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THE DAILY ALPHAโป๏ธ
Recorded: March 27, 2025 Duration: 1:31:01Space Recording
Short Summary
The crypto space is buzzing with excitement as MapleStory prepares to launch its Web3 ecosystem, allowing players to own in-game assets and participate in a decentralized economy. With significant partnerships and a new token launch on Binance, the gaming sector is poised for growth, reflecting broader trends in the intersection of traditional finance and blockchain technology.
Full Transcription
Thank you. what's up hey welcome back it's the daily alpha appreciate you guys stopping by like or treat the
space best way to show support like. We're on Ethos.
You guys want to leave a review there. If you're not on Ethos, hit me up. I got a few invites.
Just need your EVM wallet. I can send you an invite at the end of the show. We would appreciate a review over there if you could.
And we have Allison's thread up top. And I think today we're going to have MapleStory come by and have a nice little AMA with them and figure out what they're doing.
So I think that's going to be beneficial. lots of people are interested in maple story and i think there is a uh little rollout that's gonna be coming out by the end of next month so i think maple story is finally gonna go live and uh we're
gonna have them in here and discuss it and see how we can get involved and see if there's any
alpha so appreciate you guys um the fact that no one like from our side of the world cares is the only reason one of the
another bullish factors for me you know like i mean they're just really not trying to necessarily
prove their worth they have thousands of daily active users already so it's not like coming and
bringing a new concept so that's kind of what i'm excited about is there's no hype on crypto Twitter yet.
So if we can potentially front run that, then that could be a major cook for us and something fun to do.
Yeah, it's going. They're building on their own AVAC subnet.
And I've been telling you guys rumors of I think that Godzilla off the grid is going to go live by the end of the quarter.
And they had an announcement today of their token being launched on a Binance so it kind of looks like all the games that have been building on the AVAX subnets are about to kind of like release what they've been building
for the past two years which is kind of exciting because got more things to do people like AVAX
and uh that helps propel AVAX too you know what I'm saying like I mean two back-to-back let's
just say major publishers or
one's a game and then another one's a game publisher right coming choosing their chain
first time doing blockchain you know perceived success i mean i even got an article too that
i'll post up to the top um later on in the show but they bought uh game informer uh that happened
a couple days ago and we didn't cover it that much
But just a small piece of news if any of you guys ever grew up, you know going to GameStop anything like that, right?
Buying cards buying games when you go there they'd offer you that subscription and it was a magazine
Right. I mean back in the day when people use magazines and it would just come in and feature the newest games
magazines and it would just come in and feature the newest games sometimes it'd have some cheat
codes and stuff like that so it's kind of like a staple for gamer culture and the early let's just
say 2000s those kind of did you ever go to the group like ever you're like this is what i did
when i was a kid my my mom and my dad would take me to the grocery store when i was a kid i would
roll around with them and go to the aisle to aisle book section yep the book section's right next to
the cashier and she would do the roundabout and. The book section? Yup, the book section's right next to the cashier,
and she would do the roundabout,
and I would be in the book section
looking at the codes of all the games.
Bro, I'd be taking those little demo discs
out that motherfucker, bro.
I was that kid.
Like, I'd be looking for the demo disc ones
and then be like, yo, whoop, when I get home,
I can play a whole 10 minutes of a whole game
over and over again and be like, yeah,
that one was actually fun.
Yeah, they started saran wrapping them because of people like you, because people would fucking open it up and take all the fucking free playables and shit inside the magazines.
I would like use my brain.
I'd have like a game I rented from the same grocery store and I would go and I'm like, I'm not going to buy this.
Mom's not going to let me buy this.
I would try to like memorize the codes before I went home so I can unlock like unlimited levels and shit.
So those are the good old days, man. I love what up sam what up brother hey what's up x what's up chief um hey man this ai this ai is changing the
game man i mean i can see our pfp just move you know like on harry potter they open the newspaper
i can see our p PFPs just animate moving
and stuff like that.
And I've just been, my brain just been going crazy.
I'm thinking of new ideas for my comics.
I can make little movies and stuff.
That shit is incredible.
But TDA of Stateport, guys,
hey, I love the show.
That's what I was spending all yesterday doing, bro.
I was fucking...
Dude, I was impressed.
Like I mentioned to you this morning, like you posted it up top. Like the words. that's what i was spending all yesterday doing bro i was fucking i was impressed like i mentioned
to you this morning like you posted it up top um like the words i always thought that the words
and like hands have been the hardest thing i mean you can do like you know put me at the
like a mcdonald's but it would spell mcdonald's all fucked off um and so i was just impressed
that you managed to get like literally all the topics there listed down and even tdao stay poor and all that shit on there and so is it just easier now or did that take a little bit more
like custom prompting to get it kind of fucked it up a little bit because i just took the topics
that i would post on the space and just put it into chat gbt and add them to make like a newspaper
style thing and they kind of did fuck up a few things um but that's the great thing about this
new chat gbtT4O is that
it's not fucking up fingers. It's not fucking up the details. It's not fucking up the words
anymore. And it's starting to, all you need is image to reference. And like, you saw the
newspaper. Did you see what I put together with this fucking toy? I used my Hulu AI and prompted
it on top of using ChatGP. so i was using two chat engines finding a reference
and then putting that in a hulu ai and then referencing to like move and i kind of used
cap cut and created a nice little like uh like toy promo for this this bear that i prompted in
in chat gpd bro it's like a four 15 minutes probably 15 seconds it probably took me about
two to three hours to get all the prompts and all it ready to go and into CapCut, dude Yeah, I'm watching it now. I mean like it's it's one of those things you'd be like, oh damn
Like as an animator you're like, okay, it's not the best but it's like it's not bad
You could definitely get this dude and teach him cuz like got the basics down or you can do a base level ad
You know, maybe not a 30 minute a minute add or two minute ad but 15 second a 10 second one
It looks good. so and this is like
you said baselines as you can start to progressively learn and this shit keeps learning too but that
looks good bro i mean like i said i just got a hold of the tool yesterday and obviously i've
been using hulu ai for the past three weeks but i mean i know nothing about any of this shit
and i made something that looks presentable.
So this is just a start.
Like, just imagine where we're going to be a month from now or a year from now.
Everybody, and I was kind of thinking about that.
Does this, there's going to be some kind of repercussions of this.
Does this make NFTs less valuable?
Or does this make NFTs more valuable? Because now you can create a brand around it.
I'm just kind of thinking, is this the loot, the whole kind of,
oh, I need this NFT because there's only one like like that now you can just like prompt it and get your
own you don't even have to pay for just like screenshot but i also see the benefit of it of
now you can create a whole line of branding around what you're doing dude
i think it would make it more valuable because you could like you said anyone can come and take my traits but at the
end of the day there's only one person who has my traits that's verifiable that gets uh xyz perks
from having said traits or whatever it is you know whatever we attach to these kind of things so
to i mean it's a yes and a no if you were only basing this off of the JPEG, the picture, the pixels themselves, then yeah, you're in trouble, right?
Because now anyone walks up and copies your pixels instantly.
Shit, steals your whole flow.
They can copy not just your pixels, but how you put pixels together and just recreate their own work in that way, right?
And then, so now it has to do with, well, what does ownership mean?
How do you prove ownership? Does ownership matter? Who does it has to do with, well, what does ownership mean? How do you prove ownership?
Does ownership matter?
Who does it matter to?
Right?
So stuff like that.
Because, I mean, a regular person is going to be like, yo, I like your bear.
I don't care if it's an NFT.
I don't care what it is.
I'm going to just add, you know, my name on it and that's it.
Well, you're like, well, no, it's an NFT.
It's a character that I created and I can show you I own it.
He's like, yeah, that's too much.
I don't care.
Make a bear and just put a shirt on it.
You know?
I think it elevates.
There's no reason why the timeline and everybody here, the timeline doesn't elevate because
of this.
It's very simple now.
You don't have to use any kind of Adobe Photoshop.
You can pretty much prompt your way and vote uh vibe code your way into
creating videos this guy yesterday basically what if studio ghibli directed lord of rings he spent
250 in cling credits and nine hours to re-edit the fellowship trailer to bring the vision to life
and all i should i'm just saying like it doesn't it took him 250 bucks
it's crazy.
But just, I mean, that video is going to get himself probably monetized.
And just that one video because of how, so it was worth the 250 bucks just in terms of views and shit like that.
You know, so, I mean, I'm not saying go and try to hustle your way into monetization with this shit.
But it's one of those things that it helped in.
And it is an avenue and
it's a tool for you know whatever your ideas already are yeah and then mid journey set v7 is
coming next week so it's like this guy is kind of talking about it a little bit he posted like
he's been using it on beta um he says brace yourself v7 is coming next week. I use a slide where I present a generative AI with mid-journey version dates.
People are always impressed by the fact that they went from V1 from February 2022 to V6 by December 23.
That's one year and 10 months.
Now V7 is scheduled for April 2025.
That means that there will have been one year and four months between V6 and V7.
Quite a shift in pace of course this comes a day after
the release of ai's new 4.0 model image that gibbified in every meme created i tried it today
and found it impressive in many ways especially at how precisely a response to prompts but even then
i realized it couldn't replace mid-journey for me there's something in the way it behaves and it still feels unique the
kind of cat like uh capronesis i mean i said elegance and charm it uh doesn't just follow
instruction it pays it plays it shifts it surprises so if you guys are impressed about this one mid
journey next week apparently dude this guy's been using it is saying it's like way better um
by just prompting you don't probably have to prompt it three or four times to get it.
You could probably prompt it once and get all that you need.
So, Lord, you've been prompted for a while, dude.
Like you've been fucking around with this shit, man.
Yeah, dude.
I think it's like absolutely amazing.
When Dolly 3 came out, that shit was all over the timeline too.
I don't know if like anybody remembers when that came out.
Everybody was trying to like make their NFTs with it.
And it was like pretty good.
But this is honestly pretty insane um i like like local ai generation a lot like i run like
local lms and like local image models image to video models and stuff so like you can get a lot
of this stuff and you've been able to for a long time like especially ghibli um dude for like a
couple years like if you guys look into like comfy ui comfy ui is generally
what people use to make like really niche ai generations when it comes to like image and video
because you can run these uh models locally and stuff uh the difference here though is that you
don't need to be a nerd so you can just like get on open ai and make whatever you want i don't think
it's that revolutionary though i i think it's absolutely fucking amazing that it's opening it up to everybody but like uh like i said this the
open source tooling that has existed for a while like you could definitely make that uh video for
free uh that the guy paid 250 for but nobody has and he paid 250 and did it easily from his
fucking laptop not having to run anything locally so the fact that you could do that is absolutely insane but uh like image to video especially has gotten a lot better recently so like these the
cling and like all of these places where you can animate images to video is great but like you
could do that off like a 4080 you know what i mean or like an at home single gpu setup uh you can do
that with like some of these new models from like alibaba and stuff like that uh so yeah but like needless to say though i think this is probably the most bullish like
you know user um ai that exists right now it's for like image generation or even editing i know like
what was it gemini google's dropped like gemini or something whatever it was called not gemini but
uh gemma or some shit where you can like edit video or images that was pretty
good but this is like way fucking better uh mid-jury guy was taking shots on spaces though
like where he said uh you know it's like all hype and it's basically a meme and just to wait
i don't think he posted it anywhere but he said that shit on space on the main account so i'm
kind of bullish to see what they put out to be real but the open ai thing right now is like top
tier it's crazy but like comfy ui if you're a nerd look into that because you can make whatever yeah i guess it
has been around for nerds like you but i didn't know about it and i feel like you guys have been
gatekeeping a lot of this shit bro like all i've been doing is like where the fuck you've been i
don't know about this like fucking tell me about this i've been stumbling across like balls deep
in a laptop trying to figure shit out but uh no i feel like if you have hardware
that you can run shit on yeah like let me know bro there's like there's definitely a bunch of
tutorials out there and like people the beauty i love open source ai because i could find whatever
i want like any niche shit i want to make this is just like a really good for anybody ai that like
you just pay 20 bucks a month and you can do shit but yeah if you're looking at like you can
you can train your own models right i would say explain your own models you can train your own models right you can if you
have a specific use case like say you wanted to make a tda uh like the thing you made today with
the newspaper thing right you can go to open ai every day and then you can pay them 20 bucks a
month or if that's your only use case you can like just train a custom model uh pretty easily
nowadays and you can run it on low end hardware.
But like you can, if you have a specific use case or a Ghibli filter, like Comfy UI has a Ghibli filter.
That's all open source.
You could download the models, download the weights.
These models get updated all the time.
Like there's a bunch of teams with different ones.
Like Flux is really good.
Like Bitcoin Puppets used Flux.
Lukey made all those like glyphs where you could,
you know, then those are comfy UI back. So the backend is comfy UI, which is just a program that
anybody can download. It's open source for free. The models are free. Like everything's free. You
just have to download this stuff and put it together. If you want to train a custom model
on your PFP, you can. Like, you know, like I made like a P pfp you can like you know like i made like a pups uh laura where you
can like everything has the pups hat no matter what you do you know so if there's any like
specific use case you want you can do it open source and you don't have to pay for it and run
it on your own software and then you don't you also don't have to go through like somebody's
company like so i'm really bullish on open source for like specific use case use cases like if you
guys want to have your TDA branding,
like train a model and just- Well, Lord, that's what I was going to say.
What do you mean by like, I mean, I understand,
but when you explain having to have your own hardware
for a local model versus not a local model.
Yeah, I mean, like, so you can download the weights
for some of these models.
Like you can't download the open AI models, right?
Like that's, and I like the whole, there is no mo moat thing like there's a moat with this like you have
to pay $20 you have to get on the platform you have to use it um you can't get that but you can
get other models and download them so like you could just download an image model like flux
uh I think it's like black forest labs is uh guys who make it it's very good I know they worked with
Grock early on I think like by, Elon's probably using his own shit
or like a fork of stable diffusion or something.
But the open source idea is like you download all of these open source models
and you use it yourself.
And you can use that on your local PC or you could like rent a GPU, you know?
And like you can have your setup on your computer
and it's powered by a GPU cloud service thing.
So you can do
whatever you want. It's just like there's an initial build that you have to do, right? Like
I spent like probably like a week learning some of the new image to video model setups. And then
like you'll wake up and some guy on the internet will make like a workflow that works better than
what you have. And then eventually you're just like, oh, okay, like they've gotten this model down pat.
But usually after a week of a new model coming out,
there's a bunch of use cases for it.
But yeah, like I said, it's like there's some initial setup involved
that you don't really hear about it as much, but there's a couple like AI,
you know, accounts on X that they're constantly posting,
like little videos and stuff.
And those guys are using Comfy UI,i you know or they're using whatever and then
like maybe they're using cling but usually they're not like usually they're running this shit locally
on a pc and like like i said i got like a 4080 setup that i generally use uh which isn't too
crazy like at all it was like two grand fucking gaming setup that i have like for uh stuff like
this that's just easy and you can run like llms on it too. Gemma 3 is the new generalized LLM that I use for conversational stuff.
And that kind of keeps your info private, right?
It's all local, right?
It's all local.
So this is what companies need.
Unless you want to work with OpenAI, but some companies can't bro. Like you can't legally give customer data to another company. So if you're using open
AI and it's going through their fucking servers, you're kind of cooked, you know, like legally.
So if you want to, uh, like if you want an AI or, you know, look at all of your documentation,
say you're a lawyer office, like you're going to want something local, right? So you, you just
build a server or some nerd comes in there and builds a server for you that has access
to all your files. And now the guy who like looks through the files can use the AI, right? And it's
never touching the internet. It's just like all the files are on that server. And just like the
image creation, like say you train a model or whatever, it's locally on your computer. That's
great. If you want, you can deploy it or you can
like make it open source uh you can put it on like some type of fucking server so people can
make their own images like you could do that if you want you know and just have a specific
generator so yeah i'm big on open source and like there is no moat um because like what if open ai
goes fucking tits up or they completely for health just health jobs right like my wife is
like a speech language pathologist and i've always told her hey you know speed speed rail your your
work and she's like well i can't because of hipaa like i will literally go to jail because i can't
put these people's names or anything like that and we don't know the back end if it's not gonna get
transmitted out or anything like that so like anything health medical field or anything or that has hippo regulation is gonna need a local slash private
like box that part or like a partnership like i feel like a lot of these companies are gonna
partner with like open ai like open ai i'll probably put out like a hardware device or
some shit is my assumption that goes in your server rack i don't know that like doesn't
connect to the internet but uses like a fucking quantized version of their models i don't know
bro but the way to me is like yeah like i use this personally all the time like if there's a
github right like github is fucking everywhere especially in crypto bro like if i need to know
what's going on and i don't know all the shit like i'll just talk to gpt i've had like windsurf is like a vibe coding program or whatever um like i've had that thing just go
to a github fucking run the shit and then explain it to me and then i had it running in like 10
minutes where like that used to take a long time right so yeah i don't know and that's all like
you can run all this stuff locally so i'm big on the local idea of it like obviously not everybody
can afford a setup that can run that type of but uh like i said you could also just
rent gpu usage from somebody if you want to with something uh there's a lot of platforms to do that
like cloud gpu type so you can have a pretty shitty laptop and if you have like a good workflow
you just tap into like a cloud gpu service but still you're going through another program i don't
like that so anything you can do locally like and and gpu service but still you're going through another program i don't
like that so anything you can do locally like and and usually it comes on these flagship products
and within like a month or two somebody's made like a localized version of their pro and like
deep seek v3 like the new one that came out i've tried that i have you can't run that shit locally
yet like unless you have like a ten thousand dollar like mac mini or whatever um because they like they do this thing called quantization or whatever and uh they'll take the
giant model and like compress it um so like you can run like deep seek two i think on like a you
know on a single gpu setting but yeah the new one you cannot yet uh but eventually right and when
when these like fucking nerds end up doing stuff like that,
it just like opens it up
for other people to use locally.
So yeah, there is no moat with AI.
Like we said this like years ago
that everything that people were seeing,
like mid-journey and all this,
eventually it was going to be free to do.
Like almost all AI tools
will end up being free at some point
just because of exponential growth
and there's less compute
that you need to do these like basic
things. Right. Like the big boy shit now is having a gigantic fucking model that can, you know,
like pump out token, like in a ridiculous way that you can't do, you know, on a local PC. So
you have to use them. But for a lot of stuff, you don't have to use them. And I think that
it's worth looking into, especially with with ai like i wouldn't be able to
set up a lot of stuff i set up now if i didn't use ai you know uh real talk like that that's how you
learn how to do so just use ai if you don't understand how to run the if you want to use
comfy ui like talk to ai if you run into errors give it to ai you know like that's literally how
i get most things working if it's like if i run a problem, I just give it to Grok at this point.
And Grok's like, oh, here's a couple issues, fix it.
And now they have like the motivational speaker in there.
So it pretty much does everything.
You say you don't want to go to the gym or something.
You just say, I don't want to go to the gym.
And they just yell at you.
Bro, I don't do that voice shit, dude.
I can't.
You want motivation, bro.
Like, oh my God, it's crazy.
You can pretty much do anything with AI.
And I mean, it's kind of crazy. This is the worst AI is ever going to be. god it's crazy you can pretty much do anything with ai and i'm i mean
it's kind of crazy this is the worst ai is ever gonna be and it's pretty stunning like
realistics just like imagine where we're gonna be one year from now five years now ten years
out this is the worst it's ever gonna be guys yeah it's absurd i'm not gonna lie like where
we're at right now i was like i'm not surprised but it's also like it's kind of like daunting
just to look at like everything that's happening on a major scale, especially in robotics.
Like that's the part that, uh, I think a lot of people are sleeping on, bro.
Like they've got like, uh, what is it?
One X.
I know like the guy who, uh, founded that he's pretty cool and he's working with Nvidia
now.
And like, I talked to him like, fuck it.
Two years ago for the first time when he was like, yeah, we're starting up a company and now they're working with nvidia and now you got like optimus and then there's like
figure one i think it's called that is actually deployed in like i think bmw and like some other
factories and shit so like the robotics part's crazy and then china is like if you want to get
scared just look up chinese robots bro Because they're fucking mogging us.
We need to put up some fucking nuclear power plants. I don't believe them.
I think it's just marketing, bro.
Look up Unitree, bro.
I saw Unitree.
Look up Unitree.
They only let stuff come out of their firewall that they want to scare the shit out of Americans with, dude.
They probably don't have half this shit, dude.
Did you see they're at a concert?
And the robot grabbed the dude on the front row of the concert seat and started fucking
Smashing his head in and then the people had to go grab the robot like it's still primitive
You probably get paid if you're the injury report, you know that guy, but they're using them there
They're using their people as guinea pigs, bro, and just throwing the bot out there and just seeing what happens
It's like insane. I didn and a lot of these like people thought
these videos were ai generated and like i'm not gonna be i'm not gonna lie like i did too like
unitry i think is the company but like they're they're they got some agile robots and it's real
it's not fucking it's not fake so that's kind of like i don't want a robot stronger than me walking
around uh you know so i think major cities are going to be a no for me in the next like five years with robots all over the place from gucci um but yeah china china scares me
i'm not gonna lie i think china should scare me i think it should scare everybody and that means
that we should be building them to be real because like they're they're not gonna stop bro their
whole economy is fucking you know what it is you know like they just everything comes back to them
and they're just trying to like mog everybody in ai right now they got they got too much going on their whole economy is you know what it is you know like they just everything comes back to them
and they're just trying to like mog everybody in ai right now they got they got too much going on
we don't have enough power plants uh call me conspiracy theorists or whatever but you know
all it takes is a robot army a bunch of drones give them all ai you know and then what do we do
they give us sex robots we don't give a no shit. No, dude. I saw the drone shit I mean everyone's talking about these drone shows looking dope
I'm like, yeah, the drone show is dope until you realize that these are all just literally coordinated like
Attack vectors, bro
and if I got dudes put a gun a bullet of whatever on one of these drones and now you got a
50,000 of these motherfuckers moving in like sink like in synchrony
Right. I know that drone should locally though locally you can put sync like in synchrony right i don't know dude
drone shit's cool locally though locally you can put it so like this is what people don't
understand elan was talking about this like two months ago when he was talking like the
department of defense he did some like speech or some shit and he was talking about all of this
and like a big part of it was like imagine a drone but at this point you could take a drone
and you could put grok one on that drone gro Grok one's open source also, they open source that like months ago.
So like you could fit these things on a drone.
So you don't even need to be connected to a server anywhere.
Right?
So like, imagine you have a drone, it's got its own AI.
And then imagine having a thousand of those that each have their own AI, but they all
have the same mission and they never have to ping to a fucking server or tower or anything.
They just have to run out a battery and then blow your ass up so it's it's uh like modern warfare there
there's not going to be a point to being a human on the front line a fucking drone don't miss all
right like an ai is just gonna headshot you every fucking time just give me put me in a bulletproof
Bulletproof bubble, my guy.
bubble my guy that's all i need just don't leave the house just don't leave the house let them
That's all I need.
Just don't leave the house.
Just don't leave the house.
Let them fuck you.
And all of y'all out here yelling at your chat GBTs and shit and not saying please and thank you.
It couldn't be me, bro.
Watch.
Just wait.
I be yelling.
In the future, I'm going to be like, look, can you pull up the early days?
I've been supporting you guys since y'all were first out here.
You're going to have a Yelp review.
Yeah, like, yo, please.
Yelp review on users, bro.
I have my first chat GBT line i've always said please bro hey invest in emp weapons that's what i was thinking ferret cages emps like that's that's
where we're going um i guess i told you guys about the second the tariffs trump's kind of
being a little bullish on these tariffs are hawkish, basically saying it's Liberation Day on the second.
Kind of scared the market this morning.
Kind of bounced back a little bit.
We're back.
We'll see where it goes second.
It's going to be a day to kind of see if he's going to stay hawkish
or he's going to be dovish on there.
So I think it's going to affect the market a little bit.
Discord is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to plan an IPO.
So it looks like you're going to be able to trade Discord on the stock market.
I was hoping they'd do an airdrop, bro.
Like, damn, man, we got to do IPO, man?
Like, fuck this.
Also, just some charts.
Bitcoin is getting ready for a massive pump.
This is Bitcoin's short-term MRV from one to three months.
And every time short-term holders capitulate at these levels, we pump. So we
capitulated and now we're pumping. And then the DXY on track for its worst months since November
of 2023. And that's the strength of the dollar, which is good for our bags. Kind of just like
looking pattern matching, the dollar is crossing the 200-day moving average. This has happened 41 times since 2015.
What does this mean for Bitcoin? Over the next nine months, Bitcoin finished higher 98% of the
time. The worst gain was plus 24%. The median gain was 162%. The average gain was even higher. Much
higher was this reasonably 90% probability puts Bitcoin at at least above $125K this year.
So that's kind of a large sample size.
That's over 10 years of data.
And any time we broke below the 200 moving average on the DXY, we have pumped every single time.
And so I think this is all lining up of us kind of maybe this being a bit of a capitulation for the second.
I don't know if this brings us down, but it looks like all the signs are pointing, all the indicators are pointing.
And I think the only thing that is kind of the reverse Uno card is does Trump have enough say or have enough influence to collapse the market with his words?
And I think we're kind of getting over that slowly, but surely
we're kind of like the boy that called Wolf. He isn't affecting the markets anymore. So I,
I kind of see that he's not affecting the market as much with his words. And I think that we're
going to go up. And even if he is a bit hawkish on April 2nd, I do think that will be a short
term downfall. And we'll kind of go back up to where we started from by the end of the week.
We didn't move much yesterday. Yesterday, he officiated the 25% tax on all automobiles imported in.
And I mean, I really suspected that we were going to do a pretty decent dump.
And I think we dropped like 1%, maybe for about 30 minutes to an hour.
And then it reset up and so ripped, I think, 3% or four percent until this morning's open so we were all in the
green even after the announcement of the 25 import tax on automobiles that's bullish it's bullish um
since we do have them coming in 15 minutes you just want to run through some alpha um walrus
went live kind of the file coin of suey and i thought i mean they're trading at like 750
million dollars a nice little airdrop for a lot of people and i saw this that claytosaurs are now
leveraging walrus protocol to power decentralized storage for their digital assets so claytosaurs
are moving all their assets over the suey and is this is this a uh a hint that they might be moving
over the suey I don't know.
There's really not an NFT over there.
And planet stores would probably be the main focus if they did move over the SUI.
I don't know, man.
What do you think, Chief?
The fact that they're moving their assets over there?
There's plenty of storage that you could do on Solana from Arweave.
You could do file coin or file storage.
And they're like, fuck this.
We're going over the SUI.
So it makes me think that they might be moving over there. do think they would be the main nft if they did move
the suey bro yeah and i'm pretty sure walrus uh can definitely incentivize uh someone to go over
there build on their chain right utilize the new protocol and be like yo i mean test us out we'll
back you up we'll make this a strategic partnership to where our, you know, we both have mutual gain
from this doing well.
Because ultimately, that's also what Walrus needs, right?
I mean, you've been hearing about it.
You saw a couple of content creators make videos, etc.
But who is the community that could potentially push any Walrus related tech?
Who is the community that would mention walrus
again if they're not getting paid right i mean us we keep up with news but other than that it's not
necessarily like brand champions for you know you know you're not oh i'm so bullish on piss
and uh you know i don't you're like dude you're bullish on what like the roads no you're bullish
on what can go on the roads and the brands and stuff. So, I mean, I think it makes sense.
And there's probably some type of grant regarding that or incentive-wise.
Yeah, I'm going to post some stuff up top.
I mean, I don't know if they'll be here exactly at 11, but we'll just kind of plan around there.
Flame, go ahead while I get some stuff up top.
Yeah, for sure.
So, this is a little bit of a macro news that is tariff related.
I was hoping it was Lamborghini just because, you know, when Lambo.
But according to Moby Media, Ferrari is to raise their prices by up to 10% on select models after April 1st in response to President Trump's 25% auto tariffs on non-US cars.
That's a $350,000 hike for the $3.5 million F80. So you want that Ferrari, better get in the
trenches. And then there's a little more AI news to share with you guys. This one's called Twin AI, and this is nuts.
Twin AI can turn your photos into realistic talking videos
using just one image and an audio clip.
I can't wait to play with this stuff.
Like, that's the thing.
Like, these tools are so, you know, feature-rich now
that, like Espresso was saying,
even green noobs can create really useful stuff just on the fly.
Imagine what these gigabrains are going to do
when they start getting in here and tearing things up.
Obviously, there's some very scary, nefarious stuff
that we hope we don't see come to fruition.
But on the creative side of things, I think we're going to see some really mind-blowing stuff. obviously there's some very scary nefarious stuff that we hope we don't see come to fruition but
on the creative side of things i think we're gonna see some really mind-blowing stuff and for
content creators you know this is like such a nutty game changer so i thought that was great
i mean think about games just everything is going to be sped up like the delivering things that you
promised on your road map are going to be shorter than ever i guess you could sit on them and wait
on them but like building games building protocols are going to be shorter than ever. I guess you could sit on them and wait on them, but like building games,
building protocols, building websites are now easier than ever.
You could copy and paste literally websites now.
Like you could go and I think it's same.dev is the name of the website.
You can go copy and paste that, put that in cursor,
and you can have the exact same website as Apple.
It's crazy, dude.
Like this is getting nuts.
And Chief, you pinned up some stuff.
Since it's going to get pinned over, it's just the Godzilla stuff. So the first time over a year,
Binance has listed a Web3 game. This is the first time we have a game of quality that can
carve into Web2 market, not only to hit a TGE, but land the top exchange. A big moment for Web3
gaming with a lot of resting on this and the entire down
bag crypto gaming sector that had a brutal year what happens from march 31st and onward for guns
will set the tone on the gaming area and over 2025 if guns is successful launch gaming will
likely get a bid at least for a cycle and other games that look like this may have a chance to
make it in web2 so basically showing that there's also MapleStories coming out that's on AVAX.
And Binance is listing this token day one.
So introducing guns, the Binance Launchpool Farm gun
by locking BNB, FD, USD, and USDC on March 31st.
So kind of was hinting at this this week
saying that they're gonna launch before Q1.
And they just had an announcement about an hour ago
that they're gonna be launching on the 31st
using the Binance Launchpool. So it's only to play these games lots of games coming out
so did you see what i posted on top with robin hood private bank makes me think of like x payments
yeah so robin hood unveiled that you will be able to actually get cash delivered to you as if it was an ATM. So functioning exactly as a private bank,
but going one step further in the customer service department and pulling up to your house
with some of your money. You sold on some stock option calls and now you just want that cash
delivered to you. Dude, I mean, I don't know, dude. That sounds so wild to say,
to you dude i mean i don't know dude this is that sounds so wild to say hey come drop off a thousand
dollars at my house this is a plot for a whole new heist movie oh yeah because then i'm gonna just be
like look bro i mean then i'm gonna call you expresso and tell you like yo the robin hood
guy is coming to my house he got a grand you just need to find them yeah what i think is going to
happen here is like stable coin regulation is gonna to be the first thing move and banks are going to be able to issue their own stable coins.
So if you have a bank transmitter license, you're able to create a stable coin.
And I just think that they're just kind of pushing that.
It's like, yes, you could get cash into you.
But in the future, it's all digital anyways.
And it's just going to be minted from their bank vault and sent to your digital wallet.
bank vault and sent to your digital wallet yeah so in a way it's cash but it's what when they
Yeah.
pair the cash to the actual digital dollar their version of a stable coin of a digital dollar
dude i mean you even got what is it trump trying to come out with his own individual stable and we
thought world liberty finance that was his plan right create the stockpile so they can be the
ones to when there's a crunch or anything like that, issue out the loans on these assets. So now, I mean, Robinhood already does the stock market area
and kind of just transitioning into adopting of crypto rails and blockchain tech.
Well, I think stable coins is the first thing they're going to do.
And I think that it's all pegged to the dollar.
So it strengthens the dollar.
And that's why they're pushing so hard on stable coins.
So I would imagine the next two or three years, your regional bank, any bank you go to,
you'll be able to ask for a mint of cash to be sent to your digital wallet.
Like, I do think you'll be able to request at your local bank, if you need cash,
then to mint it and send it to your digital wallet if you needed it.
I don't even know if you'll even need it because I do think I'd just rather use crypto.
But I can see, you know, all these banks are going to have their own stable coins, Bank of America stable
coin, Robinhood stable coin, X stable coin. This is all going to be coming in the next year or two.
And the fact that Robinhood's doing this before X just makes me think that they're trying to
front run it. And I feel like that announcement of X payments is right around the corner, dude.
They're already promoting their evaluations back to $ 44 billion. I do think that X payment thing could be a game
changer, especially if there's some kind of crypto rails involved with it. I do think that's kind of
something that could be like unexpected that could pump the crypto market if X kind of integrates
crypto rails and just like a bank system like Robinhood did. Go ahead. Go ahead, Flay, my bad.
All good. I just want to share this really quick while it's top of mind.
Our friend Stephen Miller, and maybe you guys were planning on sharing this too,
but he's got some news about the Behold drop.
Apparently, the day is here. Behold debuts today.
But please be advised, we identified an issue that
might require the mint windows to shift back slightly trigamma is hard at work on a fix and
i'll share an update shortly so for anybody who's keeping an eye on behold from steven miller
that should be uh going live today in some form feel free to post post that up to the top five
so it's a resource. Yeah for sure
Any update on me bear? I saw Jani was kind of going over like civil attacks and stuff
That shit is great. I fucking love this
This is this man is literally embodying the Joker and setting everybody on fire and just having fun
And he's walking around and like oh, what are you doing?
Eating ice cream and slapping that shit out of your hand. Fuck you. You know, kicking everybody like it's fun, dude. It's awesome.
He found someone who asked for a collab. And that's one thing that they keep talking about
that I don't know a lot of people understand. So Dune, right? Think of Dune as a black hole
full of information, but it allows you to go and isolate specific pieces out of that
black hole if you know what you're looking for or what and compile right these databases and
these dashboards that give you information well the honey jar aka janny and his team, are the number one contributors on Dune, period.
Like, not just for Baruchain, not just for, no, like, across every data point that Dune has,
they are the number one contributors.
So, he's been saying that for a long time, and just, what that means is these guys know how to
sift through data, and in a sense, figure out and find whatever they're trying to find
So he's been doing that bro
He found literally someone that asked for 20 spots for their community
Ended up grabbing all 20 spots and selling it for $50 a piece on
secondary market
but like dumb criminals, right? I mean, it's one thing to be a criminal
and know like, yo, I'm going to get caught. I'm going to be cautious not to get caught.
It's another thing to just be a dumb criminal. Like you don't sell all 20 of them in the same
lot. You don't have your name. You know, like it's just dumb criminal shit. So he's just going
through and he says, if you want your money, AKA like you need your nft now or that 200 bucks 300
bucks that you spend is hurting you shoot him a dm he'll give you a refund uh if not just sit back
and wait and uh remember it's like silk road uh the dealer got your money i mean there's really
nothing much you can do besides try to get a hold of them before the package goes in the mail you
know and so he hasn't sent him out yet and if you want a refund you can go get a refund
But other than that, it's just mass chaos bro. Like people losing their y-list spots people getting caught for
Getting exposed like their community managers getting exposed as being pieces of shit the community that he copied
They didn't even know who existed like they commented under that post and was like damn this dude's using our name
even know who existed like they commented under that post and was like damn this dude's using our
name so it's just shit like that that i mean you know it happens in collabs and then uh but no one
sits down and says you know what like let's expose some of this shit or i got time and he's just one
of those people that's like i got time today i don't got nothing else to do so yeah i don't know
when we're getting them yeah i kind of have the leverage and he has like
him and udi kind of had the leverage in their hands and when they want to kind of release these
now and release them in the right market release them now do you kind of like i kind of fuck with
the pre-sales the fact that you can you have control you can eliminate bad actors or you can
eliminate people abodding or civil farming or people that have too many wallets. And like now you create a better distribution for a more healthier NFT floor.
So I actually think that pre-sale metal, you see Tapper Wizards using it.
You see me bear using it.
I do think this is probably going to be the new way you'll see.
NFTs launched in the future.
Deposit it, get your money and we'll give you the NFT when you can.
And just like creates people talking about it.
It's done, right?
And then it's like, you know, at least work, it talking about it's done right and then it's like you know
at least work it's it's kind of magic it's not automatically pinned to secondary sales and
trading in the jeets experience and that you know you're not subject to that at least not initially
before like day one even completes a lot of the times as a team you were fighting launch day in
the in the war room and you were fighting, you know Maintaining the community and floor price and all this shit all at the same time
Like you couldn't even get the collection out and you got some dude in the in the chat
Yo, he minted before me and my face is in 30 minutes and why is that below mint?
I I don't know what to do and you're like, dude, I can't do this. So it's an interesting dynamic
I think it definitely has to do with people that have that one ability and privilege.
Right.
It's not just everyone that can fuck with people's attention and money like that.
Right.
You have to actually not just think you have demand like there actually has to be real demand.
And you can say, well, if I take this away away from you i know i can literally throw this into
the sky and 50 people will jump for it right it's a it's a different setting and so i don't
recommend everyone just trying to pretend like you're the hottest shit on the block because
that might be a real humbling experience too right you might come out here like yo pre-sale only
exclusive curated community and then you curate the fuck
out of these people and no one shows up when it comes time to spend some money right because once
again whitelist does not equal demand it just equals opportunity everybody wants an opportunity
they execute on demand whether or not it means something or you know will change for them so
what you've been farming on vera for a
little bit is this wasabi vault uh deposit of 300 300 apy is that competitive with what's being
presented on bear change yeah that is that's one of the things that i had wanted to ask miyagi
early on is just how exactly they plan on competing right because i mean it's it's extremely
competitive over there it's it's a game I mean, they've transformed TradFi,
right? And just liquidity pools providing and that kind of stuff into a literal game where,
hey, you know, the places that you can go to play the game, the different games that are available
and you shop around, move left, right, and see, oh, there's better yield here oh this pool looks good what am i getting
as a reward right so i think that that's also it gets deeper and deeper and and bear starts to get
like very complex layer wise right but if you can understand it or are willing to oh it's dope right
i mean there's ap wise right now anywhere from 800 lowest is about 90
so average you're looking at about 150 100 plus right plus uh the yield plus the incentives so
it gets very like i said layers deep but initially yes anything above 100, right, anywhere in that range from 100 to about
300 APR is nice on bear right now. And ultimately, there's other pools that are offering 600,
you know, some up to 800, 900. But all of those comes with varied levels of risk, too,
when you start going that much yield, right? Why does it have that much yield right why is it have that much yield what is
it giving out it's obviously probably not worth quote unquote that much if they're willing to give
that much out you know it's like me telling you i'll give you a thousand apr and i'm giving you
90 uh vapor and 10 percent bara but it still shows that it's a thousand APR, right? Regardless of if you're getting vapor
doesn't mean anything or is worth anything. I'm emitting and issuing a thousand APR worth of
tokens, regardless of what the value of those are, right? So it's stuff like that to understand,
and it can be a lot, but ultimately BGT is your gold and that's all you want.
And, you know, everything else stems from that.
Right.
And, I mean, Smokey just reposted it, too, so it must be listening in the 90s.
But what I was going to say.
Oh, Wasabi has obviously expanded their marketing.
They're starting to sponsor, like, video content creators on YouTube,
and that leads to I thinking they're going to have an airdrop soon.
So if you are on Barra and you want to maybe get a little piece of the sabi token
I do think staking and using their protocol and using these vaults is probably gonna get you some kind of allocation for their website
So just you know a little a little added incentive there
If you are farming maybe move over for a few weeks and do this so you can get at least get a little bit of token when it does get released
Let's go to frank what up frank
hey guys uh since we're talking on bear and stuff i just wanted to mention that uh one thing that i
think is a little bit underrated right now on bear are meme coins um you know obviously there's
meme coins on bear chain and like some of them, um, you know, they can pop off at any minute because of the teams behind them.
Like you have the BM token that's got one of the highest, uh, APYs right now,
but you know, uh, it's, it kicked off because they, the team behind it,
like I think they got a vault or whatever. Uh,
but the point is like with some of these meme coins don't fade them because they
can, you know,
the team can set something up with P.O.L.
That might give incentives and things like that.
So I actually started looking into some of them, just started picking up a little bit here and there just in case.
Well, that's what I was going to say.
I mean, you bring up a really good point because it opens up a new, not necessarily a new asset class, but a new way an asset class is managed and interacted with.
Before, when it's, once again, let's just say we're a team, Expresso and I, we want to launch a token.
I mean, there's only a certain amount of syncs we can do to take tokens off of the market.
There's only a certain amount of tokens we can burn.
There's only a certain amount of, let's just say, distribution that can be curated, right? After you use mostly all of those cards, you're just stuck on whether or not the token has enough attention and validity to be traded and moved, right? And whether the market is willing to do so, right? Is it risk on. When you add the proof of liquidity flywheel into that, you now have a way to create
an incentive. If I come from, let's just say, for example, a wealthy background, I can just say,
you know what? Well, I have 100K just sitting here. I'm going to incentivize people to lock
up our token and I'll use some of my personal money as an incentive versus you couldn't do that
in a traditional liquidity pool setting or a
staking setting, right? And so I think that that's where it starts getting interesting and fun,
because now it plays on the individual actors, like you said, the people that made, yeah,
BM is a shitter, but to get a vault approved, right, with other protocols and platforms that
have billions in TVL, and you manage to get your
shitcoin approved for basically emissions of gold, then I mean, that means something, right?
So it's validity, it's able to kind of pull on these strings. So I just think that in general,
shitters are a different asset class on Barra, because you never know who can, like you said,
have a vault and the type of bribes and liquidity
that'll get pushed towards people interacting with those vaults. Because I'm earning some BM
right now for just having validators and tokens inside the honey jar, right? And when I claim,
I'm going to get some of the BM token. And then I get some OM and I get some all this other shit.
So a lot of these create a suite of bribes. That way you are
incentivized to delegate to them, right? And then you check out their suite of, oh, well, this has
some, some Ohm, some BM tokens, some Barra. And you're like, oh, I don't, I don't fuck with Ohm
or BM. Okay. Well, this one has Kodiak and infrared. Okay. That's the route that I want to
go. So it's just kind of a combination. and I think that's why shitters will do better
or at least have a chance of being sustainable
if there's a good Ponzi master kind of like operator in a sense.
Isn't that what Henlo did with Henlock?
Yep.
And I saw Henlo was up like 42% today.
Obviously, Jani's behind it with Mibera.
Do you think it's just attention-based?
Now it's the Aptow, yeah.
So here's another thing.
So like Henlo is what, like I said, anything that he does over there on the Honey Jar is all going to connect back to Henlo.
That's his, let's just say, underlying coin, right?
So if you staked in those Boyko vaults early on, the reward that we're going to get is in Henlo token, right? The VCs invested in Henlo token. And as a byproduct, the strategic partnerships with the Honey Jar, ApeDAO, etc.
So their token is the lifeline of it.
So it'll always have, I mean, that's one thing that you're always going to have to be, I guess, cognizant of in this ecosystem is, hey, what's the token doing compared to the jpeg right because
some attention can move to the jpeg and the token goes down and and vice versa right but ultimately
that's what you got to look at so could you expect like me bear staking for like henlock yeah for
henlo token yeah you'll get or or you'll when you or you'll be able to you're be able to, you're actually able to take out a loan against your Mibera.
And it'll either be in Henlo or Bera, right, of what they have in their treasury to give you a loan against the actual asset.
You know OG General's going to be fucking sweeping the shit out and staking all that shit to get all the token, dude.
Dude, CBB is making, I think, like 50 Gs or something every three days.
Just locking up and running.
And I think that this is one of the things that I'll put out there and the reason why I've just been so big on this.
Dude, if I'm talking crazy rates right now with bear at $8, just imagine when the ecosystem naturally inflates.
Like leave the APRs the same.
We're not going to go any crazier. Just leave it at 100.
But when the ecosystem bloats, then the natural yield you're getting, the passive income,
also bloats, right? So you can win in two ways in this. You can win by the actual protocol platform in the individual tokens themselves. In the pool, the yield, yield those do well or if the whole ecosystem
does well then it's naturally a kind of rising tide and all ships kind of thing
it's very interesting like i said i do think it's a bit different than everything else we've seen
and i think it will fail or it will succeed off being different and i do think it has a great
chance of succeeding because you do have whales interested in this flows haven't stopped once again top top number one flow
Back to back now, I guess in the last 24 hours and I pulled up sonics numbers, too
They're not I think sonic yesterday had a hundred million worth of decks volume
And but no not necessarily any inflows compared to these right? So another 500 million into Barra yesterday
Ultimately Barra is an EVM change. So take that with a grain of salt when you see stuff leave
ETH it's not necessarily even ETH. It's it's leading ETH but still on an EVM compatible chain and going and flowing that way
But yeah a lot of inflows into Barrow with these new rates, bro
I mean you have certain stuff going at 160 premium
like l i gbt or lgbt or whatever so i don't know it's it's getting fun yeah sonic you had a total
value lock just surpassed 1 billion so that's a nice little metric too for that i'm not saying
one's better than the other i just saw that yeah it was at 900 and then barrel was at 4 billion
tvl and then so if you said
it hits 1 billion then it's up literally probably about 10 today because i looked at all those
numbers earlier today when you when you said yesterday why i wasn't sonic on the charts
i started trying to figure out where they got their info and they used artemis but and then
i started pulling info from defi llama and that has a really good kind of comparative metric there.
I did invite Dominic from MapleStory and Nexon up.
I don't know if he's sliding through or someone else from the team.
But for those of you guys that don't know, we'll have some people from the MapleStory team slide by.
MapleStory, as we've been mentioning here on the show, but also just a quick TLDR.
It's a Web2 game that's been established for years now. I would say roughly a little bit,
10 years or so. Thousands and thousands of daily active users and are transitioning and going full
force into Web3, right? With their parent company, Nexonon and this as the flagship so kind of excited
this is one of my childhood games and i still play uh periodically and stuff like that so to
make it full circle like i used to literally get my ass beat for stealing credit cards and you know
going to target and all that shit so little hoodlum stuff you do for games so to be able to
talk to them now as an adult and see them kind of crossing my world
uh excited to see where that goes and just what they're bringing to the space
what up dominic what's up what's up what's up gmgm just pinned up a bunch of stuff you guys
yeah we just pinned up some recent announcements you guys made um but yeah just go into like
what you want to go into it maple story like give us the breaking news give us announcements you guys made um but yeah just go into like what you want to go into
with maple story like give us the breaking news give us what you guys are about to do what you're
about to launch all the stuff that kind of makes maple story different from all the other web 2
games or web 3 games so and then appreciate you for coming dominic also man and and kind of just
like like expresso said just a little intro into maple story itself i don't think too many people
in our community know exactly the web 2 version of the game or what it is.
So just in that sense of a little bit of groundwork and then you can build yourself up and we'll go from there with some questions, man, and learn a little bit more.
Okay. And let me kick off with a brief introduction of MapleStory in the first place.
So MapleStory has been in the space for over 22 plus years now,
with 250 plus million, I mean million plus user base worldwide.
It's been generating, you know, several billions of community revenues in history in its life.
And it is also still very much active with double-digit millions of DAU worldwide.
And also, it's a top contributor of Nexon's consolidated revenue.
Dominic, and then on that note, on that note, where exactly does a lot of, do a lot of these
players come from? Because I'm pretty sure people are like, well, I've never heard of this game.
How do they have this, you know, how long, how have they been here for 22 years? And I've never
heard of them. Right. Right. MapleStory started off from Korea and now we are servicing in various regions including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America and also Europe as well. not as popular as i don't know world of warcraft in north america i guess but especially in asia
it's it's a big big thing um it's still now and now we are bringing maple story ip
into web3 and our project project name is maples for universe and it's Nexon's bold step into the future of gaming where nostalgia meets innovations.
We're taking one of the most beloved MMORPG franchises of all time and reimagining it as a fully on-chain player-owned ecosystem. And it's not just about slapping blockchain onto a legacy game.
It's about empowering players to truly own their items,
build new content, participate in an economy
that reflects their effort and creativity.
Is it...
From NFPs...
Question for you.
No, question for you on that sense, right?
Is it...
You said bringing a web to established uh just let's
just call it guild right or game or community uh in general so is it a re-imagine of the same game
so it'll be maple story evolved or will maple story web 2 still have and continue on its own right
and then this maple story web 3 version will be the new venture for you guys
uh the latter uh is correct um but it's a bit different uh from just you know launching another
game uh we are starting off with a very similar game called uh maple story n uh if you are familiar with maple story the existing web 2 version of it it's going to be
quite similar but it's only the beginning after maple story n goes live we are shifting gears
into full ecosystem activation by opening up apis sdks and creator tools, so builders and developers and creators
can start expanding the Maplestory universe themselves.
It's based on Nexon's broader vision coming to life,
turning Maplestory IP into not just a game,
but a next-gen entertainment platform
where creators, players, developers, and communities
shape their future
together. I have a question. I have one question, Chief. So kind of the difference here you said
is that these aren't locked on a game server. They're live on chain. It can be trade sold and
used for future expansion. So I'm going to imagine players are going to have a way to create assets
inside the game. Can anything be created?
Can I create just some random-ass items?
So is there any kind of centralized figure that's saying that this can go on or this can't go off or this can be used as an item or that can be used as an item?
Right.
There will be rules in terms of how people will be creating different stuffs.
Of course, the items are the core of
MapleStory economy so not everyone will be I mean even us will be we will not be
able to create new items out of thin air. These are backed by the tokens and
limited to captain supply in numbers.
So the items stay as the core,
you know, that drives the value flywheel
of the entire economy.
But using those assets that are predetermined
by the NextSpace protocol,
it's the protocol protocolized blockchain engine that we've created
using the tokenomics. But people can come up with creative contents, different apps, different
laws, even different storylines based on that. So it's the expansion of the entire IP. So in a
sense, MapleStory N would be providing, let's just say, the base game.
And then the economies and the ecosystems layered on top would be for literally that,
like expansion packs. And I could go and create my own, let's just say, story arc and offer that
as an arc for someone to play. Or how exactly does that work in terms of the economy wise?
Because I know it's a group of ecosystems kind of working all towards one, correct?
The economy itself is powered by the NXPC tokens, which are also backing the value of the items of the entire ecosystem.
the items of the entire ecosystem.
So not everyone will be generate,
you know, newly created crazy items that can also be using in the game.
It's not going to be like that.
The items are there.
But different items will have different utilities
if anyone wants to give different utilities by
creating a new app. So what are the tokens? You have NXPC is the foundational
token for in-game assets valuation creator incentives and then you have NISO
which is used for in-game interactions. How do these tokens be used? Can you
kind of like walk us through like which token does what? Go ahead. Right. So NXPC is the base token that powers the protocol itself.
And NXO is like a wrapped NXPC that can be used within the game just to provide better UI for the users within the game.
UI for the users within the game.
So if I make like a crazy sword that everybody buys, everybody uses, I'll be rewarded in the Nexo token for them using and purchasing it?
No, no, you won't be able to create such swords.
Okay.
There will be valuable swords, like very rare swords in the first place.
If you want to use that in your own contents,
you're free to do so.
But if you come up with a new application
in our ecosystem,
using the assets that are created by the protocol,
you will be able to be rewarded
through the contribution evaluations,
which will also be handled in a very fair way, a transparent way.
And you will be rewarded in NXPC token.
So if I got this correct, there's almost two ways to kind of participate.
You can go and create your own stuff, but you won't necessarily.
That's for you to do, let's just say, offline and free play by yourself.
And then if you'd like to utilize,
let's just say, pre-existing thresholds
or MapleStory items and create
for the actual MapleStory game economy,
then there's a chance that you can be rewarded
in the native location.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, nothing is planned yet, but I'm just giving out
very rough idea to, you know, help everyone better understand the economy of this, you know,
open economy of Maples for a universe. For example, there is a, a, a shoes, there's shoes, which you can also get from playing the game.
And you can create, I don't know, like walk to earn or run to earn,
like a step-in kind of app and give very special utility to those particular shoes items.
Something like that.
So what is the, I guess, the other side now of the player? So ultimately,
there is the creator economy where you can be involved in the actual pushing the IP of Maple
Story, creating for the ecosystem. And then now, if I'm a player, right, how does that work? Or
what exactly is the flywheel for that? Will an be a founding character is that something that i
have to purchase is that something that's given to me as a base like zero stats you know like a noob
and then i work my way up with that base character or just the flywheel of someone
jumping into the ecosystem and wanting to be just the player side of things yeah you can you can you can do
that you can create your own items i mean you can you can create your own character and start off um
as you know from level one um and um you know grind and uh get the items and it's free to make
yeah you yeah they are all nfts too um but uh we are not selling NFTs too. But we are not selling any NFTs. We are not selling any
items. We're not selling any characters, but other players will be able to sell it. For example,
if you don't want to go through the level of period between level 1 to level 150, you can simply buy
one to level
150. You can simply
buy from the marketplace
the character and
also other items as well.
I think that that's interesting. So what do you mean?
There's no cash shop
run by us.
There's only marketplace.
That's what I was going to say. So all the items
in the game itself are all peer-to-peer
transactions.
Exactly. And all those items can only be mined by playing the game itself are all peer to peer transactions. Exactly. Okay.
And all those items can only be mined by playing the game at the beginning.
And even us, even us who are operating the core game, MapleStory N, we have to use the token to issue, create the items by depositing or locking up the nxpc token and so so does you
so everyone is basically having to play the game in order to to to make anything right to make
their their character their role and you mentioned that all player perspective all the characters
and the players that you said are are free right so let's just say this is fully
live i would be able to go on to for example the maple story website come in there brand new make
my account and you said it's also an nft as well right so it'll kind of get sent over to me and
i'd be just starting from there yeah oh wow that's awesome that's really awesome because i mean we
haven't seen we've seen this
idea of wanting right a lot of web 3 games talking about wanting to go free to play and you know not
charging for this or that but eventually they either sell you an og pass or sell you something
in in regards to you need this or it puts you at a disadvantage is there going to be something similar to
now bringing just regular maple story how you would have like your uh nx server that you could and could be traded on and one that you couldn't is there any pay-to-play aspects of this new
ecosystem besides just from a peer-to-peer no there's no um there's nothing that we will be
selling okay um for now.
Yeah, just wondering, you know, those passes or anything like that, because that's typically when you get a free-to-play game, it's, oh, well, there's a season pass for $20 that you can add on this month, and it does XYZ.
Man, that's, I mean, actually, I'm not sure if anybody knows, Nexon is the inventor of free-to-play model, like 20 plus years ago.
That's how Nexon has grown over the last 30 years with double-digit CAGR,
C-A-G-R, you know, over the history.
And of course, we are implementing free-to-play principle to the blockchain game,
but we are not selling anything.
We are letting other peers to sell to another peer.
We've been doing research on MapleStory for like two years.
Probably like two or three months ago,
we stumbled across a thread talking about possibly the integration
of real-world assets into the game.
Is that something that you can articulate on or give us some more alpha on
if there could be ways to maybe burn these items for like real world items in the future
uh they are real world items um it's backed by the actual assets that you can see in the balance
sheet of nexon uh these are the ip assets um that we are bringing in onto on-chain. And, you know, IPs are stronger than anybody could actually think of.
We believe it's truly the real-world asset.
And even in the Web2 version of it, we've seen, you know, third-party item marketplaces
where people are trading billions of billions
of dollars a month
for those items.
People are paying real
money to trade those items.
We're bringing
that
specific market
demand onto on-chain.
Can you describe what Synergy
apps are? Is that the marketplace that you're built on?
They're like apps.
They're like apps.
Can everybody make a Synergy app?
Yeah, Marketplace is also one of the Synergy apps
that we are launching when we are launching the game as well.
There will be Navigator to help people to navigate
through different items, different economies in the ecosystem.
And it's not just, you know, those apps are not just developed by us.
Anyone can participate as we open up APIs and SDKs as well.
So what's the difference between a Synergy app and the SDK kit?
Like, I guess.
SDKs help developers build different apps on our ecosystem and then synergy is basically
built on energy apps are basically daps in other you know other ecosystems uh in in crypto
i obviously is there like an incentive for building these for the game like are there
going to be like neck like the tokens be incentivized for building these are putting these on chain or um yeah uh
we are incentivizing builders to participate um you know in our ecosystem um there will be uh
different builders um who will be um incentivized to build so and we are using the tokens to incentivize them to so to do
so there will be policies rules etc to make sure that those synergy apps meet certain criteria
okay so there's a video you guys posted on maple story and it's basically a travis
proof of travis during the maple story
pioneer test ryan and i wanted to see how quickly you could bring an item from your crypto wallet
brought from on the marketplace to be usable in game i counted five seconds that's pretty impressive
so where is this coming from how like can you like articulate why this is incredible i'm just
trying to figure out why this is incredible like where is this where's this item coming from how
did it get created what platform is it coming from like can you just like explain why people are like excited about this
so we have optimized how the game contents and all of our uh systems integrate with the blockchain
itself uh we are not just you know putting uh very raw uh rough uh blockchain um to average Joes, who will be simply playing the game for fun.
We are optimizing it, but at the same time, giving the experience that these minting experience itself
actually allows you to actually own these assets by playing the game.
So when you actually mint it,
we've optimized how they're going to be minted
and how they're going to be tradable.
And that's what Travis was trying to present.
Well, that delivery aspect is something like,
so for example, back in the day
when you would want to buy something,
I mean, one, you'd have to sit there for hours and
spend have a little sign and hope someone came to your store or you'd have to figure out a place to
link and meet up and be on the right channel and stuff so to have let's say i'm going against the
boss and i can't beat it right go on the marketplace on my computer and figure out an item that'll
help me beat the boss buy it and within five seconds have that in my wallet, right? And then go beat the boss
I think that that's ultimately like the fly loop or the flywheel that creates it for the gamer, right?
So that's why it's so
How fast X that's why it matters because then if me and you're on a boss or if you're on a boss or you want an item
And you see it and you're like, hey, this would make a difference difference you could get it to you within five to ten seconds which is pretty dope yeah that's sick that's sick do you
have like a timeline when we could start playing this i've heard maybe the end of april do you want
so um i'm not sure if anyone is uh following uh my twitter uh my axe account or our MapleStory Universe account.
We've just turned on our mainnet.
So we are preparing the TGE,
not just TGE,
it's great TGE going forward.
Hopefully within the first half,
I'm trying to be conservative here.
But we are hoping that this happens very soon.
I pinned it up to the top for anybody that's actually interested inside the tokens or for the tokens themselves, right?
This is the only thing that they're quote unquote selling, right?
Or even offering for you to participate is the token.
So they're listed on CoinMarketCap.
You can add it onto your watch list, follow the actual account, the MapleStory Universe account itself,
and then that way you can stay up to date on that.
Just, Dominic, a couple extra last questions, right?
So ideally, I know that you guys had a campaign for burning the alphabet letters.
We brought it to some of our community, you know,
that you had the ability to fill the board,
and it was one letter per uh one
xpc token um ideally no one has and everyone is still well ultimately this is token talk so
i don't know how much you can even say or or talk about this right but ideally do you have any
information on uh fdv or anything like that of time of launch and just ideally how the NXPC token itself and tokenomics is coming.
I have a little picture of a pie chart you guys teased out, but there's no actual information on the chart itself.
So just trying to learn a little bit more and in a sense, try to position ourselves for this.
Right. FDB is something that I really don't know.
It's really how the market is going to evaluate our project
and the gravity of the project.
But I think the recent Alphabet campaign,
Alphabet Vision campaign was something that we were also quite surprised to see,
as people were basically buying different alphabets with around like two to three dollars.
Even some rare alphabets are a little bit more expensive than that. They were simply buying those alphabets to secure NXPC in return.
So it was quite surprising for us.
So that's, I think, that's all I can say.
And there are lots of talks from the community about around how our project, how our tokens,
tokens going to be evaluated. So I would like to see after listing how it's going to,
how the price is going to perform. I got it pinned up top. Someone did a little bit of moon math on
roughly, ultimately this isn't necessarily for you, Dominic, but just in general, someone did a little bit of moon math on roughly um ultimately this isn't necessarily for
you dominic but just in general uh someone did a little bit of moon math about this campaign and
they were checking out you know the average price of how much avax each letter cost the average cost
of you know some of the rarer uh letters like dominic said those costs somewhat even one full
avax or more the way that the campaign worked is the whole board would
have to be filled in order for it to progress meaning that someone every time was having to
put some of these high priority letters up and in a sense so was losing slash winning so got a little
moon math up there if you guys are interested in napkin math uh and i guess lastly dominic uh to kind of
segue and wrap it up how exactly does one participate or get involved let's just say
today was the first time anyone heard about maple story ultimately there is no white list for the
character as soon as it goes live they can go get a character but other than that ideally do you need
tokens to play the game or no because it's to play, so the tokens will only enhance my experience kind of thing?
Or how does that work?
So the NXPC token itself, people can use it to exchange to Neso,
where people can buy the characters or items to get head starts.
But if you still want to just play the game and give it a try,
as I said, it's free to play.
You don't even need the gas tokens to actually generate the transactions.
It's all paid
by us in the first place so when we actually launch just come and you know
play you we are not expecting you know anyone to you know buy anything to
actually start the freaking game and I mean it's peer-to-peer so essentially what can you really buy? I mean, what can you know what I'm saying?
It's if if we all start on day one minute one
The marketplace the guy that's selling is selling the same thing that I have access to maybe 12 hours from now
He might have something a little bit more rare that I'd want and that gives me an advantage
But in a sense if not even you guys can generate those items unless you have the token and XYZ,
then we're all starting at zero.
And a little bit more about the Alphabet Fusion
that you've mentioned.
It's kind of like an indirect experience
for anyone to actually how item creation is going to be working.
So basically, if you have all the set of items, you can exchange that to NXPC token.
And in reverse, when you are creating the items you need to deposit
that amount of an xpc token to create the item including us when we are placing
the items in the in the game we have to pay we're basically decentralizing the
authority to issue the items we are not bringing that assets out of we're not
creating that asset those assets out of thin air. We are paying it,
paying for the items so that, so that we make sure those items sustain its value.
Well, that's what I'm going to say. So that has a base, let's just say a floor price off of whatever
it costs to at least just make the item and then any kind of rarity or anything on top of that.
Exactly. And then I guess, so this is kind of rarity or anything on top of that. Exactly.
And then I guess- So this is kind of like probably,
especially from the gaming industry's perspective,
it's the evolutionary, I guess, experiment
that we are basically revisiting the entire business model of traditional gaming industry.
Can you go over, like, maybe, like, if people are going to play this game,
maybe they've never been on an AVAX subnet.
Is there, like, an RPC we need to add to our MetaMask wallet for the Hennessy network or whatever
to make sure that we're on the right network and all that stuff?
Can you lead us to a way To add that to our Meta mask
Let me let me share the post that I just made today
which has
Can I
How can I
Yeah, you can post yeah, let me DM it. Let me DM it for you
I could do it. I could post it? Yeah, you can post it. Let me DM it for you.
Yeah, I can post it up for you.
I just want to make sure if everybody wants to play,
they at least know how to set up their wallets to make sure the tokens are there
and they can see everything that they're making.
Oh, right.
Oh, I can do it.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, I did it.
I posted it here.
Oh, it's not working?
Yeah, it's fine.
It's fine. It's fine.
It'll give a second. Yeah, yeah
Sweet. Go ahead, Chief. Well, no, this is the last question
is if this is the beginning for Nexon, I mean, I don't know how much
you can even talk about that, but is it safe to say that there's the potential
of MapleStory and other Nexon titles working
together towards being all on chain or is that just, it's just
MapleStory for now and nothing else?
Yes, we have a vision that we will be adding other IPs, not just Nexon's IPs.
It's not limited to, it's not necessarily limited to Nexon's own IPs. Oh, that's cool
So you could kind of go cross even through the AVAX system or blockchain or anything like that
Exactly, that's the beauty of
This innovation, right? I think everybody would want their IP in this game. So I think it's oh, yeah
This is I mean look let me show People have been copying Maple for a long time.
So, Raid Party.
I don't know if anybody remembers Raid Party.
That dude's name, his ENS name is Zakum.
Right?
He was a big MapleStory guy.
He made Raid Party.
On Chain Heroes, it's another copy of MapleStory.
The characters and that kind of hold on the players, you see it over and over.
And then once you guys actually see the game,
you'll see what I'm talking about that,
you know,
you see a lot of references in our culture and in just internet lore.
So I,
I also had a talk with Scarley,
Scarkey,
the founder of Ownchain Heroes.
He's a long time MapleStory fan.
And even his profile on x is
maple sorry dude i just i i was watching on chain heroes and i fell in love because it was maple and
i saw and i verified that he was like a mapler and then it was a idol game and then i'm like oh you
just you played with me it was an idol game and And I thought I was going to be out there and, you know,
grinding in the forest or something.
How long have we been talking about this, Chief?
Like three years.
Like you guys have been teasing us for like 2023 or some shit, dude.
And we've been waiting forever to have this conversation.
We've been speculating forever.
And I just want to like, this is rare.
I don't think Dominic's ever going to come on the show again.
If you guys have any questions and you're in the crowd,
feel free to come up after Dominic leaves.
We're just going to end the show.
So this is your chance to ask any questions that maybe we passed over.
This is your opportunity to talk to the,
probably one of the top games that's going to be launching in this space in
the next week. I mean, we have off the grid going live on the 31st,
AVEX sub deck.
And then we have MapleStory following them probably like a few months later,
dude, like it's gaming season. We've been waiting for web three games and then we have maple story following them probably like a few months later dude like it's gaming season we've been waiting for web 3 games uh and now we have them and now
it's time to like take advantage of it and start playing this stuff because i do think it's
beneficial especially when everybody left the space we're getting some of the top games releasing
like this is the other way around bro they're not asking for your money before giving you a game how
many times have you fucks given out money to a bunch
of people and we waited for years bro for a game years literal years bro sitting on our ass and our
thumbs and shit like that and so i mean i'm just that's what it was surprising that it's free
right and that the even the asset that it's an nft it's free the gas you guys are covering like
i mean this is the new free-to-play model actually free to play right so it's an nft it's free the gas you guys are covering like i mean this is the new free-to-play
model actually free to play right so it's interesting and it's cool to see someone with
the war chest to be able to do this as well i mean that's one of those things that i bring up
nexon did a strategic bitcoin reserve i think it was in 2001 or 2021 is when they acquired i think
50 or 60 bitcoin like they've been planning this for years, right?
To make this transition.
So you're just using your profit that you invested in to invest the game?
That's dope, dude.
Like using your Bitcoin strategic reserve to fund your game
because you knew Bitcoin was going to go up in price.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Go ahead, Dom. I didn't mean to.
Go ahead, Dom.
I didn't mean to.
Uh, Nexon, Nexon holds about 17, uh, hundred, 17 bitcoins.
17, 17, 17 bitcoins.
And, um, our, um, you know, ultimate holdings company even holds more.
So the Bitcoin itself, the blockchain technology itself, um, we are very, very,
we have a very strong conviction, uh, you know the the viewpoint that it's going to
be the dominating technology uh in many different aspects um and um we are doing it with our top ip
so oh yeah let's see uh how it turns out yeah yeah dude that's that's how i knew the sauce was there
i mean i've been saying nexon will be coming for years and then eventually it was actually with
maple story i mean the other stuff kind of sucked right ragnarok heart rider
and all those old ones but yeah you guys had to come with maple so ggs appreciate you for taking
the time dominic i mean like i said to me this is full circle i was like nine or ten uh you know
playing maple story grinding it out the early days when the game was out So tell him the story chief about how your next-door neighbor stole your shit. Oh, yeah
I bought an account. It was a level 50 account, you know, and then he changed the password
But I mean like when i'd say i'm old dude
I mean there were no bosses in the game yet
Like there was one boss and that was the main boss of kum
And then there was another boss introduced like a year later and then a year later later, I mean, like I'm OG, OG, OG, bro.
It's kind of wild.
So to be here talking to them is just full circle.
And it's great to see them once again, like I said, in Web3 and actually doing it right.
As someone who's been covering and, you know, our ear to the ground on the Web3 side for years, we've seen everyone, right?
Take money, promise metaverses uh free to play this free to
play that contract standards but no one's really to market we have off the grid and that was it
and i guess now my pet hooligan but nothing's really out and fresh and novel so just cool to
see and it happened to be you guys too so congratulations man excited uh appreciate you for taking the time and any last
words you have and we'll wrap it up uh thank you uh first of all thank you for having me here um
it's always great to meet um new audience um to introduce uh our project um it's coming soon so
make sure you guys are you guys are uh updated um you know with the latest updates
that we will be making uh very very uh soon um we have lots of things that are coming up um so make
sure you follow uh maple story you um mine uh and a few other uh key accounts um from our teams
i appreciate you stopping by domin if you give me a, I have a few questions to ask in the DMs
after the show's over.
Appreciate you for coming on.
And we're really looking forward to this, man.
So thanks for stopping by.
And that's going to do it for our show, guys.
We appreciate you guys stopping by.
We host a space Tuesday through Saturday from 10.15 to 12.
But, you know, it's tough to transition out of a banger AMA like this.
So we'll be back tomorrow with more alpha.
We'll be, uh, have shows on Friday and Saturday.
So appreciate you guys.
I'll leave it here for chief to end it.
You guys have a great day.
See you later.
Peace.
Yeah.
Appreciate everybody that came out.
Everybody that's stuck by the AMA.
Um, we don't have them often, but when we do, they tend to be good quality and, you know,
a banger in that sense.
So hopefully you guys, if you want to play the game, you know exactly how to position yourself for it.
Right. Could be fun. Could be entertaining. Could be an opportunity.
And that's all we're trying to do and find here.
Like Express will set, we do this Tuesday through Saturday, 10, 10, 15 to about 12, 1230.
Just depends on the conversation at hand and what we got going. We'll catch you
guys tomorrow. There'll be a thread that'll go out at the end of the show. It'll cover everything
that we talked about. We'll grab all this MapleStory information and get it all together for
you. So you can follow that and figure out how to get involved if you'd like. It's TDA or Stay
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