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🔥 @NeoTokyoCode Lore Series: Unpacking the Genius of the Neo Tokyo Membership Brand 🗄️ Today’s Topic: One of the most underrated Neo Tokyo brand mechanics is the Elite Code hunt Neo Tokyo did something most NFT projects never even attempted It made the lore feel operational Not just backstory Not just cyberpunk copywriting Not just “worldbuilding” dropped into a Discord announcement Hidden signal Clues Huntable artifacts Citizens combing through old lore for years because the city implied there was still something buried inside it 👀 Legend has it there are 30 Elite Codes hidden across Neo Tokyo lore When an Elite Code is solved, it can unlock an Elite, ultra-rare Citizen ID NFT A prime example of a solved code: 🔗 x.com/neotokyocode/status/16… And the search has been going for more than 4 years That matters Because the best lore-native brands do not only tell you what the world is They make you participate in proving it exists Neo Tokyo understood that early A code is not just a code It’s a reason to reread old messages A reason to archive screenshots A reason to ask older Citizens what they remember A reason for new Citizens to realize the city has history beneath the surface That is the difference between an art collection with lore and a brand with mythology Most projects publish a story and hope people care Neo Tokyo hid keys inside the story and made Citizens care enough to search One of the core tenets of the Neo Tokyo ethos is: “The Games will never end” That is why the city still has signal Not because every answer was handed down cleanly Because some of the map still feels unfinished And in Neo Tokyo, unfinished does not mean forgotten It means the game is still alive 🗼Grand Rising

Market Monday #175, today at 3PM EST!

Totally agree I’m convinced Neo Tokyo will be studied in the future as cutting-edge brand design that fused emerging technology with myth, scarcity, identity, game mechanics, and community ritual An outlier in a sea of copycats Not just “NFT art” More like a cyberpunk city people had to decode, earn, assemble, and inhabit

Citizens, Lesson 4 starts today at 12:30PM EST! Still time to complete your homework. We're looking forward to the discussion in VC.

Happy birthday to our co-founder, the Dark Lord @ZssBecker 🥳

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To the old, “4” meant failure. But the digital city doesn’t fear the end. It rewrites reality. @NeoTokyoCode

Citizens, 1 hour to complete your homework! See you at Lesson 2: Claude Code 101

Yesterday, we completed Anthropic Academy Lesson 1 with Neo Tokyo Citizens ✅ If you don't know this stuff, you'll be professionally irrelevant very soon. Hop in The Citadel and join us next week before you're too far behind.

Claude 101 is starting in just 5 minutes! See you in The Citadel, Citizens. 🫡

Market Monday #170 3pm ET NFTs Catching Fire 🔥 The End of L2s The Quantum Resistance x.com/i/spaces/1wxWjarXXeAJQ

It’s beautiful. 🔺

Those excited about the price of NFTs killed off 99% of the space. Those excited about what can be built with NFTs are why the 1% still exist with huge potential. Go back to your mention markets and Logan Paul’s next grift, we’ll be over here building the future of decentralized IP and networking.

The NT AI Division is kicking off a weekly AI Education series! Think of it as a Book Club, only for AI nerds. We'll be going through Anthropic Academy Courses 1 by 1 then discussing together in an open VC. It starts simple, with Claude 101, so attend if you're just diving into AI or you are @felixnorden himself. Complete Claude 101 on your own time, then come to the 1st session on Tuesday prepared for discussion and questions! anthropic.skilljar.com/ Citizens only.

One use for NFTs remains….

This week on Market Monday #169: - There's so much shit going on man, you've got to tune in to get all the updates, share your take, and toke your toke. Pumps, dumps, scams, hacks. Oh, and some rays of hope...or is that just the weed? Link: x.com/i/spaces/1AKEmObqdrYKL