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Three’s a charm: Topping my two double kings with a third! A trio of double kings for the win!@SmythsNFT @BlocksmithLabs

People think this space and its culture is only about money. Scams, rugs, exploits, false promises, speculation. Communities that disappear when things get hard. But they won’t show you this: 200 strangers became teammates to build something real in a country scarred by war.

Imagine having a Polkadot expert sitting next to you while you build. That's what the official Polkadot Documentation MCP (Model Context Protocol) server feels like. Ask it anything: How do XCM fees work? Which OpenGov track does your proposal belong to? How do I benchmark a custom pallet? What is the difference between EVM and PolkaVM? How do I set up a validator node step by step? How do I register a foreign asset on Asset Hub? The MCP server delivers explanations of Polkadot-related concepts directly from the official documentation. 🧵

We’re aware of an issue affecting @hyperbridge's Ethereum gateway contract. The exploit only affects DOT on Ethereum that is bridged through Hyperbridge and does not affect DOT in the Polkadot ecosystem, or DOT bridged through other bridges. Polkadot, its parachains, and native DOT remain secure and unaffected. Hyperbridge has been paused while the issue is investigated.

Every Okay Bear holder can now download their fully rigged 3D model directly from the @OrbisOnSOL marketplace. High quality, ready to use. Your bear, in your hands. Details below ⬇️

Connect your wallet → go to “My items” → pick your bear → hit the “3D assets” button (top right). Your fully rigged 3D model, ready to use.

We had Anthony Edwards🏀 Signed. Ready. Announced. Then... nothing. You weren't wrong to be excited. You weren't wrong to believe in NFTs. But business is ruthless. When the hype faded, they moved on. Hate us or love us... we're still here. And we're not going anywhere.

October 22, we were about to close with Bella Hadid. She wanted to enter the space. Mint her own collection. Our charity work with Lonzo Ball caught her eye. She looked at our bears. Connected with the keffiyeh trait instantly. We designed this one for her. Then FTX happened.

NEW: @MagicEden WALLET TO GO INTO A DEPRECATED EXPORT ONLY MODE AND BE REMOVED FROM APP STORES TOMORROW - "IF YOU LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR DEVICE OR DOWNLOADED VERSION OF THE APP, THIS MEANS YOU WILL ALSO LOSE ACCESS TO ANY WALLETS"

pov: you didn't sell

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.

JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

A week ago, we introduced the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program with 85+ partners. Today we’re at over 100 and counting

BREAKING: The SEC has formally classified SOL as a digital commodity in its new crypto asset taxonomy, alongside BTC, ETH,  and 14 other assets. SOL is not a security.

JUST IN: The U.S. @SECGov and @CFTC issue a joint interpretation officially classifying the LINK token as a digital commodity. We congratulate the SEC and CFTC on this landmark milestone that provides a clear legal framework for the institutional adoption of digital assets.

The SEC issued, with related guidance from the CFTC, its interpretation on certain crypto assets. In the release, the SEC identifies Polkadot (DOT) as a digital commodity, not a security. DOT is listed alongside 15 other digital commodities, including BTC, ETH, and others.

Have you watched a video recently and thought "that's heartwarming", only to wonder if it was real? Over 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are AI-generated. Dr. Gavin Wood foresaw this problem. Watch him explain how Polkadot's Proof of Personhood will solve it below.

🚨HUGE: $DOT season is coming. Polkadot is cutting emissions by 53.6% and setting a 2.1B max supply. This change is bigger than it seems. ✈️

What you’re seeing is the synchronization of a globally distributed system in real time. A new block on the relay chain is produced roughly every 6 seconds. In this telemetry view, each small flash represents a node, somewhere on earth, reporting activity as the block propagates through the network. This is the heartbeat of Polkadot.

Polkadot’s issuance model upgrade is scheduled to coincide with Pi Day on March 14. This protocol change introduces, among others: ‣ A maximum supply of 2.1B DOT, of which ~80% has already been issued. ‣ A DOT emission rate reduction by ~53% on March 14, and further reductions are scheduled over time. These changes were proposed by the community and ratified by OpenGov as part of an ongoing effort to limit long‑term issuance while maintaining incentives and providing a transparent, predictable issuance schedule.

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