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THE DAILY ALPHAβ»οΈ
Recorded: April 17, 2025 Duration: 1:43:40Space Recording
Short Summary
In a lively discussion, participants explored various trends and developments in the crypto space, including BlackRock's bullish Bitcoin acquisition, the impact of political pressures on monetary policy, and the upcoming Magic Eden Airdrop. Additionally, the conversation highlighted the innovative sperm racing token launch, reflecting the evolving landscape of crypto engagement.
Full Transcription
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We got to get in the habit of pinning this stuff up and showing that, you know, he's part of the team, too, and giving us an exposure.
So shout out Antonio.
Shout out Allison for, you know, recapping the whole space from yesterday.
It was a good one filled with a lot of alpha.
If you guys didn't check it out, please do.
It was a good one. It was with Banana bot so um appreciate you guys love you guys um lots of stuff happening in the space uh on chain rugs off chain rugs sperm racing
all kinds of shit's going on so we'll get into it how we doing this morning chief we doing all right
yes sir i'm a little over caffeinated i'm a little over caffeinated bro
yeah you can kind of tell in your voice but it's all good i took that's one thing like
as being brazilian and and i've mentioned this here like coffee is cheaper than milk
out there you know and so it's just normal to drink coffee with everything so
i don't get the caffeine buzz.
Like I drink coffee cause I like actually like the taste of coffee, you know, and that kind of
thing, not because it's like, Oh, I'm, I'm gatered. And so that's just, I've never felt that
because I started at such a, you know, I got numb to it at such a young age, so to speak, you know?
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I typically drink like a cup of coffee in
the morning and then there's this viral TikTok trend that's like convinced me to buy this thing
called NeuroGum. And, uh, you know, these TikTok influencers are great at marketing. Uh, they're
saying it's like, uh, this L-theanine, um, a chemical is like, you're, you're getting not,
you're not getting enough of it and it's going to enhance your brain. And then they start like
talking about the movie Limitless.
I'm like, all right, all right.
You guys are motherfucking nuts.
I'll go try it out.
So I went on their website and found a location, a CVS near me, and I picked up a pack.
And so I had my coffee this morning.
I'm like, I'll take this before the show.
And it's like a hazmatini.
I look at the ingredients, and there's like a half a cup of coffee in this bitch.
So on top of the coffee I just had, I just had another cup of coffee on top of it, which
I didn't really notice that that had caffeine out. That was just l-theanine. So yeah, I'm a
little wound up, but it's all part of the plan. I'm starting a new phase of my life, health,
wealth, and just being mentally clear and just trying to focus as much
as on the things that i can focus on so that's what's happened with me i've never taken this
but i can tell you it is definitely a pick me up have you heard of this neuro gum chief before
no i mean i've heard of like the the lice like l lysine and all that kind of stuff that you can start doing to make your stack. I mean,
I do the regular stuff, right? Like protein and daily vitamins, all that. I do iron specifics.
But when you start doing health hacking and stuff, I mean, there's specific stacks that you can do
for that, right? Like you said, some will give you energy, other will be mental clarity. Some will give you, you know, like strength and stuff. So
you can start getting really, really down that deep curve, in a sense, and add and these people
take upwards to like 15 to 20 pills a day. But I mean, they swear by it, right? I mean,
and it's that biohacking stuff so i mean evidentially
it's real to a certain extent you just also have to do the clean living and do all the rest
with it you know a lot of people just take the pills and expect to be like yo unlock it all and
it's like nah this is a in combination with lifestyle changes and all that kind of stuff
you know it's not just one
replaces the other 100 yeah i'm with you on that so that's what that i mean it's working it's
definitely working i got a little extra you know extra pepness i'm doing my daily walk collecting
my uh luco boxes while i do the show so get my exercise in right now while we do the show but
there was some stuff that happened macro yesterday i mean just this whole space is built off this
macro conditions i guess the thing that just happened about 28 minutes ago is BlackRock just bought
another 300, what is it? Fucking 30,000 or 300, a lot of Bitcoin. I don't know. I can't read how
many fucking zeros are in this bitch, but BlackRock just bought a bunch of Bitcoin,
which is pretty bullish. Like when these motherfuckers buy or Michael Saylor buys,
it's typically showing you like there's some kind of bottom in or just like there's some kind of
bullishness probably coming in the future so that just happened about 28 minutes ago people are
freaking out about it so figure i'd bring it up that's pretty bullish as a i mean i keep thinking
about that too right i think that that's one of the issues that we keep having when it comes down
to the gold narrative it's like people that are have physical gold or
have access to gold related, you know, stocks or bonds or whatever it may be like they have that
ability to not really depend on. Yeah, you depend on the market, but you can access it whenever and
sell whenever. Right. And I think that that's the issue is that we're having a harder time convince these people to do the same with Bitcoin, so to speak, because they're not being able to just offload.
Right. Even now, to a certain extent, if you had a substantial amount of Bitcoin, it would be a pain in the ass to just take advantage of this price action, which is something that these gold bugs are having no problem doing right now
right is realizing some profits and for us that becomes a lot harder when you try to do that so
yeah i'm with you yeah you know like it's just it's not comparable in that sense for a normie
to think okay cool like then then give me the profit right now and it's like oh well hold up
uh how much do you want to sell do you want to want you know can we do it here is it that and Like, then give me the profit right now. And it's like, oh, well, hold up.
How much do you want to sell?
Do you want to want, you know, can we do it here?
Is it that?
And most of the time you can kind of get off, but it's like, well, actually, it's not a good time.
We're on a downtrend or this or that.
And so it's just a little bit different style of offboarding.
And then the same thing, too.
the same thing too. A lot of people collected gold because they wanted to be off of the map,
A lot of people collected gold because they wanted to be off of the map, right?
right? In all reality, be able to make these moves and do all this kind of stuff in person,
in the peer-to-peer bartering style way. And I mean, you can't do that in a sense Bitcoin,
right? Even if you do sell two, three, four coins, you can't offload fucking 300, 400k in fiat
without no one looking at you, right?
But you can go find someone down the street to sell ounces of gold to indefinitely.
I promise you that.
You can go all the way down your street and hit every store and someone will buy every ounce of gold you have.
Might not be at the price you want, but you can cash all of that out within, you know, let's just say an hour or a day.
Something that you wouldn't be able to do on the Bitcoin side of things, right?
At least not with current legislation and just infrastructure.
Well, it's definitely a thing that a lot of Chinese citizens are trying to get, you know, some exposure to gold or Bitcoin because of, you know, the communist country of China and, you know, the yuan and all this shit that they're very, very strict on, you know, keeping their money inside their economy and their citizens being, you know, the, you know, Wan and all this shit that they're very, very strict on, you know,
keeping their money inside their economy and their citizens being, you know,
slaves are just being servant to the government and look at Chinese gold
trading activity explodes.
So what are they trying to tell us?
So like this gold price going up is a lot of Chinese people,
like citizens that are understanding what's happening in this trade war and
seeing that their jobs might be lost. And they're trying to do something to hedge against
it that the government can't control or they can get out of it. And gold is one of the main trading
things that they've been doing since this trade war started. So probably the big reason why gold's
going up because the Chinese citizens are probably buying it for some kind of hedge based off their
current deflationary currency over there.
So that's just a chart that's pinned up top for you.
And that's based off Chinese gold trading activity.
And it goes up to, I don't even know what these numbers mean, but that's a fucking piss missile to the fucking top of the chart.
So I just thought that was interesting since we are talking about gold.
Why is the gold price going up?
It looks like the Chinese community is the ones that's driving this up and what are they scared
about i wonder you know i wonder what they're scared of so and yesterday we kind of talked about
uh jerome powell coming on stage uh the post i put up yesterday was the wrong time i guess it came
out like two or three hours after the show ended but uh he was pretty hawkish. Motherfucker was saying inflation, he wasn't, you know, the
tariffs were more than expected, but he did bullpost a little bit about crypto, which, you know,
we're sitting around kind of the same spot we were yesterday. So yes, it did have effect on the
market, but for a very short period of time. And then Trump is fucking pissed off, like always.
So Trump slams Fed chair, Trump's drum Powell saying he's always too late and wrong.
His termination cannot come fast enough.
He urges immediate rate cuts.
So I don't know.
We've been talking about this Fed chair,
Ben Powell's chairs up next year in May,
and they're looking to possibly turn him in before,
or I don't know what they're going to do,
but I do think, you know,
Jerome Powell is going to be replaced maybe sooner than later.
And I don't know if that has to go to the Supreme Court or this and that, but Trump is getting pretty frustrated with this all.
And like even the European Central Banks cut rates today.
So Jerome Powell is the only one that isn't cutting rates.
And it's pretty interesting to see how, you know, Trump reacts to this guy.
And it kind of looks like to a certain extent you can't do that like this is a
private business right the the minute that you cross that line and you can tell the ceo of a
company or the acting officiant of a company what to do because you're the president then free capital all of that
is gone there is no free markets there's none of that the president can come in and just say hey i
don't like how you're running your business be done with it right and so ultimately that's the
biggest issue too that even if drone pal wants to to a certain extent it's do you give in to the
bully because if you give in to the bully he's taking your lunch for the rest of it.
I mean, it's not just today. It'll be tomorrow. It'll be the day after. It'll be any day that he's hungry.
Right. And so I think that that's also one of the bigger issues here at hand, too, is that he doesn't want to kind of just give in to the shit.
Yeah. And then you had Mike Lee yesterday basically calls for abolishing the IRS and Federal Reserve.
you had Mike Lee yesterday basically calls for abolishing the IRS and Federal Reserve. So
like I said, this is all just like a, Trump has a lot of right-wing people around him that are
feeding him information to fucking do something about this private bank that runs the whole
fucking world. And it's just, there's a lot of smoke, right? Like, I don't know if it ever
happens, but there's a lot of people around him that want to abolish the IRS and get Jerome Powell
out and put Scott Besson as the head of the fucking Federal Reserve. So I don't know if it ever happens, but there's a lot of people around him that want to abolish the IRS and get Jerome Powell out and put Scott Besson as the head of the fucking Federal Reserve.
So I don't know, man.
It's getting interesting.
I don't know what blows up first, the economy or the Federal Reserve.
I don't know, man.
It's not a great situation for everybody because we are a tweet away from like a global collapse. I would imagine if there was some kind of tension between Jerome Powell, if there's some
kind of, you know, he's going to get fired soon or like the Supreme Court approves that, I would
imagine the economy would, there would be some kind of effect in the economy, like crypto drops,
markets drop, there will be some effect of it. So I don't know if we want that or not, like for
short-term pain, for long-term gain, But there's definitely a lot of smoke building around the people around Trump
that kind of get him out.
And I don't know where it happens.
And then kind of Jerome Powell also put a kibosh on the hopes of a May rate cut.
So during the speech, the possibilities are down to 16% after reaching 44% last week.
So it doesn't look like we're going to get a rate cut at the next FOMC meeting.
Based off these predictions, everybody else is cutting rates around the world,
but America is staying packed, and it looks like June might be our first rate cut.
So I don't know, man.
This space is so forward-thinking.
If this gets to 60% or 70%, you'll probably start seeing people start front-running
the first rate cut sometime in the middle of May or something like that and maybe start pumping the markets into the summer so
do you think that we're gonna have like a summer a summer law law like we have or do you actually
think we're gonna have some activity this summer chief kind of looks like things are kind of
lining up for summer to have some like pretty bullish macro stuff come out like with rate
cuts and possibly legislation that was supposed to
trigger off the beginning of May so I think that that ultimately does kind of stifle down as just
timeline wise maybe right and then ultimately it just depends on if people are still thinking it's
that whole go you know sell in May and go away aspect yeah the macro was slowly changing but
that was heavily dependent on hey hey, rate cuts are coming,
you know, the hand is being forced, whatever it may be. If that's no longer the situation
or the case, then I can definitely see people less likely to leave as much on the table,
right? And then just play a little bit more cautiously in the summer.
Yeah. And then talk about, I don't know nvidia is a private company
or not but you know obviously trump says hey you can't sell fucking chips to china anymore and then
jensen wong the ceo of nvidia has arrived in beijing for chalk talks with chinese official
amid u.s china trade war so i don't know if these stocks are great or bad or if like nvidia moves
out of america and moves to canada so it can basically trade chips around the world.
I don't know, because China is now negotiating with Canada for oil.
So I don't know if this becomes like Canada now is like,
hey, now you're negotiating with China, now we're going to raise tariffs.
So kind of seeing some big companies starting to entertain China
kind of puts a little more tension on what Trump might do with some of
these companies. And then there are also Trump is getting doubling down and restricting access
to DeepSeek. The App Store ban limits on how cloud providers offer DeepSeek model H20 ban,
it's over. So Trump is doubling down on anything China related. I guess he's going to say security
concerns. And if you know anything about China,
they basically have backdoors in all our chips
and been stealing our IP and our intellectual property
from our government for years.
And so Trump knows this,
and he's basically trying to stop all this kind of stuff
that's been the Chinese government's doing
for the past 20 to 30 years.
So I don't know, pretty interesting times.
I don't know how it's all going to end up,
but I think this maybe happens once in our lifetime.
And we're here. We're here to see it.
And CZ is kind of saying nations are going to print unlimited money to buy Bitcoin.
I sure hope so, CZ.
I hope your Pakistani council board and you're talking to all these Middle Eastern countries and all these countries,
board and you're talking to all these middle eastern countries that are all gonna and all
these countries and he's basically saying that countries are gonna print money and buy bitcoin
which would be a type dream for everybody so it's pretty crazy these are crazy times man i didn't
expect this to be this uh this crazy um but now that we're in it it kind of seems like some of
this stuff is not affecting the market as much as it did before.
It kind of feels like we're getting used to it.
It's not dumping 30% after every tweet.
So we're kind of getting past the volatility and just kind of the market's already priced some of this in.
And we're kind of going forward.
And hopefully there's some kind of resolution in the next month or two because if this continues for the next five to six months with no resolution i can't see how the market's going to we're going to get this crazy
bull market that we all have been kind of expecting so not great not great not good i don't know where
to go but it's uh it's it's definitely interesting uh we have gold soaring and all that other stuff
and there's a lot of on-chain activity that i found out that I have in my bookmarks today that I kind of wanted to cover.
Because on-chain is basically where the truth lies.
So we were asking, like, who's selling Bitcoin?
Yesterday, I showed you charts that Bitcoin miners are selling.
But CryptoQuant basically say that the real sell pressure is not from whales or old hands, but it's from retail.
that the real sell pressure is not from whales or old hands, but it's from retail.
Midsize cohorts, shrimps to sharks, and short-term holders, a classic shakeout.
So the people that are actually selling are us.
And I think that has a lot to do with taxes,
but also a lot of people trying to make their money back
after being fucking liquidated in the past two months.
So they're probably selling their most secure asset, trying to make some more gains while the market goes
sideways and selling their Bitcoin. So that's a really good sign for Bitcoin going up. The fact
that short term sellers are buying and long term whales and stuff like that are buying.
Typically, that kind of shows you there's capitulation and typically kind of marks a bottom
when retail kind of capitulates so that's all that that was pretty interesting you also have
the money supply slowly starting to catch up right i mean it's on a three-month lag uh anytime you
see those charts bitcoin itself is on a three-month lag than the actual money supply most of the time, right? Granted, check your charts.
But we're slowly starting to see at first it was dipping, right?
And then they started to print more money.
We saw the print more money candle skyrocket upwards.
Well, we've slowly hit that bottom to where we're chopping sideways, right?
And almost lining up with right before the injection of money into the money supply and then following all people's ideas or what traditionally happens is when more money is in the ecosystem or available in the world, ultimately some of it goes into riskier assets.
sets uh granted bitcoin right especially now with that being the talk of the town and the kind of um
asset of choice for this year right or this cycle so i got it pinned up to the top you can kind of
see that where they're starting to line up and bottom out and then once again this is a two to
three month out so it would line up to kind of what we're saying with potential rate cuts in the
summer and just all of that
kind of a culmination of all of those events together.
Yeah, Raul Paul kind of is the one that kind of spurred this theory of the global money
supply being attached to Bitcoin.
And I also pinned up kind of his chart of kind of where we're at.
He says, I know many of you want to see the updated version of the BTC Global M2 Supply.
Here it is.
Just a very small part of the weekly macro investing tool in MIT as part of the BTC Global M2 Supply. Here it is. Just a very small part of the weekly macro
investing tool MIT as part of the RV Plus. It is time. Give or take a few days. So he's probably
saying like, this looks like a bottom. And like we said, it's like three month delay. And based
off the gold prices and the global money supply kind of skyrocketing. And kind of also, I just pent up a chart of Bitcoin whales
are taking Bitcoin off exchanges at record levels.
And then retail is capitulating.
All kind of marks a bottom for me.
And kind of seeing, you know, Jerome Powell going up on stage yesterday,
us dumping, but us regaining that.
And now we're back to where we are.
Kind of showing strength and there's bids at certain levels. And like a lot of strength in the market and uh i definitely think if we give it a
few more weeks and there's any kind of macro bullishness i do think we can kind of start
piercing that 92k resistance that we've been trying to beat this whole time so yeah man it's
kind of there's kind of some silver lining here a little bit just looking at the charts so we can go
and listen to people,
what they say and hear their rhetoric,
but a lot of the truth is on chain
and on chain is saying the bottom's in
and whales are accumulating and retail's capitulating.
That typically is a good sign
that Bitcoin is going to go up relatively soon.
So that's just a little bit on just macro
that I found this morning.
Chief, do you have anything else macro
that you found this morning
that you want to discuss before we move on man you're muted if you're talking i'm i'm pulling
up my bookmarks okay that's fine uh no not necessarily macro i mean just new finds and
stuff like chains and opportunities and stuff like that but they're more so uh higher end
not necessarily just macro wise right so yeah i mean the market is kind of lame
obviously it's all about oh my bad no no no like i said it's not it's not macro it's not anything
like that i mean just someone else getting fished i wanted to put that out there again just keep
talking about this security thing this one is new this one came directly from Twitter saying that he got a DCMA, right?
Copyright issues.
So if you guys are out there writing threads, I know you actually make videos, other people
in our community copyright and also our content creators.
This is a very sophisticated phishing thread that went out, right?
And it's people using fake Twitter copyrights to have you log in and then obviously take your account.
We don't talk about this enough or we do only when, you know, let's just say the bull is here.
But 2FA should not be your phone number, guys.
If you have a burner, use the burner phone.
If you don't, it should not be your phone number.
So just throwing this out there here is just kind of more so macro news in that sense, right?
But just be careful, right?
Don't get fished. Don't get screwed.
A lot of bullshit is happening and more and more people are getting compromised.
Is it the Magic Eden airdrop today?
Yes, that is. I'll post that up to you.
So first and foremost, I think it should go live at 9 p.m. Central or 9 p.m. Eastern or 9 a.m.
Give me one second. I'll pull it up.
I got it posted up top for the Wallet Connect and for Season 2.
So Magic in the Air Drop Season 2 starts today.
starts today. And then if you need to, they are recommending you to reconnect and relink all of
your wallets, right? They're not saying that they know if you do, but they had some type of issue
and they're just suggesting people for season two to ensure that you connect all of your wallets.
And then that way you are ready to go if you plan on participating in it
here let me get you the actual date uh the time sorry
hidden foundation
you expecting a big airdrop from this is this going to be something that if people have done
all the requiring things and stake do you think it's something that's like two to three k or do you think it's more than that which kind of what do
you know it's all based off of how much you put in bro and and it's not it's not just it's relative
to that right it's all based off of how much you put in um what the fuck magic eating community
that's wild uh i can't i don't even dude i hate that there's so many fucking different pages
magic eating evm
magic eating barra magic eating like why the fuck isn't there just one central one for the
foundation itself uh but anyway uh no it's supposed to be one third of whatever you staked
and you participated and then ultimately there was a um multiplier based off of the percentage of the quote-unquote quests you have done, right?
So you had to have staked X amount, and then your rank on that matters.
So there's that.
All that info.
Nice little stimmy today.
I don't think it'll be nice.
It'll be a stimmy.
You know, like, let's just be honest. It'll be a stimmy, but I don't think it'll be nice it'll be a stimmy you know like let's just
be honest it'll be a stimmy but i don't think it'll be too nice i think that primarily they're
going to focus a lot of this into slingshot though right with the magic eden stuff for for
them acquiring slingshot with them doing 100 rev share they're going to funnel a lot of this
staking quests in my opinion towards uh slingshot related activities and kind of just do that crossover.
Another thing, too, about the Slingshot aspect of it is when they're pulling for the Bitcoin side of things, they're still using the Magic Eden order books.
can have a token run uh and it'll run on the magic eden side as well because people are buying it up
inside slingshot because it's functioning and utilizing the magic eden uh order books so
interesting well i don't know if anybody kept staking you didn't have to keep staking they
they came out yesterday and and claimed that the airdrop was only if you...
Two separate things, right?
Staking power was a factor, but you could have unstaked once you, you know, completed the season or whatever it is.
So it wasn't a big deal.
So that's a good thing, too, because I think a lot of people would have been upset if they they weren't able to you know redo that shit so
what's up emmanuel posted dude hanging out walking my dog enjoying the couple days off that i have
that's pretty much it what are you guys yapping about uh magic eating airdrops today uh first
people so that's something that people were looking forward to what are you looking forward
to man what are you up to you know one thing that i did see is there's going to be a sonic summit uh this
may like may 5th to the 6th so maybe start speculating a little bit more on sonic and maybe
putting a long out leading up to the conference i do think there's going to be a lot of developments
and obviously they have that airdrop in june so i do kind of think sonic has taken a back seat in
the past month and a half
and i think it's probably a good time to start looking at it again with the summit on the 5th
and the 6th and then obviously the airdrop coming in june what's your thoughts on just sonic in
general manny um short it when the airdrop comes out that's pretty much it because it's going to
be a huge dilution event so but then it'll all be out you rubbed can you hear me now i can hear him perfectly chief
is it you or is it me did i run yeah i think it might be yeah i could take a lap but it's gonna
be a short short into the event and then just buy the dip like once it's all kind of bottomed out
and you have enough like like the ema on the 15 minute flattens out or on the one hour once that thing flattens
out then I'm gonna buy everything that I sold and then just try and get more but I mean I don't know
man I like it I'm pretty about it it's new it's fast it does its job there's a bunch of defy on
there they're gonna have more TVL than AVAX so that that's kind of where I'm at. I don't know.
I'm pretty about it.
Yeah.
So Sonic Summit is going to be classical.
Join us in Vienna on May 68th for a three day of exclusive networking speeches, hackathons,
and plenty of cake.
So yeah, typically these conferences are good things to speculate into.
There's a lot of announcements.
We see that a Solana break point.
Maybe there might be a maraud of Sonic to come out there to make everybody fucking pump meme coins or something on Sonic or whatever.
But yeah, just like keeping paying attention to these like conference season and where, you know, conferences are being held.
You know, if you're longing and shorting could be a nice little leverage play or something like that.
But typically it's like buy the rumor, sell the news kind of events.
Just wanted to keep you guys updated if you are interested in Sonic that that's going on in about a month.
And typically it's run up probably like two to three weeks
beforehand so you are looking into it probably look at it more now than than in may so um did
anybody get into the the the the for digens of fortune i've seen a lot of people that are
minting those heroes right now they had their uh pre-sale yesterday for first come, first serve.
And now I see a lot of big people talking about how they're minting these heroes now,
I guess, are the NFTs for the game, similar to DeFi Dungeons or whatever we did on Solana last week.
So I'll pin it up here for you guys if you are interested.
The hero mint is live.
Two hours until dungeon
opens and the game begins pray to the gacha gods and chase your four-star rainbow heroes 50 usdc
uh estimated supplies about 20 000 and come prepared and the dungeons will see you in hours so
so chief said that his internet is out so hopefully that the space doesn't rug if it does
we already got the little thing saying that's the is connecting thing so it'll probably rug
yeah probably in about 15 to 20 seconds guys um the internet and the space will rug so i guess
we will rerun it which is not great for attraction um to have you guys come
back after it's fucking already rugs but uh it's okay bro these people don't have anything else to
do bro don't worry about it dude you're not gonna fucking lose any listeners these motherfuckers
don't shit to do i feel you dude it's texas texas land uh texas power grid bro you know it's on it's
off it's up it's down you never know bro, bro. We're probably back here in probably about
two or three minutes whenever this rugs.
We'll get back to the
Dungeons of Fortune.
We've got some stuff on.
I got the phone on data,
so you're good on that.
I'm just trying to figure out the shit.
I managed to save that,
but give me one second.
Look at us.
Look at us, dude. As long as it's saved. Look at us, dude.
As long as it's saved, bro, I can continue on
and not feel like I'm just going to do something redarded.
So we've got Jeremy up here, too.
You know, that's a good segue to get into Jeremy.
Hey, Jeremy, how are we doing this morning?
What's up, X?
Hey, Chief, man, how is everybody doing?
Good, so the reason why
I brought you up
is this fucking TikTok
that Gary V basically retweeted
about these Tops
these exclusive Tops
cards, Chrome packs that
D-Friends partnered with
D-Friends are partnering at Tops
to release these Chrome packs.
And I also kind of saw some of the secondary sales on the first edition are going pretty crazy.
I saw the elephant, the elegant elephant.
There was a sale for like $20,000 and some are selling for like $6,000 or $7,000.
So I kind of wanted to get a TLDR on what's really going on with these packs how can
we get involved are these limited i saw maybe like an email you have to sign up so i know you're part
of the team can you give us like a rundown on these packs and how maybe we can get involved
with these things yeah absolutely that was a that was a great intro like for context that
the 20k sale on that elephant uh the Elephant is like one of our biggest characters. You know,
sometimes we think about it like a Mickey Mouse type. We'll see where it all plays out. But that
was a one of one autograph card. So, you know, trading cards for us have been a big part of the
business. And this is our third set that we're about to release with Topps Chrome. So it's been
exciting days for us. That set that you called out is the original one that we're about to release with tops chrome so it's been exciting days for us that set
that you called out is the original one that we released in january 22 uh and it's collectible
gary's art that's that features uh that like really mirrors the first nft collection there's
10 255 nfts and that card set is the same um or actually it's not quite the
same it's about 10 000 cards which in the card world is like extremely scarce and limited for
people who who know anything about this and then uh with the series two mint in april we released
the trading card game and so if you minted the series two nft you got a box of the trading card game. And so if you minted the Series 2 NFT,
you got a box of the trading card game,
which we've been ripping and playing.
We have our 2025 tournament season is coming up
starting at the end of this month.
We just partnered with a company called Cardio.
They do the entire digital play network for Disney Lorkana.
So we're rolling that out.
And the next week will be the release
of Topps Chrome. So that's May 7th. For anybody who's into trading cards, like collects Pokemon,
Magic the Gathering, things of that nature, you know, would be humbled for people to check it out.
vfriends.com slash Chrome is the best place to get that information. So to dig into it a little bit and, but to also
take a step back, like tops is the premier producer of cards. Like they are. Jeremy,
like trading cards are blowing the fuck up right now too, dude. It's not like.
They're definitely having a moment for sure. Right. So it's like a perfect time to get all
this out,
like right when the market's hot for trading cards.
But go ahead, man.
Yeah, the timing.
No, you're good.
The timing of everything is honestly so fascinating
because there was actually a boom in trading cards
as kind of an alternative investment class leading up to the first NFT run.
And just like everything, like boom and bust.
And Gary was early on that too like buying
buying all sorts of basketball players and and uh baseball players leading up to that so actually
there's a lot of vfriends nft holders that bought their vfriends nfts on mint with the money they
made buying and selling cards because you know like g, like Gary, he's not right about everything,
but he has a sharp eye for spotting trends. And the way he usually talks about it is like,
I'm there when it's already happened, but the rest of the world doesn't realize it's happened.
And that's where he goes all in. He did that with, I mean, to go really far back, he did that with even just e-commerce, with wine.
He did that with Google AdWords.
He did it with Instagram and TikTok.
And he did that with NFTs.
And what?
His newsletter?
Yeah, his newsletter popped off.
Yeah, and his podcast and everything.
I mean, he really saw the future of influencer marketing
before we were even using that word.
And so to get back to the cards,
a lot of what you see VFriends do is also stuff that Gary is genuinely interested in.
He's building this for the rest of his life,
so he wants it to be meaningful in that way as well.
And earlier this year, we announced a multi-year partnership with Topps.
So this is the first Chrome set.
Topps Chrome, typically,
there's a lot of different types of Topps releases.
They have like Alan Ginter, Topps Standard, Topps Chrome,
and variations of those brands within Topps.
Chrome, usually more premium premium and then within Chrome they
also have different editions. So we're actually releasing the main Topps Chrome which all Series
1 NFT holders got to pre-order at $99. Now right now it's selling for like $250 which is a nice win.
The biggest like kind of retailer distributor in the trading card world
is Dave and Adams. They're buying the boxes for 175. They keep listing them at 250 and selling
out. And obviously it's like early hype, right? It's just like the launch of anything. There's
more attention. There's more volume right at the beginning. It'll be very interesting to see
how everything moves when May 7th hits and people are getting their cards.
But the other big thing for us is we're going to have these cards in physical.
Wasn't there also, Jeremy? Sorry, real quick.
Wasn't there also a Hobby Box raffle that was going on?
Yeah.
And there will be another one, which is probably the most value for folks who are interested.
Beyond the NFT holder presale,
there was a public raffle through EQL on Topps.
And there will be another one on May 7th.
You know,
it's one of those things where the odds are low,
but it doesn't hurt to enter.
The way EQL works is like you sign up,
you put in your credit card information,
you commit to buy one or two hobby boxes.
And then if you win, you automatically get charged and they ship out to you same way that we they like Nike does with sneaker drops and stuff
Well, just kind of side note don't underestimate that shit
I entered an art raffle like that and woke up like three thousand dollars poor because I want
Not a good time, you know what I'm saying?
So yeah, you want to make sure you want what
you're entering for yeah and you remember that you entered the shit too you know that's another
thing like i woke up and i was you know i thought fraud had occurred oh and i was livid and it was
just my dumb ass um with questions on that right in the progression into this collectible card world, do you get auto, let's just say, automatic access into any of the distributors or, let's just say, shelves, so to speak, that Topps is already on?
Or does the IP still have to, quote, unquote, work its way up the ladder to earn a spot on the shelf or something like that
yeah that's a great question i would say it's both like i mean v friends is more involved in
the design release marketing of this tops chrome product than probably any other tops chrome like
when when tops partners with disney or licenses the marvel IP, I doubt they have the level of like
hunger that we have to make this a success. But what you do get with the Topps partnership on top
of like just the premium quality card printing technology is access to their seller network.
So the way it works is if you're a Topps direct partner, you like Topps's whole business is
is creating the product and then offering it wholesale to retailers. And then those retailers
sell it at retail or suggested retail or higher, depending on how the market is looking. And that's
where they make their money. And there's a whole dealer network of people who get it for wholesale
or a little above and they buy and sell and trade as the market fluctuates. But we're talking hundreds and thousands of local card shops
across the world. So they are not obligated to stock the product. They basically have a portal
where they'll see upcoming releases and then they determine they're offered a certain allocation
depending on their size, their location, and so forth. They buy it at whatever price Topps offers and then they stock
it. So one thing that we haven't really shared too widely, but Gary has confirmed is that
one of Topps partners is GameStop. So there are going to be some opportunities to get Topps v
Friends Chrome through GameStop. And yeah, we've been encouraging the community to just call their
local card shops and ask them if they're getting it. Because as you can imagine, 99% of them don't
know who vFriends is. Maybe some portion know who Gary is, but this is really like, it's a lot of
things for us. Not only is it just a big deal to have this multi-year partnership, we also are
doing a Sapphire edition that is much more limited, which we gave to the gift goats,
which is a win for them. We're not even selling those really. We have a small allocation.
We might sell them at the national sports convention, but those hobby boxes, which are
just eight packs are selling for 3k right now. They haven't even hit the market yet.
So there's a lot of hype around this, but people also like really value the rookie card right they value the first release of
things and every single v friends character in the set has a little first chrome badge in the
corner to indicate it's it's the first time that character's been appeared so only a hundred of the
250 characters in this first set and then in the
coming years there will be like a repeat of characters but ones that haven't appeared will
have the first chrome badge um and celebrities on here too like kevin hart's gonna be in a pack
or something yeah so there's a lot of really cool inserts there's actually i'll i'll find a there's
a nice little video that we put out that summarizes everything.
One of the, one of the inserts that you get in every single hobby box is entrepreneur elf's favorite entrepreneurs.
And these can be base non-auto, they can be base auto, or they can be parallels, numbered
parallels.
And the rarest numbered parallels also have autos the out
of 10 and the one of one and so the one of one in chrome is called the superfractor and these are
like this these are like the chase so yeah there's a one of one auto superfractor kevin hart ariana
huffington dana white gary vaynerchuk i think there's 13 or 14. I need to find the blog here. But yeah,
that's a really cool insert. We also have one that features all the characters in a new manga
art style that we made in-house, which I think is really going to pop. There's also for, for the card collectors in basketball in particular, you might know
the Kaboom set.
So it's a, it's a style that was created by Gulen Namath.
Kaboom cards, highly collectible, like dude very much left his fingerprint on the whole
hobby.
And he made an insert for us, which we called erupt based on our uh burn island eruption narrative
we have with our deflationary token set and uh and that's like the rarest of the rare chase
uh so there's like there's a lot super refractor typically in like card they have like the super
refractor and then they have like the jersey swatch on it so can we get like a like a a swatch
of maybe like kevin hart's blood or maybe gary v's hair of his hat or something bro like can we get like a like a a swatch of maybe like kevin hart's blood or maybe a gary v hair
of his hat or something bro like can we get that on there that's next level bro like having a piece
of dna honestly honestly that would be wild um for a lot of reasons i i don't think there are
any patch cards in this set but there are going to be different inserts in different years some
of them will carry over, but we wanted this to
kind of check a couple boxes. One, we want it to be a great breaking experience because like,
and that's why I think every four packs, you're getting a numbered card. Every other pack,
you're getting a refractor. It might not be numbered, but it has that nice hollow shine.
You get a manga in every box. You get an entrepreneur elf in every box, plus the chance to get the ultra rares.
Because the breaking industry really drives the whole hobby. The entertainment value of the hobby
is largely watching these streamers, buying sealed product, ripped live. And that's what we do on our
show. We've been doing that with
all kinds of mystery products a lot with the tcg and um and frankly like we're really running low
on our own inventory of tcg so like people who have those boxes sealed i know there are probably
some people who got the cards and they've just been sitting on them like those have outperformed
the nft they're those boxes sealed they're selling like 350 450
should i open it up or keep it sealed and they always open it up and they always lose the volume
my guy like keep that shit sealed yeah every single time i saw somebody post they're like
my strategy is just kiss you know they have that like keep it simple stupid but in the hobby it's keep it sealed stupid because it's true like especially as this becomes like the vintage to the eventual like empire of v
friends cards this this set's going to be really meaningful like there's there's a lot of cool
things to chase we have um gary was born in 1990 or 1975 and the 1975 tops baseball set is one of the most desirable like valuable
valuable sealed and so we did an homage to that we have i think it's 12 characters in a baseball
form that they've never been seen before and the card design is like a direct homage to that set
and like that's cool for our collectors people who like fall in love with the characters.
They're trying to collect a little bit of everything of them.
And it's going to be fun for the baseball fans in our community.
But where it really matters is like outside the hobby, people who collect baseball cards and start to get into our world, like that's going to be the chase that they're after.
into our world, like that's going to be the chase that they're after. Like similarly, a lot of
people might know the, uh, Y2K Pokemon tops Chrome in thousand. It was the only year that Pokemon did
a tops Chrome. And, uh, we did an homage to that design as well. It's called the Y2K insert. So,
uh, the box topper series. Uh, yes, I think it was. I think it was i think it was yeah yeah ours is ours is just an
insert in sealed packs but um you know that's like that's ours that's our north star right
like if we can be half as big as pokemon v friends will have done very very well for absolutely
everybody involved um and in terms of the digital collectible aspect side of it, right, is that in a plan?
Is that part of the plan to, let's just say, instead of how exactly we were saying, what
is the jersey?
What is the ultimate chase?
Would it be to someday down the line include like digital assets, actual VFriends in the
cards for redemption?
Or is that not really crossing those two lines or
a separate kind of venture in that sense i wouldn't consider them separate like they're two parts of
the same hole there aren't any direct nft redemptions in the packs for this year but yeah
that's what i meant like is that uh i guess something or an element that will be new and
novel to your tc in that sense, right?
Because you'll have the ability.
Same way people chase jerseys.
In this one, you'll actually be able to get the patient panda.
I mean, I don't know if that is one, but y'all should make one.
We do have a patient panda.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Damn it.
All right, never mind.
But yeah, still, you get what I'm saying, right? If that would be the chase in this new version of TCG, this hybrid of digital and physical.
Yeah.
I mean, so the short answer is yes.
The longer answer is where Topps Chrome sits right now is more of a bridge between physical and digital.
It's not integrated.
I think, and also to clarify to clarify tops chrome isn't a playing
game so the tcg we have is the tcg we're going to keep using and we have we're working on like
kind of the next version of that we have been for a while and that'll come later but as far as like
the digital like direct crossover you got to also consider like when this deal was being
made and this set was being designed we were in a very different um environment for a company like
tops to be interested in that kind of integration so we're doing some more like manual verification
manual integrations there's two in particular one One is the superfractor hunt, which we haven't
announced the full details on, but the TLDR is basically if you get a superfractor,
a one of one superfractor of the base card, there is an NFT component that will activate.
It's just not like you scan the card and you claim an NFT. It'll tie into our series two
collection. And the other is a pose swap, which we've done a couple of times.
We've done scene and pose swaps for Series 2
where you can basically update the artwork on your token.
And so there's a pose in the Topps Chrome
that as we get closer to release,
token holders will be able to swap into that pose.
I can't give you all the details
because it actually will be announced next week.
But that's one way where it's like,
if I'm not already in the VFriends world,
I find it at a card shop or at a card show
and I start ripping these packs
and I get into the VFriends,
the Grail collectible is always going to be the first Genesis Series 1, right?
Like this set will be the rookie Genesis of Chrome.
But then we're having an opportunity to educate IRL collectors that NFTs are just superior,
right?
Like they stay in pristine mint condition.
There's no risk of counterfeit and we can activate on top of them, whether that's for event access or early access
to what we're doing. And then there's VCon. So, so the, yeah, the answer to your question is like,
not this year. I would love to see it, but it's also about making this affordable for people
and get, giving them that like first breadcrumb into the ecosystem so they
can fall in love with the comic books that we're about to release the cartoons the animated series
and and all of the kind of like wider world of storytelling and collecting and be friends
it's pretty dope i saw that you made a post that there's like a scam alert that you guys have yeah
there is no nft versions of tops you want to kind of just like reassure people like now that you're hearing about is don't go be searching through openc
there's a lot of scams yeah so i just pinned it up for and just go over that real quick for you
yeah there's no min pass um this happens all the time when i saw it i was like oh okay good we're
like we're on the web3 radar great but like hopefully nobody got got i don't think as far
as i can tell like there were
no people drained by this but it's a very standard scam like they airdrop you a token they tell you
it's for something you click on their website in the description and when you connect you get
drained um so yeah i just i just always try to signal boost that stuff like we posted in the
discord but they um what's so funny is like i don't know whether that's a barometer of
wide mind share or it's just like one savvy dude who's like i'm gonna i'm gonna target these v
friends because v friends have been targeted for these games from the very beginning because we're
we i mean v friends onboarded a an actual thousands of people in 2021 and 2022 and we're gonna do that
again like we we're doing
it kind of on a slow roll right now. Like I do a lot of one-on-one education, setting people up
with their wallet, but as we grow, it's going to be more and more important that people are educated
and know the responsibilities that come with self-custody and, you know,'s like just always verify don't trust um i also i also pinned up this
this one minute video 73 seconds it's uh it's a good one it breaks down all of the inserts that
are in the set um kind of what to chase and um yeah i appreciate you guys inviting me up today
you know we're we're doing it you know, no shade to anybody else.
Like there's definitely enough pie for, for everybody to win in web three.
But I think now is really a moment where people, especially be friends who have been following,
but people who are kind of starting to get into it or curious about it, seeing that Gary
is an actual business person, like he's actually ready to run this marathon. And so, you know, there's, we're far, far away from a victory lap, but like,
we're feeling very good that like, our community knows where we're moving. Our NFT holders
understand like that we're going to take care of them at every bend. And now we're just starting
to tell the stories that are going to make these characters meaningful. Because we kind of did it in the reverse, right?
Like, if you think about, Pokemon's a good example, right?
Like, Pokemon had a game before they had a card series.
Similarly, like, people wanted to collect the cards because they fell in love with the characters playing the game or in the show.
I forget exactly which came first, but I know it wasn't the card series that came bro 90 of
people don't know how to play the bitch ass fucking game yeah like the actual card game because and i
mean i'm one of those 90 of people i mean now i do through years but for over 15 20 years of
collecting i've never played the card game didn't understand how to play the card game nothing right i played video game and the show 100 and like we we kind of did it when i say we
did it backwards is like people have been collecting these characters for the idea of what
they're going to be and the like the honestly like the conviction in gary and the v friends team
but now as we tell the stories like people will fall in love with what
these stories mean to them. They'll want to collect Empathy Elephant because of the trials
and tribulations that they witnessed Empathy Elephant go through and what they learn in like
that emotional journey. And so I'm really excited. Like, you know, the Topps Chrome is it's shiny,
it's fun. And like, I'm glad that it's holding its value. It's such a big win.
But it's also kind of a ruse to kind of keep people's eye off the ball
while we roll out the actual meat and potatoes of VFriends stories,
which is VFriends comic books that we just announced.
And we're going to be rolling out probably on a monthly basis,
just like actual origin stories of the VF characters and so it's it's all i think the reason why you did it backwards is
maybe 2021 was a bit of a crazy time where we're all locked in our houses and we're thinking that
we're going to be totally digital world and we're and so like it i think what difference is doing
well is it's not just locking yourself inside of a closed discord. It's about also curating IRL
experiences. Not also, it's not just having digital products. It's also having physical
products. So like encompassing both is what makes a great successful project. And that's what Gary's
does. He gets his face out there. He's at trading card events. You guys have a digital presence and
a physical presence. You have, you know, a community online and you have a community outside.
So you guys are doing it the right way.
And that's how you build a successful business in Love3.
So shout out to you guys, man.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Pretty interesting.
I knew that I could rely on you.
Like I saw this.
I'm like, dude, Jeremy's part of the community.
He's part of my network.
I'll just have Jeremy come here and explain this all to you instead of my mumbling ass
like trying to articulate it.
I'm glad you did, man.
I appreciate it.
And, you know, for you and anybody in the chat, the chat, hit me up. My DMs are open. My role at VFriends is community success. And so that bleeds into live streaming and it bleeds into customer support. But mostly what I do is make sure people have the information they need. So I'm here for it.
for it love you brother hope i see you in the irl experience you too bro dude you got to get to vcon
i know we haven't announced it yet but just like keep it on your radar like vcon is coming we've
got also big events this year so we're gonna be in orlando for a trade show at the end of may
then we're gonna be in ohio we're gonna be in chicago for the the national card show i can do the chicago one i mean i'm
midwest boy if you could keep it somewhere in the midwest like indiana like you guys done before i
don't know you should really try to come to chicago then the nscc show national sports
collectors convention is the biggest card show in the world we're gonna show up there in force
it's gonna be it's gonna be a movie it's gonna be a blast you guys just in question that do you even mention
or bring up the once again like the nft aspect at all at these shows is it show yes or is it
primarily only the cards no it's i mean it's definitely showcased because in order to explain
the the the brand at all in the cards like you have have to explain the NFTs when people are like, you know, trying to put, put, wrap their head around the series one cards versus the TCG
versus now tops Chrome, like that evolution happened on chain before it happened in the
cards. And so part of the narrative is always like, well, our creator, Gary Vaynerchuk,
he drew them and minted them as NFTs. And that's mirrored in this set and yada, yada, yada.
Then they evolved, yada, yada, animations, comics, yada, yada.
So like we don't have like digital frames with the NFTs,
but like our NFT holders come.
And frankly, like most people who,
so there's probably 90% of people at that show
that have never heard of eFriends at all.
And depending on the person, like it might not enter the conversation.
But most of the people who are familiar but not collecting VFriends,
they heard about the NFT hype cycle and they have questions about it.
So people kind of show you where their interest is.
And what we say all the time on our live streams,
and I'm sure Gary will be saying
it at these shows, is like, you know, once you're spending a certain amount on shiny cardboard,
like, make sure you're also paying attention to the NFTs. Because a lot of these cards are worth
more than the NFTs. But the NFT is the alpha. Like, the NFT is a superior collectible. And
if you're spending more than $500 on V friends products, like you need
to educate yourself about the NFTs because that is the most important collectible in
the entire ecosystem.
Obviously like series one, Trump series two, but even series two, like it is a, it is a
very important collectible in our ecosystem, you know?
So, uh, so yeah, there's not like a QR code.
That's dope that that's actually like still the North Star, though, right?
That regardless of any activations, any growth in different verticals,
that underlying it's still driving back value to Series 1 or the collectibles, right?
The digital collectibles aspect side of it.
Yeah. Because some people, or you'd say, oh, The digital collectibles aspect side of it. Yeah.
Because some people, or you'd say,
oh, well, you know, this is doing so well.
And what if we just take that out?
What if we don't even mention it?
Or kind of just quote unquote,
forget where we came from
because it's a little bit easier to explain.
In that sense, it's still cool to see that
at the end of the day,
regardless of how well it's doing,
at least for now,
the underlying
intention is to still bring back value, still mention, you know, still showcase.
Because that was my thing.
Like, do you go to the card show and pretend like, oh, yeah, we got NFTs, but these are
our cards, right?
Like you're kind of not denying, but not embracing, right?
but not embracing, right, in that sense, just due to any potential stigmas?
In that sense, just due to any potential stigmas.
Or is it that taking the chance to break down any kind of NFT stigma at the same time
and doing that onboarding that all of us, you know, talk about, so to speak?
I mean, you kind of got to come at it from both angles, right?
Like, I know exactly what you're talking about. And there are definitely chapters, right?
And I feel like VFriends is entering a new chapter in that a lot more people have been joining the community recently.
Gary's been on the timeline, giving away NFTs, specifically looking for long-term collectors.
But we're also finding more of the people who want to come on the journey with us.
And frankly, there's so much going on at VFriends that if you're new, I fully expect
you to be lost and like not really know like what's more important. Like even in the NFT
collection, whether it's the traits, the characters, the scenes, like what do all these things mean and
why do they matter? It's a lot to digest before we even get to the collaborations we've done
and the new products and showing up to events.
So I think the ideal user journey for folks is finding something that they cherish first,
that they actually want to have.
It's not speculative.
It's like they rip a pack because it's fun.
They get something that means something to them.
They have that first touchpoint memory, good experience.
Then from there, they need to know the relevance of a yin and yang to the just like the
NFT genesis, the financialization of these things, the tokenization and the belief in
the values.
Because like our North Star is to change the world, to become the next Pokemon, to tell
meaningful stories that have a positive impact in people's lives around optimism, positivity
and hard work and so forth. But we at VFriends, and our community are also entrepreneurs. We're
hungry. We're getting that bread. And so we attract those kinds of people. And yeah, I think
education in the space is very nuanced. Everybody's going to go on their own journey,
in the space is very nuanced.
Everybody's going to go on their own journey,
but we do our best to show the relevance of the NFTs
because they might be stigmatized right now,
but in five years, it's going to just be the norm.
Onboarding tech is still relatively behind
where it needs to be for collecting a baseball card to be as, not just as easy, but as commonplace.
When somebody spent a lot of money on a Babe Ruth card at the beginning, it didn't make sense to most people.
They're like, why are you inflating the value of this physical thing when it's just paper?
Well, it's not just paper. It has history
to it. It has a very specific origin. It has meaning in our general culture as a human society.
And I think as that takes root and people see the programmability of NFTs kind of on an uptick,
they will come around. Like there's always going to be late adopters but like we're
very far from like the you know we're very far from the middle of the bell curve when it comes to
understanding the value of digital assets so so we're not wrong we're just early jeremy we're
not wrong we're yeah and he's right though because gary is on the timeline again asking people who
would want to you know hold collect hold, collect, cherish these assets.
I mean, a lot of these people that win are Gary fanboys or just Gary followers that they probably couldn't wouldn't sell because they don't know how to sell.
Right. I mean, ultimately, they'll probably learn throughout the time period.
But a lot of the people that are probably going gonna win are people that follow gary not so much
the v friends side of things right and then are getting exposure to v friends through gary and
then you kind of get that that progression curve so yeah you know it's interesting i monitor this
a lot like how much of new it's like and it's not a it's not a black or white metric, of course, but how many of our new collectors are from the Gary V-verse
or the wider NFT Web3-verse
or just totally organic, interested natively in VFriends?
And that last group is, I think it's bigger than you might expect.
A lot of what we're also tapping into is there are a lot of people who love NFTs
and love the community culture side of NFTs,
but the projects that like invited them in at first,
they've just like fallen apart.
Like they weren't necessarily rugs.
They just like couldn't sustain through the bear
or the community moved on or whatever.
And we're seeing a lot of people from those communities get interested in VFriends because
like we have that X factor that you just can't fake.
Like we have a real community.
Like the people that are here have been interacting with Gary for some like 5, 10, 15 years.
And even just the VFriends community is now four years old. Like,
if you look at the on-chain data, vFriends is one of the most diamond-handed communities. And
it's not because they don't know how to sell. It's because they don't want to. It's because
they know that this was always designed to be like a multi-decade, long-term, like,
to be like a multi-decade long-term like behemoth like like like gary's an empire builder you know
and like this is his life's that sounds like maturity bro and and that's something that is
very rare in our space is actually investing like a mature an investor or an adult you know
yeah yeah i'm there you know how many people i've heard that got onboarded to NFTs through Gary?
Thousands.
So it's like probably 70% of the space is here because of Gary.
Or indirectly too, right?
I was just one of those people that I listened to Gary and it was just one of those like ultimately it made sense to what he was saying, right?
Hey, take a slight pay cut to doing what you don't love to do what you love and then potentially you'll see yourself
kind of flourish in that sense and i mean what four years ago that's that's why i did i'm like
yo if i like this i will ultimately only get better because i like this and then the downfall
or whatever it may be i mean i don't listen to the podcast or anything at all now anymore but
at one point right just seeing that and seeing possibilities
seeing the nft scene boom at the same time it was definitely uh inspiring and brought me in right so
yeah jeremy i appreciate you coming up brother and giving us the lowdown on this man it's it's
very cool to have you in the community and just give the whole community just like a tldr and
what's going on if they guys want to take advantage of this isn't there like some email you can sign up for possibly to maybe get some
limited access to this?
Isn't it like VFriends slash Chrome or something?
Yeah. Great plug.
VFriends.com slash Chrome is the email list and we'll share when there's like
new developments.
I would say for folks who want to grab a box,
enter that EQL raffle.
It'll be on Topps.com. it'll be international for tops us and tops uk
and uh the 99 reits like suggested retail was for sure for our nft holders now that it's in
tops's hands i don't know what the suggested retail is going to be. But I would just keep an eye out.
And ideally, people aren't buying hobby boxes at $250 to sell them at $300.
You got better things to do with your time.
But do you.
But if you do get a set of Topps Chrome cards,
say what's up in the community.
Come to our live shows.
See what this is about.
Because we're not going anywhere. Appreciate you, man. Thanks, man. Come to our live shows, like see what this is about because, yeah,
because we're not going anywhere.
Appreciate you, man.
Thanks, man.
Have a great day.
You too.
And just an update on a few things.
The Dungeon of Fortune mint that's going live,
those heroes that are 50 bucks a pop, there's 20,000,
and there's about 14,000 that have already been minted.
So I've seen a lot of people talking about they're minting them.
So it could be the next DeFi game on base.
It is on base.
Okay, that's what I'm about to say.
It's on base.
So make sure you have USDC base.
Yes, sir.
So I just want to make you guys,
that's pretty close to being sold out.
It's 50 bucks a pot.
Might not hurt to get one of those.
And obviously during that whole interview,
it looks like Trump is capitulating
and looks like he's going to come to a deal with China, which I don't think a deal with China has been priced in.
There's a lot of rhetoric on the timeline saying that, you know, what's he saying?
Let me get here.
No rush to announce the trade deal.
We'll end up with a sustainable number of baseline tariffs.
We will have a deal with China.
have a deal with china we'll make a good deal with china thanks trump um but it looks like
We'll make a good deal with China.
Thanks, Trump.
they're at the negotiation table and things look to be escalating um downwards so that's good that's
good for us um but uh kind of want to get back to some alpha and some things that we've been waiting
for is me and wild bro market reacting accordingly nothing happened and and we're rallying like crazy
all it comes out
to no deal you get the deal
couldn't be made today even if they
make a deal tomorrow market's gonna dump
again so just be careful if you're out there
fucking around with leverage or any of these positions
I mean we just saw Bitcoin go up
damn near 2k
I think it's because the deal
china coming to a deal not coming to a deal with china is priced in so when there is a deal
now the market's pricing in a deal and that's when you're seeing the two thousand dollar rise so
and there's a lot of short squeezing everybody's leverage right now stable coins are the top on
chains no one's buying spot right now and everybody's on leverage right now. Stable coins are the top on chains. No one's buying spot right now
and everybody's on leverage. So there's a bunch of short squeeze on. It's not organic movement,
but eventually when there is some clarity on this, you'll start seeing those stable coins
starting to be deployed back on chain, which I think a lot of whales are waiting for. But
we've been waiting forever for this. MeeBara. And it looks like janny um six hours ago is basically saying that it's coming
out on the 20th which is this sunday art the art will be revealed and nfc's will be traded on the
20th so we gave a pre-sale to these guys probably like fucking finally bro was it like 88 bucks or
some shit i forget no 88 bucks was teddy's this was the 200 and almost 300 bucks yeah so can you
get into kind of refresh everybody's is this going to be like a trait reveal each trait going to be
revealed because he kind of says the art's going to reveal is it just like the first traits are
revealed because i remember there's some kind of stagnated reveal process that he was going to do yeah i mean it's supposed to be that right it's
supposed to be a uh seven phase reveal system with the last uh let's just say phase seven
slash eight being the uh if it becomes a one-on-one or not right so ultimately it'll slowly
start going through traits uh it'll start going through just characters and whatnot.
And then at the very end, there's will be one trait slash one layer that'll transform your, you know, whatever into a one of one.
If you then get that added on.
Granted, it'll be a small group of people, but there will be those few that sold beforehand.
You know, this is fucking lame or
a floor boy, wrote it out for five or six phases and then turns out to become a one-on-one afterwards.
So yeah, that's how it's supposed to be. I don't know if anything's changed since this whole
new process, right? This delay of two months that occurred, but he said that today, right, later on, so he says, within 12
hours, all who have passed through the pre-ment gates and the trial by fire of the Jester of
Universes will receive a corresponding number of parcel to your address. Once again, this is replicating the Silk Road, right? And so it was Honey Road,
and that, you know, you'd place an order for your drugs or for whatever on parts, and then
they'd take your money and then mail you your package. So that's kind of what lines up into
the whole idea of slow trade reveal as well, is that you have your parcel,
but that doesn't mean you have the actual asset, right?
You just have the package that it's in.
So anyway, those of you that got caught in the dragnet
of the post-mint analysis may find refunds available.
You have gone through this whole, you know,
witch hunt to find anyone that minted multiple.
They were doing cross-chain analysis
on dune and doing all this kind of stuff so if you admitted that you had more than one there's
a chance that you got to keep them uh if you didn't admit it you left it up to the draw
then just see if you get the refund or not i mean you just wait for the luck of the draw now
so we'll see how this plays
out man and then on 420 it said art will be revealed and nfts will be tradable let's go
been waiting for this this is kind of the next one up on the bear chain you're gonna have steady
teddies you're gonna have me bear and you have bullas are kind of the top top three collections
and they're kind of community centric collections so if you are looking for kind of a new collection
that's going to be coming out,
MiBara should be coming out this Sunday.
I saw Smokey did a post on some things that he's doing.
I found a few new projects that were kind of under the radar.
And what I've been doing is just following Smokey and just seeing who he's following.
And I've been stumbling across some small accounts that is actually building on Barra.
One is called OneBara, which is basically a coin flip game that's actually building on Barra. One is called One Barra, which is basically
a coin flip game that's been built on Barra. It's a casino plus NFTs, Bonzonomics. It only takes a
Barra, a Barra Chain experiment by SoldOT. And so they have the One Barra coin flip is live,
play now, earn mysterious rewards, flip, win, secure your spot spot first ever on-chain coin toss with skim live on
barra chain uh i guess it's on their test net play using test net barra and skim win instantly
unlock tge rewards based on total value so how you play you claim test net barra on the faucet
bet heads or tails went up to 1.96 payouts every bet counts for something bigger what's coming the more you play the higher the
volume early participants will prioritize a surprise awaits in TGE no promises no hype just
play and win so just an easy coin flip game it's on testnet you're not really winner money but
they're saying that you're going to have rewards for just playing this so there's an opportunity
for you with that one and then just pinning up Smokey's post up here,
just talking about projects and stuff like that.
And there's a few on here that it looks pretty interested.
He's doubling down on teams, distributing driven businesses,
which are less correlated to micro whiplash defi rates.
And he talks about PuffPaw, play with OU,
which is an under and over game.
Looks like believe in something bet on stream
so this looks to be a betting game that's on barra chain um pretty interesting didn't know
about that one and then the other one is use paw pass which is the first ever digital id for your
animals and you can join the beta so yeah there's a good thread that I dropped for us
yesterday yeah just like going in there yeah just like looking at the projects he's talking about
like some of this stuff is under the radar they have like 100 followers yep and so that's what
I said that that's what it was good it's that the ones that he's talking about I mean at least
doubling down and investing in so uh real quick just a little uh market update kind of news um issues
or potential issues going on a little bit of fud around bull x i don't know still uses bull x in
general i mean they got flooded to death when people found out that they were the alpha sharks
mfers i remember that they got footed to death when
they weren't giving out
the actual referral amount
and just the back and forth in any way.
Last known tweet from that
team is February
9th. A couple
of their telegrams,
the primary core teams, have been deleted.
So people are kind of freaking
out. So just word kind of freaking out.
So just word of caution.
There's a million other fucking bots out there.
Right?
We had Banana Gun on.
There's a million.
Your favorite.
Photon.
Axiom.
Shuriken.
Nova.
You don't need to use a bot that has team members vanishing.
Right?
And in a sense could be potentially your money at risk. So just pull it out, move it into a new bot for now
until this settles down.
If you love Bull X, then go back to use it.
But for now, just be careful.
That's kind of going around right now
and more or less a little bit of,
could be likely nothing,
but could be something as they're not anywhere
to defend themselves, so to speak.
So, no, you got burnt on this Avant art thing, Chief.
I think it burned.
I just didn't.
I forgot that I entered the raffle.
I wanted the piece.
I just fucking forgot that I entered the fucking raffle and it was three grand, bro.
Do you would you join a raffle for Rafiq Anadol piece?
Yeah, like that's how they do it. And that's another thing to like
Everybody wants to talk about, you know luxury this and luxury that like look let's I'm gonna I'm gonna put y'all on game
If I didn't buy this piece
If I cancel this piece, I get no play and nothing that comes out of their ecosystem anymore
I need y'all to understand that
You you get no play. That's exactly how a traditional art house works play and nothing that comes out of their ecosystem anymore. I need y'all to understand that. You get
no play. That's exactly how a traditional art house works. That's how fucking Rolex works,
right? You're out there buying your wife a bunch of bullshit in order for them to offer you a nice
watch. That's just how it is, right? The last piece that Avant Art did was the ACK and the Dorothy pieces, right? Each selling for 25 plus ETH.
Easy money, right? But I mean, the artist did a collab with a gallery, they did physicals,
and then they attached the NFT token to the back end. So at the end of the day, like if you want
to be on that collector list to receive that email of, hey, we got five pieces we set aside. And even then,
that's not a raffle, but that's a first come first serve, right? So if you're on the, let's just say
the avant-art good people list or the buyer's list, collector's list, whatever the fuck they call you,
you basically get an email before this goes out and before this even opens and allows you to first come first serve the piece
It's normally about four or five of them, right? Because these are always small collections
I think additions no more than 25 26 and then one-on-ones
So instantly sell out and then you if you wanted it
You had to then try again for it on the on the draw
So this piece right here, they might message me
and say, hey, would you like to buy this piece before we get to the draw? Maybe not me because
I only got two or three pieces under my, let's just say, log with them. But other collectors,
you work your way up to get basically first dibs because they know you're a spender.
That's all you want to
do is get that title of being the spender so ultimately they're going to offer things to you
first and in the beginning you just want to buy it all and then eventually you can pick and choose
and say hey no i don't want to buy this piece and it won't affect you getting offered the next one
right so yeah dude if you score a rafiq i mean you're golden you're gonna make your bread back in
more hand you know yep he has basically he says the journey starts April 19th plea register at
my dataland our genesis dataland collection is coming soon share like and get exciting surprises
and you can go to register at my dataland it's your email in there I mean rafiq anadol is probably one of the
biggest artists in the space he's been featured on the sphere i think he's been in moma you guys
don't know like go youtube rafiq and all's pieces they're like it was one of the first fucking movie
screen and shit and they're like super immersive look like you're like tripping lsd and shit so
it was the i think the first piece that got acquired due to just actual demand, right?
Like people sat at the museum for hours and would just watch his piece.
Rolling balls.
Yeah, just watch this shit in New York, bro.
For hours, hours, literally.
And just like movie.
And because it's a generative piece that consistently moves.
And eventually the museum acquired it, right?
It passed, I think it's six month duration and then
they actually bought the piece to house as a mainstay attraction so that's kind of like him
and people are the only two that have really broken through let's just say our world into
traditional art with like boom here i am kind of thing right moving money selling pieces for 20 30 eth like
yeah that's big in a sense but when we're talking about full-blown acquisitions and stuff like that
it's a it's a different kind of realm so that's uh the dope part about it i just wanted to let
you guys know you know we don't do a lot of art on this show but there's an opportunity there to
possibly get a refiq and all piece i would sign up and pray to the holy god that you fucking get this piece i mean i think that my
other world piece will do well i'll keep you guys updated on that i mean it costs like almost two
eth roughly right i think like 2800 2900 or some shit uh but his cheapest edition is 10 eth and his one of ones are uh like 25 to 40 plus so
i mean it's looking all right for me to be the broke boy just selling out and i don't really
know how much this or how this advent art works to where i know you get the nft and i know that
they mail you the physical um i don't know if i sell the two if I don't if I can split it if I get to keep the physical and I can just flip the
NFT because if so, that's the cheat code, bro
Like if I sell this shit the nft and I get to keep the physical
Oh, it's a wrap
I'm gonna be hitting avon art for everything from now on because and then you can collect art and make money at the same time
But I think there's got to be some type of connection or something. So we'll exactly how that plays out just talking about art we got a couple stuff going on right so um
okay so we'll cycle in so first and foremost art wise we have a new uh full-blown chain i don't
know if you you know or you heard about this have you heard of node expresso the new chain i've
actually heard some people talking about this morning i heard of node expresso the new chain i've actually heard some
people talking about this morning i thought that they were just talking about a node like i'm so
excited i got a node i'm like node sales are scams my guy but what's node no no no node is an actual
new chain that just got created rd is working on it uh or has been developing it so give me one
second i got a little grok uh breakdown for it. So they got funded with a grant of twenty five million.
It is a in real life location in Palo Alto.
Right. And it basically is going to be a hub for digital collectibles, basically a museum for digital collectibles, but also for artists.
Right. So artists can go and do,
I think internships is what you call it, right? And you stay and you just become the resident,
the artist and resident, and you produce for a while and you grow and you shape and stuff like
that. So just a little TLDR from Grok says Node is based in Palo Alto, aims to bridge digital art potential with physical experiences through three different pillars, presentation, education, and preservation, challenging the traditional museum model by creating the last mile for artists to showcase dynamic work like CryptoPunks and Chromie Squiggles.
and chromie squiggles mulca's vision for node emphasizes a collaborative network over individual
ownership drawing from the blockchain's ability to let one person own an artwork while the world
sees it a concept rooted in the belief of art like money should be universally accessible
regardless of geography so unlike a traditional means right of how we were talking about, you go and you donate a piece, right, like the Rafiq.
In this sense, the Node, I guess their vision is to allow it to, if I own the Rafiq, we can showcase it inside or you can showcase my Rafiq inside your gallery, right? And start opening that ability to remove the borders of, hey, if it's
actually digital art, then you technically don't need to be in possession of anything besides a
JPEG file, right? They send it over to you, you display your work, and you're good to go.
Is this sort of like on cyber?
No. Yes, but in person.
Oh, it's in person?
Yeah, this is in person. That's the whole thing. This is all an in-person museum
and activation to bring digital art
to in-person.
So you can have a combo of both.
So like I said,
if there's an art piece in your wallet,
like, okay, we got Steven up here.
So like we can say,
hey, Steven,
I know that you're in Cali,
but I need a piece for artists.
And can you send me your file link for this?
And they'll have the means to display his artwork, whether it be a whole gallery or whatever,
in person without him being there, without them owning it.
And can pay him a fee on chain or decentralized for the people that came in to see his show.
So he sells out 50 tickets in Japan,
right? Even though he's not there, he can get like, let's just say 10% trustlessly sent to him
for XYZ. So it's kind of like the combo of both. Their headquarters is going to be in Palo Alto.
They have 25 million to kind of start pushing and putting together these experiences.
25 million to kind of start pushing and putting together these experiences.
But the idea is, in a sense, an on-cyber and a traditional art museum and gallery
with kind of like this hub for artists and interns.
It makes sense because art collectors, like, I collect to collect,
but now you're giving, like, an incentive for them diamond-handing this shit.
So it's kind of like, okay, thank you for holding my art.
Now here's the reward for letting me view it. So it's like a nice little, like, it's like of like okay thank you for holding my art uh now here's
the reward for letting me view it so it's like a nice little like it's like a staking mechanism
sort of for art which we'd never really had for that kind of stuff steven what's and the collectors
get to to to kind of grow in that sense because here's the thing so you know how cosmo dimici
sent all that stuff all his own bees well technically his yeah that's his, yeah, that's his, and yeah, that he donated it, and yeah, we have a
little fucking article, but in our world, those are no longer in his possessions. He doesn't have
those OMBs. Those OMBs are not his anymore, right? Well, in this new world, you could,
Cosmo's net worth, Cosmo's creator, let's just say vault doesn't change just because a museum wants to
showcase and exhibit it right cosmos still has those ombs but the museum is now in custodial
possession of those assets so i can't sell them because they're locked up but at the end of the
day if we unravel let's just say we peel back the layers of smart contract uh it comes back to me
Let's just say we peel back the layers of smart contract
It comes back to me, right?
These are loaned out to you on a time lock of a year of six months and at the end of the day
Like these are my assets not ones that I had to quote unquote donate and just oh
Look, these were donated by Cosmo to meet you a little plaque on the corner
so just leveling up traditional art and kind of just the blend of it all right and
you as a collector now right have the ability to loan out your collection digitally and still get
showcased and be able to make money off of this what you made and curate itself next level
what up steven what's up brother what up what up What up? I haven't been here in a long time, but I mean, listening, yeah,
but speaking of Jesus Christ, what's going on?
Are you in this? Are you part of this? Are you interested in this? Is this something that you're
going to do? Like, what's up, man?
No, I actually just bought them out completely. I was like, wow, that's a great idea. I just,
yeah, I just, no, yeah, it's a good idea. But honestly, it's like it has foundations in the
traditional world, too. If you think about it, like people lend their artwork, you know, collectors, institutions, you know, you see traveling shows, you know, on loan from.
But sometimes, of course, you know, money changes hands.
It's the art world.
Of course, there's a lot of money moving around.
So new concept in our world.
So it's that merger of art and technology that we're all pushing for.
I think that the interesting part, too, is when you get into art, you really realize how, like, I don't know.
I mean, I'm not going to say that these guys were the original, like, mafia and money launderers, but they are.
Like, you guys go understand about traditional art and international grounds, right?
How no one has to pay fees or taxes for things sold inside airports.
Like, when you really start to get in the nitty gritty of this shit,
same way there's tax loopholes for your average American entrepreneur, billionaire. I mean,
they've been doing shit like that with art and just, it'll be interesting to see how the digital aspect of this removes that, right? Because a lot of this stuff plays on borders, uh, plays on just
old rules narratives, right? And so how exactly that'll play out when
you're trying to hide money, move money, like there is no international law, right? Because
it's technically for everyone and all over the place. So I think that that's going to start to
open up a lot of good conversations too, right? Of value of where the art is.
Steven, I know you had reached out to me.
You talked a little bit.
We brought it up yesterday about the Cosmogenesis.
You wanted to just give a little bit more insight.
Yeah, so feel free, man.
I know you had the giveaway.
We mentioned that.
But what else with the giveaway
or a little bit more insight about the collection that you have?
Yeah, I mean, if those who don't know,
Cosmogenesis is my Genesis generative art collection on bitcoin it's 256 pieces minting on magic eden it's uh first of its kind fully interactive and exportable with built-in exporter
so you can capture and create infinitely from the work um the mint is yeah it's closing in
three days 4 20 at 4 20 p.m est And I'm doing a big giveaway to close it out.
Already, like, there's benefits.
It's my Genesis work.
It's a Genesis pass.
You're going to get my next collection for free.
That's ecstasy.
It's already inscribed.
We're just waiting for things to kind of peak in this market a little bit.
You know, it's a little slow right now.
Yeah, so that's for free.
You're going to get that.
But, yeah, there's 0.1 Bitcoin being given away.
That's like $8,500 to 10 people who mint.
Don't list and certainly don't sell.
But yeah, so odds are pretty good.
10 people are going to win 0.01 Bitcoin.
It's like 850 bucks or something, which is pretty good.
And yeah, I mean, the art in itself is first of its kind.
It's really immersive, engaging work.
And yeah, I don't know. I'm excited to push forward there's a lot to it what else can I say I mean
$8,500 been given away a lot of a lot of sats no it is and that's the thing
about it too it's like the the art side of Bitcoin and the people that have been
innovating like you said you've been minting and working on this collection
for a while in the background and it's like you see that being done and you see
people pushing the boundaries of Bitcoin itself. And I think that that's the cool part of this, right? Because
it doesn't matter. You get to choose when you come to market in that sense. You get to choose
when you want to do a push, when you don't, right? When you're cranking up, when you're scaling down.
And so it's just cool to see the pushing of the boundaries aspect of it, right? Same way,
like I think Lunatics dropped something since we're on this art topic as well.
The ability to move around your layers on your ordinal, right?
So you're starting to see the same way that Steven has a menu inside his asset.
People are building on top of and programming additionally to the actual art itself, right?
So it just says, hey, Luna layers dropped.
Every lunatic, you can click and save the full high res image.
You can have complete autonomy over every layer.
You have complete control over layer positions.
And you can add traits directly on chain and natively from any other collection.
So you can even customize your lunatic as you go.
So that's the beauty of it.
I think that the actual art part of Bitcoin is you go one step further, right?
What you see, the digital, the visual output is one thing, but, and then the underlying
code is what really grasps people of what they can do.
And I know that that's partially for you.
One of those things that got you hooked was the code aspect. So it's just cool to see more and more people
Um utilizing it and having fun
Another example, I think this is called united minds same thing, but this is a build your own ordinal
You can go in and pick individual assets that you would like whenever they're ready
You can go and then just mint the custom-made one of one that you would like. Whenever they're ready, you can go and then just mint the custom
made one of one that you'd like, right? So just once going under the radar, not a lot of people
talking about it, right? But still, I mean, art on Bitcoin is where it is, right? And I think is
going to be the end goal. And then last season's, we're just doing an art overload. Bangers as well,
then last season's we're just doing an art overload uh bangers as well still minting uh more
art on bitcoin uh dd did a pretty heartfelt and long post just about his work so you guys can
read and check that out but you can catch um all of these besides the um the the build your own
united minds on openc i I mean, sorry on magic eat
So stevens is on magic eat and the links pinned up to the top lunatics are trending on magic eat and and
Any other platform you'd like united minds is their specific website
So go check that out if you want to build your own ordinal and then digital damage is also on
magic even so
I was just gonna follow up on that really quick.
It's like with all this stuff, it's all a new
art form, right? There's all these interactive features
people are building in. You can change the layers
and move it around and do all sorts of
things and interact with it, but not
really when you're doing it on the
marketplaces. This is one thing I really try
to emphasize in educating people about the
assets they're collecting, especially art on Bitcoin.
We're creating something that's totally new that we haven't had before. We can do all
these new things, but the marketplaces don't really allow it. All that stuff is sandboxed,
not just for my work, but for all of the generative work and so many other collections.
It's a sandboxed image. You're not actually interacting with the actual work.
You got to go to the actual content. There's links in Magic Eden. There's
org.io. There's all sorts of websites. They all have these links to the actual content. There's links in Magic Eden. There's org.io. There's all sorts of websites.
They all have these links to the actual content.
And when you get there, it's a vastly different experience.
Like the quality of mine is totally different.
Sorry to cut you off, but that's something that's, I mean, that's a really good point that we, I guess, never or I had never thought of, right?
I mean, we talk about the on-chain image or the Bitcoin experience on Magic Eden or the Bitcoin experience
on OpenSea, right? These siloed experiences that aren't raw mempool. They're not raw UTXO output
data, right? But, and then I've never considered it for you, like as an artist or for those that
are building, it's what limits, if any, which I'm now finding out there are some, right, get put on
these VMs or these closed loops, right? So I didn't know that there was any kind of, I guess,
preventatives that traditional Bitcoin shows and that the magic Eden version of Bitcoin doesn't.
So it was cool to know that. I mean, what kind of stuff is that? Is it more so just what you can do
inside the ordinal description itself? Or is it more so just back in how it displays?
It's a completely different experience. So to give an example, like I have the built in
exporters, right? You can't like you can click the button, click P or click G, and it's going to
show you what's going on with the code, but it doesn't actually save and download to your
computer if you're not like actually on content. But the other thing is the quality
is so much more improved and it
will scale to any size.
But then you get all the features and those
exporters, that's where they actually work.
Otherwise, you can't utilize any of that stuff.
Yeah, that's
appreciated because I've never
been in here and thinking about it, seeing
on-chain image, off-chain image, I never thought about
the actual code working differently because I'm viewing it through Magic Eden or through a marketplace rather than just directly on Ord or something like that.
like new collections you see them drop and you see like they have issues displaying them because
it's like sandboxing that data and then keeping it so it's displayed properly is sometimes an
issue especially you know with all this new stuff yeah and that that does make sense because most
of the time these new collections that are trying to be quote-unquote like innovative or or have
some new underlying tech magic even does have issues at least displaying the base image and
anything like that it takes takes a while, right?
And some never really
adjusts. Like, every time you go to the collection, Magic
Eden has different sizes for shit.
No, for
sure, for sure.
I was just going to say really quick, there are
a number of releases, I guess, coming out. I know
Stephen Miller's got to digest out covering
everything. So there's always art coming
and there's always people pushing boundaries. So art's
always here.
It's the only thing that stays around
for real. Like all this other shit
goes to zero. Art actually is something that
people collect and they just buy because they like it.
So Chief, we got about
seven, eight minutes left. Do you want to just pin up the rest
that you have and then I'll just finish it off with whatever
I have. Yeah, so yesterday
FUGS dropped that they're dropping a token. I know that that you have and then i'll just finish it off whatever i have um yeah so yesterday fugs dropped
that they're dropping a token i know that or some members in tda had some of these fugs so just be
on the lookout for token or any kind of playing on that end uh we had a new tool dropped right
yesterday we were literally talking about what is cyber kong's doing well they dropped a new
they dropped a new bot um called trench bot so it's a discord trading bot i'm going to post it
up to the top it says change the way you trade meme coins on solana the most advanced discord
trading bot is launching soon we're giving away three referral codes codes for trench bot so that's from the
cyber kong's team themselves uh so there's that and then lastly this is a opportunity that i see
seems to be catching a little bit of traction um with the success of big uh the big miners the
bitcoin and all that kind of stuff uh people were asking for PFPs on the timeline just because they like the pixel art.
Obviously, someone became Big Moto.
And they are launching a big unofficial PFP collection.
Seems to be getting a little bit of traction.
So, just check it out.
4.7k followers right now.
Slowly getting, you know, more and more people involved supply of
999 that's what's up um i have a few things here and then we'll end the show tig obviously killing
it with uh being a clipper over an abstract uh finn was on a show uh yesterday and there is some
uh latest from him so there's gonna be be dark mode being enabled on the dashboard.
NFT value is coming soon.
Streamer verification is scaling slowly, but hang tight.
Finn now leads marketing and teases a big update dropping next week.
And quality versus quantity, short and interactive streams with chats,
tips being long, beats long, silent airtime, IRL, Dubai events, and streams.
So if you guys can like and give Tig a little love on this,
he's definitely doing the boast on this
and just wanted to make sure that he gets his recognition for that.
He's part of the community and is doing a great job over there.
So shout out to him.
And I guess the last thing I really wanted to talk about
is something we talked about maybe two weeks ago.
And it was all
fun and games, but this is starting to get viral. And you know, everything in this space is about
variety. I'm starting to see the Ice Buck Challenge come back. Stuff in Web 2 is now, you know,
becoming tokens and tokenizing everything in Web 3. And what we talked about two weeks ago, we all laughed about was sperm racing.
And this is literally breaking into Web 2.
It was on TMZ yesterday.
And they have their first weigh-in.
They've made their most promotion.
And it's going to be UCLA versus USC.
And they have their two components.
And they basically have their sperm and they get their
sperm underneath the microscope and the first sperm that crossed the finish line wins.
And so this is going viral. It's going to happen on April 25th, which is next Friday.
The guys behind it were on TMZ yesterday. The brains behind the world's first sperm
racing game spills the tea on TMZ, disclosing their donors and on the wild ride getting prepared for the big race.
It's pretty crazy. The world's first sperm race is up on April 25th at Hollywood.
The Hollywood Theater, backed by one million funding by Caritage and Figment Capital.
Startup sperm racing is turning male fraternity into a sport complete with live commentary
bedding and 20 centimeter micro track uh two samples one microscopic finish and the reason
why i'm bringing this up is when i first talked about this we all laughed about two weeks ago
and there is a sperm racing token that's already live on uh on deck screen or just on live on
solana and it was at 100k at the time And now that this is broken out to mainstream and they have, you know, they have funding and now they're going on TMZ,
that token yesterday almost reached $1 million and has retraced to about 500K right now.
With this being launched maybe next Friday and starting to gain virality, I could see the token
gaining more and more intention and definitely breaking $1 million if this goes live. And now we're going to have, you know, news agencies talking about it. It's probably
going to be on your local TV screens. You're going to see all the Web3 creators talking
about it. You're probably going to see some abstract streamers probably streaming on their
live streams. So just wanted to make you sure about this event that's coming live and it's
breaking out and everybody's talking about it. I could see this probably being one of the most viral things happening next week.
And you guys all know you could speculate on the token.
And you just type in the Dex Grinner Sperm Racing.
I don't own any of this asset.
But just seeing the validity of this and seeing how much momentum it is.
I do think it's going to be funny.
Something laughed about.
And I definitely think they're going to continue doing it.
So, yeah.
Just thought it was funny.
Saw them on TMZ yesterday. I was like, I can't believe believe this is happening and they're gaining a bunch of momentum so just wanted
to bring that to your attention it will be something that we probably bring up next friday
and i'll probably be live streaming it on my on my x account or something uh and making some bets
on this guy so they have live weigh-ins it's just kind of funny and so just wanted to bring that up
to you guys we're all adults we all come from sperm so you know just had you know to bring that up to you guys. We're all adults. We all come from sperm. So, you know, just had to, you know, had to bring it up.
But appreciate you guys stopping by the Daily Alpha.
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rest of your day. I'll see you tomorrow.
Appreciate everybody
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