What's going on, everyone? The early folks, you know, we're just waiting for the room to fill up and then we're going to get started, as usual.
We got to find maybe some music to play or something. I was just going to talk. I didn't know if I wanted to play music. I was just going to say what's up to everybody. We've got some of the speakers up here.
We've got a pretty dope list for everybody today.
Like two seconds, I'll sort everything out fast.
Real quick while we get situated.
I'm making a coffee because I'm going to have to bring some energy to this space today.
I've been on calls and spaces all day, so like, oh, I'm looking forward to this. There's going to be a banger. I'm looking forward to this one. I see some familiar, some beautiful faces here in the audience and the speakers panels.
There's a lot of stoners here. What's up, everyone?
Happy to see you guys all here.
It's a beautiful Wednesday at 4.20, so actually, you know what? At the start of this space, I really think it's ideal for everybody to join right at 4.20 and then smoke right away.
It's literally the perfect time to just hit a bowl, smoke a joint, roll a blunt, whatever you want to do. It's literally 4.20, people. That's what you're supposed to do.
Kick back, relax, talk about art, talk about Web 3. That's like the perfect vibe, you know what I mean?
As usual, though, I'm not smoking in this space because somebody has to be the DD here, so I don't smoke in this space. This is an FYI, but everybody else should.
If you don't, all good. I'm not going to peer pressure you.
But yeah, damn, a lot of beautiful faces up in here so far.
Looking to get started in just a couple of minutes. I think we're waiting for one or two more speakers, but maybe we go around the room, say what's up to everybody?
What's going on, Jay? What's going on, Alex? What's up, Pepe? How are you, King?
Hey, mother, nice to see you, homie. Vigil, nice to hop on your space earlier, man. Appreciate the invite to that. Some awesome conversation about tokens, Web 3, lots of stuff we were talking about.
I really, really enjoyed that convo. Shout out to some of the audience members that were here. I'm just going to say some names that are like, you know, quickly.
I see these people always interacting with me. Guru, Bronchus, we got Todd in here, one of the OG's. What's up, Todd? Hope you've been doing well, man.
Smokey, Wavy, Assassin, Shy, Moten, all these guys got the Stoner's profile pictures, man. I love that. Nice to see you guys.
But yeah, maybe Jay or Alex. Yo, what's up? What are you guys doing, man? How's your day, man?
You know, I'm just about to pack a bowl right now and I spoke with you guys, minus you, because you, you know, you don't want to smoke for some reason. It's crazy.
That's what I'm saying. I guess I'm going to have to take a second dab real quick and I'm going to take one for him.
Hey, yo, it gives you guys the ability to smoke more. Like I can't smoke during the spaces because I got to go work out after it.
There's still a lot of stuff that I got to do and I'm like one of those like nighttime smokers. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, that's fine.
You know, he's taking one for the team. I'll take that. I'll take that. I respect it. I respect it.
I'm rolling extra fat right now. Just for y'all. Just for y'all. You know, I think I want to see the proof.
Bro, I'll post the lick right under the right.
See you hear the torch right now. We're taking some dabs. Let's get it, baby.
All right. We're just getting situated here quickly. All right. I think we can.
We can get started here. We can get started here. What's up, ladies and gents.
Episode two, Stoner's Club. We had a really good episode one. So we wanted to kick this off and continue with you guys.
We want to turn this into a weekly space, get some founders up in here to talk about some innovations that they've been working on, anything cool that they got going on with their project, what we're building.
We believe that cross chain is the new chain here. I don't I'm not biased towards one chain versus another. I feel that all projects and chains can learn from one another.
And we kind of like open up this space for individuals to come up, share different kinds of perspectives and stuff like that on what they're building.
We have some pretty awesome founders here that are building both on Ethereum and on Solana. So we don't really like to orient this space like one particular niche.
It's really for everybody. Honestly, just like a very chill, relaxed vibe, nothing too formal. Sometimes I get, you know, a little bit caught up in talking a bit formal and stuff like that.
Excuse me. I want to talk a little bit, you know, more casual here. This is kind of just like a place to kick back, relax, share some love, spread some ideas.
That's really what we're all about here. And we want to kind of like create that vibe for everybody. So I'm going to like pick on some people here in the in the audience or on our speakers panel here.
By the way, I just saw Alex pin up a giveaway. We do have a giveaway going that we did launch yesterday, but we're going to be drawing the winner actually live.
More so near like maybe the three quarter way in the space. I'd say like maybe when we're like 75% through, we'll draw the winner, draw them up here on stage. Hopefully if they can like, you know, talk, give us a little bit of a live reaction.
We're going to be hooking up them up with a stoner eight club plus two vials, which if you guys didn't know that is the claim requirement for a free 3D stoner.
So, up to you, you can either keep the sack plus the two vials, or you can burn it and then redeem your 3D for free, or you can keep them and then mint your own 3D.
We'll give you early access to be able to mint it as well if you are a winner of the giveaway today and we'll be announcing it on space. Hopefully, the person can share a few words with how they feel and stuff like that but we'll probably do that about.
I'm going to say like you know 60 to 70% way like in the into the space. Let's give a few new people here like a chance to enter if you missed the tweet but you're here in the space.
Make sure to just repost the tweet, follow the rules and you'll be good. Make sure to retweet the room. Ladies and gentlemen, we got a lot of beautiful speakers up in here that are going to share a lot of information today so definitely make sure to do that.
And as always, we always have surprises like in this space like I love dropping air drops you know like alpha posts and stuff like that so just be ready.
There's going to be some big stuff that we're going to be sharing up here on the jumbotron and stuff like that but yeah, why don't we kick it off.
We have this is somebody that has been in the space for a while I've heard them speak on quite a few spaces their community is rated me like a Lord knows how many times so I don't know how they saw, they've been able to keep such an active amazing community
they have to be doing something right so let's learn a little bit about it. My man Zubik, what's up man love hearing you on other spaces around the scene super excited that you could join us today.
Hi, pleasure to be here. A lot of a lot of great people on stage right now and see a lot of friendly faces there in the crowd.
Yeah, awesome to be here. You know I like kind of like the intro there and I said you know this isn't really anything specific or niche or something we're talking about one specific thing you know kind of everyone and kind of where the ships going to you know we're, we're seeing a lot of cross chain action we're
seeing a lot of communities merge. Yeah, no, it's good to be here I'll give a little, I'll give a little recap on SR and kind of things we got going on I'll try to do as far as I can.
So we saw I'm one of the two founders of space riders and my business partner cap. He is one of the other co founder and the lead design and artists for space riders, him and I found it in December of 2021 that's kind of when we came up with the idea of space riders we worked on it for a few months
about three, four months building up into it. We launched in March of 2022, it was kind of our debut into the market.
It was an 8.88 kp collection here on Ethereum.
And that was the birth of our community that we built back then and really we tried to power all of this through the star token that you earn from, from riders so really I mean simply if you, you know, if you if you don't buy a space rider, you immediately begin, you know, earning star
token and it's actually a non liquid asset it is on chain but we've used it for any sort of utilities internal interactions functionalities mints etc have all kind of been done through that.
So it's very passive point you know we've never made any insane promises with it other than the fact that we'll use this internally and in the economy that we have here at SR and you guys can, you know, get rewarded and incentivize you know accordingly from things that we do with it.
So I think we've built in, you know, from the star token that you earn from holding space riders and, and visions of the void and you don't actually there's no stake in any of that so passive yields, you literally claim whenever you'd like you could walk away for two years and come back and you'd still be earning and you just claim it.
It's a very simple system no sending to other contracts or that stuff.
And we've built out, you know, a lot of different collections and assets through the star token like an alpha group, which is the key pass we have some one on ones.
And we did a lot of a lot of storytelling and unique things on chain to with space riders and boards, and that's what led into visions of the void where that was our second kind of PFP collection we have so there's two of them.
Space riders and visions of the void so it's two conflicting storylines to conflicting narratives that we've built out with it space riders is 8.88 K and then vov is half the size of that so much smaller.
We did that actually in a fair market it was kind of, you know, this was at a time, actually a few months ago we met the three months ago and sold it out under a day, and we rewarded all the holders you know beforehand and then open it up to a public man.
But that was a minute that we did, you know, kind of during a time where everyone was like, you know, this is a bad idea don't do this.
You know that second mince ruin everything and, and this and that and I think for us you know it was, it was like, you know, whatever.
And what we saw where we're like why are we waiting for something or why are we waiting for a bull or this or that so we went in with it and kind of these cool mechanics and how we rewarded the community with the storytelling and stuff that we did with the space riders and boards and in the end, the reward was the vision so then we did a public sale, got a lot of people in the community onboarding wallets and now
we have a whole built out kind of infrastructure and dashboard and all kinds of things shops and this and that moving into 2023 here.
You know we're focusing a lot on a lot a lot on cross chain emerging as you mentioned I think that's one key thing that I think a lot of people are really dialing in on.
You understand right I mean you can stuck underneath bubble, or you can be stuck in a bubble and soul right and really I think you don't get so far so the opportunities are really wide across chain.
I think RWAs are big real assets. That's something else we're exploring and getting together with partners and things that better ways to bring in revenue, the business so I know that things are tangible you know things that have equity.
A lot of other opportunities that are coming that way with partners that we've been talking to. And basically I think I think this year you know with space riders it's also physical social media and really dialing in on those.
I don't see us as this one you know this this one as we mentioned like with one niche brand like oh space riders just does this or they do this and you know I believe I believe there's opportunity to spread that far and wide and I think many of these touch points and we're going to meet them and try to do our best.
And you know followed metas done trends all these things the past two years you guys know how it's been right it's been a really wonky market up and down and ultimately when you see that vision and the long term you know putting your head down and consistently rolling out small updates and big things over time is really the way to go right not following trends trying to stay on top of the market.
But introducing utilities right I think that word's taken so far but actually something people like to use that you have to offer them.
So we're spreading that realm and I think having stars as kind of the focus very nice you know inner we've done other mince with it.
You know people have bought you can buy until space riders within our own marketplace so everything kind of is really comes home.
I think with us we're just trying to hit all these different areas and to kind of make a splash in what we know you know can help get us much much farther than where we're currently at.
So that takes a lot of work right. It's about timelines expectations all the different things.
So we have new we have a new action plan coming out that's going to be a big visualization of where we plan to take 2024 and kind of moving forward to 2025.
And these things kind of adjust accordingly right as the market changes so there's a whole lot of things going on you know when you buy a rider you can earn your star.
There's a lot of partner communities that we have incentives with that you can go and start earning on other platforms.
Kind of just the base and and I think in the long term you know now it's like making brand recognition right.
How do we break out of this little tiny bubble that we are stuck in.
And I think we've been stuck in a little bubble in an algorithm right.
And for us it's all about making those proper moves and proper synergies with with businesses and companies in space building in different areas that will help us get there.
And I believe 2024 is going to be very strong for a lot of a lot of collections out here including all the ones on stage here and the sky really is the limit.
So that's that's really just the brief of SR and you know at its core it was always a PFP project.
But we've really scaled it out and given more opportunities you know beyond just owning a you know the damn PFP and having your you know digital identity.
So I think you know we think about what we've done and okay good.
How do we change that solidify and how do we scale larger now.
So that's the goal for space riders moving into 2024.
I think it's all about scalability and really breaking the bubble.
I think he said one thing that's really important here.
It's like areas are focusing on awareness and areas in which the brand can scale.
And just from like your point of view where do you see that in particular not even just for space riders but maybe for like NFTs and art focused projects or profile.
I guess like PFP projects like as a whole.
Are you more so oriented into breaking the bubble into Web two or are you more so like thinking like we need to leverage and utilize or create I guess I could say is a better word for that.
Current beneficiaries for the people that are ready in the ecosystem before actually expanding to a net new audience.
Meaning like we almost need to tear down the walls that we have right now put up a little bit more of a qualitative structure and then expand like where is where is your perspective in that.
No I what you know I agree with you what you just said at the end there I think you know I believe everyone has different goals.
I personally would we're going to be tackling both ends.
You know I I believe they're both very important.
I believe there's there's barriers in what we call you know what we have to touch.
But I also think here in and still in NFTs and crypto we haven't we haven't broken down walls that we need to.
And you know again kind of how you allocate those resources and decide to tackle that is is up to you.
And I think ultimately you know for for like you know we're small cap project.
We don't have the craziest for price and it's very affordable.
I think you know for us it's let's break these walls here in one three and break out of that current bubble also expanding into the outside world and partnering with companies and things that are more tangible.
And I see web three in a way like NFTs are a medium.
I always I say this all the time.
They're just really a medium and however you want them to act.
And I think I think I think focus on both is important in my opinion.
I don't think either of them should be ignored.
You know going on a web to maybe that might work going on a web.
I see a very healthy balance between the two and representing yourself.
It's like a web three native brand but breaking out of those barriers.
And I think a lot of you know I think a lot of collections a lot of other founders and people I've been talking to I think see that just really the positive the net positives of tackling both sides right.
And and OK you know we could go mass scale and start mass producing physical items all the stuff right.
But it's like if we're really not even breaking or turning any next year in the web three industry then you're going to kind of have a conflicting issue and need to have championship need to constantly have a break in the bubble.
And I think I've learned this as a founder in the past couple months.
So you know there's a lot of people I look up to and and there's a lot of cool ways and different ways to do that whether you think that's right or it's a wrong way.
You know I think it should be up to a team and in the community.
But I ultimately see both of those being very strong arms and I you know I don't want to just we don't want to dial in on one on just the web two or just in the web three.
I really think it's what's dialing on both of these allocate proper resources and break the barrier fear and web three as well because I do believe you know we're kind of stuck here on X Ray like I find Twitter and X is really kind of like where everything happens and Discord and that kind of right.
I do think it's that's going to filter out over time.
We're going to see more users on TikTok Instagram all these platforms but might have not gotten there yet. Right.
And I think a lot of good companies are using TikTok and Instagram to a great leverage and kudos to them because it's tricky and a different algorithm.
But I think you see more of that too. So for us you know it's a focus on you know we see this little Twitter bubble and we see OK you know we have to tap into the other world as well.
How do we break through both of those. And for us you know it's we know there's still web three barriers to break down. And that's OK. I think that's and I think that's great right. It's a goal to set in another kind of step in the process.
Yeah no I think that's a good answer in terms of like shifting the focus towards both but also ensuring that like the priority at the moment is like really like where it needs to be like I have.
I've like heard honestly like a lot of projects I kind of sit there and think like oh you know we're going to be like the next big thing and we're going to bridge the gap from you know web two to web three like OK.
Why don't you get one thing in web three first or down pat right. You know what I mean like at least like correct first and scale from there. So I feel like the focus should never be away from one versus the other.
I think just like when people like use this word focus like sometimes they also feel that like oh like it means it's just like focused indefinitely in one area versus another. That's not necessarily like what it is being in web three like at the moment.
We've gone through so many different market conditions so many different trends within the market itself to the point that I don't really think like the word focus like really means anything but like really actions that are happening now.
That's really it like if I'm shifting my focus it's more so just like it doesn't mean the entire.
The advancement of the brand is shifting or pivoting towards like a completely like new area of vision and strategy it's more so just like we need to focus on something that is going to scale the brand in a particular way based off of how the industry
is trending at the current moment, and then we can potentially shift focus back right especially with small projects and I'm assuming other founders here on the space of experience this when you really only have one or two other support like people like
a project meaning like you know like executives management like stuff like that you really only have like such a level of manpower to actually like put your best effort into each initiative, rather than just trying to like, you know, spray the machine
gun and all sorts of areas and then it's like a low quality in terms of like delivery and experience for your holders there so I think that was a really good point.
If you want to touch on anything else quickly Zubik before I'm going to kind of jump to one of the hands here that we have and then maybe we'll pass the mic around to some of the other speakers but I appreciate you giving us a little brief and sharing I'll throw you the mic one more time though.
Yeah, no, I appreciate it man and you know if anyone has any questions or you want to pop in the discord feel free. I'm always available, everyone I'll play calling like that just just reach out.
Well, infinity bro you got your hands up what's up homie.
Yeah, absolutely. Hi, my name is infinity I worked with Alex and Aliko in the web to gaming space for a while and I think Zubik you absolutely crushed it and had such a good point with like how these brands are essentially unable to like focus their attention to the parts of their brand that they're
you know, essential to being built around their idea and working in the web three gaming space these last few months I've noticed that there's, you know, especially with these web three games like the have AAA developers, and they, you know, have, you know, making a great product, but they have no idea how to tap into gaming culture and they
have no idea how to tap into the actual gaming community. So, you know, they're left with this product that they have essentially, you know, no actual community built around and you know they're trying to, you know, basically pitch their game to the current web three gaming community which as we've seen over the last
two years because of the market and the way things gone and, you know, it's basically just a bunch of web three pay to earn farmers that are, that's like the, you know, the essence of the web three gaming community right now and so, you know, they have no idea how to actually tap into these communities
and, you know, you know, grow vertically in a way that's going to, you know, leave the essentially the web three GM community that is Twitter and crypto and web three spaces. And so like, you know, you have all these people with all these great ideas and, you know, a lot of them just are struggling to like, you know, essentially build a community
that actually believes in what they're doing and is willing to stand behind it because that's how, you know, every great project comes to fruition is by having a, you know, a strong core team of people that is able to build a real community, not just people that are there for a quick dollar and then to leave.
You know, that's a really, really good point you were making Zubik.
Yeah, no, infinity, right, right on the head there like, yeah, it's tricky, you know, I've been on a lot of calls lately with a lot of people and a lot of teams and PFP projects, gaming projects, all kinds of different things, I just like to connect with a lot of these founders.
That seems to cut that seems to really be like the pinnacle, I think for most most cases, right? You know, we have this like, hey, you know, we got this great game, most great things and whether we're talking about partnerships and stuff, it's kind of past the story.
But really, it's always, we have this great product, it looks excellent, you know, I see these things and they look phenomenal and they have these good teams and right, but we're trying to really get into the culture of what they were trying to really merge ourselves in here and I find that's kind of a tricky part.
And I always tell founders, you know, out there who have, who have really strong NFT communities, I say, like, that is, you need to always be consistent with your community because that is the strongest thing, you'll have a strong backing in the community and, and you when you lay your cards away and you do things and you bring utilities and you deliver to the community.
It makes waves and oftentimes that disconnect that a lot of people have where it's a great product, but maybe not community, it can be very tricky and I think, you know, as we move on, move forward in the space, you know, there's going to be more education on topics like this and it is a really good, really good thing to talk about and you know, you're seeing it kind of more commonly in the space.
So, you know, I really appreciate that. That was that was great, man.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. And yeah, I would just like to point out that the brand I work with at, you know, metagoons, they're actually trying to bring over the kids, you know, as we know, there are like, no, like there are good web three creators, but in comparison to the web to creator ceiling, it is very, very like middle of the road level content and viewership as well.
So these brands need to be working with like the core communities that are in the web to space that are around the utility that they're trying to work around in the web three space, if that makes sense.
Like you can't make something a utility that you have no community around, like, especially like you, like, like I said before, you can't make a video game without having a gaming audience.
Like, that's not how Activision and that's not how Epic Games and, you know, all these companies built their mainstream games. They tapped into the core gaming community and, you know, really drove it home, essentially, you know, if you remember, that's how Fortnite came up.
The biggest creators in the world were playing that game immediately. You don't think there's a good reason for that, like outside of it generally be a good game, like, come on.
Exactly. Yeah, right. You start to see all the most famous streamers and everyone hop on. And really, it just comes down to a good game, right?
I think people just like to have fun. They like easy. They like something easy and they like to play a fun game. Just a great fun game. That's what people want.
And I think I haven't played it, so I don't know, but on my buddies, I'm seeing all of my timeline, the new power world, that big game that's popping off and everyone's talking about it.
But really, like, I'm seeing a lot of people chat and they're just saying, like, they're just like, it's fun. Like, it's just a lot of I'm just having so much fun playing it.
And it's as simple as that sometimes. So really, you know, proof is in the pudding and seeing that pop off all over the place. And I think I think some of the founders, they were a little bit embedded in the crypto community.
I think I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to be seeing a lot of threads on that. And it's pretty cool to see it pop off.
Yeah, the founder actually owned a crypto exchange for a while. And then I think when the FTX thing happened, he started just moving into game development.
But as far as like Web3 games that are like actually, you know, playable and fun and look like they could have some like, you know, they could retain an actual community.
Play shrapnel blood loop. And there's a couple other ones, too.
If you surf through the metagoons page, we actually work with a lot of these games that, you know, I highly recommend looking into because they are going to there.
Like Web3 gaming is inevitable. You're likely seeing this all over your timeline.
But like all roads and crypto eventually lead back to gaming and digital assets and ownership.
And like, you know, and creator distribution is going to be a major process in that.
So like if if you're if you're not on the creator distribution wave at this point as any brand, it doesn't even have to be gaming.
Then like you're you're not moving past the current ceiling.
Agreed. You know, love some of the points shared, especially in gaming.
Actually, I kind of wanted to shift. Maybe I'm curious because I did come from the gaming scene as a few people know here.
So I'm curious to hear some thoughts. Maybe we can all bounce back ideas with infinity here because he was just speaking on it.
Web3 gaming. Where do you see the adoption?
Where do you see the likelihood of it creating a ripple effect for normies jumping over and getting introduced to Web3?
Web3, do you feel like it has a strong use case?
Do you feel like it has an overhyped use case in regards to its scalability and its functionality?
Can it be avoided or is it going to become a necessity?
I'm curious to hear a little bit of thoughts just because Web3 gaming has been a little bit of like a trend over the past like couple of months.
I've seen it really like come to light, especially with a game like Nifty Island.
We do have one of the reps that will be joining with us here in the space from Nifty later.
I believe we have Pingu that's going to be joining. He can talk a little bit on about that.
So we definitely will revisit. But just while we're on the topic quickly, maybe we can just bounce some opinions around the room before we kind of move over to our next speaker.
Just let's talk about like overall adoption of it. Do we feel like it's something that's going to come to fruition this year in the coming years?
Do we feel that the use case is strong enough? I'm curious to hear some thoughts.
Yeah, so I think I think it's going to be really like a three step, four step process of like creator based user activation.
And then after that, it's going to be, you know, actually prefacing that it's going to be awareness because really the foundation of Web3 gaming at the moment is digital ownership.
You know, there we see it more and more every single day of like, I mean, if you're if you're in the gaming space at all of like people getting banned for no reason and losing basically thousands of dollars of digital assets that they paid for.
And like Web3 gaming fixes that entire problem.
You know, all of your transactions are on ledger and you have like there's a marketplace built into the game that is outside of your account.
So if your account does get banned for cheating or whatever, you still own the digital assets that you purchased on the account.
And, you know, people people lose millions of dollars to that in games like Counter Strike, where the skins have enormous value to third party sites.
And there are people that have lost, you know, like throwing up amounts of money and skins because they bought a skin that happened to be stolen from someone else or something stupid like that.
And their account gets smoked. And so there's really no way to avoid that with the current way Web2 gaming operates.
And you're actually seeing games like Epic and Fortnite adopt Web3 games onto their platforms.
Like, you know, if you go look at like Steam, they're also sliding in Web3 games very slowly over time.
And so like I think personally to answer like your final question is that it is truly unavoidable because people are going to get to a point where they literally can't afford like even risk money throwing it away on something that they are definitely never getting back because there's no marketplace for it.
And B, their account could be terminated for almost literally just being good at the game because that's that's the matter right now is that people who are good at the game are getting shadow banned for mass reports.
And like it's a major problem. People are losing thousands of dollars because they're they're essentially their anti-chi is not good enough.
Like what how long have we had game developers at this point? What the fuck is that?
Yeah, I think I want to jump out of one of the hands quickly sketch. Go for it, homie.
Yeah, I think you make a lot of good points and you touch on one of the aspects that orbit the whole idea around cosmetics games like loadout forever.
Wow, that's old. Old as it gets, but loadout and the League of Legends and I've been noticing a lot of people in my steam friends list playing Warframe again.
And then a Warframe has got this heavy aspect of you build a thing over time and it's cosmetic and it has this different makes your character played slightly different.
But majority of look and feel, but that aesthetic that I notice in Nifty Islands of discovery around building up your island and people coming to experience your island and also the fellowship of Oh, hey, come play on my island.
And the whole idea behind competitiveness where you have the foot races, etc, is what I think there needs to be more of and have the screws tightened down a little bit stronger to appeal to those people that appeal to the person that they sit around and watch on Twitch playing the game that they want to play.
And once we have that kind of that games that are bringing those aesthetics to the space, regardless of the mechanics, it could be whatever, but everybody's playing the same thing.
Third person shooter, first person shooter, some type of platformer in 3D, etc. Right, maybe, maybe a fighting game here and there.
But when there are also more people in the space that can bring that kind of work to it and I see who's out here doing doing things and and being super active.
And I think it's really cool because I've only been around for about some weeks. You can look at my profile is super, super new.
But I come, I come from just games, AAA games space as well. And one thing that I noticed when I started to pay more attention I got on X and I started to get involved is it was a challenge to get in and know who to pay attention to or to find kind of my ilk, so to speak.
But very quickly, it started to kind of the confusion kind of started to fade because I noticed that the people that are posting a lot of 3D work and animation and things heavily continue doing this and then you start getting in different spaces.
But I see it moving now and it's super early. And I'm just glad to kind of be here and be a part of it. But if there are any other areas or communities that are like this, that's everybody knowing about each other to develop that cross pollination to get the noise that's happening inside this box to be heard by the people that aren't in the box yet so that they can peek in and take a look.
And then when they see how much cool shit's going on, they just get sucked in is what needs to happen. But I see it happening. I just want to kind of accelerate and make it happen more and be a part of it and contribute.
Yeah, I agree with a couple of the points, man. I think there needs to be like a little bit more of like a validated source because I do see a lot of smaller teams building stuff just in regards to some of the awareness.
It's not like quite there yet. Like even just in like the traditional gaming industry, you've got massive platforms, right? Like you've got Steam, you know, you've got Epic Games Launcher.
I don't really follow much of gaming Twitter and stuff like that that goes down anymore. There's just too many games to get released. And I just, you know, like I have too much stuff to do as a project founder.
I don't really like spend much time playing video games really anymore. I haven't for quite a few months now, maybe even almost a year.
But I know that when I go to one of those reliable game providers, such as like, you know, like a marketplace like Steam or something, I'm getting games that have been approved that have reviews, you know, there's community behind it that I can immediately dial into.
So I'm still waiting personally for that to be applied here into Web3. I would love to see some sort of like marketplace or something that actually gets like developed or like shifted towards hosting back to games and also hosting them in a way that they test them to ensure that there is like safety in terms of connecting even burner wallets.
Like I always recommend like using everything with a burner wallet, never ever use your main wallet for anything.
But they test the safety of the game, software and regulations in regards to everything that they're kind of like promising that they're giving any sort of incentives, any sort of software, any sort of features that they claim that they will have like any engine that it's running on.
I'd like them to almost do like a full in scale audit and then host games actually on their platform to bring a little bit more awareness to some cool stuff that's being built because I find that like you have to have there's so many different kinds of games and so many different kinds of, you know, like game users are like players like playing different style of games.
Like I want to sit there and watch a trailer for a first person shooter and then I might be feeling, you know, something from a little like maybe an over the top like bird's eye view like side scroller kind of thing.
But having it all hosted in one or so like one sort of platform where I can go in like almost gain like a little bit of knowledge and exposure to all sorts of like types of different niches would be a lot easier for me than going and hunting in the space and I'm well vetted in the space.
I've been here for over two and a half years. Imagine somebody new coming in. I can only imagine how like intimidating it would be and stuff like that. So lots of cool points on gaming. I didn't want to take too much time up because we are starting to invite some of our other speakers here up on the stage.
I believe on my list. Next I had King Pepe to talk a little bit about what he's building and sheesh.
There's a lot going on from this guy and his team. So I want to give him the mic a little bit to introduce himself. Talk about a little bit what he's done on a theory of what he's shifting over to Solana to do now.
What's up, man. Nice to hear from your homie.
Yo, yo, yo. Thank you so much for having me. Awesome space that you guys have here today. Honored to be a part of it. Shout out to all the legends up here on the speaker panel and everybody out here in the room.
If you haven't already, share the room out, like, repost, hit that little bottom right hand corner, purple button, tag some friends and get them in here.
This is a stacked stage right here. It's like all the people you want to be tapped in with right now. Absolutely. So yeah, let's go. I'll get right into it. I don't want to take up too much time. We always got so much going on.
So lately, I like to keep it a little bit more crisp, not overwhelm people. So but yeah, I'll get into it. First thing, I'm going to pin up top for you guys.
This is just the Pepe AP Yacht Club website. It's our home base for everything Pepe AP Yacht Club. So whatever you hear about, whatever my interest you something you see on the timeline, always check our website and see how you can get involved over there or just like the visual representation that you get from the website.
So I wanted to pin that up to start off, but we're a 7777 PFP collection on Ethereum. We minted out about a year and a half ago as a free mint when ETH was like under 1000 bucks, bottom of the bear market, all kinds of weird shit going on.
We're like, yeah, let's let's create, you know, ideally what we want to see in the space for a lot of us that were here and like experiencing so much turmoil at that time.
We decided to go with Pepe AP Yacht Club and we did it because we felt like this PFP accurately represented what we and like the people around us needed to like step outside of what the space was at that time and be meme about it, you know.
So it's that meme derivative flex that comes with so much more on top of it. So about a year and a half at this point, the key to our original collection, the key to our expansion and like the different things that you see us like our ability to continue to develop like new NFT editions in our collections is our portal ecosystem.
So it's really something to highlight for people that don't know a lot about Pepe AP Yacht Club yet because it is a super innovative contract that allows us to continuously expand our blockchain presence or NFTs without diluting our supply.
So we've done it a couple of times already. We plan to do it a good amount more times this coming year here.
It was in this Q1, but basically what it allows you to do is you can take any OG, any like Genesis Pepe AP Yacht Club NFT and there's a number of associated smart contracts that you can send your NFT to stake over there.
And in return, you get a matching token ID for that NFT that's represented in a new way or has new features or new accesses or whatever it might be.
So we've done this on a couple of different occasions already. One of the most notable ones was our partnership with the Global Media Archives who gave us a bunch of Elvis Presley archives to play with.
And we put them on our holders NFTs so you can go through that portal and then in return you get a flippable NFT with Elvis Presley photos and a 30 second to minute and a half audio clip from his first ever performances on stage.
Some super iconic stuff. So we'll do it in some really cool ways this year as well, but it's important for people to know. All you ever need is that one Pepe AP Yacht Club NFT and then you can kind of take it on a journey through whatever is available now or whatever becomes available in the future so that you can expand the value of that asset.
Get access to more things. One of the ones that will apply here that we're working towards is a 3D portal. We do have a 3D character now, but we're redesigning it full trade set doing some cool stuff.
We'll apply that with our partners and everything, but then we'll also put it through like a portal collection so you can take your NFT, you can transfer it to this new contract and then you get a 3D version of your asset.
We'll throw some preset animations on it, so it's like these cool things like that that we're able to do for our holders without ever diluting the supply. And then what we've done the past year for the most part just to allow us to be able to do these things so easily was build a lot of organization throughout our ecosystem.
So that was deploying an ecosystem token called Sheesh on Ethereum. That's been out for about eight months now. We use that as a reward token for our community. We use it. I'm sorry, I got my kids near me waiting for my girl to get back from the grocery store, so you might hear him.
But so we use that as a reward token for our community. The Sheesh, we dispersed it through our engaged to earn and soft staking platforms over there. And then it's also integrated with Aura Exchange, top five marketplace in the space so that anybody using Sheesh for rewards accruing it, however they're getting it, they have this to be able to directly take to Aura and purchase trade NFTs with.
You use Aura as like your broader staking marketplace now. So there's a lot about building these foundations, relaunch the website, you know, just really ironing out any kinks we had so that when we're pushing forward into this year, it's just a very seamless ecosystem as we deploy and like expand out our features.
So we're feeling really comfortable right now. There's always so much more going on than that, like different art drops. We got like a mutation releasing right now. It has some crazy artwork with it. But that's definitely the key there that I want to make sure we drive people's attention to.
The other side you mentioned on Solana is really exciting for us right now because we found that like there's things that we want to accomplish being having the presence that we do in web three. And there's things that the Ethereum blockchain limits us in like a lot of different scenarios that we worked out like accomplishing these certain things.
So coming over to Solana and just getting a little better idea that technology experimenting a little bit. We're like, hey, we can make some really cool things happen over here. And it can be like really like within a lot more people's means. It's a lot more supportive to the space. You're not like losing liquidity out of the back end because of like a high rate of transactions.
This platform is demanding or something like that. So we have our ecosystem. It's very well built at this point. We're excited for everything that's coming over there. Let's spread our wings a little bit. Let's create an ecosystem that's a little bit more onboarding and more supportive to anybody that wants to get involved.
Less token gated than the Ethereum side. So that's what Shishan Solana is. I'll pin that as the other thing I'll pin up top if that's cool. It's a white paper for Shishan Solana about this platform we're deploying.
But and anybody that wants to like kind of read through that you get awesome idea of what this platform does. I'll keep it really brief. Essentially, anybody, it's a launchpad into a Solana NFT collection. Just one Solana NFT collection. It's ours or ultimately it's the community's Solana NFT collection. Any user, no, you don't have to hold anything. Anybody can go onto that platform.
Upload some art or a meme or like showcase your community. Do whatever you want over there and then other users vote on your art with Shish for it to be placed in the NFT collection. Once it receives enough votes, it's minted into the collection and then it gets raffled off to one of the people that voted on it.
So one of the people that spent their Shish to prove that into the collection will end up winning that NFT and then they could take it to secondary if they wanted to and like trade it over there. A third of the generated revenue from the platform goes to the user who entered that content.
So we get to support all creators in the space in a decentralized way. They could upload whatever they want. They could advertise it to their community, whatever they get. A third of that Shish, a third of it gets burned straight up, sent to the burner, never seen again and then a third of it goes to like the dev team wallet so that we can market and continue to expand the ecosystem.
So that's the Solana side. I know I've already talked a lot, tried to keep it pretty brief but cover the main points of the ecosystem and yeah, if any questions or anything and yeah, thanks for the time. A like out, Casey.
Yo, thanks for giving us a nice little brief overall description of what you guys are building. I refer to King as like the the pitch master. The amount of times I've heard him like kind of like talk about what he's building and how they're building.
It is such like an organized formal way like I definitely need to take notes because I feel like I you know like tend to like just ramble and like when you have so much stuff that you're building you're kind of just like you got lost in like this like rabbit hole of like oh and I forgot to mention this and oh this correlates to this and oh this and that like you kind of like get lost and you're sitting there and you're like, yeah, it's been 30 minutes and I haven't even like had a sip of water pretty much like had a full, you know, breath of fresh air like at this
bro. You have to stop yourself like a hundred times like doesn't matter. I had to stop myself like a hundred times from going on like different avenues there. It's just it's part of it. But no, you're always killing it out here like I'm super excited for the stoners coming up on Solana and it's awesome. Now that we have like exposed not only our community, but a lot of other communities that were partnered with in the space to Solana that weren't on it before. So now,
being in this space if you guys are in here like definitely check out the stoners man that's coming up because this is going to be a hitter on Solana for sure. Appreciate the flowers man always and you know what's funny is it like we can take a second actually because I was on I was on fidgetil space that I was saying earlier so shadow fidgetil he's one of the speakers make sure to definitely follow him. But I actually got asked the question or I made a comment on the space earlier. Why Solana? And a lot of people kind of asked that question and I was like
that question for us a lot of the time because we did actually start as an Ethereum project. And then they were saying you know you guys have like a lot of success on Ethereum. Why would you think that you'd ever like switch over to Solana? And after working with like a different like variety of our holders for you know like the we're almost two years now like we're actually going to hit our official two year anniversary in almost one week exactly. So that's actually a straight banger for next week. I'm not going to lie like a little bit of alpha. We're doing a space on our two year anniversary
sold out on Ethereum back in 2022. So that is huge. There's going to be I'm already going to get off but we're going to give away a lot during that space. So like you don't want to miss that fucking space. We're going to put that out. Sorry for the language. I'm just I'm that excited. I didn't even like realize I just realized that now that the two year anniversary is during the date where we slot our space once a week. So that's like faith. Like that's like destiny. You know what I mean calling us for that. So you definitely don't want
to miss that. But back to the original point of Solana was we had a very very successful start on Ethereum and act like after being in the space for almost two years now and you know hearing like having tons of conversations with all sorts of holders literally from holders that have one NFT and they don't own any other asset in the ecosystem versus holders that have a hundred NFTs from our Gen 1 and just as many from other collections in the ecosystem that we have such as our limited edition and our
customers that ultimately translate over to the 3D. But the one thing with Ethereum is especially with small teams. And I view like NFT projects and you know like any sort of like Web 3 initiative whether it's like a token whether it's like a DeFi or you're even starting a DEX. All of this stuff is really like you're a startup. Right. And when you're a startup probably the worst thing that you could do is go and like incur a lot of capital costs right at the beginning for very basic functionalities.
That you don't necessarily know whether they're going to be adopted or not yet by the niche or the audience that you're going for. And I kind of thought that a lot of projects in our boat at the time did that with Ethereum based on the amount of capital raised how expensive a lot of the stuff was like it seemed like almost like a you know like something that's necessary like having staking having you know like a holders hub and all that stuff. But in terms of what it actually offered from like longevity of the vision of the brand I still
felt that we didn't have that like piece together yet. So it's very expensive like building an ecosystem on Ethereum as well as not just from our point of view but it's from the holder's point of view. So if we're shifting a few things around and whenever we want to launch like new innovation if holders are like constantly unstaking burning and interacting with the ecosystem and paying the gas fees on top. Well it's a huge struggle for people that hold a lot of NFTs.
And then it actually adds like a pretty big barrier to entry for you know if you have to sit there and un-stake 100 NFTs off of an old staking contract because you want to receive beneficiaries for the new contract that was lost. Well the team is paying gas fees on launching the new contract every single time. All the holders are just paying gas in terms of shifting their assets from one platform to another. It becomes incredibly expensive and not very ideal for holders to want to partake in all the new features of the ecosystem.
So they they can't be as aligned in the testing and research phase of the project from and this is just personal market research. This is personal to our project. This is personal to my testing environment. So take it with a grain of salt. I'm really just sharing my findings and perspective here and I will respect the hand in just a moment King.
But ultimately that was why we wanted to shift over to an ecosystem that is both cheaper and faster. That allows migration to be a little bit easier over to people that are coming even from a non NFT or Web 3 background.
I felt that my experience on Solana and I actually started in Ethereum but my experience on Solana was seamless because I had started on Ethereum. And even if I hadn't started on Ethereum it would have been so much more seamless than even when I was originally starting on Ethereum.
The platforms are easier to use from a UX and UI perspective. Something like Phantom is an incredible wallet. Absolutely incredible wallet from when it just shows you right there and then when you're about to sign a transaction. One NFT going out, Solana coming in.
You know what I mean? It's literally green and red for you. You don't have to know how to read any code. No blockchain technology. You don't have to have any sort of prior knowledge to looking through contracts and seeing what kind of transaction you're signing.
It's built in and instilled for user experience and they've really taken solid initiative to scale that at a level that I'm extremely appreciative for because when I passed just like Solana Alphas over to even some of my IRL friends because a lot of them wanted to start trading some of the meme coins with like the big wave that we had at the end here of Q4 of 2023, it was so easy to onboard them and they they pretty much just became hooked to doing it, not, you know, like obviously maybe the liquidity had a little bit to do with that, but it's not just because of the
liquidity apologies. It's the ease of use. You know what I mean? It's the they're paying no gas. So even if they don't have any money and they want to trade with $5 just to get into it, it's worth it to them. You know what I mean? It's worth it to ape into these, you know, roll the dice on whatever they find this funny that has potential upside and the swaps are so quick, right? Just like the user experience as a whole is honestly quite seamless and I'm very appreciative for that myself. It's just like somebody who's got a little bit
on board into web three, but I see King with his hand up. So what's up, man? I want to respect the hand. No, definitely. Everything that you're saying is on point. Like absolutely. And like you were speaking about the staking thing even and like for every for every founder up on this stage right now, they can confirm that with every like deployment or initiative. There is so much more than what a lot of people consider that goes into it so much to
be late for and just like consider for even like you know, the cost to the community for like these transactions and Solana definitely alleviates a lot of that pressure and there's so much opportunity that like has not been like explored yet on that blockchain. So like there's an I feel like there's a big opportunity to be like an innovator and like establish, you know, some like use case or you know, like community over there pretty pretty early on still because I
looking into like the Solana blockchain more and more over the past couple of months here, it there is like a very bullish like wider adoption factor with Solana that like can definitely associate NFT is like in a really positive way as well. But couple before I just want to take a minute to let go if it's cool also to drop just because I'm getting some DMS on the back and people want me to mention some things couple alpha drops before the
stage moves on here. Our P A Y C engager. So like a lack of a speaking about staking the different like portals you might have for your NFT or would not issue different amounts of rewards for stop soft staking on there, but it's also open to anybody who wants to like just collect some sheesh we give on average like $100 a month to users on there, but we're closing it after this month. So I know there's a lot of really active invested web three people out here if you want.
And on that platform, we'd love to have you. It's on that Pepe pea club website under the engager tab. And you can get dialed in over there. But yeah, other than that, I'm super I'm super bullish on everything that's coming this year, a lack of there's so many different ways even like the gaming side of things that people are applying themselves or platforms are becoming available. And I, in my opinion, we're not going to see like the big titles or like brands come into the space until they
seem like some trial and error from like the grassroots community. But once like that gate opens, it's like a flood, right? Because everybody wants to be like the first. So I feel like we're on the brink of something really exciting here. And we are seeing it start to happen right in front of our eyes. So we're staying on top of it ourselves for sure. I had a really bullish meeting with meta tote. Yesterday, a let go those people that did all the 3d for the Utes
collection for nifty island recently. So there might be a sick announcement there. But yeah, I feel like a big part of it is you do have to adapt to like the technology and like the user base around the space. And if you're not allowing opportunities, like different types of opportunities for your community and ecosystem to get involved, they're they are going to find it elsewhere, right? And potentially get like burned by some fucking rugger who has no idea what they're doing or whatever. So feel like we're
we're definitely making the right moves out here. I'm excited for a stoner man, definitely going to be one of my first Solana NFTs in quite a while, actually a let go. So I got into Solana, like, man, a year and a half ago. And then just I got busy with like project and everything and didn't really get back into it too much picked up like a few randoms. But yeah, I'm excited to get back in with this all love, man. You're more than welcome to
definitely a pin. We'd love to have you in the community. And you said something that was super important, how you're having a conversation with a 3d team that actually ported the Utes assets into nifty. I saw a tweet the other day that kind of like reminded me, I saw from raps visa, shout out raps. I love the kid called beast community. I'm a holder myself been a holder for quite a while, just right after their men love the creative community that they have over there. We've got inspired a lot from similar projects, the beasts, the clones in terms of like,
why we would want to aspire a creative community over here a little bit. And that has been like, truly, truly influential in terms of some of our creative development and our vision and purpose for what we really wanted to like build as an art project. But back to the quick tweet quick, because I was getting off topic. It was funny, because it was it all that it said is that now people realize the value of 3d assets and like the importance of it. You know what I mean? So I truly believe that like, this is the future of everything that people are talking about.
Gamification, adaptation, in terms of like web to marketing materials, assets, these are that this is the highest quality that you can get for innovative marketing tactics. You know what I mean? That's why like, I always lean towards like something like 3d and sure have a 2d variance and have different sorts of variations of it. But that 3d elements to creatives right now is so important for scaling the brand, getting brand awareness in particular areas where you want to be.
You wouldn't be able to do it in 2d unless you had a 3d version of the 2d. So when it comes to just like overall adoption and where you can physically see your products and how you can scale your IP, I truly believe that like 3d is the future. In regards to when that's actually going to be like, effectively proven, I feel like we're in the process of it right now. It'll slowly become a little bit more evident to people with stuff like Nifty Island. I'm hoping that a lot of people should definitely go check out because I haven't played it myself. Just because
I don't know how much time to game but it seems incredibly fun. It almost looks like the Fortnite ish version of like web three, which seems pretty cool because I didn't get into the original Fortnite wave at the beginning but from what some of my friends told me and from what I was seeing all over like YouTube and like the whole gaming scene really like took like a huge like mind boggle to the idea of like, I don't know, like just like the social economics of that game and what it like created in terms of like
founding communities from a content perspective from a streaming perspective and just like an overall digital experience, especially around the time where like lockdown hit and stuff like that. I feel like that really did a lot to some people and like it like in a positive way as well as like contributed to a lot of like positive innovation, both from a content perspective and a streaming perspective. So stuff like this does a lot for the ecosystem past what people really like feel. They think, oh, you know, it's just like, yeah, it's just some silly game that you can have your your avatar in but they don't really
understand what step that could mean for like the community as well as like people socializing between the communities themselves. It's awesome to be able to get on a Twitter space and speak to people like we are right now, but playing with each other with our own NFTs and having like, you know, customizable features between us and like grinding like, you know, like certain levels and achievements for like certain incentives. That's like a whole that kind of takes us back like that, like nostalgia path of like for me, it was like, you know, like Halo or even like Modern Warfare.
It's like two like grinding for skins and camos and stuff like that. You know what I mean with my with my friends after school hopping in like a six man stack and playing search and destroy, like these are like the kind of like replicated experiences that I feel like we're starting to scale out with stuff like this. And I believe that 3D has a massive massive implication there for it. So I want to respect one of the hands that we have.
Yeah, yeah, loud and clear.
I just wanted to say that, like, every day, I ain't gonna lie.
I'm getting very bullish on the Stoner,
just because nobody's bringing a 3D to the Solana.
And, like, y'all bringing the 3D pictures to the Solana.
And, you know, it's kind of fire.
You know, it's about 2 o'clock in the afternoon right now.
And I'm already on my second blunt right now.
So, you know, the Stoner's fit my persona very well right now.
So I just want to say, like, can we
get, like, more sneak peeks, though?
Like, you know, I'm trying to see what type of traits
What type of traits y'all cooking up?
Man, we've been greedy yet, like, more generous
than we've ever been, I guess, like,
with some of the sneaks and stuff like that.
My problem is, you know, like, I come from the traditional,
like, marketing mentality where, like, you, like,
build in silence and, like, slowly start
to release, like, small sneaks of the art.
But I've been, like, almost, like, battered
in the opposite direction of, like, leak everything.
You know, like, we have, like, all this cool stuff.
We need to start showing it.
So I actually try to post a new daily sneak of something
that we're working on every single day on my main page
on the actual Twitter itself.
We've been a little bit, like, picky in terms of, like,
what we're going to be posting and stuff like that.
And we will have a surprise for you in this space.
So that's, like, a little bit of alpha.
Because, like, if you want sneak peeks
and you want alpha from stoners and you like that,
you're not going to want to miss what's coming in just
I'm probably going to drop it in a few minutes, because why not?
So that's a little bit of alpha right there.
But yeah, no, appreciate the flowers, man, for it.
Awesome that you're on your second blunt of the day.
I hope that you are enjoying that.
Whether you're a smoker, whether you're not a smoker,
the aesthetics of stoners, we are trying
We're looking to make stoners as mainstream as possible
through fashion, through art, through cannabis products.
The cannabis products themselves, I
wanted to touch on a little bit, just
because a lot of people, like, when
they think about cannabis products,
they start orienting a little bit of the image.
Like, you know, the old school, like, you know,
big glass bong, like, flashy cannabis leaves,
and all that stuff, like, all over it.
What's actually crazy is that we're
looking to create something, like, just purely,
like, aesthetically, modernly beautiful, in a sense.
I know that was a lot of leaves at the end of, like,
my adjectives there, but it's more so, like,
we are really looking to make something
that, in the modern mainstream aesthetic,
could almost fit in, like, every household,
whether you're a smoker or not.
I know that sounds, like, insane, you know what I mean?
But, like, I'm literally trying.
We're, like, looking to build the Google home of bongs
and, like, merchandise products, you know what I mean?
Like, I want this bong, I want these products
to look so beautiful in terms of, like, just
modern mainstream adoption that even somebody who would smoke
once a month would buy into it,
would, like, would want to have it, you know what I mean?
It has that sleek, clean branding.
That's what we're looking to go for.
We want our entire brand to have, like, consistent alignment
in terms of, like, our high-quality, clean aesthetic
We don't really want to have, like, these areas in the brand
that, like, communicate, I guess, like,
different messages or, like, different themes
based off of, like, our branding and, like,
the overall, like, project description and stuff like that.
We are going for, like, a very clean, modern look
for what stoners would be.
So, you know, and it's going to be unique.
That's part of the reason why we rebranded.
Originally, we had a logo that said the Stoners Club,
and it was kind of, like, built out,
like, in this, like, smokey text
or in this, like, cloudy text inside, like,
And that was something that, you know,
like, a lot of people liked,
and there was a solid audience that didn't like it.
So, we actually went with a character silhouette
because we kind of felt that that's a little bit more
appropriate to the collection itself
since the collection has a lot of inspiration
from street fashion, very high-quality streetwear,
a lot from, like, our hip-hop culture.
So, we kind of felt that that was a little bit more
of a visually appealing look for the brand
to not directly associate every single initiative
that we do here directly with cannabis, right?
Even though this was a cannabis-inspired brand,
we wanted to take that direction to kind of replicate
and showcase our mainstream approach
in how we're looking to actually just scale Stoners
past just something with cannabis.
So, yeah, I feel like we've been talking for a while
in terms of, like, the Stoners,
and we passed the mic to a couple of people here.
I want to respect the hand as well, Infinity.
Let me come back to you quickly, so keep your point.
I wanted to say what's up to either Fidgetl or Nyguy.
I know you guys have been, like, kind of waiting for a while
and we had you guys on the speakers list.
I was in Fidgetl's space earlier,
so maybe I'll throw him the mic to introduce himself,
speak on whatever he wants to talk on,
and yeah, man, hope you've been doing well.
Thanks for having me in the space earlier.
Pleasure to have you here now.
You can go to Nyguy first.
I'm just wrapping something up anyhow.
I was actually able to take care of two business meetings
while the space was going on.
I've been enjoying the space, so please, Nyguy first,
and then I'll wrap up my shit
and give you the worst pitch you've ever heard
because I don't understand how to do things in Web3.
Yeah, what's up, Fidgetl?
Dude, good to see a lot of people out here on the stage.
Like, you got a really packed space
and, you know, you've been building really, really strong
and I've been working with you guys
behind the scenes on a lot of the stuff
and, you know, I'm privileged to say
I've seen a little bit more sneak peeks
than the rest of everyone,
but, like, the content that you've been building
has been absolutely wild.
I know we just had our space yesterday.
You guys have been, I've seen you in spaces
every single frickin' day.
I'll go and then Jay as well.
You guys have been building really strong.
I'm very bullish on Solana.
I've been, you know, I've been frickin' ripping
mostly Solana alpha calls, actually,
and me and Eight Mother have been endeavoring
into that little space a bit as well,
but, yeah, I just wanna give a shout out
to every single person that's out here in the space.
We've got over 200 people in the building,
which is awesome, but, yeah, you know,
we definitely have been building a lot
We have a lot upcoming with Token Factory,
which, you know, I'll briefly touch upon.
We got a really big holders call coming tonight at 7 p.m.,
so for all those pandas out there in the audience,
make sure you tap into Discord.
We're gonna be doing those weekly now,
but, yeah, you know, we have definitely seen
in the rise of the bull market
a lot of projects launching their tokens,
but we wanted to kind of come up
with a solution and reflection of that,
so instead of launching an ecosystem token,
a puff token, a blunt token, a weed token
that we really could have brought to market,
I think, quite well, we wanted to do something
that had a little bit more long-term sustainability,
so there's gonna be essentially a revamp
of our entire staking ecosystem.
Instead of being called Puff Puff Stake,
as we call it at the moment,
we're actually gonna be calling it Factory,
and Factory is gonna be bringing projects
and tokens to market every single quarter
with a large percentage going back to our actual community,
so if you are a holder of Puff Puff, Pandas, and Trippie Land,
you're gonna be able to enjoy those benefits,
and, yeah, we've been in the Web3 space
We've ran the world's longest podcast back in January.
We just ran an awesome torch as well
for seven days almost nonstop just this January,
and, yeah, we've just been building really strong.
We've got a lot of content coming for our holders,
having artists come and work with them,
so if you own more than five Trippie Lands,
you're actually gonna be able to create your artwork
and custom stuff for your own timeline.
We also have an entire revamp coming to our branding,
We just brought on two new artists as well
for Trippie Land and for Puff Puff Pandas.
We're revamping our entire OGR work collection as well,
but, yeah, I'm not gonna pin anything
or shill too hard today, but, yeah,
always building strong, and, you know,
for those Pandas today that wanna tap in properly,
I appreciate it, but, you know,
I just wanted to show the love for you guys
because I've obviously been working a little bit
on the back end, and I'm very excited for everything.
You know, I know there's been a lot of people
that have tried to put the emphasis
on creators in Web3, and I think that's something
that, like, 3D has recently gone above and beyond
to try to do, is to kind of put those tools
Eight Mother and I were in Art Basel in Miami.
I also got to see their Alaco as well,
and I mentioned this yesterday,
but we got to hear from the ClonX founders,
Aptio and Chris, who were talking about, you know,
how they're just taking normal people
who didn't really have these skills before,
like teaching them things like Blender
and how to bring their 3D assets to life,
and I think that's one thing that's, like, really cool
is these 3D projects that are actually able to put
not just the NFT into the people's hands,
but also, like, the files to be able to go
and make things with them,
because, you know, that's not very often seen in this space.
So, yeah, I just wanted to show a lot of love
to you guys, awesome people on stage,
but, yeah, I'll pass it back to you now.
Thanks for hitting me up.
No worries, man, much love and appreciate,
yeah, all the insights and stuff like that
that we've been sharing together
over the past couple of months.
Nyguy's been helping us a little bit,
like, behind the scenes, pitch some ideas,
and, you know, like, kind of, like, brainstorm a lot of,
I guess, like, our go-to market approach in a sense,
so me and him connect quite often
and talk about some ideas with the stoners,
and, yeah, you know, unfortunately,
he has seen more sneak peeks
than probably other people here,
so, you know, it's coming, I promise it's coming.
and then I'm gonna drop a surprise
for everybody in the chat,
or not in the chat, I guess, in the room,
so stay active, stay attentive on your phone.
By the time you hear my voice next,
you're really gonna wanna look
and pay attention as to what's going on,
but, Infinity, what's up, man?
Wait, wait, wait, didn't Fidgetl wanna say something?
I think he's still just wrapping up something on his end,
so we'll jump back to Fidgetl at the end,
I'm wrapped, but I'll wait till the end.
All right, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
Yeah, Aleko, after I heard you talking about
it also, that kind of brought me back
to a point I wanted to bring up earlier,
in that this whole NFT culture
almost reminds me of the AVI,
from the original AVI's from back in the day,
that we all used to wrap in brands and whatnot,
and kind of the evolution from 2D to 3D,
and eventually animated stuff,
and I can tell you right now,
that did not monetize nearly as well as the system,
because there was zero utility,
and they didn't mean anything,
other than just a here you go guy,
you're a part of the squad now,
but yeah, this whole development
of how far things have come
in terms of quality production and all that,
it just reminds me so much of the mass adoption
of AVI's, and the Call of Duty community,
and the original gaming communities.
It was very, very interesting to watch
the cult-like following that these people developed
because of their cod sniping team, it was very weird.
Yeah, I agree, I think that it represents somewhat
that I guess profile pictures and AVI's
and stuff like that would resemble before,
it's almost like, and back for like,
I'll draw some context for people
they don't really know what we're talking about.
Back in the gaming scene,
it was more popular probably around 2015, 2012,
I'd say it was like a peak peak
for this OG style gaming and graphics
and creatives and stuff like that,
but the AVI was like really the brand's logo
And it would have like, people would like design it
with like different colors
and some people would get really like crazy,
they throw like a lot of like different themed pictures
and elements to it, so for example, like stoners,
like if your name was stoner back in the day,
like you would probably incorporate
like a lot of cannabis oriented assets
and stuff like that, like all over the logo
to kind of showcase like your name within that brand logo
and you would rock that as like your profile picture
in order for it to actually like be your identity
and show your association to the brand.
So what's funny is that like this use case
or like this, it's not really a use case,
but like this action is like almost identical
to like going and buying a profile picture
that you love like on the floor
and then putting it as your profile picture
and getting like associated within a community.
It was kind of the same back then
and obviously there's a little bit of like a,
I guess we can say like a reputation,
you know, like element to going and like,
for instance, if I go and buy a board ape,
it's probably gonna do better
when I associate it as my profile picture
from a engagement, from an awareness perspective,
as if I buy like, you know,
like an NFT that's worth $100, right?
I'm not saying you have to go and buy a board ape
versus one or the other to build a brand,
but it definitely encompasses a little bit
of an awareness element based off of which brand
that you do buy into and what you associate yourself with.
It kind of replicates the same type of effect
that those ABIs and profile pictures did have then.
So just an FYI, we're gonna be drawing
the giveaway winner very soon.
So you guys don't wanna miss that.
For everybody that is in the audience,
as we said earlier, a stoner ape, NFT,
as well as the two vials, you can either keep it,
you can either claim the 3D stoner with it
once we have our burning mechanism up and running,
which you can find in our Discord.
For any of you that do wanna join our Discord,
Make sure to join before we pin something next,
which like I'm giving you guys a lot of alpha for,
like something that's really coming right now.
But yeah, you can join the Discord
from either just clicking on the main stoner's Twitter
or the tweet that is pinned right there,
my quote tweet on our last post.
But yeah, so I've been kind of like hyping everything up,
for the past probably like hour or so,
saying that something's coming.
So I should probably drop it for you guys.
I'm assuming that everybody wants to see it by now.
So yeah, if you guys go and actually check
the stoner's Twitter right now, you will see it.
I'm gonna pin it right up to the main page.
But yes, we do have a customized feature
that we just dropped on the main page.
So I wanna see everybody go and rate it right now.
There's a hundred and what?
There's 137 people in the room.
First of all, everybody needs to retweet
and go comment on the room.
139 people now, I see like maybe what, 90, 90 something.
96 people liked the tweets, 69 retweets.
Like you're gonna have to go and retweet the room
and you need to go and retweet the tweet
that I just posted to the top from stoners.
Cause I think that you guys are really gonna enjoy that.
That's a little thing that we've been working on
to add a little bit more of like a customization element
to your stoner between like expressions, backgrounds
This is just more so like a little bit of a preview
with like a sample, but we have a lot more coming
that we're actually gonna be showcasing
to you guys from maybe even like a testing environment.
We wanted to get like almost like a pre preliminary
like testing ecosystem for people to like
actually test the user interface and stuff like that.
But this was an awesome project to work on
with our animators and hope you guys like it.
Like honestly, this is mainly when you start
an art project, you know, like we don't like
to like over promise from any like, you know,
perspective saying like, we're gonna be the next big project
that's gonna like revolutionize, you know,
If we do great, you know, like if we don't,
So it's not like we view our project as a failure
if we weren't, there's a lot of very good projects
out there to learn from, you know what I mean?
So I definitely feel that what we wanted to do
as an art project is promise simple yet very useful utility
to our ecosystem as a whole.
It was something that we wanted to inspire creators
and attract creators to wanna be a part of
through 3D assets and through customizing NFTs
because we kind of felt that it was almost
like a digital identity for a lot of people.
And we wanted to take that digital identity
and put it into pretty much as many different ecosystems
as possible for you in terms of like a custom look
Hence why we've created like a VRM file
for our stoners to be able to port it into games.
We have fully rigged assets for creators
Like even if you're not a creator,
you still get the assets.
So if you wanna personally go and collaborate
with an animator or a blender artist yourself
or even like an artist that uses other softwares like Maya
or renders an octane, which is just an extension
but regardless, whatever you wanna do with those assets,
you could even 3D print them, right?
I saw people in the chat in our Discord
talking about the other day
that they wanted to get a certain file type
from the public files that we provided
just to create like 3D prints
and even like toys and action figures.
So all this stuff becomes possible
and we wanted to create like an ecosystem
and provide resources for our holders
to be able to go and create that.
And essentially what we wanted to do as well,
this is kind of like our long-term vision with it,
is that we actually wanted to scout certain people
within our holding community
and collaborate with them from stoners initiatives
and kind of like create that
almost as like different kind of potential avenues
in which we can take the brand
from some of the creatives that we do have.
So we have like almost this gray area
of like utility that we're like keeping gray on purpose
because we wanna go and scout
and give full-time opportunities
and full commissioned opportunities
to creators within our community
who are actually building something cool
that we see tangible functionality for our holders.
So I didn't wanna cover that a little bit too quickly.
So let me like layman's terms it down a bit
for like the people in the audience
who maybe didn't catch the whole thing.
We wanna give creators in our community
full-time opportunities to work directly with us
and help influence the future of our brand
based off of any sort of current initiatives
that they work on from any sort of assets
and even some potentially 2D files
that we do have for our Gen 1
and the anime style collection as well
that we will be gifting as a free art upgrade.
So that's something that we thought would be pretty cool.
We thought that that would be pretty like innovative
in terms of like actually giving like creators
a little bit more like incentive
to create within our community
and take the time to utilize the files
and build something that they really wanted to.
But yeah, I feel like that kind of like covers the general
gist of like our creators community
and like the economy that we're really looking to build
and how our team looks to support that
for the future of the project.
I did wanna give a chance to cycle the room a little bit.
So Fidgetl, if you're ready, let me know.
I'll throw the mic over to you.
Otherwise, maybe we'll jump to somebody else.
Oh, it looks like he's ready.
We'll jump over to Fidgetl quickly
before we shift to our next speaker.
I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
It's nice having you this morning.
If you're around every Wednesday, 9 a.m. PST.
No real agendas, just kind of whatever.
whatever I think is relevant at the moment
and whatever I think is not being talked about
enough in other spaces, but enough about that.
I do have one question before I get into my pitch
I always hear people talk about the negative about Ethereum,
which I agree, of course,
Ethereum was never supposed to be a transaction layer,
a large scale transaction layer,
costs are expensive, all the things that people say.
And then the natural response then is they go,
and that's why we went to Solana
and cheaper, quicker, I agree.
I foresee a real risk point where that's it,
nobody goes to other EVM chains.
So I just, I don't understand why people wouldn't then
explore EVM chains, so they have a much larger, right?
So all the EVM chains are starting to coalesce
and especially with Polygon doing their CDK
and Arbitrum about to launch its multi-chain solution.
So I'm just, I don't understand the issues with ETH.
Why is the natural, I think to then transfer to Solana
as the natural transfer point is almost again
behind the times, no insult, but by the Solana's hat,
it's new heyday and it's known as a burst and fade chain.
So why wouldn't you choose a less robust EVM ecosystem,
although Polygon's NFT ecosystem has been the number one
since the start of the year?
So I'm genuinely asking a question
and then I'll go into my little pitch if you don't mind.
Yeah, no, it's a great question.
I actually had the question asked by even a few
of our holders because I believe a couple of them
are closely associated with ARB and Avalanche.
So there was a little bit of, I guess like a pushback
when we first announced that we were going to Solana
from a couple of people, not from the entire community.
For the most part, our community was actually very supportive,
especially big holders within the community as well.
However, there was a few people kind of asking
the same question, like why just follow
under the natural response?
So what's funny is that our decision,
I mainly pitch it from an ecosystem
and a transaction standpoint, but what I find funny
is that it's also like heavily correlated
to the creative elements as well.
There's never really been a project like ours on Solana
that divulges into the 3D assets
For Solana itself, there's really only one,
I would say like other 3D project that has really made
like a pretty significant impact on the chain.
So we look at it from like a barrier to entry perspective,
the ecosystem is already established,
the transactions and it's like the benefit
of being cheap and fast is great, you know what I mean?
But that wasn't really the main thing
because we're not really building like something
that's exceptionally heavy in transactions
other than the customization feature,
which was something to note,
but it can be done on a layer too.
So we wanted to actually capitalize a little bit more so
on what our creative element offers into the ecosystem
because we've noticed that I don't know what it is
with Solana art, I'm not being biased,
like I promise I'm not being biased,
like this is before we were going to Solana and whatnot,
I don't like the art that people do on the ecosystem,
that people are getting trending in the ecosystem,
I feel that from like a marketing assets perspective,
from like a creative element,
there hasn't been many strong projects that scream,
wow, this brand looks really, really fricking good
in terms of what they offered and this kind of,
it like illuminates a potential for higher quality creatives
and assets to be scaled in games, in animations,
in television series, in toys,
mainly just because the collections themselves,
in my opinion, usually sit very stagnant
from a marketing material,
from any sort of like the assets that they develop,
they're usually, they don't provide them to the community,
so a lot of it is mainly like community fueled,
in terms of like any sort of creative development,
I haven't seen that attraction for artists yet,
I haven't seen that project that wants to act
as that creator's hub and give back to that community,
so we actually looked at it from a management standpoint
and almost thought like we could go and monopolize this,
as well as it would compliment again,
some of the fees and the speed like into our ecosystem
that we're looking to develop,
but like in order to like segment back
to the original question,
it's not that it was like only solely decided
from a transaction point of view,
we also looked at like the potential to monopolize
like an industry from a creative elements as well.
So I wish people would just say,
right, because if you say transaction or speed,
then it brings up that point,
which people would just say,
there's the highest potential for green ocean market capture,
there's enough movement, there's not enough quality,
and it makes sense that the answer is
because it's so easy and cheap to deploy there,
so people don't put a lot of money into it,
which is why ordinals usually have a lot more thought
because of the cost to do it.
And for any Ethereum project transferring,
they're used to putting in the time energy
and delivering to the cost expectation of Ethereum.
So I do think it's a smart short term move,
I would be cognizant of doing anything above art
or single delivery assets
in terms of interoperability
and the benefits of EVM bring with that for the long term.
in this industry where it's inherent
inherently necessary to grab as much real estate,
it does make sense to add a marketing steroids
that is an over-visited, under-delivered ecosystem,
Okay, thanks for letting me ramble.
So, and I would really like your feedback
on the pitch, to be honest with you.
The product's fully built,
we have everything in place.
We have investors and to ecosystems,
because I don't do hyperbole
and I have to like hype stuff up.
Okay, so does everybody here like playing daily fantasy sports?
Thumbs up, thumbs down, yes.
Are people bored with social fire?
You'll notice on the social fire platforms
that there's not a lot of action,
but the keys aren't going to zero, right?
So if a project was dead, in my opinion,
although the equity would be drained out of it,
So I think people believe in social fire and in general,
they just, the way that they're built
doesn't promote the excitement necessary
to keep people involved in social fire
and the data out of it is an absolute necessity
to creating ZK ecosystems
and quasi-anonymous reputational ecosystems.
So what we came up with is a combination
of daily fantasy sports, the same intuitive feel,
except instead of sports players,
you build your team and you play against all your friends
with creators, with social reputation.
And so you come in, if you're a creator
or you're a spaces host or you're an influencer,
you can come on and build your own competitions
and have fun playing the competitions live on spaces.
You can impact the price of the keys
or the people on your team or on other people's teams
and create a really hyped PVP,
I think it's kind of gambling ecosystem
that's based off of your friends
and their social reputation will be building
on top of Twitter and every other social platform.
Oh, it's called Fantasy Friends.
You can see the link, it has a three instead of an eight.
And we just started marketing.
We're fully ready to launch.
We'll probably be doing some,
I'd love to do one with you guys if you're down,
eight for sure, have live competitions.
We're gonna be sponsoring tons and tons of competitions,
giving away incredible gifts.
We'll be giving out referral codes for leveling up.
There's obviously points and all that stuff,
but just really making social fight fun again.
Love the use case, like on the,
Like on the emotional element of like,
you're kind of like pitching
to what people are already like doing
and then like offering like a product
or like more so like a functional use case around that,
which I find is like usually the best pitches
or like that's like usually how the best pitches come across
cause there's like a little bit of like more
in emotional slash like actionable,
like representation or like commonality there.
I'm lost for words and what I would actually like,
I'm looking for like maybe the word correlation there,
but I also like how boring social fight now has like become
not saying I was like not an advocate for it at the time,
but I'm actually like curious in terms of like,
when are these social fight platforms
actually going to do their drops
and actually like offer something valuable back
to the people that have been like farming
cause it's like, I feel that like I saw a tweet,
I think the other day that said like,
nobody cares friend tech about how many points
you're airdropping, like do the airdropper ready,
otherwise like we're going to delete the app,
which I feel like we're definitely at a point for.
I noticed like a lot of the tokens,
like in the keys, I guess you can call them
like haven't dropped that much,
but I'm personally sick of social fight.
I think it's like the number one way
to just like dump your bags on people
and show your own whatever it is.
I didn't see much utility come from like social fight
as like a whole personally,
it's just a personal experience.
If other people did hear great, I hope you guys did,
but on the topic of social fight,
like I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on it,
just like, or if you have any questions for Fidgetil
and what his pitch was and what he's building,
I definitely think it's cool.
We definitely need to host some contests
and organize some collaborations with that
because I love playing daily fantasy sports myself,
even though this year I did get wrecked
in the finals in my fantasy football.
So that's a GG, but yeah.
I traded McCaffrey halfway through the season
and I was up, I was killing everybody.
I got, I fucked myself like a shit corner.
And I was like, you know what?
Let me get Justin Jefferson.
He'll come back at the end.
I can't lose too many games
where I can't make the playoffs.
Yeah, I lost every single game afterwards.
You're cheating, you're good players.
Oh man, we've all been there, bro.
I've made some crazy mistakes.
Probably the best thing I did this year
was pick up Raheem Mostert off of waivers in week one.
So that kind of like, you know, saved my team.
I was like very set with running backs,
but my best wide receiver was Terry McClure.
And so that didn't pan out very well for me
in a three wide receiver league.
But yeah, aside the topic of football,
I wanna jump back to social five.
There's a couple of people here on the stage
that we haven't really heard from.
I've seen Chapman throw a hand every now and then.
I didn't know if you had anything to say.
Also wanted to give eight mother a chance to talk,
considering I met him in Miami as well.
And I'm always on this guy's space with nigh guy.
So yeah, what's up everybody?
Like this is a free game.
Like I'm just like, I'm throwing a hot potato right now.
So whoever wants to catch it, you can catch it.
Give us your opinion on social five.
And then if you have any other additional thoughts
or anything to share, by all means, go for it.
Yo, yo, what's going on at Loco and gang?
Great to hear you building again, somebody that I respect.
I also got to meet Fidgetl in Miami.
It's really cool connecting with people
that you talk to for like sometimes 12 months
before you actually maybe get to meet them.
Fidgetl showed up in Miami,
not his first rodeo building either.
So I'm excited to learn more about what you're doing.
Honestly, I don't know enough about social five.
I kind of stayed away from friend tech
just because it was a distraction for me at the time.
I already have a lot going on.
And so like the number one thing that comes to mind
for me regarding social five is like,
and you know, why use that one other platform for me?
Like content creation, creating value
for the people around me.
I already spent a lot of time doing it on Twitter
and it takes a lot of my energy.
I'm also trying to do that in other channels as well.
You know, even getting as crazy as like
making a plan for Pinterest
and like some of these other channels
that I'm not leveraging really well
that I could be for my brand
and also for my company's brand.
So like, you know, I don't know for me,
like it's got to kind of integrate
into what I'm already using, so to speak
or like be really easy to access.
So I don't know if you want to talk about that digital,
like how do you like sell it to somebody like myself?
So I think you're highlighting a point
so it's not a social five product
in the way the social five platforms exist right now.
You're not creating your own new key
or your own token or any nobody's buying
So it aggregates data from any social platform,
whatever those data points are.
And it allows you to build teams of people,
friends or enemies or creators
that you think are going to the highest likelihood
of succeeding or having the highest point increase
based on whatever metrics there are for that competition.
So eventually you'll be able to set up your own competitions
with your friends that could be
whose key prices go up on friend tech,
who has the most likes on Twitter
and who was the biggest loser on another social five platform
or on any social platform.
The idea is where I think these platforms suffer,
social five, I will mention it,
is that they're either trying to take over Twitter
and create a new social platform,
which for a myriad of reasons won't work
and hasn't worked in the past, it clots specifically,
or otherwise their utility like friend tech
is trying to create connections in that separate ecosystem.
This is providing opportunities to compete,
win money, set up competitions, gamble against your friends
within existing social ecosystems.
So you would set up a team,
then you'd set up teams and a competition,
and then you can come to socials
and impact the data points that make your team win,
kind of like if you were at the pier
and they had that game where the horses get raced
by you squeezing water at them.
Imagine that, but the water that you're squeezing
and then you compete for whatever period of time,
but it's not a social five platform
that people are used to in and of itself,
it's gamification of all social data.
So I appreciate you explaining that, Fijo.
So do people start out with like a balance
in like the native currency of the platform
that then if they lose it, they have to like buy back in,
but originally like I have the ability to like parlay
and trade and like set up like bets essentially
on these like creative bets.
So like there's an incentive for me,
like maybe right away to like use the platform,
try to like create a bunch of bets,
earn a bunch of currency from you and Aleko
and you know, King Pepe, everyone else who like gets on there.
And then if I like really like it and I wanna keep playing
and I like take an L because it's addictive and fun
I buy the native currency and then keep making bets.
Is that kind of the idea?
Yeah, so it's being deployed first.
We're in partnership with a number of chains.
Again, I don't build anything that's ecosystem specific.
I also don't launch NFTs for the most part.
So if I do, they're highly functional.
I was actually gonna ask King Pepe if his are six by five ones
cause it sounded like he was creating
a collection capability, but we'll be greasing.
There'll be a gas station to cover the gas fees
for all creation of games.
There'll be a ton of free games at the gate.
We're gonna be giving away a tremendous amount of money.
This is built on a new L1 called Rails.
It's pretty cool actually there.
Anybody who builds on the chain has to KYC and AML.
So the likelihood of rugs gets decreased dramatically.
If you're building or deploying or you're a node operator.
So it'll include assets from every ecosystem, every chain.
You'll come in for the first couple months
you'll be able to play games.
If you want to just play the free games
and level up and grind, you can tear up
from like porpoise to whale to that.
And that gives you access to bigger games
that will have big free winnings
as well as points multipliers.
But then yes, you can set up your own game,
invite your friends, they all put into 20 bucks
or whatever it is, 40 bucks, a hundred bucks.
Whatever your parameters, winner takes all
but the person who set up the competition also gets a rake.
So it allows you to rile up your followers
and the people in your spaces and your friends.
Not a big commitment financially
with big wins opportunities.
And then also a revenue generation opportunity
for influencers and spaces hosts to galvanize
which is social credit and social reach.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
I kind of, have you ever seen the movie Rat Race?
I don't know if you've seen it
but it kind of reminds me of like,
this ability to like bet on people
hanging off the curtain rods
and just like get fun and creative with it.
And just like, have a little bit of fun
that's like besides like, hey, come follow me
because you'll get a secret password
to a secret chat or something silly.
Exactly, and if you're gonna dump people's keys
you might as well have them be on somebody else's team
and compete against them.
So you can get points from beating them
and money from beating them
and also sell your keys at that time.
Not that I'm suggesting that.
Yeah, I'll stop hogging the mic here quickly
and talking about Fidgetl's new product here, Luka.
But I care as Fidgetl, do you kind of see this
as potentially being a replacement
to gamble on like digital gaming?
I think that's probably a really fun space
that people are looking to maybe wager
on different influencers or in tournaments.
You're even starting to see some of this stuff
where like for like massive gaming tournaments
you can like bet on specific esports teams and whatnot.
I don't know, it's just like one applicable idea.
Yes, the goal is to be a global web three
social or interaction-based spec platform.
Yeah, I don't know what that means.
That's like super, super significant.
You can, sorry, you can bet,
you can make any bets that anybody else wants to bet with you
that is supported by the data points that we pull.
Well, dude, it's great to talk to you.
I'm also gonna be talking to you
a little bit more on the backend.
I'll move off from this subject.
Yo, Luka, thanks for bringing me up.
I know I've been kind of just sitting here
up in a speaker position for a while,
but I wanted to come support you.
I was here week one, had to show up week two.
It's great hearing from you last night on the torch.
Yeah, I don't wanna hug them.
I just wanna say what up.
You got my support, brother.
Yo, yo, it was a pleasure being on the torch, man.
I feel like you guys asked a lot of good questions
and yeah, it's nice to see you here on week two.
I know that you did come up
and say a few words on week one,
so just if anyone didn't know,
this is gonna be a weekly space
every single Wednesday, 4.20 p.m. EST.
The perfect time to smoke, chill, talk some vibes.
A next week is going to be an absolute banger
because it's our two-year anniversary
since we launched publicly under Stoner Ape Club,
but now we're Stoners, so I feel like that's gonna,
you know, that represents a lot of nostalgia coming back.
We're gonna have to set up, you know,
some crazy giveaways and stuff like that.
There's gonna be some awesome guests,
so you definitely don't wanna miss it.
But speaking of giveaways,
we actually selected the giveaway winner.
They're up on the stage right now.
Crazy how this was the giveaway winner
and I think we need to tweet the Twitter picker.
I was gonna say go and post it
so people don't think we're rigging this,
But this is just like karma, gives you what you deserve,
You support us, you stay active in the community
at all times, you win giveaways.
That's just like, I guess that's just like how it works,
Personally, I've never won any giveaways,
but I like, maybe I'm just not consistent enough
like with interacting with people's tweets,
you know, like staying true to the homies,
having notifications on, maybe I just don't do that,
maybe I'm just too selfish.
But this person who won the giveaway
I see this person all day, every single day
repping in our Discord, repping all over Twitter.
So yeah, you wanna go ahead and announce it, Alex?
Yeah, I went ahead and tweeted it
with the Twitter link or two.
It's Assassin Dragons, he's been here since day one,
basically, always showing love,
always being a part of the Stoner Spaces,
and just always being a part of the community
and always helping push out.
So I couldn't have been happier for anybody else.
Assassin's Dragon, congratulations,
and I'll pass over the mic to you now.
I was just about to take a fat dab,
I think I'm after a little bit more on there,
And I think your voice is a little bit low.
I don't know if it's just me,
but if not, maybe speak into the phone a little bit more.
If it is just me, then, you know, excuse me, it's okay.
That was, yeah, so I can hear you better now.
All right, yeah, no, I was just about to take a dab,
but you take a much fatter dab now and enjoy the stoner.
Hell yeah, and you know what?
I'm gonna make Jade join you on that dab too.
Oh shit, let's go with you.
I'm about to go fire one up right now.
You're about to wake me back up.
You know, we have to smoke for hours.
I was gonna say sorry to cut you off,
because Assassin's Dragon is one of the OGs,
he's always been in the Discord, like in BC and stuff,
when I'm in there, like hanging out,
doing my thing, just like going on nature walks,
smoking blinds, like whether I'm taking dabs
and just like hanging out,
chatting with everybody that's in there.
So yeah, definitely shout out to homie for winning,
loving somebody that's super active
and supporting on the timeline,
repping a PFP like he has been
since the day we dropped him in the Discord.
So definitely appreciate you homie.
Glad to be here and can't wait to see
Appreciate all the support bro, means a lot.
If any of you guys didn't know,
Assassin's Dragons is running a 3D stoner PFP.
You can actually find them in our Discord
I believe I dropped like 10 samples
from our first test generation
and they're like free to use for anybody
that wants to go and like rep them all over Twitter.
If you want a new profile picture,
Or if you just want to put it on just to support,
means a lot to us seeing them in the notifications,
in the comments section of all of our tweets.
It is awesome, you know what I mean?
And I'm not biased, slash maybe I'm biased,
but I truly believe that this is going to be
like one of the higher quality
There's a lot of like custom features
that we have for undergarment clothing
versus like above clothing,
meaning like you can cycle through
like some of the undergarments,
like meaning like the t-shirts
and hoodies over top of jackets.
So there's going to be like a lot of like different styles.
Like I guess you can say like variations of like stoners
that are going to be available as well as like,
we're always going to have the ability
for people to customize them.
And I got a few questions on the customization
in regards to isn't there going to be inflation
for some of the traits and stuff like that.
So we're still working on the model
in terms of how we're going to do that.
For example, we haven't announced
like an official trait customization yet.
That's still something that we're mapping out
to see whether we want to do it
to keep like value for some rare traits
you technically need to have NFTs
that are worth more than others in the collection
or like a utility that would act as a hole
for like getting rid of that
where like all the NFTs can be like shifted over to rare ones.
So we wanted to find a model
that would actually work for that.
Not saying that we're going to be doing custom traits
associated in the project,
but for the customization for the workshop
that's more oriented to like facial expressions,
and I guess like just like overall like character aesthetic
in terms of like poses and stuff like that.
So there's a lot more previews
that we still need to showcase.
But in regards to like the customization element for traits,
this is something that we were thinking,
it would be a paid process,
wouldn't be expensive, you know what I mean?
But the higher traits that you were to actually buy
and try to customize onto your stoner,
the price would increase based off of what the market,
I guess like differences in terms of like average of listings,
if you have like rare traits
that are listed higher than others,
the price to customize your stoner with that trait
would essentially be higher.
And then there has to be prefixated supply
So let's say we had 10 rare traits
and they got bought up at the current price that we had,
the next 10 would have an increased price
to almost price, I guess like people out
and also keep like in respect to the floor price
So we're working on a little bit of the math there.
it's something that like we're still bouncing ideas back,
but the whole idea with our ecosystem
and like being like an art based project
is we wanna supply like as many customized features
as possible for these stoners.
So one that we definitely do have
that I can like confirm is coming,
this is like the logic in terms of like how it's coming,
we fully built out the model for it
is the fusion between two or more NFTs.
So let's say you do have two stoners,
you need to have obviously two or more
because you're fusing one with the other essentially.
is it's more of like a trait mix and match.
So what you can do is like,
if you have like one really nice hat and sunglasses on one
and you wanna shift that over to like,
you think that the color ways
or like it's gonna match really well
with like a jacket and a t-shirt
or like an undergarment on one of them,
you can actually burn one of the stoners
and transfer the traits over
and then have one stoner to your liking,
whether you just feel that it's a little bit
more aesthetically pleasing
with some of the stuff that we are gonna be dropping.
That is going to be a set feature in our ecosystem
so that we have our supply decreasing at all times.
And essentially the goal is to have the quality
of the collection from an aesthetic
and appearance point of view,
increasing from what holders want within the community.
So that's gonna be a little bit of like a fun feature
that we will have available for everybody
Of course, it's only gonna be applicable to you
if you're holding two or more
and you're willing to burn one of them
But yeah, I feel like in terms of like customization,
that's really going to be something
that we're going to be focusing a lot of our utility around
in terms of like scaling our ecosystem
and having like priority holders
to be able to customize the look and feel
of their stoner as they please.
There's also another idea
that's kind of like circulating around.
Most likely this is going to be coming out.
It's like 90% ready slash 10% still in like brainstorming.
I know a lot of people love like Twitter assets
and like customizing like certain posts
and stuff like that with their NFTs.
I used to animate my clone for like doing
like a good morning, a good night.
Like having like the hard eyes and all that more so
like a very like expressionary creative
or I guess like creative asset
that's also like very on brand for your profile picture
because I feel that it can help you really just
like increase the reach of your overall profile
as well as like your brand within the community
that you're a part of as well as to other communities.
And it also showcases the quality
of the art a little bit better publicly.
So we were looking to actually create almost
like a trade library that would be publicly available
where you would have like all sorts of expressions,
hand gestures and stuff like that
so that you could actually go
and make like custom Twitter posts for your stoners
whether you wanna say what's up to somebody,
you know, and we're gonna have all sorts of like
just generic and basic like general expressions
maybe have like a few like cool web three ones.
So that's a little bit of alpha
for everybody here in the space
because we do like to drop some of the best alpha here.
This is probably the space where you'll get
to know the most of the project.
Like it's a chance for you guys to ask like questions,
give feedback, give any comments.
We do also a lot of that in our discord
if you guys are not in our discord.
So I'm gonna quickly pin another tweet up
that I have here on my page
that has our discord link in it.
I will be selecting people for an airdrop
that were in this space that also joined the discord
which means you will actually receive a free stoner.
We have a fixated supply that we have allocated
for free airdrops from very talented creators
that we find that we're interested in the project
that also resonate very well with our use case
and our vision as well as some other project founders
that we've collaborated with,
some very appropriate communities
that have been supporting us along the way.
We have kind of like put aside a portion of our supply
in order to actually like almost like extend an invite
because we feel that this would like probably resonate
with the best audience or niche
that we might create internally within the ecosystem.
We don't want it to just get bought up by flippers.
You wanna invite people that we feel are going to be
like key stakeholders and representatives
for the vision that we're actually looking to make.
And yeah, I mean, that's probably all that I got
for you guys in terms of like a pitch today.
I don't know if you wanted to pass the mic around.
It's been almost two hours here up on the space.
Usually we do close it around two hours.
So I wanna say like maybe some final thoughts
from anybody on the team.
If you wanna bring anybody up last minute
who has a question or a comment,
I just brought another one of our team members up, Sal,
here in case he wants to say a quick intro
or like a quick little what's up to the room
But yeah, appreciate everybody who's showed up
Assassin Dragons, man, congratulations on winning the giveaway.
You've been nothing but supportive for us
and for our whole team since the start.
Let's definitely give him a round of applause.
That's definitely appreciated.
We deserve it bro, for real, we really do, man.
We see the shit you do day in and day out
and the support you show us every single day showing up.
It means the absolute fucking world to us.
I'm so sorry I showed up late.
I literally just got home from work, got the shower.
I was listening on the train though.
I couldn't speak because I was under the ground
but I appreciate everybody for showing up
I couldn't speak to the whole thing.
It means a lot to us, man.
Please pop out into the Discord if you're not.
That's where we do release a lot of information.
Again, as Aliko was saying,
our spaces is where you're gonna get to get the most alpha.
Not only the most alpha, but again,
our team is very knowledgeable
in so many different things to the point
where they can teach you things other than Web3,
So it's a beautiful thing.
We have these spaces weekly.
We're minting out soon, baby.
This is Stoners 2024, it's all year.
Stoners 2024, I love that.
And yeah, don't like make sure to not miss next week's
space because as I was saying earlier,
it's been two years of fricking Stoners, man,
which is actually insane to me.
Like this blows my mind, you know what I mean?
Web3 gives opportunity so much,
so much past just flipping JPEGs to the people that are here.
Like there is opportunity for every single one of you.
It can start with a dream, starts progressively,
But two years of Stoners, that's absolutely insane.
Appreciate every single one of you guys.
I'll pass the mic around one more time
Do not miss next week's space.
I'm just gonna say it again.
Like I keep jumping on this.
I feel like I have ADHD right now.
I miss next week's space.
Two years of fricking Stoners.
Yeah, you don't wanna miss it.
That's crazy to me, crazy.
There'll be a lot of, you know, stuff going on.
You guys definitely don't wanna miss.
I mean, just for me, I love you all, man.
They brought me in last year
due to actually me knowing the law.
I've been a paralegal the past 12 years
and I see a lot, a lot of familiar faces in the audience
and I can't even thank y'all enough
for all that means the world to me.
Again, congratulations, Assassin's Dragons.
We truly, truly see what you do day in and day out again
and we really, really appreciate that, man.
For real, for real, I want you to know that.
Like deep down from my heart,
we're grateful for you, for real.
And not only we're grateful for you,
we're grateful for everybody that leaves a comment,
the like, joins the Discord and says,
Anything along those lines,
just showing the little amount of love.
And we're beyond grateful.
And I can speak for the team wholeheartedly.
Thank you for those kind words, Sal,
You're all ready, brother.
Yo, you can't just sit out of me with that.
You gotta give a water next time, G.
Two years of frickin' stoners.
Don't miss out next week's face.
Two years of frickin' stoners.
Don't forget, hug your loved ones.
It's 4.20 somewhere, ladies and gentlemen.
So get your paraphernalia ready.
Okay, now I'm officially running.
Thank you guys so much for showing up.
Thank you for listening in to our shenanigans.
This has been a great space.
Thank you guys so much to the speakers up here.
Go and follow every single one of them.
Do not leave without following every single speaker.
Some extremely talented individuals here in web three,
probably some of the top.
Lots of them are building some incredible initiatives
and been here for a long time.
So yeah, two years of stoners.
Once again, episode three, baby.