Prediction market traders & influencers are where memecoin degens were in 2023 Give it 6 months and you’ll see leaderboards, copy-betting, and CT personalities building careers on odds instead of candles

The current generation of crypto products have completely ignored the power of programatic economic mechanism design that crypto provides developers in favor of easy money ponzi games. While it may work for a while, it’s not a repeatable game. When participants no longer believe it’s a game they can win—they stop playing. While this sounds obvious, it’s in no small part perpetuated by narrative chasing VCs, very few of which have any original thoughts that aren’t simply pattern matching what has come before. We are taking a very opinionated approach at Melee. What we have built will not map to what you have been conditioned to expect. It may work, or we may have to pivot, but we’re for damn sure gunna try it because there’s not a single creator we have talked to that has not immediately resonated with this new paradigm. We will not roll over and take the EZ route. We will iterate till the game is, transparent, fair, repeatable, and fun. Simple goals often require complex execution, while the UX and design of Melee is approachable and the goals are simple, the underlying design is far more nuanced that most will understand at first glance—but when it clicks, you’ll turn around and go, “why did no one think of this before?”

Monad consensus client is now open source (link below). This is the result of thousands of hours of effort by the team at @category_xyz. Enjoy

In my very humble opinion, “tokenize everything” has been one of the most damaging mindsets to ever exist in crypto. I’m not even referring to memecoins; those are more or less gambling and are still crypto’s most profitable use case. But the idea that every company and founder is encouraged to launch a token and give away equity as early as they do is crazy. The only way to move past this mindset is: A) End the launchpad meta (inevitable). B) Go through a 4 year cycle without a “throw a dart” style alt season so people realize coins are not valuable because they are coins. I fully expect the next cycle to swing hard to the other end of the spectrum. More focus on revenue and basic fundamentals, PMF before token, and more private acquisitions.

The new Chris Lake album is fire. 🔥

"Experiments" in crypto are a nice way to rephrase what are cash grabs by founders You relinquish responsibility to tokens and can easily make 6 figures +. A few "experiments" a year and you make a killing No one can blame you because it was an "experiment"

Crypto content is boring AF these days. Cultural content is all just people talking about securing a bag in one form or another. Technical content is just a bunch of marginal improvements claiming to reinvent the wheel.

Have you ever slammed a pie in someone’s face? Oddly rewarding.

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Privacy is the #1 area where crypto is way behind where it clearly needs to be That’s where the next 10x improvements and 0 to 1 moments will be Not scalability