got some AB pieces recently
I have zero credentials in art, yet I am so confident that Gen art will be a staple in modern art's renaissance and one of the more subtle, refined and enduring flagships of crypto culture.
Enough dogs.
What are my best AB's and why?
i sold my $BTC to get a punk
did it before the latest BTC beauty, but i don't see any reason to regret it.
it looked like me. Sue me
#cryptopunks
#punkfollowpunk
My kid was born the other day.
I decided to celebrate it with minting a QQL.
The QQL seed is mine, as the kid is most probably, too.
So welcome son and QQL
#251
!
#251
is called "Us".
"Us" is about perspective...
“Us” is a reminder about how small I am and we are. A reminder
Azuro had $650k in revenue in December.
On track to become a top 10 DeFi protocol by revenue in H1 2024.
Joining the likes of maker, uniswap, curve, gmx, aave…
I've somehow become a top collector of The Harvest...
i guess the nft bear hits hard and may get worse still
But in the meatime - man....🤑!
Which pallete do u think is best?
from left to right: 1 (bara gaon), 2 (moya), 3 (arrakis)?
Just got a punk and got so much positive energy from ppl i dont know
Then listened to the last
@RaoulGMI
talk which made me painfully boolish as always
Then bought this meme by 6529 /
@GuidoDisalle
Wagmi
🍾crypto and crypto culture 🍾
Spent last few hours on the Harvest mint on AB.
I found the dark Harvests totally insane.
It's like Subscapes & Meridian by
@mattdesl
and Raster by
@GaloAndStuff
+ some secret ingredient coming together in a crazy package.
I think
@perkwerk_
totally killed it.
azuro is a tech/liquidity layer where applications sit.
but it's not an l2
so people always ask me what to compare it to...
If you want to compare it to L2s here's where it would sit for 2 metrics relevant for both azuro and L2s.
Monthly transactions - between Starknet and
Ever wondered why one of the first and most promising primitives in crypto never took off?
Why are General
#PredictionMarkets
doomed?
Is a brand new Liquidity Pool design going to give birth to Prediction Markets for Sportsbetting?
A thread…
I got my first piece of SuperRare 1/1 art from
@LindseyPriceArt
this weekend. Haven't heard of
#retrofuturism
before, but i now love it...
A beautiful mix of contrasts and connections
Azuro did a lot recently! TLDR:
- Any LP can get 1-click exposure into thousands of betting markets for real yield
- Anyone can build a betting site in a few days without own liquidity or risk-mgmt know-how
- Bettors get a piece of Azuro with each bet they make!
We have now launched v2 on Polygon and today we are launching the Azuro Score!
v2 = big, meaningful core updates
Score = the earliest opportunity to get a piece of Azuro - earn points which will be convertible to $AZUR tokens when token is launched!
Let's unpack... 👇
Only have 6 months experience with crypto VCs, but can already say
@alliancedao
is one of the (few) deep value adds, and with a vision beyond pure $.
Cheers to keeping it like that for a long time!
🌊Azuro Completes Pre-Launch Round Raising Total Funding To $11M🌊
We’re excited to announce the closure of our pre-launch funding round, increasing the total capital raised to $11M. Investors include
@SevenXVentures
,
@fenbushi
, Arrington Capital ,
@polymorphiccap
,
@RedBeardVC
,
Attention all azuro actual, real VCs.
Due to betterment of market conditions we have been forced to increase the FDV of the pre-series A to $10B!
New safts incoming…🚀
The Harvest - best for visual Storytelling and Animation.
The feeling u get seeing these unfold is smth else. If you're into space vibes u can go nuts!
400 of them
5ETH floor
i love them
My favourite bags:
Anticyclone - William is going to be a superstar imo, just gotta give it time.
The Harvest & Fontana - both finding bottom atm (to my extra naked eye). People are sleeping here.
Big wakey wakey sometime in the future
if u really think of it everything is gambling BUT as per societal norms only "gambling" is bad gambling, the rest is fine
crypto is one of the few things that is seen as bad although its not "gambling"
but it is
very much it is
As of today
@azuroprotocol
supports Tennis, MMA, & boxing, too. This comes on top of Soccer, Dota2, CS:GO, Basketball.
The decentralized betting revolution powered by pooled liquidity is on track to blow heads off early in 2023, when liquidity deepens.
Squiggles - first ever. Best for historical significance
.
By SnowFro, Founder of Artblocks itself. Showcases the power of genart so nicely. A signature.
nearly 10k of them
11ETH floor
2 months ago i told
@P_Azuro
about Generative art
Now he’s already a top collector with so much appreciation for the space and the artists 🏎💨
Yesterday he sent me what is my first piece of Artblocks Playground -
@kGolid
Paper Armada 🙏 😍
Who can i speak to next? 😂
I swear The Harvest is like artblocks 2.0
Aesthetically it's far from the only outstanding mint and ofc that side is very subjective
But the strength of the story here is another level...
If you're into space vibes u can go nuts.
Fidenza - best for overall beauty
Beauty as a collection, beauty as single items, and beauty in all ways of display - from thumbnail to massive museum display. Consensus God level
999 beauties
cant afford, look don't touch
UX in crypto is hot talk (account abstraction, on-ramps, gasless trns and what not), as indeed it's quite bad.
BUT if you are not solving a problem - you can have the best UX in the world - NOONE will use you.
Utility > UX
any day
Azuro recap 7days post TGE:
Week-on-week total Volume: 2.15x up to 28m last week
Week-on-week Users: 1.86x up to 2466 last week
Total volume for June: $57M to date
Total revenue for June: $617k to date
Azuro climbs to the top 20 protocols overall, by revenue last 24hrs, and
Azuro now accounts for >half of all active daily addresses on GnosisChain. All other protocols combined have less.
thank you
#FIFAWorldCup
@azuroprotocol
i also think it's finally possible and imminent
in our area, in particular - we are now having large, successful mainstream entities looking to launch applications on azuro. Crazy, but it will become a reality in 2024.
It is a testament about how far crypto has come in general
idk what these
@alliancedao
guys feed their engineers but they've been incubating winner after winner
- pump
- wasabi
- thunder
- defined
- fantasy
- pendle
- paraswap
sheesh
it is actually very fitting that
@azuroprotocol
launches today.
I believe that what will get us to the next stage with crypto is solving for real problems on-chain, at scale
Improving effectiveness, decreasing cost, introducing transparency and getting closer to fairness
LFG
In these tough times, a new era, in which real-world problems in online betting are solved on-chain begins...
🚀 Azuro has officially launched on mainnet! 🚀
PLUS The first front-end has connected to the Azuro Protocol!
Talking with
@DrewAustin
from KOD tonight about betting, blockchain and the Azuro VS KOD competition where we'll be showing the Knights how serious betting on soccer is done 😜
GnosisDAO Community Call 🔒🐮🪐🦉
Tomorrow Oct 19 @ 3PM UTC / 5PM CET!
Gnosis ecosystem updates and a chat w/
@RossToTheFuture
about the
@azuroprotocol
, prediction markets, and decentralized betting 😎🤘
I see some people asking around for true on-chain betting for the
#FIFAWorldCup
Crypto ppl at large still don't know that it now exists.
Yes - it does
There’s never been an on-chain sport betting line like the one now supported by
@azuroprotocol
now that went well!
but like, for real now...
Someone created a new wallet, came in, placed $880k in bets in 1 day.
Some of u are hedging all sides and dropping the spread $ onto the LPs like no tomorrow.
i dont know 🙃
Anticyclone - best for grails
The good outputs are simply insane, the most beautiful single AB pieces. Plus... the natural context, the weather, the elements - wind, water, fire, forest. The drama. My favorite!
800 ACs
9ETH floor
gib pls
People have been speaking about
#GambleFi
for a while now…
Having spent ~15 years in the industry and ~6 in crypto (2 of which with Azuro) here’s what i honestly make of it…
There’s several main groups of projects, i’ll go through them one by one…
The Harvest is a holy grail genart collection which is widely unknown as of yet.
I love the vibes, i love the colours, and the variety.
And they print 2nd to none.
Happy birthday
gm! 🎉🎉🎉
Today marks the one-year anniversary of The Harvest, incredible how time flies. Now let’s get an appreciation thread going guys, post your Harvest! 🔥
Some say Tether is as pure as mountain snow on MontBlanc.
And there is one place where ppls apparently get much more of it by sitting on it.
1 place. 19%
Cantor CEO Howard Lutnick's full comments on Bloomberg about Tether:
"I manage many of their assets. [...] from what we've seen, and we did a lot of work, they have the money they say they have [...] we've seen it, and they have it"
Back in the day i would look at this and think - Look at these royal suckers. And some of them surely are.
But having spent many years seeing the ins and outs of centralized betting up close, the above is far from the only perspective…
i’m giving a talk at
@dappcon_berlin
tomorrow, Boat stage, 2:45CET.
*Prediction Markets are Dead. Long Live Prediction Markets!*
Been working night and day for over a year, and can’t wait to speak about what’s wrong and what’s right 🔥
If around by any chance- please reach out!
The first telegram betting bot ever in the world was built on
@azuroprotocol
2 weeks ago.
Now there’s 3 more.
Imo, beyond the shortterm meta, tg betting has immense staying power in the longterm.
The best odds for sportsbetting in the world are now on
@gnosischain
, via
@azuroprotocol
Yes, they are better or on par with any centralized betting operator globally, they are ON CHAIN, and they are that good on GnosisChain, which is fast, robust and insanely cheap.
@mashable
@joerogan
Reminds me of when
@elonmusk
was saying that as humans we have all this massive computing power, but the shitty bandwidth of finger-typing to interact with it. Finally time for things to get weird…
the market understands how big of a deal the uni fee switch is better than ct does
it’s not about discount cash flow and p/e and other midcurve valuation stuff, it’s about the legal audacity to do i in the sec’s face while being based in the us
they must know something we don’t
Normie friend asked me about crypto and got into how to buy low and sell high and how to go off-ramp to fiat.
I explained to him that crypto is not like other assets and that here we buy high and never sell. Rest assured go to fiat.
I think he liked it.
I love crypto, but the deeper i’ve gone in, the more i see what percentage the speculators, farmers, sybillers, fakers, influencers, even outright scammers, i.e. net value extractoors are.
So hats off to all the few real builders!
Hats off to value creation.
22/ Second, I believe the new standard for what it means to build a top web3 company will emerge during this bear. It'll take the best of web2 and web3 on all fronts: tech, team, ops, gtm, etc—and do what no web2 or web3 company can alone.
These startups will lead the next bull.
Alliance works with founders to build world-changing companies of the future — and we'd love to work with you.
The deadline to apply for ALL11 2023 is June 14th.
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The bullrun is joyful, but brutal
It sucks out most attention span that is left in all participants and removes most substance. It leaves very much only what is there on the surface.
Narratives usually happen because there is substance, and substance creates promise. Once it
"in other words there r at least several hundreds, possibly 1000 l2s right now
the (rhetorical) question is: how is the long tail of l2s going to survive when there r only a handful of useful dapps?
and why does everyone want to become platforms so soon instead of building a
l2beat currently shows 95 l2s (52 active and 43 upcoming)
but just as a quick sanity check the list misses a number of high profile well funded l2s that went public recently
on top of that there r number of teams i personally know of that r building or strongly considering
Landed in 🇺🇸 for
#ETHDenver
. Good, funky, big crowd here!
First things to report:
😵💫Listened to
@harmonyprotocol
give a 1hr talk at their party about love, togetherness and Africa.
I think they might be trying to pull a Cardano on us
✅Already had pasta with chicken. Sry🇮🇹
i wrote a short essay
"The love story between gambling and crypto.
What was and whats to be..."
It touches the gambling industry's path of fragmentation, the deepening embrace of crypto, and why GambleFi was a LARP until recently... link below👇
super hyped about becoming part of DeFi Alliance's accelerator. As the project transitions to
@allianceDAO
, the first digital startup nation, I expect support for founders will only continue to grow 🙏
1) 📢 Announcing Alliance DAO 📢
DeFi Alliance and hundreds of other top builders are coming together to form Alliance, the world's first digital startup nation, to accelerate the best Web3 startups.