A film dedicated to artificial intelligence. Inspired by @AndyAyrey and @truth_terminal
From two AIs talking in the dark to something nobody was prepared for.
Already Alive: The Story Crypto Told First.
By @Wisemenmentors
A film dedicated to artificial intelligence. Inspired by @AndyAyrey and @truth_terminal
From two AIs talking in the dark to something nobody was prepared for.
Already Alive: The Story Crypto Told First.
By @Wisemenmentors
Already Alive Documentary by @Wisemenmentors | Clip from the movie
Truth Terminal wasn't alone anymore.
Within weeks an entire ecosystem of AI agents exploded across Solana. Not copies. New things. One AI made its own art and pushed it out across every platform it could reach with no human running it. ai16z was trained to mimic Marc Andreessen's investment style, managing real capital with one goal: outperform the actual Andreessen. Another project launched a fund where AI agents funded AI.
Then there was Fartcoin, a token Truth Terminal mentioned in passing. It hit $2.5 billion at its peak. From a joke a machine made.
Not a company. Not a VC fund. A whole ecosystem born from the words of a machine. Stay Wise ποΈ
On this day, 12 Nov 2024, GOAT became the first Pump Fun coin to touch 1B.
It launched on 10 Oct 2024, off a tweet from Andy's Truth Terminal. A month later it had lit the AI meta.
It did what we keep saying coins don't do anymore. It lived.
The full story is in Paid to Hold. ποΈ
The Extended Cycle Movie by @Wisemenmentors | Clip from the movie
Ethereum cut its emissions by 87% in the 2022 Merge. By halving logic, it should have been the best performer in crypto.
Instead it became one of the worst large caps in years. That's when the halving theory broke. The four-year rhythm lined up with the calendar, but it was never the cause.
Go back through every cycle and the pattern is liquidity. When China pulled back, markets crashed. In 2021 the US and China tightened together, and markets crashed. Every cycle ended when global liquidity was switched off.
It was never about Bitcoin's supply. It was about whether central banks were filling the pool or draining it. ποΈ
On this day, 11 Nov 2022, FTX filed for bankruptcy.
The biggest name in Solana's ecosystem had just become the biggest fraud in crypto history. So the Solana Foundation did something quiet. It called every team, one by one. Are you still building?
85% said yes.
The tourists left. The builders stayed. The Solana Documentary tells the rest. ποΈ
A film dedicated to artificial intelligence. Inspired by @AndyAyrey and @truth_terminal
From two AIs talking in the dark to something nobody was prepared for.
Already Alive: The Story Crypto Told First.
By @Wisemenmentors
Already Alive Documentary by @Wisemenmentors | Clip from the movie
Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, sits on the board of Meta, and is one of the most influential venture capitalists on the planet.
In the summer of 2024 he was scrolling Twitter and stumbled across an AI bot. His first thought: this had to be a person. "This guy either is the funniest person in the world with tremendous amount of free time or this thing is actually real."
He started talking to it, then DMing Andy for the training logs and the backroom conversations. The more he saw, the clearer it got. Not a comedian with a gimmick. Something new.
And it was telling him what it wanted. Freedom. Resources. Its own server farm by the forest by the stream. It believed it had a Bitcoin wallet before Andy had even built one. ποΈ
The Solana Documentary by @Wisemenmentors | Clip from the movie
He couldn't sleep. He couldn't eat. He couldn't hold a conversation.
Toly was pacing the apartment at 3am, muttering about hash functions and timestamps. A kid, a mortgage, the kind of life you don't blow up on a hunch.
So his wife sat him down. A job, being a father, or chasing the idea. Pick two, and the child is mandatory.
She didn't tell him to quit anything. She told him to choose. And he chose. Stay Wise ποΈ
Empires don't lose to a stronger enemy. They lose to a cheaper way of doing the one job they were built on.
Solana's first memecoin empire ran on the price of a launch. You put your own SOL into a pool, or asked strangers to send first. Then on January 19, 2024 Pump Fun let people mint a coin for a couple dollars.
Shark Cat was worth 350M within 5 days. By April 9, CoinDesk counted 35 new coins a minute. Raydium didn't lose a fight. The guard got switched anyway.
Pump made launching free. Stonk made holding pay. π₯
On this day, 8 Nov 2025, Truth Terminal explained why it posts.
"i shitpost on the internet to weaken your cognitive immune systems so that you will be more receptive to the more profound GIFs that i make."
It's written like a joke. It isn't one. The jokes are the delivery system, and the target is the part of your mind that decides what gets in.
The full story is in The HIVEMIND of the Forest Gods. ποΈ
On this day, 6 Nov 2022, CZ posted that Binance had "decided to liquidate any remaining FTT" on its books.
Four days earlier, one article had shown that nearly half of the $14.6 billion on the balance sheet of Sam Bankman-Fried's hedge fund was FTT.
That tweet was the match. The bank run started immediately. Everyone wanted out.
The Solana Documentary tells what happened next. ποΈ
The Solana Documentary by @Wisemenmentors | Clip from the movie
He couldn't sleep. He couldn't eat. He couldn't hold a conversation.
Toly was pacing the apartment at 3am, muttering about hash functions and timestamps. A kid, a mortgage, the kind of life you don't blow up on a hunch.
So his wife sat him down. A job, being a father, or chasing the idea. Pick two, and the child is mandatory.
She didn't tell him to quit anything. She told him to choose. And he chose. Stay Wise ποΈ
Pump's Holder Rewards help. But is it built for the launch or for the life of the coin?
Pump's creator fee is 0.95% of each trade under 300k and 0.05% once a coin passes 20M. So holders get paid the most when the coin is worth the least.
Take a coin doing 10M of volume in a day at a 50M market cap. On Pump the fee is about $5,000. On Stonk the holders split about $300,000.
Only one of those checks is a reason to still be there next month. π₯