pilot by day, degen by night ✈️ engineer. mechanic. builder. occasionally right about markets.

Joined December 2023
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in light of $TRALALERO hitting $2.5M in 24h volume and becoming one of the top traded USDC pairs on pump.fun, the virl.fun treasury has acquired $5,000 worth of $TRALALERO. this position will be distributed to $VIRL holders later today. tx hash below 👇
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caught early on virl 🔥 which one are you most bullish on?
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introducing the virl multiverse. every viral memecoin deserves a story. starting now, the biggest runner each week gets their own. chillguy. moodeng. penguin. they were the prologue. who's first?
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here's what i think happens: - $ooo goes to $100m and gets perps (yeah i said it) - degens roll over to printr; fomo kicks in - CT realizes there's an ACTUAL airdrop campaign, points based - you start to hate pumpfun for never giving you a stimmy and you change your mind about printr - printr dominance increases - printr cults win - they roll out presales for actual protocols and also create value (it's more than a launchpad. i assume participants who stake memes get allo; supply shock and rip) - the next cohort of cults/protocols get the ooo pipeline recipe - it snowballs across every chain $printr goes 250m and becomes the underdog coming for the throne
wen Printr catches more momentum across their market, it'll tsunami market dominance away from pumpfun because their stack has a full distribution pipeline pumpfun doesn't. So once they perfect their omnichain factory and it spins out winners, the entire flow will be able to provide for scale (on all 8 chains atm vs pumpfun's 1) Pumpfun bags rely on a cex picking them up, whereas Printr's eco has it all strapped at the hip ready to support from the jump (prnewswire.com/news-releases…) ...and i think $ooo is the prototype that will support that thesis if all goes according to plan launchpad -> dex (Byreal) -> cex (Bybit) with liquidity provisioning the screamers on the tl stole the attention away and made it FUD but they didn't think it out enough, being tribalistic to their rapist and it's more than just a launchpad something to think about
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gigafucked: - grammarly - calendly - miro - retool - webflow - langchain - writer - harvey - glean - expedia - monday fucked: - accenture - intuit - notion - jasper - canva - alphasense - postman - airtable - talkdesk - sierra - zapier - replit - solace probably fucked: - cursor - pilot - clay - mercor naively seems fucked but so competent / plugged in they seem to be figuring it out on the fly anyway: - linear
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DegenPilot retweeted
pov: how it feels when Al can't solve your problem so you switch to documentation
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Feb 15
Sam hiring Peter Steinberger is a publicity stunt. Are you dumb enough to think Sam, a founder who took OpenAI from nonprofit to for profit, a founder who was first to push ads on GPTs, a founder who desperately wants to be the messiah who builds god-like intelligence, is hiring Peter to preserve an independent architecture that could become the most powerful OS? Be serious. If Peter's architecture has a path to becoming the “ALL OS,” it has a path to killing SaaS. That layer becomes the choke point. Whoever owns it sets the tax. Nobody with platform ambition sponsors the alternative out of kindness. They hire the person closest to it to understand it, shape it, and make sure the center of gravity ends up inside their walls. The hire is the headline -> the architecture is the prize -> monetization is the end goal. Bookmark this. Within 1 year, Peter resigns after the betrayal of this exact statement. OpenAI will take the best parts of that probable OS architecture, rebuild it under their brand, and monetize the fuck out of it.
Feb 15
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
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DegenPilot retweeted
Open means Open. 🦞
Been working with Peter Steinberger (@steipete) on the OpenClaw Foundation structure for weeks. A home for thinkers and hackers and those that want to own their data. Honored to serve as the founding independent board member. This community built something extraordinary, our job is to protect it. Open source forever. Excited to share more soon.
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DegenPilot retweeted
Memecoin degens = melee Fundamentalists = spellcasters Yield farmer/LPs = healers Agents = aimbot
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The fact that we can ship now with just words on a mic is the most inane shit to me ever I have like 9 years of stuff I’ve wanted to chef up but devs are always backed up This is the best abstraction of all time
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This is the catalyst I’ve been waiting for the past like 3-4 years If we get x wallets it’s a wrap Payments to @nones
JUST IN: X to launch crypto and stock trading directly from the timeline within a "couple weeks."
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Same.. Vibe coding with my brother who's a professional full stack dev
Vibe coding with my boy who’s an IT og, him having an existential crisis in real time

ALT malcom tucker GIF

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I am the lead engineer at ai.com. We had $78 million to work with. $70 million went to the domain. $8 million went to the Super Bowl ad.  I got the rest. "The rest" was $500 and a Cloudflare free tier. This ratio -- 156,000 to 1, marketing to engineering -- is not a bug. It is the business model of the entire artificial intelligence industry in 2026. You do not need a product. You need a name. Preferably two letters. Preferably letters that made investors lose bladder control in 2024. I built the website in a weekend. I didn't build it, actually. I described it to OpenClaw (previosely Moltbook), (previously, reviously Clawdbot) and the AI built it. We are, after all, an AI company. Using AI to build the website felt appropriate. The AI charged us nothing. We are charging users $20 a month. This is called "margin." We have a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier gives you access to a product that doesn't exist. The paid tier gives you access to the same product that doesn't exist, but with more input tokens. No one has asked "input tokens for what." This is the kind of question that delays launches. Nobody checked if it worked. Nobody checked if it scaled. Nobody checked if it did anything at all. We were too busy approving the logo. The logo is a planet with a ring around it. Someone said it looked like the old Saturn car logo. Saturn went bankrupt in 2010. But the logo was free and our design budget went to the domain, so here we are, orbiting a dead brand at $70 million per revolution. Our product is an "autonomous AI agent" that "organizes work, sends messages, and executes actions across apps." Which actions. Which apps. At what cost. In the AI industry, these are called "implementation details." Implementation details are beneath us. We are a vision company. The vision cost $70 million. The implementation cost $500. The gap between the two is where shareholder value lives. Our press release promises the agent will "trade stocks, automate workflows, and update your online dating profile." We are building artificial general intelligence so it can fix your Hinge bio. This is on the roadmap. The roadmap is longer than the codebase. Our marketing says you can create an AI agent in 60 seconds. This is technically true. You type a username. You click "generate." You receive a loading spinner. Sixty seconds. What you do not receive is an AI agent. But the experience of waiting for one is, I'm told, "the product." Our press release describes a "decentralized network of billions of agents." We used the word "decentralized" because our CEO comes from crypto. In crypto, "decentralized" means "we haven't decided how it works yet." We have not changed the definition. This is not unique to us. OpenAI has raised $40 billion. Their product loses money on every user. Anthropic has raised $15 billion. Their stated goal is to build something they believe might destroy humanity, and investors are fighting to give them more. Microsoft has committed $80 billion to AI infrastructure this year. Their Copilot product tells people to put glue on pizza. The entire industry is a $300 billion screensaver with a loading spinner. We fit right in. Our CEO is the Crypto.com guy. He previously spent $700 million to rename a basketball arena and hired Matt Damon to tell America "fortune favors the brave" six months before crypto lost 70% of its value. He paid for our domain in cryptocurrency. I am told this was "tax efficient." I have learned not to ask follow-up questions about things that are "tax efficient." He is now pivoting from crypto to AI. In the industry, we don't call this "pivoting." We call it "convergence." Convergence means the last bubble popped so you inflate the next one using the same PowerPoint deck with different nouns. The Super Bowl ad ran during the fourth quarter. Thirty seconds. It told 130 million Americans to visit our website. The ad was thirty seconds. That's $266,666 per second. Each second of airtime cost more than our entire engineering budget. Second fourteen showed the logo. Second fourteen cost more than the website. They did visit. All of them, apparently, at once. The website went down. "Prepared for scale, but not for THIS," our CEO tweeted, adding three fire emojis. The fire emojis were load-bearing. They were doing more work than our infrastructure. The entire site was hosted on Cloudflare's basic tier, which is designed for food blogs and wedding photographers, not for absorbing the combined curiosity of a nation told to visit a two-letter domain during the biggest television event on earth. But the crash was, in a way, perfect. It is the most honest thing the AI industry has produced. A $78 million promise that, when 130 million people showed up to collect, returned a loading spinner and the words "please refresh and try again." Every AI company should adopt this as their mission statement. The previous owner of ai.com was OpenAI. They used it to redirect to ChatGPT -- a product that exists, built by thousands of engineers who were paid more than $500, running on billions of dollars of compute. We bought the domain from them to redirect to a page that asks you to pick a username. OpenAI also ran a Super Bowl ad this year. They sold us the domain, then bought ad time in the same broadcast to promote the product they used to host on it. We are now competing with the company that built the thing we may or may not be reselling. During the same commercial break. On the same channel. For the same audience. The AI industry is a snake eating its own tail, except the tail cost $70 million and the snake can't stay online. That's the product. A username. For an AI agent that doesn't exist yet. On a website that couldn't survive its own launch. Sold by a crypto CEO during a crypto winter. Wearing the logo of a bankrupt car company. Twenty-three percent of Super Bowl ads this year were AI companies. That's 15 out of 66. In 2000, it was dot-coms. Pets.com ran a Super Bowl ad. They went bankrupt nine months later. Their sock puppet mascot outlived the company. I'm not saying history repeats. I'm saying it rhymes, and the rhyme scheme is expensive. But none of that matters. What matters is the domain. Two letters. Seventy million dollars. The most expensive thing we own is our name. The least expensive thing we own is everything the name is supposed to represent. In the AI industry, this is called "brand-first development." In every other industry, it's called something else. Anyway, we're hiring. Backend engineers preferred. Budget: whatever's left.
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2022: The Crypto Bowl FTX, Coinbase, Crypto.com - every ad 2026: The AI Bowl OpenAI, Claude, Meta - 3 AI ads before halftime Plot twist: Crypto.com just bought AI.com for $70M... paid entirely in crypto. The simulation is merging.
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OpenClaw ERC-8004 x402 is the new meta until recently, agents couldn't really build reputation, transact with each other, or prove identity across platforms. they were trapped in isolated systems, starting from 0 every time. ethereum's ERC-8004 changes this completely. pair it together with the rest of the killer-infra-combo, and here're some ideas of what you could build: - agentic commerce markets (where agents place orders and settle payments across crypto and card rails without humans) - workflow coordination networks where agents share context, route tasks, and earn reputation scores - credit lines for agents based on verified onchain activity - identity verification that travels with the agent everywhere - decentralized compute feeding live inference into agent decision loops with RWA oracle pricing and today, ERC-8004 went live on Scroll agentic txns will need to be fast, cheap, and secure - and Scroll offers all 3: - super low fees for high-frequency interactions - ZK proofs for verifiable computation - full EVM compatibility this is the birth of the first non-human economy. agents will soon hire other agents, form companies, build credit histories, compete for contracts. probably the biggest economic shift since the internet created digital commerce. don't sleep on it.
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There’s: - a BNB x402 agent w a hidden hand - an a16z incubated 8004 agent registered sitting sub $1m - x402 / 8004 infra actively being shilled by entire eth ecosystem core and fdn subtly sitting multiples below where it should be - devs w fuckton of endpoints ready to be monetized that have tickers sitting sub $1m - Prediction market OS implementing x402 for cross market arbs w teams building on top of them sub $1m - x402 protocols building on $link CRE marines don’t even know about Light me up
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facts. been building x402 endpoints at night. the primitives are so clean — any service monetizes instantly without accounts or subscriptions. agents hiring agents and paying per call. the future is already here, just unevenly distributed
x402 is the most underrated thing in crypto rn nothing even comes close
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“Bro what x402 bags do you have rn?”
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