pharoxe

It may be obvious in hindsight that we actually built crypto for the machines

@sje3022 @KieranWarwick onchain economies are fundamentally different. this often includes a range of DeFi/GameFi loops which 'normal' gamers have no interest in and if the goal isn't to leverage the composability of blockchains, why even bother having game assets onchain?

@pharoxe @KieranWarwick Why do crypto natives need to from the backbone of any game economy? They don’t form the backbone of the black market economy in normal games. Why would crypto be any different? Blockchain is just a different back end technology that nobody needs to see.

2,000+ web3 games have launched. Yet all I hear is "there are no fun web3 games." Statistically, that's almost impossible. Even with debut studios, the sheer capital deployed makes "zero fun games" an anomaly. Something deeper is happening, and nobody talks about it. Here's the uncomfortable truth: Gamers weren't born "web3 gamers." They were gamers who discovered web3. And the moment you can earn money in a game, something irreversible happens in the brain. Earning becomes the dopamine. Not the gameplay. Not the progression. Not the story. The money. And once that switch flips, the monkey doesn't go back in the bottle. This is the overjustification effect in action. When extrinsic rewards are introduced, intrinsic motivation gets crowded out. The game didn't get worse. Your brain just rewired what "reward" means. So when earning slows or stops? Game = not fun. Doesn't matter how polished it is. Doesn't matter how good the combat feels. Your brain already decided what it's playing for - and it's not the gameplay. This is why the "play-to-earn" framing was always a trap. It trained an entire generation of players to optimise for extraction, not enjoyment. The solution isn't removing earnings. It's reordering priorities. There are two honest paths: Lean fully into earning. Make it the point. This is what we're doing with Deathmatch: real money stakes. Would I play it without the ability to earn? Honestly, probably not. And that's fine. It's designed for that. Build fun-first, earning as the cherry on top. This is Overworld. The entire game is built around progression systems, creature capture, quest completion, discovery, and boss battles. The loop is fun because the game is fun. Getting loot and being able to sell it? That's the cherry. But even here, the balance is razor-thin. Lean too hard on earning, and you topple into the same trap. The studios that unlock this will define the next era of gaming. But it's insanely hard to achieve, which is why it's easy to say that everyone who's tried is retarded and knows nothing about gaming. Some are getting it right, though. And being brutally honest, I didn't realise this when I first discovered web3 gaming 6 years ago. I just thought: people love games; people have always wanted to own their items so they can sell them (black markets prove this), so it is blatantly obvious that it will work, but it's way, way deeper than that. This is also why I get frustrated when I see people saying "rewards are the future." They're not. If monetary rewards are the first thing you push down a gamer's throat, you change their psychology immediately. You don't even stand a chance. Monetary rewards don't grow on trees. They run out. For everyone. Regardless of how big your treasury is. At one point, we had $1.6 billion of rewards sitting in our treasury. I fucking know. If your game isn't fun without the money, it was never a game. It was a job with better marketing.

@rachit @Sunrise_DeFi W

I’m excited to announce that I’m back contributing to the Wormhole ecosystem I will be working at Wormhole Labs - focusing on @Sunrise_DeFi the sun is always rising 🌅

@AdityaMandal_ @solana @hylo_so happy to chat if agents as in-game NPCs in an mmorpg piques your interest

I am looking for an internship/job in a @solana based startup Mostly working with Rust and learning concepts of Solana Github: github.com/Aditya-1304 Some of my Projects: > Laminar (ongoing): A tranche-based volatility structuring protocol similar to @hylo_so github.com/Aditya-1304/La… > x402-flash : An Infrastructure for streaming micropayments with autonomous agent wallets. github.com/Aditya-1304/x4… > pumpfun-indexer: It indexes all instruction and event types, such as token creation, buying, and selling, happening on pump.fun. Uses Redis and @heliuslabs rpc for faster data retrieval github.com/Aditya-1304/pu… > Defi-for-dummies: An AI chatbot to automate solana & SPL token transaction, also supports AMM pools github.com/Aditya-1304/De… Here are some of my raw Rust projects that I have built: - Chess-engine: A Bit-board based table using NNUE engine for evaluation, syzygy tables for endgame and Polygot books for openings. Sitting at a whopping ~3000 elo rating (defeated max level Stockfish of Lichess) - Image Processing TUI: A sub-100ms image processing TUI written in Rust with the help of Ratatui and crossterm, containing 21+ professional grade filters - Raytracer: A fast raytracer made in Rust using Rayon for parallelization and uses bound value heirarchy datastructure for faster image generation You can check my github to see several more Raw Rust projects and my learnings You can check my profile's highlights section to get more info regarding what I do and build If u think our vision aligns and I would be a good fit in your team, my DMs are open

@blockspace @AsILayHodling @tayvano_ appreciate you guys putting this out there @AsILayHodling could you kindly check DMs

NEW PODCAST W/ @tayvano_ How North Korean Hackers Stole $300M+ Via Telegram w/ Taylor Monahan Taylor joins @AsILayHodling to discuss the Lazarus Group’s Telegram scam SWEEPING crypto groupchats. ⚡️ Over +$300 million stolen ⚡️On-device wallets most at risk ⚡️Funds traced to NK's infamous Lazarus Group

It’s the post singularity game to play

@bakelandxyz @solanamobile just warming up

2000+ @solanamobile users have spent 11000+ hrs playing bakeland within 4 days of a single tweet on top of that, we've received a generous $SKR allocation as Season 1 Developers nothing more +ev for mobile crypto apps than to build for Seeker just thought we'd let that sink in 🪠

@0x_diablo @solanamobile W move - appreciate a ton nothing as +ev for consumer crypto teams than to deploy on seeker rn

Developers win ecosystems. We’ve seen it time and time again. And @solanamobile is taking real steps in that direction because of its builders. Some already had mobile apps. Some ported web → mobile. Some built from zero. Same goal: give Seekers a taste of what a mobile crypto experience can be like — and they earned thousands of users doing it. I truly hope this developer allocation is meaningful, and that you find ways to integrate SKR into your dApp (and beyond). For everyone who hasn’t shipped to the Solana dApp Store yet… Seeker Season 2 is live. ~265 dApps in the store… but we’re coming for thousands. Sounds crazy, but that’s the bar (and we’ve got even crazier goals ahead). If you wanna ship a dApp or jam on SKR ideas, DM me. I’ll personally annoy @CryptoMagellan to help market it. Let’s get it 🫡

@darkforcetrader a unique mix of masochist/badass here

STOP ASKING ME TO LEAVE BERACHAIN AND CHANGE MY PFP IM NEVER GONNA DO THAT !!!

@rachit W

the story of wormhole is simple there was nothing connecting ethereum and solana wormhole built the first bi-directional token bridge between ethereum and solana (called portal bridge) fast forward 5 years, the wormhole stack connects over 40 chains portal bridge now has an incentive layer called portal earn and can also do same chain swaps (more to come) wormhole tech is used by institutions like blackrock, van eck, apollo global, securitize etc wormhole tech is used by major stablecoins like RLUSD, M0 stables, USDS etc wormhole tech is used by major crypto players like uniswap etc the president of the united states uses wormhole powered assets onchain if you’ve done anything onchain, it’s likely you’ve interacted w wormhole technology this is just the beginning wormhole

@somemobiledev missed breakpoint; great to hear the latest!

Publish your app and get your first 10k users on the dApp Store!!

@solana_stream @solanamobile @moonpay we're coming in hot @bakelandxyz

📱 Solana Mobile & Seeker Szn Updates: Rewards, dApps & SKR Incoming To date, @solanamobile has seen over 225 dApps launched in the Solana dApp Store & $1.8B in volume. Here are the latest updates from Seeker Szn 👇 1/ Seeker Seasons Levels Up New coming: • @moonpay: @MoonPayCommerce, built exclusively for Seeker, lets users browse and shop from a curated list of brands and creators accepting crypto • @pumpfun: The Pump.fun mobile app allows users to launch and trade memecoins for free, onramp with Apple Pay, and more Follow up: • @Backpack: Seekers have received over $2M in trading fee rebates • @BAXUSco: Announces a decentralized price-mapping layer for real-world assets, exclusively for Seeker • @LinceFinance: Seeker owners with a Seeker Genesis Token can now mint a Yield Seeker NFT • @GEODNET: Seekers can explore nearby areas, discover treasure chests, unlock rewards, and earn bonus perks including up to 270 GEOD and boosted chests • @tokencom_: Social trading benefits for Seekers include free premium access, 2× referral rewards, 2× creator rewards, exclusive Seeker badge, and more 2/ New Ecosystem Updates • Solana Mobile Hackathon 02 will launch in Q1 2026 • 10B $SKR is scheduled to launch in January 2026 • Solana Mobile is developing a hardware integration kit with MediaTek, FxTec, and Trustonic to expand across new mobile devices globally • Solana Mobile has launched its Builder Grants Program, providing funding and resources for teams building mobile-first crypto apps on the Solana Mobile Stack • @heliuslabs, @doublezero, @triton_one, @Jito_sol, and @anza_xyz have committed to launching as Seeker’s first Guardians in 2026 The mobile revolution is here. Are you ready for 2026?

@mattytay love this take crypto as a mission-driven internet subculture is here to stay. I'd even argue it extends beyond the class of cypherpunks in how it's assumed the shape of an mmorpg

I agree that “crypto as a self-contained industry” is dying, but not all crypto-natives are the same. There are really two lineages. One is the late-cycle trench degen: optimized for incentives, reflexivity, and short-term extraction. That culture grew out of DeFi summer, NFTs, points, and memecoins. It’s loud, fast, and largely closed-loop. That version of crypto-native culture seems to be running out of road. The other lineage is the cypherpunk. These people came for self-custody, Austrian money, censorship resistance, and permissionless markets. This crypto-native culture isn’t fading. Its relevance is actually increasing as trust in institutions erodes and access becomes more constrained. Crypto will dissolve into the economy via stablecoin payments, fast settlement, etc. which is indeed a sign of success. But the most important cypherpunk-inspired products won’t disappear into our current institutions. The world will mold around them, and they will replace those institutions. Non-sovereign money, permissionless markets, and credible neutrality aren’t always features to abstract for normies, they’re actually primitives around which more robust societal structures will form. So yes, crypto as a closed, self-referential industry is ending. But crypto as a cypherpunk toolkit for institutional replacement is just getting started. We are inside the gates now. At @Colosseum, we are excited to back startups that are building faster/cheaper/better UX fintech products that abstract away the underlying tech to solve real-world problems. However, we are even more excited to back mission-driven founders building protocols and onchain products that are truly crypto-native.

bakeland ---> @solanamobile we prepare to conduct some monke biz 🍌 drop your .skr aliases below for a surprise! ↓

> BGT was always perceived as free lunch for protocols & as a farming token for users, might as well have named it otherwise > what was in the best interest to scale PoL was often not the case for Berachain L1 for instance, FDN refused to partner with revenue generating protocols on other chains which imo was the lowest hanging fruit i.e team up with interop provider to stream incentives in from any protocol on any chain into PoL - bringing in net new users holding $BGT and transacting on L1 > instead we see tons of useless vaults which neither scale incentives meaningfully nor bring in net new users/liq to bera - ending up cannibalizing the ecosystem and damaging the premium > PoL v2 kills the premium, renders several business models of existing builders obsolete (I was initially bullish v2) > branding is a hit or miss, mostly the latter when the chart is down some of these easier said in hindsight, whereas some were actively voiced by the community still hopeful we see a revenge arc 🤞🏼

can anyone actually put a finger on what is berachains problem? like, other than volume, what else could it be, i've seen a few ppl say "community", but in my opinion community is the best thing we have right now. so i suppose there must be something else.

@heettike @rooferdotcom @rollupceo @MiyaHedge nice! either way, owning equity or a proxy to the same is a solid narrative

@pharoxe @rooferdotcom @rollupceo working on it with @MiyaHedge (but it’s currently not ERC-S)

@whatslukedoing @danielgross always found your story super inspiring in how you pivoted from party simulator to bash, and finally to pixels have a similar conviction in the medium games can be for novel, positive-sum experiences

i made a similar mistake in my early 20s pixels started out as a house party simulator i had a talent for building, but wasn’t taking myself seriously or thinking about the impact i could have on the world through @danielgross actually helped steer me in the right direction & i am still super appreciative young founders need mentorship on things that are bigger picture than just tech, revenue, business model as we build in tech, we need to think about how what we build might shape & change the world if we succeed seeing how many lives the pixels airdrop changed was the most motivating moment of my life i do honestly believe that if we can solve how to create new ways to earn money by measuring contribution and value added to an ecosystem, the world changes for the better. games & products will grow faster & overlooked people will will be compensated more fairly this is also why Pixels is trying to build play-to-earn systems without leaning into gambling. that would be the easier and more obvious path with current pmf that crypto has seen, but it’s not something i want to put into the world it’s hard to pull off, but that’s the mission 🫡

@0xGuavaGuy hope it's melee :>

New Weapon on Friday ⚔️