Last week I shared the thesis I’ve been working on during this bear market: build games and experiences that build communities. Not trying to build the next AAA game. Not making unreachable promises. Just building cool things people can jump into, play, trade, compete, create and hang out in, and then using those experiences to build real communities around NFTs, tokens and whatever comes next. UGLY was the first step. Today I want to show you the bigger thing I’ve been building behind it. It’s called GrowBlocks. The idea goes back much further than this bear market: In 2019, a friend and I tried to build a game around building communities on-chain. The graphics were rough, the smart contracts didn't work properly and the whole experience was honestly hell. We spent over $1M trying to make it happen, relying on a team that ultimately couldn't deliver what we had imagined. When we needed them most, they weren't there. For the first time, I feel like technology has caught up with the ideas we had back then. With AI, vibecoding, and the tools available now, you don't need a huge studio or millions of dollars just to experiment with an idea. You can imagine something, start building it yourself, test it with your community, and improve it incredibly fast. For me, GrowBlocks is also personal. I studied web and graphic design in my early twenties because I always loved creating things, but life took me somewhere completely different. I became a travel entrepreneur and spent years organizing tours around Europe for large groups. I loved the business and especially the people. Then COVID arrived in 2020, and my travel business collapsed almost overnight. I was completely lost for a while, and somehow that pushed me back into the thing I had loved when I was younger: creating. I started making banners, stickers, and random designs for crypto communities. Then I started moderating communities, meeting more people, getting deeper into crypto, and eventually building my own. That became efrogs. It took a ridiculous amount of work, consistency, and vision, but we built something special. Efrogs became the strongest community on Linea, and I'm still incredibly proud of what we built together. Now I want to take everything I've learned from that journey and go much bigger. That is GrowBlocks. GrowBlocks is already live on @RobinhoodCrypto testnet, and a lot of what I'm describing isn't a roadmap. You can actually use it today. You can build and publish your own plaza. You can launch a coin and trade it in front of the people standing around you. You can mint NFT collections and trade NFTs with other players. You can go into the Shooter Plaza Armory, design your own weapon skins, mint them as NFTs, and then gift or trade them. We even connected the main plaza chat directly with the t.me/GrowBlocksxyz Telegram group. Someone inside the game can talk to someone sitting on Telegram, and they're part of the same conversation. This is where the thesis from my previous post starts making more sense: I don't want communities to just have a token, a Telegram, and an X account. I want them to have a place. Their own plaza. Their characters. Their games. Their NFTs. Their events. Their launches. Their shops. Their competitions. Their customized games (devkit is live) And @uglyonrobinhood is our first real proof of concept. UGLY is the first community living inside GrowBlocks. It has its own plaza, its own stage, its own giant screen and UGLY RUN. When you walk into the UGLY plaza, everyone becomes an UGLY. We're also working with @Moshdottrade to integrate their launch technology directly into GrowBlocks, with the goal of launching UGLY from inside its own plaza, right there in front of its community. We're not rushing that. It happens when it's ready and when we know we can do it properly. Then there are Froglets and efrogs. Froglets are basically our NFT trading playground on testnet. You can claim the same Froglet numbers for free on Robinhood Chain testnet straight into your game wallet, then list them in the plaza, buy and sell them, gift one directly to another player face-to-face, or even drop them around the world for somebody else to find. Same art. Same traits. No value. Just a playground to test what we can build. And everything we learn from Froglets shows us what can eventually be possible with efrogs. Your efrog can already come with you into GrowBlocks. Link it, and it lives there with you. Our Museum already has halls full of efrogs. The efrogs collection itself doesn't change. Same contract. Same frogs. OGs never die. What we build around them from here is something I want us to discover together. One last thing that matters: security. Game wallets run through Privy, and we built a separate backup site so that even if GrowBlocks itself goes down, you can still access your wallet and move your funds out. Also you can download your keys for back up. If we're going to ask people to actually use this world, ownership has to mean ownership. And remember: this is Season 0. Things will break. Things will change. Some ideas will work, and others will probably be terrible. We'll add things we haven't even thought about yet. That's the whole point. I'm not interested in spending three years telling you what we're going to build. I'd rather build it with you. Welcome to GrowBlocks. RT, let's make this big. growblocks.xyz 🐸

The UGLY Plaza is live on @growblocksxyz: play UGLY RUN in the arcade, wear the UGLY fit. Free, in your browser. Come and get your XP and suggest what to build on our Plaza before we launch $UGLY. Woof. Season 0 is on now. Be there from day one. The more, the better. RT. growblocks.xyz/project.html?…

I claimed GrowBlocks OG Cube #0001 🧊 Founding Team. Only 91 Founding spots left, free to claim in Season 0 on @growblocksxyz. GB-BD4D8 growblocks.xyz/i/shama-f6207…

Quick GrowBlocks update 🧊 • XP program improved: more gamified, better notifications, easier for new accounts • Trading screen in-game: smooth transition, sharp display • Testnet token buying is working smooth af (as frog) All you need to test is a Google account 👉 growblocks.xyz The updated XP program is announced today on @growblocksxyz RT and share. so we all test 🐸

UGLY RUN Round 2, the last 24 hours: 356 runs · 26 players · 358 km run by the dog Best run of the day: 29,368 by MikaelMGM, still #1. 2 days left. THE BOARD closes 30 Sep, 23:59 UTC. Top 5 win an efrog each. Right now 19,206 gets you spot 5. uglyonrobinhood.com/run

Efrogs is now GrowBlocks, and its browser world is open on the Robinhood Chain testnet @RobinhoodCrypto. Season 0 runs one month on test credits with no value. Every XP point is recorded. The most XP goes to players who build plazas and launch coins. pondstreetledger.com/efrogs-…

In order to make people understand the features and Growblocks potential, we will be frequently posting articles for all audiences. Devs, artists, creators, traders, gamers. Lots to explain. We will go step by step.

@lucasfujii94 built a ZEN temple to relax in. Now it has its own coin, $ZEN. Here's how you can do the same on Robinhood Chain testnet, and everything you can do with your plaza after 👇

Just created my own plaza on @GROWBLOCKSXYZ, a ZEN temple designed for people to relax!!! growblocks.xyz/p/7DVvtjv5E9F… @GROWBLOCKSXYZ @gigapran @0xYuriiB @NotEnoughEth @0xBilgute @_Benvictor_

Ive created one of the most technologicaly advanced telegram groups of all time. T.me/Growblocksxyz

[CALLING DEVS, ARTISTS, PLAYERS, TRADERS] Growblocks testnet XP season is LIVE. Join t.me/growblocksxyz Start TESTING. Provide feedback. If you are a dev, hit us up. We have a devkit for you to build your own game inside Growblocks. Lots to read, lots to learn, lots to improve, but we start strong. Look for UGLY, Efrogs and other cool communities in the game. We also built a SHOOTER. Enjoy. RT. The more, the better.

GN, broters and sisters of the block-chain.

We build first, then launch. Then improve. Have a great weekend.

This is great and you should check it out. Thinking to integrate it to @ThePondStreet to improve sentiment based news.

GN + happy weekend .

I see a lot of "big" projects hiring verified x bots accounts to look awesome. It is so bad, it is good. Soon we will boom. I want you all to know that being early is always the n1 rule to make it. Hope you are watching.

CRAZY 🚨 I built a scanner that shows you world's sentiment on social media in real-time Right now, it is pointed at Netanyahu's speech at the @UN Imagine reading all posts on X and Instagram at the speed of light Meet world-signal.ai How does it work? 1. It picks up posts from a set of keywords, topics, and accounts from X and Instagram 2. then uses the Sage decision model to filter if it's relevant to the UN speech, whether it's supportive or critical for @netanyahu, and the post's narrative topic (ie., is the post about the Speech, Israel, or Iran?) 3. The image and text are classified separately, providing different weights to the sentiment and narrative rankings. This all produces short, mid, and long-term sentiment measurements. 1. Ben reacts every 5 seconds. 2. Narrative weights are updated every hour. 3. The 24h dial shows conglomerate sentiment measurement. I built this yesterday to test out Sage's new reasoning and image capabilities. It's the only AI model we used to build it. This is the power of decision models. Sage reasons when things are complicated and can interpret images, making this app possible. Disclaimer: This tool is politically neutral. It's difficult to touch anything related to geopolitics and be fairly neutral. We did our best on filter selection - if you think the method could have been better, please drop a comment below. I will use World Signal for future trends. If you'd like me to point it at a narrative next week, send me a comment below.

Expect greatness.