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The Future of DeFAI With Funny.Money
Recorded: June 12, 2025 Duration: 1:03:42Space Recording
Short Summary
Funny Money has officially launched on the Mantle network, introducing a new token and innovative community-driven incentives. With a focus on user engagement and growth, the platform aims to become a flagship DeFi solution, offering unique opportunities for trading and participation.
Full Transcription
Thank you. You
You know what's up? Hey everyone, I'm just going to join from my personal account here, having a little bit of trouble.
I'm going to gabe up here
gm valerio good to see you man jam jim All right, looks like we've got Gabe up here as well.
Oh, looks like he's back in the audience.
Let's try this again. Okay.
Okay.
All right. okay all right there he is GM good to see you Gabe likewise give me just one more
minute here guys trying to bring the funny money account up as well as my
personal bring the funny money account up as well as my personal
you All right, amazing.
Just one more second and we'll get started.
Good to see everybody here.
Let a few people roll in before we kick off with some introductions here in just uh one minute
all right can everybody hear me okay on this side?
Loud and clear.
Yes.
All right, let's get the intern up here.
I saw the intern's request.
That's basically just me from my laptop, from my other account.
It's just like, so we have more visibility.
But yeah, I think also i i don't know
if like i i just saw a minute ago too i saw chris you in the in the audience maybe we can bring him
up or is he still here now we'll just text him okay cool yeah we'll definitely bring chris up here
when um when he gets back in the audience.
In the meantime, while we have folks starting to roll in, maybe we can go through a round of introductions.
I can start off really quickly myself.
So, you know, today, obviously, we're going to chat with Funny Money, one of the most exciting launches on Mantle.
one of the most exciting launches on Mantle.
I've been following Valerio's tweets over the last 24 hours,
roughly 24 hours after the launch.
And I encourage you guys also to follow those,
some alpha in there,
but also just some really good insights on,
you know, the volume and the impact
that Funny Money is having.
So really quickly for myself,
I'm El brian i am the head of communities at mantel so you can find me across all of the mantle communities including mantle network any
protocol at times function and and across all the other innovation pillars as well so if you have
any questions about how to get involved in the community, or what we've got going on in terms of community programming, feel free to join us in the discord.
We've got an amazing crew of community stewards, as well as our Mantle mavens, who are some of our
top advocates who can guide you in the right direction. Gabe, why don't we kick it over to
you while I bring Chizu up here on stage. Yeah, for sure. Thank you, sir. Hey, everyone. I'm Gabe.
I've been leading DeFi at Mantle for the past two years.
Previously, I came from a background
in DeFi and research, so various other web tree
firms as well, so Spartan, Bybit, and previously Delphi.
But yeah, happy to be here.
All right, and Chizu, you have the speaker.
Okay, looks like you just got the speaker role.
Let's kick it over to Valerio to give us an introduction.
What do you do over at Funny Money?
And then we can kick back to Chizu as well.
Hey, yeah. So I found this title recently very matching.
I'm the CEO, Chief Everything Officer at Funny Money,
meaning I do everything.
I even answered the support tickets on Discord.
Yeah, like every, every... Like if whatever random person on our Discord right now
has a question, I also answer those.
Like I have been leading the development also of the platform.
I've been, yeah been leading the technical development
business development marketing now we have like a great new person with with
Trisho we had recently one of our guys departing to it to another team from
the Polish cover crypto cover like very bad timing, I would say,
with no notice, like literally very, yeah.
The day before launch, this was a bit chaotic,
but like, yeah, all good actually.
I mean, yeah, but there, introduction to me, sorry.
I'm a bit, my brain is a bit fried over the last
couple of days, but,
so like I'm Val bit, my brain is a bit fried over the last couple of days, but so like I'm Valerio, I have been in crypto for, yeah, started like working crypto in 2019, actually on the most
random blockchain that no one anymore cares about on Hyperledger.
it has been my start then I yeah got into Ethereum to that and to defy worked at a variety of different
It has been my start.
projects and eventually worked at pump fun which has been a great time but yeah without going too
deep into that because now it's time to write my own history um i'm working on funny money and working
on that on mental and so i'm very positively by myself surprised like how well the announcement
it has been like probably 2025 has been the hardest year of my life maybe uh but um for like
just like the amount of stress the amount of chaos and like for a lot of reasons also aside of crypto, just everything together was just like so crazy. to really gain a foothold and reach the scape velocity
with the project that I really think
we are going places now from here.
And I'm also very grateful for all the people listening here
and having been part of the journey,
which has been very long.
I will now maybe hand it over to Krishu as well.
My brain is fried, so also during the conversation,
feel free to interrupt me,
or else I will just keep yapping.
Yeah, Valerio, for anybody who hasn't tuned in
to a Valerio space, incredible stories.
Honestly, I feel like you say that every time.
Don't let me just yap on and on, but I just enjoy it.
So sometimes I'll try to keep us on track so we can cover everything.
But I do enjoy listening in to what you have to say, Blair.
But let's pass to Cizu, who is one of the Manto community OGs,
part of the Polish Kabbalah, as Blair said.
Super excited to be sharing this stage with you, Cizu.
Hello.
Hello, Jim, to all of us, to all of you.
Yeah, most of you probably know me already.
I'm the new funny boy in Funny Money.
And I'm helping Valerio to tame the chaos and, you know,
to tame the chaos and, you know,
distill the chaos into funny community vibes.
So, yeah, that's me.
I'm really excited about this journey.
I hope it's gonna be grateful for all of us.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, stoked for you for the new role.
And congrats, Valerio, like I said already on an A plus hire.
So today we're going to talk about the role of AI in Funny Money and in DeFi more broadly.
We're going to talk about some of the incentives and community participation in Funny Money.
If you've been paying attention to Funny Money, you know they're super community focused.
The vibes are honestly, I mean, it's just hilarious. Like some of the stickers and memes and things that get said from the Funny Money intern. It's a great place to be.
Good lore, good background, all that stuff. And then we'll talk a little bit about the future
vision and the roadmap for Funny Money's development. But before we get started with
all of those in-depth details, I just want to mention to everybody here on stage, this is conversational.
So feel free to jump in if you have something to add. We don't want to just have this be super structured.
Jump in, 32 cents in, I don't know, roast one of the other speakers. Maybe we can get the funny money intern to speak.
Actually, Valeria, I think you said that you're just behind the account for now i don't know yeah yeah it's like uh i have i have the
account open for my laptop as well as the like i have like one tab i joined with the main account
and one tab i joined with the funny account for an intern account yeah nice okay so that's just
retarded right now but yeah like maybe we'll get the valerio the voice
changer on the intern account at some point in this but um all right so valerio why don't you
give us an introduction to funny money uh what do you guys do what can users do on the platform
yes um like first of all when starting talking about Funny Money, I should also talk about Mansell.
And like, I really think now is the time to like get active in the Mansell ecosystem.
And there's no better place to do this than on Funny Money.
You can trade on Funny Money.
We're a DAX and Launchpad.
Also we offer a spot and perps trading.
And you can very easily within three clicks launch tokens on
funny money which actually um a lot of people have been doing so far and some of them actually
went went well like uh there has been uh someone like uh doing uh like uh yeah actually I should not maybe say like maybe I keep it open as it is the person because
like I don't want to like and now I actually realize whatever I say might have like effect
on price action that's crazy so like I need to I need to watch out what I say but yeah
there have been people people like launching tokens and uh
also like there has been this like one main token or what means there has been one token
uh that's yeah it's very i would say like the cultural alignment layer of of of uh mantle which
is um boys boys nft and now there is the homage to that with the boys coin and it went very well
it had a like it it is like really really really stable sitting and like i can tell you like like
honestly like no like because i i was i actually even planned to like you know like get
something going there but like i was not even well enough organized to take care of that or like support the project with this.
This trading volume has been 100% organic.
There has been no market maker,
because I can tell you I was too chaotic
to even take care of a market maker.
There has been no, like even if I wanted to,
or like even if there would be like plans
that just like has been no to like,
like take care of such things.
There has been like almost, or like even we crossed a million in trading volume organically this has been crazy
um we also uh tipped uh like like two times like on the day of the launch and then the day after
again uh we crossed a million uh dollar market cap on on um boys it's already um plus top 10 uh asset on mental uh in terms of
trading volume it's it's um it's yeah has been very uh very good uh so like yeah i think mental
was a very underserved market um mental has a big community uh like but it doesn't really have many things to do on Chain yet,
but we're really here to do that.
And to get back to the question, you can launch tokens, you can trade, and we really try to be the spot
where you can just hang out and have fun on Chain and trade and do everything you would do,
but in one place, in one unified place.
And that's like our vision.
Like right now, as like the things calmed a bit down,
they didn't come down a hundred percent yet
because like we were like, after the launch,
we realized there were like a couple of flaws
or like a couple of small things based on user feedback
that we took care of.
But like we're also planning to optimize mobile.
So this is one step.
The next step on the roadmap is have an optimized progressive web
app.
So this will be one next thing.
Then we will go on to add down the road turnkey,
or basically passkeys for those who are unfamiliar with turnkey or like basically passkeys for those who are not familiar with turnkey or
know what passkeys are it's basically a biometric way of wallet abstraction which makes it way more
easier to to yeah just get started especially on mobile and this is one thing we have on our roadmap
next up then right now we have a fragmented user experience
with our purpose platform being on a separate UI.
So down the road, we also tried to bring this
in a unified place in one place, and not in like funny money
and perhaps so funny, don't money.
We tried to merge that.
And yeah, this is the library now, if you're
going to make sense.
LARRY HYRBHARNANI- I want to leave some of the alpha
for what's coming next for the end of the space,
so that we have some extra stuff to look forward to
as you continue.
I mean, honestly, I posted in my announcement
for this tweet that I have a feeling alpha is going
to be dropped.
Again, like, if you've been on a space with funny money, I think the faucet is opened oftentimes before, I don't know, before it
should be. But yeah, looking forward to learning more about what you guys have coming up. But
let's save a little bit to the end. Gabe, I want to open up for you. Do you have some
questions here for Valerio and team about AI and DeFi and building on Mantle?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I guess just a high level based
on what you've seen with the current Mantle ecosystem,
how do you see funny money impacting the current ecosystem?
money impacting the current ecosystem? Where do you guys fit in?
Where do you guys fit in?
It has been, it has been like, like it will fit in in a way that it will be like, I think the
main place, like I really feel like it will be the flagship platform of Mantle. And so like,
I really feel like we, since we have like, at this point, like really a core community, like I can really with confidence say like,
like I wake up, I have DMs of people,
like there's like people tweeting Gimani all the time.
There's like people really like feeling aligned with it.
Like I think there is like few other places
that I mentioned that have this.
So like, I think how we fit in will be definitely
like being a leading platform trading
and crypto platform on Mantle.
And so like, I see myself growing with the platform
more of like becoming like one major front end of Mantle.
And that's like really where I see it growing.
I think actually, yeah, when we also talk about,
sorry, also, it has been a bit chaotic.
So I did not 100% check the agenda.
I know we also talk about AI here and about DFAI.
And I see myself also growing,
especially after, like,
I think I talked with Sean about it in Dubai at the
event there or so with Mantle X and the plans and so like I see myself also
like becoming a more growing place for this on a Mantle. I mean I think like
especially now with the launch and everything, like the AI part just like got a bit like the attention away taken from.
While like I have to remind people you can launch agents or agent tokens on funny money as well.
I also want to like stress here.
and when you launch agent tokens,
they have special metadata
that also allows for down the road
potentially, let's say, bigger players
in the agent space like Cookie
to easily index them.
So I would also encourage people
to launch agent tokens.
It might be gaining great visibility
when doing so.
Like did some alpha here as well.
And down the road also giving the whole platform, basically, we have like a lot of services on
the platform.
And what we plan to do is like wrap everything also in one prompt interface.
So like everything you can do from swaps, traits, perps,
where it would basically, behind the scenes,
like, you know, trigger actions.
We try to trigger the actions in the same way with prompting.
So like all the things you can do,
since we like control,
like basically the whole platform logic,
we can now just like,
show a chat interface in front of it
where you could do the same actions.
It's also like one part.
So like, there's like players like hey, Anon,
like maybe people know them and like,
it's like inspiration of that.
But like, I would say we're more like full experience
because we offer everything,
but this is also like terms of AI.
And like, yeah, that's why I see myself growing.
I really see myself as a flagship platform
moment, especially after that.
Oh, yeah, that's super awesome to hear, man.
I guess for those who are maybe not too familiar with the AI
agent side of things, what can they use AI agents for on Funny
Money?
So I'm being completely honest here i think um like the the ai part
really grew out of a hype that started last year october november or like when really that ai
meta kicked off and i think it is more for people really to decide what they want to do.
Like where the demand and where like, let's say the growth of that vertical will go, this is really up to the community and to the users.
So when you're like, you know, planning to build AI agents and like, you know, want to tokenize them, It's like, I think funny money is like the place,
especially I'm meant to do that.
And that's like definitely,
they're definitely the vertical there.
So what AI tokens do is they have enchants metadata
that like allow builders of AI agents like to,
to decide, hey, or like, if I want to do a token for it like have it especially
and easier to to like um yeah tokenize them and i think in that sense like
agents really like will play a role there um or like agent tokens on funny money um and also like
when you are like when you go right now on funny.money and on Explore,
we have special filters and definitely also have our UI optimized for that,
when you launch AI agents, it will get a special place
and special visibility on our platform.
So that's, I would say, also one enchants feature
coming with AI agents on funny.money.
Right.
Just switching gears a little bit,
I know earlier you mentioned you're sort of like the chief
everything officer, right?
Yeah.
And I know we've chatted on various occasions
at Sozu House.
And I think for you, it's really the first time
that you're building such a platform on your own,
right?
Leading a whole project, leading a whole business.
What are some of the challenges you face,
or the whole process?
So one thing I would say is,
especially how everything...
I mean, I think it's mostly mental problems.
I would say what means mental,
but being personal here also about it is,
I don't have a problem with challenges.
I kind of feel like what means a lie, I don't have a problem with challenges.
I kind of feel like women's alive,
but I feel like when I would have nothing to do,
I would probably go crazy.
It would make me nervous,
but having some constant women's problems
or things to work on keeps me busy,
and that's good for me.
But on the other side, I would say the challenge
just really has been... On the one side, like I would say the challenge just really has been like,
like on the one side,
I'm a single founder
and like I really realized
what difference that makes.
And especially previously,
like going on my journey,
like I had a time in my life,
I was like doing full-time hackathons
and like, you know,
like doing just basically,
or like doing turtle shell,
which is like a very technical infra project where like,
there is not like so many facets to it.
And I think like the multidisciplinary work
was a big shift for me.
We're like, okay, before I was maybe just working
in a dev team of like two, three people.
And this was was basically it.
And on the side, we did some tweets here and there.
And like, okay, we got grants for it.
And like getting grants or applying for grants
was like probably already the most amount of like BD
or marketing that was part of the project.
Everything else was just like locking yourself in
and working behind the scenes.
With the consumer facing product,
this is like completely different.
And like there's way more work around it.
And there's like way more also biases
like you have to overcome to like understand
how to operate.
And especially like jumping between disciplines,
let's say like marketing, BD,
and the technical part.
And then also how to manage a team
and also how to keep a team motivated
and make a team believe in something.
Because it's easy to get team members,
especially talented people. It's easy to like get team members, like, you know, especially talented people,
like it's easy to get some juniors on,
but like, you know, like if you have like talented people
that have opportunities,
they sometimes like, you know,
go to projects you cannot compete with
in terms of like compensation or in terms of like,
you know, like prestige.
So then it's easier when things start to struggle
that you have people that anyway gets all the time,
reach out to, lose team members for that.
That happened to me.
And for me, this was like always a setback
that also especially because how much I invested
in relationships that hurt.
This was a problem I learned a lot about. also i think like about building culture and team i learned a lot about
uh then like also just like the the hardships that come with like being single founder
i learned a lot about and uh yeah i also learned especially after the first time we launched or tried to launch in February,
I think many in the audience, I don't know how much we know,
but like we really had like last, last, last minutes
like to break off the launch.
Like exactly on the time we planned to launch,
we had to kick it off.
I think Brian remembers what happened.
Like when we had the deep dive planned
and like literally on the start of the deep dive,
I had to cut it off.
Then like you, yeah, like this,
like I also learned you should just launch.
Like we yesterday just launched,
like we never before, not a single day
before publicly announced launch date.
We just internally discuss it would be the 10th,
but like we did not do big announcements because
I also learned there's always things that
can go bad, and it's just
better to just launch and then amplify
afterwards than to...
And it worked well this way,
and we didn't even play our best cards yet, and it
went well, so I'm very bullish.
This was very good,
this big hype of you expect know like you expect a hundred
thousand people to come on the launch date on the when the countdown goes down on the life on the
website i don't believe in this this anymore and i think many founders are like many people approach
this that they have this big upcoming launch um i think this is the wrong approach after what like
my bias is after like the first like you
know if i kept that happened earlier this year um like you should just launch and then like put all
the resources that you have planned for the launch not for like pushing the launch itself but like
pushing the the amplification and growth of the platform after the launch so that's like a big
learning for me as well there and yeah i could go on about a couple of other things,
but maybe you also want to move on to other questions.
ANGELA KANURAJANI- Yeah, for sure.
I fully resonate with that.
I think given we are in such a fast-moving industry,
sometimes we really have to take the hard decision
to delay a launch, right?
ANGELA KANURAJANI- Oh, yeah.
It's not the nicest thing to do but sometimes when
the market is telling you otherwise then you just gotta go with the flow you know so yeah yeah fully
fully resonate with that this was also not easy for me um because like especially with Mantle, like being here the main, yeah, supporter, the stakeholder in this project,
there was like,
like kind of, I feel like I owe the launch to be sooner.
And like, I feel like also the sentiment around me grew,
like all like women's grew, like, like I'm very grateful,
like for like, you know the the believing and like the
like you know like even if there have been quite months especially like when like it was i think like april was very quiet and like or like march april like basically the time after eftember and
after the violent situation and after like we had also technical issues and yeah like it was just quiet
and it's like not very comfortable to be in that situation but like you need to
make this decision because like you know it's uncomfortable but it will be a
thousand times more uncomfortable with you if you fail the launch or like not
make it good and that's also one big learning that i learned like you're now
on the on the on the spotlight a bit or like you're now on the spot and like you constantly
have to deliver like i also didn't have this before um like we're like you know when i did
turtle shallow and the tech atons before when i worked for other projects anyway when you also
like work for other projects also very different but But like, you have like, I work very intervals.
Like I can like grind through for a week or two weeks.
But like, if I then just like had a week
where like it would get very quiet around me
or two weeks where it get very quiet around me,
no one cared.
But now like I'm a public facing project
and like I'm dogs, like you literally can see my face
on my profile picture.
Like it's a bit of a different story.
So like this is also a big learning.
So it's not comfortable to postpone a launch,
but like you need to make those decisions.
And like, after all, this is the biggest sacrifice.
It's a sacrifice you need to do with yourself
and yourself like, you know, what means well-being,
but like it's uncomfortable.
It's like a lot of uncomfort in this. like it's uncomfortable to like look in the group chats and you don't know what to
answer because like for the 10th time you have to say hey like you know no new updates we gotta wait
or like basically also chaos internally it happens like when things get quiet also the team
like like uh i also learned a lot about how team,
like I'm sometimes a bit of a chaotic person
and like I realized like perception management,
how this affects my team.
They cannot see me, especially when I, for example,
stay with them in one place, I gotta like, you know,
get my shit together and like, if I'm chaotic
and like uncertain about things,
because like I don't know everything
this directly affects them because they then also get like uncertain and like not fat but like yo
what's going on what's where is this project going um like you have like this leadership a bit and
this like perception management too to manage and i never had this before, neither. It's like so many things that like,
when you just like work in a small dev team,
you never have to face.
What I'll say on top of all that is one,
it's rare to have a founder and somebody who's building legitimately great products
be so candid about the journey publicly
like this. So this is kind of a special space for a lot of people to tune in and get an idea
about what this journey actually looks like for the hard parts. And it's never easy driving
innovation anywhere. So you're building at the intersection of some of the most like innovative sectors, right? DeFi,
AI, and so on. So kudos to you for just sticking through and also for grinding behind the scenes
and building an incredible product and on a successful launch and what I'm expecting to be
many successful days ahead as well. But let's get back on to learning about what we can do with FunnyMoney,
what you guys have coming up as well. So I know a lot of people in the Mantle community
are excited about launching new tokens, about launching AI agents, about having more things
to do on chain, as you said. And with that, oftentimes with new protocol launches, with new
product launches, there's a wave of incentives.
So what can you tell us about what users can expect
in terms of rewards for community growth?
Yes.
So first of all, we had the referral link campaign,
or basically the waitlist campaign,
that we ended two weeks ago
or three weeks ago, I don't know, we made an announcement,
season zero of the Pill campaign ended.
So we first of all pushed on that end to Doom.
Then when it comes to further rewards
and also how to bootstrap users,
we will have revenue share and cashback campaign.
We awaited the launch for it.
So before I like, I was not sure how to approach that.
I also 100% concerned about it.
I was not sure how the launch would go
and therefore like the exact rates and numbers
and tiers behind that, we said okay let's let's
wait the launch let's have some actual actual data of users and how the platform is is doing
how the feeds are doing how like you know volume and everything is doing and then we will like
exactly from there like uh take the take the data and then make data-driven decision on how we split the tiers and rewards
when it comes to the cashback and the revenue share.
So that's like one thing.
And it's like, we're like right now,
one week after the launch.
So like, you can expect us to like,
yeah, basically await this week to make a decision
and then like follow up like next week.
But like, when you go right now on Funny Money,
we have a rewards page and like, there's this like coming soon banner and that's like literally what's coming there soon is
like there will be the page where you can claim your rewards for referring people and uh the main
metrics there will be definitely when you refer people like how much volume they drive and like
you know how much activity they have been doing on chain and then off of that the the rewards will be done also I can tell a side of
just funny money that boys like the first token on funny money there will be there will be
definitely a retroactive user reward for yeah boys holders I can already say and like that's
what I heard and other like yeah things that are aligned to to handle and also what we really plan
to do is like with yeah we really try to when it comes to the platform, bootstrap and grow activity
with retroactive rewards and a cashback and revenue share from referral.
So like, really hope that's how we can grow the platform.
And yeah, like I said, the tiers and exact things we will announce like soon after like
we made some actual factual decisions and not on top of our heads.
Just make up the tiers for it.
So that's like, you will know very soon.
Okay.
I just want to summarize there to make sure I got everything.
So one is there's cashback incentives.
Maybe we can talk a little bit about how to get those cashback incentives.
And if you can't talk about that, now it's fine.
But cashback incentives, referral bonuses,
and those referral bonuses are earned
through basically a revenue share.
And then the third one is some kind of retroactive rewards
and third-party incentives for tokens that are deployed
on the platform are expected, like for the voice token.
Yes, exactly.
So when it comes to the claiming of the rewards,
it will be on the, I can already say,
I cannot say the exact rates yet and the tiers
because it will be likely in different tiers and trades.
And they will be off of like what maybe NFTs you hold
or like what type of communities you are,
how you can earn your tiers ranks also with like yapping
and with basically also how much volume
and activity you drive.
So there's like, it's a bit of a gamified thing
where like the more you do, the higher your tier is and the more actually you can expect your rates to be on the cashback.
And we basically have a, what means analytics page, but behind there where there's right now the coming soon on the rewards page, there will be a dashboard where you can see what activity you have done.
there will be a dashboard where you can see what activity you have done.
Also off of your referrals, like how much volume or like,
so like you like have driven through your referrals and for like
transaction volume, uh, basically off of that, uh,
the fees you will have a cashback off. So like, let's say, I mean, okay,
now I would go in the mouth that I should maybe not
like just like say it but you can claim it there there will be a page to claim
it on the rewards page you will you will have a dashboard where it also will be
okay so soon soon watch out for more details about the incentive soon but I
heard you know potentially some benefits for
some NFT holders. We know Bois is at the center. So I'm just speculating here, but I'm seeing some
boys in the audience. I know of a few other NFTs that are, you know, widely held in the ecosystem.
So for me, I'm just kind of looking around at what's been utilized, what's been held
in the ecosystem overall. And if you have questions about that, there's a few mantle
mavens in the audience as well. Newell, Slip, obviously Chizu and Mr. Bitcoiner, those guys
know a lot about the history of mantle. I would encourage you guys to tap into their knowledge.
Maybe we can do some sleuthing about what's coming up.
All right, so I also wanted to rewind a little bit to Valerio.
We were talking about the AI agents.
Are there any interesting experiments that you're seeing run
in terms of the AI agents that are deployed on Funny Money yet?
And if not, or in addition to,
are there any AI agent experiments you'd like to see run on Funny Money?
So one thing I have to say, I didn't even check, like, all the tokens that have been deployed yet on Funny Money.
Like, I just, like, you know, like, maybe people think because, like, you know, I'm behind the project.
I, like, you know, like, I see everything that's going on.
But, like, just, like, other things that seems happening. And, like, I don't know every token that has launched know, like I see everything that's going on, but like just like other things that seems happening.
And like, I don't know every token that has launched
or like every agent that has launched.
Actually I'm opening right now the page to like have a look.
And actually it's funny because I'm right now
looking for the first time.
And I see XAI agent has launched.
It's sitting at the 4K market cap.
Okay. It looks like it's right. It looks one at the 4K market cap. Okay, it looks like,
it's right, it looks one green candle, one red candle.
That's interesting.
So like, this looks interesting.
I think like in general, like,
I think what will be cool is,
like, one good thing about,
especially the more busy the platform gets,
like, I think AI agents will always have like
a place on funny money of like you know getting getting extra visibility because when you go on
the explore page you can put the toggle on ai agents only and you there's literally just like
five five ai agents deployed right now on funny money um one is the imposter of one of our devs which is funny uh like it took the schizo poster pfp of
of like um i think franek is here in the audience as well yeah like there's a person with a badge
actually if we can bring him up would be also cool um the with the fun with the funny money
badge he's from our developer team uh so like So there's an AI agent deployed with his profile picture.
That's what I saw.
And what I would see, I think, what I think would be cool
is if people want to launch AI agents on HoneyMoney,
I think some sort of,
how's that one called?
Yeah, yeah.
The purple frog, man, how's it called?
Like that everybody's tagging,
the one that influencer, the KOL AI agent,
how's it called?
AIXBT?
AIXBT, exactly.
If someone would do a mental version of AIXBT? AI-XBT, exactly. If someone would do a mental version of AI-XBT,
I think type of derivatives that went well in general
with AI agents, that there's a room to launch that.
If someone is down here to do a mental XPT,
I think that would be funny and properly do it it so also in terms of development of the
platform or like what without going too much into technical detail on those who
like you know our AI developers like you know are building AI agents like they
will know and they will understand like how we approach it and how like the
like enchanted agent
metadata will help them launching AI agents or tokenized
AI agents, rather to say that.
They will understand.
But how it works is you can deploy a deploy
and token with enchanted metadata that makes it,
like when you use frameworks like Elisa or whatever,
to make it simpler to index them or have them basically be the agent token of the agent.
Down the road, we're right now looking at do we want to go the full virtual experience or do we wanna keep it with enchants agent metadata?
Right now it's enchants agent metadata.
And that's how I would see if someone is really down
to do a sophisticated AI XBT type of agent
that's called mental AI XBT or whatever,
I think that would be a cool play.
And I think the mental community would pick it up
and it's like, you know,
it could be really a flagship thing on Mantle,
like Mantle KOL basically.
And like, I think that could be profitable for people to do.
That would be something I would like to see.
All right, so you guys heard it, Mantle XBT.
I'm actually surprised nobody's done
a Mantle intern one as well. I thought that would be one of the first ones that popped up
yeah it's crazy man we so early we were so early so early
cool chizu chizu i'm curious what have you seen that caught your interest in terms of maybe
token launched and we don't have to you you know, NFA, DYOR,
but what's been interesting for you to watch through the launch?
You know, the first thing that caught up to my eye
was, as Valerio mentioned before,
that it was almost immediate organic growth.
You know, when we launched the when the first token i mean was launched
you can see you can observe that uh many users and just you know just organically
you know just organically aped in and it happened only not only also with the
next token and the next one the next one so there are really a need or I don't
know maybe not a need but people just needed something to do more, like to, I don't know, make some fun.
That's why funny money is on point here.
So yeah, this is another opportunity for users on Mantle to make something else on chain,
to, you know, have some fun, to trade a bit, to find their Degen inner self.
And I think it's kind of cool
right now.
Because we are so
used to
more official
on-chain strategies
like Yield, Farming, and so on.
And now we can also trade meme coins
and that's cool.
Yeah, more fun on Chain.
I'm fully on board with that, 100%.
Thank you, Jizu.
And we have Brannik, and I'm sorry if I'm saying your name wrong.
I have Brannik up here on stage.
Brannik, do you want to give an introduction to yourself?
And then maybe we can talk a little bit about what you guys think is next for DeFi and AI.
I would love to hear your guys' perspective on how you see the space evolving over the next six or 12 months yeah sure uh hey guys so yeah i'm i'm actually yeah a
developer here and funny money i yeah actually like the um day we launched i spent the whole time making sure the app was running
because we got really a lot of traffic.
So it was a really, really cool experience.
Yeah, so I'm happy to answer some questions.
Okay, so we heard this agent, by the way, that looks like your PFP is not actually you.
So just so everybody knows, this is permissionless, you know, DYOR, but yeah, Franek.
Would love to hear from you since you're building things in this space along with Valeria and the rest of the team, how you guys see this DeFi and AI space evolving over the next six or 12 months.
So as Valeria said earlier, it's like, you know, the agents had their major wave pipe.
I can't even remember.
When was this six or 12 months ago?
I mean, maybe it was three months ago.
I don't even know how time works anymore.
But what are you guys looking at in the next six or 12 months ago. I mean, maybe it was three months ago. I don't even know how time works anymore.
But what are you guys looking at in the next six or 12 months?
What do you think is going to happen?
I mean, it's kind of hard to predict the future at this point, but what are you guys looking at as kind of the next wave of innovation?
Yeah, I mean, I'm really excited for AI.
It's, yeah,'s evolving so rapidly.
As you said, it's pretty hard to actually imagine
what it will look like in another 12 months.
But I think when the AI agent meta started,
AI still wasn't that good.
And we've seen really a lot of
development around tooling
and things that you can do with it.
Agents have
gotten a lot better now.
I'm really not sure
how it's going to go down exactly, but
I think
our lives will be more and more
just handled by different tools. I think it our lives will be more and more just like handled by different tools.
Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.
Also to follow up on that, I really think when it comes to crypto and AI, there will be like one thing I realize in like this, we will really see once Funny Money pushes that out.
I realized in this we will really see once
Funny Money pushes that out,
but seeing that from other platforms.
And for example, Cookie as well,
that they went very, very heavy on agents.
Like now there's more attention going to InfoFi
and what they have been up with Snaps.
But what I really see there and have been
seeing like platforms like K-Anon
or like there are
a couple other like going in a similar direction
also from
me from Warsaw there's a
project called Nox that I'm bullish on
yeah some Alpha here
as well
they like did not
grab the like even with Daniel daniel assistant gully who is like
i don't know who who many people don't like know him yet from know him still from last cycle with
abracadabra and what he has been up to on avalanche it's that that has been a crazy time and like he's
like a very og known founder and like even though they have a very solid product and like him
being the face behind it it's it's not grab the attention and the and like grab
the grab the what's what do I hold I say the usage and they grab the attention
like the like user adoption as I thought it would so that that was like what
means negative surprise but this was like also like a aha moment
like telling like crypto and crypto users are very used to their like uni swap widget interface to
their chart interface and like when they use ai or like you know when they are served with like a
chat gpt type of interface experience i think that many people cannot comprehend yet or many people
are not used to that yet.
Many people, even though it might be simpler to prompt something and just like that, like
confirm a transaction, prompt and sign, many people are like, there's like, what means
user education, but like, there's like, people are like, for years and years and years, they
kind of like had like, you know, their uni-swap interfaces, their swap interfaces, DEXs look
the same for years.
Okay, the user experience improved somewhat over the years,
but kind of things feel the same since a long time.
And now, shifting the paradigm completely
to chat interface-based DeFi
is hard to comprehend for many people yet.
And I think that really also showed
in like um like you know even the the biggest founders in in crypto um with like you know like
endless resources like like it didn't like grab the crazy attention what their project did so
that's like something also like i i i observed in the market and also proved to me a bit like we're going
in this direction, but maybe not at that pace
where people believe it will move at.
So there's like one thing.
And I think maybe it will be more of like aggregation
and like, you know, data and like this type of like
lower level, like not maybe user facing level,
but things behind the scenes where like AI
will have its most impact
and maybe even AI agents will have their most impact.
Absolutely.
Yeah, there's this kind of running joke
that the best crypto product, you know, theoretical crypto product is just a single button that you click and it makes you money.
I kind of find it interesting that AI, DeFi innovations are actually asking you to click more buttons, right?
You have to type more into your keyboard to get the same result in some respects for simple things like making swaps.
So I wonder how all of that pans out.
Like for me, the question is, do I want to prompt a bot
or an interface to send a swap for me
or would I rather click a button in some cases?
How does the interfaces evolve
and what those look like in the future
is going to be really, really interesting to watch.
Yeah, thank you guys both for the insights there.
Also like viewing it from that perspective,
like clicking maybe three buttons,
but those are the three kind of same buttons
that like have been like the main crypto user experience
for the last three years is maybe more convenient
than like just clicking one button,
but it's like one button in like a completely new thing. Like, you know,
it's like maybe I click three buttons,
but I'm used to those three buttons from crypto since years,
but now like clicking one button is like then maybe actually the,
the like worst experience or like, because it's different.
It's like the same as like, you know, like, you know,
there's a new OS update on iPhones
or whatever, and you'd think, what the fuck?
Like, you know, it's different.
Like, maybe I would rather click my two buttons more,
but I know what I'm doing, especially with money involved.
JOHN MUELLER It's so true.
It's like the iPhone versus Android debate.
I mean, I've been an Android user for many years,
and I have a lot of iPhone friends who are saying,
oh, how can you deal with this interface?
But I have the same issue when I go over to,
when I've gone over to Apple devices.
Like, it's essentially the same.
It's just a different series.
It's like, it's a different algorithm
that I have to run in my brain to unlock the phone
and get to an app and, yeah, just create some friction.
So, yeah, how AI minimizes friction for helping us achieve our goals in finance.
I think that's kind of the broader question, right?
Like what actually does this enable us to do easier?
And how is easy perceived for each different segment of the market?
So for crypto users, it's one thing for non crypto users,
it's another. I think there's a lot of learning that we're going to have to do over the coming
months. We have about five minutes left here. And I want to push it back over to funny money. So
if I'm a new user, if I haven't logged in to Funny Money yet, what are the first two or three things
I should do today if I'm going to explore the application?
First of all, you should click on Sign In.
Then sign in, sign a message, log in.
And then you can make a swap.
And also, there's some alpha here.
Actually, because we also have on our main page,
right when you open the standard swap widget
that is everybody used to,
and we're a LiFi integrator there,
so you can basically swap.
If you have funds on base
and you want to get started on mental
to deploy tokens and trade,
and I think it's right now a good time to buy boys.
Like you can do that also very simply.
You can like make cross-chain swaps or like switch,
how they now call it since Infinex did that.
Or you can launch tokens.
Those are like the main things you can, you can like trade,
you can trade boys,
you can trade any native asset on funny money and mental,
and you can deploy tokens.
And yeah, just be active.
I think that's a beautiful thing also about crypto.
Everything is on chain.
We will see what you have done and whatnot.
So yeah, I think that's really the first things you can do.
Just get active, yap and trade, yap and trade. I think really the first things you can do. Just get active.
Yap and trade.
Yap and trade.
I think those are the things you can do.
And also, behind the scenes, I'm seeing also where people are coming from.
When they bridge to Mantle, actually, we had a decent amount of people bridging over from base, which I think is cool. That we might have a Mantle season kicking off
and Mantle, like when you look at the chart,
it's like so, so, so low price.
It's like lower than a two X,
or like it's more than a two X away from its all time high,
which like, you know, for a big asset like Mantle,
it's like, you know, Mantle is not a meme coin,
Mantle is a very big stable asset.
That's like, you know, a good time to enter
and you can do this on funny money.
So like whatever you want to do on Mantle,
like I think it's the best way to do on funny money
to trade a swap or do whatever.
And like, yeah, go right now,
funny the money and get started.
All right, you guys heard it.
Go explore, go swap,
go experiment with launching an agent even
or launching your own token.
As Chizu said, let's have some fun on Chain.
And I think funny Money is perfect opportunity
to do that on Mantle.
And if you're joining us from base, GM to you guys,
if you have questions about what to do on Mantle,
Funny Money community is a great place to ask.
The Mantle community is a great place to ask.
If users have questions or want to get more involved
in the community, Chizu or Valerio, where should they go?
Should we send them over to Discord?
Yeah, you can join our Discord.
You can also just DM us on Twitter.
I try to be very responsive.
You can just DM anyone with the funny money badge
on their account.
We will reply there.
If you don't want to just have the effort of joining a Discord server just to get a quick
question answered, you can also just DM us directly.
You can join our Telegram. Basically, any official
channel, you can reply to us.
If you're experiencing technical issues, I would suggest
you rather open a support ticket because then you rather like open the support ticket
because then like you know like you don't have the risk it might get they get
under and like we try to be there very fast with replying and also one other
thing like like what I would like I really feel like I want to share my
story more and bringing more out so like I'm right now also gonna order some
video equipment and stuff and maybe start some vlogging and stuff because if you wouldn't just like see how this shit goes down here behind the scenes, it's crazy. And like, maybe it's a bit of entertainment also for people that like, you know, I'm already dogs, my face is already out there. So I might as well, like, you know, put my face in front of the camera. Maybe that would be interesting. So also curious what you think about that.
Yo, I love that.
We got to get some shots of the basement
with the mantle intern down there, though.
I don't know.
I don't know if that can be on camera.
But dude, yes, absolutely.
Would love to see the behind the scenes.
I know a lot of people would love to see
what the builder journey is like. So 100%. Dude, yes, absolutely. Would love to see the behind the scenes. I know a lot of people would love to see
what the builder journey is like.
So 100%.
If there's a pay-per-view for it, I would subscribe.
All right, Gabe, Chizu, Franek, Valerio,
anything else from you guys before we close out here?
Yeah, so one last thing from my end.
Like, yeah, keep this going on funny money
and like really try to make it a committed effort
as much as possible.
And yeah, like, yeah, that's basically it for now.
It's like keep eye on my tweets.
Exactly. Exactly. keep my tweets exactly exactly maybe we should also reconsider revamping our discord and
maybe some roles on our discord so stay tuned and for the announcement there too
I think this is really great.
Closing thoughts, definitely check out Funny Money.
I think this is one of the few times
where we see a community-led project get
some really, really good traction.
And yeah, I'm very optimistic.
So yeah, do check out Funny Money.
All right, guys, you heard it from Mantle's DeFi ecosystem lead.
Super optimistic here, and I am too.
I'm really excited to see how people utilize the
tools that Funny Money brings to Mantle and really excited to see what coins and what agents and all
the other experiments going on on Funny Money, which ones are successful. So we'll check you
guys out in the Funny Money Discord. Thank you so much Valerio.
Thank you so much.
Brennan, Gabe, Chizu, funny money interns, stay safe.
And a shout out to all of the yappers and mavens.
You guys heard it from Valerio.
Yapping is vital.
Umi, Prime Nick, Noel, Gohan, Thany, Flip, Luke.
So many of you guys in here, Mr. Bitcoin or Young E, the bars.
Shout out to you guys.
We will see you in Discord and we'll see you on Fund Money.
Peace out, everybody.
Bye-bye. Thank you.
