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Drew Austin

@DrewAustin

Founder/Investor @RedBeardVC + @DenariiLabs Tokenomics Accelerator + Advisory; Built/Sold @WadeandWendy, Citizen @WilderWorld

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Drew Austin
Drew Austin@DrewAustin·
We’re opening up our first investment Partner role at @RedBeardVC. Entrepreneurial investor, deep crypto + frontier tech passion, proven fundraising network. This is a ground-up role helping build Fund II and scale Denarii Labs. Not a job post, DM me to talk.
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Steve 🏀
Steve 🏀@intangible_eth·
In the absence of Flowty, this is the right decision and a healthy change. I see many comments burying their heads in the sand, thinking an endless $1 floor that doesn't move is a good thing. It's not. Let the free market determine the price.
NBA Top Shot@NBATopShot

🛍️NBA Top Shot Marketplace Update 📣 Tomorrow at 12:00 PM ET collectors will be able to list Moments under $1 as well as list Moments over $1 with cents in the pricing (ex: $5.95). 🗒️This will not impact the offer system, offers will remain dollar increments with $1 being the lowest possible offer.

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NBA Top Shot
NBA Top Shot@NBATopShot·
🛍️NBA Top Shot Marketplace Update 📣 Tomorrow at 12:00 PM ET collectors will be able to list Moments under $1 as well as list Moments over $1 with cents in the pricing (ex: $5.95). 🗒️This will not impact the offer system, offers will remain dollar increments with $1 being the lowest possible offer.
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n3o
n3o@real_n3o·
Quick Update: We have three major releases that will launch in quick succession over the coming weeks (see post below for key dates). Breaches around the city enable you to collect Shards: the compute chips that power enemy agent NPCs (see image). Shards can be materialized at a Neural Station for usable in-game items with various rarity tiers. These are similar to Packs (but earned not purchased). A small $WILD transaction fee is required in order to materialize Shards into items. This will be a core in-game use of WILD in Wilder World (as well as be used as the main payments and trading currency). After this is live we will turn on Metropolis and regular burns will begin. 🤝
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n3o@real_n3o

@DH_GUILD_ 1. Multiplayer is coming this week (05/11). Final review with team is tomorrow. 2. Backpack paired with new economic inventory system is done and will ship week of 05/25. 3. Extraction point locations with WILD integration / use will ship week of 06/01.

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roham
roham@roham·
@AustinFCBuckeye @VinceCarterLast @TheDailyDile Yes my wishlist for next season: - Ticketing // arena integrations to acquire fans - VIP recognition // team perks for existing owners - Personalized promotions in NBA app / to NBA-id holders to bring them into Top Shot - Social media integration Among others
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roham@roham·
@TheDailyDile the nba was our first partner and our relationship is exceptionally strong as is their commitment to the category and to fans. Adam Silver is a personal champion and the league is fully supportive of our scarcity-led, long-term approach. 10/10
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AntSeed
AntSeed@AntSeedAI·
Last update on the $Diem @AskVenice test pool with 10 Diem. You know already what comes next... Currently at 13.4% APY in USDC. Getting ready.
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Edgy - The DeFi Edge 🗡️
$MOR - @MorpheusAIs MC: $20M / 7D: +85.7% Decentralized network for personal AI agents. Operators run compute, users run their agents on it. Staking MOR is the gateway. 2.2M staked, ~30% of supply. Catch is 2,968 MOR hits the market daily. ~$2.9M/yr of sell pressure.
morphean@themorpheans

1/ Most people still don’t know about @MorpheusAIs $MOR. But this could become one of the most important decentralized AI infrastructures of the next decade. 🤖⚡ Morpheus is building a peer-to-peer network for personal general-purpose Smart Agents that can actually operate on your behalf. No Big Tech gatekeepers. No censorship. Just open-source AI connected to wallets, dApps, and smart contracts. 🧵👇 2/ Here’s the vision in simple terms: Morpheus is creating an open-source network for personal AI agents called “Smart Agents.” These are NOT basic chatbots. They are autonomous AI agents that can: • Read your wallet • Interact with DeFi • Execute smart contracts • Coordinate across apps • Make decisions on your behalf While YOU remain in control. Think: Personal AI that truly belongs to the user. 3/ Why does this matter? Today’s AI is mostly centralized. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others fully control: • the models • the infrastructure • the policies • the access They can censor, rate-limit, change pricing, or shut services down at any time. Morpheus flips that model entirely: → decentralized → permissionless → open-source → uncensorable AI infrastructure Infrastructure no single company can kill. 4/ One of the craziest parts: Developers can change ONE line of code in their apps… …and instantly route inference through decentralized, hardware-attested compute providers instead of centralized AI servers. That means: • more resilience • better privacy • open competition • no single point of failure This is where AI + crypto becomes very powerful. 5/ How does the network actually work? Morpheus rewards 4 core groups equally with $MOR emissions: • Capital Providers Stake stETH, WETH, USDC, USDT and earn rewards • Compute Providers Run open-source AI models on GPUs and earn $MOR for serving inference • Coders Build the open-source protocols, tooling, and Smart Agent framework • Builders & Community Create apps, agents, front-ends, integrations, and grow the ecosystem 24% emissions to each category. 4% goes to the protection fund. Very aligned token design. 6/ The $MOR token is the fuel powering the system: • Max supply: 42M • Distributed over ~16 years • No VC allocation • No founder pre-mine • Community-driven emissions Main utility: Stake $MOR → receive pro-rata AI inference credits daily. Meaning: You’re literally generating decentralized AI compute through staking. That’s REAL utility. 7/ What’s already live today? A lot more than most people realize: • OpenAI-compatible Inference API • DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Venice support • Morpheus Router on Arbitrum • Self-custodial staking • Daily rewards • TEE-backed providers • Decentralized compute infrastructure powered with Lumerin This isn’t just a whitepaper anymore. 8/ The bigger picture: The future may not be: “Humans using AI tools.” It may become: “AI agents running digital economies.” Agents making payments. Agents coordinating machine-to-machine. Agents managing identity, memory, and capital. The BIG question is: Who owns those AI agents? Corporations? Or users themselves? 9/ That’s why decentralized AI matters. And that’s the thesis behind @MorpheusAIs $MOR: Building sovereign AI infrastructure where: • users own their agents • inference is decentralized • intelligence becomes permissionless • AI becomes open instead of controlled 10/ Most people are still sleeping on this. But the infrastructure is already being built. The network is already live. And the decentralized AI race is only beginning. If you’re interested in: • AI Agents • DeAI • Web3 infrastructure • Sovereign AI • Open-source intelligence Then @MorpheusAIs is worth studying. DYOR. What do you think about decentralized Smart Agents? 👇⚡ $MOR

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Kevin Simback 🍷
Kevin Simback 🍷@KSimback·
3 business models emerging for AI inference using crypto incentives: 1. Specialized premium inference Users pay a bit extra to get something additional of value, @AskVenice is the obvious example offering privacy for a premium Others have written good pieces lately on Venice so I won't repeat, but what to watch for here is if they can use the specialized inference as a trojan horse to build enough scale to compete with the traditional players The token mechanics with $VVV and $DIEM is what helped bootstrap the traction which could help them get to that scale 2. Subsidized inference to acquire training data Offer lower cost inference than traditional providers for the purposes of collecting proprietary data to train specialized models This is what I like about @dphnAI - they repurpose idle GPUs (gamers, prosumers, data centers) for distributed LLM inference but then generate synthetic data for further model training The team behind Dolphin Network has a strong Hugging Face presence with >4M monthly downloads and they already have models running on Venice Where could this lead? > synthetic data suite > demand auto-balancing (inference vs. training/RL) > sharded distributed inference (split large models across GPUs) > distributed LoRA/SFT/RL/full fine-tuning > user-facing model creation suite > exploratory large-scale distributed pre-training Low cost inference is the gateway drug and the $POD token is helping with distribution 3. Onchain agentic inference This is more of a crypto-specific use case, but as agents begin to proliferate and take actions onchain you start to worry about centralized inference providers that could censor, rate-limit, or leak data This isn't just about privacy but where you need hardware-level guarantees against tampering, memory inspection, or data exfiltration It looks more like TEE + no logging + decentralized routing, and one project to keep on the radar is @MorpheusAIs and the use of the $MOR token for network access
Kevin Simback 🍷@KSimback

The next crypto wave could be super simple - selling AI inference Why crypto? > permissionless supply onboarding (better models now being run on modest hw) > stablecoin micropayments per token (good for agentic apps) > marketplaces for models the big labs will never host (uncensored, privacy, etc) > token incentives to bootstrap customer acquisition @venice / $VVV is the cleanest current expression of this, pmf is hard to deny What’s converging: > inference demand is going parabolic with no signs of slowing, room for many players > specialized and fine-tuned models are exploding - a long tail the frontier labs won’t ever ship > $5-15k consumer rigs can now run serious quantized models in the 70-200B range - opening the supply side to prosumers, similar to the early ASIC window before mining centralized > stablecoin rails finally make per-token pricing work and are a perfect fit for agentic apps > huge opportunity for verifiable inference - did you get the model you paid for or did the provider nerf you? What would kill this thesis: > hyperscalers driving inference prices below decentralized unit economics > frontier quality outrunning what prosumer hardware can serve The one assumption you have to believe is that the marginal buyer is real - this can’t be based on fake demand hiding behind token subsidies The initial marginal buyers are likely builders and tech-savvy consumers who want uncensored models, privacy-preserving inference, or specialized fine-tunes at usage-based pricing This is a worthy TAM and one that is likely to grow considerably Put it all together and AI inference is a perfect use case for crypto

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Ansem
Ansem@blknoiz06·
how did everyone start shilling this at the same time
Michael Sikand 🦑@michaelsikand

I just bought $2M of a brand new stock after it crashed 7% today. $PENG is now a 20% position in my Asymmetrical Bets fund (+89% YTD) on @joinautopilot followed by $10M. Credit goes to legend @pennycheck for being the first to call this stock. With Penguin Solutions I now own the winner agnostic integrator behind the memory, CPU, and photonics supercycle at under 17x forward earnings. 1) The memory business alone is worth the market cap. Penguin's Integrated Memory biz = they take raw DRAM chips from manufacturers like SK Hynix and package them into custom memory modules built to spec for AI servers, telco gear, and enterprise systems. It's now 50% of revenue, did $172M last quarter, growing 63% YoY, ~$800M annualized. Apply a 3x price to sales on just this unit and you're already above what $PENG is worth today. 2) Play the CPU supercycle. CPU:GPU ratios going from 1:8 to 1:1 as agentic AI takes over. $PENG is the lead integration partner for AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon. Every new socket = more memory cooling and integration revenue baked in. 3) The AI Factory platform is real. OriginAI is their turnkey deployment from 256 to 16,000+ GPU clusters for sovereign and enterprise customers. 85,000 GPUs already deployed. UBS says non hyperscaler buyers (sovereigns, neoclouds, enterprises) capture 48% of AI infra spend in 2026. Hyperscalers build in house. But these other players ALL need Penguin. 4) Photonics is the unpriced asymmetric bet. $PENG called photonics early and was an early investor in Celestial AI. $MRVL acquired it $3.25B in December. Now Penguin is building the Photonic Memory Appliance, making it the only public play on this kind of wild photonics tech. The PMA is basically a box that uses light to link memory across a bunch of servers so the entire AI cluster can share one giant pool of memory like it's one big computer. Marvell guides Celestial to $1B revenue in 2029. If Penguin captures even low double digits of that stream, that could be 9 figs of unpriced networking revenue on $PENG's highest margin, most defensible IP. 5) People/partners are cracked. Chairman of $PENG is ALSO Chairman of $LITE. AMD CTO Mark Papermaster sits on the board SK Telecom dropped $200M as a strategic investor New CPO Ian Colle ran AI infra at AWS 6) Risks are real but manageable Penguin's AI cluster business is lumpy and one big customer slipping a quarter can tank earnings (already happened in Q2, down 42% YoY). The memory shortage is a headwind as high DRAM prices are slowing customer orders and hitting Penguin's gross margins. The photonics upside is a 2027+ story, so if it slips, the stock can sit dead money for a while. Because the multiple is still so cheap, I overall see limited downside compared to the upside if their photonics option can be quantified with $MRVL where I could see Penguin trading closer to a 30x+ forward PE. Surf's up. Full thesis linked on Substack below.

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Adam Kobeissi
Adam Kobeissi@TKL_Adam·
Just about all key measures of inflation are saying the same thing: Inflation in the US is at a 3+ year high. Luckily, those who have followed our work at @KobeissiLetter welcome this development, accumulating assets for 12+ months. Asset owners will be the only winners.
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Drew Austin
Drew Austin@DrewAustin·
Going to be a lot of hate towards the people in the secondaries , because there’s going to be a lot of money made by the people in the secondaries, and the public is left with scraps. I don’t blame the hate. Just don’t hate the players, hate the game. Open markets are the way.
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Steve 🏀
Steve 🏀@intangible_eth·
How can @flow_blockchain do $14M in quarterly volume but only be valued at $69M? Simple. The industry values chains using Total Value Locked, which excludes NFTs. Pricing a network's core competency at zero is a measurement error. The industry is tracking the wrong North Star.
Messari@MessariCrypto

.@NBATopShot volume on @flow_blockchain grew 12.2% QoQ to $7M in Q1 with WAUs climbing to 25,440 heading into the NBA playoffs, and the network is on pace to cross 1 billion lifetime transactions in Q2. Flow Q1 2026 by the numbers:📊 -NBA Top Shot volume: $7.0M (+12.2% QoQ) -New contract deployments: 303 (+25.2% QoQ) -Avg daily active contracts: 194 (+13.6% QoQ) -Full-time developers: 71 (flat QoQ) -FLOW price: $0.03 (-65.2% QoQ) -DeFi TVL: $17.1M (-83.2% QoQ)

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Drew Austin@DrewAustin·
@beaniemaxi Beanie has spent 50 years deep undercover amongst the gays to come up with this post
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Beanie@beaniemaxi·
There's no doubt that peptides are making young people gay at an alarming rate. Our job is to capitalize long term on this trend by studying the second-order effects and investing accordingly. Here' how I'm playing this trend: Obvious buy is Grindr. And Match Group owns Hinge and Tinder which are both deep into the gay market. Bumble less gay exposure but still benefits. Gays also love and spend alot of money on pets so you want to be long Chewy. Trupanion for insurance, Zoetis, and Idexx for animal health, Freshpet for premium food. Pet spending is probably the biggest second-order effect by total dollars Gays travel more and index heavily toward urban destinations, cruises, and resort experiences. Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Marriott, Hilton, Booking, and Airbnb. Cruise lines in particular have a long history of chartered gay cruises. Gays are heavy into personal care and grooming and spend rises materially. Estée Lauder, Ulta, and e.l.f. are all obvious beneficiaries of this trend. Gays are into fitness and adore Lululemon. And there's the publicly traded gyms like Life Time, Planet Fitness. Gym membership rates among gay men run well above the general population. Premium fashion and accessible luxury is a major gay market. Benefits Tapestry (Coach/Kate Spade), Capri (Michael Kors/Versace), Ralph Lauren, and the European luxury houses (LVMH, Kering) on foreign exchanges. You can probably short Mattel, Hasbro, Carter's, Children's Place, Kimberly-Clark (Huggies), and suburban-focused homebuilders like Lennar and D.R. Horton would face significant headwinds as gays hate the suburbs and flock to cities. P&G's Pampers business will be in trouble. Finally an asymmetric bet that fertility benefit companies like Progyny will see exponential growth as gays still want kids but through IVF and surrogacy. Hamilton Thorne makes IVF lab equipment.
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Drew Austin
Drew Austin@DrewAustin·
@Bkclaims 100% - it’s laughable , oh now we should all avoid secondaries after you have a 1 trillion dollar valuation built on the backs of them
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Thomas Braziel
Thomas Braziel@Bkclaims·
Ok now I’m getting on my soapbox and let’s call this what it actually is: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and the broader unicorn ecosystem spent YEARS building quasi-public markets because it benefited them enormously: -inflated valuations -employee liquidity -insider cash-outs -perpetual fundraising -hype cycles -media signaling -and public-market style price discovery WITHOUT public-market disclosure obligations The entire game was engineered around dancing on the edge of Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act. SPVs Nominee holders Forward contracts Synthetic exposure Transfer restrictions Feeder vehicles “Access” products All designed to get the benefits of being public while avoiding the responsibilities of being public. And now, after years of insiders getting rich off this gray-market ecosystem, suddenly they want to control who gets access, who gets liquidity, who can transfer, who gets information, and who gets to participate. Sorry. That’s bullshit. You created the monster. You fed the monster. You pumped valuations using the monster. You allowed insiders and connected funds to monetize the monster. Now outsiders finally show up and suddenly everyone wants to pretend private markets are some sacred country club? No. The entire structure was intentionally designed to avoid the spirit of Section 12(g) while still harvesting public-market dynamics. And this is EXACTLY why Congress created 12(g) in the first place — because companies were effectively becoming public without disclosure, transparency, or equal treatment of market participants. We already saw this movie with Facebook, SharesPost, SecondMarket, and the pre-IPO secondary boom. The SEC literally warned about this exact trajectory over a decade ago. You cannot spend 10 years manufacturing quasi-public liquidity and then suddenly scream “private company!” once the market becomes inconvenient for insiders.
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Thomas Braziel
Thomas Braziel@Bkclaims·
The Anthropic/SPV situation is way more legally complicated than “the transfers violated the charter, therefore buyers get zero.” That is not how Delaware equity jurisprudence works - especially in Chancery. Sure - Anthropic can absolutely argue that transfers required board approval and that certain structures attempted to circumvent transfer restrictions. Fine. That is a serious argument. But Delaware courts also care deeply about acquiescence, waiver, estoppel, reliance, and equitable fairness. And that is where this gets messy. These secondary/SPV structures did not appear overnight. This ecosystem existed openly for YEARS. Deals were marketed publicly. Prices were tracked publicly. Entire platforms existed around them. There are almost certainly internal emails, texts, compliance discussions, board materials, screenshots, and executive conversations acknowledging these markets existed and choosing not to enforce against them in real time. At some point Chancery starts asking uncomfortable questions: Did the company knowingly allow a secondary ecosystem to develop? Did sophisticated parties rely on that silence? Did insiders themselves participate in or benefit from these markets? Did the company selectively enforce only after valuations exploded? Did they “sleep on their rights” while billions in reliance capital formed around these structures? And even IF some transfers are ultimately voidable, that still does not mean counterparties are left with no remedy. Delaware equity courts are not blind to unjust enrichment, reliance damages, constructive trust theories, rescission claims, tortious interference issues, or other equitable relief where parties acted in good faith based on years of tolerated market practice. That is the key point people are missing: this is not just a pure four-corners corporate charter case anymore. Once a company knowingly permits an entire shadow secondary market to flourish for years, equity enters the chat. And Delaware Chancery is literally the home of equity.
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Will Weinraub
Will Weinraub@willweinraub·
$100,000 for a digital card. Not a physical card. Not a vaulted RWA. This is 100% digital and another proof point that digital collecting is not only real, but accelerating in a major way.
Panini Blockchain Market Tracker@paninitracker

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