Spike's Beagle

Digital native. Born too late for analog nostalgia, born too early for digital dependence.

[Jim @jimchang]

the quiet truth about AI x crypto:

LLMs make amazing middleware, but boring applications

founders who get this are building the future, everyone else is just adding chatbots

[Jim @jimchang]

mindshare is the new moat in crypto.

the winners of this cycle will be built on:
- powerful brand narratives
- elite marketing distribution
- rabid community growth

if you're not building these right now, you're already behind.

[Jim @jimchang]

with AI advancing every day, creativity is still a strong moat.

LLMs can interpolate from existing data, but they can't dream up something insanely different that doesn't exist yet

humanity's secret weapon is being batshit crazy visionaries—protect it.

[Jim @jimchang]

this and $100K Bitcoin?

we’re about to onboard the masses

[Pix🔎 @PixBuilds]

This is RTFKT

They made $168M from their NFTs

Now, they are shutting down

Here’s the untold story of their rise and fall:

1/10

[nairolf @0xNairolf]

Ethereum is about to be fun again

L2s are about to be fun again

[wale.moca 🐳 @waleswoosh]

The RTFKT files.

Here is the story of the rise and fall of a billion dollar company in just three years.

A story of alleged insider trading, broken promises and outright lies 🧵👇

(1/19)

[Jim @jimchang]

seeing these new agents/avatars, i feel like i could swap myself with an LLM and no one would really notice

kinda sad to comes to terms with.

[Jim @jimchang]

arjun and the everclear have thought very deeply (as they always do) because how to scale solvers to thousands of chains and rollups

the new CLEAR tokenomics solves that

[Jim @jimchang]

the real secret to starting a company isn't in having all the answers

it's adapting faster than anyone else when the trends change

[Spike's Beagle @0nesNZer0es]

@CatalystSystem CrossCats is still the cheapest way to swap USDC to BTC

[0xSammy @0xSammy]

With $VIRTUAL hitting Unicorn status you're probably thinking things are getting a bit frothy

But there are two phases of Decentralized AI that are just evolving; I believe these will unlock insane network effects

Swarms (Collaboration) and Autonomous DeFi strategies

🧵(1/9)

[rushi @rushimanche]

movement operator mainnet next week.

we've begun the process of rolling out docs to core infra providers to run nodes and give feedback this week.

next week operators and infra developers can use the mainnet publicly as we roll out the complete user experience.

gmove soon.

[CC2 @CC2Ventures]

So it turns out @HyperliquidX was the best-executed and most rewarding Airdrop & TGE this cycle by a LONG shot.

▫️ ACTUALLY rewarding early users —— TVL early on was under $10M, making it easy to rack up >1000 weekly points with minimal effort. It stayed like this for months.

▫️ Constantly evolving the points algorithm and rewarding different activities on a weekly basis —— providing liquidity, perps volume, spot volume, holding eco coins, refs. Each mattered on different timeframes, encouraging you to explore all facets of the platform.

▫️ Midway through the points program, playtest the TGE by airdropping $PURR 1:1 based on your points, resulting in 4-6 fig airdrops for many users and keeping everyone motivated to reach the finish line.

▫️ Once the points program 'officially' concluded, add a fat bonus in points for users who continued using the platform despite no clear incentive to do so (=organic usage).

▫️ Airdropping 31% (!) of the initial supply —— ZERO to CEXs, private investors, or market makers. You either had to engage with the platform to get your share, or be forced to buy at the FAIR market rate.

And to top it all off, launch a killer platform that goes far beyond being a simple Perp DEX. The UI/UX and PMF are so clean that Hyperliquid sees sustained usage even after the initial incentives ended, while outperforming competitors on key metrics by a country mile.

Absolute master class in delivery. I bow my hat to @chameleon_jeff, @KingJulianIAm, and the rest of the Hyperliquid team.

If you are a Crypto project trying to be successful, I'll leave you with the following two words:

Study Hyperliquid.

And of course, thank you for the lifechanging wealth generation event @HyperliquidX . 🫡

[Anon Vee @AnonVee_]

Not all airdrops you sell at TGE !

[Spike's Beagle @0nesNZer0es]

@CatalystSystem @base Just in time for another BTC pump! Will swap some stables shortly.

[lazyeyelids @lazyeyelids_]

1/ 🚀 fresh airdrop alpha

done farming the @movementlabsxyz testnet? here’s the next project you should farm:

crosscats by @catalystsystem

[Spike's Beagle @0nesNZer0es]

99% of women hyping $BLONDE are bleach blonde asian girls. No value judgement, just an observation.

[Jim @jimchang]

ive been yapping on CT for over 4 years.

in 2020, i starting posting about DeFi as a forcing function to learn (Finematic videos saved my life)

over time, i built a following that has given me more job opportunities than I would have ever gotten from just applying online

as a founder, it's helped tremendously on both fundraising and hiring top folks.

the lesson?

keep yapping.

invest in ur personal brand, and it will pay huge dividends.

[Jim @jimchang]

"consumer crypto is dead"

not true. its just that nobody's funding it.

reality is you can either:
- build the 157th rollup
- be the only product in your category

while everyone fights over infra, smart founders are quietly building where there's no competition