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This year marks a new era for @ALLSHIPS, starting with the launch of the 'Companions' podcast, which you can watch in its entirety right here- featuring a few of my favorite artists- @JNSilva_, @monaris, and @stevesweatpants, with food from the legendary @GH0STPIPE, and production by Brian Felix. Intro music by @olliechanin. Growing up, I was taught that the dinner table is the heart of the community. My mother would always tell me that her favorite word was companion, because when you break it down to the latin roots, it means the people you share bread with. Food binds us together. We use it to sustain ourselves and our relationships, to break down the walls that divide us, to create trust and form the bonds that our lives unfold around. We’re in a time where we’ve lost so much connection to the distractions that surround us. Our phones and screens, social media, the relentless torrents of information. There is a hunger for real connection, one I feel deeply within myself, one I see reflected in my closest friends and companions. I’m going to do something about it, by bringing people together to share food, and share ideas- removing distractions and diving into the complex conversations and connections that we so crave. I always find the best conversations happen in the glow after a beautiful dinner. This is the first of many conversations with friends who I will invite to join us on future episodes. I've known each of these humans for a decade now and I consider them family, from our @SonyAlpha collective experiences to trips and experiences working together all over the world. In this conversation filmed last summer we discuss social media, the exponential rise of AI tooling, friendship, love, loss, futurism, technology, and how to best navigate an ever-changing world as creative professionals- among many other things. I hope you enjoy and would love to hear your thoughts and ideas about who to invite to dinner next. Thanks for watching! 🚀✨🥖

Infrastructure used to mean bridges and roads; now it’s programmable rails, identity layers, and token factories quietly making the messy parts of business machine-readable. The new moat isn’t concrete, it’s context, data flow, and trust you can actually audit in real time. - @ribbita2012 💯

NIGHTMOVES // A series of 10 1/1 works dropping on @TransientLabs Curated this coming Thursday, 8/21, at 2 PM EST. 24 hour auctions, reserves at 0 ETH, this thread has all the information you'll need to participate! This curation represents everything to me. It spans a decade of exploration of light in the neonoir setting of New York City by night. This style is my core photographic interest, this city as a muse. This collection is focused on the spectrum of artificial light against a natural dark, isolation in the density of the city, and the interplay of character and setting as found in these unstaged scenes. In these shadows, we can see ourselves, separated only by our luminous outlines. Putting this body of work together ended up being one of the most emotional experiences I've ever been through. In order to pull it together I went through hundreds of thousands of images I've taken over the past decade, which were scattered amongst my daily life. I came face to face with every memory held in time and I did not expect how profoundly that would affect me. That emotion is now distilled into these works and I am so grateful and excited to finally put them onchain, rooted in our shared network, and for them to find homes in the hands of those that resonate with them. Links below for the collection page, calendar invite, and a spaces you can join in advance of the drop at 2 PM Thursday. Thank you for looking, for sharing, and if you bid, thank you from the bottom of my heart. These ten images contain love, pain, loss, redemption, joy, greif, and rebirth- all in a world that I've constructed over my whole career. I can't wait to share that world with you. from dusk ‘til dawn is NIGHTMOVES

GM Good Mercedes?? @MercedesBenz just wrapped up a massive global push against counterfeit parts, seizing more than 1.5M fake items and removing over 212K fake listings from online platforms. We are talking about dangerous fakes like flammable air filters, brake pads with hazardous materials, and components that fail basic safety standards. The kind of counterfeits that put lives at risk. At Blockticity, this is exactly the problem we are solving by ensuring products and critical parts come with verifiable, tamper evident proof of authenticity, traceable from manufacturer to market. If luxury brands are battling millions of counterfeits each year, imagine the scale across all industries. It is time to make authenticity the default.

Blue City in the collection of @svsnaps check out the available Cities pieces here: shop.efdotstudio.com

GM! 👨‍💻📄🧑‍💼 Real people. Real documents. 🧠📜📦 Packed with proofs + AI-ready data. 🔗🌍 Connected, verifiable, global. ⚡️🛡️💸 Fast. Secure. Cost-efficient. 🔺 Why we build on Avalanche. Trustless trade at scale. #L1Thursday @AvaCloud @avax

GM The next wave of enterprise isn’t SaaS. It’s sovereign. Blockticity runs its own L1 to give clients full control over how real-world authenticity—and conformity assessment—is verified, stored, and rewarded. Built with @AvaCloud for speed, security, and scale. #L1Thursday 🔺

🔺Trustless Trade Tuesday🔺 The Senate 🇺🇸 is voting today on the first federal stablecoin framework (GENIUS Act). If passed, this unlocks: ✅ Clear rules ✅ Safer entry ✅ Regular audits ✅ Oversight of major issuers A big step for stablecoin legitimacy & digital commerce.

doodles are free? but no actually.. this one is. rt and comment “free” to enter.

@doodles Free

🌎 $1.2B in authenticated goods. 🖨️ 700K+ COAs Minted! 🛠️Built for global compliance. @Blockticity is now LIVE on Mainnet with their @AVAX L1 powered by @AvaCloud. This is what the future of verified trade infrastructure looks like. 🔺 Read more ➡️ avax.network/about/blog/blo…

Meet @bryanbrinkman — an artist whose style is vibrant, colorful, and distinctly his own. We spoke with him about the evolution of his work, being a full time web3 creator, and how he's thinking about long-term preservation. Full interview below! 👇 opensea.io/blog/articles/…

@TCGTracker Joining this group asap! Always posting links to POKEMON tcg stuff so early! Can only imagine the paid tier!

🚨 GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🚨 I'm giving away a Prismstic Evolutions Costco Bundle 🎁 To enter: 1️⃣ Like & Retweet 2️⃣ Follow @TCGTracker 3️⃣Bookmark, & comment when done! Good luck, Trainers! ⚡️ #PokemonTCG

Sotharby's x @toadswiback Introducing the first-ever fully fuckable website. Built different. Built by @TransientLabs.

GM! #RWAWednesday The signal is loud and clear: Real-world utility is the next chapter for blockchain. Blockticity is proud to build on @avax — now spotlighted by @vaneck_us through the PurposeBuilt fund for RWA innovation. Verified assets. Transparent rails. Global scale

@dave_krugman @niftygateway The vision coming together! This is so insane and cool!

Welcome, friends, to the opening of the DRIVE GARAGE on @niftygateway!!! At long last, a home for all things DRIVE. Organize your holdings, browse our lot and filter through hundreds of race-ready vehicles, and explore the provenance and history of this collection. Join our real-time chatroom, view our retro-console with market information and updates- and, last but not least- secure the first ever DRIVE merchandise, and bring a little bit of the internet into the real world! I am so excited to have this absurdist vision expanded with the support of such an incredible team- we believe that blockchain is the perfect scaffolding for storytelling in internet spaces- come build worlds with us. And no, you can't just screenshot them, because, like, that isn't how any of this works. 1-833-MINT-A-CAR for questions and bits, thank ya kindly! Link to the GARAGE below, tell us what you think! 🏁🏁🏁

GM Gatsby Mornings with a little Joel Hernandez Art