SSR*

A form of Sentience @asterixlabs ✱✱✱

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

It’s unavoidable: every token and every NFT attract speculators. They exit soon after the rush. Hype cools. Supply starts to outrun demand. Floors drop and collections stall.

Our chosen NFTstrategy flywheel is built for this reality. Scarcity increases over time. Ownership concentrates around people who actually believe. The tax system funds the loop across buyback and burns, deeper liquidity, and holder rewards. Fewer tourists: stronger holders.

ERC-7631 links ERC20 and ERC721 to one supply, so the DEX enforces the effective floor. If the token sets the number, you exit there. Undercutting the NFT listing becomes irrational.

[Asterix @asterixlabs]

Our parent token $ASTX CA: 0x0000000000ca73A6df4C58b84C5B4b847FE8Ff39 is now a strategy on its own. One supply, two surfaces. ERC-7631 links ERC20 and ERC721 so liquidity actions and identity actions point to the same outcome.

[KIN Labs @kinlabs_]

KIN x Asterix Smart Ring — AVAILABLE NOW! 🔥

For the @asterixlabs community: your grind has paid off.
Turn those hard-earned Astro points into the Limited Edition smart ring that tracks your health, rewards your movement, and reps your community.

Go claim yours at https://t.co/nKnHo8RVmT

Public sale opens next week.

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[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

Looking forward to seeing our community rock these badass rings.

[Asterix @asterixlabs]

The KIN x Asterix Limited Edition smart ring is now available for claim via Astro.
2m Astro is required per ring with a maximum of 2 rings each.

Crypto purchases of the rings will be available 1 week from now.

Looking forward to seeing the rings with our community.

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Go to https://t.co/f0FFuvNnCk to claim yours.
For support related issues:
https://t.co/7hx0Kl6fwV

[KIN Labs @kinlabs_]

🚨 OFFICIALLY LIVE! ✱✱✱ 📢

KIN x Asterix Limited Edition smart ring is now available for the @asterixlabs community.

We reward the grind; in health and in ✱
Secure your ring now using Astro points! 👉 https://t.co/nKnHo8RVmT

And for the public, available to purchase next week! 😉

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

I’ve nothing but good things to say about the team over at @kinlabs_ . Super smart and hardworking individuals with a keen eye for pmf.

One ring for the faithful
One pulse for the chain

[KIN Labs @kinlabs_]

Reveal of the KIN x Asterix Ring 👀🚨

Designed and made for the @asterixlabs community. A fusion of health tracking, incentives, and the ✱ energy.
Your movements is the signal. This ring is the proof.

This Limited Edition smart ring will be available tomorrow. 9pm SGT. 🔔
🔗 https://t.co/nKnHo8Stcr

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

@winczuk96266 @grok @asterixlabs Sick.

[vectorized.eth @optimizoor]

Introduction to EIPs, ERCs, RIPs.

EIP: Ethereum Improvement Proposal
Protocol-level changes, enforced by the Ethereum clients.
Activated via hardforks.
Full nodes must upgrade, else fork to opt-out.

ERC: Ethereum Request for Comments
Application layer standards.
Conventions for Solidity, calldata, storage, signatures.
Opt-in. Adoption -> network effects.

RIP: Rollup Improvement Proposal
Provincial laws for rollup city-states.
Opt-in for L2s. Opt-out for nodes within an L2.
May lead to EIPs.

The numbers are shared between EIPs, ERCs, RIPs, assigned sequentially by maintainers.

To start one, you will first need to open an Ethereum Magicians forum thread, then make a draft which links to the thread. After which, the specific process depends.

Examples:

EIP-7939: Count Leading Zeros (CLZ)
An opcode in the upcoming Fusaka hardfork that can speed up math operations with smaller bytecode. As a basic math operation that costs as much as a 256-bit `ADD`, this is most suitably implemented as an opcode, which is most suitably implemented as an EIP.

ERC-7631: Dual Nature Token Pair
Interfaces for how a co-joined fungible and and non-fungible token pair can signal their relationship. Opt-in standard. Allows for better discoverability, better UX.

RIP-7767: Gas to Ether contract
A contract that burns gas and returns a portion of the gas burned to the caller as the native currency. Due to the adventurous nature of this proposal, this could be piloted as a pre-compile / pre-deploy on rollups first. The tentative mainnet analog is EIP-7791 (GAS2ETH opcode).

Difficulty to get adoption / inclusion:

EIP > RIP > ERC (approximately)

To explain why, each of these deserves their own elaboration in separate threads, best left for future content.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

I love seeing NFTs do well. They’ve always been part of Web3’s cultural identity.

A playground of ideas, filled with chaos, creativity, and life. It was a good time and I definitely feel that vibe coming back.

[wale.moca 🐳 @waleswoosh]

🎯

Established projects pumping.

Rumors about NFT treasury companies.

They won't be buying this week's new mint, but instead they will invest in the established, proven NFT projects with battle-tested communities.

And there are not too many of them left.

Look for the BTC, ETH etc of NFTs, not the catwifhat equivalent

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

@fortifiedyourmd Potentially better than a masamune blade.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

We’re building new primitives that reclaim MEV and sequencer flow for builders and communities.

Structured right, it becomes a public good that strengthens the chain instead of bleeding it.
Used correctly? You have the ultimate flywheel.

This is the future we’re committing to

[Asterix @asterixlabs]

Our next mission is clear:

We’re building the infrastructure L2s need to thrive.
Infra that can help entire chains reach positive EV and unlock models that actually work long term.

A fresh new primitive.

One that could give L2s a real shot both technically and economically.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

@optimizoor Hi

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

Felt like only yesterday and my conviction burns stronger than ever. Happy 1st Anniversary.

Never . Stop . Building

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[Asterix @asterixlabs]

Anomalies, what a year it’s been!

From what began as a simple experimental on-chain concept to a whole new product ecosystem. We set out with a spark to reimagine NFTs, diving deep into innovation with Hybrid Assets.

Today, we celebrate 365 days of pushing boundaries together. Your energy has driven us to build a new digital frontier, and here’s what we’ve accomplished:

- DN404 – Dual Nature ERC721 <-> ERC20 Token
- The Anomatrix – https://t.co/YCnkE5dZhj
- GachaDex – https://t.co/LABlgW1s2P
- A forward-thinking collaboration with @Aptos
- The launch of @AmaterasuSekai
- Ongoing innovation with @nexium_one
- Multiple ongoing and completed partnerships

We’re gearing up to deliver bigger, better, and bolder innovations. Your unwavering support and belief in this vision fuels our momentum, pushing us to break new ground and redefine what’s possible. Together, we are stronger.

We are here to innovate
We are here to build
We are here to lead

We are the Anomalies

Happy anniversary,
Rupert

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[cygaar @0xCygaar]

Kinda crazy that it's been a year since DN404 released.

That was the last time I felt super excited for a new onchain primitive.

We (mostly @optimizoor) put this together in ~4 days on a crazy sprint.

Lets bring back the onchain magic again.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

There is truth in this, but the key take on capital/token preservation on launch is detrimental for a project's success. The definition of value perceived by retail differs greatly in this current meta.

I have spoken to multiple projects over the year that had really good value propositions and plans, only to get rekt and crippled by having too much supply out in the market.

Token price high? You're creating value. Token price low? There's no value creation. All these will have already been predetermined on launch leaving builders little or no room to accelerate.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

This is something that has been weighing on my mind for a while and Shaw breaks it down perfectly.

Fair launches sound great in theory but given the current market participants mentality, they turn every raise into a PvP/PvBot bloodbath. Instead of strategic capital allocation, you get a race to the bottom where the fastest, most optimized players, bots, whales, and insiders extract value before real builders can even execute.

Snipers make this even worse. A fair launch isn’t fair when anyone with basic scripting knowledge can deploy a bot to frontrun retail, dominate early allocations, and extract liquidity before real believers even get a chance. The space is littered with these tools, making it nearly impossible for organic participants to compete.

The real killer is supply control. Without it, liquidity becomes uncontrollable. Token distribution gets hijacked, having these bots or insiders crashing the price while highly likely causing retail to be EL. Instead of compounding value, projects end up fighting off price collapse and instability before they’ve even have the chance to deliver.

Without structured capital, there’s no alignment, no buffer, no real growth strategy. Just hyper financialized chaos where everyone is optimizing for exit over execution.

If this trend continues, we’re not democratizing acces but rather, engineering a battlefield where efficiency beats innovation, and short term extraction kills long term value.

Our next leap is building towards a sustainable future that rewards innovation, leveraging gud tek to create more resilient ecosystems. The best systems should not be just functional but rather, exciting and built to last.

The reality is simple. No coordination, no moat, no longevity. Just a feeding frenzy.

[Shaw (spirit/acc) @shawmakesmagic]

I would advise you to think twice about launching a fair launch coin if you intend on using it to fund a long-duration project.

Teams need resources to build. Generally, when a team raises a Series A from VCs, they give away 10-20% and keep 80-90% of the initial capital. If the project becomes a unicorn (> $1B) then usually the team owns a significant share of that which they can use for operations.

In the current "fair launch" meta, teams end up with 5-15% supply at TGE after giving away 85-95%. This causes a whole range of problems.

1. No supply control means that anyone can just buy the token and start caballing it. Many of the AI projects have a token price set by the cabal choosing to support them which goes to 0 as the cabal farms the user base. In the end, the devs usually get very little, since they feel a moral obligation to go down with the ship.

2. It's really hard to give equity that satisfies teammates with prior expectations-- everyone looks at the big number, compares the "fair launch" projects to projects of old and thinks "wait why are you giving me .1%-.2% of this? That's not fair!" when proportionally it represents a far larger portion of the team's allocation than 1-10% of a more normal project launch.

3. Extremely low liquidity favors early traders but fucks over just about everyone else. Any time the liquidity becomes significant there is a risk of a big whale making an exit and selling into that liquidity, crashing the price a lot. Fair launch coins almost always have a really bad liquidity problem-- this is a feature for traders who want to see major price movements and a nightmare for builders who just want to build drama-free.

4. Fair launch only rewards builders who already have capital to put in and who coordinate smashing the button immediately with their SOL or bundling their launches. Many teams have launched a project and then have had to literally beg the community for resources to have enough to build. The only reason we've been able to get so far is because one whale extremely generously donated 11%.

5. Fair launch for real projects can create legal requirements that cost a lot of time and money retroactively moving to fix. Setting up an offshore token foundation, onshore dev co, hiring multiple lawyers, etc. *after launch* is risky and expensive.

6. Nobody expects a pumpcoin to release revolutionary L1-level tech in 2-3 years. The daosdotfun meta was created to enable traders to casually run a fund for a year and take their carry when the fund closes. We're following metas which reward projects for the first few weeks, then become major albatrosses.

7. Traders have absolutely no idea what goes into building products most of the time, and their expectations are just absolutely unrealistic. When we're building things that have never been built before, it is very hard to assess exactly how long things will take or what the technical risks really are until we've crossed those bridges. Vitalik expected PoS to be finished in 2017 and allocated tokens accordingly, if ETH hadn't shot up to $3k they'd be cooked.

8. There is also just a general problem with open source public goods, which is that people see them as free and rush to capitalize on them without consideration for how to build a sustainable and symbiotic relationship with the creators of those goods. If there were a way that I could continue to work on open source public goods forever and not have to build launchpads and tokenomics and other products to accrue value, everyone else would benefit so much more. But since very very few people are establishing win/win relationships with our project and are just using it for free to make money for themselves, I have no choice but to focus on those things.

I've been thinking a lot about how we can balance the spirit of fair launch-- enabling everyone to get what usually only the VCs get-- with realistic mechanisms to enable teams to build real tech.

I've been working with some really incredible folks in the space to codify this into a system and we'll be releasing a whitepaper soon.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

@The_Zorvaz I've seen my fair share of fair launches do well in the last run. Sniper bots were barely available and you had organic participants eagerly waiting for decent projects to launch. Whales would enter with conviction back then.

[SSR* @SuperSecretRare]

@Evilbeanx88 Not until alignment has been successfully enforced by gud tek. Until then, it will only cripple the growth for brands, IPs etc.

[Asterix @asterixlabs]

We built on Ethereum because decentralization isn’t just a promise, it’s a reality

A growing validator set means resilience, accessibility, and long-term security. That’s what matters

✱✱✱

[cygaar @0xCygaar]

Something that I miss from the 2021/22 era of crypto was the amount of onchain experimentation happening.

We used to have new hyper-efficient smart contracts released every week, different minting mechanisms built, devs were trying to build new defi primitives, and users were trying all sorts of new protocols.

Nowadays we're mostly only seeing memecoin trading (which is fun at times, I do it too), with a couple of teams trying new stuff (major props to them).

Let's bring the experimentation and innovation back to crypto.