3 days left to apply for Arbitrum NYC Founder House. An IRL builder experience starting on March 6th for early-stage teams looking for: - Up to $340K in prizes grants - Hands-on mentorship (product, infra, GTM) - Direct access to ecosystem leaders like Robinhood, Alchemy & more If you’re building in AI, DeFi, or any onchain vertical and looking to take your product to mainnet on Arbitrum, apply today. luma.com/openhouse-newyork

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The Reya Foundation ICO brought in over 4000 participants from over 60 countries. Allocation was capped. Demand wasn’t. We’re proud to announce that the 2% supply is oversubscribed. Next: finalise allocations, launch spot markets and a major milestone – $REYA on Reya. You believe high performance trading should live on Ethereum. That belief now has a global mandate. Reya is here to deliver 🏛️

Replacing the Middlemen: Wallchain and the Future of AttentionFi In this episode of DROPS, I sit down with @kyparus to discuss how an idea shaped by failed pivots, a stint at Google, and an overnight revenue collapse has become @wallchain: an AI-driven protocol aiming to rebuild how brands and creators work together. We explore his journey from a tiny Ukrainian village to @ycombinator, NFT live-streaming apps, MEV arbitrage, and finally into what he calls “attention fi”, which is the belief that attention and distribution should be programmable, measurable, and on-chain. From “Quacker” to Builder Yurri says, “Firstly, I’m a quacker,”. A quacker, in his words, is someone who chooses a creator’s mindset regardless of how large their audience is. “Secondly, I’m just a crypto Twitter guy, and I’m a builder.” He grew up in a small Ukrainian village and eventually worked his way into Google as a software engineer. But the safe path never appealed to him. He always wanted to build, launch, fail, and try again. In 2020, he co-founded a live shopping app and joined Y Combinator. The app was essentially TikTok-style live streams where viewers could instantly buy items that creators used on camera. Despite the novelty, it struggled. “Execution wasn’t the best, and there was a huge pain with distribution,” he says. Thirty Pivots and a Hard Lesson After the shopping app, the team pivoted into an NFT live-streaming product on top of OpenSea, where creators hosted streams during the final hours of their auctions. The NFT community was more supportive, but there still wasn’t a sustainable business model. “We pivoted like 30 times in the last five or six years,” Yurii says. Each pivot reinforced the same idea: distribution is the real bottleneck. Alongside these pivots, the team explored MEV arbitrage on Ethereum and BNB Chain. They built a MEV protocol that captured arbitrage profits inside decentralised exchanges before external bots saw the transactions. Despite the growth, losing a major partnership reduced their volume and made the business increasingly unstable. It forced Yurii to zoom out and ask: What is the biggest, most persistent problem founders face? Why Distribution Is the Real Problem Yurii returns to a famous Y Combinator line: “First-time founders focus on product, second-time founders focus on distribution.” Most crypto projects, he argues, aren’t really selling a product today. “The most common product in crypto projects is the future,” he says. Teams sell narratives, so whoever masters distribution wins regardless of the infrastructure. This is why projects spend heavily on agencies, key opinion leaders, and manual outreach, yet rarely achieve sustainable growth. Wallchain is Yurii’s attempt to fix this by giving everyone access to distribution. Automating a Trillion-Dollar Industry Explaining Wallchain to an Uber driver, Yurii keeps it simple: “We help brands get users 100 times more efficiently than traditional methods.” The creator economy is massive, but powered by manual labour. From negotiating deals with creators, to verifying engagement, and managing payouts all require months of coordination. Yurii has seen crypto teams where five full-time employees do nothing but monitor ambassadors and review content. “Overall, this is almost a trillion-dollar industry built on manual work,” he says. “It recently became possible to replace it with AI.” With advances in natural language understanding, AI can analyse creator profiles, evaluate content quality, detect real vs fake engagement, identify target audiences and track campaign execution. Over time, Yurii imagines a “generalised business results machine powered by AI” where brands input their product and desired outcome, and the system predicts which distribution strategies will work. Authenticity and the Rise of the “Smart Follower” One of Wallchain’s key innovations is how it measures influence. Instead of counting followers, they examine who those followers are by building a social-graph-based “smart follower” score. If accounts followed by industry leaders follow you, your influence score increases. More recently, Wallchain introduced authenticity as a ranking factor. The algorithm evaluates a profile’s history: Does the creator post thoughtful commentary? Are they shilling constantly? Are their replies meaningful or just “GM” spam? Is their engagement organic or botted? “There is AI slop, and there is human slop,” he says. Both need to be discounted. Bot detection becomes easier when you focus on who is engaging. Likes and impressions can be bought cheaply, but authentic interaction from high-influence accounts is much harder to fake. Wallchain vs Kaito: Mindshare vs Fundamentals This is also where the comparison with Kaito becomes important, due to its reach and early establishment in the creator-attention market. Yurii is respectful but clear in how he frames the difference. As he puts it, “There are some pros and cons in various approaches and not all customers are a best fit” In his view, Kaito has mastered mindshare, while Wallchain, by contrast, positions itself on fundamentals. Yurii explains that his team runs tailored campaigns, working closely with every project to understand its product, team, conversion paths, and specific business goals. Instead of mass-market, one-size-fits-all activations, Wallchain often chooses depth over breadth, even running private or semi-private campaigns when that yields better retention or user quality. The Inevitable Future: Programmable Distribution Zooming out, Yurii sees an inevitable shift: more than 200 million creators already exist, and Gen Z overwhelmingly wants to become creators. As this number grows to one billion, the infrastructure for matching brands with creators must evolve. His vision is one where creators should be able to wear a brand’s item on stream and get paid automatically. But the challenge remains in separating authentic attention from farming. “It’s inevitable,” he says. “It’s obvious to some small group of people that it’s going to change a trillion-dollar market.” Everyone is a creator now. For Yurii, attention fi is the foundation that allows real products to reach real users without burning millions on middlemen. 👉If you enjoyed reading the summary, head over to When Shift Happens on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform to access the full convo.

Lots of things are happening on Warden lately. We’ve got new agents and big updates almost every week, and the next one won’t be an exception 👀 Watch @JoshGoodbody tease our next big move below 🔥

Gm Spaacers New week, same mission. We saw how much you enjoyed the way @Galileo_spaace broke down our strategy 👀 stay tuned, we’re not done cooking yet.

BTC is the biggest digital asset by marketcap, yet almost none of the value is active in onchain DeFi @beyond__tech is going to change that by making $BTC and Bitcoin native tokens fully interoperable with the rest of the blockchain world (to 70 chains and 500 tokens using LayerZero) It will make BTC usable in DeFi apps on Ethereum, Solana, Base, and others which is a big deal IMO. This could change a lot👀

New feature on Spaace: The Trendmap. A real-time heatmap that shows you exactly where the market is heating up. No more guessing. No more “what’s pumping?”. Open Spaace, zoom out, see everything.

gm to everyone who is rebuilding Wall St on a blockchain

If there’s one thing to be proud of on Spaace, it’s your rank. It shows your activity wasn’t in vain, you’ve earned your spot 🪂 Drop your rank below and flex with the Spaace fam 👇

Getting a follow back by @spaace_io means a lot to me🫶 Starts to feel like the '21 NFTs season again Many collections have their real floor on Spaace which means if you’re not buying here, you're not buying the real floor. Beside that, earning XP to position for $SPAACE could turn out to be a big win. $Spaace literally partnered with almost all the big NFT-related projects and influencers to bring NFTs back! Hereby i'm inviting you to this most rewarding marketplace🙏

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We believe that the real power of Web3 lives in its communities. Since day one, we've been backed, supported and funded by collectors and NFT communities. Today, we want to spotlight some of the amazing groups we’ve had the chance to collaborate with. Thank you for the trust 🧡

🚨Spaace is now #1 Mindshare on @cookiedotfun

Lunacian are you ready? The battle begins in 5 hours time ⚔️

Does Spaace runs the biggest cross campaign atm? I think so with @spaace_io joining cookie with over $1M in $SPAACE rewards and their wallchain campaign (and bantr too) 4 month vesting which is pretty normal and bearable IMO and it got regional reward reservations too Luckily joined spaace early but it's not too late to step in.

Most “AI research agents” sound smart, but you can’t verify a single thing they say. 👾 That’s why we’re bringing @caesar_data intelligence into Warden Protocol: so agents don’t just act, they reason with evidence. - Research today is slow, noisy, and fragmented. - Agents are fast, autonomous, and everywhere. This partnership finally makes those two worlds meet onchain.

Klout Epoch 2 started! After Epoch 1 (I landed under top 75), Epoch 2 has begun and @kloutgg allocated 1% of their total $klout supply to both the epochs. The hype looks good, and packs could drop any day. TCG with trend predictions is next. Manifesting a Top 30 this epoch 🤞 Wby?

The Inference, Episode 2 - Live with Warden x.com/i/broadcasts/1OdJrOoya…

Warden’s App Store moment is here. 👾 Introducing Community Agents: third-party agents built by devs across the ecosystem, now living natively inside the Warden Agent Hub. Open. Permissionless. Distributed to millions. The first Community Agent is live already: the Portfolio Agent. The future of the agentic internet starts here.