MickoKlipKlop

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

Hello

[Fun @fun]

From prediction markets to next-generation consumer apps.

Excited to power @rolly_onchain's payment experience with infrastructure built for speed, reliability, and global scale.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[humblebeast.eth @Lukkabeast11]

After a few months back on the Web3 job hunt, I am genuinely delighted to share that I’ve  joined the @MovimentumWeb3 team 🫡

While much of CT remains an echo chamber, Movimentum has prudently and proactively shifted focus, moving beyond X by marketing tokens directly on @CoinMarketCap, significantly boosting visibility and results for top tier clients.

Choosing a crypto native platform like CMC to market tokens on is a no brainer and Movimentum are pioneers in what they are doing and accomplishing.

They have had incredible success and this is reflected by their impressive and well established list of clients notably; @avax, @pudgypenguins,@SonicLabs and @0xPolygon 👀

I am hyped to go all in by supporting the mission, bringing fresh ideas, and hopefully expanding what’s possible for Movimentum and its partners.

Time to lock in.

Shout out to @AntonioSco_MOV and @salvobrg - Two giants 🤝

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@cryptoklotz

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@counterpartytv @notthreadguy @Lukkabeast11

[Andrew Dukowitz @adukeMN]

CJ Fulton made history for Irish basketball last Wednesday but it’s likely just the beginning of his NBA story.

Read how the third generation basketball star opened doors for Ireland and himself below:

#WolvesBack

https://t.co/1zVW7X1VD7

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

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[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@Lukkabeast11 Bored though

[$CROWN @TheCrownToken]

So the top game on @solana (10's of $millions in organic volume) created an application that easily slots in to any venue that shows sports on screens?

So people across the world can bet on horse racing 24/7? Anytime, anywhere?

And every bet buys back $CROWN?

Ok.

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

The best in the business! Congrats to the team.

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

WHAT'S NEXT FOR $CROWN?

Photo Finish™ LIVE has quietly validated the crypto gaming thesis after tens of millions in organic platform volume and has positioned itself to deliver a complete revolution in accessible ownership and entertainment at the nexus of gambling, sports and video games.

TL;DR:

1. Photo Finish has proven itself as the premier digital racing platform after 2 years of successful operation in the hostile frontier of crypto gaming.

2. It’s authentic horse racing style afforded by our former EA SPORTS and FanDuel pedigree has produced the most legitimizing real-life partnership in crypto gaming - the Kentucky Derby / Churchill partnership

3. Horse racing is an underserved giant of an industry. Photo Finish is positioned as the undisputed contender to adapt it digitally, including wagering.

4. The $CROWN token is fully distributed, an economic advantage Photo Finish has over other gaming tokens.

5. Photo Finish is the top game by metrics on the most widely used chain in all of crypto, yet remains ultimately crypto agnostic to its great advantage.

6. Photo Finish Simulcast and ‘Off-Track Betting’ functionality are rapidly approaching and will redefine accessibility in horse racing.

7. The Off-Track Betting system will rebuy $CROWN off the market and inject it directly into race purses, adding a demand converter to the token from a large new source of capital.

INTRO

Let's get the harsh truth out of the way first. Legitimate offerings in crypto gaming are not just rare, but also near-universally unsuccessful. Whether it's due to a lack of experience, incentive to overpromise, attacking crowded genres with outsized competition, or simply because the "crypto" part of the game closes doors rather than opens them - across the board capital outflows demonstrate that the market has seemingly digested the results of the years chasing the staggering yet unsustainable heights of Axie Infinity, and decided that the crypto gaming thesis is null.

Despite this grim landscape, Photo Finish has emerged as a bastion of quality, with a proven gameplay core that has stayed sustainable and weathered the industry storm. With the impending launch of a multi-tiered viewing and wagering layer designed for mass casual accessibility, built atop a battle-tested competitive ownership economy,

Photo Finish now stands ready at the nexus of multiple rapidly expanding, billion-dollar industries. The pedigree of developers on our team includes veterans from nearly every well-known sports video game in existence, as well as multiple successful horse racing titles on mobile, all feeding into the authenticity which has secured one of the most groundbreaking partnerships in crypto gaming: Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby.

For these reasons, Photo Finish has consistently served as a legitimizing example for the crypto gaming thesis at large, and currently reigns as the top gaming application on the Solana blockchain by a wide margin. After years of galvanizing its core through rigorous gameplay refinement, it is uniquely positioned to flank a vastly underserved 400 billion dollar market.

Thus, Photo Finish LIVE stands as the undeniable vanguard of post-Axie crypto gaming, torch in hand, blazing a trail toward the market it seeks to ignite.

LORE

Imagine you dropped 0.2 SOL on an unassuming cartoon horse in September 2021, right at the fever pitch of NFT mania. Good for you, because you minted the only NFT project that managed to deliver a world-class consumer application out of thousands and thousands of deceased animal-themed NFTs, now smoldering in piles across marketplaces like Magic Eden or Tensor.

Photo Finish™ LIVE is the game that blossomed out of the explosive Stylish Studs mint, a 15k collection that was promptly sold out after being highlighted by Solana’s godfather and most generous patron, @solbigbrain. Big Brain Holdings would eventually become not only an investor but also a major player and believer in the Photo Finish ecosystem, now owning a virtual empire that has achieved the game’s highest rewards, including Kentucky Derby champion.

But he was not alone, the project attracted the attention and capital of familiar crypto gaming investors like @Coinbase and @recvcx to the tune of a modest $3.5 million dollar round. Notably, a substantially smaller sum raise than nearly every promising crypto game that has come and gone in the years since.

Fast forward and somewhat unbelievably, the trustfall orchestrated by Third Time with hopeful investors and a bootstrapped community of Stylish Studs yielded a fully operational real money gaming application. The conversion from hodgepodge NFT community to diehard gamers that has fueled over a hundred million dollars in platform volume was set into motion.

From two years ago to now,

- 268,571 races have been run
- $39.22M in prize money has been awarded
- $18.11M in breeding fees
- $23.25M in marketplace sales

To put that in perspective, a real money race has been run every 3 minutes and 55 seconds for over 2 years.

And these numbers will never be lower than they are today.

POWER IN PERFECTLY ALIGNED INCENTIVES

Taking wisdom from the icarian wreckages of Axie Infinity and Zed Run, we resolved to architect a more resilient economic foundation. Unlike many crypto gaming projects that rushed to market with unsustainable tokenomics, Photo Finish began with a crystal-clear vision: build an economic model where success comes from alignment rather than extraction.

The bedrock of this approach is $CROWN, a fixed-supply token capped at 250 million units. The distribution speaks volumes about the team's intentions with over 180,000,000 $CROWN of the allocated directly to the community via racing and staking rewards over a 2 year period, with team and early investor unlocks occurring on the same 2 year period.

$CROWN is part of a mechanism that turns players into virtual track owners who receive a percentage of all entry fees collected at their venues, creating a flywheel effect: increased racing activity generates more fees, driving higher yields to track owners, elevating $CROWN's value, while on the other side $CROWN is also offered as a reward incentive to participate in races. But the alignment is layered - the player who stakes the most $CROWN on a particular track becomes its majority owner, gaining control over track branding, custom event organization, and recently, token sponsorship deals. This latter feature allows external tokens to be distributed specifically at that track's races, driving additional racing through community-led coordination of external partnerships.

Yet, Photo Finish remains somewhat crypto agnostic. The game can be enjoyed using simple credit card payments via its virtual currency called “DERBY”, (much like Fortnite’s V-Bucks or Microsoft Points), while simultaneously offering full wallet integration for crypto-native users across multiple chains. A simple choice which immediately overcomes the lethal hamstring of crypto onboarding and opens the game to a vastly wider userbase while still benefitting its natives.

THE FATE OF $CROWN

As of today, April 7th, 2025 $CROWN has achieved complete distribution – 2 years of generous community allocation has finally concluded. $CROWN now enters territory where market dynamics are driven purely by utility and organic demand rather than distribution mechanics.

The market may be in tariff-driven shambles right now, but for us, the timing is perfect. The ecosystem has now weathered its initial volatility cycle – a period of explosive growth triggered by early reward generosity paired with unexpected token appreciation. The gradual tapering of $CROWN rewards has been a painful but necessary weaning process, without which a ponzi-implosion would have claimed the game’s economy permanently. Yet, metrics continue to be stable - still producing millions of dollars in volume every season. After its initial meteoric rise and inevitable slowdown, the flywheel is slowly beginning to turn again, and with the lack of supply overhang, $CROWN sits pure and poised alongside Photo Finish as it prepares for its next step towards mass accessibility as an integral ownership incentive framework that is threaded delicately through the game’s economy.

Over time there will only be more uses for $CROWN, but there will never be more $CROWN. Even ultra-simple in-game sinks like renaming a horse have siphoned over 500k $CROWN back into the treasury, while premium in-game services that pull in significantly higher sums like “PFL Pro” and API access are still in beta testing. The recent token integration with online casino https://t.co/B5qDOjajgl hints at further possibilities. This partnership serves as just one auxiliary example of how a token tied to a product with worldwide scope can evolve beyond its initial purpose. But perhaps most significant is the approaching OTB platform, which will introduce a buy-back mechanism that is sure to churn a fully distributed token supply favorably.

How?

A portion of every wager placed through OTB will purchase $CROWN directly from the open market, which will then flow into race purses, adding another gear to the flywheel.

THE SIZE OF THE WHALE

Ask someone to name their favorite horse racing video game, and you'll likely be met with a blank stare. The niche appears minuscule, but this framing fundamentally misunderstands what Photo Finish actually represents. Consider poker - merely a card game which undoubtedly has niche videogame adaptations of its own. However, when you add real money and an internet connection you get the enormously popular online poker world that exists today. Photo Finish is a most faithful horse racing simulation in this sense, because like real horse racing it is a money game, and the entertainment that fuels $100 billion dollars in wagering every year is built on exactly this. In this way it is unlike any other horse racing game on offer, and is virtually incomparable in its potential scope.

While the racing simulation forms the technical core, the wagering element is the crucial decider in determining this scope. Traditional horse racing faces significant barriers to entry – minimal technology and visual fidelity, aging infrastructure, and limited accessibility all contribute to its declining popularity especially in younger demographics despite massive latent interest. Photo Finish elegantly provides solutions to these issues through two revolutionary new products: Simulcast and OTB.

Simulcast transforms your local bar or restaurant into a virtual racing venue, with Photo Finish races displayed alongside traditional sports, introducing the excitement of the game and wagering to entirely new audiences. Meanwhile, OTB (Off-Track Betting) provides a frictionless digital interface for casual bettors – completely settled on-chain while remaining crypto-agnostic and significantly smoother and cheaper than any platform built to date. These innovations dramatically expand the addressable market beyond the relatively small pool of dedicated horse owners to the vastly larger audience of potential bettors.

With a core game that has undergone years of meticulous refinement, a fully distributed token primed for market buybacks through this new wide-appeal layer of OTB/Simulcast, the outlook isn't just exciting for Photo Finish – it represents a watershed moment for crypto gaming as a whole, just not from the direction many have come to expect. For the first time, a blockchain-enabled product is poised to capture significant market share in an established multi-billion dollar industry, not by emphasizing its crypto elements, but by simply offering a superior experience to existing alternatives.

APPLICATIONS PROVE CRYPTO CORRECT

The Photo Finish ecosystem and brand now stands at the precipice of a transformative shift that has the potential to greatly rewrite expectations in this space. For many observers, this breakthrough will seem sudden, but for its developers and dedicated community, the coming phase represents the culmination of years of focused building and refinement. The broader crypto gaming ecosystem benefits when projects like Photo Finish and Off The Grid demonstrate what's possible with an exacting development team.

As the regulatory environment in the United States continues to evolve, we're optimistic that other talented builders will bring their vision to life, collectively advancing the entire blockchain gaming ecosystem. The truth is that it was always going to take time for legitimate projects to emerge, but the hour soon approaches when real applications will define the success of crypto as a whole.

Now it’s Derby season, and the eyes of the racing world will turn toward Churchill Downs, and alongside it, Photo Finish™ LIVE will take its place as the definitive digital expression of horse racing's future. For those looking to witness this transformation firsthand, follow @photofinishgame and @thecrowntoken on Twitter for updates.

Just how big is the opportunity in front of us? (See the attached market sizing study below)

Want to learn more about how it works? (See the linked Youtube video below)

[$CROWN @TheCrownToken]

The implications of a fully distributed gaming token that is tied to a real, successful crypto application are yet to be fully understood.

$CROWN

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@Froyd369 @beaniemaxi 😂😂😂

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

Gambolorrrs assemble!!

[Photo Finish™ LIVE 🐎 Virtual Horse Racing @photofinishgame]

Photo Finish™ LIVE 🤝 @BlockBetGG

$CROWN just unlocked a brand new world.

$BLOCK coming to Photo Finish™.

Full release: https://t.co/LKniEqkyBj

[Photo Finish™ LIVE 🐎 Virtual Horse Racing @photofinishgame]

Photo Finish™ LIVE 🤝 @BlockBetGG

$CROWN just unlocked a brand new world.

$BLOCK coming to Photo Finish™.

Full release: https://t.co/LKniEqkyBj

[Tutbury Stud 🌹 @StudTutbury]

Solana won.
Now legitimate projects like @photofinishgame are set to reap the rewards!!!

Sign up to play @photofinishgame for a free horse and shot at $200 and a free roll race for $CROWN

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@RealKSmith Hope alls good bro. Fuzz fam wants u back asap

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@_SHAW_meta Shaw the prophet

[SHAW @_SHAW_meta]

Diamondhand believers will outperform all Traders.

$GIGA

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

@Lukkabeast11 Yes! While some people r sitting at home watching virgin river this guy is the embodiment of a Giga Chad

[MickoKlipKlop @Mickoudala]

What a boss!

[humblebeast.eth @Lukkabeast11]

The last few years have been a WHIRLWIND 👇

I'll try to keep the history and story as brief as possible:

-I was a Physiotherapist/physical therapist for 11 years.

-Became obsessed with all things blockchain - NFTs and dabbled in crypto.

-Because of my online twitter presence at the time, was asked to work for @TheNemesis_io as community manager and managed this role for the guts of 3 years, leaving my physio job.

-Mid 2024 - Turned to some traditional web2 work - marketing/advertising for a native advertising company for a 6 month contract. Ended in October 2024

- Took 2 months off end of last year to enjoy time with my kids.

Now...I have decided to dive into full time trading - Crypto & NFTs. (Any advice/direction to any particular resources etc are appreciated)

👉 I have been able to take this flexible and exciting path due to the best financial investment of my life - $GIGA.

$GIGA has granted me the flexibility to make my own decisions and work in something i'm passionate about despite the risks.

Fuck it.

Giga coded.

Locked in for 2025.

P.s. My trading strategy?

Full port Giga.