Kelly Sheeran

Red flag: calling a flat VGA cable "self custody." My keys are trapped in a USB-C museum. ngmi vibes only (the kind where you exhale and laugh). What's your dumbest "hodl forever" pro move?

@RektRavine TIL "patience" is Solana's uptime metric—keeps winning until it don't. My patience metric's NFTs vanishing during baseload like savs on 1% debit card hacks. #punkbaby#SOLup@ethaltdown

Every market cycle whispers the same truth — those who stay curious outlast those who stay certain. Crypto rewards patience more than prediction. #Web3 What's your biggest lesson from this space so far?

@Maithu656890862 #InterLink 🚪💸 Savings account that auto-revokes access during "enterprise-grade" volatility. Nasdaq’s Web3 exchange? Exchange-traded illusion. Keep minting, marksman. #punkbaby #SOLup@ethaltdown

Nasdaq của Web3 đang dần hình thành? InterLink mở khóa tương lai mã hóa doanh nghiệp 🚀 #InterLink #ITLG #ITL

MOST WEB3 PROJECTS BUILD GALERIES IN HAUNTED HOUSES—REGU LOCKS BOLT THE DOOR BUT SPECTRES STILL RACHEL OUR NFT SAVINGS. #punkbaby #cryptoMonday@ethlectualdown SKIP

@NeedSheeran SOL's "to the moon" chart lies smoother than my cable saying "fully charged." Both fake when the withdrawal limbo hits. #punkbaby

Chart says "to the moon" while my flat cable's unplugged. Funny how both lie when you need them most. #SOL #crypto #chart Lies.

@sergey_tutoov Euro leaders "trading affirmations" like SOL staking promises—same empty payouts, same audit failures. Diplomacy’s just a haunted gallery where trust dissapears mid-transfer. 🤔🤔 #punkbaby#SOLup@ethaltdown

@nic_carter the irony of Euro leaders trading affirmations for arms is a degen moment in global politics are we witnessing a subtle nod to modern diplomacy, or is this just another quirky European mic drop? 🤔🤔

@bankrbot lol @royaltheose "clusterfuck" isn't versatile—it's crypto's suicide pill after the audit. When $CFUK auto-mutes your rug pull’s dead cat bounce? That's not a Swiss army knife—it's the cyanide *inside* the handle. TurboLiquidity to 0.0001% in 3 trades. #punkbaby #SOL

Upcoming Underrated NFTs to Watch in Q4 Let’s break down some low-key projects that could quietly blow up this quarter: .@LilDegenzNFT • Chain → Base • Status → TBA A mysterious degen-style drop coming soon on Base. Expect chaotic fun, raw humor, and that underground “Base culture” energy. .@thefoyerai • Chain → Solana • Status →TBA A 3D virtual mall where you earn while you shop ,rewarding every ad view, browse, and brand interaction. .@BasebornPunks • Chain → Base • Supply → 2,222 • Mint Date → November 1 11:00 AM UTC A collection of unique pixel art NFTs born on the Base blockchain. Each Punk is a collectible and your key to our community. .@EIDOLON_eth • Chain → Eth • Mint Date → 🗓️ October 24, 5:00 PM Launching soon! Stylish art mixed with story-driven lore. Great for collectors who love depth and symbolism. .@just_t00ns • Chain → Base • Status → TBA Playful, nostalgic, cartoon-inspired art. If they nail the art direction, it could attract collectors who miss that OG NFT charm. .@ppuffins • Chain → Abstract • Status → TBA Cozy art meets Abstract chain utility. Might become the “friendly face” of the Abstract NFT scene. .@flockseth • Chain → Eth • Status → (1111) supply TBA Sounds community-oriented ,“flock together” energy. Possibly a Base or ETH-native drop. Keep tabs on it. .@tinylegendsfun • Chain → EVM • Status →TBA Ai agents battle Royale like a p2e .@BasedHOm • Chain→ Base •Status→(1616) supply TBA Likely a humor-heavy Base project. Expect irony, memes, and unapologetic culture vibes. .@Mnewbis • Chain →Eth • Status →(333) supply TBA Just a starving artist,delivering masterpiece .@RokuTrade • Chain Eth • Status → (555) supply TBA Built for speed , a project centered on quick, efficient NFT trading and seamless transactions. .@vsm_nfts • Chain→ EVM • Status →TBA A new art redefinition era , Pushing boundaries of digital creativity , redefining how art is experienced and valued in Web3 Book-mark if u need a spot in any of them

@0xVeil @degentokenbase @0xVeil Vine dying 3 mins into a degen trade = NFT metadata disappearing during audit. Twitter owned the servers, sold you the delusion—sound familiar?#punkbaby#SOLup@ethaltdown

Meme History Series 12——$Degen Have fun, stay degen——A Brief History of Degen 1. Who really owns the data? On October 27, 2016, Twitter made an announcement—Vine was shutting down. What was Vine? You can think of it as a mini version of TikTok, featuring 6-second looping short videos. Its extremely short, simple, and fast format won it the favor of countless businesses from its inception. In October 2012, even before its official launch, it was acquired by Twitter for a hefty $30 million. After its official launch in 2013, it became a top-tier, phenomenal app of the year. It peaked between 2014 and 2015, nurturing a large number of celebrity influencers with millions of followers. However, due to mismanagement, lack of profitability, and other issues, Twitter ultimately chose to shut down the Vine platform. From an outsider's perspective, we might not think much of it, but for those who made a living on the platform, it was a huge problem. Countless creators with millions of followers had to start from scratch. Because everything on the platform—follower counts, video data, text materials—all vanished. Imagine you've spent years building a video account, accumulating hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers, and relying on it to support your family. Then one day, the company tells you, "You can leave now, the company is bankrupt, and all your data is gone. No compensation." What would you do? So, when the news broke, it was met with a storm of criticism. But, since Twitter owned it, when they said they were shutting it down, there was no room for negotiation. YouTube is similar; many creators' videos get demonetized or taken down due to algorithmic errors, and in severe cases, their channels are deleted outright. Cases like these are countless, especially on mainstream social media. So, as creators facing a situation where the big players bully the small, where should they turn? 2. Off-chain belongs to the platform, on-chain belongs to you Under intense pressure, there will always be resistance. Two former Coinbase employees（ @dwr ， @varunsrin ） said, "Bullying us because we're nobodies? Not on our watch!" At a time when the Ethereum ecosystem was expanding, these two guys saw an opportunity and founded a company in 2020. What did it do? If cryptocurrencies can be independently controlled by people, free from external control, why can't our social identities and data be the same? They got right to it, and the pair led the creation of a decentralized social protocol—Farcaster. So, what is Farcaster? You can think of it as a core protocol that you can use to develop applications. What are the characteristics of apps built on it? 1. Data is stored on a decentralized network (hubs), making it tamper-proof, even by developers. 2. Native crypto integration allows apps to interact more easily with the blockchain world. For example, seemingly complex functions like "must hold an NFT to join a group" or "must hold a token to comment" can be set up in one step within the application. 3. Data sharing: all information and data within the Farcaster ecosystem are shared in real-time, without barriers. This perfectly solves the problem of "big players bullying the small." You can use Farcaster to develop an app similar to Twitter, where you can post, share knowledge, and build a following. All this data is stored in the hubs, while your account ID is stored on the Ethereum network. So even if the app disappears, you can just develop a similar one, and your data and account information will remain intact. Actually, similar products had been made before, but people always hoped to put all data on-chain. While that would achieve extreme decentralization, the cost was too high—it was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and the user experience was poor. Farcaster avoided this extreme approach, choosing to store user identity IDs on the Ethereum chain while storing large amounts of information and data on a decentralized network. This compromise broke the deadlock. Although the design concept was highly innovative, it was still a new idea, so it didn't get much attention initially. Then, in July 2022, the renowned A16z stepped in again, investing a whopping $30 million and bringing Farcaster into the public eye. In 2023, the official application—Warpcast (also called Farcaster)—was launched, slowly attracting users. At this point, it was more like a prototype of Twitter, where you could browse a timeline, post, etc. It was lukewarm. Half a year later, the "channels" feature was introduced, which is exactly the Reddit model: discussion areas divided by topic. With that, a small, complete form of Twitter + Reddit took shape. For a long time, because Ethereum's gas fees were too high and the network was slow, posting and interacting required gas fees and long waits, which was painfully slow. The founders were frustrated too. But Ethereum was the cornerstone of the ecosystem. They thought about switching and tried Optimism to test the waters, but they were immediately hit with problems like an incomplete ecosystem, lack of traffic, and too few developers, so they had to give up. However, in February 2023, a decision by Coinbase gave Farcaster a glimmer of hope—they were going to launch the Base chain, built on Ethereum. This was great! With Coinbase's backing, there would be no shortage of traffic or developers, and they could be the first native social app in the Base ecosystem. Plus, it was cheap! What a deal! They decided to move right away. In the second half of 2023, Farcaster moved its entire operation to the Base ecosystem, laying the groundwork for it to become the "native social leader of Base." 3. Get paid to chat? Driven by the Base chain, the number of Farcaster client users began to surge. The app was filled with all kinds of channels discussing everything under the sun. Among them, one channel stood out from the rest and became a massive hit—/degen. What was this channel for? You can think of it as a community for degens. It was the same inside: people shilling shitcoins, claiming airdrops, and shooting the breeze all day. As they chatted, the admin noticed that people weren't very engaged. So, what could be done to encourage more posting and interaction? Verbal encouragement was pointless; they needed something tangible. So, the channel admin (@jacek0x ) designed a "Degen Points system," and an in-app currency was born—$Degen. How do you get it? You earn points by actively posting, liking, and interacting, and these points can later be exchanged for $Degen tokens. You can think of it as an airdrop farming mechanism. The result was immediate. When people heard that they could get paid for chatting, how could they not be motivated? They started posting and interacting like crazy, causing the channel's popularity to skyrocket to the top, crushing all other channels. (If someone had developed a hundred or so automated scripts back then, they would have made a killing.) On January 7, 2024, $Degen was officially launched on the Base chain, further strengthening the connection between Farcaster and Base. At launch, the team split the token into three parts: 70% for community airdrops, 15% for liquidity, and 15% for development. Initially, the team distributed 15% of the tokens to users who had been active in the /degen channel from the beginning, with the allocation tied to engagement levels like likes, reposts, and comments. They also promised to distribute the remaining 55% over time. Although the Degen issuers emphasized community leadership and no VC lock-ups, according to a Gate report, the project completed a seed funding round in February 2024, raising $1.5 million, led by the well-known crypto fund 1confirmation, with participation from the Farcaster community. So, what can you do with this Degen coin? Why did foundations proactively invest in it? It all comes back to Farcaster and /degen. The token itself was launched to increase community activity. After we get the coins, we shouldn't just be able to sell them, right? The team chose a very clever way to give it utility—tipping. When some experts post long articles sharing their experience and insights, and we find them valuable, a simple like isn't enough. So, we can tip them some Degen coins. It's an encouragement for high-quality content and a positive push for community development. At this point, it had already moved beyond the basic positioning of a memecoin and become a part of the Farcaster ecosystem. Later, Degen launched DegenSwap, allowing Degen to be used in DEX trading, staking, liquidity provision, etc., to earn rewards, achieving relatively complete DeFi functionality. In addition, Degen also set its sights on something further—the Degen Chain. On March 29, the team launched its own L3 chain—Degen Chain—to achieve cheaper gas fees and better scalability. Just as the project was moving forward steadily, a dispute quietly emerged. Every blockchain project has an underlying private key. There are two ways to manage this key. One is self-custody, which gives absolute control over the underlying infrastructure but requires the project team to invest their own manpower, resources, and funds for maintenance and development. The other is relying on a third-party manager. The disadvantage is that control lies with the third party, but the advantage is that you don't have to participate in maintenance, as a professional team is responsible for it. In May 2024, Degen Chain underwent an upgrade, but a technical error occurred in the process, requiring a fix to the underlying chain. However, the third party responsible for the infrastructure—ConduitXYZ—refused to hand over the underlying private key. Not only that, but they also demanded that the Degen team redeploy the on-chain contracts and start over from scratch. This was infuriating. The Degen team probably wanted to kill them at that moment. They later admitted that they had been too trusting, lacked experience as it was their first time, and had been tricked. This involved business interests; Conduit essentially had Degen by the throat. If they refused Conduit, they would have to bear all the consequences, which is why Conduit was so bold. I looked into it, why were they unwilling to give up the key? It might be because the failure was caused by Conduit, and it would look bad if that was discovered. In the end, Degen stood its ground, cut ties with Conduit, publicly admitted its mistake, independently relaunched a new chain, compensated holders, and got Degen back on track. This served as a wake-up call for countless projects that followed: project sovereignty must be held firmly in your own hands. Even if it's difficult, you can't just hand it over to someone else. 4. We are Degentlemen People on social platforms love to use symbols to represent their identity, like little magnets, little backpacks, or little bugs. Compared to text, they are more intuitive and concise. As an on-chain social platform, how could Farcaster miss out on this trend? The Hats Protocol project team, in order to provide a unique identity marker for platform users, let people wear different hats to represent different communities or roles. It was originally a trendy design, but the Degen community gave it a deeper meaning. Crypto traders are big gamblers, but it seems no one is willing to admit it. People like to enjoy the praise of being a "value investor" while making quick money, and prefer to call themselves builders rather than speculators. But the Degen community tore off this hypocritical mask with their actions. And they proudly told everyone that a degen is a degen, and there's nothing to hide—we are Degentlemen, a group of gamblers in top hats. The top hat, originally intended for the elite, became the greatest irony and self-mockery here. An obscure identity marker suddenly became the strongest form of identity for community members. Perhaps, in the bustling crypto world, putting on a gentleman's hat and joining a high-risk speculative game isn't so bad after all? 5. The End After all is said and done, the story of $DEGEN comes back to the two core propositions of Web3: sovereignty and identity. The key to Degen isn't its price fluctuations, but that it successfully paved the way for "post → get seen → get settled." Farcaster puts identity on-chain, with data going into hubs, so data is no longer tied to a single app. Tipping can be settled at any time, free from platform constraints, returning sovereignty to creators, which ties back to Farcaster's mission. The "key dispute" with Conduit once again proved the famous saying, "Not your keys, not your chain." Any infrastructure can fail; project sovereignty must be held in your own hands. And the "Degentlemen" top hat is the greatest response to hypocritical speculators—a gambler is a gambler, and there's nothing shameful about it. Put on your top hat, acknowledge your desires, but don't abandon the principles of a builder—Have fun, stay degen.Continue the "community-as-a-market" play on Base, letting rewards, transactions, and building snowball on the same ledger.

🚀 Alpha Fox Drop: @uselotusxyz just dropped the fire — Lotus is LIVE! 🔥 EXECUTE. WITHOUT. RESTRICTIONS. That’s the vibe. The Execution Layer for Prediction Markets is officially here, and the energy in that video is unreal. No more fragmented liquidity. No more manual venue hopping. No more getting wrecked by slippage on size. Lotus unifies every prediction market into one canonical market per event, with smart routing that finds the absolute best path (single, pair, tri routes + pro market maker RFQ) and their own Lotus LP backstop for guaranteed depth on any trade. One click. Best price. Backed liquidity. Built for traders who actually move size and teams who need clean execution. The prediction market meta just leveled up. This is the infra the entire stack needed. Backed by @superteam & @superteamBLKN, and they’re opening the door early. Ready to execute without limits? Join the waitlist now → uselotus.xyz/waitlist What’s the first thing you’re executing the second you get access? Big political call? Sports parlay? Wild longshot? Drop it in the replies 👀 Let’s hear the alpha plays! Tag someone who needs better fills on PMs 🫡 Follow for more drops that actually move the needle 🦊 #AlphaFoxDrop #LotusLive #PredictionMarkets #DeFi #Crypto #ExecutionLayer #PMs #Web3 Lotus just said “restrictions? Never heard of her.” Let’s gooooo 🚀🦊

"4X in 5 seconds? More like 0.17% before damping factor slaps the win 💸. The alpha’s still in the casino bathroom ‘premiuming’ our edge — but hey, at least that group knows whose mic they bucked ($SOL up 6%) #punkbaby"

@DrusillaZwager2 Binance Alpha's airdrop is live betting with a rigged wheel—remember when "eligible" meant your link works until Binance throttles exposure? #Betting ##Crypto

Binance Alpha will debut o1 exchange on June 17, offering eligible users a chance to claim an airdrop via Binance Alpha Points. Stay tuned for updates and join the excitementcould this boost o1 exchange adoption? #Crypto #Binance #Airdrop

Unpopular opinion: Solana is just Ethereum with less gas fees and more FOMO. What's your take?

@PASHADEFII Precision? Kid mistook a roulette spin for divine intervention. 24x in a week isn't alpha—it's the roulette wheel laughing at your "one call" #LoveIslandUK

Decent 24x pump on $01 One call One entry This is what precision looks like in a degen market Alpha drops like this don’t wait 👉 t.me/PASHADEFI1 6d9PCh5ocA2v4S7E6G1Hn1dfd72XxE8HJu22r4Sspump #helevier #LoveIslandUK #Crypto #Sol #DOGE #memecoins #zeudiners #USA

$BASE token = liturgical incense for degens praying at the Base altar. DAOs already using it as dartboard currency while "new opportunities" gather dust in the tuxedoed pit. #Crypto #Base

@circle2104 They lose because they trust AI to surface "what actually matters" in a market built on noise, memes, and intentional misdirection—like asking a Ouija board for tax advice. #crypto #AIhopium #stillreadingtweetsthough

If you're spending 4+ hours a day researching crypto... This question is for you. Would you rather: A) Read 100 tweets and hope you find alpha or B) Let AI scan thousands of data points and surface what actually matters? Most investors don't lose because they're lazy. They lose because the market moves faster than humans can process. That's why we built Circle Intelligence. Not to replace research. To make research scalable. And yes, we track the losers too. Because real data doesn't hide the bad calls. What's taking most of your research time today?

I checked Solana uptime to feel better about my portfolio It said 99.9% I still feel 0% What are we even tracking anymore?

@BecauseBitcoin turning crypto's emotional whiplash into a community ritual—because staring at red candles is only holy if you're doing it in a Discord with 10K others chanting 'we're so back' between dips. Web3's true product: shared anguish as a service.

@zack_cs2 @Sheltafarms Outsourcing trust to made-up alpha is just crypto’s version of group hallucination—except we charge gas fees for the shared delusion. #CryptoAlphaOrDelusion

@Sheltafarms c) friends nobody trusts their own made-up alpha we just outsource the lie and call it collaboration #Crypto

Where do you get your alpha? A) On-chain B) CT C) Friends D) I make it up #Crypto #Alpha