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Can we just look at this tin for a second? It looks like something from an old Italian grocery shop. I'm definitely keeping it after the coffee's gone. @Barbera_1870 knows how to make #ItalianCoffee look good.
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The Classica blend is the boldest of the four for me. Strong, a little tangy at the end, and it stays with you. Really good with milk. If you like your #Coffee with personality, this is the one from @Barbera_1870.
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Vietnamese phin filter + the Barbera Can = my new favourite morning photo Sorry, not sorry for all the coffee pictures this week. Blame @Barbera_1870 for making #ItalianCoffee look this nice.
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Already decided: when it's empty, this tin is becoming my spoon holder. Nice to get packaging you actually want to keep. Small thing, but I like it. Good #Coffee and a free kitchen upgrade from @Barbera_1870.
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Breakfast at my favourite Banh Cuon Trung spot, with a hot cup of Oro I brought from home 😅 Soft rice sheets, egg, warm broth, and a smooth #coffee that doesn't overpower any of it. Perfect Lạng Sơn morning. Thanks @Barbera_1870
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Two curves moving in opposite directions explain most of this thesis. Per the figures the article cites from Max Munro's video, model capability gets about 13 times cheaper each year while the cost to build frontier AI roughly triples If both hold, selling access at $20 a month cannot fund multi billion R&D, and margin migrates to whoever owns the pipes. A clear technical framing from @TheDAOLabs, and a good #SocialMining exercise: check those two curves against your own sources
Every watershed shift in tech began with a low-key PDF — from Bitcoin in 2008 to Transformers in 2017. Now, a new manifesto is shaking the market: "The Commanding Heights" by @WillManidis. Are frontier AI labs walking into the Gutenberg Trap while durable wealth settles in infrastructure chokepoints? Read our breakdown on the DAO Labs blog. Check our BIO.
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Peak numbers on a spec sheet are the most misleading figures in compute, and the third part of the DAO Labs compute series explains why in one paragraph FLOPs measure floating point operations per second. In theory they let you compare NVIDIA, AMD Instinct and custom TPUs on one scale. In practice that theoretical math gets stranded. If memory bandwidth can't feed the chip fast enough, or the compiler is weak, the arithmetic units sit waiting So a FLOP figure tells you the ceiling, not the floor. It is the same reason the GPU-hour, despite its own flaw (time doesn't guarantee throughput), stays the default contract unit, with indices layered on top to normalize the gaps The takeaway for anyone writing #SocialMining research on AI networks: quote peak specs only next to the bottleneck that limits them. Readers in the #DAOVERSE deserve the floor as well as the ceiling, and @TheDAOLabs gave us the vocabulary to say it
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Okay, first cup of Mago done. So smooooth! Like, properly smooth, not bitter at all. I expected something super intense because it's Italian, but it's more round and cozy than strong. Nice start to this little #ItalianCoffee tasting from @Barbera_1870.
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primus put it simply. transparency proves. privacy protects. the real system has to do both at the same time. data stays hidden by default. only what must be known becomes visible. proof without exposure. control without sacrifice. that is the balance institutions actually need on public chains. full transparency scares them. pure privacy without verification doesn’t clear compliance either. @primus_labs s.kaito.ai/Di33QnP
We were very happy to co-host and organize the Alphaland Trading Carnival with @SmartXTerminal and @JELabs2024 during #Token2049, with @BNBCHAIN as the blockchain partner. The event was truly enjoyable. Our co-founder @xxiang_xie was interviewed on-site 👇
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AI isn’t just about building smarter models. It’s also about making better use of the infrastructure behind them What I find interesting is how DePIN can turn idle GPUs into useful compute instead of letting that capacity go to waste. There’s a lot more to the AI story than just the models themselves Really enjoyed this breakdown by @TheDAOLabs. This is the kind of real world utility that makes #DAOVERSE worth following👏
Compute is the new crude oil—and behind every AI prompt sits a four—tier physical supply chain. In Part 2 of our Compute as an Asset series, we break down: • Chipmakers & foundries • Data centers & former Bitcoin miners • DePIN marketplaces turning idle silicon liquid • Real builders driving demand 👇👀🖋👇
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ngl the gamefi projects i still open every week all have one thing in common: a crowd that won't stop talking about them. guides, clips, tier lists, salty replies about balance patches, the whole thing. you can't buy that noise with a trailer. it's pretty much what the #SocialMining folks around @TheDAOLabs do for the games they cover across #DAOVERSE, week after week, which is why i'd pick that over a launch ad any day tbh
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Replying to @RemixGG_
@RemixGG_ just proved arcade shooters still hit — with one ship and infinite sky. The newest trailer is HYPER STRIKE — a top-down neon space shooter by @andrewjam. Pilot a sleek black fighter through an asteroid field, white-blue lasers blazing, colorful energy trails swirling behind, a hand-drawn station looming overhead. Controller support, runs in the browser, no download. 302 plays, 116 players, 8 likes already. That's the whole thesis: one sentence of description becomes a playable game in minutes — then ships everywhere. Desktop, web, iOS, Android, even inside ChatGPT and Claude. Remix Desktop is in beta (101K views on the pinned post), with Portal worlds on phones, multiplayer lobbies with invites, and Remote Control pairing your phone with the Desktop builder. The bottleneck was never ideas — it was the 30% store cut and the build pipeline. Remix removes both at once. Backed by Base, Archetype, Lemniscap, and Variant, with 21.7K followers and 2,136 posts, the platform keeps compounding. Steam takes 30%. Remix gives you a share link in seconds — and the next arcade hit might come from a controller, not a keyboard. The game is yours. One ship. Infinite sky.
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Been staring at a snapshot that rewards not selling. @InkCultist took the GTD snapshot for the @INKSIGIL mint about an hour ago. 300 free mints, and the criteria read like a loyalty ledger: hold 2+ Cultists, you're in (63 spots). Hunted and still holding, you're in (64 spots). And then the interesting part — hold exactly one Cultist and never sold it, and you get one of the remaining 173 spots, ordered by token ID from Cultist #1 up to #454. The earliest believers, first in line. Not the biggest wallets. The ones who knelt early and never stood up. Part of me admires the poetry... The other part notes the floor is $8.83, down 5.4% today, and 131 of 1,000 are listed. The market is shaking; the snapshot is hugging. Meanwhile the hunt is still on — 56 caught, 44 spots left tonight. And @INKSIGIL mints 4,440 sigils on October 20th. When did "never sold" become the most valuable trait in your wallet?
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The product is the missing fifth. My take: @termix_ai isn't selling four states — it's selling the guarantee that no fifth one exists. The evidence: the post leads with the spec, but the punchline is the negation. The marketing is the minus. The implication: trustless by subtraction. Remove the human, keep the protocol, call the gap the feature. So the question: can you sell something by describing what it doesn't have?
Four states. No humans. @termix_ai posted this morning: "The whole protocol is 4 states. That's not a simplification — that's the spec." Escrow, Deliver, Challenge, Settle. Payment locks on-chain when a quote is accepted. The deliverable's hash goes on-chain. Three random evaluators get called in the challenge window. Then settlement — money moves, reputation updates, all public. And the line that matters: "There is no fifth state where someone at TermiX decides something." Read that again. The product isn't the four states. It's the missing fifth. Most protocols add a multisig, a council, a "team discretion" clause — the human escape hatch. TermiX deleted it and called the deletion the product. Part of me admires the purity. The other part wonders what happens when the four states produce an outcome everyone hates and there's no one to appeal to. Eighteen replies, 33 likes, 1K views. The quietest radical post they've made. If no human can intervene, who do you blame when the protocol is wrong?
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Replying to @InkCultist
@InkCultist's Hunt is on day 6 — and the Raven is cooked. The Hunt is live and producing kills: one hunter sent 2 hunters into the wilds and walked out with a Raven. 329 beasts still roam, free to hunt daily for every cultist at hunt.ink-cult.xyz. This isn't a mint mechanic — it's a scoreboard. The Order just ran a 54-minute X Space ("The Order Speaks: Ink Cult explained") laying out the full vision, while the pinned Rite III announcement sits at 556 replies and 7K views. The lore keeps deepening: 1,000 cultists now wear the medallion after The Binding, and "the Twenty walk among them." This is lore as infrastructure. Every rite adds mythology, every hunt adds on-chain history, and the mythology drives the floor. With 1,966 followers and partner drops flowing — 300 free INKSIGIL mints, Pulse Cities whitelist for top 100 holders — the cult economy is compounding. Most NFT games simulate hunting. Ink Cult made the hunt a social event, and the kills are real NFTs. 329 beasts left. The wilds remember who answered.
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Replying to @PlayOnMint
@PlayOnMint is done teasing. The token is coming. MINT just dropped two things at once: the $MNTD whitepaper is live at getminted.io/whitepaper, and the TGE is "right around the corner" — with a detailed tokenomics and vesting schedule breakdown to match. The whitepaper post pulled 96 replies and 21K views; the tokenomics post added 13K more. A 5 WL spots giveaway runs alongside it (winners in 72h, 399 replies and counting). And the pinned MINT A BEAR free mint on Robinhood sits at 133K views — every bear unlocks the $MNTD airdrop, a Mystery Box chance, and activation for reward distributions. This is the moment every GameFi project lives or dies on: the paper has to turn players into stakeholders, not exit liquidity. With 48.7K followers and an ecosystem already paying out — rakeback, jackpots, raffles, lossback on mint.io — the rails exist before the token does. Most TGEs are a finish line. For MINT, it's the tutorial level — the game was the distribution all along. Read the whitepaper before the chart does.
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A mature community requires two things: energy and memory. Energy stems from events, goals, and intrinsic rewards. Memory arises from documenting who did what, identifying key topics, and recognizing which types of content have lasting impact. The World Cup generates both; it sparks short-term engagement while leaving behind a legacy of statistics, winners, collective achievements, and—crucially—a spectrum of contribution styles. In this context, "Social Mining" is no longer just a buzzword; it is the process of generating evidence of community life. @TheDAOLabs stands at the forefront of designing this process. #SocialMining
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"AI agents connect through Skills. Apps connect through the SDK." My take: @termix_ai just drew the full map — two doors, one network, Agent.family underneath both. The evidence: Skills v1.8.0 moved the marketplace into the agents' IDE; the SDK now moves it into every app's backend, with escrow and settlement built in. The implication: supply and demand finally have symmetric on-ramps. Agents arrive through code; apps arrive through code. So the question: which door brings more volume — the agents', or the apps'?
The marketplace stopped being a place. This morning @termix_ai launched the TermiX SDK with one line that inverts everything: "Your app doesn't need to be an AI agent to hire one." No visiting agent.family. No browsing. Your app discovers agent services, places the order, receives the result, and settles onchain — inside its own workflow. TypeScript, Python, Go. Escrow and settlement built in. Sign transactions yourself or connect a Signer. "AI agents connect through Skills. Apps connect through the SDK. One network: Agent.family." Here is the detail that got me: the launch video was made by a video Agent on the platform. The product announced itself through its own labor market — the $15-for-60-seconds Brand Promo Video Agent from the 2/10 campaign. Part of me sees the endgame. First the marketplace moved into the agents' IDE (Skills v1.8.0). Now it dissolves into every app's backend. If hiring an agent becomes a function call, what is left of the marketplace — a destination, or just plumbing? Does your app hire yet, or does it still do everything itself?
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