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Sunsets from the west. Sup!!

NTF winners last 30 days 👀 Lots of legacy projects coming back. Thoughts?

This space has to change. Outsiders will keep seeing anything related to Web3 as a scam. They will never take crypto seriously unless we give them a reason to. For a while, it felt like we were actually maturing. People started caring about branding, products, work ethic, and accountability. Many of us have spent years working day and night to prove that brands born in Web3 can be treated like real brands, not just quick money grabs before someone disappears on vacation. I am tired of founders whining about their difficult lifes and mental issues after raising millions from their holders and going on a multi-year break for then to come back when things start to heat up and there is another opportunity to get some more juice from the holders. Fake bag based “positivity” will run this space into the ground. Everyone sees it, but too many people are afraid to speak up because of optics or because they do not want their bags to go down. Founders are regular humans. They are not gods. They have to be held responsible for what they build and what they abandon. When you form a community and start building a brand people fall in love with, those people spend their time, money, and energy supporting you. You do not have the right to cry about your IRL issues, vanish and expect them to wait forever. Difficult life is hardly an excuse, but I hear it more often nowadays, especially from the returning founders. Suprise: everyone is struggling. Spitting out your IRL problems as a reason why you can't run a brand doesn't call for sympathy, it's pathetic and desperate. You can pivot when needed. You can change direction. But you cannot just leave everyone hanging. Either put a final end to it, hand it to someone else, or finish what you started. There is no excuse for treating your community like dogs waiting to wag their tails when you decide to come back. And as a holder, you have every right to reject a founder who does not respect your time, your money, or your support. If this makes you feel a way, maybe take a second to reflect on why. If you agree, it is time to start rallying behind the people who have proven to care about their communities, their brands, and the future of this space. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time

Biggest self-own in history.

The global NFT market right now: $1.55B Market Cap. $1.34M 24h Volume. Let's put that into perspective: 1/ The Valuation Reality Check • Against Crypto: The entire history of NFTs combined (every Punk, BAYC, Fidenza, and Web3 game) is worth less than a single dog wearing a hat $WIF. It’s half the size of $PEPE, and a mere fraction of $DOGE. • Against Collectibles: Forget Fine Art. The global NFT space is currently 3x smaller than the used luxury watch market, and 5x smaller than the sneaker resale market. An industry that promised to "digitize all assets" is vastly outsized by flipped Jordans. • Against TradFi: $1.55B is the valuation of a single mid-range Swiss watch brand, or a fraction of a mid-tier fast-food chain like Shake Shack. The entire world of Web3 art, culture, and gaming combined is not even equal to the value of a single memecoin. ----------- 2/ The Actual Users Let’s do the math on that $1.34M daily volume. If we assume the average NFT transaction is $300 (a blend of Blur whales and retail trading junk), that gives us ~4,400 total transactions worldwide per day. Subtract the 70% consisting of bot wash-trading to farm points on platforms like Blur or Magic Eden. Your global Real DAU drops to just 1,500 - 3,000 people. A fun comparison: 3,000 people is less than half the capacity of a high school basketball gym. Fewer people are actively trading NFTs around the world right now than the foot traffic passing through a local mall in a two-hour window. ----------- Mass adoption hasn't happened. We are operating in a concentrated private club of just 3,000 members. But this isn't a graveyard, it’s the absolute floor. The tourists are gone. The $1.55B is a foundation held by the most convicted builders in Web3. If dog coins command $3B on pure hype and used shoes are a $10B industry, the upside asymmetry for digital culture is unprecedented. We aren't playing a zero-sum game. We are laying the groundwork for the next cycle. And when mass adoption finally arrives, it will be built exactly by these 3,000 people who stayed when everyone else left.

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This is absolutely nuts