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If you're doomscrolling the timeline and tired of all the posts saying NFTs are dead. Watch this.
So excited about the future of @Claynosaurz
"If you wait to have a clear plan from A to Z, you're never going to start"
- @AndrewsaurP @Claynosaurz
Canadian founders building in Canada
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If you're in Toronto, come by Solana Summit tomorrow (24th), I'll be doing a @claynosaurz @HeebooOfficial keynote at 3 pm! Tickets are free.
solanasummit.ca/
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
42K NEW SHIELDED WALLETS
40M IN AUCTION VOLUME
8M SECONDARY
ALL IN @ZCASH
@MESSARICRYPTO YOU'RE WELCOME
$ZEC // ZILLIONS_
Zcash's shielded pool just printed its highest weekly count in over four years and the fourth-highest on record.
Last week: 62,812 private transactions.
The only weeks that have cleared more are the three from the summer-2022 blow-off:
- 135,389 in late June
- 80,732 in early July
- 64,795 in early August
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Hey @zooko
@zksnarks_ is what brought me into the @Zcash ecosystem, and it was also my first experience using @noir_wallet.
I guess youβre not someone who really cares much about the community, but before you retweet something, do a little research and actually read it. π
Doing something new is rarely clean.
New ideas create friction. Things break. Not everyone gets it immediately.
We made people interact with Zcash before asking them to care about Zcash.
From pre-launch through the auction, we built Zilk Road to make an otherwise confusing path into ZEC feel intuitive, seamless, and fun.
The auction was completely blind.
Bidders submitted their maximum. The top 8,000 bids cleared at one price. Losing bids were refunded in full. Winners received everything above the clearing price back.
Once the auction settled, $19M+ was promptly returned to bidders.
Meanwhile:
42,000 new wallets created across Noir, Zodl, and Vizor.
~$40M in blind auction bids.
~20M routed through @auroraisnear, powered by @NEARProtocol.
Record-breaking activity across the Zcash network.
Tens of thousands of bids later, people who had never touched ZEC are now inside the ecosystem.
New wallets.
Shielded ZEC.
New communities discovering what Zcash actually does.
That is not a distraction from the mission.
That IS adoption.
Zcash does not need another thousand people tweeting about privacy.
It needs millions of people discovering why privacy matters by actually using it.
As for royalties: we got that wrong.
5% wasnβt necessary, and it works against what weβre building.
The blind auction was a free market: blind bids, no influence from us. Secondary should follow the same principle.
No fee in the middle.
All royalties collected to date will go toward Zcash builder grants.
Royalties are 0% from here.
Weβre going to keep experimenting. Some things will work. Some wonβt. When we get something wrong, weβll fix it.
The goal stays the same:
Bring more people into Zcash.
Give them a reason to stay.
Build culture worth staying for.
Build and fund products that advance privacy for everyone.
ZILLIONS_
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Solid response - I donβt understand why this was suddenly an issue for some.
Team onboarded a ton of people onto an important chain that many here have never given much of a look.
This is adoption and adaption in action.
They did t promise anything other than an experience, any extra is well, extra.
Site experience was top tier. Campaign went insta-viral and was well executed.
We should celebrate victories not damn them.
Ultimately one of the things that attracted me most to crypto back in the Stone Age of 2012 was the personal responsibility side of things.
Thereβs not enough of that in the world. People always looking to blame someone for a decision they ultimately made on their own based on their own interpretation of the information provided to them at that time.
Only person that clicks that buy button is you at the end of the day.
Zillons_
Doing something new is rarely clean.
New ideas create friction. Things break. Not everyone gets it immediately.
We made people interact with Zcash before asking them to care about Zcash.
From pre-launch through the auction, we built Zilk Road to make an otherwise confusing path into ZEC feel intuitive, seamless, and fun.
The auction was completely blind.
Bidders submitted their maximum. The top 8,000 bids cleared at one price. Losing bids were refunded in full. Winners received everything above the clearing price back.
Once the auction settled, $19M+ was promptly returned to bidders.
Meanwhile:
42,000 new wallets created across Noir, Zodl, and Vizor.
~$40M in blind auction bids.
~20M routed through @auroraisnear, powered by @NEARProtocol.
Record-breaking activity across the Zcash network.
Tens of thousands of bids later, people who had never touched ZEC are now inside the ecosystem.
New wallets.
Shielded ZEC.
New communities discovering what Zcash actually does.
That is not a distraction from the mission.
That IS adoption.
Zcash does not need another thousand people tweeting about privacy.
It needs millions of people discovering why privacy matters by actually using it.
As for royalties: we got that wrong.
5% wasnβt necessary, and it works against what weβre building.
The blind auction was a free market: blind bids, no influence from us. Secondary should follow the same principle.
No fee in the middle.
All royalties collected to date will go toward Zcash builder grants.
Royalties are 0% from here.
Weβre going to keep experimenting. Some things will work. Some wonβt. When we get something wrong, weβll fix it.
The goal stays the same:
Bring more people into Zcash.
Give them a reason to stay.
Build culture worth staying for.
Build and fund products that advance privacy for everyone.
ZILLIONS_
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Every single time we get one thing that pumps and makes people money in the crypto space, the biggest accounts start calling it a scam
zk-SNARKs nft is not a scam
Monad was a scam, it took $500M out the ecosystem and these same people calling zk-Snarks a scam, were pushing it
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Iβm genuinely trying to understand what happened in the last 24 hours.
If @zachxbt was really this concerned about protecting collectors, why did all of this come AFTER the mint, after people bought, after a community formed, and right when the market was starting to find its footing?
Whatever the intention was, the first people who got hurt were the holders.
And honestly, seeing @zooko amplify criticism about the current setup surprised me too. If there are real technical concerns, talk about them. Security, decentralization, ZSA not being live yet, all fair conversations.
But a limitation in the current infrastructure is not proof that the team is malicious, and it definitely doesnβt make the entire collection worthless.
This team refunded a huge amount of ZEC instead of keeping it. They communicated, paid attention to the smallest details, and from my experience actually being inside this community, theyβve done a lot to earn trust.
Thatβs what I donβt understand.
24 hours ago people believed in this, were excited, were building around it. Then suddenly the loudest voices on the timeline became the negative ones, and instead of asking better questions, everyone started amplifying them.
So who actually helped the community here?
Criticism matters. Security questions matter. But timing, context and the way you communicate those concerns matter too.
We had something people were genuinely excited about.
If the problem is the infrastructure, help improve the infrastructure. Donβt burn the community down and then call it protection
Doing something new is rarely clean.
New ideas create friction. Things break. Not everyone gets it immediately.
We made people interact with Zcash before asking them to care about Zcash.
From pre-launch through the auction, we built Zilk Road to make an otherwise confusing path into ZEC feel intuitive, seamless, and fun.
The auction was completely blind.
Bidders submitted their maximum. The top 8,000 bids cleared at one price. Losing bids were refunded in full. Winners received everything above the clearing price back.
Once the auction settled, $19M+ was promptly returned to bidders.
Meanwhile:
42,000 new wallets created across Noir, Zodl, and Vizor.
~$40M in blind auction bids.
~20M routed through @auroraisnear, powered by @NEARProtocol.
Record-breaking activity across the Zcash network.
Tens of thousands of bids later, people who had never touched ZEC are now inside the ecosystem.
New wallets.
Shielded ZEC.
New communities discovering what Zcash actually does.
That is not a distraction from the mission.
That IS adoption.
Zcash does not need another thousand people tweeting about privacy.
It needs millions of people discovering why privacy matters by actually using it.
As for royalties: we got that wrong.
5% wasnβt necessary, and it works against what weβre building.
The blind auction was a free market: blind bids, no influence from us. Secondary should follow the same principle.
No fee in the middle.
All royalties collected to date will go toward Zcash builder grants.
Royalties are 0% from here.
Weβre going to keep experimenting. Some things will work. Some wonβt. When we get something wrong, weβll fix it.
The goal stays the same:
Bring more people into Zcash.
Give them a reason to stay.
Build culture worth staying for.
Build and fund products that advance privacy for everyone.
ZILLIONS_
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
I hope more understand this.
zkSNARKs is the only NFT project that made its name and awareness outside Zcash.
If zkSNARKs make it, all Zcash makes it.
If not, people will think Zcash is a joke, and will never look at it anymore.
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Doing something new is rarely clean.
New ideas create friction. Things break. Not everyone gets it immediately.
We made people interact with Zcash before asking them to care about Zcash.
From pre-launch through the auction, we built Zilk Road to make an otherwise confusing path into ZEC feel intuitive, seamless, and fun.
The auction was completely blind.
Bidders submitted their maximum. The top 8,000 bids cleared at one price. Losing bids were refunded in full. Winners received everything above the clearing price back.
Once the auction settled, $19M+ was promptly returned to bidders.
Meanwhile:
42,000 new wallets created across Noir, Zodl, and Vizor.
~$40M in blind auction bids.
~20M routed through @auroraisnear, powered by @NEARProtocol.
Record-breaking activity across the Zcash network.
Tens of thousands of bids later, people who had never touched ZEC are now inside the ecosystem.
New wallets.
Shielded ZEC.
New communities discovering what Zcash actually does.
That is not a distraction from the mission.
That IS adoption.
Zcash does not need another thousand people tweeting about privacy.
It needs millions of people discovering why privacy matters by actually using it.
As for royalties: we got that wrong.
5% wasnβt necessary, and it works against what weβre building.
The blind auction was a free market: blind bids, no influence from us. Secondary should follow the same principle.
No fee in the middle.
All royalties collected to date will go toward Zcash builder grants.
Royalties are 0% from here.
Weβre going to keep experimenting. Some things will work. Some wonβt. When we get something wrong, weβll fix it.
The goal stays the same:
Bring more people into Zcash.
Give them a reason to stay.
Build culture worth staying for.
Build and fund products that advance privacy for everyone.
ZILLIONS_
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
How bad do you want it?
playboyz.pro/apply
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
On HEEBOO, content isnβt just something you consume. Thereβs always something to do. Every DROP comes with a Participation Layer. Vote on something. Play a mini-game. Answer a question. Fund an idea. Help the creator with feedback. Itβs all part of the loop.
A DROP is live for a limited time. Thatβs your window to participate. Once it closes, it stays on the project timeline as read-only. Small or big, every action becomes part of your collection of memories with the projects you care about.
Prototype link below π§
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> PUBLIC_SNARKLIST: LIVE_ // zcash:native
> zksnarks.net/snarklist
β¨ π ππππ β¨ retweeted
Feeling behind right now? You're not alone.
Everyone feels that way sometimes.
The pnl screenshots you're seeing are MARKETING.
They don't show you the side wallets and the coins that went to zero.
Just compare yourself to yourself.
And try to be a little better every day.
