Contributor
@abklabs
@SolanaFndn
Host
@theindexshow
building an army of open source contributors dedicated to the proliferation of the Solana Virtual Machine
After exhaustive efforts and exploring multiple avenues, it's with a heavy heart we announce the shutdown of Holaplex Inc. This is a tough thread for me to write as our team has invested so much time and energy in building Holaplex.
1/n🧵
I truly enjoyed this conversation with
@jbrukh
. The intersection of AI and decentralized networks is one of the most exciting aspects of crypto for me. It is still so early and I believe will have an outsized impact on the future of AI. This is a good primer if you're interested
🚀 Explore the future of
#AI
and blockchain with
@afkehaya
and
@jbrukh
, CEO
@coinfund_io
, on
@theindexshow
! From social media to stock trading predictions and innovative tools like
#ChatGPT
, they discuss the possibilities of the decentralized future. Listen now on Apple and
After over 3 years working
@SolanaFndn
I've left my role to start a new company called
@ABKLABS
. We're assembling an army of contributors dedicated to making building, launching, and maintaining SVM chains orders of magnitude easier. If you're building SVM forks hit me up.
To give context, Luminati (Bright Data) has 7 million mobile IPs in its network.
@UpRockCom
can get to 10 million in a year without spending a single dollar on user acquisition. Let that sink in - DePIN is shaking things up.
.
@UpRockCom
has over 1 million installs for their Android app. This forms a large proxy network that can be used by developers to mine data for AI.
In a matter of months, they have built a network of IP addresses that rivals some of the largest in the world on mobile. Bullish.
From day one Holaplex has embodied the value of Web3. It's 100% Open Source, Permissionless, Decentralized, and built by and for Community.
Community is by far the most important part of any Web3 project.
This is why we've created the Hola Community Fund.
I had the opportunity to join
@VinnyLingham
on his show
@vinnylinghampod
yesterday. He asked me why I chose to build on
@solana
.
Today marks 3 years since I made the leap.
TLDR: Culture - Build and ship at a breakneck pace. Faster. Better. Stronger. Leaner.
🧵
Almost every team in this picture is in the Zuma telegram chat contributing in some way to open source tools and software. If you are not in the chat then DM me.
I am honestly blown away by everyone. So many messages supporting
@holaplex
and our team. My DMs are filled with teams asking how they can help.
@solana
is amazing thank you all.
Builders across
@solana
are leaning in and stepping up to secure the future of DeFi and the vision we all share for Web3. Powered by open source software and a decentralized network. Inspiring to watch. LFG.
My 2 year anniversary of joining the
@solana
ecosystem and working
@SolanaFndn
was at the beginning of this month.
Been reflecting on how far we've come and all that we've built.
A thread on why I chose to come to Solana and why I'm still here. 🧵
@holaplex
exists to empower and discover indie creators. Since day one, we've been entirely focused on a suite of no-code required solutions built on top of
@metaplex
that would enable creators to get up and running minting and selling NFTs on customizable storefronts in minutes
G(SV)M - Shout out to all the teams building SVM chains and contributing to open source. Retweet this and tag your team if you're building an SVM chain.
Here's a short list I have of early pioneers in this community. Who am I missing?!
@EclipseFND
@iron_xyz
@SonicSVM
@mantis
38 years on the planet today and I’ve never felt more invigorated.
Woke up at 4 am, drank coffee, rolled BJJ, surfed, reflecting on how far we have come and where we are going. I have a loving wife, perfect children, and a career I love with people who I trust and who are as
In a first for DeFi, we're making our world-class routing engine freely available for anyone to run on their own servers!
Developers can now run their own instance of the Swap API with no rate limits or cost whatsoever.
📖
The reason I'm so stoked about this partnerships. MonkDAO's interest in having their own version of featuring works curated by them of artists members of their DAO embodies what we value
@holaplex
. Community. Open Source. Decentralized. Permissionless
Excited to announce that we are partnering with
@holaplex
to create an aggregated site of all the Monke Creators using their service! If you're a Monke Artist go check out the latest announcement in the DAO for more information!
g(sv)m - we've started a small telegram group to coordinate open-source contributions around making SVM exponentially easier to build and maintain - dm me if you're a project building your own SVM chain or tools.
Totally agree with this take. I have always been super impressed with the
@staratlas
team and
@at_mwagner
. I spoke to a few team members at Breakpoint - even some who had been let go over the last year and every one of them was super bullish and dedicated. They all had great
.
@staratlas
is the most important game in web3. It’s do or die for them to make a AAA game work with crypto native mechanics. What’s awesome is that the team is constantly shipping and iterating, which is the opposite approach of traditional big game studio development. It’s
Profiles on
@holaplex
are an important step towards realizing the vision of Web3 at Holaplex. They are powered by
@metaplex
AuctionHouse, Holaplex's indexer, and our on-chain social graph. What is an on chain social graph and why should you care?
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We’ve updated profiles! This is big...
Now anyone can sell, place offers, & buy from more than 10 million Solana NFTs via your Holaplex profile! This release is a game changer bc it turns all wallets into NFT stores where direct peer to peer sales are possible
Congrats to
@saydialect
. Totally agree with
@joemccann
's take here - this is great validation. It's a huge market op and the Dialect team I'm sure is up to the challenge to compete. LFG.
Everything SVM - Our mission and goal is simple - build useful open-source software that accelerates Solana.
This week we are doing an experiment - to see if we can build an audience and community around open source and SVM
Amazing... "The King" of
@BoryokuDragonz
just auctioned off on
@holaplex
's Art Basel store for 1,111 SOL or $234,000 USD. It was collected by a collective of
@solBOOGLE
's.
@0xCelon
joined our spaces to say the Boogles have special plans for The King to be announced soon.
.
@UpRockCom
has over 1 million installs for their Android app. This forms a large proxy network that can be used by developers to mine data for AI.
In a matter of months, they have built a network of IP addresses that rivals some of the largest in the world on mobile. Bullish.
2/ Together, we onboarded 10,000 artists and generated $20M in market volume paid directly to creators. Recently, our new product, HUB, powered innovative projects including the biggest NFT drop on Solana, with a whopping 13 million NFTs!
.
@0xbrainjar
and I are doing a series of Live Streams next week to chat all things SVM. We'll host the founders of different teams on each stream. They will happen daily at 12-1 EST
Mark it on your calendar if you want to hear the latest on whats being built in this community
This is a must listen for anyone building on Solana.
@staratlas
is a very important project imo.
@at_mwagner
gave some safe advice for founders on this episode and opened up about his experience building Star Atlas during the bear.
There is a growing set of what I'm calling "value-added services" that
@solana
validators will offer to the
#solana
ecosystem.
@cronos_so
is one of them. Take a look at the recent recording of the validator round table to learn more
It was so cool to meet the
@solBOOGLE
community
@SolanaConf
. They are all super down to earth and highly accomplished individuals. My mind is blown seeing what has become of Boogle and I know they will accomplish great things for the ecosystem. Amazing to see what they have done
4/ Thanks to the leadership of my co-founder
@jadedbanker
, our VP of Engineering,
@espiKnwldgBmbs
, and our dedicated team, we shipped HUB in just 4 months with a small team after deciding to pivot to enterprise.
Now more than ever, developers building open source projects on
@solana
need to band together.
If you're building something open source drop your repo here and retweet.
The new
@STEAL_THIS_SHOW
episode is out! In this episode, we meet Alex Kehaya(
@afkehaya
) of VPN Orchid to discuss the company's radical new decentralized approach to improving privacy for internet users.
I'm super proud of our community and team for launching Marketplace today. Quick call out that this product is powered by
@Metaplex
's AuctionHouse, an open source protocol that powers escrow-free listings. I'm grateful to work together knowing that a rising tide lifts all ships.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Introducing....The Holaplex Marketplace Standard.
#holaplexmarketplace
✅Customized with your brand
✅Escrow-free NFT listings
✅Set your own transaction fees
✅No-code required
Read more below👇
G(SV)M - We have a TG chat with 69 of some of the best builders on Solana. Our purpose is simple - create useful open-source software. Our focus is making SVM chains orders of magnitude easier to ship and make sure they are interoperable with all other SVMs including mainnet
To practice what we preach, we are not only open-sourcing our software but also our sales deck for you to copy.
If you show capable people how to fish with your tools then you will succeed in making those tools unstoppable
Why) Control Your Destiny
How) Build Unstoppable Open Source Software
What) For
@holaplex
it’s HUB.
Let's talk about How) You build unstoppable open-source software by ensuring your code is forkable, composable, and easy to contribute to.
Calling all projects and devs building open source
@metaplex
Tell me in the comments what you're building and how others can contribute. I'll go first :)
@holaplex
recently shipped open source no code marketplaces powered by our open source indexer.
The most impactful mind shift is to stop thinking of yourself as a holder and start thinking of yourself as a contributor. Once that happens, anything’s possible.
@metaplex
and
@holaplex
represent a shift towards bringing all revenues from digital goods (and even all of e-commerce including physical goods) on-chain.
When you build decentralized web properties with all their revenues on-chain you start to enable very interesting use cases
Full Lineup Reveal 🐒🔊
Auction
#11
will be going live Saturday, February 5th on
@holaplex
Auction time: 12:00PM EST
Duration: 8 hour auction ⚡️
Starting bid: ◎ 5
Tick size: ◎ 1
Gap time: 5 minutes
I am honestly speechless. It's amazing to see
@solana
's tech get adoption outside of solana mainnet. Everything we have built is open source, and is built on top of a deep open source stack. The more code reuse we have across all ecosystems the faster everything grows. 🚀🚀🚀
One of my favorite problems in crypto being solved by
@lavanetxyz
and
@yaircleper
. Yair is an absolute beast of an entrepreneur. You will enjoy this episode I guarantee it.
🚀 New
@theindexshow
episode! Host
@afkehaya
joins
@yaircleper
, CEO
@lavanetxyz
, for a deep dive into Web3, Lava's blockchain RPC and how their indexing infrastructure is revolutionizing DeFi with access to multiple chains. Listen now!
3/ We’ve worked tirelessly to find a sustainable path forward or a strategic partner to keep HUB alive but have come up short. We are so thankful to our team and our investors for the opportunity to build Holaplex.
I have met so many great people at
@SolanaConf
many of them are builders and entrepreneurs who were Solana skeptics and are now realizing how much potential there is in this ecosystem and just how good the tech is. The tide is turning. Very cool to be a part of this.
Anyone here use an android smart watch for health and fitness tracking? Ordered my
@solanamobile
phone and am looking to replace my
@Apple
watch too so I can get the full android experience. Looking for recommendations:)
You haven't made it in crypto until you start being impersonated. Well, today is the day for me - someone trying to scam via discord. I will never ever ask you for your seed phrases nor will I dm you on Discord. Stay safe out there folks.
6/ We are in active discussions with several teams to take point on maintaining HUB and servicing the customers that we’d planned to onboard in the coming months.
This sums up what we are building at
@holaplex
. Centralized business models aim to dominate and own markets and categories. Web3 is a world where the community (which is the market) takes direct ownership in the value they create and the governance of the tools they use.
Just watched a demo for a product that enables users to create their own crypto ETF and then sell them as a token. Enabling an easy on-ramp for new investors into crypto. Bullish.
@hackerhouses
I keep thinking about what
@akshaybd
has been saying about billion-dollar communities. We may have started one with the SVM Community Chat - 170+ people who are some of the best builders on Solana - all with a desire to build useful open-source software to accelerate Solana.
.
@rajgokal
and
@aeyakovenko
still regularly talk to builders on
@solana
. This direct connection with the core customer/user is a huge reason for the success of this network.
Customer development and discovery never ends.
5/ While we close our doors, we're optimistic about HUB's potential to power many innovative products in our ecosystem. HUB has always been open source and available for anyone to self host and contribute to. HUB will continue to live on and be maintained by the ecosystem.
The prevailing consensus is that access to high quality compute and especially GPUs is constrained by supply.
The reality is there is an over supply you just have to know how to get it.
DePIN and DeComp are the future of physical infrastructure IMO.
Coinbase, in their 2024 outlook report, suggests that DePIN and DeComp will continue to be significant themes for the year and beyond, specifically highlighting Akash among others.
$AKT
Source:
3.5 years ago I joined
@orchidprotocol
to build an internet free of censorship and surveillance. It’s been an amazing ride and created so many opportunities for me. I'm forever thankful. I’m transitioning into an advisory role
@OrchidProtocol
and joining
@solana
full-time.
.
@VinnyLingham
told me when he invested in
@holaplex
that his goal is "To be the most valuable investor on the capable, no matter how much I invested".
Man has he delivered on that intention for us and our community.
7/ These customers represent several large brands who plan to leverage HUB to power their Web3 activations in 2024. If you’re interested in exploring this with us, please shoot me a DM.
.
@gregosuri
Thanks so much for coming on the show! Greg is one of my favorite people in crypto and
@akashnet_
is an important project to watch. Lots of insightful thought leadership from Greg in this episode.
🎧Listen to
@theindexshow
's new interview with
@gregosuri
, Founder and CEO of
@akashnet_
, the world's first
#opensource
cloud. We take a deep dive into creating censorship-resistant networks, big tech deplatforming, and building a decentralized web.
Most if not all projects in crypto should be Open Source from day one. It’s good for building community, drives innovation through composability, and is better for security. WDYT? If you have not open sources, Why?
This is the power of building composable open-source software. Excited to work with
@saydialect
to power notification for all NFTs on Solana!
We're using our indexer to query across both
@metaplex
and dialect to make all this happen. LFG!!!
1/n GM NFT COLLECTOOOOORS. We’re live with
@Holaplex
!
We’re thrilled to power notifications for the NEW Holaplex Profile Standard, allowing users to list, sell, and make offers on NFTs. With Dialect, you can be notified via Telegram, SMS, Email, or direct-to-wallet
We are excited to share the premiere of our podcast Follow the White Rabbit. Go down the rabbit hole with host
@afkehaya
& former White House CIO of DHS, secret service agent & investor Rich Staropoli whose career reads like a
#TomClancy
novel. Listen now!