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I wanted to put this together for anyone interested in my timeline in Web 3:
1. My first mint on the blockchain on opensea was this image called the “The Alchemist”. I wasn’t sure how to mint so I just dove in head first and created an edition of 100. I sold the first edition
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the barrier to making things used to be after effects, a studio, and six months.
i gave @claude opus 5.5 a song i made in @suno and one prompt. it built a watercolor renderer from scratch, drew every scene from the lyrics, and rendered the entire video itself in under an hour...
that barrier is gone.
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John Knopf retweeted
I'm going to say this as plainly as I can.
If you're using your position in the art world to make unwanted sexual advances toward young female artists, you're not a gatekeeper of culture. You're abusing your position of power.
And if you're standing by watching it happen because someone has influence, money, connections, or the ability to advance your career, you're helping perpetuate the problem.
Art is supposed to challenge the world, not provide a safe haven for the people exploiting it.
As a father, a husband, and an artist, I refuse to pretend this is just another controversy that will blow over in a few days.
These women deserve to be heard. They deserve to create, exhibit, and pursue their careers without having to navigate the sexual expectations of men who hold influence over their opportunities.
And when multiple women come forward with similar experiences, the response should be to take them seriously, not circle the wagons around someone's reputation.
I don't give a shit how important you are in the gallery scene. I don't care who you know, what you've sold, or how much cultural influence you've accumulated.
None of it puts you above accountability.
If we want to leave our children a better world, we have to be willing to make the one we're living in uncomfortable for people who abuse their power.
Silence protects the status quo.
And the status quo needs to change.
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John Knopf retweeted
With this being said, I had a lot of folks reach out and I am appalled by the many instances coming out since, including the handful of things I’ve witnessed.
Many of you asked if I needed support, to let them know. And right now, I need your support!
Me and four other artists that left the residency over the last week have found a studio that’s safe and perfect for us to create in. It would be ours and ours alone. We can get in as soon as October 1st, but I need your help:
We need 5k to be able to get it secured, and get tables/supplies before someone else grabs it. If there is any time I’d ask for funding, right now is that time. We need space to create and resume our bigger projects after having to leave a not so happy space! One of the artists in our group toured it the other day, and we’ve all decided it is the perfect spot.
If you would like to contribute:
ETH: 0x5EEEF05cc9EbEE2e0e82633189a2DB7fDa19Caa0
If you’d like to contribute other ways dm me!
Help us secure this studio so we can keep creating bigger and beautiful art🫂
I’m going to comment as someone who was an art resident there from May up until a few days ago. When I had first started a girl that was leaving asked if I was starting residency there that I should never stay past 9, and when I asked why she said it was because of something involving the owner but that she couldn’t say anything, but since I was a woman wanted to warn me. I took that and kept it in mind and never stayed passed 9pm. He would often get mad at me for leaving around 9-930pm. After the first two months, I started noticing strange behavior, and the people he’d invite for private dinners there were often very weird towards us women. There was a man being creepy that kept coming back and when we mentioned it made us uncomfortable he said “guys this is a part of being artists and how you get famous”. He also had a special bottle of liquor he’d keep for when he’d bring pretty petite women off the street to the back after a gallery tour to take shots. An artist (male) once took one of the shots and he got kicked out of the residency for it, again odd.
He told another artist that she had to sell her painting to the collector at his house and when she asked if she could bring her boyfriend he told her no. And she thought he was joking and he was like no I’m serious why would I be joking? (She still took her bf). This was during nft nyc btw.
Also during NFT NYC this year, I was showcasing at a lot of events so I wasn’t at every single one at TTBH, though I was at a lot and was painting all day for one of the days. The day I wasn’t there at all was for canal st show and BurritoDAO event at lume studios, a guy I met there when I mentioned I was doing residency at TTBH told me his gf was assaulted there, and some of her friends. Then, benzi showed up, grabbed my shoulders from behind and was bragging he got an art piece of mine, and then made eye contact with that guy that said Benzi assaulted his gf, and disappeared.
So I was wanting to grab my things already just with everything else I was hearing and witnessing the last month, and then I saw this video. And this girl is very sweet and talented and shouldn’t be discredited because I’m not at all shocked by this behavior as someone who was in residency for nearly 5 months there. I’ve seen strange demeanor, but these people who don’t know each other and have the same allegations on top of what all I’ve witnessed is enough.
When I grabbed all my things to take out he immediately brought this video up, asked me to step to the side as I’m leaving and kept trying to explain himself and then was telling me I’m welcome to come back and paint whenever and kept trying to ask about my current painting while I was waiting for my uber so I explained it represents yin and yang in my style happiness can’t exist without sadness and vice versa, and he was like “ so the top is the happiness and the bottom is fear, no?” And that idk. It really made me feel uncomfortable and luckily my uber finally showed up to pack my things because I was scared. I brought my ex with me to grab my things even. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there is a lot I witnessed the last two months that is why I had been wanting to find a good time to grab my things anyway. It’s just disgusting all around. Too many layers. And I’m scared for sending this but I need to because people discrediting her don’t even know how bad it is. She is a young 19 year old girl and no one deserves that
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seeing a lot of artists blame themselves right now. saying they should have known, should have seen the signs, should have done more.
i understand that instinct, but i think we need to be careful where we put the responsibility.
artists are incredibly easy to manipulate because most of us spend years trying to get one real opportunity. one gallery. one collector. one person with money or influence who says, “i believe in you.”
and when that finally happens, you don’t always see leverage for what it is.
early in my career i was offered what sounded like a life-changing deal. eight figures, a massive casino gallery, backing, resources, everything an artist thinks they are supposed to want.
at the time, i thought someone was betting on me.
looking back, the deal was terrible. they would have effectively owned me, my work and a huge part of my future. i was being manipulated, and i didn’t recognize it because i was focused on the opportunity.
i was lucky enough to get away from it.
that experience taught me something i think matters right now.
there is a huge difference between benefiting from an opportunity you believed was legitimate and knowingly enabling someone who was hurting people.
artists should absolutely listen better, protect each other and speak up when something feels wrong.
but we also shouldn’t rewrite history and convince ourselves that every person who walked through the door was somehow responsible for what was happening behind it.
the people who abused their power are responsible for abusing their power.
everyone else can learn from it without carrying guilt that doesn’t belong to them.
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Sleeping on $PIZZA isn't the right choice ngl you'll see this at $1m mcap bookmark this
As the earliest coin on @vectisfamily and the first paired with a 3x bitcoin long (pBTC3x) powered by @arcus_xyz this is the perfect meme should hit $10m long term
Earning bitcoin while holding a memecoin is insane guys 😆
Keep fading until you see motion.
A slice of 🍕 and a dream
$VECTIS 🖖 $PIZZA
1 PIZZA = 1 BTC
Sounds insane, but is it?
With 20% burned currently and a built in buy back and burn with a few million in volume we could easily be at 50% burned.
Today Pizza is a meme, Tomorrow it’s your biggest win
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Quick update on the @vectisfamily thesis:
- RWA adoption and regulation huge step forward today
- Vectis pairs memes to leveraged RWAs
- Your memecoin benefits that much more from upward move on the RWA, since its paired to a LEVERAGED position
- You get reflections in a LEVERAGED asset -> more upside
- Tokenized LEVERAGED assets are still in the top of the first inning
- Vectis is positioned to be the number one launchpad that pairs to leveraged RWAs
K back to work. 🖖🏽
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the other side is what the meme does for the underlying.
liquidity, attention + a community forming around an asset that may have never had one before.
take @arcus_xyz and @vectisfamily, pHOOD3x by itself is just leveraged HOOD exposure. pair a meme to it and now there’s an entire community buying, holding and talking about that exposure.
the meme begins to becomes distribution.
Let me summarize this for you guys.
- There's a massive advantage and eventually a moat around being the top token for a specific pair..
Now apply this to @vectisfamily
- $VECTIS is THE top token (in terms of market cap, volume, and holder count) paired to pHOOD3x - the first, and flagship pToken engineered by @arcus_xyz , which houses a 3X Long on Robinhood stock
This is a moat forming which is not yet priced in because tokenized leverage and RWA pairs are still in the top of the first inning.
But @frankdegods is 100% right.
RWA pairs have a really cool organic natural selection element to them which is going to propel the 'winners' extremely high.
Lever up.
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someone just coded a fruit fly into minecraft and they’re streaming it on pumpfun rn. wtf is this timeline?!
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This is why I'm building on @Arcus_xyz.
Read it.
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John Knopf retweeted
also:
those selling their high conviction bags to chase the useless Hunter Biden coin
will most likely end up losing most of their money in the ensuing pump and dump
and have to buy back a smaller portion of those bags at much higher valuations
stay safe
or better yet, size into solana:Dz9mQ9NzkBcCsuGPFJ3r1bS4wgqKMHBPiVuniW8Mbonk coin and chill!
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this is actually pretty interesting.
yield + leveraged tokens + memecoins
kinda feels like this could become the hyperliquid layer for robinhood assets.
Ok ill make this super simple.
This is why pairing a memecoin to a ptoken is very, very cool.
First, understand this:
If the asset that your token is paired to (called the ‘quote token’) doubles in price, your tokens are automatically worth double their value…even if not one single buy happens after yours.
Read that again until you understand.
Got it? Good.
Now an example:
I bought $20 worth of a shitty cat coin bonded off of pumpfun (so it’s paired to SOL), and i bought it when SOL was $50.
The coin sucked, and literally nobody bought it since me, but SOL is now at $100.
My cat coins are now worth 2x my cost ($40) if i go to sell them.
You see where this is going right?
Good.
Now let’s use a Robinhood RWA example:
I buy something on PONS paired to $AAPL, and then they release an iphone with the most insane new AI ever, causing their stock to triple..
Boom.
Even without one single more buy on the token after mine, my position is worth 3x my entry.
Sick right?
Now.
imagine @arcus_xyz releases a ptoken for AAPL for a 5x long, and someone has a memecoin launched off of @vectisfamily paired to THAT. (It would be called pAAPL5x or something)…
Your tokens would be worth 15x your cost even BEFORE the extra buy pressure from the catalyst on your coin.
In the words of the average Solana trencher…
Is this NOT INSANE?
Yeah it actually is.
The bottom line is…
If you’re bullish on the RH eco, you should be bullish on @arcus_xyz and pTokens.
And if you’re bullish on ptokens, you should be bullish on $VECTIS.
Lever up.
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Ok ill make this super simple.
This is why pairing a memecoin to a ptoken is very, very cool.
First, understand this:
If the asset that your token is paired to (called the ‘quote token’) doubles in price, your tokens are automatically worth double their value…even if not one single buy happens after yours.
Read that again until you understand.
Got it? Good.
Now an example:
I bought $20 worth of a shitty cat coin bonded off of pumpfun (so it’s paired to SOL), and i bought it when SOL was $50.
The coin sucked, and literally nobody bought it since me, but SOL is now at $100.
My cat coins are now worth 2x my cost ($40) if i go to sell them.
You see where this is going right?
Good.
Now let’s use a Robinhood RWA example:
I buy something on PONS paired to $AAPL, and then they release an iphone with the most insane new AI ever, causing their stock to triple..
Boom.
Even without one single more buy on the token after mine, my position is worth 3x my entry.
Sick right?
Now.
imagine @arcus_xyz releases a ptoken for AAPL for a 5x long, and someone has a memecoin launched off of @vectisfamily paired to THAT. (It would be called pAAPL5x or something)…
Your tokens would be worth 15x your cost even BEFORE the extra buy pressure from the catalyst on your coin.
In the words of the average Solana trencher…
Is this NOT INSANE?
Yeah it actually is.
The bottom line is…
If you’re bullish on the RH eco, you should be bullish on @arcus_xyz and pTokens.
And if you’re bullish on ptokens, you should be bullish on $VECTIS.
Lever up.
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took a deep dive into @wolfdotgame and i am now officially a sheep herder. see you on the farm 🧑🌾
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John Knopf retweeted
We dropped some big updates today!
Build Shearing Sheds for pre-TGE $WOOL, new Valley Leaderboard, and in-game lending for resources (v4 hooks).
More coming.
The Valley is evolving with two major updates: Shearing Sheds and a redesigned Valley Leaderboard. Together, they introduce new ways to earn, defend, compete, and coordinate across the Wolf Game economy. 1/10
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