full stack content maker. lawyer by training, producer by trade, crypto idealist at heart. building The Engine
@theenginemedia
incubated by
@skylab_xyz
All art is about storytelling. NFTs are just a new way of telling stories — with tokens.
We are witnessing the birth of a new artform - tokenized storytelling.
Movies ruled the 20th century. This century is about tokenized stories, tokies. 👇🧵
#NFTs
Okay, after 2 hrs of battling Ledger and Twitter I finally get to do the hexagon thingy.
You’re asking wen mainstream?.. When it takes two clicks.
#NewNFTProfilePic
NFT
I sold my ape.
My first NFT.
My best investment.
I've been a member of the club since May 3, 2021.
Today, I'm apeless.
I'm so grateful to
@GordonGoner
and
@CryptoGarga
, to
@yugalabs
and all the apes!
It's life-changing money, and it's been a life-changing experience.
I've
1/ Here's my TL;DR on the last 24 hrs in
@proof_xyz
- $50 million investment round, no new board seats
-
@Moonbirds
will be IN chain
- Proof of Conference: mid '23
- Utility token: Q1 '23
- MB-2 sketches and mechanics revealed
- Highrise prototype revealed, not a 3D world
🧵👇
Welp. I've suited up to intro my mutant brother, who is appropriately snowed in - in honor of our Russian roots. Love him. Happy Mutant Birthday,
#11679
!
@BoredApeYC
#BAYC
#MAYC
I’m sitting here about to ape into a jpeg and realizing that literally yesterday I didn’t buy a couch that was the same price but somehow “too expensive.” The metaverse has devoured me.
gm
10 years ago while in film school I suggested in the “new media” class that the film industry will have to turn upside down to reward creators directly and upfront because of how the Internet is impacting it. The professor called me Marxist. Well,
#NFTs
.
Should I make my
#BAYC
my
#NewProfilePic
? I feel odd doing it because I'm not anonymous so kind of what's the point... Or am I thinking about it wrong?
Beside myself! Just got a
@thesarahshow
piece! And what an amazing one!
I’m an auction virgin. So, it was extra fun but sure as hell tickled the nerves! I guess it’s the point of it.
@TrustlessState
All the tens of thousands of your digital children (aka your audience) don’t have the emotional resources to handle this divorce. So, no, this doesn’t work for us.
1/ Who F**ed Up For Us This Week?
This is going to be a semi-regular thread event appreciating and celebrating web3 projects making major mistakes in public for all of us to learn.
This week it’s
@TallyLabs
and
@azurbala
. 🧵👇
#nfts
#azurbala
I'm only 250 people away from hitting 100K followers - spread the word and help me pass that magic number! My 100Kth follower will get a free autographed book!
gm fam! big day for me!
After months of hiding under the rock, I'm crawling back to light.
I'm building
@TheEngineMedia
, a publication about building in and with web3.
It's a media extension of
@skylab_xyz
web3 builder community.
Massive thanks to the whole Skylab fam and
1/ Hello, World!
This is The Engine, your go-to publication about building a business in and with web3.
Whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what all that fuss is about, you’re in the right place.
1/10 Hey fam! I've been working on something for a while and am excited to share it finally.
We Can Be Heroes is an NFT storytelling podcast.
"This American Life for the NFT space.”
A funding proposal is up for a vote at Nouns Prop House.
#ApeCoin
fam, support!
Link 👇
gm people. NFT space is magical. Last night I got to be one of
@pussyrrriot
’s dancers at
@FWBtweets
party.
Nadia just said, do what you want - that’s what pussy riot is about. So my inner clown punk came out to play! Thank you Nadia 🖤
#NFTNYC2021
$FWB
#NFTCommunity
It was an honor to meet so many strong empowering ladies in Web3 and every single one of them is a
@BoredApeYC
member! We had over 80 ladies attend and having
@VStrangeYUGA
(CEO of
@yugalabs
) show up at our first <<Not A +1>> was the highlight of the event. Too many more! 🥂🦍💕
@the_freightrain
@BoredApeYC
@BoredApeLadies
1 - I’m a noob so I was afraid to get scammed (since then I’ve been learning about safety and now I feel more comfortable and confident). 2 - don’t want people to be jealous (since then decided not to give a f$ck)
6/ With
@Moonbirds
though the initial communication was that not every Moonbird would be guaranteed a Mythic.
A Discord outcry followed. Team asked for 24 hours to think.
@kevinrose
posted an update on Discord today: indeed every Moonbird will be guaranteed a Mythic.
Phew.
The Network Flywheel model for blockchain protocols by
@alive_eth
applied to tokies:
a well-designed tokie has a built-in incentive structure that creates a multi-sided market with strong network effects.
Its defensibility comes from the network that the story generates.
Only when you start editing yourself do you understand the extent to which your face is outta control.
Awesome chat with
@mhluongo
about King Bitcoin, building, surviving, and the end game.
Find it on
@TheEngineMedia
later this week!
1/ I’m excited to share that we’re leading
@TallyLabsNFT
’s Seed round. The team pioneered a new frontier of NFT-based character IP with
@JenkinsTheValet
. They’re on a mission to tell stories that will define web3 and create tools allowing anyone to decentralize their own content.
4/
@Moonbirds
-2 are coming in early 2023 and will be called Mythics.
20K "eggs" will be rolled out as a slow "hatching" raffle in order to avoid overflooding the market.
3/
@Moonbirds
will be IN chain vs. ON chain.
@divergenceharri
IN chain means that the traits will be on chain and the contract will be "building" a bird from the pieces.
This opens possibilities for building around that IP on chain by referencing the original traits.
I wrote a thing! My first Op-ed.
I'll do a thread tomorrow. For now, I just wanted to thank
@CamiRusso
@DefiantNews
for giving this piece a platform. The Age of Tokies is here.
Congrats to
@azurbala
and
@TallyLabsNFT
on launching the Member Portal to build the avatars with the community!
We see you 👀💜👀💜👀
Delivering, shipping, executing 🔥
Can’t wait to see how this thing works!
We're proud to unveil the Azurbala Member's Portal and its first feature: a survey to give feedback on PFPs.
We're creating this revamped collection with our community. You can tell us what you liked/didn't like and guide the next steps for the art. LFG!
Do you often think about your digital privacy?
Personally, I never used to. My thinking was, well, I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't care who's watching.
Until I got into crypto. I'm still doing nothing wrong. I just don't want anyone watching anymore.
I remember being
1/ Here’s a web3 riddle: there is a company that becomes a community, that becomes a DAO, that merges with another DAO into a new big DAO.
What do you call the person who started that first company in relation to the new big DAO?
@MacLaneWilkison
modestly calls himself a
8/ Four months is an eternity in degen terms.
The brief speculative price rally of
@Moonbirds
and
@oddities_xyz
stumbled.
The prices went back to the pre-announcement levels.
BTW 95% (!) of birds are nested.
Note to self - no more predictions.
5/ The
@Moonbirds
team is still experimenting with the art, but the sketches look great.
The mechanic for the Mythics rollout was not completely clear as presented.
@gremplin
's
@oddities_xyz
(as expected) will be able to be burnt in exchange for a Mythic.
Moonbirds though...
9/
@proof_xyz
's Project Highrise is going to be a social platform around NFT art collecting, curating, and socializing.
It will not be as previously expected in a 3D world.
Probably for the better.
Shout out to
@jenkinsthevalet
@Azurbala
@TallyLabsNFT
team!
They have just posted a Medium post that is a masterclass in taking responsibility and listening to the community feedback.
LOVE THIS. The book is a great read and I’m sure Cami will turn it into a great film. Also I’ll support anything
@CamiRusso
is doing in the space because she’s a badass! So excited!
so excited... ready??
🌈 The Infinite Machine is becoming a movie!!
The Ethereum movie will ofc be produced together with the Ethereum community.
NFTs will fund production and enable its audience to become participants.
More 👇
1/1
It's my NFT Birthday today!
I didn't have a stash of ETH laying around from 2018 so I bought my first ETH and tried to mint a
@MeebitsNFTs
, failed, and bought a
@BoredApeYC
instead.
Got a Meebit later anyway. Still holding both of them.
1/3
@Fabbriology
@bored_nene
@BoredApeYC
I’m not a big fan of gender-specific events but how about a girls night in
#BAYC
Discord? I want to meet all of you cool ladies and hear what you’re up to. What you’re building, what you’re creating, what you’re trading )))
The main takeaway after a day at
#ComicCon
: “THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN” is a major obstacle for mainstream adoption. People almost literally ran away from me. 🥺
What are we gonna do about it, fam?
#NFT
“The Blockchain Wall of Wynwood”
The Magic City Apes donated $45,000 to
@wynwoodwalls
Festival which goes to up & coming street artists.
Donated in Ethereum and will have our
@BoredApeYC
permanently on the building. We can’t wait to share the final product!
#BAYC
#MAYC
People say there are few women investors because women don't take risks.
If that was true, humanity would die out.
A woman takes enormous risks bringing a child into the world. She risks her life, health, and career, but does it anyway.
Women understand risk very well.
@Pons_ETH
That’s the trick though. Reasonable takes. Interesting, even valuable takes. That gets attention. All good propaganda, it has truth at its core.
I don’t think there was any doubt re Beanie’s intelligence, knowledge or ability to produce good content.
But if you know that
Talked to
@mhluongo
about Bitcoin, building, and a little bit about parenting.
TL;DR:
- Everyone who’s building on Bitcoin will be called a scammer.
- The best way to get cryptopilled is to get deplatformed.
- and teach your kids about compounding interest for f$ck’s sake.
The new episode of The Engine is up!
This week, our guest is Matt Luongo
@mhluongo
!
He is the CEO of
@thesis_co
, a crypto venture studio behind Fold, Keep that became part of
@TheTNetwork
, tBTC, Saddle, Tally Ho! And now also thUSC and
@MezoNetwork
.
We dug into his more than
Had *so* much fun diving deep on the new episode of
@THIRDEYEDROPS
. We got into the mythopoetic meaning of NFTs + web3, the pitfalls of revolutionary energy, and the profoundness of play.
I love philosophizing (and giggling) with Michael – and it shows!
Links below 😎
My mouse wasn't made for Dookey Dash.
I must report, though, that despite my initial frustration with the toilet theme, I enjoy the dives thoroughly, albeit briefly.
Congrats to
@yugalabs
on the great execution!
Shout out to my supporters in Nouns Prop House!
@xach_eth
@charlesc_eth
and
@vsadkovv
Thank you guys! Means a lot! ❤️❤️❤️
If you have at least 1 $APE you can vote!
Support my proposal for a pilot episode of a documentary NFT storytelling podcast!
Every vote counts!
Link 👇
12/ From the official
@proof_xyz
press release:
“...massive mainstream media franchises will be community-owned and governed...”
Sriram Krishnan, General Partner at a16z crypto.
So, that's what Proof aims to be.