Some reflections after my 4th Apefest. I am of the belief that humans are social creatures and what we desire most is a sense of belonging. If we find our people and surround ourselves with those we love doing the things we enjoy most then happiness is sure to follow.

For 53 years, the Knicks showed how painful sports can be. And then they showed how beautiful the payoff is. This one is worth reading. My column on the Knicks' championship: sportingnews.com/us/nba/new-…

i'm going to get this algorithm in front of more people

Happy Mutant Monday from the sickest 🤢

I wanna be following all apes can you reply here if I’m not following you if I’m already following you, pls RT this for better vis apes together strong

What people are missing about 6529: This is not “an NFT project.” It is not a democracy. It is not a pump and dump. It is a code-based order emerging in real time. A Network State built around identity, reputation, culture, and provably fair coordination. @balajis described the vision. @punk6529 is actually building it. TDH is decision power earned through long-term support of public goods. Meme cards are evolving from “art” into infrastructure funding for a new global society. Support the network. Fund public goods. Hold long term. Earn influence. Skin in the game backs trusted identity and reputation. Reputation powers coordination. Coordination builds economic gravity. The goal is not a 10x JPEG flip. The goal is a trillion dollar dGDP economy with aligned participants who can make arbitrary collective decisions at internet scale. And this becomes even more important in the age of AI. AI agents will need more than payments and blockchains. They will need trusted coordination layers. Identity. Reputation. History. Decision records. 6529 is building a network that AI can tap into to optimize capital allocation, governance, labor coordination, cultural discovery, and collective intelligence itself. TDH becomes signal through the noise. A defense against bots, spam, short-termism, and infinite AI-generated content. And the craziest part? The culture is real. People argue because they care. Builders stay for years. Doctors, engineers, artists, founders, collectors all show up after work because something meaningful is forming here. Crypto is just the utility layer: - proving history - coordinating humans - funding growth - securing culture 6529 feels less like “crypto” and more like early internet subculture or early surf culture. Passionate. Weird. Mission driven. High trust. No other project in crypto feels like this. 6529 hits different. It’s time to pay attention anon.

One of my favourite collections of recent times 🔥 Here are some of the iterations that stand out for me.

May 1st, 2021 marks the 5-year minting anniversary. 0.08 ETH x 4 = endless joy. Five years in the @BoredApeYC has been surreal. I’ve had countless unbelievable memories being part of this Club. Some of my best moments have been with complete strangers who just happened to be in the same Club. From adventures around the world with many of you, to carriage rides with @tropoFarmer, to wild nights with @NFTraveler, @AyoJocko, @seannana and more… five years has flown by. To the new members joining us as we head toward year 10, Embrace the IRL experiences. Say yes to things you’ve never done before. Break bread as often as you can. And most of all, enjoy your time being in the best Club on the internet.

I created explorer for all 617 Architectonica seeds so you don't have to architectonica-seeds.netlify… Looking forwards to seeing what @remnynt picks to the final curated set of 250!

Submitted a few seeds to @remnynt's Architectonica. Structurally interesting work that drifts between spatial coherence and collapse. The Consensus Curation model introduces a thoughtful form of distributed authorship. Curious to see how the final 250 land.

love you guys, sale is complete thank you so much to everyone who supported, stay tuned for more on mints as they begin rolling out 😭😭😭

Final 8 minutes! It’s been such a joy to generate seeds this past week. Sending myself emails with favorites to look back at and make finals choices is something I’ll never forget.

god i love this algorithm. bittersweet to see it finishing today, still finding outputs that make me feel like i'm first looking at it again.

1/ Architectonica - About the Artwork Life is a temporary structure emerging from chaos. It builds briefly, for a wonderful moment in time, experiences the universe in one way or another, and then merges back into the chaos.

Having a lot of fun helping curate @remnynt new collection. Everyone should give it a try before the time runs out this Friday

Architectonica closes in 48 hours an experimental onchain generative art release with a new format and custom smart contract 0.007 ETH per seed 250 final pieces blindly curated by the artist and minted to the seed owners explore the algorithm in full, link in my profile

Few weeks ago @marcy455marcy and I hit @boredcuban in South Miami! One of 3 locations in FL (also Le Jeune by Miami Intl Airport, and Brickell) created by @MiamiBoredApe Great experience - fresh, delicious food in a fun, vibrant @BoredApeYC themed environment Pics and more 👇

This cycle genuinely sucked. We could have had awesome stuff, but the space decided to pivot into some braindead "financial nihilism" narrative and fed billions and billions to outright scammers with malicious intent. Instead of movements and projects we saw countless soulless coins pushed out on pumpfun and alike and the entire spaces moving from putting money behind what we think has a future or we find enjoyable into PvP on the one minute chart. Yes the 2021 cycle was full of crazy visions, astronomical valuations, and promises beyond reality ... but there still was excitement about stuff beyond money, strong believe in the future of this on chain magic internet money thing, and people trying to build stuff (and often failing at it). Consequently this cycle failed to bring forward anything exciting minus Hyperliquid. Luckily some projects from earlier cycles that kept building emerged as major winners that made this cycle a bit more than the utter misery and joke it would have been otherwise ... but it was still terrible. CT loves shitting on and clowning all the gamefi projects that sadly had to shut down lately. Yes part of it was that some games just sucked, some visions did not make sense, resources were often not managed wisely, teams often lacked the sufficiently skilled and experienced people ... BUT ALSO CT just stopped giving any single fuck about metaverses and gaming for the most part. Because CT loves chasing one shiny new hot object. That's why we have countless HL perp dex clones, and already dozens and dozens of prediction markets. And why so many projects pivot, pivot and pivot again. NFT projects of 2021 – the one that lasted – achieved things that would have been among our wildest imaginations, yet many struggle to achieve MCs that are even 1/10th of the peaks the nihilistic purely money chasing crowd that dominated this cycle sent pure scam coins (such as the ones that got "launch support" by this POS below) with no soul and future. Lot's of games were close to being a fun experience and having a potential future but died not only because of the often referenced reasons above but also because they were suddenly building for an audience of none (plus a horde of hungry airdrop farmers looking to extract every last cent instead of getting a real job). Seeing all the heart & soul and immense effort & time people like @BitBoromir poured into an IP and universe that was amazing and crafted with insane attention to detail potentially go to waste – and, for the most part, getting nothing but shit on by CT for "rugging" and "extracting" while the same fckers yeeted clips into sketchy soulless anon "dev" pump fun "memes" (they do not deserve this name, because memecoins are rarely about the memes anymore and just farms and pvp gambling vehicles with the meme as an afterthought in 99% of cases) and often still do. This is way more of a problem in this space than any terrible decisions and incompetence based fuck ups most projects in this space did over the years. Yet CT loves pointing fingers at everyone but themselves and blaming founders and teams for being scammers. Lemme tell you, the scammer part people usually don't stay multiple cycles and if they do they come back with fresh new scams. Way more teams just suck or fail despite not even sucking, some just hit a bad beat. Take @pudgypenguins, @LucaNetz often mentioned how tight things got early own and how a couple more bad beats could have ruined what now has become a wild success story. Things are rarely as black and white as CT loves to portray them (unlike the shirt of Libra scammer guy below, direct your anger at fckers like him not teams that tried and failed), and its easy to be a keyboard warrior and throw insults and hate at people who often tried way harder than the person typing out those insults from their mom's basement. TLDR: 1) Direct your hate towards the outright scammers in this space that we saw plenty of in memes, many of them stayed anon though. Give some love to the people like @BitBoromir who genuinely tried and still try to build something cool and amazing that touches peoples heart, else we end up in a state where nobody wants to build anymore. The current excitement we see coming back to the few NFT winners of last cycles is a move in the right direction. 2) Think about what you wanna put your money and word behind. I warned in 2023 that the shift towards what people called "memecoins" (which they rarely are) would corrupt and ruin our amazing and exciting space. People told me I just do not "get the memes" (yes I do I was on 4chan when many of the true OG memes that had actually relevance and sticking power got spun up) or I am just "coping" because I missed the 100x (yes sometimes I was). Truth of the matter is that stopping to bid cool things that may go somewhere and lead to an exciting and fun future, this shift caused us as a space to put money and attention towards mainly soulless and effortless gambling vehicles that were released by some of the sketchiest and scummiest people that ever touched this space for no reason other than to enrich themselves. Gambling vehicles that never had any future in most cases (yes there are ACTUAL memecoins that had or have a real movement behind them but those are about 0.000001% of them) and never could lead this space anywhere. Bring back DeFi, bring back NFTs, bring back crypto gaming, bring back metaverses, bring back privacy, bring back freedom to transact, ... Stop the financial nihilism. Bid things you like and truly enjoy or that you believe may change this world for the better. Stop bidding things for the SOLE reason to make money. Things you love, are likely to be loved and enjoyed by others too. And things that you may see change the world may actually do so. In both cases, financial gains come as a side effect of being early to it playing out. Simple as that. So please just stick to that again. Make our space great again! (and fck this guy below but kudos for at least showing his face in public unlike the countless anon grifters ... fck those even more!)

- You must be kidding. You spent $20k on a JPEG instead of a Rolex? - Not kidding. I don’t wear, collect, or invest in watches. I’d rather own one of these. Yes, it’s digital, you can’t touch it… but that’s the point. Only 10k exist. Truly scarce. How many Rolex are out there? How many get produced every year? I know mine is authentic. No doubts. No middlemen. No “experts” needed. Can you say the same with your Rolex? I can move my Ape across the world in seconds. No customs. No insurance. No physical risk. No border questions. It doesn’t scratch. It doesn’t age. It doesn’t need servicing. It doesn’t need a vault. It doesn’t need an expert to prove it’s real. There’s a global 24/7 market for it. Permissionless. Transparent. Instant. Every bid, sale, owner, trait and transfer is public forever. New tech. New paradigm. Still early. Most people haven’t even understood what they’re looking at yet. So yeah… I’ll keep collecting. You can keep watching. LFG NFTs 🚀

Absolutely love the increased awareness that collectorship is what sets NFT apart. Traits, sets, grails, aesthetic combos. The focus on floor prices is what turned NFTs into nothing more than a makeshift fungible speculative vehicles. Identity, collectorship, art is all coming back into full focus... as it should be.

People might not like this take but it’s lame that it took NFT prices and liquidity catching a bid for several founders to suddenly come out supporting NFTs with ‘now that NFTs are back’ posts. For some of us, they never left. They needed your support most when they were down.