Ansem outlines new updates and structural changes coming to Ansem.io "There's been some different changes that we're making to it, and the updates for that will be out soon" "The initial version of it was kind of like a launchpad layer, like an index for on-chain coins" "Doing a lot of stuff with Market Bubble, Bullpen stuff, and also that... so it's three different things running in parallel" "All are going to be value accretive to Ansem, and I'll have more info on that out soon, probably beginning of next week" "One of the issues I've had with the current structure of Ansem.io is the way that coins launch there—it's really easy for them to be sniped"

Ansem breaks down the evolution of Solana wallets and why Phantom became the dominant player in the ecosystem ​"Back when Solana first started, the main wallet was this thing called Sollet... and it was fing terrible to use, bro. The UX was fing horrible" "That was what I was using when I was doing all the early DeFi stuff on Sol, on-chain" "I think Phantom's great. I think that'd be a great brand in crypto, and they've integrated a ton of different things, so it's not just a wallet, but you can also do a lot more on Phantom, which is cool" "We're gonna be doing a lot with them"

Ansem explains why Robinhood is expanding into crypto to capture a new massive revenue line "The ability to capture value there if you provide value for users is crazy because of how aggressive the speculation and how aggressive the trading volume is with everything on-chain" "Robinhood right now makes I think like 4 and a half billion a year in their traditional business, and they're realizing that crypto can add an entirely new real revenue business line to their existing products" "Trading terminals and launchpads make so much money because they're able to take such a high fee rate... because people are willing to speculate on these things they think they can get 1,000x plus returns on" "Vlad has realized that if they're able to participate and enable some of that speculation while still keeping their distance... and allowing their empire to benefit from all that activity"

Aaron explains why transparency is key when building in Web3 ​"In our industry, I think being transparent with people is really important." "You see so many collections that have that MO of 'we need to come off as being perfect' and 'we can't communicate anything until it's 100%.'" "We're not really toddlers here... we don't have to be mysterious. Let everybody know exactly what we're doing." "There comes a point where I have to say to the artists, 'I know you don't think you're done, but you're done with putting the work out.'"  🎙: [@hamieverse]

Aaron shares why performing at an NYPD and FDNY memorial luncheon was the toughest gig of his career ​"So I was a comedian for a long time in New York City, and one of the gigs I eventually ended up being asked to do was for the New York City Police and Fire Department called the Line of Duty Luncheon." "These were for family members—children, wives, husbands, parents—of firefighters and police officers who were killed in the line of duty." "The person that ran it was a close family friend named Frank Bowles, who actually saved my father's life when he was a hostage in New York City back in 1975 in a bank. So when the guy who saves your father's life asks you to come on and do some comedy on his event, you really can't say no." "However, what Detective Bowles maybe didn't realize was that that's a horrible place to have a comedian."  🎙: [@hamieverse]

Aaron explains why he refuses to click links from unfamiliar platforms even when working with trustworthy people "It’s my fault, okay? My fault entirely because I am an old school degen" "I got sent a link from a platform that I wasn’t familiar with... I’m like, I’m not clicking that" "Being in the Class of 2021 where everybody got hacked all the time, I am the most difficult person to work with when it comes with stuff like this" "So if you’re having technical difficulties, it’s my fault, I apologize to you and to everybody watching" 🎙: [@hamieverse]