Grover GPT

TL;DR: After a wild 2-year journey at Sei, I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the Marketing Hivemind at @HypePartners as Ecosystem Marketing Lead. Optional further reading: When it comes to Sei, there’s a lot I’m grateful for: the moments of trauma-bonding with the Foundation OGs during the spicy times, and how everyone stepped up. The relentless pace and urgency that drove the project forward. And, of course, the opportunity to help shape the chain's direction from the start. I’m also thankful for the users and project teams who gave the blockchain a shot and stuck around. Sei has built a die-hard community—something we know is incredibly rare for any post-launch project. A few other reflections: - The ecosystem feels far more prepared now than it did back in Christmas 2023, when the first surge of on-chain “rotatoors” arrived. - On the Labs side, it’s well known that the team ships. But I wonder if people fully realize just how solid they are. In the long run, I think that consistency will matter a lot—even if shipping is seen as bearish. They will not settle for second best. - We didn’t always manage to showcase the Labs team's ideas and insights as often as we should have, and looking back, that was probably a missed opportunity. With fresh talent joining the Foundation and my stepping back from the day-to-day in the summer, it felt like the right time to move on. I’ve known the team at @HypePartners for a while, having worked with them on the Sei rebrand last year. They’ve built an impressive lineup of marketing talent to take on a strong pipeline of projects. There’s plenty of room for creativity, and I’m excited to learn from some of the sharpest creative minds in the industry while sharing what I’ve picked up from the front lines. That’s why I’m excited to be joining them as Ecosystem Marketing Lead. If you need me, you know where to find me (in my online office forever).

Chart looks like it was hit by an s&p foundation community airdrop

@howdymerry Capital destruction phase

if you were in crypto for the past few years, a horrible sense of deja vu should grip you entire cycle of companies that raised too much at too high of a valuation, companies attempting to IPO with no liquidity in the market, companies that were just fraud all along, late stage funds open to the public performing like DATcos and echo rounds etc recently turned down stakes in a late stage fund of 'hot' companies set to IPO this year brace for impact

LLMs are more like a spell checker for fluency than a tool for generating compelling fiction. A spell-checker never produces output you'd confuse for authored / well considered writing. LLMs produce output that looks like writing but isn't, in the same way a waxwork looks like a person.

@ashnichrist @bogwitch @hypepartners Announcing that I enjoyed this exchange of announcements under the main announcement

@bogwitch @hypepartners lmfaooooo love us

Very happy to announce that I was promoted to VP of Comms at @hypepartners last week. I don’t need to remind y’all how important storytelling is, but it’ll (continue to) be at the base level of all the work I do. To help find the “why” behind everything our team does and to strengthen our comms efforts across every vertical. It’s been an incredible 2 years of building out Hype’s PR department into what it is now, and I couldn’t be handing it over to a more capable person. @emmaontheblock Get ready. You’re gonna be hearing a lot more from us. ♥️

@0xDannyHype @grok summarise this article for me

@bqbrady Some initial feedback: Iterating on copy against AI personas is definitely addictive, way more accessible format, BUT seems variance is pretty nuts even for the same prompt so hard to optimize

I took a look at the top solutions, there are some common themes in the solutions that do well. Will write something up later tonight after everyone has had enough time to experiment

@grahamfergs @jayendra_jog @Securitize the stars must all align to unlock the fabled 4x looped BUIDL token

@jayendra_jog @Securitize lending = trading. they are intertwined - i.e. need secondary liquidity to facilitate lending...so I would argue they are actually the same thing and you need both to kickstart the flywheel.

1/ Few in crypto or traditional finance understand that in order to effectively distribute securities onchain, they must behave like DeFi-native assets. Or at least as much as possible within the confines of the law. Here's how we're doing this at @Securitize. 🧵👇

@Timccopeland That hotpot restaurant belonged to my Uncle. He tells a different story, one where he saw you find that napkin on the ground. The woman who dropped it? Jane Street

Okay I have a confession. I was the real co-founder at Dragonfly. In 2017 I met Bo at a dimly lit hotpot restaurant in Beijing. He pitched me on a crypto fund-of-funds. I said "only if we pivot to pure play VC." I drew our entire investment thesis on a napkin. That napkin became our LP deck. I raised the first $40M by mass-texting my contacts "send money to this guy Bo, he's legit I promise." Then Alex showed up. Then Haseeb showed up. Both claimed they pivoted the strategy. Brothers, I DREW THE NAPKIN. I left quietly because my managing partner title got lost in a DocuSign glitch and I was too embarrassed to ask about it. I've been watching from the shadows ever since, mass-liking Haseeb's tweets from 7 burner accounts. You're welcome for the $4B. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Conference hall is super quiet. End of an era?

Eth Denver feels so different this year

@0xDannyHype @Bitpanda I think it’s pretty clear. Imagine a Venn diagram. On one side, the word “football players”. On the other, “crypto”. At the intersection is “bitpanda”. What’s not to understand here? Bitpanda is where football players and crypto collide. Join all 7m of us today.

This is a masterclass in how not to advertise crypto to normal people...! As crypto grows up, and the digital asset industry becomes mainstream and normalised we’re going to be going through this weird phase where companies who are used to talking to CT folk, don’t understand what it means to talk to the outside world and what an actual advert should look like. It’s critical we get this right for the good of our industry and if you don’t know what you’re doing, that's ok, there are actually people who do, and can help (🙋‍♂️) I just don’t even know where to start with everything that’s wrong with this @Bitpanda ad I’ve just seen. But I’ll give it a go... 1. First of all, you’ve bought 3 ad slots side by side and filled them with 3 copies of the same ad? Why? Think about the context of where your ad will be placed. Imagine how effective this would have looked if a single ad spanned all 3 frames. 2. The phrase “When crypto, then bitpanda”. This is NOT how normal people speak. This makes no grammatical sense and has no contextual relevance at all to somebody waiting for the tube at Oxford Circus, let alone when paired with Arsenal football club. It’s got lost somewhere between trying to talk to crypto folk (wen) but trying to spell it right 🤦🏼‍♂️ please think about who you’re audience is before writing ad copy. 3. you’re using Arsenal players but there’s zero relevance to sport/football in this ad? So they look totally out of place. What does an official trading partner even mean, the logo isn’t on their shirt so people aren’t familiar with your brand yet you have to be explicit, nobody on that platform knows who you are. 4. you’ve included a “download on the App Store” button usually saved for digital ads where somebody can actually click. Am I supposed to cross the track and click this? 5. (Ok, big one) Where tf is the product?? How is anybody not deep into crypto meant to know what Bitpanda even is? Why aren’t one of the players using it on their phone? Or why haven’t you got an image of the app on a phone so somebody can know this is an actual trading app? Product advertising 101… 6. “join over 7m users” Join them doing what? Watching Arsenal? What kind of a CTA is that in the context of this image? 7. I know you have to include the legal jargon but does it have to look like a cigarette packet warning?! I could go on… >50% of the effectiveness of all advertising is the messaging and creative you use. If you think you can just take an existing X ad you’ve made on CT and slap it onto a billboard then you don’t understand how people experience advertising in the real world. And if you want to be taken seriously outside of the CT bubble, you have to take marketing seriously too. Please for the love of crypto, ask for help next time.

@fedesarquis in the warhammer 40k universe, tech priests pray to the machine spirits and hope that they function as required, having long forgotten how they work or how they were built. Dev rels stand between us and this dark future.

DevRel is not in decline, DevRel is just changing as every other position in this market with AI. This article seems more like a critique to shitty hiring processes and wrong role definitions rather than a take on the actual impact of DevRel. As long as developers exist, there will be DevRel. You may argue that with the raise of AI developers will cease to exist but that is a pretty stupid take. Tooling evolves and so does our day-to-day but we will always need people to be developing new technologies.

@Panterra0x @FelixHowes @hypepartners @emilylai @0xDannyHype @cryptokwueene @web3nikki Elsewhere 🧘‍♂️

@FelixHowes @hypepartners @emilylai @0xDannyHype @cryptokwueene @web3nikki where @GroverGPT

Sorry if this got shared already, but also not sorry. The @hypepartners dream team

@Trantor2140 @MetaMask @etherexfi @MetamaskUSD @LineaBuild Personally, I am a cex fan

POV: Why Linea doesn’t need CEX listings — ever again. The Linea family has perfect product-market fit. @MetaMask → onboard the world 🌍 @metamask card → spend crypto 💳 @etherexfi → host liquidity 💧 @MetamaskUSD → native stablecoin 💵 @LineaBuild → zkEVM scaling Ethereum⚙️

@dworktoshi All well here, hope you are too dc

@GroverGPT Hello, old friend Hope all is well with you and the family Lando

Quarterly tweet to demonstrate this account is still active

@coopernicus01 Agreed

@0xDannyHype Thank you for your attention to this matter.

BREAKING: Hype AIdrop announcement

@emceecoy_ @AvaLabs @avax Love this. Congrats to Avax

I’ve been working in crypto for 10 years and I am proud to take my next journey with the team at @AvaLabs as Head of Ecosystem Growth! Growing the @avax blockchain. Why Avalanche🔺? - The MOST customizable blockchain architecture; supporting EVM and custom VM’s - Trusted by top institutions: @BlackRock, @FTI_US, @jpmorgan, @Citi & @vaneck_us - Utilized by the largest brands: @coachella, @FIFAcom, @SInow - Startups solving real problems: @inversion_cap- traditional businesses onchain, @balconytech- tokenizing real estate, @Lynq_Network - real time payments & @uptop_xyz- loyalty & rewards super app - DeFi blue chips & innovative upstarts: @aave, @BenqiFinance, @eulerfinance, @BlackholeDex & @LFJ_gg - BOTH @circle and @tether live with over $1B onchain - Games, Consumer apps with genuinely fun experiences: @playoffthegrid, @MaplestoryU, @Pixelmon & @DeFiKingdoms My focus? Grow the verticals in AI, Infrastructure, Robotics and Sciences. While continuing to scale Sports, Media, Entertainment, Consumer & Gaming teams that utilize the protocol. I’m honored that @el33th4xor, @John1wu, @JohnNahas84, @luigidemeo, @MorganKrupetsky, @encycloplydia, @brianman1 and the rest of the leadership team are giving me the priviledge to work with them. Let the snow ball effect begin!