Finally got my @MagicLabHQ ambassador box 🎁 and it does not disappoint 🔥
Real talk: being part of MagicLab has been one of the best things to happen to me in this space, and I'm genuinely grateful to @BenGruenbaum for that.
Miss the @MagicLabHQ energy.
I always get a little contemplative on my birthday. Usually I keep it to myself, but I also just finished a journal. So now im reflective too.
This notebook represents 6 months of my life. 251 pages of daily notes, ideas, problems, and solutions for Collector Crypt.
Its easy to lose perspective when you're living it every day but then you hold 6 months of work in your hand and realize how much you have accomplished, how much you can STILL accomplish.
We get two of these every year.
Make then count.
Magic Eden’s “great times whilst it lasted” era:
• Magic Eden Wallet — abandoned
• Bitcoin Marketplace — abandoned
• Runes — abandoned
• EVM Marketplaces — abandoned
• Account Wallets — abandoned
• Bitcoin + Runes APIs — abandoned
• “All assets on all chains” vision — abandoned
• Slingshot / universal balance vision — never delivered as promised
• $TRUMP Wallet — announced as “Official,” promoted, then cancelled
• $1M $TRUMP Wallet rewards campaign — gone with it
Then there’s $ME:
• 4-year token emissions roadmap
• 50.9% of supply allocated to the community
• 225M $ME reserved primarily for active-user rewards
• Rewards marketed as “built for the long term”
• Recurring 3–4 month reward seasons promoted
• Users required to stake $ME to participate
• Longer lockups encouraged with higher reward multipliers
• Season reward allocations repeatedly changed/reworked
• Reward structure repeatedly changed
• Original seasonal $ME emissions model ultimately abandoned
• $ME utility repeatedly changed
• Governance vision never became what the community was sold
• Community programs funded, promoted, then deprioritized
• Stakers who locked based on that long-term model were left with an entirely different rewards system
• NFT builders/community spent years providing the content, liquidity, attention and culture that built Magic Eden
April 2025:
“Long-term, we’re super bullish on NFTs.” — Jack Lu
September 2026:
“Jpegs & NFTs is what it is.”
“Great times whilst it lasted…”
“Crypto is a casino now.”
Pivoting your company is fine.
Pretending the community didn’t spend years buying into your previous visions, locking tokens, building products, creating content and staying aligned while those visions were repeatedly changed or abandoned is the weird part.
It is our culture to always do the GM GM vibes regardless of whether it's late or not. It's better late than never 🤩
I really miss our energy and magical creative vibes. I'm so proud to be a Solana Content creator and lover. @MagicLabHQ has really inspired me in so many ways and I'm super bullish on the future with our individual vibes regardless of our niches
Joy is coming!
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