I am pleased to announce that I have joined
@catena_labs
as Chief Product Officer. Catena Labs is a product studio with a strong emphasis on building at the intersection of consumer products, AI, and blockchain technology.
Life update: I am so thrilled to announce I am joining
@jump_
! Jump Crypto is contributing to some of the most exciting projects in crypto and I'm stoked to help make these projects more secure, robust, transparent, and powerful. 🔥
@cerealclubnft
@pdpatt
Thank you! Already one of the coolest NFT communities. <3
Oh, how I love the crunch,
Breakfast, dinner or brunch.
Slurp the milk, real or oat.
Cereal really is the GOAT.
Grab a spoon and a bowl.
Take a bite, heal the soul.
Grab a box, pour some more.
It's the stuff I adore.
Finally found an opportunity to support a project I think is really cool, both artistically and its community goals. Excited to see where this goes
@SuperlativeSS
Extremely stocked about this. I've been a big fan of Patrick since I first came across his art and have only grown more impressed with his ability to challenge our attitudes, refine our narratives, and elevate other artists. Thanks for the opportunity.
Grail secured and vaulted ✅
Back in March,
@lphaCentauriKid
made "The Great Restoration" for the infamous 6529 Memes collection and it quickly became my favorite digital art piece.
I missed several opportunities to buy it but this morning I woke up to a special notification.
Yesterday’s
@BoysClubWorld
party had the highest concentration of cool nice people I’ve seen at a crypto event 👏 even the wait outside was the nicest time
New favorite, now with audio: Soul Train. I love how each frame is a totally new painting. 😍🕺
More experimentation with video based VQGAN + CLIP. (Check it out
@sportsracer48
)
#genart
#vqganclip
.
@beeple
’s crypto wonderland party in Charleston was one of the most memorable events I’ve been to. What a fever dream surrounded by artists and nerds. So fun to see so many of you degenerates IRL 🔥
The Quadrature collection is one of the coolest generative art collections I’ve seen recently. It changes forever, adapts seamlessly to any screen, and it’s also a fully interactive piece.
Amazing work by
@DarienBrito
and
@gmdaostudio
. This is
#213
.
@ghostly
records established the foundation of my interest in electronic music. I was 17 when I came across the wild sonic landscapes created by
@__SHIGETO
. Years later, I'm thrilled to see and support his work with
@mysterious_xyz
to release his art on the blockchain 🔊🔥
Exciting news: I am leaving Netflix and I am making the leap to
#web3
. Next week I will join
@protocollabs
, an open-source research and development lab focused on building the next generation of the internet. 🧵
Kicking off Web3 Gaming Week in Singapore! It’s a full house with developers, partners, and investors discussing the future of gaming.
How might web3 help the mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics of games?
#w3gw
@jump_pit
.
@lphaCentauriKid
’s Algae 1/10 looking majestic between the blue velvet sofa, fiddle-leaf fig, and
@jasonseife
.
Nothing like a memento mori in your office to remind you to touch grass. 💀
So great to meet the
@Ninfa_io
team in Milan and get a tour of the space. I love that this movement is global and the community is so welcoming anywhere you go. Best of all, I even got to see the 1/1 by
@C4RDlNAL
that I bought on a gallery wall! ❤️🔥
In JPEGs we trust 🙏
Excited to share my newest creation!
Visualize - in real-time - NFTs being bought and sold on
@opensea
in an immersive 3D environment.
Discover new collections, jam to some Danish jazz, and explore all the random things people are collecting.
This is why everyone should use something like to ensure their precious jpegs are stored in a decentralized way and not just on some AWS server somewhere 📝
It’s not that hard to understand. I don’t get how this confuses so many people.
Flying back home and feeling inspired after attending
@web3ESPA
, a course with over 80 attendants aimed at introducing people to the
@filecoin
ecosystem on their journey to become a decentralized storage provider. The level of conviction in the idea and space is exceptional 🎉
I just bought my favorite NFT so far from
@mendezmendezart
- my favorite thing is that he’s sending me a high quality print too 💕 That’s what this is all about: great art, bigger audiences, and the ability to support artists you like over Twitter! 🎨 🤖
Really excited to launch this. If you’re a ChatGPT user and have been looking for a decentralized alternative that gives you more control, agency, and quality, try DecentAI.
DM me for an invite which you can use to mint your own DecentPass!
Catena Labs unveils its latest experiment: DecentAI! Built as a progressively decentralized alternative to ChatGPT, DecentAI allows you to access open source and proprietary AI models via the app or your favorite XMTP client.
Check out this webapp that takes an interactive 3D sandbox on Three.js and generates realtime images based on the input! (Thanks
@dabit3
for the demo and
@fal_ai_data
for the mind-blowing API!)
Finally put up a print of my favorite NFT in my office - made by
@mendezmendezart
. It’s not just about apes: it’s about discovering new artists and hanging up a new favorite piece to show the world! (It’ll be featured prominently right behind me over many hours of zoom calls)
Fun fact, you can open Coinbase Wallet or
@converseapp_
*right now* and talk to the most powerful AI models available by starting a chat with decentgpt.eth
Give it a go.
@liron
@BasedBeffJezos
This was honestly fascinating and difficult to listen to. It really highlights the chasm that exists between deep tech research science and those thinking more about the application of said tech. I had thousands of conversations like these at Google Brain back in the day…
I absolutely love the idea of using DAOs to decentralize the creation and access to expensive models (and compute). The biggest thing I took away from working at
@GoogleAI
: the models built are incredible but *incredibly* difficult to reproduce... Let's change that.
@AlgoveraAI
Announcing a new research focus in my lab: Developing tools to enable collaboratively-built and continually-improved models.
Blog post:
Paper on model "patches":
Paper on "merging" models:
Thread ⬇️ (1/11)
Projects like
@PythNetwork
demonstrate the power of going cross-chain: providing real-time on-chain market data for DeFi.
@xNFT_Backpack
and
@C3protocol
are two more great examples leaning into interoperability.
What’s up with the lack of designers in web3? Do people think that slapping on a funky font and a multi color gradient is a substitute for good design? How can we attract more talent with solid UX design/thinking skills? Halp.
It’s time to STOP being maxis and start enjoying chains and ecosystems for their unique properties.
Bitcoin is HARDENED
Ethereum is SMART
Solana is FAST
Cardano
Doge is MEMETIC
Cosmos is INTERCONNECTED
True decentralized compute at scale will only happen if builders can leverage secure and easy-to-use protocols for interoperability like
@wormholecrypto
. These will enable true cross-chain use-cases: from DeFi to NFTs to governance.
@hardmaru
Teams have literally been building on top of LAMDA for a couple of years and unable to launch publicly. Hopefully this changes too because the products were really cool.
Taking time this summer to finally finish an art project I began 2 years ago. It involves (i'm pretty sure) the largest collection of Portuguese tile art ever compiled. More to come soon.
.
@mendezmendezart
never disappoints. Today I minted these two beautiful pieces from his new Flesh and Bone series 🍄 ☠️ I love the consistent themes across all his works yet each new one has something special. The true heroes are those who keep innovating during the bear.
Thanks
@POSTWOOK
for curating a great selection of surrealist digital art. Some dope artists including some that I collect like
@mendezmendezart
and
@MiraRuido
🙌 can’t wait to see this community grow!
@Lascauxart
Been waiting for this since November. This adventure coincides with my arrival to NY and my own new life chapter. So excited for this event and finally uncover the Lascaux mysteries
If you haven't taken at look at the Frames feature being developed by the
@farcaster_xyz
team, I highly encourage you to.
It's a *beautiful* example of web3 composability creating magic.
At the hackathon today I connected to GPT-4 inside a Frame to create an interactive feed
The clean lines of
@GrantYun2
's art lend themselves well to pixel art.
The new Pixel Art XL LoRa model does an amazing job of transforming his pieces into beautiful pixel-perfect creations that I love as much as the originals 😍
Building in the
@jump_pit
means you’re surrounded by some of the most innovative teams in crypto and get a front row seat to some of the best web3 events in Chicago.
If you’re interested in collaborating, check out this Twitter space today and get in touch!
Azulejo is a form of ceramic tilework from Portugal and Spain. These tiles have been used for centuries as decorative elements (but they also insulate homes well!). I've always been fascinated by the complex geometries and patterns they form.
To me, they are OG generative art.
So excited that my first generative series is live 🔥
“Inference” is a unique NFT that gives holders limited time access to another project I’ve been working on for months: DecentAI - a decentralized alternative to ChatGPT.
120 mints and counting. ❤️
The big challenge: optimizing for security, extensibility, generalizeability, and low latency, whilst increasing trustlessness.
@0xArjun
does an amazing job of explaining these trade-offs here .
The moment SHL0MS asked us to provide the pass phrase to a funded wallet, I knew it was going to be something really cool. 10/10 execution.
Couldn't have asked for a better rug.
SEED is a collection in which each piece presents a generative visual metaphor for 1 of 155 seed phrases i drained, with explicit consent from the former owner, as a work of digital performance. it delves into the visual poetics of transforming abstract digital identities -
I’ve been waiting for this day for years. Finally taking this weekend to build the PC of my dreams. Can’t wait to train and run models locally to my hearts content. I’ll see you on the other side. ✨
@Suhail
It’s a problem with leadership but also a systemic failure to embrace risk taking. I was a PM working in Google Research and pitched this in 2017. It took 6 years to bring something like it (essentially an experience embedded in Search) to market after many fights (and my
Gentle reminder to go touch grass (or sand, whatever is closer)
These days I am all-in on crypto. I’m fully immersed at work, when I’m not working I am collecting open editions, I’m even dreaming about this stuff. Note to self: remain balanced.