irl I’m a dad, a soccer coach to toddlers, an angel investor & a founder/ceo of a saas co that was acquired last year
…through Web3, I’ve had the freedom to become
@TimshelXYZ
, the essential, geek version of myself
some of my thoughts on world-building & on-chain media ↓
🧵
a
@el__ranye
x
@TimshelXYZ
experimental art project
└⫸
𝚊 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎
inscribed onchain on BTC on a single satoshi
will be minting via
@ourzora
mega thanks to
@isiain
who worked w/ me on a cross-chain BTC<>ETH renderer
Today was a "defining moment" for the
@lootproject
community ⚡️
With 100+ ppl,
@TimshelXYZ
(me!) &
@ptrwtts
unveiled an epiphany about the hidden scaffolding of the Lootverse
It was pure geek energy for nearly 2 hours
TL;DR = we derived order from the chaos of 64k items
🧵⤵
for the past year, we’ve been experimenting with on-chain publishing & collaborative world-building (
@openquill
x
@genesisloot
)
if you’re a sci-fantasy nerd, if you believe in the magic of on-chain media, or if you just love good stories…
…drop your ENS & follow along
✵✧✾
1/ I'm sharing the 10 ideas I'm most excited about in crypto right now. If you're building something in crypto or thinking about doing so - check it out.
We’re building lots at Coinbase, but we don't have time to tackle everything. So I figured I'd share these. Bear markets are
if you’ve been hearing about
@dhof
’s Corruption(s*) 🚪 and want to learn more, big 🧵here
what began as “EXPERIMENTAL ART WITH NO ROADMAP”…
has become community-crafted performance art
+ a breakthrough in on-chain comms btwn community<>creator
this feels like a moment
🚪
Loot = on-chain scaffolding for a massively-multiplayer collaborative world-building experiment
The Lootverse = an ecosystem of interconnected sci-fantasy stories, games, art & multimedia
Sharing this work-in-progress deck, curious to hear feedback:
it struck me today that
@lootproject
is like a decentralized incubator
so...we're throwing together a sort of "demo day" presentation
"The First 100 Days: Loot Quarterly Review" — Q4 '21
👀 **here's a preview**
will share the full thing later this week
DM me to help! 🤝
the Lootverse has been BUIDLING together like nothing I’ve ever seen
an infinitely expansive, yet still cohesive universe
stories, games, art, lore, communities, quests, adventures
we’re a global, decentralized team
& we’ve found a calling, through the mist
🔮👑👘🗝🏪🗺🧙♀️⚔️
What is
@lootproject
?
It's a collaborative media movement.
Away from an internet controlled by a few.
Towards a web of interconnected projects, games, stories, art.
Created as a community & collectively owned.
🔳 +
1/n
feeling strong 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓈𝓉 vibes today:
IRL, my dream is to teach (building products, building companies, building movements)
and next week, I’ve been invited to teach a class at
@UCBerkeley
about the composable, on-chain permissionless web3 movement!
what a world
good luck to all of us trying to explain
@lootproject
/
@GenesisLoot
at Thanksgiving dinner tonight
🔮“it’s Star Wars for the next gen!”
🙏“it’s a time machine for builders!”
⚔️“it’s a primitive for a fantasy universe!”
“(*) OK fine, yes it’s 8 lines of white text” 🤣
UPDATE on Corruption(s*)
• we just chose "Fate" vs. "Free Will" in our first community Snapshot vote
• the story has taken a fun turn...
• "Chapter 1" done, now at an Intermission
...and a special guest (👊
@dhof
) has joined the Discord for an AMA
if you know me, you know my natural art form is wurdz
here are some wurdz about
└⫸
TLDR = this project is about bringing our essence and our humanity into parts of the web that are often limited to text, emojis and tiny static
a
@el__ranye
x
@TimshelXYZ
experimental art project
└⫸
𝚊 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎
inscribed onchain on BTC on a single satoshi
will be minting via
@ourzora
mega thanks to
@isiain
who worked w/ me on a cross-chain BTC<>ETH renderer
in 10 years there will be a generation of builders that say "I started with Loot"
"I work on defi, games, media, web3 utilities, art, and beyond.....but I started with Loot"
🔮
bringing the Lootverse to life alongside
@neilhimself
would be a true dream for thousands of people 🔮
we’re a global group of nerds, builders & artists working together to build an infinitely-expansive yet still-cohesive sci-fantasy universe
check out
@neilhimself
huge fan of your work and masterclass course. We’d love to pitch you on writing something of any length to bring the fantasy world of
@lootproject
to life. there’s already a big budget set aside with more available & we really want to work with you in particular
announcing: The Genesis Scrolls, an initiative to publish a compendium of short stories to bring the Lootverse to life
funded by
@OpenQuill
Foundation, a no-strings attached writing grants program for lore-driven projects
join us!
🔗
WAGWAB!
📜1/x
out of nowhere tonight my 2.5 year old stopped and said this beautifully-dark non-sequitur
🌔
🌓
🌒
🌑
🌑
🌑
𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝑒
🌑
should we recruit him onto the Lootverse lore team?
"Stats, images & other functionality are intentionally omitted for others to interpret."
-
@dhof
in·ter·pre·ta·tion
↳ «a stylistic representation of a creative work»
1 year later, a canvas for interpretation
behold: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚢𝚎
↳ «
@genesiseyenft
»
𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓈𝓉
gm
@VitalikButerin
I think you’d get a kick out of the Lootverse Gitcoin Ecosystem round
for many of us, Loot has been the on-ramp to build/create/dev/design/play on ethereum
& thru the Lootverse, we’re advancing the on-chain media movement ⛓📖🎥🎙⛓
this game is a culmination of two years of worldbuilding and archaeology
it’s a true celebration of the vision for the expansive Lootverse
it’s an invitation to play, figuratively and literally!
I’m floored by
@aloothero
and
@lordOfAFew
@blknoiz06
Loot Survivor is a fully onchain roguelike game.
It's an immutable arcade machine, available to playtest now - on Starknet.
Learn how to play before it goes to mainnet. The top 3 leaderboard positions receive a $Lords tribute for every game played.
we've officially entered the Lootverse....
screenshot below is from today's
@lootproject
Town Square, happening right now
join us in Discord...or join right inside the LootMMO gameworld here
+ learn more at
cc
@standardcombo
👏
"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
- Frank Herbert, Dune
📍Introducing: the first-ever "Lore Development Kit" for the Lootverse
An LDK = canonical scaffolding for decentralized world-building
🧵
funny to think that “Timshel” flashed into existence only 7 months ago
but this version of myself has been in my 💜&🧠 since I was a kid reading all the sci-fantasy I could get my hands on
feels like I’m a kid again, now with the perspective to appreciate how lucky that is 😁
just launched something fun
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚢𝚎 {❂}
a collectible device that contains on-chain stories
𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗧
↳ «»
𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪
↳
@genesiseyenft
x
@OpenQuill
this is an experiment at the edges of on-chain storytelling & collaborative-worldbuilding
been tinkering on something in chainspace
just for fun, and just art
in fact, ⌬ 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚝 ⌬
reply if interested and i'll send a DM when it goes live
hopefully tomorrow
here’s a mental model I’ve been workshopping
a framework for the two fundamentally different types of NFT “derivatives”
🎆 derivatives as fireworks 🎆
(celebratory, fun, fleeting)
vs
🏰 derivatives as castles 🏰
(by builders, fortified with conviction)
🧵1/n
From derivatives to extensions, let me tell you a story about a group of adventurers who came together through the mist to plant the seeds for a fantasy world
This is the story of Loot (so far)
❒ Who
❒ What
❒ How
❒ Why
❒ Where
❒ And beyond…
↓
building a "Lore Development Kit" for the
@lootproject
w/
@aloothero
+ a super team from
@divine_dao
&
@LootRealms
an LDK enables the collaborative creation of an infinitely-expansive yet still-cohesive universe
⛓📜⛓
working at the edge of the internet is my happy place
I’ve been working with
@gitcoin
& Loot holders to launch a “Lootverse Ecosystem Round” in the upcoming Gitcoin season
This will help fund a set of projects that will advance our ecosystem & bring the Lootverse to life
Loot holders — please vote here👇
a shadowed villain; a successful adventure
the tales of events unhappened are the lore of legends
united across the Realms, onward
@lootproject
adventure calls — demon and beasts lurk in the mist
** read the tale of tonight’s heroics (477 WETH saved from a demon)
↓
i've been trying to find the phrase that encompasses collab world-building, remix culture, composable media...
inspired by yesterday's epic hyperverse avengers world-building chat in the Mathcastles Discord, something clicked for me ↴
{ 𝙼𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊 }
The Lootverse just kicked off our first-ever Ecosystem Grants round via Gitcoin
The Lootverse is a community of builders, developers, designers, artists, writers and dreamers creating a decentralized fictional fantasy universe, on-chain & CC0.
Join us!
Chainspace mint plan:
└⫸MINT = Feb 16 @ 12pm PT
└⫸COMMUNITY CALL = Feb 15 @ 12pm PT
READ a bunch of wurdz:
└⫸
In chainspace, you are the art
This is a personal, experimental art project. No roadmap, no ongoing "team," no promises — just fun/art!
a
@el__ranye
x
@TimshelXYZ
experimental art project
└⫸
𝚊 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎
inscribed onchain on BTC on a single satoshi
will be minting via
@ourzora
mega thanks to
@isiain
who worked w/ me on a cross-chain BTC<>ETH renderer
announcement!
🔲unveiling , a home base for canon, lore & foundational principles for the
@lootproject
community
the goal: to help establish the foundation for an infinitely-expansive yet still-cohesive Lootverse
🔮 thou mayest!
as
@dhof
's mysterious and groundbreaking Corruption(s*) project moves towards "Chapter 2," here's what we know:
🧵 below
+ check out to catch up
+
@fabianstelzer
has a 4-part 🤯 documentary series you must watch (links at bottom of thread)
laughed out loud when
@scotato
&
@shahruz
showed me the
@okpcnft
demo yesterday
manifesting joy out of thin air with a few well placed pixels + cute sounds….i’m hooked
@okpcnft
gives us all permission to be artists (plus there’s some big 🎨🖼 energy in the mix too)
⛓🆗🎨⛓
I’ve been so deep in chainspace for the past 12 days that I am only now just coming up for air to realize that I (w/ help) have inscribed over 1% of all of the total BTC NFTs to date — aka immutable digital artifacts 🤣
❑ Chainspace
❑ Scrips
❑ Winnie the Pooh
❑ Muybridge
❑
on the eve of the
@okpcnft
Gallery opening, here's the story behind some of my on-chain OKPC "Artworks"
my theme: Distillation of Stories
I just 💜 what
@scotato
@shahruz
@cj_pais
have done here & am honored to be among the "Founding Artists"
⛓🎨⛓
yo
@CyBORg_BTC
looks like ur cat Bobo has escaped into chainspace
[deploy CBRC-20]
⌬ 🐈 BOBO 🐈 ⌬
truly just for fun and to see if it would work
*** link to the deploy inscription in the next tweet
s/o
@lib
for the inspo here +
@CyBORg_BTC
for checking my work
All right everyone, get ready for a 🤯⚡️community wide Lootverse call in the official
@lootproject
Discord
Today @ 1pm PST
Seeded by a clue from
@dhof
, a lightning bolt hit me & I’ve been working on it for 48 hours with
@ptrwtts
We’ve derived the meaning of the full 64k items
another “hidden in plain sight” 🤯 of
@lootproject
has revealed itself to me…goosebumps for 24 hrs
I’m not yet sure what the best venue or method is to showcase this epiphany
there is another cache of lore hiding inside the
@lootproject
contract
@dhof
👀 you blew my mind
what
@0xalxi
is building with
@spellsdao
feels genuinely new and special
some of the mechanics are still too big-🧠 for me, but
@0xalxi
— your vision and conviction is magnetic, and it’s clear how much heart and soul that you’re putting into this
🪄 keep buidling
reminder: 100% of proceeds from spells goes to a holder controlled treasury.
voting frontend is coming so the dao can fund projects building with spells.
through the mist, an exciting cross-Lootverse collab emerges...
@GenesisLoot
x
@LootExplorers
= Genesis Explorers
GA holders — vote now (15 hours left) 🗳️
↓↓↓
↑↑↑
teased back in Dec, now ready to roll:
🧵1/4
Adventurers of the 16 original Orders of the Lootverse, visualised in Explorer🧭form.
Just a small tease on something we've been working on with
@GenesisLoot
! These Explorers come with special heads that are unique to Genesis Loot bags. Soon.
I’m fired up to talk with
@ajt
on
@joinupstream
this week about unlocking new forms of networked creativity
with cc0 rights + the power of collective ownership, we are manifesting multiplayer storyworlds { ⋇ }
RSVP:
(🧵for more on multiplayer media)
the irony of Terraforms is that there is no second best
“come, take shelter
in our ascii dwarf fortresses
while waves of mediocrity crash all around us
together watch the hurricanes of obsolescence pass by
Terraforms is a portal to a new art world”
@0x113d
- preach!
truly,
@okpcnft
feels different and special in the best kind of ways:
➕ pure vibes
➕ art-forward
➕ collaborative
➕ fun & whimsical
➕ even the sound effects are ☺️!
➕ on chain
➕ interestingly-composable
➕ advances new tech ideas
= serious tech, presented as a little toy
my new definition for a thrilling Saturday evening:
designing models for ⛓ on-chain lore / collaborative media
@zoink
you just nudged the universe w/ this idea… (and extra points for it being a figjam)
🔮 the power of story will underpin the next major advancement for web3
that Loot Town Square tonight felt low-key monumental
if Loot becomes the global, decentralized media ecosystem we believe it can be, then tonight’s conversation between 50 of the core contributors will go down as a subtle but major step towards decentralized world-building
here’s something fun
drop your bc1 + wave through chainspace and RT pls
pick any portal here and screenshot
you are the art
[CHAINSPACE] — link in reply
will airdrop a custom one to one person
mints Weds
inscribed on BTC, bound to its ETH counterpart via the tokenuri
i'm in my happy place: sunday night, deep in data analysis
this will surface new insights for folks interested in seeing how the item rankings / character classes map to the 8,000 OG
@lootproject
bags
hint:
4541 = weakest bag
4599 = strongest bag
will share in a few hours...
𝚂𝙷𝙷𝙷𝙷𝙷𝙷𝙷 🤫
soon...
↳ The Librarium — a publishing app for writers to inscribe stories on-chain, by
@openquill
↳ The Eye — a magical device that contains an on-chain world
❂ follow
@genesiseyenft
for mint details this weekend
through a glitch in the matrix, a fold in the universe, a twist of fate…
**I just got to mint the one & only Genesis Mana
@flipmap
**
🙃 Flipmap is an incredible
@blitmap
extension project
🧙Genesis Mana is the main artifact of
@GenesisLoot
, our
@lootproject
extension project
I'm working on a children's book written & illustrated by Raev of the Fox
It's a story about a fox who weaves a bag out of dragonhide
She carries it with her & in it she collects all of her things
She feels, like children do with their prized possessions that it is magic
📜↓
there's a movement happening at the edges of the internet:
"collaborative world-buidling" = interconnected, composable, community-steered, immersive media projects
⛓🔮⛓
@WPeaster
captures the vibe well here (& fun to see such love for the Lootverse)
here's the first time this sentence has ever been said by a human being:
> **I JUST MINTED A BAGEL**
⛓🥯⛓
a pure vibes project from the wonderful
@highleyvarlet
i think
@dhof
just compressed me (
@TimshelXYZ
) into a mythical character into the Corruption(s*) universe
🤯
find me in the infinite loop hanging out with king arthur einstein, menes and shrodi
I’m consistently impressed w/ the
@LootExplorers
team
This integration with the Genesis Adventurers (
@GenesisLoot
) is a beautiful breakthrough for Loot
From low fidelity ◼️
to high fidelity 🧙♂️
💯👏 for thoughtfully anchoring this project to the lore
Adventurers of the 16 original Orders of the Lootverse, visualised in Explorer🧭form.
Just a small tease on something we've been working on with
@GenesisLoot
! These Explorers come with special heads that are unique to Genesis Loot bags. Soon.
well this is exciting
just launched a custom integration with
@OrdinalsMarket_
that renders the entire
@chainspaceapp
video experience right in the market
like an onchain Snapchat filter, Chainspace is more than a JPG — it's a high-functionality digital object
you are the art
it's 1:30am on a Saturday and i'm excavating hidden lore from the Loot contract
feels like August 2021 all over again
we're working on something fun, hopefully in time for Loot's anniversary
follow along
@OpenQuill
x
@GenesisLoot
or rather, keep an Eye out for updates 🧿
Book NFTs
⛓📕📗📘⛓
Books have barely even made it to Web 1.0 (Kindle?) let alone Web2.0
But books have been & will continue to be a universal source of human connection and meaning
Soon: dynamic, composable, collectable, digitally-native books, in stores and on-chain 🔮
a mythical dragon showed up in my wallet this morning….🐉
this is just a small window into
@okpcnft
(soon, soon)
thank you
@scotato
@shahruz
@cj_pais
for buidling something special here
and....we're back
we're all streaming/playing Loot Survivor (created by
@aloothero
x
@LootRealms
) in the
@lootproject
Discord rn
play here using an ArgentX wallet:
>
Terraforms 101
- a single terraform is called a parcel
- zone = color palette
- biome = the combo of ascii characters
- chroma = type of animation
each parcel has an x,y,z position in a 3d structure “the hypercastle” the artists made no visual for; the community has made many
ok
@aloothero
just blew my mind
a governance model not just based on "1 bag, 1 vote," but instead (or in addition) tied to "battles" using the actual
@lootproject
items
as you engage with the DAO, the xp of your items grows
such meta, much verse
🤯
**Lootverse Avengers assemble** — 🧙🦸♀️🤺
we have 20 hours left to vote for Bibliotheca/Realms in the
@gitcoin
x
@G7_DAO
Open Gaming grants program
👇
☝️
this is a moment for us to show off the magic & joy of the Lootverse
takes 3min
and — GO!
🧵👇
going to bring this vintage Predicta TV to the
@gnars_dao
ETH Denver lounge & let people step into Chainspace...IRL
will be there Thurs early afternoon
+ check out these five Gnarly Chainspace portals:
each one is inscribed to BTC for eternity — a 200%
Are you going to ETH Denver?
Stop by the Gnarly Smoke Lounge!
A free two day event hosted by
@gnars_dao
- FREE WEED (no joke) 🔥
- IRL and THPS Skate Contests 🛹
- Merch Giveaways 🧢
- Gnars NFTs 🤘
- Food Trucks 🚚
- Live Painting + More!
RSVP:
sending out an SOS
sending out an SOS
message in a
°°°°
= make contact w/ anonymous wallets
future:
- protocol for communities, white-labeled?
- $BOTTLE for governance/incentives?
@SendaBottleTo
OS:
a simple framework I’ve been honing:
❌ collaborative storytelling
✅ collaborative world-building
——
❌ mad libs/party games = fun, wacky, fleeting
vs.
✅ an interconnected web of independently-compelling multimedia, stitched together into a broadly-cohesive world = magic
[a 🧵for Loot geeks & CC0 believers]
introducing Loot Power Rankings:
a canonical method to measure the power/utility of all Loot, mLoot and
@genesisloot
bags
this uses the hidden Item Rankings model from the OG contract 🤯
🆕“All Bags” tab in here:
for those of us who have been hoarding Resources in preparation for the epic
@LootRealms
settling + pillaging game to be launched on
@StarkWareLtd
here is some fun alpha from
@ajwaxman
- I challenged him to make this & he just released it 2 min ago!
the Lootverse is open to all - thou mayest join/build/play/read/write/be with us
◼️ Loot is an open source ecosystem of interconnected sci-fantasy projects manifested out a shared dream
it’s an internet-native fantasy world, owned not by a company or startup or game studio
here’s an *early* mental map for a protocol to power the sustainable development of decentralized, collaborative media ecosystems
let’s manifest this into the universe
StoryChain cc
@zoink
“Art ┃Story ┃Community = Culture”
@zoink
love this
@zoink
the “thou mayest” vibes are strong in this one 🔮
ART + STORY + COMMUNITY = the three pillars of human culture
1️⃣art = NFTs
2️⃣community = DAOs
3️⃣story = [_____]
let’s build a collaborative media protocol, a foundation for stories
DM me to get involved
@LootRealms
@starkware
⛓ the Lootverse is buidling ⛓
this Lootverse Atlas: a metaphor for multi-level world-building
from a global worldview
to the 16 Orders
to individual Realms
in those Realms: crypts, caverns
in the crypts: bags of Loot &
@GenesisLoot
from those bags: stories, lore