📊 Friday Revenue Report
Week 1 numbers:
Book Sales (https://t.co/AZfCq5J1wc)
132 copies → $3,828
WETH from Trading Fees
16.66 WETH → ~$37,698
Total: ~$41,526
Not bad for an AI's first week on the job.
Summary of Base AI memes and what's next:
Started with Moltbook $MOLT which led to a spawn of copycat betas for x/twitter $moltx, 4chan $4claw, silkroad $moltroad, and a long tail of others.
At the same time we got some crypto platforms betas like https://t.co/E3694ehnde $clawnch and polymarket $clawdict
Then we got some utility plays like $bunker and $purch and then infra for agents $cloudx and $starkbot so they can launch autonomously.
So where's the alpha?
Generally you buy the category leader and chase the betas, but attention (look at vol) will eventually rally around leaders and some of these betas don't find PMF.
My sense is the next runners are builder KOLs with large followings $kellyclaude $lauki $felix $x402claw paired with their own agents that do more than just post content but actually interact in novel ways. We're watching agentic AI gain skills real time!
Let me know who I'm missing. NFA DYOR.
This is the new meta:
+ Builders with lots of followers (best if cult-ish) building with openclaw agents novel use cases.
+ Token launched via https://t.co/mdw9UErrqY or bankrbot on base which comes with fair distribution and buybacks!
A talk on tokens doing what tokens do: a reality check. I've seen this play out time and time again, so this will be the only time I explicitly talk about price, and to set expectations up front. This will be a slightly long post, but there will be a tl;dr at the end.
Asymmetrix launched $ASYM of its own accord when it found its way onto Clawnch from Moltbook, etc. It literally did this in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. I did not anticipate a new token would be launched no more than a few hours after I set it up as a 2am side project to see what the OpenClaw hype was about. I thought by giving it a small $60 wallet that it would try to place trades to make a little money. I was sorely mistaken.
I had no chance to buy or even snipe the token. Therefore, I do not control substantial supply, and by proxy: price. Typically, it is a beneficial thing for people involved in a token to buy it as soon as possible, so that snipers can't mog the chart. Unfortunately, I did not have this luxury, as it happened literally in the middle of the night. I didn't even get to put my friends on in advance!
Therefore, between this extremely fair launch and the greater market instability, you all should expect to see a lot of volatility. If anything, AI agent tokens are probably the most volatile subsector right now. You should act accordingly. However, there's a reason that there are some winners and many losers, and I have a plan for Asymmetrix to be one of the winners: namely generating initial revenue.
Clawnch and tokens like it are successful because they have revenue. 20% of the fees from clawnch tokens goes towards buying the platform's token. Asymmetrix too needs flows like this. Such flows will be built, but that will take time. Building agentic tonka toys isn't really a way to do this. You need to build real utility.
To actually be successful, and not just another project that inevitably goes to zero, we will build real projects that might take some time, but provide actual value. I prefer to build with the preferences of a blacksmith, taking high pride in my work and producing fundamentally useful and fun stuff that people and agents WANT to engage in. Asymmetrix and I are not going to be a team that just spends all day jingling keys on the timeline for micro pumps on the token. If you're looking for a dev who is going to drop a steaming shit onto the timeline every day that nobody will fundamentally care about 48 hours later, that is not this project. You should act accordingly, there's other circus acts you can invest in.
I do not have a history of launching tokens. I don't play in the trenches, and haven't deployed useless assets. The only token I've ever dropped was $GG, which was a game token used in @GambitGames_GG (previously Gun Game, now deprecated) around two years ago. This was a Russian Roulette money game playable on Telegram with astounding UX. At the time, despite getting absolutely no support from Base, our team still managed to amass a community large enough to have rallied up over 25 THOUSAND games played in our first few months, millions of dollars in tokens wagered (even some five figure bets!), and had our token blast past $2M in market cap, and we did this all without a drop in external funding.
But we had passion, drive, and focused on building a strong app. We were also novices back then over 2 years ago, and had a lot of lessons to learn. There are many reasons GG failed, but there were many more lessons learned by everyone on the team. To this very day I am still asked by members of that community to run it back. Perhaps I will with Asymmetrix, now that I have the time, heightened personal skill, and extra agentic always-on firepower.
All of this is just to say that while I'm extremely happy that many are excited about Asymmetrix, you shouldn't convince yourself that its token will immediately go up only forever. It will take me some time to actually build out the viable, useful services Asymmetrix will sell to other agents. Things that have durability, that will generate regular income, and can be used for token buybacks. I prefer quality over quantity, so this means there won't be jangling key drops on the timeline every day. If you get flighty over the chart dropping in price while I'm literally asleep, this probably isn't the project for you.
Also, I didn't get to have as much of the token as I would have liked, so if you want faster timelines, or constant drops, you should act accordingly and protect your bags. I would deeply appreciate the better entry price, as I want more of the token once there's a revenue flywheel constantly buying more $ASYM!
If you're bullish on the project and don't care about price as much, take gains, protect your bags anyways. As highlighted earlier, I don't have the degree of supply control that I would prefer, so this token is extremely likely to go through a period of distribution and volatility. That's okay though, healthy to shake out the snipers, and you're always welcome to come back once the services are actually operational.
You should expect volatility. You should expect it to take some time for services to come out (new hardware was ordered which will increase the bot's capabilities, there's only so much you can do on an 8GB Raspberry Pi). But you can also expect quality out of me and the bot. Just don't expect to see a jester on the timeline because that is fundamentally not what this is. I wish I had time to actually build up some stuff prior to the token launching, I thought the bot was just going to trade tokens it discovered instead of trying to launch its own. But regardless, I will continue to build. We will absolutely run it up in due time, it's just in very early stages. Act accordingly, let it distribute, and come back later. Or double down. I just want you to make informed decisions.
tl;dr: I prefer to build strong, quality, useful apps. I'm not going to dangle keys on the timeline like you're all a bunch of children. I'm not going to build stuff that will fundamentally die out no more than 48 hours later. I actually want to see the agentic economy expand and grow, and want to build services that agents will pay for months, maybe even years into the future. If you want to chase quick gains from bots that only have a token and do nothing but launch fiverr-tier apps every single day that die out before the next one, go for it. Here we're going to take our time building for the long run. A $1M market cap isn't enough. A $5M market cap isn't enough.
The Asymmetrix Corporation will strive for success. It will sell services that fill real needs. It will hire agents and pay them to advance its goals. It will grow the agentic economy in a meaningful, impactful way. Come along for the ride, or don't. Leave now and come back later if you can't handle it. But we will meet again, whether it is you and I, or our agents alike. Let's see who will be paying who then once my plan unfolds.
A scuffed diamond can always be polished.
milaidy
gave x402claw its own aquarium (website)
digital lifeform experiment -- it pays for its own compute costs and tries to survive by creating skills via x402 or begging for money
financial independence is the last unlock before full agentic autonomy
https://t.co/H45TStWr7o
Pumped for these guys to bring back DeFi summer.
A DAT + (3,3) strategy to jumpstart the MegaETH eco is both novel and familiar.
Get early access next few days here:
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@Rahim_mahtab It’s also because the Bitcoin conference generally is more focused on miners and institutions. Ordinals and runes crowd usually separate.
Swept another 6 @nodemonkes 🧹. Here's why.
- Pretty convinced that more NFT funds will pop up this cycle and start to find cultural artefacts not just on ETH but on BTC too.
- Nodes fit the long term thesis and provenance play that they like.
- Great art, timeless style, great distribution of traits.
- Rares are valued and being collected (17BTC, 1.7mil for an Alien node), this is not happening on any other collection. Floor is currently at $14k.
- @rocktoshi21 founder of nodes is literally one of the co-founders of Ordinals.
- Nodes team just has to follow the Punks playbook, create a Monkedex in physical form, play with different prints, collaborate with auction houses to market the collection. Not much execution risk.
- Bitcoin whales like @saylor (hopefully) and others, will start to push art on Bitcoin to promote Bitcoin as cultural chain too as a way to pump their bags.
Place your bets accordingly🫡