Squigs

I'm increasingly convinced that power and influence exist as a bell curve governed by the 48 laws of power. With the bulk of the distribution using them to a T. As someone who operates on the tails, seems like only persistance of not accepting the rules or giving a fuck is the only way to make it how I want to. Not a dick rider, not someone who says what ppl wanna hear. Whether I'm right or left curve on that distribution is tbd kek

@js_horne @zora Lmfao, you’re so broke you’re charging for ‘Trends’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Heads up We're adding trends into the @zora app and .co website soon. It will be on base and is nicely integrated with the existing creator experience. Some notes 1. I expect this to be met with some combination of disinterest and then some further hate. Fair enough. 2. We will be doing 1bps fees for Trends for the first month. This is the lowest we could safely take them. This is for trader UX, to experiment with the logical extreme of the $zora pairing model, and also like why not it'll be interesting to see. 3. You will be able to pair any of your new posts with any trend. These posts will show in a different section of your profile to delineate between them. The UX is very fun and more simple than it sounds, it’s like a tradable hashtag or TikTok sound. 4. The zorb will return. Expect to see it show back up on social channels. It never changed on the app store so that will remain. 5. Our app usage held up better than expected despite the huge amount of self-inflicted turbulence to start off the year. Moving forward I'm just going to remain centered on our own metrics and what we see vs. overrotating on commentary and other dashboards. 6. If I could go back in time I'd probably just take some time off at the beginning of the year and stay the course: we originally planned to launch Trends on Base. Instead I simply powered ahead after an already crazy year (5 years really), friends and partners shutting down, moving on and publicly pivoting across the space, and I overreacted to the market and commentary across the timeline. This was all somewhat exacerbated by the fun and speed of being able to ship with AI. 7. The Solana team is awesome, the network tech is strong and opinionated and the different tools and teams in the ecosystem are fun and high quality to work with. I hope for us to show up again there in the future in a way that plays more to our strengths and a complimentary way to our existing markets vs. all or nothing. 8. One pivot too far: we've survived and grown by making structural changes to the core experience (e.g. 1/1s to editions, editions to coins) that improve the core experience. This one was an incorrect pattern match that in hindsight I could have known due to the fact that a) it was in a different app and b) I wanted to change the brand. 9. I put our users, community and team through an unnecessary amount of turbulence through the start of the year—I'm sorry about that. I can't guarantee I won't make incorrect bets again in the future but I definitely have some lessons to minimize the pain to the extent possible. One of those lessons is to be more proactive in comms, e.g. like this post you're reading right now. 10. We simply keep building.

Don’t invest your time, invest limited sums and get out quickly.

I’d rather lose my own money to you, thank you.

Bi-whatever check in. ✅ $AERO remains in death spiral, better pray to Christ Base volumes pick up, or the MM has infinite runway 👀 ✅ $Zora, I mean what can I even say that I haven’t said already lmao. What a fucking joke. If only someone had said this…

@angustias87 Indeed, at customer’s expense. Weren’t we trying to disintermediate?

@SquigsCat yep but infra still costs money

BUT YOU STILL TAKE FEES ON THE OFF-RAMP

@jpn_memelord When bag holder bias becomes a phenomena. Both tokens are at lows, Uniswap was first mover in literally ALL DEXs and your strategy is to shit on them? Aeros token price is directly tied to the inflation schedule. Uniswap has vested interest from VCs that won’t sell. Both lose.

How do they keep coming up with terrible unfiltered metrics to post? This says nothing about position size, if just a few entities are behind a majority of these, or if the liquidry is even in range. Could actually be 1 individual placing 3 cents deep out of range in pools thousands of times per day and this would count all of it. Do better.

@emiliemc Fwiw agency and mission alignment are often mutually exclusive

Hire for agency, mission-alignment, and clear communication.

Bi-monthly check-in, $Zora rebrand bc why not after failing through every iteration of anything they’ve done. $Aero in death spiral. Jesus, if only someone had told you this would happen…

@neuroteg @DrDominicNg Not to mention mice don’t inherently develop AD and we have no idea what polymorphs they have. Cool study, but ‘get cancer’ as a cure seems odd

Important caveats — and they actually clarify the lesson. This is a mouse study; TREM2 drugs are timing/state dependent; and amyloid ≠ tau. Together they point to the same conclusion: early, state-dependent neuro-immune restoration matters. Static, late, single-target fixes will struggle.

Cancer patients rarely get Alzheimer's. And a 15-year study in @Cell just explained why. They found a protein that clears brain plaques in mice - by activating the brain's own IMMUNE CELLS 🧵

@brian_armstrong Shareholders in shambles 😂😂😂

11 years ago today…

A lesson in what not to do for your shareholders. Bull market peak in stock price barely breached listing and is even with launch. Sorry new hires 🫡

@inversebrah Channeling my inner capo

gana be a movie

@divine_economy Context?

ok but leaving aside the bigotry and war hawk talking points, attacking muslims (25% of the world population) when you work in an industry whose goal is to connect 100% of the world population is kinda insane crypto leaders are more out of touch with crypto users than ever

@blknoiz06 It already is lmaoo

entirety of CT has become pessimistic on the industry, even on the native platform that allows them to trade the tradfi ponzis by end of 2026 hyperliquid will be the defacto easiest venue to trade perpetual futures of all assets, with multi-collateral cross-margin 24/7

@Dyor_0x Skemmer founder, base not being organic and peak memes

Clanker is now at a lower price than when Farcaster acquired it. What went wrong?

@1CrypticPoet @base @schismaticshiba @RussellDogCTO @basedmfercoin @ShieldCoinBase @AskVenice @GeckoTerminal Bruh do you just filter by gaining assets hahahaha

it's another green day on @base 📈 what are you bullish on? Today's Top 5: $SHIB +29% - @schismaticshiba $RUSSELL +15% - @RussellDogCTO $MFER +11% - @basedmfercoin $SHIELD +11% - @ShieldCoinBase $VVV +11% - @AskVenice

@CoinbaseDuck Lmeow

Added some $AERO too because I heard it goes supersonic this year.

@etheraider @AerodromeFi Interesting…

@SquigsCat @AerodromeFi Agree to disagree.

.@AerodromeFi has had buybacks for ~2 years... Before it was cool. Lessons in there.

@TradFiHater @castle_labs Same wud be true for gold if we had the ability to synthesize but just *agreed* not to

@TradFiHater @castle_labs Which begs the question, what do of it doesn’t maintain the miner incentive? V different than gold when a codebase can change. Even when you have diehards at core - iz open source and not a natural resource that is verifiably rare in reality.

You are exhausted, drained, on the verge of mental collapse, while your parents, your friends, and your ex-girlfriend are thriving. Why did you listen to YouTube and TikTok influencers? Why did you buy crypto instead of the most precious, rare, and beautiful asset in the world? It might be over… unless you’re not wrong, just early. Almost a pioneer, right? Let’s find out?