DeFiMom (🪹,🦉)

Proof Collective Member; Moonbirds; CPGCLUB; Admit One; InPeak; Web3; NFTs; Crypto

[Ben Roy @benroy]

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[Ben Roy @benroy]

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[Ben Roy @benroy]

If you’re young and you make a lot of money this cycle this is an open letter to please actually go do something with your lives

-Pay off debt
-Be intentional and hang out with your family
-Use financial freedom to learn new skills
-Pursue a cool career arc without worrying about salary
-Invest in being a great friend to people that matter to you
-Start a company or a non-profit in an area you care about
-Use existing capital to build an empire and extend your reach into the world (for good)
-Be generous with your time
-Get married & start your own family
-Fund other people who are working on important projects
-Make art

Whatever it is… don’t fall for the psyops of lambos and watches and penthouses and first-class holidays and drugs and the mostly vapour bullshit version of rich person life that is sold to you.

There’s nothing morally wrong in principle with having nice things, or any of the above stuff… go for it, but you won’t find much meaning there. I know a lot of staggeringly rich people who hate their lives.

The answer instead is to act, to live, to create, to take risk, to face your life, to care, to build, to take advantage of the enormous gift of being in the right place at the right time with crypto + having the work ethic to recognize that & make use of the moment.

You’ve basically been given a super mario invincibility powerup where life can now be played on easy mode & the framing shouldn’t be… "oh sick hell yeah now I can fuck off and do whatever I want at the beach"… instead it should be, "look at everything I’ve been given, I wonder just how much I could accomplish with this."

[Jim @jimchang]

getting that defi summer 2020 feeling again

- tons of experimentation onchain
- community energy is electric
- normies still sleeping on it

and we all remember what happened next

[Stats @punk9059]

You have to put your portfolio in one of these for the rest of 2024:

[DeFiMom (🪹,🦉) @DeFiMom]

@clairesilver @consensus2024 This is just AWESOME Claire - just awsome 👍🏻❤️

[Claire Silver 🌸 @ClaireSilver]

At @consensus2024, I finally shared the project I've put my life into for a year: a true emotional experience with AI for the mainstream.

This winter, "can i tell you a secret," a 7500 ft immersive, interactive, cutting-edge AI installation will tour around the entire world.👇

What began as the story of my life has evolved into the story of us--who we are, who we will be, and you--the viewer. This is about you. It's about your place in the story of us.

Including 3D printed sculptures of our journey, conceptual robotics, haptic VR explorations of childhood, physical artifacts and their hologram twins, interactive immersion rooms, collaborative creation of visitors own memories, and seamless, accessible minting for those without technical knowledge who wish to take their creations home. The exhibition will run for a month in each city, in 10 cities globally, for about a year.

The mainstream still fears AI. That fear robs them of the joy of possibility. It robs them of a piece of themselves that maybe they've forgotten. If this continues, they will be left behind.

My singular goal is to share that magic with them. That possibility. That divine spark.

I know in my core that this will be a cultural turning point for our species. I'm not afraid to say it.

We're looking for the right partner who feels the same. If that's you, let's talk.

I can't wait to live in the future we'll create together.

can i tell you a secret, coming 2024

[Ben Roy @benroy]

Twitter &
Telegram &
Coingecko &
DEX Screener &
Spotify &
Uber Eats.

[Ben Roy @benroy]

Did I sell the top? No.

But did I at least take some profits so I can chill over the summer? Also no.

[Cheryl Douglass @cherdougie]

day 2 at a crypto conference

[Othersidemeta @OthersideMeta]

Happy Anniversary, Voyagers.

No more Discord. Let’s meet in Otherside.

Otherside Town Hall:
Date: May 2, 2024
Time: 6 PM ET

Voyagers, Kodas, BAYC, MAYC, Meebits, Grailed, & Moonbirds can all attend.

An Otherside account will be required to join the event. Register at https://t.co/2WcEEwMSjQ.

[DeFiMom (🪹,🦉) @DeFiMom]

This is totally how I feel 😊

[Ben Roy @benroy]

gm

[Ben Roy @benroy]

You aren't bullish enough on @seedclub

🔹the whole team is a vibenomic powerhouse
🔹incredible design + actually good media
🔹all 8 projects in this cohort are killers

Couldn't shill SC more highly - follow along & buckle up for demo day in June 🌱

[MoonCat @mooncat2878]

Noooooo freaking way 🥰

I finally made it, it’s been a hope/dream/fantasy to one day be in an everyday from @beeple

I never imagined I would be the main character, together with the legend himself

It’s been a pleasure overtaking Beeple on the @pacmoon_ leaderboard and glad to see him back at #1 after this everyday Beeple for the win 👑

This means the world to me!

Thanks beeple and the Pacmoon community and ofc the MC2878 fam

🌕😸❤️

[MMERCH @mmerch]

NOW under 100 mints remaining with less 10 hours until the MINT window closes at 11:59pmEST April 19

🚨 only 11 of the coveted rare CASHMEREs and only three of the 1 Trait Monochromes still unminted

things are getting VERY EXCITING

[MINT link in comment below ⬇️]

[Ben Roy @benroy]

Let’s Talk About Scams, Baby 📝

Last week I lost $50,000 USD, which was fun.

I signed two malicious transactions on Ethereum and one of my wallets got drained, which felt like the digital equivalent of getting mugged… except instead of losing a phone and credit cards, you lose an average American’s entire yearly salary. Not great.

I want to talk about what happened for a couple reasons.

First, I hope that this reminds people to brush up on their security practices (don’t worry we won’t be talking about that in depth because it’s boring, but just a general nudge).

Second, I hope as I share the story that people who have lost money in one way or another would feel less alone. Loads of folks I know have been phished, socially engineered, or they’ve signed transactions without thinking (I am here), and there can be a lot of shame in that… so if this is you, know that you’re in good company.

Ok let’s get to it. What happened?

To start, it’s tax season, and I needed to sell some coins so that I could cash out and pay the government. I went to do this late at night, which was my first mistake because I was tired.

I moved some funds off a blockchain I don’t often use, into a wallet I don’t typically use, on a browser I don’t normally use… this only matters because I didn’t have an anti-scam browser extension set up there, which would have been a life saver.

After swapping my coins to USDC, I paused before sending that money to an exchange and taking it out. Why? Well, markets were dumping, and I saw a token that was undervalued given what I know about the team, so I wanted to use some of this money to buy a small position in that token.

To do this, I needed to bridge to another blockchain (Base), then use a decentralized exchange on that network called Aerodrome, but for some reason my wallet wasn’t connecting to the site. This happens all the time, crypto is a nascent industry, but this is where I started getting sloppy.

To connect to an application on a blockchain you need to make sure your wallet is using the right “RPC.” In normal person speak this means that you need to “point” your wallet at the correct network, and often, when you’re unable to connect to an app, it’s because your wallet isn’t using the correct RPC. After tinkering in settings, I confirmed that I was connected to Base, but Aerodrome still wasn’t working, so I went to try one final thing.

A trick to make sure your wallet is connected to the right network is to go to a different application on that network and sign in (this prompts you to switch to the relevant network if you’re not already using the right one). So, since Aerodrome wasn’t working, I went to Fren Pet, which is this Tamagotchi-ish game on Base… but my mistake was googling to find the site instead of going to it via their verified Twitter.

The top result when searching for Fren Pet on Google is a “sponsored” link, which seems to present a credible URL, but serves you a scam site instead that is a mirror of the Fren Pet app. In short, because the URL and site looked legit at first glance, I signed two transactions there, which my tired brain thought was me signing into the app, but this gave the scam contract permission to drain my USDC on Ethereum.

I figured out what happened quickly. That second transaction seemed fishy, wait… oh shit, ok I’m cooked. I checked a block explorer and saw the draining transactions, then had all the stages of grief in the span of about 2 hours.

Denial. Did I really lose, like, $50,000 in two clicks just now? No chance that actually happened, let me check my wallet again.

Anger. Nah, fuck that. You have got to be kidding me. Pacing around the kitchen.

Bargaining. What if I had just gone to sleep instead? What if I was using a different browser? etc.

Depression. I’ve put so much time and work into earning this money. I’ll never make it back. Also no one cares. This was my fault. I should probably sell everything and quit the industry.

Acceptance. Actually whatever, fuck the North Koreans. Live and learn, charge it to the game. Crypto is like minesweeper and I just hit a mine. I’ll rally, play again, and make it all back.

After reflecting on this experience for a few days, my lessons from it are fairly straightforward: don’t do transactions after 8pm, always have an anti-scam browser extension installed, double check URLs, and find websites via Twitter and never Google (so they’re official).

That said, no matter what your security hygiene is, the real challenge here is the meat computer in our heads is just flawed sometimes: we miss things and/or we move too quickly. So, stay safe out there. When in doubt, move slow. If you’ve lost money have some grace with yourself. And if you’re rekt and need to talk to someone, please feel free to reach out.

Thank you to all the people who have messaged me and offered encouragement over the past few days, all love.

[Claire Silver 🌸 @ClaireSilver]

Woke up to see W Magazine @wmag dropped its article on @mmERCH! congrats Colby!!❤️‍🔥🌟

Fun fact, i was a janitor for summer school in college, & would sneak into the empty library to read W & daydream on fashion

Now my art is in W—the 1st AI they’ve ever published. Thanks Colby🥹

[DeFiMom (🪹,🦉) @DeFiMom]

@benroy__ @base Just awful, so sorry to hear