Ok y’all, it’s finally time.
Drop Your ENS.
Then send your reply tweet to Metabot,
@Metagame
’s Telegram bot:
@the_meta_bot
(not twitter) to secure your spot on our next NFT's allowlist
Every time I try to read hexadecimal crypto addresses, it gives me an aneurysm.
Some addresses have an ENS, but most (anons, contracts) won't.
Wat do?
I spent a weekend hacking together Onoma: human-readable names for hexadecimal addresses.
We're one year into NFTs. The narrative has been around finally paying artists for their work & 10k PFP communities. This is a fraction of the possibilities.
The next phase: earned NFTs.
Today we release Birthblock, the first in a series exploring the power of earned NFTs.
🧵
The energy in Crypto is unmatched. You can see it on Twitter. You can *feel* it in New York. A bear market doesn't scare me one bit. There's enough builders now. We've reached the tipping point. There's no going back.
🔀 Some personal news 🔀
After an amazing 3+ years with
@Affirm
, today is my last day! I’ve made friends that I consider family and opportunities that help me grow beyond my expectations 🌱
And now, I’m off to spend a month living and jamming with a crew of
@beondeck
fellows!
Very excited to share I've joined
@_shadowxyz
as their 3rd engineer 🌗
I've spent the last few years working at the consumer app layer of crypto
And while we've seen a few consumer apps acquire and retain meaningful DAUs, there's still a lot more infrastructure to build
Closed on a house in Austin Texas this Friday. Stoked to make this my home base 🏡
Thankful for friends that bring their portable grill over to make dinner happen on our first night in the house!
Every transaction on a blockchain tells a small piece of a larger story. We are in the hieroglyphics era, staring at Etherscan, trying to make sense of what happened.
What's next?
@Metagame
has been building evm-translator: an open-source library to interpret EVM transactions.
Just terminated my SF lease after 4.5 years there
Looking forward to a nomadic summer & fall!
What are your favorite places on the west coast? Criteria:
- warm weather
- near nature
- near a body of water
- fast WiFi
Some on my list:
- Big Bear Lake, CA
- Hood River, OR
In 2021, we saw impressive innovations around on-chain metadata like
@chain_runners
,
@artblocks_io
.
In 2022, we’ll see more NFTs with continuously updating metadata.
Today we release Token Garden, the 2nd in a series to explore the power of ~continuously updating~ earned NFTs.
Some personal news...
I'm officially sunsetting
@metagame
Here's what I've learned after 2+ years of focusing on how crypto can serve values-aligned communities
The Unbundling of Organized Religion:
- House of worship: The Gym / Yoga studio
- Daily prayer: Headspace / Oak
- Scriptures: Marvel / Super Hero sagas
- Kosher eating: Whole 30
Pretty excited to be joining
@beondeck
’s 4th cohort!
I’ve known for a long time I want to build something from the ground up. It’s finally time for me to start starting companies.
Will be doing a lot of exploring ideas with this group, particularly around
#TheFutureOfLiving
Goodbye to the era of pump & fizzle-out 10K PFP NFT projects.
The next phase is here: Earnable NFTs for communities.
Today,
@She__Fi
launched their Earnable Robo Novas on
@Metagame
's platform.
Let's dig in ↯
I'm building something to help people coordinate living in new cities with their friends for a month or two at at time
Anyone already started doing this? 🏘🌎
You've made a lot of transactions on-chain, but do you even know what you've been doing?
You could go look through your Etherscan... but you're already tired just thinking about that.
Enter Logbook📜,
@Metagame
's fourth Artifact.
💰How to retire by 31 while working fun jobs:
- Get a CS degree
- work at 3 breakout series B/C startups for 3 years each as an engineer/PM
That’s it.
You’ll make roughly $1m, $2m, $3m at the 3 startups as you start at a higher level each time
When the BeReal guy pitched the idea to his eng friend, they probably were like
Lemme get this straight… you want all the users to upload 2 photos to our servers in the same two minute window?? And then rest of the day, the servers sit idle??
There's been a few cool NFT projects that change over time.
@dhof
's Corruptions is a notable one.
In future, we'll see more NFTs that change over time based on your on-chain data.
And with that, we release
@the_metagame
's third and final Phase 1 NFT: Heartbeat
Are you a Solo Staker? Are you stoked about landing your first block? Then we've got something for you.
At
@paradigm
's hackathon a few Fridays ago
@gregskril
and I threw together something I'd been thinking about for awhile: an NFT gated to individuals running a validator node.
Pretty awesome to see
@prtyDAO
organize a team to build something with great product-market fit, launch it, and generate 60eth ($170k) in revenue on day one, enabling them to continue building.
Just the beginning
Introducing: ✨ Earnable Avatars✨
Earnable Avatars are a new way to show who you are in your community and how you’ve contributed. Traits are mapped to contributions and participation.
@llamacommunity_
is the first community to create an Earnable Avatar powered by Metagame.
Last month, I released Birthblock: an NFT based on your first Ethereum transaction.
So far, 861 Birthblocks have been minted! (minting is still open)
I wrote a bit more about the details of Birthblock, and what's next for
@The_Metagame
!
My 88 year old grandfather having yet ANOTHER girlfriend, this one taking him to Hawaii next week, really drives me to think my problem must be that I live in SF, right? Right????
Given the concept of Soulmate, there is probably a similar “Buildmate”, someone where the two of you enjoy building or creating stuff together. The creation(s) will be stellar, and the two of you will have so much fun doing it
Onoma takes an address and deterministically turns it into a human name.
Onoma names are comprised of 4 components:
- Title
- First name
- Middle name
- Last name
For example: Ms. Molly Elliot Cassin
📣 New feature – auto-export shadow events to
@DuneAnalytics
Share custom contract data with the Dune community in minutes. Set it once, and let the data flow.
Finished The Ascent of Money earlier this year.
For anyone in crypto, it was a great way to understand how innovation in money, credit, insurance, bonds, and equities affected the rise and falls of nations, and shaped our world
The fact that you can do things like read the Partybid contracts from
@prtyDAO
and learn more solidity that way is pretty cool. Open Source by default is pretty frickin cool
A retroactive airdrop (like $ENS) for contributing to and supporting a project is a great example of a better mechanism.
@darkforest_eth
's prize planets is another great example.
Birthblock is the first earned NFT of
@The_Metagame
What is The Metagame?
You're playing it right now. It's the game we're all playing together by building Web3 and an infinite number of new universes.
Dad and I took Grandpa out for his first ride around the lake on his new wheels!
At 90 years old I, too, will allow myself to upgrade to an electric trike
Working on putting out my first NFT: there will be unlimited total mints, but natural rarity will still surface based on on-chain data.
I am looking for an artist to help me create awesome generative SVG art based on the underlying data. Who should I talk to?