I was always focused on the consumer side of crypto, even before the narrative made it popular. I knew that without real users and use cases, we’re just playing with the “cool stuff” we built. A few days ago, I stumbled upon an old unlisted YouTube video of mine, my final project from 2021 for the @Consensys Ethereum Developer Bootcamp. It’s 12 minutes long, and my presenting skills weren’t as good as now, but I still find it cool 🙂 I chose to build a PoC for an NFT e-commerce dApp as my graduation project. piped.video/8bW5JYhASiA

I know this isn’t a completely new concept. We’ve seen similar animations in a few apps after purchasing or completing something. But we are Copycat. We copy what works, and reinvent or improve what doesn’t 😼

How cool is this receipt animation when you subscribe to a trader on @copycat?! I absolutely love working on the Copycat app and making it genuinely enjoyable to use 😌 Can’t wait for everyone to be able to try it.

I could withdraw funds from @copycatnow all day just because of this animation 😁 Hmm, maybe that’s actually not so good for us 🤔 Jokes aside, obviously we want more deposits than withdrawals, but our goal is to make every single thing in the app an experience in itself. More importantly, we want people to be successful, withdraw regularly, and buy themselves nice things with the money they’ve made on Copycat. We’ll always celebrate withdrawals like that!

If you're an early-stage Web3 startup founder, this September may be the most important month for you in a while. There are currently 6–7 ongoing opportunities, and you can double down on many of them. 1. @ETHGlobal Tokyo IRL hackathon is in a few days. 2. @colosseum went multi-chain for the first time, with a lot of EVM chains joining. Whatever you build during ETHGlobal Tokyo, you can submit there as well. But you need to keep building. 3. If @arbitrum or Robinhood Chain is on your list for those two hackathons, you can also apply for Arbitrum Open House. 4. You can combine a @monad integration and the currently ongoing Monad Metropolis hackathon with Colosseum. 5. If your project has a mobile app and supports @solana, there's a @solanamobile hackathon too. 6. And last but not least, Stocklana hackathons for anyone building anything stock-related on Solana, with Perps & Prediction Markets and Consumer Apps on Solana Mobile hackathons starting soon. But your goal shouldn't be getting bounties, or even winning. The main goal is getting as many eyes as possible on what you're building and turning it into a business, instead of simply building a hackathon project. That's what we'll do with @copycatnow. And the best thing is, we can actually attack everything on this list. Fun times, finally!

🥇 Won 1st at @ethbelgrade 's @ensdomains hackathon with Digraphia - cross-script ENS identity. "никола.eth" & "nikola.eth" might be the same person, but ENS can't tell. Digraphia links them via 2 text records, no contracts. Toward an ENSIP. github.com/leohhhn/digraphia

Proof of Cat! We like it! Reply with a picture of your cat 😻

$10,000 USDC up for grabs. Swap $250+ into eligible Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on @base through Jumper to enter the raffle. More volume = more chances to win. Ends September 21. Jump in: jumper.xyz/missions/coinbase…

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Time to fully lock in. Time for @copycatnow. I took two weeks to slow down and travel after @ethbelgrade, but now it’s time to go into warp speed. We’ll start giving access to the closed alpha very soon. Trust me, you want to be on the waitlist before that happens.

Join me on the Jumper waitlist. waitlist.jumper.xyz/r/JMP-5A…

Many onchain losses come from what teams do after an exploit starts, rather than the exploit itself. In this episode of Stable School, @BogdanHabic, co-founder of @TenderlyApp, on how Tenderly builds closer to a flight simulator on the ground than an alarm in the cockpit, why each new network is a bet on what its builders chose to optimize for, and the race now on for banks and fintechs with procurement cycles measured in quarters: piped.video/watch?v=TEvwvM4w…

The $NECTAR ICO is now live on @futarddotio  HiveBits is tokenizing 300 revenue-generating beehives producing honey, bee bread, pollen and propolis All revenue goes back to the onchain-governed, tokenholder-owned treasury on @Solana  Join the raise: futard.io/launch/AbTuTsoBJS2…

I'm building in the Crypto World's Fair Hackathon, powered by @Colosseum! colosseum.com/hackathon/soci…

Highly recommended. I'm still not sure I'll make it, but I'll do my best to join this amazing crew and initiative 🇱🇰

ETH Belgrade [4] is over, but hackathon season is far from it. If you needed an excuse to visit Tokyo, our frens at @ETHGlobal are doing Pragma Tokyo and ETHGlobal Tokyo in about 3 weeks. They were kind enough to prepare some special deals for our community: 50% off staking for ETHGlobal Tokyo ethglobl.al/ETHBELGRADED9I0C $20 off Pragma Tokyo ethglobl.al/ETHBELGRADEZC5JP See you in Tokyo. Sayonara 🥷

One big THANK YOU!

Okay, calm down, everyone. These password reset requests we all got are most likely a bug in production rather than a worldwide hacker attack.

Belgrade gave us plenty to take home this week! We spent Wednesday and Thursday at @ethbelgrade, part of @belgradebw, and it turned into two packed days of conversations, new connections and a lot of interest in what’s being built around stablecoin banking. Our booth stayed busy throughout, the merch barely made it past day one, and we got to speak with builders, founders and teams working across the wider digital asset space. But the week went well beyond the conference floor: → We kicked off Wednesday morning with a Crypto Outdoor Workout, hosted together with @Tangem before the conference got underway. Great to have @AleksaFlamingo, @MrUncleBro, @RealFinOfficial, @CryptoSavingExp, @Web3Spud and others join us for the session and start the day on a different note. → That evening, we joined @DeFiSaver and @ambire for Beers & DeFi, bringing another part of the community together away from the conference. → Thursday finished with Proof of Rakija, one of @belgradebw traditions and probably the most Serbian way possible to close out two days at @ethbelgrade. → Our co-founder & CCO, Georgy Sokolov, also sat down with the @stableschool team to record a podcast during the week. More on that soon. → And this morning, we wrapped everything up over coffee with @PulsarMoneyApp, catching up with familiar faces, continuing a few conversations from the conference and ending a very full week on a good note. A big thank you to everyone who stopped by, spoke with the team, joined one of the events or simply came over to say hello. And a special thanks to the @ethbelgrade team for putting together a great conference and for all the support throughout the week, especially @0xdevelopera, @tanjaweb3 and @Lejla_Muratcaus. Belgrade, see you next year. 👋

In the meantime... But hey, let's just hire a bunch of Gen Z kids with zero prior experience who happened to get close to someone at the EF, put them into teams with some random name like Ethereum Everywhere, Ethereum Conference Goers, or Ethereum [insert word]maxxing. They can post "Ethereum is for [insert word again]" chain posts on X from time to time. That'll work.