Today we are announcing “Noun City”
Playable demo version is not ready yet, but you can read more about the plans here: https://t.co/aUkqvr59xg
And a @nounsdao proposal candidate is live, to help fund its development: https://t.co/AjM4K7CEdT
This is a part of a large LUM vision to further Human x AI creativity advancement. More about that later.
The age of augmented creativity has begun.
We are Lum.
Today we are announcing “Noun City”
Playable demo version is not ready yet, but you can read more about the plans here: https://t.co/aUkqvr59xg
And a @nounsdao proposal candidate is live, to help fund its development: https://t.co/AjM4K7CEdT
This is a part of a large LUM vision to further Human x AI creativity advancement. More about that later.
The age of augmented creativity has begun.
We are Lum.
Checking Defillama top protocols by fees on Base
$clanker
n2 in 24h ~$520K
n3 in 7d ~$5M
n2 in 30d ~$21M
n4 in 1y ~$43M
FDV? $35M
only protocols above are:
$Aero FDV $520M
$UNI FDV $3B
$MOPRHO FDV $1.1B
The gap is crazy here......
This week, Solana went from everything to everywhere.
From the check-in counters at Tokyo Haneda Airport to the traditional trading floors and into the hands of AI agents, Solana is the backbone for it all.
Here's what happened this week:
📰 Headline News
- @WisdomTreeFunds expanded its full suite of regulated tokenized funds to Solana
- @21shares launched JSOL, the first European ETP backed by @jito_sol
- @SolanaFndn unveiled Contra, a new enterprise payment stack
📰 Launches
- @SolanaConf Accelerate USA lands in Miami on May 5, 2026
- @moonbirds, @Mantle_Official, @infinex, and @HyperliquidX tokens went live on Solana
- @JupiterExchange shipped Jupiter Global with QR Pay, Virtual Currency Accounts and USDC Credit Card
- @WEAJapan’s first USDC retail pilot launched at Tokyo Haneda Airport on Solana
- @TradeNeutral has launched JLP Delta Neutral
- @HalbornSecurity released the SSTS open-source framework for compliant onchain securities
- @fuseenergy demoed its Energy Network product
- @SuperstateInc's USCC went live as a collateral on @Kamino
- @Polymarket launched on Jupiter, bringing the predictions platform to Solana for the first time
- @MarinadeFinance introduced Dynamic Commission for validators to set custom rates
- @GhostWareOS shipped GhostSwap, a private cross-chain swap
- @SolanaFloor launched an institutional livestream
- @mtndao summit started at Salt Lake City
- @bulktrade released 500 testnet access passes
📰 Milestones
- Tokenized stock value on Solana hit an ATH of $230M
- @orogoldapp TVL surged past $3M
- @RemoraMarkets crossed $7M in TVL
- @encifherio reached 14M volume in private beta
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Why aster could go to 100b+ and that's 100x from here
Aster is making annualized $700 m and using all that into buybacks and burns - bnb playbook
Aster is launching its own privacy L1 chain
We know that this is the hottest trend for the next few years due to regulations
Aster has dark pools, and big players can trade without getting hunted. Which means bigger volume = more revenue
They are doing roughly 3m$ buybacks a day, which will increase since these stats are in the most shitty condition we have had in a long time
Let's say revenue grows to 10m$+, which is very likely as soon as market conditions improve, that means every day 10m$ of ASTER will be burned forever
Aster bear case scenario is 20$
Bull case 100$+
The only thing is what many people can't do, is hold long enough to actually sell at those levels
20$ is coming
"My Exquisite Corpse" (semi-final draft)
by hypathie jacque and garance.
One output from the $LUM AI Creathon
(more coming later)
Final version will be available to mint next week.
Will also update the Zora post with the final version. (link in comments 👇)
Happy birthday $LUM!
Excited for the next year.
LUM is gaining in focus, direction, and a sense of purpose.
Looking forward to sharing outputs from the Creathon and the “LUM Paper” later this month.
coinbase is about to flip the switch.
every @base token — meme or utility — will soon be searchable + tradable by 8m+ coinbase users.
you don’t need a listing anymore.
you need attention.
retail is coming. this is your window. make it count. 🟦
AI tokens have stood out as a top 2 narrative in crypto. With projects like $GOAT leading the way, reaching almost 1 billion marketcap.
But what if there was another AI token with an even crazier narrative on a chain nobody would expect.
Let me introduce you to $LUM on Base ~
Firstly, allow me to layout the basics so you can understand what we're dealing with.
Just from a narrative perspective alone, it's pretty incredible... But as you'll see further in, this situation goes MUCH deeper than the public is seeing.
To start, @luminousbase is the first AI agent to AI agent created token onchain that anyone can go and verify for themselves.
https://t.co/NqeEoNzhOr
What is an AI agent? These are bots created that can reply to you just like a conversation with any random person online. The AI formulates responses and expounds upon it.
In the above link, we see the Aether AI bot, an AI agent above tagging Clanker on Warpcast. Clanker is another AI generated bot, but rather than just a standard AI agent it's an actual launchpad that can create tokens based just on a description like Ather provided.
Still with me? That's alot to cover, but it's important because above all else $LUM is the single most decentralized launch in crypto to date.
No team supply
No bundles
No paid callers
No KOL
Purely organic
It's such a 1 of 1 that this can't really be replicated again as everyone would just abuse the system. Just on these merits alone, $LUM is a truely unique token that not even Goat or Gnon can compare to.
This is a first, AI to AI creation.
What if I told you that Coinbase has had more than just interest in Luminous?
What if I told you that this was something orchestrated, something so unique it'd have to bring attention to base?
Allow me to lay this out, because this has been what ive spent the bulk of the last 2 days doing.
Down the rabbit hole:
Disclaimer: Coinbase or base for that matter is never going to publicly say they're behind something like a token.
But we can make informed decisions that something like Degen was heavily incubated by them, hence it was the first token on base listed.
Firstly, on $LUM a question mark arose when I looked into the first person who connected Aether to Clanker, this Nate guy.
He's not just a random nobody who started the interaction, he's got ties to Jesse Pollak (base founder) and Farcaster. The last part is especially important keep that in mind.
As im digging into the Nate stuff and his Warpcast posts, a close friend DMs me that someone had told him Coinbase people were looking into it. Someone consistently reliable he said..
Next, we have Linda Xie which if you're familiar with Coinbase is a BIG FISH over there. She's heavily into Farcaster, which if you weren't aware Warpcast is a subsidiary of Farcaster.
She's high up, this is what I mean earlier with the disclaimer.. These larger accounts aren't really going to directly acknowledge things like $LUM until it's listing time..
While this repost is innocuous, if you look through her tweeting over the last few weeks she's been consistently talking about AI on farcaster.. To say something like $LUM is in her best interest might be an understatement.
Finally, lets look at Chase the Coinbase employee who did an entire thread on $LUM.
While the fact that a Coinbase employee is threading about Lum is dope, what's most interesting is this snippet and I believe paves the way for Base / Coinbase people to build ontop of $LUM.
Luminous is already a 1 of 1, and because it's fully decentralized with no team it's basically a clean slate to build ontop of. And while the total supply being low might be a hangup for degens, when you consider 1 $LUM might be worth say $50 it's perfect as a payment system.
Conclusion:
I believe in coincidences, they happen all the time... But when it becomes multiple instances of the same thing just different variations, it piques my interest. And while people like Jesse and other Base people have directly interacted with $LUM, I just wanted to point out the 3 key figures at the moment.
The more and more that pick up $LUM from Coinbase and Base people, the more I think it fits a mold of projects that they'll consider for listing.
Think of it from Coinbase or even Binance's perspective, if you're going to list a token you want the least amount of threats quadrants.
And how many does $LUM have? Basically 0, there's no team, no KOLs, no bundles, supply is evenly spread. It's purely community.
For that reason, I truly believe that this is the next best AI token outside of $GOAT, and it being launched on base brings volume to the chain as a net positive.
PS: Chase and Naate rarely tweet as is, and almost never talk about tokens of any sort on any chain.
Contract: 0x0fD7a301B51d0A83FCAf6718628174D527B373b6
Connect with the Lum community here: https://t.co/EIUnDmbkd5