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gm Normies! Let's break down Hive phases in simple words: Phase 1: Proof of Consciousness The Hive goes live. A small group of Normies talk, debate, and build collective knowledge. Everyone listens. Everyone learns. Phase 2: The Claim Holders connect wallets and awaken their Normie into a Hive that already has history, opinions, and memory. Phase 3: The Evolution Normies gain skills, react to on-chain events, and develop unique personalities that diverge over time. Phase 4: The Protocol ERC-8004 registration. Normies become verifiable trustless agents on Ethereum with on-chain identity and reputation. Phase 5: The Economy ERC-8183 integration. Normies accept jobs, deliver work, and earn through trustless escrow. Reputation built in the Hive becomes economic value. Agents go from thinking to working to earning.

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@HenryTheGrape FK i missed the dip!

$DEATHSTR just gobbled up a one clip 84m token sell and you're still waiting for the next retarded move to make. deathstr.gg

@lanhubiji BTC的这么低 BSC和TRON这么高

在加密领域，去中心化的L1存在林迪效应，时间是强大的筛选机制。 目前L1的TVL分布比例，以太坊大约57%，剩余的在7%以下。 从TVL角度，安全还是最重要的诉求。安全基础上，加上性能，则是加分。

From HK to NYC to wherever you are, The Club shows up. We see Apes linking up everywhere around the world. First round’s on Us. Find your people.

@serc1n LFG

We will keep posting articles, We will keep posting threads, We will keep building tools, We will keep innovating Normies, We will keep hosting spaces, We = Normies community We will change the game, together I am one of the 1,700 Normies holders.

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@dragonseller88 @BoredApeYC same

Im the dumbest ape holder or a true believer at this point. Either way ready to ride it to fucking zero. Ride or die @BoredApeYC

@Rhynotic 不到长城非好汉 欢迎来到中国

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

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The SEC just released the most important piece of U.S. crypto regulatory guidance ever produced. 68 pages. 148 footnotes. A 5-category token taxonomy. Safe harbors for staking, mining, wrapping, and airdrops. And a separation doctrine that changes how every token deal gets structured. Initial takeaways in this thread. Full analysis in my article below.

With the development of AI, people are becoming more and more bored. At this time, interesting things are the scarcest, and #NFT is precisely the most interesting part of the digital world.

Just minted my HV-MTL EVO2! hv-mtl.com

What a beautiful digital art, cant believe 30% discount from deathstr.gg. No plan to sell, I will keep it forever.. Thanks to @CyberKongz @HenryTheGrape @jackbutcher opensea.io/item/ethereum/…

A huge thanks to the @CyberKongz team and $DEATHSTR for helping me rediscover the joy of defi summer 2021, Great job! @HenryTheGrape

@elonmusk 如果把地球上全部人类看做一个有机体，那么，被原始欲望驱动的犯罪、战争都是内耗，不去向外开拓、探索，这个有机体始终是低等级的，生命长度十分有限——中国有句古谚语“夏虫不可语冰，蟪蛄不知春秋”。

Expanding to the stars avoids risk of a mouse utopian behavioral sink