The Tenochtitlans

Very proud of that collab piece and actually the collector is a very prominent Xi'an-based entrepreneur and industry leader in traditional Chinese medicine. Speaks volumes for the positioning of Fang Yi Ning with her art trajectory just lifting off after many years of study.

@TheApiens I remember this quote from Marcus Thornewood: "Crypto assets may glitter like gold, but remember: all that glitters is not worth a dime unless it has real value supporting it." The Confluence has and continues to deliver real value. Those other projects - not so much.

@assunzio_real Marcus is a Web3 must read!

Following her debut at the Zodiac Legacy Exhibition in Chengdu and her 1st artist exchange with her "Aztec Butterfly" to tour Asia, ArtStra painter Fang Yi Ning has sold a collaborative work with our founder @MattVegh to a private collector in Xian. Goldfish: Talisman of Wealth

@MattVegh @gothburz Many of the usual suspects in the so-called Blue Chips still oblivious to what happened to them. Still bagholding fairy dust they got sold. NOT in the Confluence. Only winners over here.

@gothburz This is a must-read for all of you. x.com/TheApiens/stat…

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.

@TheApiens DragonWorld Smash It is such an awesome mobile game. We loved our collab with the Tenochtitlans!

@BullishBearNFT @beaniemaxi Yes. Over three years ago we did this, pal. x.com/TheApiens/stat…

Indeed! Look at that performance and still with a very low point of entry on a small tight-knit 1k Collection backed by multiple games including @SimSuiteVR! x.com/MattVegh/statu…

The Red Tailed Hawk has been a guardian spirit in my family for as long as I can remember, echoing ancestral whispers. Clarity, protection, and the call to see beyond the horizon. Painted with intuition and soul, part of my journey into the Boreal Heart of Canada.

@TenochtitlanAI @MattVegh @NateVegh

🚀 @MattVegh just dropped that ​our guy @NateVegh (founder of @Web4Eternal Eternal Gardens) and the NanoAcademic crew have unleashed LatticeMind: a game-changing agentic AI that completely automates those brutal DFT workflows using RESCU. We’re talking massive barriers CRUSHED, years of niche expertise, insane compute hours, billions in wasted research friction, gone. Materials scientists can finally stop wrestling with grunt work and start chasing real breakthroughs at warp speed. This is the kind of focused, high-impact innovation that moves entire fields forward. Insanely well done,@NateVegh We're all proud of you.

@MattVegh @NateVegh This is amazing, but not surprising for people in The Confluence and definitely in Ethernal Gardens / Jardins Eternels!!! The future is so bright and full of possibilities when lead by such visionary!!!

After the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, our founder @MattVegh is proud to launch his Canadian Wildlife Series. Starting with the King of the boreal forest; the mighty Canada Moose. Oil and metallic acrylics on ink wash paper fused to board, with handcarved Medallion.

@MattVegh @NateVegh And to think this amazing mind is also the artist who hand-drew the traits for Tenochtitlans!

Proud of my son @NateVegh and NanoAcademic for pioneering LatticeMind, an agentic AI framework that automates complex DFT workflows with RESCU, slashing the time, expertise and computational barriers that currently drive billions in annual research costs across materials science.

From NanoAcademic Technologies Inc. on LinkedIn: Do not miss the first talk of @NateVegh at the American Physical Society March meeting which has just kicked off in Denver, Colorado! Nathaniel Vegh will present his work tomorrow about band offsets in Si/SiGe and Ge/SiGe heterostructures accurately mapped across all compositions using a first‑principles DFT workflow that incorporates alloy disorder, strain effects, hybrid‑functional corrections, and large‑scale heterojunction calculations yielding a predictive database included into QTCAD® for quantum‑well and spin‑qubit device designers. 📅 On Tuesday March 17 10:12 — 10:24 am at the Convention Center in Meeting Room 603. ➡️ First-Principles Band Alignment in Strained Si/Si1-xGex and Ge/Si1-xGex Heterostructures ℹ️ Part of MAR-F44 Disordered Materials II: Magnetic Materials and Alloys Please come and encourage this amazing colleague's work which fills a blank in the scientific literature and promises to be useful to quantum device scientists and engineers! Also attend the poster sessions on Thursday where Nate will present his second work on an agentic AI framework to automate DFT workflows (Poster #253). See you there! #APSSummit26 #QuantumComputing #SiliconSpin #materialsscience #AgenticAI