Thoughts on Blast AMA:
The bad:
No real reason to hold the token unless you're in it for the long haul - fundamental misalignment between early adopters (who have the token now) and the intended user of the chain.
Ultimately it means you're betting Blast being successful in
๐จ๐จ TGE INFORMATION ON-CHAIN ๐จ๐จ
Blast contract just 'funded' with 14bn BLAST
NGL bros - if Blast S1 is really just 14% for ALL Blast and Blur there's gonna be some serious FUD
If this is just for for Points/Gold and doesn't include Blur S3 then we might be cooking.
Would
BLAST GOLD SUCKS AND IS ONLY FOR WHALES
After spending a lot of time grinding Blast farms over the last 3 months and using just the absolute worst dApps in existence to send thousands of txns, ico can officially say that Blast sucks and gold is a joke and it's only for whales.
๐จ๐จ SUPER EARLY BLAST ALPHA ๐จ๐จ
ico just got sent a tip on a new Blast SocialFi project -
@CherryOnBlast
Tbh we don't really know much about it yet, but they have a little spinny-wheel that lets you collect points. All we had to do was connect our X account (read-only
Alright - that's enough.
@PacmanBlur
- time to zero out
@DistrictOneIO
Their model as exposed by a mod is literally to get people to P&D shtcoins every day so they can rake in fees on the gigantic share of gold you gave them.
That's 100% not acceptable. End this madness.
ONE MILLION US DOLLARS LOCKED IN THE CONTRACT TO GENERATE INTEREST/YIELD COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING CANCER RESEARCH
ico so proud of the Blast community coming together in this enormous showing of supporting for those impacted by cancer.
Thanks
@blastr_xyz
for the platform
Thanks
๐จ๐จ DISTRICT ONE EPOCH 3 GOLD OUT ๐จ๐จ
ngl we had a lot more gems this epoch than last and got less gold. 100% not worth the time.
cannot wait for the site to disappear entirely. send to 0 with haste
๐จ๐จ FINISH YOUR MULTIPLIERS - GUIDE HERE ๐จ๐จ
Alright look bros - you've got approximately 10 hours to make sure you finish your 12 multipliers to get your 24x on points. You've been earning them the whole time and the multiplier is retroactive.
If you don't do this, you're
๐จ๐จ QUICK HITS ON BLAST TOKENOMICS ๐จ๐จ
17% airdrop (14% Points/Gold - 3% Blur):
BULLISH AF for Blast early adopters. Feels a bit rekt for Blur farmers, but also they ate HEAVILY on S1/2 of Blur...so kinda makes sense
VESTING SCHEDULE:
25% per year. Substantially scaled back
๐จ๐จ FANTASY TACTICS + GOLD GIVEAWAY ๐จ๐จ
ico has partnered with Fantasy for an exclusive giveaway for ico Blast Pass holders!
Here's the details:
3x Winners
- 1 Tactic
- 10 BLAST GOLD
- 2,500 FAN pts
HOW TO ENTER:
1) Follow
@fantasy_top_
&
@beast_ico
2) Like/RT this
Introducing Tactics: Your Ultimate Social Betting Opportunity! ๐งฉ
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In addition, we're welcoming 11 New Heroes.
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Itโs better to be lucky (and a little early) than good ๐ค๐ผ
Follower
#1
for
@inkonbtc
, and today Iโm thrilled to announce that I GOT INKED - canโt wait to dream up something crazy with the team.
Thanks for the opportunity
@BrunnoEth
,
@zetman_eth
, and
@StevenComicMan
๐จ๐จPACMOON V2 IS LIVE๐จ๐จ
TIME SENSITIVE: This is it lads - we've been waiting. Pacmoon v2 launch has hit. Decentralizing the community and earnings.
Here's what to do to start earning immediately -
1) Go here and sign in:
2) Use code "beast_ico" to
๐จ๐จ UPDATED PACMOON EARNING ESTIMATES ๐จ๐จ
ico is back with some updated estimates and statistics for the every hungry Pacmoon community. I'll hit you with fast facts at the top for the TL;DR crowd, followed by the methodology and actual meat below. Let's roll
Fast Facts:
1)
Looking forward to a full breakdown on Pacmoon's v2 decentralized community model later, but for now a couple quick notes:
1) All validators (10k+ PAC or wPAC holders) get an allotment of points per 24 hours. (reset at 00:00 UTC).
2) Any likes on
@pacmoon_
tagged content
Did Blast have a ton of just absolutely awful dApps to start? Yep
Did we all burn a bunch of money on some truly terrible farms at one point or another? Most likely
Did we almost give Kim Jong nearly $60m? 100%
Did we get ridiculed by the entirety of CT while they were busy
Huge success story for this Blast team
These guys changed course on their gold distribution a little over a week ago (we have no idea if our public comments prompted or not), but theyโre shipping fast now and using their gold to bring users on platform.
Love to see it
SZN1 Starts NOW!
Welcome to Szn 1 of Trade. The Game. Our best version of the game yet with new gaming experiences and improved features and new ways to earn GOLD ๐โฌ๏ธ
Just got off a call with the Pacmoon team.
ico don't think most people realize how much these guys care about what they've built and are still hoping to build.
The bar for success and competence has been set so fking low in this space that everyone considers it a great success
APE OR LIQUIDATE - BLAST GOLD 4 DISTRIBUTION
Here's the deal - we know we're getting two more gold distributions before TGE. With 30 days left, we should be expecting gold distro notes for drop 4 in the next 24-48 hours.
SPEED MATTERS. What plays you make in the first 15-30-60
โI wish I hadnโt stopped farming Blast Gold so early.โ
โI wish Iโd actually farmed Blast.โ
โHow tf did those Blast farmers get so lucky?โ
Many such cases on the timeline next week.
Plan trusters will be richly rewarded. Relish the win friends - we earned this one.
For those
What I'm watching today on Blast (GOLD 4 DISTRO EDITION):
1)
@fantasy_top_
- WHEW LADS. Alright - so I get it. We're all (mostly) down a good bit on ETH. Not ideal. But also, they just got another bumper crop of gold. If you're fading, it's either because you're out of ETH
@Croesus_BTC
This isnโt their response to the complaint. Itโs their response to the TRO. Very different things. TRO hearing will be much more in depth than the briefing response. Why act like an expert if you donโt know what youโre talking about?
๐จ๐จPACMOON CREATOR ESTIMATES๐จ๐จ
ico did some number crunching tonight so we can start projecting what the top earners can expect to see come end of June from the first
@pacmoon_
v2 distribution.
First - a couple of notes/assumptions:
1) These numbers are assuming every
One of my favorite "achievements" this bear market was getting invited to join
@WolvesDAO
.
Today I earned my wolf. Welcome to the wallet forever (unless they kick me out and burn it) IcoWolf
Can we talk about this Pacmoon v2 rollout?!?
It's BEAUTIFUL - incredible UI/UX. Top quality from a team that has already shown great competence.
We've even got a basically real time leaderboard/points flow, so you can watch your scores increase in real-time right after posting
Thinking we might do a little ico refundable
@blastr_xyz
mint this weekend for access to a special Blast alpha channel in the
@GameTheoryWeb3
Discordโฆ
ico a big fan of refundable NFTs because they eliminate downside risk for holders in an arena that has been rigged against
ico's Big 3 Today on Blast:
Alright, we lied. Today is all about YOU.
This journey over the last few months has been the most fun we've ever had in crypto. Today we celebrate every single one of you who came along for the ride.
If we have helped at all in your gold farming
ZERO TO HERO -
@blastr_xyz
Edition
Create your own unruggable NFT collection to earn interest on TVL and a share of Blast Gold
INITIAL COMMENTARY:
So ico, what's the point of these? Good question random internet fren. Here's why you should care.
Blastr has a TON of gold to
๐จ๐จ NEW BLAST MULTIPLIER LIVE ๐จ๐จ
Go do a transaction involving WolfGame, Cambria, Capn&Co, or Super Sushi Samurai to unlock!
Just went live!
Alright bros - sneak peak of the ico Blast Pass art (minting exclusively on
@blastr_xyz
) ๐๐
Big thanks to the chads at
@GameTheoryWeb3
(headed by my buddy
@mirror_web3
) for helping facilitate this crazy experiment weโre gonna try, and
@SloppyPencil
for the super quick
Breakdown of Blast tokens by address
33bn probably locked for vesting
14bn we bet for BLAST farming (points/gold)
3bn HOPING for Blur farmers
Everything below that seems to be testing.
lmao if this is real I'm done with fantasy
18k stars (top 2% on platform by a long shot)
3 gold, 500 fan points?
Ya no I'm liquidating everything if that's what they consider "rewarding" the players
Weโve been told that
@jenndefer
is assembling a team to manifest a
@pacmoon_
jackpot to rally sentiment on the timeline.
The ico army supports this endeavor wholeheartedly. Time to get another Pacmoon jackpot and bring some balance back into the world
EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT THE GOLD JACKPOT
We've seen a *LOT* of chatter the last couple days about the >2.9m gold still sitting in the jackpot less than 10 days from TGE.
Everyone generally falls into one of two camps:
1) It's all getting given out by TGE (wrong)
2) A couple
3 big things I'm watching today on Blast (and a teaser for the next great opportunity):
1) All eyes are on the upcoming wave 4 gold distribution notes...and for good reason. They are the functional "Blast Bible" for the next 2-3 weeks. As soon as they hit, read them, process
Current gold: 23,501
3 days left to max farm. Hitting 27k should be pretty easy based on prior performance across a number of farms. Tactics and Main 6 for Fantasy likely dictate whether we get to 30k or not.
Nearly 10k more than our original stretch goal and 20k more than our
Current gold: 20,249
Target gold: 20,000
Gold to target: -249
Days remaining: 8
Gold/day to hit target: wait wtf
We did it bros. Believed in something.
Let's see how far we can run this up before TGE. Blessed
Alright bros - you want to be part of something bigger than yourself? Read on
The rumors were true - weโve been helping
@pasteltonesss
and
@ZoraWeb3
coordinate an incredibly ambitious FIRST-EVER charity mint, possible only via
@blastr_xyz
โs technology.
What you need to know:
๐จ๐คThe rumors were true! A special collection is launching tomorrow on
@blastr_xyz
๐ค๐จ
This is a post youโll want to read in full detail (mint details explained below):
Everything began with a message from
@pasteltonesss
(check her profile and read the story behind this mint;
Just so weโre all clear - ico has absolutely zero expectations for what will come from
@CherryOnBlast
Realistically itโs most likely to be worth basically zero.
That being said, itโs really hard to fade that our initial tweet got 11k views in 3 hours.
Seems social farming
As it turns out -
@DistrictOneIO
is still a gigantic dumpster fire and should never have gotten as much gold as they did.
Rushing this rollout and then not giving any communities time to properly launch (forcing us to rush by putting an 8 hour first gold distro on) has caused
Seems to us that everyone calling for sub-ZK FDV for Blast are missing 2 things.
1) they donโt have Pacman
2) there is no ZK season 2
Starknet has the same issues.
Blast to 15bn FDV
(yes this is engagement bait)
Proud to announce ico won the first ever
@CherryOnBlast
Cherry lottery wheel.
Ngl this is 100% just Yolo but with off-chain cherries....but it's fun.
Still not sure what the cherry endgame is, but they are good at shipping a functional website
Send these clowns to zero with haste.
"It's not intended for Gold addicts who exploit Gold with minimal effort and resources"
As said by the team that -
1) bought bots for their own accounts to harvest gems such that they could *exploit gold with minimal effort and resources*
@jaro3th
The Gold rewards are designed for users who genuinely care about the healthy development of the Blast ecosystem and the long-term growth of our product, technology, and community. It's not intended for Gold addicts who exploit Gold with minimal effort and resources.
With today's Fantasy gold distribution ico has cleared 13k gold across all wallets (not all shown here).
Should be around 16k by the end of wave 4.
20k feels achievable by TGE. Blessed. We worked for this.
At this point we're never escaping the allegations that we're a
@blastr_xyz
plant.
ico genuinely believes refundable/unruggable NFTs may be the single best market fit we've seen in crypto in a very long time, and Blastr has a premium product in that arena.
Most people from our
๐จ๐จ FINAL BLAST MULTIPLIER LIVE ๐จ๐จ
In the craziness of this evening's dumpster fire on D1, the final Blast multiplier dropped - PLATINUM (aka any dApp that has been deemed platinum tier by the whims of pacman).
Do a txn with Thruster, Fantasy, or Juice and claim your final
Hearing rumors...
Likely going to be an awesome community-led initiative to launch the first-ever charitable collection on
@blastr_xyz
coming very soon.
Someone near and dear to the Pacmoon community has reached out to many of us on Blast about creating a collection with the
ico's Big 3 Today on Blast:
1)
@blastr_xyz
- Secret new product launch today??
Gm to all the gmers. ico still in shock over the speed with which the Blast Pass minted out last night. Obviously it's all refundable, but we never dreamed enough people really wanted it to mint out
What an absolutely insane day.
@pacmoon_
v2 launch - timeline euphoric. I love seeing the good teams celebrated. Also love seeing this stupid tongue-out lion in 5th place on the boards.
Tenderly deploying on Blast to support legit projects and teams moving forward. Massive for
Alright bros hear me out:
Trading markets generally are the greatest PvP game of all time - nothing hits the same as the dopamine rush from a successful trade. Crypto is that on steroids.
Airdrop farming with clearly outlined and trackable criteria is merely putting a
Not gonna lie bros.
I really really really don't understand how there's still so many people on the timeline and in the replies asking who will use Blast after TGE.
You guys do realize this is the same Pacman that kept everyone farming Blur for almost 2 years now...and this
Did Pacmoon just create a new SocialFi metric?
Consider for just a moment the possibility that a creator's position on the Pacmoon leaderboard (over time) is basically a proxy for determining their "in the Blast trenches" or "Blast personality" rating.
Could be really
ico education - Blastin' Pepes ERC404 Edition
By now everyone even sort of plugged in on Blast saw the
@blastin_pepes
smash success mint today.
ico mostly saw people not understanding what they were or what 404 assets are. We made a lil writeup to help educate the masses.
Oh baby - it seems the
@pacmoon_
v2 leaderboards have a built in "rank checker" that updates with your change in leaderboard position compared to where you were 24 hours before.
This is going to get *wild* as people see in real time how their positioning changes. I was one of
What I'm watching today on Blast - Gold farming opportunity, good teams, bad teams, and
@pacmoon_
meta creation:
1) We'll start today with the gold farming - Perp Dexes
I predicted before wave 4 that we would see a bump in perp dexes as they hadn't gotten much love yet (and my
STOP THE COUNT
Itโs done. Blast Szn 1 gold farming in the books.
We expect to see the last little bits of gold that was allocated prior to 8AM ET trickle out as the system catches up, but itโs now officially over.
Well done everyone - enjoy the moment.
icoโs Big 3 coming in
๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ
THANK YOU
@blastr_xyz
We are incredibly humbled to have been included in this wave of Creator Gold allocation for utilizing their platform to launch the ico Blast Pass refundable membership card
Genuinely believe Blastr is among the best dApps on
@Blast_L2
and
Weโve just rewarded some exceptional Creators on BLASTR with a total of 11,700 gold!
These creators have made the most notable and impactful contributions to our platform over the past few weeks.
In our next round, happening later this week or early next week, we will be
ico's Big 3 on Blast Today:
Let's dive in
1) The ico Blast Pass - only on
@blastr_xyz
After much consideration, we decided it was worth it to further explore the Blastr product offerings and try to make the most of their S4 gold offerings. As with every Blastr refundable NFT,
@Croesus_BTC
You literally donโt have any legal training and didnโt even identify the document correctly. This is not Binanceโs response to the lawsuit. Uneducated Twitter legal โexpertsโ and mouth breathing knuckle draggers are a single circle Venn diagram.
๐จ๐จ YIELD FOR A CAUSE IS LIVE ๐จ๐จ
Alright bros - tonight is the night we make a change for good. We've been teasing this for the past couple days, but we're pleased to inform you all that
@pasteltonesss
and
@ZoraWeb3
's charity mint to support cancer research, exclusively on
Tired of bad actors, grifters, and con artists ruining crypto/web3 reputation?
Do something about it. Build cool shit with your friends.
I canโt take any credit for what
@BrunnoEth
,
@zetman_eth
, and
@StevenComicMan
are building at
@inkonbtc
but Iโm proud to be their friend.
The
@inkonbtc
devs just leaked to me whatโs coming next. You are not prepared. Minds will be blown. Performance art on this level will *never* be replicated on chain. Couldnโt think of a better place to be than Ordinals right now.
@BrunnoEth
is a goddamn genius
Itโs better to be lucky (and a little early) than good ๐ค๐ผ
Follower
#1
for
@inkonbtc
, and today Iโm thrilled to announce that I GOT INKED - canโt wait to dream up something crazy with the team.
Thanks for the opportunity
@BrunnoEth
,
@zetman_eth
, and
@StevenComicMan
Alright bros - you already know how much we love
@blastr_xyz
Well they're incentivizing *EVERYONE* to start launching refundable collections so we can really see what the power of the product is on Blast.
They just got an extra 250k gold to give out in the next 12 days.
Been thinking a lot about the Blast Gold Jackpot today...
Pretty insane how heavily the wins slowed down in June. Felt like every few hours it was going nuts shortly after release.
Takeaways:
1) PEW got a crazy amount of gold relative to other coins/mindshare
2) Pacmoon should
Most of you aren't prepared for this, but either Blast dies or Pacmoon goes way higher.
$1b+ airdrop coming end of June and the top meme trades at $50m.
What do you think happens when even 1% of that flows into the best community coin that is airdropping $1mm/month back to the
What a ride.
April 8 -> May 28
Honored and humbled that this many of you even sort of care about what I have to say. ico will continue trying to make the game a little bit more fair.
We eat in June.
Due to regulatory approval of the Ethereum Spot ETF products, I am revising my price target for Blast Gold to $69/gold effective immediately.
I will not be taking any questions at this time.
We will print on June 26
Fantasy devs based asf
Speed-shipped a ton of tactics and Main 6. Fixed the hamsters in the server room, and shipped the Season 1 Finale Claim (in stealth)
+114 gold just for clicking buttons and trying things. Thanks for the fun. Viva Baguettes
So uhh...that escalated really quickly...
WE FKING MINTED OUT IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES
ico will never forget this day. Love you all. Unreal.
Thanks
@blastr_xyz
for a SUPER smooth experience from ideation phase to full mint.
We'll be dropping a Creator's Guide for Blastr in
Introducing the Blast Foundation.
The Foundation was created to support the community in achieving the Blast Vision, which will be shared publicly on June 26.
Genuinely Clemente might be this cycleโs best content creator
Dude is funny as hell, just schizo enough to never know if heโs being serious, a truly terrible trader, a genuinely nice guy
Wish we had more โinfluencersโ like this - who is building these?
Turns out people have strong opinions about vesting lmao
What a day
No matter what anyone else thinks, you canโt say Blast didnโt bring the fun back
Letโs ride
Pretty clear divide on the timeline last couple days.
Camp 1: cautiously optimistic about Blast. Seeing estimates anywhere from $6-12bn FDV.
Camp 2: โBlast opens lower than ZKsyncโ
Study the difference between Sybil farmers and actual network users trusting the process.
You
ico's Big 3 Today on Blast:
Evaluating the Aftermath of D1 MemeLabs Edition
By now everyone has probably seen the turmoil caused last night by D1. A few key takeaways...
1) We do not actually want Pacman to "zero" all of D1's gold. That would harm the real users from Epoch 3