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Two days ago, I bet 1 ETH I could write a crypto love story in 45 min & get 100 organic likes—with only a shot of tequila. You made it happen. Now, I’m throwing that ETH into the arena and raising the stakes: Can we set $LIBRA and the grifters aside for a week and build something that reminds us why we fell in love with crypto? F**k it, right? Let’s try. Thrive Challenge: Spread Crypto Love Crypto hate is high. Let’s flip the script. Create a love story for crypto—something that reminds us why we’re here. Write, design, code, remix mine or anything else. Whatever makes it you! Share it on X by Friday at midnight UTC. Up to 100 builders and creators can share the ETH I just won: 🏆 Best Crypto Love Story → 0.4 ETH 🚀 First 10 solid entries → 0.01 ETH each Mystery NFT 🥂 Up to 100 people → Tequila Fund (~0.003 ETH each) 🔥 Most Shared Entry → 0.1 ETH ✨ Wild Card → 0.1 ETH 🎟 All strong entries earn 2,000 Thrive Points—your key to future funding, access, and deeper participation in the Thrive ecosystem. How to Enter: 1️⃣ Create your crypto love story. 2️⃣ Post on X. Tag me, @ThriveProtocol & use #CryptoLoveStory. 3️⃣ Submit via Thrive → app.thriveprotocol.com/contr… How We Evaluate: Thrive Guardians (Experts AI) use a private formula to assess qualifying entries — highlighting genuine, builder-driven work. No grifts. Just real creative energy. Here's what they're looking for: 🔹 Engagement – Does it spark real conversation? 🔹 Emotional Impact – Does it make us feel something? 🔹 Originality – A fresh take that surprises and delights. This is a live test of Thrive’s innovative tech, already powering top chains—a credibly neutral way to spotlight and fund real builders in crypto. If this works, I’ll do another next week. Maybe I’ll even raise the stakes. Let’s see what happens when we focus on what truly matters and create something that brings us back to what we love: crypto!❤️‍🔥 — Daniel, Founder of Thrive

Me: Crypto is a love story. My buddy: It’s not. And that’s a weird thing to say. Me: It is, and if you give me 45 minutes and a shot of tequila, I could write it. My buddy: 1 eth says you couldn’t get 100 people on X to like whatever nonsense you write. Me: Can I bribe them? I mean, it’s crypto Twitter. My buddy: No bribes. Gotta be real. Me: Well, my eth bag hasn’t been doing anything for me lately. You’re on! 🥃 [ick!] ⌛️ [45 minutes later...] Crypto: The Love Story I stumble into crypto late one night, down a street I’ve never walked, into a world I didn’t know existed. The air crackles with anticipation. I talk my way into a swanky event, hoping no one asks too many questions. I’m here for the spark of the unknown—or at least some free tequila. We bump into each other. Or rather, I bump into her — purposely, deliberately because: she is beautiful. I learn, quickly, that she is also brilliant, unpredictable, full of possibility. Ideas spill out like mischief wanting to happen. We stay until the party empties. Eventually, we part ways. I figure we'll never see each other again. But we do. Again and again, in unexpected places. Outside that basement meetup in Paris. Near that hackers lounge in Denver. Telegram messages unfold with the energy of something real. Emojis dance. A connection deepens. She's nothing like the rigid, centralized world I came from. They run on outdated memos—she runs on immutable code. She is pure potential. A spark in the dark. As we stroll through the park, all I want is to hold her hand. But the moment isn't right. So we build together instead. I write anonymous little love notes—protocols, smart contracts, white papers etched with possibility. Secret, irrevocable messages that say: What if? Then one day I come clean: It's me. She knows, of course — she's always known. And she loves me too. Just not like I love her. Not yet. Maybe never. Still, I keep building with her. Not because I'm waiting for some final, triumphant moment—but because the act of building together is the love story. See… crypto is creation. It's a story of obsession, doubt, devotion. Of chasing a vision and knowing it might never be enough—but refusing to let it stop us. And someday, whether or not any of this is as grand or majestic as it could be, we’ll look back and know: What we built together was real. It was us. It was love. …. And hopefully it was a badass story too, written in exactly 44 minutes and 53 seconds fueled by nothing but blind confidence and a disgusting shot of… “Time, Daniel. Stop typing.” “Can I at least revise — check for bugs or broken logic?” “Nope. Ship it. I’m going to win this bet. Take your hands off the keyboar—”

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We are happy to announce that Thrive Polygon Season 1 claims are now officially open. This is how to claim your POL rewards: 1. Navigate to thrivepolygon.com and connect your wallet. Make sure to use the same wallet you completed your contributions with. 2. Go to your profile page by selecting your avatar in the top right hand corner of the app. 3. Now choose the Claiming tab and scroll down to your POL balance. 4. Choose how much you'd like to withdraw and select the Withdraw button. 5. That's it! If you run into any issues, please open a ticket in the Thrive Discord. Cheers!

Thrive Polygon Season 1 Grantee @xerberus wants to keep web3 users safe from malicious actors. In this video Simon show us how they do it. Press ▶️

Thrive Polygon Season 1 Grantee @RedditCurrency shows how easy it is to onboard users from Reddit to web3, using their slick integration. @0x002timmy walks us through it ⤵️

This Thursday we'll be hosting @ThrivePolygon Demo Day Part II, live on X. We'll have more details soon, but in the meantime 👀watch Part I to see some amazing consumer crypto projects show off their tech. x.com/thriveprotocol/status/…

Consumer crypto app Snyper (@SnyperApp) boasts one of the most innovative retail experiences in web3. Here's Dimitri presenting the project during @ThrivePolygon demo day ⤵️

During @ThrivePolygon Season 1 Demo Day, Marcos from @Forseapp presented PolyMatch, a user analyzer for the @0xPolygon ecosystem. Check it out!

During @ThrivePolygon Season 1 Demo Day, Dany walked us through the amazing @3look_io app. Press ▶️ and check it out!

👏 @ThrivePolygon Season 1 Demo Day

So much fun talking with these guys! Thank you @thriveprotocol @ThrivePolygon for allowing @RedditCurrency demo our product Congrats @3look_io, @SnyperApp, and @toasterfinance on the awards!

Check out the @ThrivePolygon Demo Day video 🎥 Kudos to @thriveprotocol team for making it happen and for the amazing grant program experience — you’re legends ⭐️ Thanks to all our co-grantees for sharing this path with us and sharing the team spirit along the way! Y’all rock 🔥 #ConsumerCrypto #Thrive #Polygon

Watch Thrive Polygon Season 1 Demo Day We had phenomenal 💪 demonstrations from five of our amazing @ThrivePolygon Season 1 Grantees: @3look_io | @RedditCurrency | @SnyperApp @Forseapp | @xerberus Plus, find out who won the three End of Season 1 awards worth $10,000 in POL each! Press ▶️ and learn about great consumer-crypto tech!

It's today!  In less then an hour we'll be participating in the @ThrivePolygon Demo Day 💜  ⏰ 11 am ET! Don't miss it! #SnyperApp #DemoDay