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Smoovie Phone: The Sanko Hotline
Recorded: Oct. 28, 2024 Duration: 0:30:30Space Recording
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GM, GM, what's going on, Simple Farmer?
Hey, good morning.
GM, sir. How are you doing?
I'm good. Thank you for having me on the space. We actually just got done launching the predictions market on Sanko Chain.
I know, dude. I saw that. Dude, it's crazy how fast you ship. Like, I feel like over the course of this month, you shipped like four different things for Smoothie Phone.
Yeah, well, I think it's really important to time releases, right? And this is actually stuff I've been working on since summer. So I just wanted to make sure I'm timing with better market conditions. I was waiting for BTC to recover a little bit. But this is something we've been working on for a minute now.
And yeah, I just thought the time was right to bring something new to both Sanko Chain and the Arbitrum Orbit. I think predictions markets, something that was severely lacking. And I think it's going to be great. I'm excited to continue building this project out.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, I think so far, what you've been doing with Smoothie Phone, I think it's been like seeing all the new stuff in terms of like, like social gaming, even I really love the fun aspect as well of Smoothie Phone, what you've been doing. Like, you've been doing a lot of stuff with DeFi, you've been doing stuff with gaming. And I feel like what you're doing is just bringing both worlds together.
And, you know, it's been awesome seeing that from my end.
Yeah, I really appreciate that. I guess, for me, I think one of the huge filters we have in crypto is that a lot of people, you know, don't really know how to get into crypto. Some people don't even know how to connect the smart wallet to a, to like a D app. So I think just building that connection and making everything a little more, let's say normified,
making everything a little more accessible to everybody, making the app simpler, and explaining the process to people. And at the same time, creating products that are fun to use so that, you know, if we're going to have DeFi, it should at least be fun.
And I think a good way to deliver protocol revenue to users to deliver, you know, staking interest is through games and stuff. So that's what we're trying to do with Smoothie Phone. And there's a lot of products that I've already built and a lot of products that are coming out soon.
I think, you know, it's becoming such a monster, it's becoming such a huge ecosystem before my very eyes. I feel like I'm just kind of riding the wave and continuing to build out interesting stuff. I'm lucky to be on Sanko chain as well. The team is really great and supportive.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah. Sanko, like devs over there and like, just everybody, like the community wise, like community wise culture. Um, I think it's been the strongest, um, from what I've seen on Arbitrum Orbit. Um, and it's been awesome. Just like seeing like everybody just build really like fun stuff on there. Um, and you know, I, I think this goes back to the thesis of just like building.
It's like building, experimenting and just like creating stuff that's like fun for not just developers, but also for builders and users, right. That are on the chain. And, you know, I feel like that's like the best way to onboard like new users to your chain is just building stuff. That's fun. Like you said, like making things simple, building stuff that's fun. And yeah, I think it's been successful so far, um, which is what we all love to see. Right.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, so to just to touch on a little bit on our launch today on, um, what Sanko predicts, Sanko predicts is pretty much for those of you who don't know exactly what it is. It's a predictions market built directly on Sanko chain. So this is the Ethereum layer three. And pretty much there's multiple markets, both like weekly and monthly markets, as well as real world events that you can bid on.
Uh, the protocol works in a way to where you build, you, uh, bid on a binary pool. So you select, say, for example, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
And then at the time of expiry, the vault sends the funds from the losers pool to the winners pool, minus a small protocol fee. So it's pretty much decentralized, uh, predictions markets.
And this protocol is actually also coming to arbitrage from this Friday. Um, and that's going to include permissionless pools. So that means people will be able to create their own markets. Uh, they'll be slightly vetted, of course, just so we don't get a lot of spam.
And then the people who create the markets will get a percentage of the protocol fees from those markets. So this is something that's going to be on live on arbitrum as well as Sanko chain.
And I'm really hoping to get a lot of, uh, a lot of new people into crypto using this and a lot of new people onto arbitrum, just get more daily activity and volume going. So it's something I'm really excited about. And I've been working on this for a while. It's, it's a big day for me.
So yeah, man. Yeah. Congrats on like everything that you've been doing so far, um, with the prediction market as well. I think like it's crazy. The amount of ideas you come out with and ship, I think. Yeah, dude, you're like a, like a robot consistently shipping, which, which I love to see, um, from a, from a builder. So yeah, congrats on everything. Um, and yeah, I know, like, I want to talk about,
about the beginnings of a smoothie phone because, um, obviously right at the beginning, it was just a meme. So simple. Do you want to like give a high overview of like the lore of smoothie phone? Like how it all started? Um, where, where, where it's heading to and yeah, where, where are we at right now? With smoothie phone?
Yeah, absolutely. Uh, so pretty much I, Sanko chain launched in the late spring, uh, and I bridged over and there's started to be kind of like a community building called the, the Sanko sewer. It's like a TG group too. And that's kind of where people would come together and talk about all the new meme coins being launched on Sanko chain via the meme coin launchers. There was a Fugazi, Fanko tech and, um, base camp. And, um,
pretty much, I saw a lot of coins getting launched. Some were big hits, some were duds, you know, some were rugs. And I thought I could launch one as well. I use the base camp, um, UI. They gave me a percentage of the LP fees as the coin built. And I thought that'd be a useful tool for the future.
Um, and yeah, I launched smoothie phone. Smoothie phone is a play on the names of the founders of Sanko chain company, phone and smoothie Williams. Uh, they're see companies here in the, in the space actually.
And yeah, I mean, it wasn't supposed to be any kind of psyop or anything like that. I just thought it was a clever, clever memeable name. And then I thought of the Nokia logo, uh, with the old Nokia 3310.
So that's pretty much the basis of, of the token. Uh, once I launched it, it got really popular.
We had a lot of support from GB, Milady, Kurtner, doing some early burns.
And then once I saw that the token had gotten, you know, well above a hundred thousand, 150,000 in market cap, I really felt like it was my personal responsibility to, uh, the holders of the token to actually build it out into something useful, I would say.
And, uh, something that actually had some value. Um, I don't know, I don't know why I thought that specifically, I just, I think I wanted to embrace the challenge of being a builder and push the limits of what I can do.
Um, I had, I have a good amount of free time and I have a lot of ideas too.
So I just started building upon those ideas and trying to turn smoothie phone into something much greater than, you know, just a meme coin on, on Sanko chain.
I think it can be something that really connects people.
I think it can be something that really brings a lot of new users onto Sanko chain as well as onto the, the Arbitrum orbit.
And yeah, I've just been building upon that idea, trying to be really honest with my holders, trying to be transparent about the builds and, uh, and connect people, you know, connect people in the cryptocurrency community.
Yeah, no, that's, I love that. Um, and I know you, I know like afterwards you recently, you guys dropped the, uh, the thesis in July, I believe.
And that pretty much like, um, highlighted or it, it put out pretty much the, the North star of smoothie phone.
Um, like I know you, you, we dropped, you guys dropped, uh, the LD racing.
Um, there were a few four 20, right.
Um, so yeah, yeah, I think that was pretty awesome to see as well.
Yeah.
I mean, there's a lot, there's a lot going on.
The best way is to go on smoothie phone.com and then look at the whole ecosystem.
It's still something that's being built upon.
So like there's multiple games, you know, like you said, layer three racing, there's a snake game, which was the first launch.
It was kind of like a, like a beta test of the NFT gate as well.
Um, the staking access there's Sanko 420, which is short term binary options where you predict the price of, uh, of macro tokens, like BTC and ETH over four minutes and 20 seconds.
If you predict it correctly, you get a 1.6 X on your deposit.
Then there's leverage machine, which is, which was built in collaboration with strike.
It uses it, the clam, uh, pretty much allows people to leverage straight on DMT or LP on DMT.
And now there's Sanko predicts, uh, which is the predictions market.
And so everything kind of works together in a way.
Uh, we also have over the counter, which is, uh, on over the counter dot meme, which is a P2P token marketplace.
And it's also going to now become a P2P NFT exchange, which is going to allow people to list like their NFTs on Sanko or on Arbitrum in exchange for other NFTs.
You know, you pretty much create a wanted listing on the platform and then other people can swap for it.
And the nice thing is with, with the OTC exchange is that if you go on leverage machine, which is the options trading protocol for DMT built by smoothie phone, each position on leverage machine generates an NFT.
So you can actually then trade open positions on over the counter dot meme.
And so the whole ecosystem is kind of coming full circle.
Uh, my end goal here, once everything is built out is to put it all onto this 3d interactive universe called the Oasis.
You know, there are people will be flying around as the, uh, as this, as this little dragon character, and then they'll be able to chat with each other in a live chat and a voice chat.
And, you know, interact and then go into the D apps together and stuff.
This is something that should, that will be done here in Q4.
And that's, that's one of the main things that I'm going to be working on, uh, in November.
Yeah, no, I think the, the Oasis is going to be really cool to see.
Um, well, because obviously, right, as you mentioned, you have like, four other stuff that's being built for smoothie phone.
And then you would, you'll have the Oasis that will pretty much bring the entire, um, ecosystem together.
Um, and yeah, I feel like that's like the best way to really onboard new users and really get them exposed to those different verticals that you're working on.
Um, and yeah, I think it's going to be really fun to see just like jumping into the world and, you know, interacting with, uh, you know, people in there.
Right. It'll be a multiplayer, right.
So I'll be able to like, you know, hang out with you in the Oasis and we could just like explore different stuff on smoothie phone.
Yeah, exactly. So that, that's, that's the, that's the thesis. That's the idea. And it all really plays into the theme of what Sanko chain is. I'd like to touch, touch on that a little bit as well.
I mean, Sanko chain itself is, is game five social five, you know, everything from Sanko TV to Sanko pets buns and what they're building out with Sanko scape as well.
It all, all builds into this theme of, um, a crypto community that has like really good vibes, people that communicate with each other, you know, trade the NFTs between each other.
And I think smoothie phone, what I'm trying to do with it is make sure I'm playing into that theme, make sure that I am building a symbiotic relationship in that ecosystem where everything I build with smoothie phone is actually, uh, a great addition to Sanko chain.
You know, I'm not trying to build products that take liquidity and users off of Sanko chain.
I'm trying to build products that bring in more users and more liquidity and the, yeah, so far, so far it's been a great success.
I mean, I see a lot of people who I know are SP supporters do a lot of reposts and tweets and they're here in the X as well.
And I just want to say, I'm really appreciative of everybody and everybody's support while I've been building this out.
It's been a, it's been a great adventure and I think we're just getting started.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Like I see, I see goo.
I see do Alex.
Um, yeah, I saw company phone.
I see ivory and then, uh, so yeah, shout out to you guys for, for coming on and joining us.
Um, and yeah, I want to ask, um, simple, like, how did you like find out about Sanko?
Like why, why Sanko?
Why, why building on Sanko make, made sense for you, um, in the first place?
Um, but also, you know, as a user as well, I think it'd be interesting to talk about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why, why, how did you find out about Sanko and yeah, what, what led you to build on Sanko chain?
Yeah.
Well, actually I was, I've always just traded on Arbitrum.
Honestly, I don't go away from Arbitrum.
I went to Seoul for like two, three days and I'll never go back there again.
I just went there to lose some money, but I was pretty much on Arbitrum.
I was trading in Boop, the meme coin.
Uh, I always liked Boop.
I liked their community.
I liked doing the raids and, um, helping them come up with ideas from memes.
I feel, I feel like that's where I was channeling, channeling a lot of my creativity and Boop kind
of started to have, uh, an in-between with, with some users who were trading Boop.
We're also trading DMT.
So it kind of caught my eye.
The chart was super, super bullish and, you know, I'm a, I'm an options trader at heart.
So seeing those kinds of sharp, volatile price movements made it interesting for me.
So then I tried to, I started to get deeper into the ecosystem.
You know, I joined the TG, started communicating with the members.
I found out what Sanko TV is, right.
I met a lot of super cool people who are on Sanko TV, you know, like just off the top of my head,
Chondis, Master Lotion, Yupich.
Uh, a lot of people stream on Sanko TV and they're just super cool individuals.
And I got to talking to them and I was like, okay, this seems like the kind of community that I would want to build in.
And once I had already had the token launched, I said, I'm going to go for it.
You know, it's kind of like you're moving into a neighbor or you come into a neighborhood and you see that everybody's super nice, super cool.
You're like, oh man, I wouldn't mind building a house here.
You know?
Yeah, for sure.
And I, and I think the, the important thing that I think the cool thing that you've been doing as well is just like taking feedback and ideas from like the people within.
Smoothie phone, like within the community on Sanko as well as Arbitrum and just, you know, making those ideas into reality, which has been cool to see from a, you know, community standpoint.
I think it's been, it's been really fun seeing just you like taking those ideas and, you know, turning them into something really fun that, you know, not just you can enjoy, but also community members.
So I think the overall impact that you made within Sanko as well as Arbitrum in terms of, you know, going out of your way, you know, getting people's ideas and coming back to the table and building a home, not just for smoothie fun, but for everybody in the community to enjoy.
I think that's been really fun to see.
Yeah, thanks, Irina.
I really appreciate that.
Those are really kind words.
I think a good sign of like an, like an, let's say an intelligent leader is somebody who takes criticism.
Well, who's somebody who's open to new ideas, you know, somebody who isn't locked into their ideas and thinks that anything else is wrong.
So I definitely try to embody that thought process.
The thing is, I think what people forget a lot and people are so used to getting rugged now or scammed in crypto that it's almost become the norm.
And for me, I think that's just crazy.
I think that people are investing their real money into these things, you know, people that have rent checks, people that have maybe child support payments, stuff like that.
And I don't think it's a game.
And I don't think it's a game.
I mean, if somebody builds a project on anything, on Arbitrum, on Sanco, anywhere, I think it's their responsibility to provide their best possible level of service and put a lot of effort into it.
Otherwise, you know, you can hold spot and you can just purchase tokens.
If you're going to be a builder, you should build and you should work hard.
And I just try to do a little bit every day.
And it looks like I've done a lot in a short period of time, but it's really just a couple hours of work every day out of my day.
And that's, I feel like that's something that I, that I owe my holders on SP.
And that's something that, you know, is getting noticed now, like, like I'm doing a lot of work, but really it's just, it's just about consistency and discipline for me.
Yeah, I feel like you've been, so not, not only you, you're a dev, but I feel like you've been like the CEO, the CMO, CTO, like it's crazy.
That's how I feel like.
Yeah, well, I actually, I recently became a father.
And so my lifestyle has changed profoundly.
I mean, I've always been kind of into like working out and all that stuff, but I also did like to party, you know, go out and drink and stuff.
But since I became a father, I've kind of changed my mentality of things.
And I just kind of, and actually since I got the news that my wife was pregnant, it's kind of just been, you know, get shit done every day.
Build, do smart things, consistently make good decisions, eat healthy.
And, you know, that kind of stuff compounds into, into a successful atmosphere.
You know, it's easy to win when you're doing all the right things every day.
And these are all just micro decisions that lead to macro results.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Congrats on your recent baby.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
This is my son.
His name is Louie.
He's super dope.
Will he, uh, is he going to be a dev one day taking over the reins of smoothie phone?
Yeah.
He actually did some of the smart contract work.
No way.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Um, no, that's, that's awesome.
And yeah, I also want to talk about the North star for smoothie phone.
Like, well, what, what does that look like, um, for you?
Um, I know we touched on a little bit about the Oasis, but is there any other like areas
that you want to hit on, um, first movie phone on Sanko or Arbitrum?
Yeah, absolutely.
I re I think a really big goal of mine is to build out a great fiat onboarding and offboarding
platform.
You know, I want it to be decentralized so that users can, can actively either sell
their tokens or buy new tokens using fiat.
I want to remove filters.
I think, you know, bridges, uh, from one chain to another, uh, difficulty connecting to apps
with smart wallets and all these things.
I think those are just filters for new users on crypto.
And I think that's something that we don't focus on enough as well as education.
Uh, speaking of, I I'd like to focus also on educating more people on trading options.
You know, that's what leverage machine is all about.
It's about bringing options as a form form of leverage trading instead of, uh, perps,
which, you know, people just get massively liquidated on, especially cause crypto is a
hyper-volatile asset.
So I'm going to be opening up my, my calendar next month in, uh, in November actually for
some one-on-one lessons for people who hold SP as well as the smooth mobile SIM card.
So that's something actually I'm looking forward to just making some one-on-one grassroots
connections with people.
I think that's something that isn't so common in the crypto world.
Yeah, definitely.
And yeah, I think it's awesome that you're, you know, going on your way to educate people.
I think, yeah, it's definitely really important because obviously, you know, um, you know,
from my experience, like jumping into the ecosystem, I just relied on YouTube.
Honestly, just like watch a bunch of like, uh, educational tutorials on how to, you know,
use Arbitrum, not use Arbitrum, use Ethereum.
Um, and yeah, I think, you know, having someone like you just, you know, going out your way
to educate people about just like, you know, maneuvering in this space, it does wonders.
Yeah, thank you.
I really appreciate all the compliments.
I mean, I feel like, I feel like you're talking me up a little bit, but regardless, man,
I really appreciate it.
And I appreciate all the support I've received from Arbitrum, all the support I've received
from Sanko and especially from all the people who hold SP token.
It's been really amazing to see the community grow from like 20 TG members.
Now we have 300 plus, uh, you know, very small amount of holders.
Now we're getting close to 400 and it's, it's actually a beautiful process.
I actually really enjoy, like my name is simple farmer.
I actually like farming.
I like gardening as well.
I like planting the seed and then, um, you know, taking care of something and then watching
it grow over time.
It's, it's a mentality that I take into everything I do in life and it's, it's really gratifying for me.
So it is a lot of work, but it's actually work that I'm really enjoying.
So I'm having fun building this and I'm having fun meeting all these really great people.
Uh, at the end of the day, you know, behind all the cryptocurrency wallets by and all the transactions
we see on the X screener or define this as a human being.
So, um, I'm betting on the humans over the AI agents.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, are you, are you going to DevCon by the way or no?
Uh, I'm not going to make it to this one, but I'll definitely come to the next big event
and I'll be at the next Arbitrum event for sure.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
That's going to be fun.
Um, yeah.
Cause you were, uh, um, what, uh, EVE Global in Belgium?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was at the event in Brussels.
I actually just came for the Sanko party.
I didn't, unfortunately I didn't make it to the, to Vitalik's big speech.
Oh yeah.
How was it?
I know it was a while ago, but yeah.
How was it?
It was really awesome, man.
Uh, I had a really great time.
I met a lot of cool people, had a lot of intelligent conversations.
Um, I had a lot of fun.
The, the, the environment that they held that party in was super dope.
I think, I hope, uh, I hope they do something like that again.
It was hosted by Iron Boots from Camelot.
I think he's a super, super cool guy.
I really, uh, enjoyed talking to him and meeting the whole Camelot team as well as,
you know, the Sanko team.
And then there was just like a lot of random people there from like other chains and stuff
like that.
And obviously the Arbitrum presence was massive.
You guys were carrying the party.
Yeah.
I heard, uh, Sir Iron Boots was wearing his, his helmet.
Is that true at the party?
Yeah.
I don't know if he was wearing it at the party, but he was there.
He was definitely a big presence.
And then we had, uh, Gabi, the guy who, the, the dev who created the music for Sanko
pets.
He was there as well.
And he, he was DJing and stuff like that.
And it was, it was really dope.
They had like all the buns up on the wall and then they opened the virtual Bella Chow as
well, which, you know, I think it hasn't really been getting enough attention.
Honestly, the thing that Sanko built there, the core team with Bella Chow, it's absolutely
insane.
The way the buns move within the ecosystem there, the way you can talk to each other in the chat.
I mean, I feel like it was almost, it was just not focused on enough by the crypto community.
And it's, it's something that's, it's a little troublesome.
And that's why I think, for example, like Sanko predicts, I think it can get a lot of
new eyes onto Sanko chain and on, uh, and on Arbitrum because the stuff that's being built
here is, is immensely cool.
I think if more people saw it, if more people knew what was going on, I mean, we'd, there'd
be a surplus of users, if anything.
Yeah.
I agree.
I agree a hundred percent.
Like, uh, yeah, the, the, the Bella Chow party was pretty funny.
Um, yeah.
The recent one was, was cool too.
Uh, yeah.
Wait.
Yeah.
It was, it was movie film.
It was movie Williams, DJing and Gobi, right?
Yeah.
I, I guess it's Gobi.
I thought it was Gobi.
I don't know.
I'm, I'm, I'm awful at things.
Some people say Sanko.
I say Sanko.
I don't, I don't know.
In my, in my native name, native language, uh, Sanko actually means like a dream.
I, I speak Serbo Croatian as well.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that either.
That, that makes sense.
Yeah.
I love how well thought out the name is.
And that's cool.
That's cool.
Um, but yeah, it's movie phone.
Is there a simple, is there anything else you want to mention to the community?
I feel like we've covered almost everything, but yeah, I'm not sure if I'm missing anything
else.
Uh, yeah, I pretty much just like.
If everybody has a chance today to just check out Sanko predicts.com and see some of the
predictions markets going on there.
Um, I'd like to encourage anybody to go on there and bid on the U S presidential election
if they'd like to, uh, the app super safe.
And I think it's fun.
You know, there's like a lot of gifts, a lot of stuff going on there.
So I think it might be an interesting experience for people on the Arbitrum orbit.
So yeah, that's pretty much what I want to say.
And I want to say, thank you.
I appreciate you having me on the space and thank you to everybody.
It was listening.
Yeah.
Anytime, man.
Yeah.
It's been awesome.
Yeah.
It's been awesome seeing this movie phone like turn literally from a meme into like something
bigger, making things simple.
I think it's been awesome seeing that.
Absolutely.
And there's a lot more coming.
I'm not going to be stopping anytime soon.
Yeah.
Don't, don't stop.
Devs don't sleep.
All right.
Well, yeah.
Simple farmer for joining us today.
Appreciate everybody here in the audience.
Thanks for coming through and hope everybody here has an awesome Monday.
And yeah, see you guys soon.
Thank you guys.
Have a blessed week.
Peace.
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