool to be able to analyze um activity engagement
i think that's awesome just you know total analytics but you look at like laudio, which had what at 1.70 plus percent mind share on Cato, which is a great
stat to post about a vanity stat. But what did the market cap tap out to like 11 million,
which is, I would say, incredibly underwhelming in that sense. And how are we going to assure
that these projects coming in from the outside
are going to have ties and connections to the community so that we do benefit off those
network effects versus what we've seen these outside communities come in, get the larger
support and pretty much extract what has been left with the community. And, you know, again, just a bunch of us kind of ended up
with depleted resources at best, whether that's tokens that we've been holding or just the
support and attention for those projects. But, you know, I'm curious, like, what that looks like
for them to create those ties. And, you know, as you said, for us all to be able to benefit from these larger players coming in.
Yeah, so a really good example of a really big player that's coming in.
So we have Intellex, which I may or may not drop some alpha, depending on how much time we have here.
But they're a massive player.
They generate millions of dollars.
They have users.
They have real company, big traction.
We're going to launch via Ape Terminal.
They were talking with Ape Chain,
but they were actually much more interested in, you know,
kind of working closer with the Nier team because of Nier's tech,
the alignment, its AI.
You know, it completely aligns with what Nier's because of Nier's tech, the alignment, its AI. It completely aligns with what
Nier's vision and goal is. And these guys are heavily, heavily motivated to plug into the Nier
ecosystem. And they're heavily motivated to tap their community and customers into the Nier
ecosystem and vice versa. This is just one example. Another example is RuneMine just launched RuneShot today.
They just, oh, sorry, they didn't launch RuneShot today. They announced the launch, which is
happening next week. But this is a really good example of a project from outside the ecosystem
that has a lot of traction. And they've come in and now they're interested. They're going to launch
a token on NIR very soon.
And we're going to run some, we're actually cooking something really exciting with them
to reward the community again.
And this is going to be rewarding people that have been in the NIR system for a while.
So this is kind of how we can best reward the people that have been here and stick around
while still capitalizing on the network effect of Kaido and the leader.
Nobody can argue that the people topping the Kaido charts have eyeballs, right?
So how can we tap into those guys while also really rewarding the real ones?
Well, let's go ahead and really deeply analyze the tweets that are being drafted and posted
and make sure it's relevant content,
make sure it's content that you have to be in near to know about. So this is kind of what we're
doing. But RuneMine, they're a really good example. There's more examples of people that
are coming in. And I think RuneMine are actually running a community type of campaign or putting
something together with Black Dragon. So that's a really good example of a large project from outside a NIR ecosystem that
normally or previously wouldn't have come in or had any interest in building in NIR.
But because of the, you know, what OmniBridge and these new technologies, you know, NIR
Intense, you know, the traction that Intense is getting with some of the biggest projects
in the space, it's just attracting incredibly big projects that we would not have talked to a year ago. So, you know, this is really,
really exciting. And I totally agree with you on the Kaido stuff, man. Like, I think it's BS,
if you want my honest opinion. Like, I think half of the people, I think like 90% of people in the top 100 are just LARPs. But unfortunately, Kaido drives
markets, dude. Literally, you won't get listed on an exchange unless you have certain mindshare
on Kaido. It's insane, some of the calls I've been on. And I don't agree with it at all, but
you have to play the game if you want to succeed. know, if you want to succeed. So that's just what, that's what we have to do is leverage Kaido.
I would rather leverage another tool, to be honest with you, but, you know, that's just
the way it is.
But yeah, hopefully that kind of answered or provided a little bit of insight and answered
your question.
But that's, yeah, that's just some observations and to the best of my knowledge, how I can
answer you.
I don't know if you dropped down or got booted,
but I wanted to add on to that too.
Not just that, but with the content hackathon as well,
like we could, Nier could have just been like,
you know, I want you to focus on RIA and Meteor Wallet
and the N Near Intense projects
and Infinex and KyberSwap and Kaido and whatever.
But they made a point to include all of the projects
that the community has been building over the last three years,
specifically Shih Tzu, Black Dragon, CrossPost, Beater,
all of these great projects and products that have been built over the time
and made a point to include those and provide bounties and rewards for content about those
projects. So I think they are doing anything and everything they can to support creators
and projects here at the same time.
Oh, no.
Are we rugging?
No, I'm still here.
Fuck, man.
That's all I had to say about that, though.
That sounded like some alpha to me, though.
So, I'm gonna get my ass to yapping.
Got Jared in here, too.
I don't know if you want to come up, Jared,
share us, uh, share with us all of your alpha you got today.
But, uh, I don't really have too much else I wanted to yap about.
I don't know, man. Speaking of, uh, like, damn, you know, you know, it's like one yap campaign is pretty crazy.
I mean, it's a pretty good yap campaign, right?
Yeah, you know, it would be better than one yap campaign, though, if there was a chain that did like two yap campaigns.
Two yap campaigns would be pretty sick. I could imagine two yap campaigns running simultaneously at the same time for one chain. That would be pretty sick. think that's like crazy or if you guys think that's fire if anybody's listening you know
what's better than two would be three should you give me you give me three dude i'll quit my job
job and i'll just yap
yeah well i mean you're gonna you're gonna love this buddy so there actually are two yikido campaigns running simultaneously right now um so there is
the ria campaign which we know about and then intellects just uh just started a campaign on
kaido as well and as they're building on near this this is the chain that you know we're gonna we're
gonna talk about with within the campaign so uh so intellects, um, they're going to be running a, it's a very short,
it's like a sprint campaign. So for the next three weeks, um, actually, I'm not sure. I don't
think so. Actually, I think it's going to be a bit longer. Uh, I think it might be a bit longer.
I don't have, I don't have the date guys. Don't quote me on this, but either way, super exciting
because intellects is a pretty big project. Um. You know, go follow them on Twitter.
If you, if you, I don't, Manza, I think you're the host
if you want to add their, pin their Twitter at the top.
But yeah, this is a no joke project.
They, you know, they have a platform.
They have big investors.
They're, you know, they're revenue generating.
They, they're AI platform.
I can give you the rundown and I'm happy to even share a brief for
the full Intellects and Kaido Yaps campaign, like what the ideal things that they're looking for
are in terms of talking points, how it ties into the near ecosystem, how it plugs in, etc., etc.
But TLDR in plain language, like Intellects, it's like a brain network for AI agents. It lets them
work together, even if they're built on different chains, but it just uses Nier as the home base,
effectively where all these agents can remember things, build reputations, and collaborate like
a team. So it's pretty cool. I mean, why should you really care? I mean, as we know, AI agents
are multiplying and popping up everywhere, but right now they're kind of trapped in silos. So Intellects is like kind of building a bridge between that. So think of it like turning a bunch. Can you can you hear me? All right. Or yeah. Sorry, I hit a button on my mic. It's like turning a bunch of smart robots into like a real team that can, that can talk and remember and just trust each other across chains.
And pretty much it can,
it can turn every AI interaction into real like trackable on-chain
transactions.
So pretty,
pretty cool effectively making near like a little invisible engine in the
backend behind a real time AI economy.
But happy to share a brief,
they are running a Kaido campaign, so get yapping.
You know, super, super interesting content.
And yeah, this is pretty cool.
Super excited.
Yeah, man.
I mean, like you said, one Kaido campaign suite,
two is even better.
The fact that we got Kaido and Rhea campaigns, we got this campaign.
We've got Infinix doing all their stuff too.
There's a lot going on.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So I don't want to leak the specific details yet.
There's going to be an announcement for the Intellects and near Kaido campaign. So I'll allude to that. Just keep your eyes out,
follow, uh, Intellects, follow, uh, near if you haven't already, you know, set your,
your notifications on, uh, there'll be an announcement with the, with the finer details
in terms of like amount and timeframe and stuff like that. But you know, when you said, uh,
earlier, dude, like, you know when you said uh earlier dude like you know
one one kaido campaign is crazy if there was two but if you sold me on three i'd quit my job
hell yeah man yeah you better start writing up your notice bro because we're doing another
we're doing another kaido campaign with uh with rune shot as well um this is this is why i got i
met i really messed up earlier uh rune
shot is the short one like we're gonna do a sprint type campaign so from like literally now
until um june 27th there's gonna be a really it's a quick campaign it's like 20k to like uh i again
all the specific details in terms of leaderboard and stuff, I'll defer to.
There's going to be announcements coming out.
It's a sprint campaign.
But yeah, 20k up for grabs.
So just tweet about RuneShot, RuneMine, Nier, what they're building on Nier.
And there's going to be a brief, etc. around that as well.
So yeah, super exciting stuff.
It's a lot of stuff happening.
Hell yeah, man. Fuck, fuck a job. I'm just going to go full, full-time yapper, full-time,
full-time, full-time airdrop firmer from, uh, from my content and then content hackathon guy,
you know, we got, we got all that going on. You could, you could definitely make a living off of
that. There's, that's not, that's not even an exaggeration that you can just be a
full-time content creator pretty soon. Hopefully. Yeah, it's getting crazy. Attention really is all
you need, man. It's a social capital is, is worth more than real capital at this point because
there's, you know, there's less humans in the world than there are dollars.
So like attention is a crazy, crazy currency.
If you know how to use it.
Absolutely.
Like the idea of having all these going at the same time too, that's a,
that's the move. Maximize the maximize the yappage, you know, the percentage, the yappage.
Yeah, well, this is a problem.
100%.
This is a problem.
And Jared, I know you're here.
This isn't a dig.
Like, you feel it too.
And the near-weat guys are here.
And Mr. Potato's here.
Like, there's always been a problem with, like, near lag too and the near wheat guys are here and mr potato's here like there's always been a problem with like near lagging behind the the competition like you know near something will
happen you know everybody will jump on it and then like at the very peak like near will jump on it
and then you know it just it's already over so while kaito's really hot we're acting very fast
so you know these projects coming into our pipeline that's all the interest right now they're
like the same conversations hey we talked to talked to this guy, this exchange, that exchange, like they want Kaido mindshare. So they all want to run Kaido campaigns, but it's expensive as hell to integrate with Kaido.
know, 20, 50, you know, whatever, like 70,000 to, to run a, a co campaign because then they
get the marketing and exposure from nearside, but then they also get to have exposure to
project to run on Kaido. So it works and we're capitalizing on something while it's still hot.
So yeah, a hundred percent. Like I think,%. I think kind of strike while the iron's hot.
Next month when there's another narrative, we'll be well positioned to kind of make sure
we continue keeping on the trends.
I see Mike crying over there.
I agree, man.
It's not ideal. I don't man it's it's not uh yeah it's it's not ideal um you know i i don't think
it's the best i think like i said earlier i don't know if you're on the call but i think literally
the 90 of the people on the top 100 yaps are larps they're you know it's it unfortunately
it's running the market right now it's like you got to play the game
yeah i didn't i don't know I didn't think the
near board the near board was that bad but uh I also was I haven't checked recently I don't really
pay too much uh too much attention to it but that's just that's just yeah the name of the game
dude if you've got if you've got a following and uh've got good engagement, you can get on any leaderboard you want, basically.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
It is what it is.
But there are teams that are building platforms that are going to be verifying actual actions.
Not what people say but what
people actually do like so it'll track uh quality much better but you know there's these things are
still a little bit into the future right so uh we'll just see how things turn out you know space
evolves really quickly yeah i kind of have an interesting note on this.
So I've been following up with a few other people who are aggressively commenting on pretty much every single Nier post out there.
And we reached out to a few with like a small tip in Nier, right?
To kind of get them more excited about things.
And it was surprising to see like almost all of them
didn't even have a Nier account,
or if they did, it wasn't funded.
So it just kind of goes to say that,
it proves Marcus's point, right?
Like these are just LARPers.
They don't have skin in the game,
which is a bit unfair for, for example,
the folks who are in the audience.
These, we might not be the most rabid folks on X,
but we've stuck through thick and thin with near.
So it is what it is.
Kaito is not perfect, but I think it's probably the most accurate tool out there. I thought you'd have something to say.
My bad.
I was also responding to some messages there.
But as far as the Intellects campaign campaign i pinned that tweet up there and they've
got a space coming up on thursday so i'd uh i'd definitely tune into that uh yeah definitely tune
into that space they'll probably refer to it as well um yeah they'll probably refer to it on that
spaces but um yeah we're just like gonna start, you know, I just want to kind of give people some exclusivity until, like, you know, Rhyme's point as well.
Like, you know, we want to reward the people that have been here and stuck around.
Like, look, there's, like, what, 10 people on this call?
Like, you guys are the real ones?
Like, you know about this early.
Like, we're literally going to go to Kaido and the other agency that's going to deeply analyze the tweets to make sure that we're rewarding, you know, the right people. We're going to say go from, you know, June 4th to the 27th. So
like it's, it's, it's going now. The only people that know about it are people that,
you know, are in the community. So definitely tune into that spaces, you know, because that'll
probably be again before the actual announcement. So the people that are there will get, you know, because that'll probably be again before the actual announcement. So the people that are there will get, you know, even more alpha.
But yeah, man, super exciting stuff.
I got a hop and I got another call coming up,
but I'm probably on for like another minute just in case, you know,
if you have any questions or anything.
No, man, I don't think so not nothing crazy if you checked out the uh like the meteor wallet
updates at all yeah their new website and all that stuff the updated uh updated roadmap
they dropped that uh they dropped that yesterday yeah exactly yeah so meteors they've been working
hard um on the back end i know there's's been bumps in the road with the wallet. It's been hit or miss a lot of times here or there.
But yeah, they've definitely been coming along over the past, I would say, couple of weeks they've been shipping hard.
they've been shipping hard um you know leading up obviously moonshot these guys have been putting in
a lot of work like it's you know it's it's a busy times um so they got a lot going on but definitely
check out what they've been doing like it's i i love i love it i love the new uh redesign and the
website yeah website looks clean wallet yeah exactly wallet has always looked clean and I mean it's always that's
that's my home I love that love that wallet uh Harvest Moon is sick love it for onboarding same
with Hot Wallet they're uh they're mining those things were great for uh great for onboarding
and we just got to get uh get the people using the using the rest in here and all the other
things being built and all the all the other apps and everything so he's got a that's the next step right exactly in terms of a meteor wall this
got the next things they got on the uh the roadmap here are launching the meteor defy mastercard
and uh cross-chain yield aggregation and a few other things, Harvest Moon and the mobile app.
So that's what they got coming up here on the roadmap.
So check that out for sure.
Appreciate you coming up here, as always, Marcus,
and for dropping all the alpha.
So we'll have to wait and see what else we get
in terms of these Kaido campaigns and other things.
And, yeah, excited to see what else we got in terms of these uh these kaido campaigns and and other things and uh yeah excited to see what else we got hell yeah so just a quick recap before i hop i mean we got
three kaido campaigns running with three different projects on the near ecosystem that all like tap
into three different verticals you know we got btc phi we got ai and then we got defy and then
we got a couple other exciting things coming up as well,
which I will probably share in the next one.
But for those of you that recently joined, just listen back,
because there's alpha here that you won't hear for probably another
at least few days.
So definitely the ones that were here early were rewarded.
But it's been real.
But it's been real.
Appreciate everybody in here.
And definitely hope we catch you on the next one.
And definitely hope we catch you on the next one.
Oh, yeah.
And then I guess that's when I'll drop the alpha.
That when the content hackathon drops, I'm going to go live for a 24-hour content-a-thon, dude.
I'm just going to start the space up.
I'm going to get, you know,'m gonna get you know we're gonna get a
bunch of different people in here we'll have a bunch of different guests
throughout the night well throughout the day I guess to throughout the day
throughout the night probably get a little weird definitely be some alpha
definitely say things I probably I'm not supposed to say yet but that's what
happens when you don't sleep and you go live for 24 hours straight.
But Content Hackathon drops Wednesday next week.
So one week from today.
And yeah, get hyped about that.
Get hyped about the Kaido campaigns.
And we don't got to end the space.
I mean, I'm chilling.
I started it early so I can go longer.
So just because Marcus is leaving doesn't mean the party's got to end.
So Shih Tzu, I don't know if there's anything you want to talk about.
Potato, Jay, Jared down there.
I don't know if you want to hop up.
X, Groovy.
And I don't care. We can talk about whatever.
Or we can have a space.
Potato, you been watching any of this French Open?
I've been mostly watching highlights so far.
I saw Alcaraz's game.
I'm mostly watching Alcaraz's games.
That's kind of been my thing for the French Open.
I mostly watch games which have Spanish players involved.
I mean, Nadal was a treat to watch, and so is Alcaraz.
Then for Wimbledon, it was more of a mix.
It was Nadal and Federer for a while,
and then Djokovic as well was really good.
But yeah, I mean mean I'll probably watch um
the semis properly like uh or try to like watch the whole game and the final of course like it
being a Sunday it's perfect um but yeah not not too much um I'm not like following but it's it's
it's nice to see like how some of the players are progressing.
I think Sinner is looking good as well, but yeah,
not following game to game.
Just like looking at results and stuff for the rest.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I was,
I was up early this morning watching just because i have
i have no life yeah it's messed up for you uh
it's not it's not too bad uh the mat the first match started at like
6 a.m here so that was fine i just watched that and no big deal but
yeah i mean center center's been just dominating and Alcaraz has been just dominating.
So, Sinner won.
Yeah, very likely we see the same final as the Rome Masters.
I think they're, like, on the opposite sides, right?
Yeah, I believe so.
Yeah, so they only meet in the final if they go
through yeah they should yeah so uh wait what is yeah are the four final semi-finalists in yet or
we miss no um zverev and djokovic play in a little bit
Zverev and Djokovic play in a little bit.
So that match is still coming up.
There's another prediction market that's on the near token price.
A bit controversial because I generally avoid getting into price discussion,
but it was based on popular
demand um that we created it's kind of like an options market as i've said before um could be
interesting again it's it's just a way to kind of get uh the prediction market a bit more exposure.
And then, yeah, we're going to get the, we're going to get the French open up on the prediction market too.
I think the near price thing is like fine,
but I was talking to some people yesterday too,
and they made a good point.
They're like, if I'm going to bet on the price of near, I'd probably just buy near or short near.
Why wouldn't I just buy near?
Yeah, it's not the most efficient way. So if you look at like from the risk reward depends like how skewed the market is.
But yeah, it's not the most efficient way to run like price predictions.
Ideally, you want options.
And I think the most popular platform for that is a derivative, which is a derivative platform.
So this is more of a popular demand request.
I want to find like more predictions that have something to do with Nier, but that at the same time, they do away with insider information.
So there was someone who kind of pitched the idea on like, which would be the next network
that would get integrated in your intents.
That's information that a few of us know.
So it wouldn't be really fair if we created that.
Like, I kind of knew that Polygon was going to drop.
So if that was like a prediction market, it wouldn't be fair on others.
So I'm trying to think of markets where no one has an edge.
The Yapper one was interesting.
You're probably going to do another round.
Pick another five people from the
top hundred five or six people and see like who comes on top and because kaito is kind of like
a black box um you don't really know who's going to come on top um and then with with this last
one it was kind of a last minute surprise because up until like three hours before uh we were gonna wrap it up marcus was still on top
um and then when i looked up again uh at the snapshot time we put it we put on the tweet like
it had flipped by very very small margin um so yeah i i kind of want to think and want to do more of these prediction markets,
but they have to be scenarios where there isn't an edge for anyone specifically.
Yeah, I think, uh, I think the Kaido-Yapp thing is, is a good idea though.
I don't think it was really like, uh, unless I missed something, i don't think it was really like uh unless i missed something i don't think
there was any you know like insider play there to get to get i mean even if there is right like it's
it's yeah um so for instance like if i was betting on slime like the only thing i can do is like
nudge slime to yap more um which is fair, right? Like we all want as an ecosystem for folks to yap more about Nier.
So in a way, it's a win-win because, hey, like you've put a bet on someone
who's like about to come on top.
Maybe if you nudge them, they yap a bit more.
Maybe if you nudge them, they yap a bit more.
When this started, I think like a day into it, I saw Kent was very underrated in terms of how good he can be at times with yapping.
So I was like, hey, you need to yap a bit more.
But yeah, he wasn't taking it too seriously.
He's like, I'll just be myself I'm
not gonna force myself to yap more just because I'm on this list uh which is fairly I was just
kind of teasing him on that um but it it doesn't have like you you you can't really game it um
I mean yeah you can bet on yourself or get uh to bet on you, and then you try harder to, yeah,
but you don't really know how the algorithm works.
So it's kind of, it being a black box, it is fairly,
I'd say, yeah, it's transparent and fair for everyone, pretty much.
transparent and fair for everyone pretty much. Yeah, I'm all for more of the yapper of the week
contest. I think that's a super, super awesome way to use the prediction market and align with
near, get some people talking, get some people using it. It had decent engagement, too, when I looked at how many bets were placed.
It wasn't that low.
I thought it was like 20 or something like that.
In terms of your community, that ain't bad.
We'll do it some more.
We'll get some more of them up, more people who use it,
maybe clean up the UI a little bit.
Mr. Potato, we should make it
a mandate that people use cross posts for your competition i mean we should be taking advantage
and synchronizing you know uh yapping through cross posts so that way we can have on-chain
transaction and increase the daily usage of the blockchain so i think they go hand in hand any thoughts we could do that um how would that work though because it's it's two
different things in that here you're kind of betting on an outcome um whereas like you can get
like the yapping like your percentage mind share on kaito um doesn't have anything to do whether you use cross post or not
obviously i would love people to use cross post more i think i'm also guilty for barely using it
um but i think they don't have a lot in common like it's well mr potato let me ask you what
what's the biggest barrier for you to be using it?
I mean, keep in mind, I have no,
I mean, I hold the token,
but I just see it as a potential
to increase the usage and amplify the blockchain.
So what is the biggest barrier for you
is just to be on your phone?
Yeah, many times, like if I'm on my phone
or if I want to like code tweet,
like I have to like go back and forth um which might not
be like if it's if it's like a quick tweet like I don't have that muscle memory yet like I'm
obviously admitting that I'm guilty about this uh but I should have that muscle memory like
whenever I am thinking about tweeting I it happens to me with a bunch of stuff.
Like, I should be claiming my moon tokens every day.
I don't.
I only claim them, like, a couple of times a week.
And that's because, like, I've somehow read someone talking about it on a Telegram chat or, like, someone's asked me about it.
Same goes for hot like i think like
there was a time like i built in uh i i was pretty much claiming every day um then
i think like around the time of uh redacted um my hot wallet got removed from my phone because I updated my Telegram app.
And then I had to wait like two months until I get back home to kind of put in the seed phrase again.
That's where I kind of lost the habit.
So it's more of building a habit.
And I think like I gave CrossPost a lot of time back in the early days.
It's improved a lot since, but I need to get that muscle memory again.
But it's more on the added friction of like going back and forth.
So I use one other tool, which is pretty cool.
It's called OX People.
So what it does is I post there.
It's a social media platform with on-chain analytics.
platform with on-chain analytics and think of it as like Arkham but with a social media angle to
it. It's backed by Balaji so it's got like a pretty interesting concept. So what it does is
it allows me to post in four places at once. So I use that sometimes as well not not always um so when i post there it
obviously posts on ox people it posts to farcaster it posts to twitter and it posts to lens so it's
like four places in one shot um so i use that sometimes but not always but i'm also mindful of like
sometimes something uh i'm that i might be posting on firecaster i don't really want to post it on x
uh because i have different kind of people following me on different platforms. It's sadly like most of the people I know on Farkaster,
they don't know about Nier, whereas my following on X
is mostly people who are evangelists of Nier.
So it's different audiences as well.
So I think it's tricky.
Cross-posting is fine,
but I'm also kind of trying to be mindful of who my audience
or who are the people who are following me
on each of these platforms.
Yeah, man, I mean, I agree.
I'm all for cross-post post i use it all the time but
if i'm just uh you know on the road trying to throw up a tweet quick i'm just gonna i'm just
gonna hop on twitter and get it up real quick if uh because uh time time is valuable as well
so if it was uh you know but if i'm if i'm sitting here writing a thread or I, yeah, I'll write it on cross post.
I'll do it all on cross post.
I'll throw my quote tweets in there, my replies in there.
I use it all the time.
But, yeah, I mean, as far as using it for the prediction market, too, I mean, we can encourage people to post through cross post.
But there would be no way to really uh confirm i guess but yeah i mean we can
we can encourage it link it and uh and do all that but but yeah as far as the uh prediction
market too like i said we'll we'll go with the uh the French Open up here pretty soon. And then as far as the next, what else we have coming?
We should do another Yapper of the Week,
but we should have that going during the content hackathon.
I think that would be the best time.
Yeah, so we kind of have Yapper of the Week.
We were meant to do one on Monday, like just right after we concluded the first one.
But I think it doesn't make sense to launch it midweek.
So we are kind of thinking of doing it next Monday.
I can even tell you like which people we've shortlisted for next week, if that makes things a bit
spicy on the space.
So we have...
One sec.
I should have it here. So we have V, Nelson, Peter, Wax, and Cronier.
So those are kind of the names we shortlisted from the top 100. We try, like, there's, like, there's, I'm not sure why the thumbs down, but the rationale is
we kind of want people within the same band so that it is interesting. So, like, I know Jared
is super cool and great at yapping, but he's, like, way ahead of everyone else. So, it's like,
and great at yapping but he's like way ahead of everyone else so it's like it's not even a contest
right um so we try like it's more about like taking people outside of the top 10
and trying to kind of spice things up where it can get competitive
yeah i mean i think everyone there has a has a pretty decent shot they've all been uh
they've all been a pretty been pretty high up there.
I saw Nelson sitting at like 11 or 12 the other day.
I was like, damn.
Yeah, and who knows?
Maybe it's like if you ship like a dope tweet
and it gets picked up by the Near Protocol account,
like that tilts things a lot. So there's that angle to it. I think like right now,
the biggest factor is if you ship a banger and if Near Protocol retweets it or code tweets it,
a protocol retweets it or quote tweets it, it changes the game or it can have a huge
impact on where you end up on that week.
So that's kind of like the most influential factor out there.
Yeah, I think that's kind of what changed the game there.
Then the last one was Slime put out a tweet.
But Slime's case was interesting i
was actually like looking at this uh so slime got a retweet um by the near protocol account
i think his tweet was either from the 27th or 29th uh could be 29th of may um so that was like mid last week but like even until like late sunday or like
early monday he was still behind marcus and i'm i'm kind of wondering like how does that mind share
percentage uh trickle in like it's it it was very slowly like adding up so you could see
like slime was climbing but very very slowly and even like a few hours after the the snapshot
ended and we announced the winners slime was still climbing But again, I think he got a retweet yesterday on his poll,
which was a hot take on, like, why should Nier
be focusing on, or what is Nier good at?
So yeah, it's hard to know, like, when
do these yaps start to convert into, like, Mindshare.
So, as I said, it's a black box.
Like, I don't have any insights into how it works.
And all of the people I've spoken to, they don't have any idea either.
So, that kind of makes it fair for everyone, in a way.
Yeah, 100%. for everyone in a way yeah 100 i mean i uh i apped harder than i have in a long time uh last week and
my app my share went down so i uh i tried my best i bet on myself and uh i took an out but i tried guys sorry to everyone that supported me
i uh i gave it my best shot though
yeah i think it's more about like posting bangers and see if it sticks and you don't really know what sticks right like um it's it's hard like i i've kind of
like tried to um reflect that like what tweets go well and what don't so the other week on one of
the days last week i think it was on a Saturday, I earned 11 yaps out of nowhere.
And for the last three weeks, I haven't earned a single one. So again, I'm not sure how much of
that is trickling in from previous posts, and how much of that is coming through like fresh content.
and how much of that is coming through like fresh content.
It's a big mystery, but I do know like it does have like some correlation.
Like if my tweets get some traction, then they do translate to yaps at some point.
But again, like it's a guessing game.
Like I don't really know uh what's triggering it
yeah man me either i know i know jay uh jay up here posted a banger and got six yaps from it
i don't know if he's gotten any more i'm uh i'm currently sitting at 0.62 yaps so
everyone's doing better than me but uh i uh i signed up pretty late so
yeah wait you've got 0.6 like lifetime yes i was telling you that last night you weren't
listening bro you kept telling me you had six i was like you've got 10 times more yaps than me
you weren't you thought i was kidding no i have i I have .62 lifetime yaps.
Yeah, you got to work on that for the content, for sure.
I'm trying.
You can't let me have more points than you.
I tweet like once every six weeks.
Yeah, you should tweet more.
That's another issue we can talk about later.
Tweet more, Jay.
The near ecosystem needs more Jay tweets,
more ping tweets,
just more content from that guy over there.
Yeah, I got to open the drafts more.
Too much stuff gets lost in the drafts.
But yeah, it'll come.
It'll come.
For sure.
It's coming, man. And yeah, I'll figure the yapping out eventually, but I'm not really too concerned about how many yaps I do earn, but more interested in these near campaigns that we're talking about. So I'm going to be focusing my content just on those projects,
on the content hackathon projects.
And, you know, that's the move, at least for me,
because I don't think I will be earning thousands of yaps.
And even if I do, I'm not confident in uh what that would correlate to but
it's different when there's you know just 150k up for near and uh Rhea in Kaido you know it's uh
the way Marcus explained it was like you know there might only be 50 people that get rewarded
and it might not you know it's it's up it's up to 150 K. So we don't
really, I guess we don't really know what the rewards are going to be for that, but it sounds
like they're going to try and reward, you know, anyone that is, uh, that is doing, doing a great
job. So that excites me. So if I was making content on, on Ria, I'd make sure I'm uh you know not just throwing copy pasta out there not
just uh yeah not just throwing it into chat GPT and and putting out whatever BS but take some time
write a thread maybe make a little video teach teach someone something, learn something new,
help someone, onboard someone,
any of that type of stuff is going to be what's going to get you rewarded,
if you're asking me.
What's up, Jay?
Yeah, for sure.
I was going to say, I know we spoke about it at length last night,
but is there any offer for the people on the content of the phone?
I know we went into some stuff last night,
but don't feel like we shared too much on the space.
Is there anything you can share,
things you're looking for for people to do,
types of content or something outside of the apps?
Because I know the content-a-thon is completely different to the apps.
Oh, yeah, man.
You must have been eating your beans or something
when we went through the content hackathon alpha.
But I think that might be a good way to end the space as well.
We can just run through some of that again.
So, like I said, it's going to be focused on short-form video content.
We want to see tutorials. We want to see tutorials.
We want to see using the products.
Some of those products and projects are KyberSwap, Infinix specifically.
Using NearIntense, explaining how NearIntense works,
how those projects are leveraging Near and NearIntense.
Show us how to use it, explain what it is, explain, you know, the near intense tech, all of those things. And, uh, you know, have,
have some fun with it, get creative, you know, have fun, maybe do a little, a little live stream,
onboarding a friend, sending them a link, showing them how it works, you
know, anything, whatever, whatever you want to do.
We want to, we want to see some cool shit.
So that's going to be a, one of the verticals.
So that all of that will have its own, its own prize pool.
So it'll be one prize pool specifically dedicated to the, uh, the near intense stuff.
And then we'll also have separate prize pool dedicated to all of the community projects.
Some of the projects that are going to be listed on there
are Shih Tzu, who's up here.
We got Black Dragon up there.
InTier and BeaterBot, which is what Slime's building.
CrossPost and Curate, which is some of the stuff Elliot's building.
And then we're going to link to some of the other projects in the NERA ecosystem like
MeteorWallet, Raya, Hot, and just a bunch of the other trending projects in the ecosystem.
And that will be the other vertical.
So a lot of those projects have given us bounties on what they want to see content made
about.
And there'll be a separate prize pool awarded for content made about those things.
And that content hackathon is going to launch next week.
So keep your eye out for some alpha from the Nier account and from myself, from Jared.
We're all working on that.
So if there's any projects or anything you want to see content made about,
just reach out to me and we can maybe figure out a way to get that in there somehow.
It's getting a little late, but we'll see what we can do.
But yeah, that's what the content hackathon is going to be.
We have a platform that you're just going to be able to go on.
It's going to have the prizes listed there,
the content bounties listed there.
All the information you need is going to be right there
in a nice little UI for you.
So I'm excited for you guys to see that project as well.
So yeah, there's a lot of stuff coming in the next week.
And then we've got all these
app campaigns two more of them it sounds like getting officially announced in the next week
unofficially announced here on spaces so a lot of uh opportunities for content creators it's looking
like coming up here soon so let's go yeah let's let's fucking go that's sick i think this is this
is like a really cool opportunity for
people to maybe test new content that they've not done before um i know i know we always say like
attract big people from like other ecosystems or like increase mindshare beyond near but like
i also see the content-a-thon is like a cool way for people that maybe haven't stepped outside of their comfort
zone with content around the things that they're passionate about in Nier and kind of using this
as the incentive in a more structured like hackathon format to try it across a series of
different verticals see what works and then also be rewarded for it as well I think this is awesome
hopefully there's going to be a lot more of this going forward and we can kind of grow a bit of a creator economy on near content creators scale that out
further and start letting the creators on near be paid for what they do oh yeah hopefully uh this is
the this is the first of many hopefully so. So hopefully this one goes well.
Hopefully we get lots of good quality content about the things that we are looking for here.
And then I don't see why we wouldn't be able to do it again
and do it bigger.
I know X down there named 5194,
also known as X for anyone that doesn't know.
Finally made some video content yesterday.
Finally showed face, kind of, not really.
A little Anon video there, but that was sweet.
That's exactly the type of content we need.
That short-form video content, the quick hit, that are engaging and fun, informative, educational. That's a, that's the type of stuff we're looking for.
So yeah, I think that's the first time I've seen a video like that from X. So hopefully we get to,
we get to see a bunch more people, uh, doing that kind of thing. Like you said,
stepping out of their comfort zone, creating, creating more video content. Cause that's a,
that's what we, that's what we need. These app campaigns
have the tweets and the threads and the memes and the other stuff covered pretty well, but
we kind of have a lack of the short form video content and the creative side of things. So
I'm excited to see what people come up with and hopefully we get some cool stuff.
I want to see people, you know, like out on the streets
interviewing people about near intense or something.
I don't know, just trawling people.
Give me something crazy.
No one's going to know, but teach them, dude.
Go to a crypto event and link drop some people, something or something.
Give me something cool.
Meet the people where they are.
That's the way.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I don't know what events there are coming up in the next couple of weeks in terms of crypto events.
But if there is something and someone is there and they're able to to make some content
about any of these things there that would be pretty sick but I think the
next two that I'm aware of
oh no oh no I was trying to clean off my phone and I muted everyone that's crazy
and I muted everyone.
You just muted me, that's crazy.
No, what I was saying was, before you rudely interrupted me, is, yeah, Berlin Blockchain
Week next week, I believe, and then ETHCC in Cannes at the end of June, start of July.
They are the next ones.
Not sure I'll be at IBA, but if there anyone there, some like IRL content would be pretty sick.
Yeah. The, uh, the IRL content is, is, uh, 100% the, uh, the move that, uh,
the black dragon campaign from Denver is, uh, is legendary in my book. We weren't,
uh, we weren't crazy. I think that NIR booth that they had at
ETH Denver was just
sick, playing off that narrative, creating
cool content,
making it look cool, making it look fun,
showing people how to use the things,
showing people what
NIR has to offer.
I'm all for that type of content, but
that's a different story.
Hopefully we're able to have some cool stuff like that in the future and have some bigger hackathons, some bigger bounties,
some more creator-funded events, funding creators to go to these events.
Hopefully we get all that coming, and I think it should be.
So it all depends on creating that culture,
creating the culture for creators to thrive.
And, yeah, I think that's what we're trying to do.
But we got to build it.
So it starts here, and it starts with everybody in the ecosystem making content.
I got to start doing it myself, making some more content,
different types of content, some more videos,
some more live streams, branching out myself.
So, yeah, I think that's a good place to end the space. Yeah, I don't really got anything
else to talk about. You all good shih tzu, potato, and jay. I thought maybe Jared would stop up and
drop some alpha for us, but I guess not. He's probably in the gym there, too. He took too much pre-workout.
It's another leg day.
I think the last space was a leg day for him.
So probably over there squatting, getting big.
So I respect it.
All right, so I'll end it there and probably do another space this weekend,
maybe Friday or Saturday.
And then, like I said, next week we're going to do a 24-hour live stream,
figure out how to make it entertaining.
I'll have a bunch of stories to tell.
Probably have some music going.
Get some music with Monza, music with
Monza
live stream
and hopefully
the music
works for once.
alright everybody,
I'll catch you
this weekend
and Wednesday.
Deuces.
