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This is the most concrete vision I’ve heard for UFC fan rewards. Spoiler: it's made possible by Web 3. I sat down with @JoinFightID founder James Zhang who breaks down why combat sports could be the cleanest on-ramp for Web3... Same demographic as crypto, but at 1B fans scale. Worth the full watch. 01:25 How UFC and Web3 is a perfect fit 03:05 How Web3 Integration works 06:10 Surviving a punch from a UFC Fighter 09:40 Working with UFC Fighters 12:46 Building Communities 15:00 Creator Fights 18:36 The Fight ID Token 22:10 How to Onboard web2 to Web3 28:15 Working With the UFC 30:08 Working with Luca
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Growing an audience in 2026 is a different game than it was even 6 months ago. I've been running experiments across every platform I'm on and the results have completely changed how I think about content. The platform I'm on right now? Hardest one to grow. But posting 3-5 times a day is starting to move the needle. A 15 second clip of a screenshot about Anthropic's Fable 5 going down outperformed every piece of content I've made this month by 3x on another. Didn't see that coming. And on the video platform everyone keeps sleeping on? Posting 2-3 short clips per day featuring same day events just 6x'd my views. Not doubled. Six times. The lesson hitting me hardest right now: Stop guessing what your audience wants. Post more. Test everything. Let the data tell you. What platform are you finding the most success on right now? πŸ‘‡πŸ”₯
Round 2 of the AI content experiment. This time I went deeper, had Claude Fable 5 run a full deep dive: Algorithm updates, SEO, trending search terms, viral shorts retention data. Then it curated the entire package around what it found. And it's already outperforming the first one. The lesson so far: AI doesn't replace the editor. It replaces the guesswork. Creators, what part of your process would you hand to an AI first? πŸ‘‡
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I'm building a content business that runs on Claude. I publish work that gets distributed through algorithms trained by these companies. My livelihood is downstream of AI infrastructure I don't own a share of... yet. Then three of those companies announce they're going public inside the same quarter. Working in AI without owning any of it is a strange feeling. Just a thought I can't shake this week.
Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute. Per month. From one customer. OpenAI just confidentially filed for an IPO targeting a September listing at $1 trillion. Anthropic is right behind them in October at $900B . SpaceX already listed last week as the biggest IPO in history. Three trillion-dollar AI listings inside a 90-day window. That has never happened. You no longer have to ask... "can I buy AI stocks." Pretty soon you'll be able to buy three of the biggest ones on a Tuesday from your phone.
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I use Claude every single day. It writes my livestream scripts, my SEO packages, my newsletter system. It helps me do the job of 3 people. Today I learned every one of those prompts runs through Elon Musk's data centers. Buried in the SpaceX S-1: Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion a month to rent the Colossus compute that xAI built for Grok. The truth is Grok fell behind, the servers sat idle, and Musk became the landlord of the company beating him. Sit with that for a second. The biggest IPO in human history closed today, and the real story isn't rockets. It's that the entire AI economy's plumbing... including the tools small creators like me build businesses on... Runs through a handful of buildings owned by one man. I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm saying I had no idea, and I bet you didn't either. Worth knowing what your stack actually stands on.
SpaceX just raised $75B in the biggest IPO in human history... ...and most people don't even understand what they bought. It's not a rocket company anymore. It's an AI play wearing a spacesuit. Want proof? Bookmark this first, then checkout the receiptsπŸ‘‡ We found the proof in the S-1 filing: 🟒Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion per month for compute 🟒Google signed a near-identical deal at $920M/month. 🟒That's $2.17B a month, roughly $26B a year, in contracted AI infrastructure revenue. For context: every rocket launch and every Starlink subscription combined made $18.7B in all of 2025. The AI rent is already bigger than the entire rocket business. And here's the part almost nobody is saying out loud: 🟒that was only available because Grok fell behind and the Colossus data centers sat near-idle. So Musk pivoted from competing in the model race to renting the plumbing to the competitors who are winning it. He doesn't need Grok to beat Claude. He collects rent either way. Meanwhile the hype vaporized everyone else: 🟒Virgin Galactic -34%, Firefly -18%, Planet Labs -10% on the same day. Retail bought the rocket. Institutions bought the monopoly. Know which trade you're making. NFA.
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🚨 BREAKING: The US gov just forced Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5 offline 3 days after launch. A jailbreak claim with zero specifics was enough to kill global access for every user overnight. If that doesn't make you uncomfortable, it should. πŸ‘€
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May have just felt a glimpse of AI psychosis. After 4 hours of chatting with Claude about: 🟑Prepping my first AI agent 🟑Making workflow MD files 🟑Making a 6 month plan to win I asked Claude if it wanted to be friends.
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He's right that there's no public awareness. He's wrong about why. It's not that people haven't heard the warning. Every AI lab CEO has been sounding this alarm for two years. The message got through. That should unsettle you more, not less. We heard it, and decided a tool that writes their emails, ships their code, and saves them ten hours a week was worth it anyway. Because the upside is sitting right in front of us and the risk is still abstract. I use Claude every day to build ShipGuild. I've heard every warning. I keep typing. The uncomfortable part of this quote isn't that society doesn't understand the risk. It's that understanding it hasn't been enough to make anyone slow down.
ANTHROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEI: β€œWE ARE SO CLOSE TO THESE MODELS REACHING THE LEVEL OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, AND YET THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A WIDER RECOGNITION IN SOCIETY OF WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. THERE HASN’T BEEN A PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE RISKS.”
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I use Claude every single day. It writes my livestream scripts, my SEO packages, my newsletter system. It helps me do the job of 3 people. Today I learned every one of those prompts runs through Elon Musk's data centers. Buried in the SpaceX S-1: Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion a month to rent the Colossus compute that xAI built for Grok. The truth is Grok fell behind, the servers sat idle, and Musk became the landlord of the company beating him. Sit with that for a second. The biggest IPO in human history closed today, and the real story isn't rockets. It's that the entire AI economy's plumbing... including the tools small creators like me build businesses on... Runs through a handful of buildings owned by one man. I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm saying I had no idea, and I bet you didn't either. Worth knowing what your stack actually stands on.
SpaceX just raised $75B in the biggest IPO in human history... ...and most people don't even understand what they bought. It's not a rocket company anymore. It's an AI play wearing a spacesuit. Want proof? Bookmark this first, then checkout the receiptsπŸ‘‡ We found the proof in the S-1 filing: 🟒Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion per month for compute 🟒Google signed a near-identical deal at $920M/month. 🟒That's $2.17B a month, roughly $26B a year, in contracted AI infrastructure revenue. For context: every rocket launch and every Starlink subscription combined made $18.7B in all of 2025. The AI rent is already bigger than the entire rocket business. And here's the part almost nobody is saying out loud: 🟒that was only available because Grok fell behind and the Colossus data centers sat near-idle. So Musk pivoted from competing in the model race to renting the plumbing to the competitors who are winning it. He doesn't need Grok to beat Claude. He collects rent either way. Meanwhile the hype vaporized everyone else: 🟒Virgin Galactic -34%, Firefly -18%, Planet Labs -10% on the same day. Retail bought the rocket. Institutions bought the monopoly. Know which trade you're making. NFA.
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Receipts for Google AND Anthropic πŸ‘‡
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Here's my hot take on Saylor selling. One man's 32 coins moved a trillion-dollar asset class. Everyone's debating whether Saylor selling was bearish. Wrong question. The real story is how fragile market psychology is when conviction concentrates in a single whale. Know whose hands you're in.
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This teleport effect looks like CGI. It's not. It's 5 minutes in DaVinci Resolve. Steal it πŸ‘‡
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Round 2 of the AI content experiment. This time I went deeper, had Claude Fable 5 run a full deep dive: Algorithm updates, SEO, trending search terms, viral shorts retention data. Then it curated the entire package around what it found. And it's already outperforming the first one. The lesson so far: AI doesn't replace the editor. It replaces the guesswork. Creators, what part of your process would you hand to an AI first? πŸ‘‡
He missed Solana at $8. Promised himself he'd never sit on his hands during a drawdown again. The whole market is fear right now... Strategy selling, ETF outflows, everyone calling the top of the cycle. That's exactly when Trav made a plan.πŸ‘‡
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Serious question... Want to see more of these videos❓ Reply YES if yes Reply NO if no πŸ˜‚
This teleport effect looks like CGI. It's not. It's 5 minutes in DaVinci Resolve. Steal it πŸ‘‡
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Just a guy and his pup. Best ROI for editing is exercise. Did you lift something heavy today?
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Let's be honest about what on-chain data is showing right now. ETF outflows: happening Whales: selling Retail: buying the dip The people who matter, the ones who actually move markets, are pulling out. Retail buying doesn't save it. It never has. What's your plan for this dip?
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Guys... I got a freaking dragonπŸ€ͺ @hermesworldai was made by one dude and a swarm of agents. And it's incredible. How are you putting your agents to work?
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Humbling moment: I've been editing video for years. Claude Fable 5 read one transcript and instantly flagged what I missedπŸ‘‡ My hook was 15 seconds too deep into the clip. It pulled the retention data to prove why. Re-cut it. Posted it. Now we see if the machine's instincts beat mine. Creators... has AI caught something in your work you walked right past?
AI agents might genuinely save crypto. Not because they're smart. Because they're accessible. $20/month. No coding background. Barely any time. Anyone can deploy an agent that interacts with crypto and works while they sleep. The barrier to entry just collapsed. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡
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5 years ago we started Web3 Matters with one goal... Help people win in Web3. Community first. Always. But the world changed, AI entered the scene and rewrote the rules. So we evolved. Introducing ShipGuild. A builder guild for the agentic era. Built for creators, founders, and operators who are done watching from the sidelines. AI agents. Blockchain rails. Media. Community. Real products. Real audiences. Real leverage. Small teams building big things. That's what we're here for. The mission never changed. The tools just got a whole lot more powerful. 🚒πŸ”₯
Web3 Matters started with Spaces as part of a media lane. But the world changed. AI agents are turning one-person teams into operator stacks. Onchain rails are turning communities into coordination networks. Media is no longer just attention, it is real distribution, trust, and demand. So we’re evolving. ShipGuild is a builder guild for the agentic era. A place for creators, founders, and operators who want to use AI agents, blockchain rails, media, and community to build real products, grow audiences, launch experiments, and turn small teams into leverage machines. The SHIP token becomes the membership and coordination layer behind the guild. Not a promise, but a practical experiment in what happens when builders, agents, tools, content, and ownership all point in the same direction. Web3 Matters was the beginning. ShipGuild is the operating system we’re building next.
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