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@cochang @sanketvora3 @Azuki this is such a cool one 🤩

IKZ @Azuki

@kamogawayuka beautiful ❣️ matches the beautiful sunny but cool spring day today.

Good morning! As if carried by the spring breeze, the things I want to do keep gently expanding 🌸 This is a 2021 piece featuring the Azure Dragon, a symbol of spring 🐲 I wish for a good flow to begin ✨ Have a lovely weekend 🫶

@0xseraph the problem is most people can't build for normies, if they could they likely would not be in this space

nft projects are very much in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kinda phase. build something for the normies, and the second they figure out it has any association with NFTs ppl start bashing it. build for NFT mfers, and its labeled an extraction event. and even if it's not, the market has fundamentally gotten too small to even be worth. try to split the difference, and no one is happy. at this point, i actually think it may be better to just build a new disconnected brand entirely under the radar, and merge them only when its successful.

@t_mattty left

Goodbye Japan ❤️ It’s been a fun 2 years! Until next time 🌸

@IKATOH_ETH disney actually gives you something better. they give you dividends so you can buy a fast pass at univeral studios theme park 😅

Totally agree with this take If you own Disney stocks does that mean you get Disney perks, no (If you want real voting power you need to be a major stock holder). If you own Disney collectables, does that give you perks, no. If you want perks, then you gotta pay for an annual membership fee like D23 and you still have to pay for tickets and items. You bought an Azuki PFP because of the art & community. The rest was always speculation and hype. And now the team is actually launching real world product and you don't want to support it so it can be successful to the global audience? So then we're you actually a real believer or just here to extract...

@gothburz @RandyHercules super long but too funny to not read 😂😂😂

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.

@DemAzuki @svmmoner @animecoin look me up for story-telling surfaces!

@svmmoner @animecoin my wishlist currently: - innovation around TCG RWAs and anime collectibles - prediction markets applied to collectibles - prediction markets around anime fandom - new ways to fund art and artists - AI co-creation new and known IP - new token-enabled storytelling surfaces

today im joining Animecoin Foundation as Ecosystem Growth Lead. my mission: accelerate ecosystem growth, partnerships, and execution across all @animecoin initiatives, including Animechain integrations. im doing this for one reason: i believe Animecoin has something rare. real community, real builders, real passion. we just need aligned effort and relentless execution. my mandate: help builders win across everything we touch. if you build on Animechain youll feel the difference. im all in on this. if you're a builder, founder, or creative who wants to build where culture actually matters my DMs are open. lets build the anime internet. Dem

@DemAzuki @animecoin ikz! you got this 😍😍😍

@7316 you hit the nail one the head. they hire too many content creators. they lack people who can pick out other talent, be it developers, etc., who can co-build & innovate together. most so-called co-developed projects do no more than milk the community further.

Biggest bottleneck in NFT projects? Hiring. Most projects don’t hire community builders. They hire content creators. That’s the problem. Content creators optimize for reach, impressions and engagement. Community builders optimize for trust, retention and relationships. Result: Projects are optimised to grow an audience, but can’t sustain a community. At this point, hiring teams should know the difference. Want multi cycle holders? Hire people who: > Stay in the trenches with holders > Create concrete processes to retain OGs > Read real sentiment, not surface metrics > Create solid infra to drive value to holders > Build 1:1 relationships actively in Web3 > Maintain easy access and feedback loops > Actually give a fuck and stay wired in My advice to brands: Hire and curate people who excel at both hands on community building and public advocacy. Strong belief: Brands still optimizing for reach and surface level metrics in 2026 will always struggle to maintain trust and break out when it matters. It’s high time projects invest in community with the same intent and resources as they do in dev and product.

Be like @opensea Early Success: > founded in 2017 on the thesis of being “Amazon/eBay of NFTs” > raise $2.1Mn based off this in 2019 > be early to catch the NFT boom in 2021 > raise more funds with 3 new rounds > generate billions in monthly trading volume and earn 2.5% from it > make as much as $2.7Bn trading volume in a day in 2022 > push your valuation to be as high as $13.3Bn in 2022 > make a bank from NFT projects and NFT buyers without giving them anything back > be adamant on dropping a token and/or rewarding users in 2021-2023 > make no improvements in UX and UI because you don’t need to as you’re the only legitimate NFT marketplace out there > be involved with insider trading scandal led by one of your ex-employees who’s now in jail > have your database exploited which led to emails & identities of your users to be divulged Competitive Era: > have your feet swept from the ground with the arrival of Blur > make no improvements on UX/UI to be more trader friendly similar to Blur despite users asking for it > do nothing as Blur introduced airdrop seasons that incentivized farming NFTs via bidding, listing, and wash trades > try to defend royalties for yourself and NFT projects by objecting to lowering platform fees to 0% and royalties to 0.5% similar to Blur > find yourself eventually giving in and following Blur’s fees > see yourself lose market leadership in NFTs to Blur in the height of farming season > watch Magic Eden transition from being a Solana NFT marketplace to being a multi-chain marketplace > see some top NFT projects like Yuga Labs partnering with Magic Eden instead because you didn’t defend royalties vs. Blur > watch Blur burn NFTs to ground by farming NFTs to death and launching their token $BLUR, then their L2, Blast > watch Magic Eden do the same formula as Blur by incentivizing trading volume as they launch their token, $ME > still be adamant about launching your own token despite your major competitors doing it OS2 Era: > tease that you’ll finally drop a token, $SEA, as early as Feb 2025 > launch OS2 in 2025 to cater to multi-chain NFTs > introduce token trading (aka memecoins and such) to also be tradable in OpenSea > lower platform fees to 0.5% similar to Blur before > improve UX and UI for traders by copying Blur’s UX and UI before > introduce gamified rewards via Voyages XP > announce that 50% of $SEA supply will go to the community and the way for them to get it is to stack XP via trading > announce in Oct 2025 that $SEA TGE will be in Q1 2026 > continue farming your users for a year by having 6 waves for $SEA campaign > make an online live event on Mar 30, 2026 and excite your followers about the next phase of OpenSea > break the news that $SEA will be delayed beyond Q1 2026 even before the Mar 30 event to manage expectations > offer refund of trading fees from waves 3-6 to deal with the user frustrations but only offer waves 3-6 because these are peanuts compared to waves 1-2 Be early. Be complacent. Be stubborn. Be a copycat. Be late. Be delayed. Be disappointing. Be like OpenSea.

🇯🇵🇬🇧 Meanwhile in Japan "The Country is in Chaos - once you import them there is no turning back" "Over 250,000 British Girls were r*ped - 90% of the perpetrators were Muslim" Right Wing Japanese Party using the example of what's happened in the UK as Political Material, to deter the Japanese against mass immigration is wild ‼️

@kamogawayuka お疲れ様でした！

Finally finished filing my taxes 🎉✨ Grateful for all the opportunities to create artwork🙏🎨

@t_mattty @0x_jonny @kito_jp_y this 💯💯💯

@0x_jonny @kito_jp_y @greedyblock we invited you but you ignored us like usual!

Last meetup for a while in Japan ❤️ Thank you @kito_jp_y san for always making the time out of your day to meet up with me and always picking and reserving the restaurants 🤣 Was great to meet and get to know @greedyblock san more often these past few months and thank you for treating me! ❤️

@0x_jonny @t_mattty @kito_jp_y 😂😂😂

@t_mattty @kito_jp_y @greedyblock Where was my invite

@kito_jp_y @t_mattty great restaurant choice @kito_jp_y fabulous food.

Cheers🍶 @t_mattty @greedyblock

Starfish Hitler may be Japan's wildest creation

@VitalikButerin another gold nugget from captain obvious!

If you've eaten so much that it's not healthy to eat more and you don't want to eat more, and you still eat more anyway "to finish the food", then you are just using your mouth as a garbage can.