Building things @AthenaResearch + @patternengine: @pico_computer @0xDecaArt @shape Digital object enthusiast. Lapsed Neuroscientist . Slow cyclist
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Through satire and degeneracy, the deafbeef.com/first.htm NFT project has donated at least 430 ETH, at this time worth $1.4 million USD, to @GiveDirectly charity to benefit those in extreme poverty. That my friends, is not a joke.
etherscan.io/address/0xc7464β¦
mathew π retweeted
structura is at the core of shape. holding $SHAPE automatically makes you a member of the wyoming DUNA. and itβs the vehicle for translating onchain actions into actions in the real world
Governance is now live!
$SHAPE holders can delegate vote power, create & vote on proposals, and help connect onchain to the real world
gov.structura.org
mathew π retweeted
Governance is now live!
$SHAPE holders can delegate vote power, create & vote on proposals, and help connect onchain to the real world
gov.structura.org
. @toadswiback shaving
mathew π retweeted
we've done something interesting w @pico_computer
you may have heard of @Uniswap. the uniswap v3 liquidity pools have great return potential, but they're too hard for someone to use unless they're monitoring it 24 / 7
we've solved this. anyone can use app.pico.computer and choose what assets you want exposure to (eth, btc, etc) then pico will handle the rest
come back every 24h and see the profit you've made. say hello to 40% apy
mathew π retweeted
Today we recorded my interview with @loganxwoodyard for Please Respond. Logan was passionate, so was I, so I've been rambling too much, but I count on Logan's editing magic⨠.
This project is such a breath of fresh air in generative art. There's a whole website where you learn so much about the artists and their process, way beyond an image on a screen.
It was an absolute joy to be part of this chain, it truly brought back the pleasure of making art with code for the sake of it.
Worth noting, every sale goes to the artist π₯Ή
Grateful to @Tylerxhobbs and @shape, the whole project is a gift π
pleaserespond.art/
Can't wait to reveal my piece, on Friday !
mathew π retweeted
"I was interested in creating the kind of show I as an artist would want to participate in."
Please Respond launches May 6. Over the coming days, meet the artists behind the visual conversation.
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We built Deca as the display & discovery layer for NFTs. The place where you create galleries, find something new, and show your love of the culture
Deca supported NFTs for their initial use case of tokenized art, which we love. But NFTs have so much more untapped potential. The next step we take with the community is to not just support NFTs, but elevate them
Together we will unlock their true power as fully programmable onchain objects. NFT tech will continue to preserve cryptoart & culture, while also being the driving force behind everything from RWAs to the heart of the agentic economy
This is no small task, so we need to focus on the mission. That means Deca will no longer be actively developed, but instead reset back to its core primitives
With core Deca, you canβ¦
mathew π retweeted
We built Deca as the display & discovery layer for NFTs. The place where you create galleries, find something new, and show your love of the culture
Deca supported NFTs for their initial use case of tokenized art, which we love. But NFTs have so much more untapped potential. The next step we take with the community is to not just support NFTs, but elevate them
Together we will unlock their true power as fully programmable onchain objects. NFT tech will continue to preserve cryptoart & culture, while also being the driving force behind everything from RWAs to the heart of the agentic economy
This is no small task, so we need to focus on the mission. That means Deca will no longer be actively developed, but instead reset back to its core primitives
With core Deca, you canβ¦
mathew π retweeted
my thesis on the size of the NFT economy remains unchanged. the crypto fungible economy will be in service of the object economy
@AthenaResearch is a perfect example
this is why shape is not understood by many people yet. and we've built the strong foundations for this future
mathew π retweeted
before it all begins, i wrote you a letter β«οΈπ€
"Counterintuitively, this is the perfect time to launch $SHAPE. In the hard times, only the worthy ideas survive. In the hard times, only the true believers remain. The era of NFTs is here. And Shape is the network for NFTs."
mathew π retweeted
I've been cooking something on the simmer for like 9 years lol, time to talk about it.
I started my aerospace company in my early 20s. Noob as hell. My dad just retired from managing a big 4 accounting firm and became my CFO. Together we carved out a niche: power generation for commercial aviation. FAA accredited. Built something real from nothing.
In 2017, I was playing around with mining and started uploading our parts paperwork onto Bitcoin. Not trying to make money, just trying to prove the documents existed. If someone downstream edited my traceability docs, at least the chain would show it wasn't me.
COVID hit in 2020 and aviation ground to a halt. That July, my father and partner died of the virus. I walked out of the company we built and didn't come back for a long time.
I had a crypto balance sheet I was mostly passive about and nothing but time to spend on twitter, monitoring the situation. DeFi summer and NFT season felt like everything my 2017 Bitcoin anchoring tried to solve. I'd also been collecting generative art since before tokens were a thing, so the onchain certificates were actually better than the paper ones Iβve once lost (sorry Tyler). I learned more about provenance from 6529 and partners than from a decade in aviation.
That's not a knock on aviation, NFTs are simply the Michael Jordan of asset tracking.
For 5 years I witnessed, purchased, and admired some of the best NFTs and artworks ever conceived. Each token had perfect custody, while $10 million aircraft engines ship with paper certificates and records that can be easy to forge. I love NFTs and yet it killed me that machines of wonder like aeroplanes had worse provenance than a cryptodickbutt.
Months ago I told @bonafidehan I hate watching an industry I love sit decades in the past. Han called me back in 2 minutes with a plan. That plan became Athena, and the team at Shape went all in.
We've since shipped Athena on aircraft parts and are running a pilot with some of the largest operators in the industry. Iβd love to share more but I know we have much work ahead and much to fill you in on as we scale. Follow us along for the ride @AthenaResearch.
mathew π retweeted
the promise of NFTs was that it would be used in the real world. for a long time we've waited, and now it's here
i'm co-founding @AthenaResearch w @ACthecollector and it has the potential to change the entire aerospace industry. honored to be building this w the @shape team
it's time to build the NFT economy