Huuuge news! I’ve decided to join the
@metaplex
team! They are empowering me to go further with what I become incredibly passionate about over the past month—empowering artists and builders to participate in something entirely new and unexpected. Let’s gooooo!
Reply to this message with everything you see as wrong with minting NFTs in the Solana Ecosystem right now. I believe we're out of balance again & need to do better. Air your grievances here & I'll try to offer some takes on how we go about solving for it.
No longer on team
@GenesysGo
. Disappointing and unexpected outcome, but still believe the team is working on the right problems and capable of solving them. GL shadowy super coders
Pro tip: your launch/NFT launch is the pilot episode. Launches are a huge lift, but only the beginning. If you aren’t planning for more, you’re planning a soft rug at best.
Your support on
@ChickenTribe
made me an indy open source dev that invests in indy devs and artists. This means more freedom (and responsibility) to innovate and and improve on the status quo. Profoundly thankful for the opportunity to deliver more code, docs, tools and art. LFG!
I guess it's obvious that I receive many 1/1 honorary NFTs, so something I want to make clear:
- i'm happy to help projects and never want them to feel obligated to provide one
- i'll boost any project that legitimately feels non-rug/has a solid purpose and presence
...
What Solana projects are OG Solana NFTs?
Anything pre-candy machine v1. Aurory is the line in the sand imo. If you launched with docs I wrote or forked the exiled-apes repo, you're a different generation (which was also epic)
I don't have a normal job. That slow
@ChickenTribe
mint? That income is how I support myself,
@thefuturesteve
(the artist) and this ecosystem. I love the work I do, often pro-bono, and am looking for creative ways to fund it. Throw some ideas at me.
I'm not a versus guy. But here's a sentiment I'm think about a lot lately:
ETH: Everyone should be able to run a node.
SOL: Everyone should be able to run a transaction.
Stop yelling “fewer pfps” and start working on bringing the next billion people to the table. Think expansively. Find and remove obstacles instead of creating barriers
We're excited to share this honorary fall Solstead for
@levicook
. Levi has made significant contributions to this community and is the reason you can click that juicy "mint" button on many projects. This is the first of the last two honorary homes we have planned for a while 🏠
Excited to announce the addition of
@levicook
to the GenesysGo/SSC core engineering team! Levi brings a wealth of hands-on engineering experience, industry knowledge, and will be a great addition as we work with the
#Solana
team to continue scaling and improving network infra.
Keep your eyes on
@novaraptur
frens. They're kicking off a limited collection of Pacific Northwest American Folklore postcards & I'm excited to see this first piece go up.
Let’s crank up the positive vibes again. I’ve been running into too many dbags and bet you have too. We should recenter ourselves on being positive and productive—this ecosystem is still ultra gmi!
You can check floors and volume all day, but I can tell you nothing measures up to these noot noot on engagement. Like by orders of magnitude different
I'm still learning Solana programming, but it's becoming clear that getProgramAccounts is an amazing utility. eg: here's how you can find all the candy-machines on mainnet:
I have no idea what most of these machines are for, but they're on-chain.
I’ve been very task oriented the last couple of days. Sorta like Dory from Finding Nemo it’s been very ���just keep swimming, swimming …”. This morning it’s all sinking in and I am so incredibly excited and thankful for what just happened! Let’s do this
@GenesysGo
!!
Honestly, this is the best possible time to
@thugbirdz
. NFTs are one bajillion percent about betting on people and the weird shit they do. I’m long
@0x_thug
over the last thing you minted. NFA, EMA
Lots of drama over the past couple of days. Easy to feel like it’s all bad actors, but I want to assure you there’s an army of people making incredible efforts to make things right all around us.
Decentralized life on Solana getting started:
- research, research, research, (all on you)
- buy small from a Centralized Exchange
- learn how to fund & custody your own wallet
- learn how to stake SOL (several ways, different pros/cons)
- maybe NFT
Expect fuckups. Start small
Mom was a seamstress.
Bio Dad was a truck driver.
Step Dad does construction.
Taught myself to code. Slinging jpegs and helping as many people do that as I know how and grateful to be doing it.
Help me make an object list of "you're a cash grab if" conditions. I think there are genuine people following the lead of early projects that were deemed acceptable, but the norms have evolved & I want to ensure we're clear with our expectations. Reply here!
Crypto speed is real! Just a brief announcement to mention that my role
@metaplex
has evolved. My focus there will be on being a strategic advisor that helps the core team stay in touch with the ecosystem. This change enables me to be even more hands on in the community! Stoked!
What do you all think about long mints? I host the
@SaibaGang
mint process and have been very impressed by how well the team and community have done with it.
Smart contract risk on Solana is nontrivial. It has a novel and challenging programming model. And audits are both more rare and less effective than you think. Please don’t read this as unsympathetic; it’s just a truth of being early.
Early morning thoughts:
Let’s establish some new norms for candy machine mint websites.
Buyers should expect:
- to be open source
- provide a link to the git repo
- display the candy machine id
- links to 3rd party explorers to confirm that id is a candy machine
Yay or nay?