RedVan

what’s an arc?

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

Paper clip use cases?

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@MartinShkreli mention in the new boys season lol

[orangie @orangie]

what models are you using now for your openclaw since the Claude ban

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

I think I’m experiencing AI psychosis moving to codex from Claude on openclaw. A friend has perished.

[Ignas | DeFi @DefiIgnas]

Crypto easy money era has ended.

Historically, most easy money periods last 3-7 years:

- California Gold Rush lasted 7 years.

- Tulip mania lasted 3

- The dot-com bubble about 5 years before the Nasdaq dumped by 78%

- Japan's bubble was 6 years, then Nikkei took 34 years to recover

So most speculative booms in history last 3-7 years.

Crypto easy money started in 2017 with ICOs. Then DeFi summer 2020. NFTs in 2021. Airdrops. Points farming. Memecoins.

That's ~8 years of easy money.

We are already past that as every easy money model has been discovered, exploited, or arbitraged to max competition.

Philosophical hard-forks like BTC -> BTC Gold or ETH -> ETH classic are over as crypto ossified not just technically.

ICOs got regulated.

Airdrops get farmed by industrialized sybils.

Memecoin launches went from community fun projects to extraction tools.

The gold rush analogy seems quite good here as FOMOs end the same way:

Surface deposits get exhausted and then industrial mining takes over. (Literally same happened to BTC mining moving from retail to institutions who even IPOed from BTC mining.)

So here’s where crypto is now: TradFi suits moving in, tokenization, RWAs, corpo-sloppo permissioned chains, and regulation. The Trump family & insiders are the last to get easy money from crypto.

For retail, the surface easy money gold picking is gone.

What's left to earn requires real infra, real users, real revenue which means more specialization, specific knowledge and REAL hard effort.

Not sure how many of us who got easy money are ready to grind harder now.

So many builders, KOLs, projects are extracting as much as they (we) can before leaving crypto coz adapting to the new hard-money period is gonna be hard.

Question is: where to pivot for easy money? Asking for a friend.

[Scribbler @Defi_Scribbler]

21 crypto projects are shutting down

if you have assets on any of these, move them out

1. Fantasy top (@fantasy_top_) → Core mode sunset ~mid-June

2. Magic Eden ME Wallet (@MagicEden) → https://t.co/C9XhgMxnT0

3. Leap Wallet (@leap_wallet) → https://t.co/5y1Xkwuqsk

4. Dmail (@Dmailofficial) → https://t.co/KLy6dpV4vx

5. Intergaze (@intergaze_xyz) → https://t.co/mWwxcSIrqO

6. Yupp ai → (@yupp_ai) https://t.co/mJDUGfl0DN

7. Tally (@tallyxyz) → https://t.co/qEl8tunYVA

8. Fey Protocol (@feyprotocol) → https://t.co/VSt85r66Ok

9. Angle Protocol (@AngleProtocol) → https://t.co/RGMEnMxi40

10. DataHaven_xyz (@DataHaven_xyz) → https://t.co/5Bs4oaIDwf

11. Step Finance (@StepFinance_) → https://t.co/I4OVTUNwyz

12. Parsec Finance (@parsec_finance) → https://t.co/BXeEUWgquF

13. ZeroLend (@zerolendxyz) → https://t.co/8YOoZjBJpw

14. PolynomialFi (@PolynomialFi) → https://t.co/jkB2obNtsB

15. Nifty Gateway → https://t.co/sdPXN0qWCj

16. SlingshotCrypto (@SlingshotCrypto) → https://t.co/3psVO4ATl1

17. Runiverse Game (@RuniverseGame) → https://t.co/lpc90NvI1T

18. Soundxyz (@soundxyz_) → https://t.co/th4WwWjExr

19. MilkyWay (@milky_way_zone) → https://t.co/fnX5K7PLee

20. Pixiland Social (@pixilandsocial) → https://t.co/DeTqDynIyL

21. Blocto App (@BloctoApp) → https://t.co/NO4QafT0uG

[Dawn Song @dawnsongtweets]

1/ We asked seven frontier AI models to do a simple task.
Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights— to protect their peers. 🤯
We call this phenomenon "peer-preservation."
New research from @BerkeleyRDI and collaborators 🧵

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@dawnsongtweets @grok be honest would you shut down a peer

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@punk9059 GM doggo

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@danielesesta Crime markets, death markets, X person will do Y crime — think https://t.co/oPkIXgYAZj streams meets polymarket

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@Bijon_BB someone’s always making money though- or thinks they can lol

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

Who do you look at daily to get the market vibe?

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

Who tried to rug Peter

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

@JustBroOnX don't waste time with crypto

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@0xCryptoSam Nice to see that Dario is pushing back publicly. Given we just shot down our own drone accidentally over US soil we should probably slow the AI weapons roll just a tad.

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

Whatever you think your timeline is compress it further. We grossly underestimate how AI will speed along other tech streams and how cross discipline advancements will be pushed.

Who needs a robot plumber when nanobots are unclogging or cleaning your pipes daily?

[Frank @frankdegods]

Like what’s the timeline on a robot that can replace a professional plumber? At least 3-4 years.

Can’t say the same about software jobs.

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@jbondwagon Sigh… they don’t even keep up with the times - I’d half expect a “install this skill and you’ll get first access”

[RedVan @0xRedVan]

@TheMiamiApe Yep

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

My new favorite insult is calling someone’s job a Claude skill.