Oh yo-yo, what up? What up?
Good morning, Good morning, GMG. Oh my mic.
Monday, June 24th, 2020. Tyler's laughing.
He's like, shit, he's back. It's my favorite part of the
Internet. It's we have double force today
June 24th 2024444 look at that another beautiful day to have a
beautiful day. Jesus Christ guys sorry my
microphone is like not locking If anyone knows how to fix this
my sure microphone is not locking the sound volume it
never does this so I'm like playing around with it but
anyways another beautiful day to have a beautiful day.
I got my Co host in the house Tyler Mando.
How you guys doing today? Long time no see.
Yeah, we've been holding it down without you, man.
It's been, it's been good. We had a great show last week.
You have been, you have been holding it down.
Tyler, how you doing? I'm good.
I don't let the the negative price action impacts my mood.
I only let the positive price action, it impacts my mood.
So just totally ignoring it. I'll tell you what, it was a kid
filled weekend here in Chicago. They, they don't tell you this
when they give you out the instruction manuals that come
with your children. We had five different kids
birthday parties across Saturday and Sunday.
I, I didn't know that was possible.
So it literally dictated our entire weekend.
But I'm happy to be back. Five kids birthday parties this
weekend if you're not like. Unique parties requiring 5 gifts
all in different venues across do.
They know it's a bear market. They're all trying to front
around 4th of July I guess It doesn't even make sense to me.
I don't even know these children were born even around this time
period, so I don't know. That is crazy Mando.
I hope you're ready for that. You're gonna have to take your
daughter out to five different like kids birthday party.
Speaking of birthday parties, Mando, happy birthday again.
Your birthday was yesterday, so I want to see some happy
birthdays in the chat. What did you do for your
birthday? What did I do?
We, we did a boat trip actually in the morning, went out across
the Bay around where we are and then and then went over to a
friend's house. They and hung out like the kids
in a pool. It was a good day.
And then went out for dinner. It was it was a solid birthday,
beautiful weather, beautiful, beautiful life here in Portugal.
I know you know what the South of Europe is, is nice.
I I've been used to, I'm in Spain right now and I'm in
Ibiza. At least I have a beautiful
office now to do this stuff and do some work in the morning from
here. But you don't want to leave.
You don't want to leave. The weather is so nice.
Every day you wake up. I mean, I wish I would say that
the negative price action didn't impact my mood, Tyler, because I
totally let it get to me this past week completely.
I have to tell you guys something from Tuesday to
Sunday. So last night I was a bear.
I, I have to come clean. I have to come clean on the
show. I have to tell the people of
FOMO hour 'cause you guys, you know, have been with us for like
3 years now. Your boy, your boy went full
bear. I let the ghosts of the bears
get to my head. I was tired, I had my toothache.
I have everything going on. We wake up in like bleeding my
mouth. Everything got to me brain fog
and and I let it happen. I let the negativity spread into
my body like a tumor and it got me.
And last night I did something crazy.
I actually sold all of my one of my favorite coins.
And then I woke up this morning. Amanda was like yo, get it
together. OV was like faroque, I'm going
to be laughing at you when it double S in a few months.
Don't do this to yourself. And Mando said I will be sick if
it pumps and I was like, you know what, I would hate to make
myself sick as well as my friend, so I bought it all back.
Let's go so back on it. We're so fucking back.
We're feeling better. The antibiotics are doing their
job and with that, with that, with that to dance show today,
today. Can I just say, how depressed
would you be right now if you hadn't bought it back?
I I would be down very bad because the coin that I sold is
up 10%. Yeah, I think that's what I
mean. You'd be.
You would have been so annoyed. I would have been sick, yeah, I
would have been sick. I would have been sick.
I would have been really, really, really, really, really
sick. But anyways, so lessons in
there, right, you know, lesson you want to sell.
You saw times like OV did, he sold, he's comfortable, he sold
enough, but he also has kid in the game.
You know, he was teaching me this yesterday and then instead
of selling, selling lows and feel like a dumb ass, which I
did. But you know what, sometimes I'm
sharing this story because just so you all know, it happens to
the best of us. You know, we're out there every
day, we're smiling, we're bull posting, but doesn't mean it's
all good, right? It doesn't mean it's all good.
Always, all the time. Sometimes you feel like fucking
shit. And as you all know, almost all
My Portfolio is on Solano and ecosystem, right?
So it's like, it's been a rough fucking month.
It's rough waking up every day. Not another Whiff has been down
10% per day, OK during my vacation and during all events.
So I have to like put a smile on, fucking cry in the morning
from my pain in my face and beat down like $1,000,000 and a half.
OK, that's not easy. But anyways, life, life is good,
life is great. We're alive.
I got my homies on the show. I'm really happy to see Tyler in
mind with this. I really like, I'm really happy
to see you both this morning. We're so back.
See how the show today, today as usual.
Obviously, you know, Mando's market report.
Let's see what's going on seems to have somewhat of a bounce
across the board. But please, Mando, please
reassure us. My favorite bulls have all
turned Barry. So I'm very worried when I saw
St. pump this morning, who's like my favorite one of my
favorite people to follow on Twitter for what it's worth got
his notifications on say hey, if we break below 60, we could see
48. I'm not gonna lie.
I was shaking shake. I was shot my pants and and then
and then after this we'll obviously go through Tyler.
I mean work. It's a big wig.
We have blast tge We had a few air drops last week.
It's a massive week. I mean blast TG's in 48 hours
right June 26th, if I'm not mistaken.
So it. Was over though.
Crypto was over this week dude. Should I go sell again?
My legend is here. Oh no, I so love.
Is over. Mert has sold everything.
Crypto was over man. OK, OK, Listen to me that.
Listen to me. That was so embarrassing and and
and it's been fixed internally on the editorial side.
This has never happened. Listen, crypto media, I feel
like every crypto media is allowed one fumble per per per
market, right? So you know, the crypt had its
little slip up this morning reporting on a shit post for
Merck. You know, clearly a joke, but
they fixed it. Articles fixed.
They pushed it back live without the Merck shit and we're sold
back. And then after this, we'll be
obviously going through Tyler's top 100 or five or actually two
since crypto's dead. He probably has nothing to talk
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Is the man macro daddy of the land Mando?
Can you dig it? Hey.
So yeah, it's not been a great weekend.
Again, I forget where we were on Friday, but probably around 6364
K, something like that. It's we headed low over the
weekend, particularly today. A couple of major headlines
around that. Firstly, we have, we continue to
have the German government potentially selling up to 3
billion of Bitcoin from from that that website that it
confiscated it from. And then today we found out that
the Mt Gox distributions might be happening starting from July.
So that was slightly earlier than people predicted.
Remember, this isn't Mt Gox isn't selling Bitcoin.
It's not like FTX where they basically had the, they sold all
the assets. They are giving people back
their Bitcoin. So people will be giving back
around 9 billion of Bitcoin through this distribution.
So it's pretty big that's going to be coming back into the
market. It's unclear if they sell it or
not, but that's that's a transfer, let's say to people
who may sell it. And then like I said, the German
government kit was also selling. So we had a bunch of different
people coming out looking at at technical levels.
I think you know, in bear markets will be technical levels
come back out and that that recent support of around let's
say 58 to 60 K is, is kind of the important one.
We, we bounced just below 61 K on Bitcoin.
Solana is slightly outperforming.
Since that bounce happened. ETH has kind of underperformed,
I would say on that bounce, which has been slightly
surprising because obviously we have the ETF now in about 8
days. Looks like we'll, we'll be very,
very soon for the ETF range of emotions out there right now.
And you have people like Kang, like you said.
What's his name again? Same pump.
Calling for the calling for new lows.
You have people like Anthem and Emperor BTC.
Who else have I been? Who else have I been seeing?
Just a few others just being like you look, we're just Arthur
Hayes. We're going to bounce around the
6061 K level. Don't don't get shaken out.
And the timeline continues to basically fight about that.
It does feel like Bitcoin, if you just like a Bitcoin, this
doesn't really look like that bad a sell off.
It's really been a sell off on everything else.
It's been pretty, pretty brutal. I'm obviously still very
bullish. I I think it's it's very much
effective where people probably had their most, I don't know,
their most exposure in terms of gambling sort of bags.
So meme coins have really been hurt over this period.
Altcoins have already been hurt over this period.
ETH Bitcoin have held up OK and then Solana's kind of fallen the
most, I think because a lot of it, lot of it has that sort of
gambling exposure to it as well. So here I'm looking at the
market I bought, I bought some whiff this morning.
I bought some a little bit of Solana.
But other than that, I'm kind of been happy with my bags of JLP
plus plus Pepe. And yeah, the market, the market
looks like it could maybe maybe test that 60K level at least
once or twice more. But I, I still like, I still
like the market here in terms of bullish things to maybe flag.
Yes, you have a lot of you have some of this supply that could
be coming to market, but it does feel like macro is going to be
in a slightly more easing cycle. You have 10 of the top 11
central banks now looking to ease in the second-half of this
year. There's a very good blog by
Arthur Hayes over the over the weekend, which talked about the
the Japanese banks and the fact that we're going to have huge,
huge easing because they're going to come in and try and
sell the US Treasuries, which I thought was very interesting, he
says. That's like one of the main
things that will cause an increase in global liquidity.
If you bring up Delphi, Delphi Digital, I don't.
Know who should I bring up from Delphi?
Just bring up their their main page.
Yeah, there was a really good graph which basically just you
cut out all the noise and you see how linked Bitcoin is to
global liquidity. Oh, I remember that chart that
goes like that. Right.
So if you yeah, so empty money growth basically.
So we've seen a slight retrenchment in empty money
growth, which is basically completely mapped this this
moving Bitcoin and the second-half of this year, we are
expecting to see those sort of conditions ease.
So you're starting to see, like I said, 11 of the of the 12, the
10 of the 11 top major central banks are going to start easing
and then you could have this. So there was a report last week
that that to kind of go into a bit more deep depth on this
Japanese bank situation, a bunch of Japanese banks own U.S.
Treasuries and they have lost a lot of money owning them.
And there's out there, they're similarly having the sort of
issue that you have with the regional banks in the US 18
months ago. So there by a strange mechanism,
the Bank of Japan could potentially buy these bonds and
post them back to the Fed and get dollars in return, which
would basically be a huge amount of easing.
And this is to the this is to the tune that they own trillions
of dollars worth of U.S. debt. So like, I think it's something
like 3 to 4 trillion of foreign owned bonds in Japan at the
moment. So that could be a huge, huge
easing cycle here for for empty money growth.
So I don't know, you could simplify it and just be like,
look, we're going to have more easing.
Everything will make sense when that happens and Bitcoin has
really just sold off slightly because of empty money growth.
Or you could focus on the the short term flows, which is going
to be the Mt Cox and potentially the German government.
It's difficult to say if that news is already like people knew
about it. I have to say that Mt Cox is
well flagged. A lot of people would have known
when those distributions would have happened.
So maybe we've already seen some of the some of the reaction to
that already. So that one's more difficult to
say and even the German government is difficult to say.
So I don't know if we are, it's best just to look forward and
think, right, we're going to get more, more easing.
So nothing to worry about for a while or you just focus on short
term flows in which case I think it could be a little bit
volatile over the next month or two.
Do you think the Mount Gox you just kind of like already sold
into because a lot of people seem to think that they don't
understand last week that why Bitcoin kept selling and selling
and selling with like macro being good, inflows for ETS
being good and everything. Was that because of the Mount
Cox stuff or just just kind of cope?
Well, we saw big movements in the Mount Cox Bitcoin about two
months ago. So and there are various
different people involved in this distribution.
This distribution has been going on for many, many years
involving various different payment agents, I believe at
Japanese banks, but also at other institutions.
So I'm sure thousands of people knew that these distributions
were going to happen. This isn't just like our one
person knew this. This has been probably well
flagged to a lot of different people.
So the idea that people would know that this was going to
happen in July probably was known by, if it's known by 1000
people, it's known by enough people then to move the market.
So, so yeah, I would say that this was probably very well
known. So we probably didn't know about
it, but other people did. So I personally would look at
that as slightly backward looking.
I think you could have dumps on certain days where it comes to
market very similar to GBTC. But I would say the headlines
that of that doesn't necessarily scare me because I feel as
though enough people would have known that.
OK, OK, OK, OK. And then and they said something
about German government on top of rugging me on my football
bets. Are they done rugging me in my
crypto? We don't know yet.
They, they were moving about 50 to 150 million per day the last
three days last week and they they have 3 billion.
So they could very easily come in and sell more this week that
that I would say is probably loaned by fewer people because
it seems a bit slightly sporadic when those repayments can be
made. But the fact, just the fact that
they are selling it, I think will make people think twice a
little bit. Definitely, definitely,
definitely. Also, yeah, I guess, I guess I
guess we'll see. So hopefully we get somewhat of
a of a relief, you know, today and this week, but it's not
looking great. It's not looking great.
We also have the ETF. What's the latest on the ETF man
though I think are we still on pace for July 2nd?
So we, yeah, we should theoretically see them within
the next two weeks there. It's still unclear when exactly
it will be. The Bloomberg analysts think
July 2nd, which would be in eight days.
OK, OK, perfect. That would be great.
What do you think? What do you think about this?
I'm curious about your thoughts on inflows and stuff.
A lot of people seem to be quite fudding it.
I saw the Andrew Kang article, didn't read the whole thing.
It's really long, trying not to read too much honestly right
now. What what what?
How are you feeling about that influence for that?
I think a lot of people are frustrated with the market.
I think a lot of people have actually lost money this year.
Genuinely. I think a lot of people, despite
Bitcoin being up 50%, we, I think a lot of altcoins are
lower. I think a lot of VCs invested at
much higher valuations even for some of the major projects.
We saw even last week that the layer, the layer zero final
round is now underwater with respect to at least the token.
And I think you're probably going to see quite a number of
these sort of takes from people in, in the VC part of the the
the market. I don't think anyone thinks it's
we're in for an extended bear period.
I think me and Tyler were speaking about last week.
The majority of the takes point to a retracement before a for a
rally later this year. My, my view is that I don't even
see that happening. I just think that we're going to
continue in this bull, this bull trend.
But one thing I've I always realise is that during that bull
markets fund, fundamental analysts kind of come to the
forefront. The idea of new use cases for
crypto come to the forefront. And during bear markets,
charters come to the forefront. And suddenly my, my feed is full
of charters talking about technical levels, about where it
has to hold. Like just just think about what
you just said. It has to hold 60K or it'll go
to 48 Ki Mean what? What?
Like why does that? Just why does that happen?
Tyler's dying laughing. Tyler, what do you think about
that? Yeah, we've maybe gone a bit too
far into the bear market. I'm going to.
Have a tequila to that. I'm going to have a little shot
to that. I think it's a reposado.
You know what's great about being in Europe?
The show's at 4:30 PM. So it's like it's OK to have
tequila at 4:30, whereas at 10:30 PM it's not so great.
I mean, Tyler, what do you make of all that?
Yeah, I mean, all I think that the TA is fun and all, but it's
just nonsense. I think OSF had a great suite.
He was talking about, oh, the token's up 50%, the chart looks
great. Oh, the token's down 50%, the
chart looks terrible. Yeah, no shit.
So I don't know, I I kind of just just put it all aside.
I think with the EBTFS, like every investment manager just
preaches diversification non-stop.
So like once they start recommending crypto allocation,
it's not much of A leap to think that they are going to start
recommending X percent of Bitcoin and X percent of ETH.
And once you start turning that faucet on like it's not going to
stop. So like, how could you be
bearish about the inflows? You know what it is I needed you
guys last week. That's why I I need it to be on
the show. I got my Co hosts are bulls, the
bulls with big balls. You saw that video going viral
of that that sheep with like balls this big.
You guys see it and where they have to put it in a bag and like
carry the sheep. You guys see it around.
It's been viral on X for some reason.
I needed that. I needed that.
You see he's just going to turn into four more hour without me
or not as a matter of fact. Good thing I was here last week.
Jesus Christ. Anyway, Tyler.
Tyler. Tyler's top 100.
What? What?
Fuck I I, I don't. Damn, I really need those
jingles. You know what?
After this, we're gonna, we're gonna figure out how to download
them on your Rd. caster to play them 'cause I need you to be
ready to smash some bears. Tyler, what do you got for us?
Yeah, let's go with eight today Tyler's top eight Bitcoin
tumbles 5% after Mount Gox issues notice that it will begin
making its repayments in Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash starting this
July in accordance with the rules of each impacted country
with falls 30% on the weak to new three month lows.
Though it is up today, it fell out on the top 50 as Solana
Means continue to get crushed. MOG jumped into second place.
Over on the Etherium meme board after a big weekend.
The leading NFTS did fall about 5 to 10% on each chain.
Following the crypto dip in celebrity meme coins, Jason
Derulo's token Jason has rebounded strongly this morning.
It's flying. It's over 6,000,000 bucks after
he announced last night that Sahil got me and that he had
bought $20,000 of the token himself.
Though the community notes are out in force pointing to prior
crypto pumping up so so be careful out there.
Another slot of news, Solana Debs did introduce ZK
compression this weekend to help scale Solana in what could be a
5000X improvement to Solana state compression, leading to a
massive reduction in fees as well.
BLAST AirDrop speculation has run rampant as the team loaded
14 billion tokens and 3 billion tokens in the separate
contracts, leading Stats good friend of the show to bump his
gold estimate to $8.58, though he did acknowledge that the 15
to 20% drawdown in L twos could bring that number back to seven.
Yeah, yeah. We'll, we'll, we'll take it.
Every day there's something bullish happening to gold lost.
Gold estimates, man. No matter how bad the market is.
Arbitrary might be done 20% in a day, but you know what's higher?
You know what is higher? Blast Gold.
L2 could be going to zero blast gold going up.
It just doesn't go down. It's magical gold.
We'll be we'll be hired by Wednesday, no doubt.
Just rounding out this report, Luke and that's he announced
Igloo Inc, the new parent company for Pudgies overpassed
and redacted with the mission to build the largest on chain
community and driver consumer crypto revolution.
Two NFT tokens are coming soon with AI Arena's NRN token
launching today. Mocha's token Mocha is coming in
July. And then a lot of fancy top
news. They did a retroactive gold
AirDrop yesterday for users based on historical activity.
Their last round of main tournaments finally ended.
Hero payments have gone out, and they announced 20% of their new
tactics product is of the province is going to Heroes as
well. So that's the rundown.
A lot of a lot of directions we could go with this one.
OK, We're going to start with Blast TGS in two days.
So I think we should start there.
I did, I did see the, I did see the post from ICOB.
So it's really been on top of like blast gold, you know, for a
while talking about the 14 billion tokens etcetera.
I mean, what do you what, what do we think here?
Like what do we think is actually going to happen with
this blast? I'm I'm curious, what's your
actual estimations, Tyler? Yes, the decent stage.
So blast speculation heated up after two big token moves into
the test net contracts in the last day.
So 14% of the tokens that's 14 billion were moved into one
contract, 3 billion moved into another, then that 3 billion
actually got divided into 2 billion and one.
The TLJR is no one knows anything and this is all
speculation. But as we mentioned stats, he
originally guessed that everything would go into the 14%
bucket. So if the blur points are coming
from that 3%, then he acknowledged that his estimate
is in fact low 15 to 20%, which bumped his target to $8.58.
I think that aligns still somewhere in the, the seven to
$10 billion FTV. But I think ICOBST, he shared
some of the the, the target numbers as well.
Everything just comes down to the incentives that PAC Man's
going to announce on Wednesday. If there's incentives to buy the
token and hold it, I think we're going to see a higher FDB than
people think. If the if the incentives aren't
let down, I think we're we're just going to come out probably
a little bit lower, but I don't know.
I think I, it's hard for me to see a world below like 4 billion
FDB 5. So I I'm still.
What was the bit about vesting that we need to like so maybe
50% of it is vested or what did I that somebody was saying?
That for the whales, something about whales vesting 50%, what
was that? Yeah, so Nyax looked into the
contract. So there is some code that
points to a 50% vest. There's also a threshold amount
in the code. So people are thinking that only
for whales who hold above a certain percentage are going to
have to do this vest. This is another one where where
no one, just no one knows the details.
Because if you remember the blur, the last blur AirDrop came
with an auto staking component as well, but you can simply
unstake it and sell. So like there's a chance that
this is the same thing here. So we don't have any
confirmation that it will be like a forced vest.
CBB is saying CBB just tweeted out two minutes ago that it's
going to be probably 50% investing with a 2,000,000 token
threshold. So I don't know top whales.
I mean, 2 million seems like that's a lot of tokens.
So I mean, we're talking about probably like less than 100
people. I'd have to go look at the
leaderboard. I think that's probably, I think
for most people that's probably good news.
That's good news, yeah. You're happy with that?
Interesting. OK, so we're we're going to get
rich. Yes, we're going to keep raising
the estimate by 20% per day until Wednesday.
My my Blast gold estimates have gone up from half a cent, half a
dollar to like $2.50. That's what I'm putting you.
Got to up those numbers. I'm I'm, I'm I I I it's over for
me. I'm I'm I'm.
I'm going to start everything low so that I get happy on the
way up. I'm done.
I'm done with the shit paying 20 bucks and going down.
The bigger story is just like starting to think conceptually
about like what needs to happen in this ecosystem.
There's been a lot of chatter of basically telling Pac-Man to
incentivize holding up tokens. I think OVOS stuff shared
something along those lines we talked about on the show before,
but there's like nothing is going up.
There is no wealth effect being created on on blast right now.
Like Clemente ran a poll like 60% of users have lost ETH so
far over on blast and they stopped.
Like the jackpot got turned off. There hasn't been a good jackpot
hit since Pac-Man hit the the 57%.
And that was like two months ago.
Like if you told me like I was so happy with the jackpot.
I thought it was so fun and innovative and new and it was
just a fun like gamble and they just made it less fun.
Like nothing hit for the last like three to four weeks.
We're like we're literally limping into TGE and it's like
the opposite of the type of momentum I would think you'd
want to build going into this AirDrop.
And I think that is the concern is that it just seems like all
the momentum is just like kind of gone, like the tokens are
going down. The NM TS have been dust for a
while. You know a few of the absolute
like district one has the most but it's ever had fancy top
doing OK I saw. That.
I think fancy stopping one of the the the lights still here
with, you know, apps that still have potential for users after
after this week. So we'll, we'll see.
OK, it's a big week. OK, it's, it's a big week,
Mando, Mando tweeted. It's a big week.
This morning. I saw that.
I saw you, Mando. You're like, oh, big week, big
week. So what, what do you what, what
is your call, Mando? What's what?
What is your blast projection? Yeah, I, I, I can't imagine that
it won't require some level of either staking or vesting for
me. Like I think he's going to keep
the Ponzi going. Like knowing he might, he might
have a, he might 14% I think is, is, is relatively good or 70%
would be relatively good. But I imagine there's going to
be some sort of draw to keep you involved as well.
So I don't think we've seen the whole picture, but my guess is
this isn't going to happen how anyone thinks it's going to
happen. That's, that's, that's basically
what my, my view is on this. And I've, I've thought that
since the start. I, I think kind of like it, just
it's not going to be your classic thing to me.
Yeah, it's going to be something out of the blue.
He's a smart, he's a smart guy. He knows he's a smart guy.
They he's probably sat in a room with like paradigm just being
like, let's let's do something crazy here, like.
Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street meme. The Wolf of the Wolf of Meme.
Yeah, exactly. There's no way he's just sat
down and gone like, yeah, it's going to give these people
tokens and see what happens. Like there's, there's like just
there's no way in my mind that that that conversation has
happened. We're going to do like a AirDrop
like everyone else does an AirDrop, and it's going to go
completely how everyone thinks. It's going to go like, no.
It's so funny, you know that meme where they go like this
guy, here they go and then they thought they're going to get the
token right away. The fans they'll.
Be like that, Like there's no doubt.
I just think that it's just going to be complex.
It's not like it's always been complex again, and there's just
no way it's going to be simple. I agree.
No, it's to purchase it.
You know what? I'll take another sip to that to
a blast. Woof.
To bullheaded. But it's going to be hot.
That's one thing I do now. Oh, no, I I agree with you
actually. That's why I've been going home
in the fantasy tops, which I by the way, Tyler, I really like
what they did yesterday to retract.
It. Felt good, right?
It's just an, it wasn't like a huge amount of gold or anything,
but I think it was just a nice touch.
Like everyone loves like the free surprise and no one
expected it coming because like in in theory, like you, they had
been rewarding users along the way.
They hit the jackpot a couple times.
Not many apps that I can recall did any kind of like retroactive
AirDrop based on your historical activity.
I think IKB, the sports book kind of did.
That's a little bit different because that was more in line
with their payment model. So they're they're, I think
they're claiming this is the only retroactive AirDrop we've
seen, which might be kind of true by by the terms.
But they they seem to be kind of cleaning up house a little bit,
getting all the ducks in a row here ahead of the the the TG and
whatever's coming next so that they paid out heroes and the
heroes got a decent chunk of gold.
I don't know if you've seen your your hero.
I just saw that holy shit I just opened I have 4000 gold from
fantasy. Let's go.
That's a nice. Number I didn't even know.
Oh I'm revising my gold. Gold is going to open at $12.55.
I just holy guys. I've gotten 5300 gold total just
because of fantasy top. That's all I did on blast.
I did nothing else. Who's sick?
Only $500,000 by Wednesday, easily.
Everyone 100. Bucks Yes gold is going to be
$100 OS F1 OSFI mean at this stage mando like OSF is going to
be able to buy the island of Madera like this guy's so rich
like this guy must have made like 200.
I heard he made like $200 million on whiff like this is
crazy. I I heard he made like. 20 done
a decent decent cycle so far. You know what, I'm so happy for
him. He's about to have a kid in like
5 days for like 10 days I don't know anyways, it's on the way
that's why he's tweeting so much he's home too much see you right
now. But anyways, Tyler, so let's
talk a bit about this Solana devs Introzika compression to
help skill song up to 5000 X right this I thought this was
some pretty big news. I know Adam Cochran as usual,
wants like duck on it, but Mert, I thought I really like Mert's
response to him, which was like killed you not with kindness,
killed you with like braids, right.
You know how usually CT dogs with like shit posting, but Bert
came in really with brains and explained like what?
What's this thing all about? Yeah, so Solana ZK compression
on Saturday, Slana did. Slana devs did introduce ZK
compression to Solana. So this works through a process
known as state compression allows developers to source
certain types of data using Solana's cheaper Ledger space
rather than a more expensive account space.
Though it did come with some criticism from the eve camp Mert
in his introduction. He goes on to note that
everything you thought you knew about Solana and scaling L ones
is about to change. We're compressing on change
state to get 10,000 X scale improvements to get one step
closer to building the financial computer in unstoppable global
atomic state machine syncing at the speed of light.
And he goes on to clarify for non-technical folks, devs can
now build and scale literally anything they want directly on
Solana. He gives an example based on
this AirDrop to 1,000,000 users. This today would cost $260,000
just for the state. Now it would be $50.00.
So literally 5200 X cheaper. And he goes, this is just one
example, there's a whole lot more that you can do with this.
And then he goes on to explain the difference between between
compute and state and we, we can let the nerds dive into that in
in their own time. There was some hilarious back
and forth with different folks in the community responding to
this. It seems like a lot of folks in
the ETH maxi crowd really did respond negatively to this.
You mentioned the Cochrane comment.
Perhaps we can get to that in, in a minute.
This other Ethereum investor, Ryan Berkman's was criticizing
it, calling it unethical BS. He says their new product is
actually an L2L2's are a winning model.
And then Anatoly responded, I'm quoting here.
Sure it's an L2 that doesn't need a Security Council multi
sig users don't need to switch chain I DS, doesn't need a
governance token, doesn't need an external sequencer.
Flaw about air, still get all the transaction fees.
It's like an L2 without all the things that people complain
about L2. So I thought that was a pretty
good response there from Tolley and then Mert responding to
Cochran, basically calling him out like you, you've never built
anything in your life. Like how dare you?
You criticize this and then goes into the the depths so that they
got a little fired up on the timeline this weekend, but
rightfully so. This seems like a a big deal for
for Solana and what fire dancer is still coming in a few months.
Things are getting faster and cheaper.
I love that. I love that just one second
before I go on to the next thing I'm being told I got to give a
coat out. FOMO, our wine for you wine
lovers. FOMO our wine shot the
intercellular, our partners, we were here, they were in Cannes
with us. They also sponsored the the boat
last week. Super sick.
Serve some good wines. So some good wines, Tyler, you
were missed in France. You were definitely missed in
France. We got better get you out to one
of those trips with us. It's it was great.
It was great. It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of fun as well. So anyways, four more hour wine
is the code today for that. So OK, so all this fun was
crazy. I really like merch reply.
I think I shared it at some point.
So I thought it was great, you know, as usual, but it's it's
just funny. Every time someone's trying to
do something cool, we kind of like try to flood it down to 0.
So that was that. And then Pudgy.
So what happened last week? So I oversaw the timeline
because I was like semi off. There's a bent out liquidations
classic completely bought out. And you said the chance to buy a
Pudgy out of 10 E may be here for the last time ever.
So what happened since? Yeah, some have been saying NFTS
are dead, perhaps forever. Apparently, no one told Luka
Nets and the Budgie Penguins. So on Saturday, Luka Nets the
pug Penguins CEO, he introduced their new parent company, Igloo
Inc. It sits over Pudgy Penguins
Overpass their IP arm and then this new Redacted entity.
The company's mission to create the largest on chain community
driving the consumer crypto revolution.
The plan is for Igloo to form is broader end to end ecosystem,
allowing for new entrants to join the community in a non
dilutive fashion. That is a key music to NFT
holders ears. Of course, the team went on to
confirm the Pudgy Penguins will continue to serve as the top of
funnel Overpass IP alliance holders with the team brand
through licensing opportunities. And then this new redacted
entity sits between them. They teased more coming in the
coming months to complete this picture and show the full
vision. And this came right at the same
time that a fresh wallet had deposited 1069 E, which is $3.75
million in bid on the 110 Penguins, all the Penguins that
were in Ben Dao. Basically, it looks like a fund
or a whale did kind of come to bail out all the bad debt
aligned with this announcement. So I think the pudgy 4 bottomed
around 7 ETH shot back like 9.39 point five.
I think everything's down a little bit here this morning.
But the pudgy loan crisis, it feels like that is in the past.
And the, the big news here to me is the the redacted piece.
So, So what is redacted? I think folks have started to
speculate. We don't know what it is, but
something big is coming. It feels like Luca and team have
been building up to this announcement now for some time.
Not sure when it's going to come, but I think it's going to
be a blockbuster. Yeah, it's, it's going to be
really interesting and I can't wait, of course, to see what
they've got coming up next over there.
But it's always, always good stuff, it seems happening on
that front anyway. So I saw this, I saw that, you
know, Blast, Slaughter, Luca, et cetera.
I think, I think we've kind of gone over the pico stuff
already.