Founder @boredchili | Prev. physical ai @nvidia, maps @apple, Board @apecoin | 7 yrs in autonomous vehicles, crypto since 2016
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Hollywood is cooked.
A single ai artist just dropped a 7 minute film made 100% with ai tools and it went viral on Chinese social media in a week.
The film explores the idea that our world might be a simulation. Built with Nano Banana, Veo3 and Runway, music by Suno.
The era of the one person production studio is already here. and it cost ~0.001% of a Hollywood production.
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i loved pokémon cards as a kid and collected a lot of them.
then i grew up, stopped playing because not many of my friends were into it anymore, and eventually lost all my cards.
now me at 30s is buying pokémon cards again. with a few people from back then, but mostly with new people.
and suddenly… wow, these are worth a lot now. pokémon is cool again.
have the cards changed that much? no.
have i changed? yes.
have my friends changed in past 30+ years ? yes.
has the pokémon community and culture changed? absolutely. it feels younger, bigger, and somehow cooler again.
that’s what’s interesting about the lifecycle of an IP.
sometimes the product doesn’t need to completely reinvent itself. the people around it change. generations change. culture changes. people leave, new people come in, and some of the old people eventually find their way back.
can every IP become pokémon? obviously not.
but maybe longevity isn’t about keeping the same people forever.
maybe it’s about surviving long enough to become relevant to them again.
BAYC is in the midst of transition rn
It’s no accident that we’re seeing OG ape holders change PFPs out of monke, or sell their apes today. It’s coz the BAYC they/we once knew isn’t the same BAYC there is rn
And Figge’s remarks on what the club is confirmed it for a lot of them
Gone are the days that BAYC will reward you with airdrops just for holding an expensive monke jpeg
BAYC is now transitioning into a cultural beacon of web3 (novelty item) and an access to a club/community that occasionally gives holders access to special drops
And to OGs, that stings
Long term, this approach of club building is more sustainable for BAYC but it’s a far cry to what OGs were accustomed to
So OGs will need to consider if they’re aligned with this or if they want to align with other more rewarding projects rn or if they finally want out. And that’s ok
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see me soon!!!🫶
Asia Tour Pt. II is almost underway.
The first RSVPs are now live. Find your stop at bayc.com/meetups.
We’ll see you soon.
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i met didi on chinese social media a while ago. we had a call first and i remember telling him that he should spend more time on x because i genuinely thought his content deserved to be seen by more people around the world.
we started working on his x content together last December. he gained 5k followers in the first month.
we’ve spent hours on calls talking about ai, creativity and the creative ecosystem. through those conversations, i got to know more about how he sees the world.
a lot of passion, curiosity, philosophy, and depth. i think that’s what made me believe in his content in the first place. @DiDi_OKK
DiDi_OK
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进阶复杂版QQ农场偷菜游戏?
链上土地经营 + 开放世界采资源。
小时候你有自己的农场 → 种菜 → 等成熟 → 别人跑你家偷。
现在你有 Otherdeed → 地上产不同资源 → 别人跑你家采 → 但这次地主不骂人了，地主直接收税 → 资源还能拿去合成、交易 → Koda 相当于给你加各种 buff。
每块 Otherdeed 都有自己的生物群系和资源槽，目前一共有 74 种链上资源。你可以在自己的地上采，也可以跑去别人地里采。
Koda 和 MegaKoda 在这里会直接影响采集效率和玩法。特别是 MegaKoda，目前大概只有 99 只，还有一个祝福机制，别人可以向它进贡，然后获得额外加成。
整个经济系统目前的入口和出口都是 $APE。采出来的资源本身也是链上资产，还可以继续拿去合成其他东西。测试期间就算以后资源被重置，已经合成出来的物品会保留。
现在还只是比较早期的小规模测试，会先从 Yuga 自己的土地和第一批资源开始，很多参数后面应该都会继续调。
个人觉得目前的pc端才是获客的第一大门槛…
Otherside is a next-generation token economy made up of 74 onchain resources.
The only way in and out of the Otherside economy is $APE.
Kodas and Voyagers, along with Otherdeed environments, play a central role.
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Waymo is cooked.
L5 is here. the scalable L5 autonomous vehicle is solved.
I think the traditional lidar + HDmap solution is still valid for high-density cities with larger populations in other countries, like china. But they probably won’t use Waymo. china has Pony ai, WeRide, XPeng, Apollo, NIO, etc.
good time to pivot to robotics.
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you may be wondering where all the mandarin speaking apes are 👀
here they are:
nitter.net/i/lists/20662425981893…
if you’re 华语猿 and somehow missing from the list, drop a comment 🫶
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she’s not real, but brands are still paying ~$40k for 60 seconds of her.
fangtaozi started as a character in a chinese ai short drama called the laid-off girl. the creator behind her gained 1.59m followers in just two months.
now people know her face, talk about her personality, ship her with other characters and she already has brand deals + a season 2.
what’s interesting to me isn’t that ai can make a decent video now.
it’s that ai is already good enough to build ip.
production is getting cheaper really fast. taste isn’t.
the character, the worldview, the aesthetic, even the small details that make her feel like a real person. that’s the part hard to copy.
ip is gold. taste is currency.
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I am selling my bored ape. Gorgeous monkey, but I don’t use it enough. $7.9 million or best offer. anyone interested should contact me directly jk@noway.vc
I am selling my island in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. Gorgeous place, but we don’t use it enough. $7.9 million or best offer. Anyone interested should contact me directly at tim@draper.vc
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been seeing a lot of dms and conversations happening behind the scenes trying to figure things out.
@mfigge @PPMan @NGBxShpend @TheeHustleHouse @HodlrCollective have been going crazy on the spreadsheet of people running into issues 😭 really impressed seeing everyone come together and how much people genuinely care.
things don’t always go perfectly, but seeing everyone jump in and try to make things better is rare.
alright, the bag drop
first, the team’s been contacting people who had issues with checkout and we’ve got many folks squared away. thanks to everyone who reached out to us.
it sucks to stay up until 5am for a drop, or fumble through an app on your phone, and then run into a tech problem
a key frustration here is token-gating method.
a bit of background - when we do token-gated drops, there’s two options:
1. tokenproof
2. glyph
you’ve seen us alternate between the two recently
tokenproof is a great app, but it comes with a lot more machinery than we need, which means it’s easier for stuff to break
glyph is our native system, and it’s optimized for our ecosystem. we prefer this and have been moving towards it.
for instance - apefest ticketing this year ran on glyph for token-gating and went smoothly
we’re in the middle of getting the glyph shopify app approved, which would allow anyone to do token-gated checkout just by signing in with their glyph wallet. no phones and qr codes, no separate apps, just simple checkout.
when it gets approved, ANY community can use glyph for shopify checkout
but today we used tokenproof and it’ll probably be the last time we do that
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Vera 🍌💕🐒 retweeted
See me in Shenzhen🇨🇳
And Seoul for KBW 🫶
The @YugaLabs Asia Tour continues.
7 cities. 12 days.
Shenzhen. Tokyo. Seoul. Taipei. Hong Kong. Manila. Singapore.
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