Olympian.
It was a privilege to represent my country and the people that believed in me when this was just a dream.
Peaking for heptathlons is an art. I didn’t hit it this time. But I learnt the lessons for the next leg up in my first senior team.
The best is yet to come ⚡️
🥹 special moment winning the heptathlon 200m overall with my 3rd fastest time ever into a -1.3 headwind and repping the
@BTCMarkets
uniform in Germany…. I think learning German is going to be beneficial in these Europe circuits in the future😅
#pathtoparis
qualified for Olympics, sponsored by a crypto exchange, building passion projects in a web3.0 start up, travelling the world, healthy
I’ve reached the bliss point
This is the byproduct of falling in love with the process and faith in the vision
So this just happened… We got Web3.0auth email / password registration to work for EQLX on the XRP Ledger testnet.
Trying to get non-crypto natives to register with a XUMM wallet was a hurdle we couldn’t sprint over.
This changes our user growth adoption tangent big time.
Meet
@toriwest__
, founder of
@equil_labs
~ the winner of a
@RippleXDev
grant, accepted into the accelerator program, and one of the ten builders utilizing the
#XRP
Ledger to be featured at the XRP🌊
@wave_of_innov
Gold Coast Conference!
𓇼🫧🪸🐚🪼༄𖦹꩜⋆。˚ *ੈ𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆛
olympics are over, now its time to continue the next challenge of 2024, arguably a bit harder... finish launching a web3.0 project that doesn't fizzle in a bear.
Sitting in the Olympic village, watching the sports, hearing the stories, experiencing the stadium only reinforced to me the massive opportunities I’ve always seen with blockchain in sports.
I’m so excited to bring this new energy into
@equil_labs
Multi eventers go big in Gotzis 💥💥
Tori West scores 6245 points in the Heptathlon to place 6th with a 186 point personal best, climbing to 8th on the 2024 world list. Ash Moloney lays down 8367 points for 4th in the Decathlon - his third best score ever!
#ThisIsAthletics
Okay, the digital collectables are live!
Geesh, I left it to the last minute to whip these up…. I’m entering an Olympic ‘blackout’ period at midnight tonight (rule 40). So this is the first and last time you’ll see me share this until 13th August.
Ready to open to more beta testers this week on EQLX!
We are onboarding with XUMM until we have email/password refactored in.
If you have expressed interested, I’ll be reaching out throughout the week.
If you like sports, NFTs and XRPL… you’ll love EQLX.
#buildinpublic
I’ve been sprinting and hurdling this season in distance spikes. They felt softer and safer for my historically sensitive feet.
I finally this week safely transition to proper sprint plate spikes with no issues, and it feels glorious… and faster.
#XRPLApex
is the place to be if you’re building on, using, or simply looking to learn about the
#XRPLedger
and XRP.
Hear from
@equil_labs
Founder Tori West on what to expect this year and why
#XRPLApex
is a can’t-miss event! ⭐️
Register now:
Moderating a panel is easy when the guests really know what they are talking about.
Great chats tonight at
@0xUpside
around the Farcaster explosion and what’s on the horizon for Consumer Crypto Apps 🫡
@sassal0x
@stables_money
@uncledavo
Coming to the
#XRP
🌊Wave of Innovation Event (
@wave_of_innov
) in March is Tori West. Athlete,
@RippleXDev
Grants Winner, Builder, and Real World Problem Solver -- using the
#XRPL
by tokening data. 👉
@equil_labs
👀📺Watch the spotlight video in full:
This actually starts the process of changing the game of track and field. Currently it’s wayyyy too centralised and controlled by governing bodies. Free markets and private enterprise changes everything.
The bar isn’t high. So the league will win.
@MJGold
Olympic champion Michael Johnson secured over $30M for his track league, set to launch in 2025.
The league aims to promote track stars and rivalries, catering to fan interests and elevating the sport's popularity.
You draw your own conclusions but
@toriwest__
joined Crypto Run Club back in February and is now headed to the
@Olympics
for Australia 🥹
Congrats Tori 💪
Looks like you had solid advice from
@phenrikand
&
@im_jacksonzeng
here
Upside, breeding Olympians since… yesterday 🫡
It’s much easier to complain when things don’t go your way.
It’s harder to embrace the learnings of the challenge, accept what is and be better.
If you really are as good as you think you are, you’ll overcome.
The actual win is who you become in the process of the pursuit.
Builder, entrepreneur, and athlete
@toriwest__
will be featured in my Builders Series in Australia next Sunday. Tori will also be on the panel🎉
Should you attend the
@wave_of_innov
in person, you'll meet this extraordinary person building on the
#XRP
Ledger.
I savour at the thought of a 7/7 event PB heptathlon. The better you get the harder it gets.
The heptathlon isn’t about the absolute measurement of an athletic event performance. It’s the performance RELATIVE to your PB.
How close can I get to my PBs, how far can I exceed it.
Announcing the Wave 4 awardees of
#XRPLGrants
! We’re excited to award more than $2.6 million in funding to 25 teams from six continents building new use cases on the
#XRPLedger
.
Learn about the grantees here👇
The Heptathlon and Decathlon is the HARDEST track and field field event to qualify for the Olympics for.
Only 24 spots (compared to 36 for field and 52 for track) and limited opportunities to compete at qualification points events.
Preparation and proper programming is
We are the Builders /
#XRP
Ledger
Shot at Apex by
@zerpenator
, an amazing independent film producer I met in Tokyo this year. Please leave him a comment on his channel !!
👉
#XRPLCommunity
, give a shoutout to the devs in this ecosystem. They span the
Anyone know how I can hack a business seat upgrade with emirates without points and without forking out 7k…. need some proper sleep on my way to my next competition in Germany
I have this wickedly effective habit where I purposely leave hard tasks the smallest amount of time to do. And somehow I always do it better than I anticipated.
It’s like purposely backing yourself into a corner, and you’re gonna have to come out swinging with some heart and
I met an AI expert randomly in a cafe by the beach because he noticed I was writing notes instead of using a laptop. I said I like to solve problems for code on paper first… then the conversation opened.
Now he’s helping me learn and understand case study models for an
I catch the train 4 days a week for athletics training from the Gold Coast to Brisbane to maximise productivity.
Instead of 10 hours in the car driving, I get 12 hours on the train to work.
My biggest hack for optimising my sports nutrition and staying lean in competition season is learning to cook.
It’s a lost art.
I cook what I like. I know what’s in my meals. I save a bunch of $. And it’s a grounding process.
@bensimpsonau
Watch the sunrise, blue light blockers after sunset (big one), magnesium before bed and practice a downtime routine.
Crypto mania may build your pockets but depletes your health when you’re far in and can’t switch off.
Heading to the Singapore FinTech Festival next week!
I didn't realise the extent of networking largely involves after parties, cocktail tables and late nights.... I gotta train. Sorry. Can't come. Bedtime is 8:30pm.
😂😂
why do I have trust issues when I see people who are excellent with LinkedIn... for me it's like dating a guy who has better styled hair than me.
Not sure how I feel about this.
ChatGPT text generation feels more like a ‘stock text’ repository similar to stock images.
I’m convinced less and less of its actual value the more I use it for written content.
I’m going back to do it myself.
My observation of the track and field athlete sponsorship landscape…
It’s no longer just about what you can do on the track. It’s about how well you can capture what you do on the track, sync it with a trending sound and distribute it to a short attention span audience.
@Endernaxx
It’s not cool. It’s not empowering.
Young women doing this are reinforcing that a women’s worth to the world is through self objectification for a man’s pleasure.
Good way to cheapen yourself.
@lizclay_
Performances should be encoded into the blockchain where virality of performances rewards the token owner (athlete), could be a solution. I like the idea that you are rewarded based on performance digital views, likes and shares. It’s actually viable.
Raw milk is banned in Victoria… 🤡 Last week on the front page of a local paper it showed a group of people secretly getting 10L batches from a truck through a community co-op… it was framed like some criminal ring. What the actual heck.
Raw milk has done wonders for my
Erling Haaland pulled up to soccer practice with raw milk
Probably has the leading nutritionists in the world advising him to stay one of the best athletes in the world
But you’re still on the sidelines waiting for the “experts” to tell you its safe
1/ The stablecoin market is booming – around $150B today, and projected to soar past $2.8T by 2028. There's a clear demand for trust, stability, and utility.
That's why later this year we’re launching a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the USD on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum.