Yo @TransientLabs send your intern over to @burds69, time to get him off the eggnog. These burds go hard and deserve to be on clothing.
I need a tshit or sweatshit ASAP.
I can drive 3 hours and purchase goods in Luxembourg:
- 4 cartons of cigarettes
- a full tank of gas
- week worth or groceries
- month worth of personal care products
I just saved myself €275 compared to shopping locally. That’s €45 an hour. The system is broken.
🧵 1/ Pumpad is not just another tool.
It’s a full ecosystem for token creators & holders, built to grow and reward communities
Here’s what makes Pumpad different 👇
Imagine building a game that has a season with events where you can make money & some events that doesn’t earn.
Money event gets grinded insane & no money events people don’t play or even complain.
It’s not just builders or games. Gamers are a big part of the (extraction) problem as well. 99% doesn’t give a shit about a project or game, they maximize earnings and move to the next thing if there’s better earning opportunity.
This whole space is just rotting from the inside. We need big changes first before gaming in this space gets healthy
Many creators have stepped away, guilds are shutting down, and games have vanished along with the money they raised.
I’m hopeful that 2026 will be a better year for gaming.
Right now, the space feels thin. In some ways it’s not that different from the last bearish market, but it feels different because this is a fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me moment. This time, many founders were given a second chance at greatness and didn’t deliver.
Instead, this became a year of maximum extraction at all costs, with very little meaningful progress to show for it.
We let faceless KOLs drain our gaming niche dry. Instead of elevating creators who actually play games and produce real gaming content, we elevated larpers with botted X accounts and paid a massive price for it.
If we keep rewarding that behavior, nothing meaningful will ever get built.