Show me your best @NoncoDucks 👇🏻

Around 6 years ago, I started my journey in Web3. Over that time, I’ve watched countless projects rise, struggle, and eventually disappear. In most cases, it wasn’t because the founders were malicious or lazy. It was because they reached a point where they simply couldn’t keep carrying the weight of a failed project any longer. The founders who are still here, still fighting, are rarely doing it for financial reasons. They do it because they genuinely care about what they built, but more importantly, because they care about the people who believed in it. After enough years in this space, community members stop feeling like holders and start feeling like friends. What most people never see is what happens behind the scenes of “not giving up.” The endless server bills. The countless unpaid hours. The constant pressure. The responsibility of knowing that your energy, your determination, and your willingness to keep going are often the only things keeping hope alive for the people who trusted your vision. I'm not saying Web3 isn't filled with bad actors. It is. There are people who will always prioritize personal gain over their communities, quick profits over long term value, and extraction over creation. But there is also another side of Web3. A group of builders, founders, artists, moderators, and contributors who give far more than they ever receive. People who pour years of their lives into projects that may never become successful, yet continue showing up every single day. They may not get the recognition they deserve. They may never get the outcome they hoped for. But they deserve respect. To all of you still building, still caring, and still showing up when it would be easier to walk away: Thank you. Web3 survives because of people like you.

Nice Saturday evening! Jinete from @Bod3gaNFT

Last chance to get your sponsorships in for this weeks Duck Club fight. Currently 5 ducks are entered into the battle. $20 entry fee, and if your duck wins you win! Anyone can sponsor, you DO NOT need to own the duck to participate. We fight in 3 hours. duckclub.nonconformistducks.…

The next Duck Club fight is in 3 days. Only a $20 entry fee this time, so get your sponsorships in and lets have a big fight! You can sponsor any duck, you don't need to be the holder to participate. Marco Knives is already in, who is next?

This last month has probably been the most disconnected I’ve felt from this space in the past 5 years. Days where I didn’t know what to post. Days where I didn’t even feel like posting. But I was always there. Silent. Watching. Studying. Waiting. Trying to understand where this all goes next and how to move through it. And no, don’t confuse silence with leaving. I didn’t leave. I’m not leaving. And I’m definitely not giving up.But that “purge” I always talked about? It’s not just cleansing projects anymore. It’s cleansing the people who came here with nothing to build. The grifters. The extractors. These last 90 days showed me the ugliest side of this space. I was disappointed by strangers. But even more by people close to me. And no, I’m not talking about holders. The people who met me in real life already know how this story goes. I don’t quit. I adapt. I survive long enough to figure it out. And sooner or later, I’ll find a way to beat the system and make sure all the years, energy and belief from the real ones weren’t wasted. To everyone who flooded my DMs, checked in on me, noticed something was off, and genuinely offered a hand when things got dark — thank you. I won’t forget it. And for them, I’ll come back stronger than ever.

Happy Birthday @RealDuckMaster !

NFTs in their purest form. Show me your best @NoncoDucks

7 OG @NoncoDucks are now on the duck's heaven thanks to the Duck Club. We are having fun while adding some exciting tokenomics to the project. P.D: Only 82 ducks listed.don't worry, I will burn them all.

Did you know you can get a box of 6 premium wines , Plumaje Malbec or Jinete Malbec, aged 18 months in oak for free just by minting a @Bod3gaNFT ? 🍷

4 years in this space is not for everyone! Happy Anniversary @ThePlagueNFT community & @Pons_ETH.

Marco Knives came in clutch with the big Duck club W! Never a doubt! Next fight is Sunday April 26. Go get your sponsorships in and if you back the right duck win some cash!

Market heating up and this Sunday we have a special duck club fight. Entry 50$ per duck. Let's make it massive!

NGL, I’m not satisfied with the outcomes we’ve delivered over the past 4 years in web3. We’ve kept our promises. We’ve built real products across CPG, hospitality, wine, and experiences. Things I’m genuinely proud of. But when it comes to returns for the community, the result hasn’t been what it should be. Part of that falls on me. Building teams isn’t just about talent, it’s about shared conviction. And at times, that wasn’t fully there. When things got harder, not everyone stayed the course. I carry that with me. I don’t know if it’ll be today, in 6 months, or years from now but I won’t ignore it. Everyone who believed, supported, and helped build this deserves something they can feel proud of. And I’ll find a way to make that happen.

Web3 feels like it's at the bottom of the ocean right now and I'm not talking about the market. This niche holds a huge chunk of the early adopter, tech forward minority. My entire feed is AI and agents. Yet I've barely seen NFT projects leveraging AI in any meaningful way. Why? Hypothesis 1: If AI lets you build everything on a shoestring budget, there's no reason to mint. The "raise first, maybe build later" playbook is dead. Those who never intended to build? Game over. Hypothesis 2: and this one keeps me up at night: the core premise of Web3 has been proven wrong. Communities don't hold the value we thought they did. Are people in Web3 actually willing to work? To be the sales arm, the amplifiers, the ones who carry a project's message? Does a Web3 community still have value today? Is it more effective than traditional marketing? Think about 2021: projects didn't build products—they built massive communities. Most of those communities are gone now. Did we lose the plot? Something to think about.

Is this the end of crypto? 👀

While the plebs are huddled in sports bars, sweating over their $20 March Madness brackets and praying that some overhyped 7-footer from a mid major school doesn’t brick a wide open layup, we’re playing a different game entirely. They’re betting on flesh-and-blood athletes chasing a leather ball under the bright lights of a rigged NCAA tournament! Four teams, four arbitrary outcomes, decided by referees, fatigue, and the cruel whims of March. The house edge is baked in. The narrative is pre-written by networks chasing ad revenue. The upside? A fleeting dopamine hit and maybe enough to buy a round of overpriced wings. It’s entertainment dressed up as alpha. Cute. Primitive. Fiat gambling for fiat minds. We don’t bet on sweat and highlight reels. We bet on *scarcity itself*. NFTs aren’t a bracket they’re the Final Four of the digital renaissance. Every mint, every floor sweep, every blue-chip flip is a calculated wager on cultural capital, on protocol adoption, on the immutable ledger that turns pixels into provenance. While the normies chase Cinderella stories that end in tears by Monday morning, we’re positioning in projects that redefine ownership. We’re the ones who saw the JPEG meta before it minted, the ones who understood that liquidity isn’t found in a Vegas prop bet it’s minted on-chain, 24/7, borderless, and merciless to the emotionally attached. The degen doesn’t fill out a bracket. He audits the smart contract, reads the roadmap like scripture, and sizes his bag with the cold precision of a quant who already knows the house edge is *his* edge. Because in this game, the only bracket that matters is the one where diamond hands outlast the paper ones. March Madness? That’s for the uninitiated. NFT season? That’s for the ones who actually move the culture. Stay sovereign, kings. The real tournament is on-chain. #DuckClub

Today I came across this sad news. Another OG project saying goodbye to the space. ribbit forever. 🐸