Story time. (thanks @jbondwagon for inspiring me to write this up)
I had been shopping for apes around and eying this BAYC for quite a while as one on my shortlist. It had been in liquidation on BendDAO back in July 2023 but the floor was still higher than I was really able to afford and the owner ended up bailing out the loan anyway. @0xQuit coined it "CEOAYC"
Fast forward a few months. August 21, 2023. My first day working at @yugalabs. The BAYC I had been eying for months went into liquidation again. The floor was lower now and ETH was sitting pretty low as well. I was actually sitting on a bunch of stables at the time as well.
It has to be a sign right? Starting at Yuga and the grail ape I want goes into liquidation? I watched it for the liquidation and ended up sniping the end of the bidding (sorry not sorry @GeekApe)
ETH price at the time was ~1635, so coming from stables the ape ended up being about $42,000. Now with ETH at 4200, BAYC floor is ~$52,000. Sure I missed out on some pretty good gains against just holding ETH but I also have gained so much being part of the community.
Being part of the ape community helped me build deeper, meaningful connections in web3 and grow in my career. ApeFest Lisbon was such an incredible vibe and an amazing trip (I had never been to Europe before).
Enough rambling, but that's my story. Stay bored. 🍌
Anyone know details about BasedAI pooled brain or point me to where I can find out more? Submitted to a pool but still pending after several days. @getbasedai@pepecoins
@getbasedai Is there a way to get a view of the progress on pooled brains? Submitted to the pool a couple of days ago and just looking to understand the process / progress. Thanks. #based
🗓️ Important events in the next days and weeks.
1️⃣- Creatures and what they do with Pepecoin
2️⃣- Templated guides, code repos, for miners, validators, brain owners.
3️⃣- The BasedAI 'Nexus' for pure intelligence.
4️⃣- The bridge for Wrapped Based Ethereum to convert to L1 Based for 1.
5️⃣- Activation for Brains to turn them into tokens.
⭐️ And one more thing...how to run an FHE ZK-LLM using Based....
Ok there is a @BoredApeYC Black Hat chat going and we want to add more homies.
Do you own a BAYC/MAYC Black hat and want to join us?
Comment a pic down below of your Ape.
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said the image of SpaceX’s new Raptor 3 engine that @elonmusk shared last week was a “partially assembled engine.”
SpaceX President/COO Gwynne Shotwell just posted a photo of it being fired up & said: “works pretty good for a partially assembled engine.”
😂🔥
Been a busy, hard four months since I stepped in as CEO of Yuga but stoked for July.
Early on Gordon and I would say to each other that the job of an NFT founder is to eat shit sandwiches. Do hard things and smile and move on.
Fair share of shit sandwiches and hard choices over the last few months.
But our bi-weekly "What's Up Yuga" meeting where we demo all the things being built throughout the company has gotten to be incredible. Tons of delightful stuff being made, at a faster clip than ever before.
More of what we're doing and how we're doing it is under my supervision than at any time since 2021. And Gordo making time to sprinkle his juju on stuff the team is working on too.
There's a lag time of course. Nothing we've been working on since I've been back has shipped. But that changes next month.